Re:Already in practise to a limited extent...
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I doubt that they sang and recorded the songs thousands of times. More than likely they sang and recorded them about once and then use a pitch and beat correcting machine to take each newly requested name and match it to the contexts in the songs and digitally insert it wherever needed.
You are right, and Microsoft is beating us to it. The next generation MS Windows desktop will be fully 3D -- as in all objects are 3D objects and the text, or images or video will be "rendered" on to the object's surfaces using the video card's 3D engine, even if most objects are effectively 2D.
This move to all 3D all the time is partially implemented today in their latest API for doing video, called something along the lines of VMR9 (video mixing render 9 I think) that obsoletes the idea of a video overlay and instead uses the texture units of the 3D engine to render and scale the video on screen on one or more 3D surfaces. VMR9 let Nvidia catch up with and maybe even surpass ATI in terms of video rendering quality - their overlay implementation was always subpar, but their texturing is top notch.
Forget the segway, get yourself an ibot. The ibot is what Kamen was really working on and the segway was just a an offshoot. Since the FDA finally approved the device, it should soon be commercially available. Convince your health insurance or medicare or your rich uncle that you need one and you'll be ten times the geek a segway would make you.
Duh. RMS "earned his cash" through contract development of free software. Somebody wanted a new feature added to Emacs or a port of gcc to a new arch, they'd hire RMS. He'd get paid (handsomely), they'd get what they needed and we'd get the improvements in the Free software.
I don't know one way or the other, but nowadays I bet RMS makes more money from speaking engagements than he does from contract work. Just a guess though.
The key reason that nobody wanted to license MicroChannel from IBM is that not only did IBM want some fairly reasonable fees going forward, they wanted retroactive licensing fees on ISA-bus as part of the deal. So, the more ISA-bus products a company had manufactured in the past, the more expensive it was for them to license MicroChannel from IBM.
That was stupid and arrogant of IBM. They got punched in the face for it. It appears that they learned from that experience. But stupidity reasserts itself all the time, especially when where is an entirely new generation of people in the ranks now, that corporate memory may not be strong enough to keep the stupid ones at bay.
No, you are demonstrably wrong. The RIAA cares about sharing because it means loss of control for them. The RIAA is all about controlling distribution channels and sharing disintermediates their existence. Make no mistake, if they could come up with a way to sell you the same song twice, they would (ever try to get a cracked 3-year old CD replaced? They won't do it, you gotta buy a new one even though you already "own" the music.
Now here is where it gets good - the downfall of mp3.com was exactly because of sharing. They put together a system where you could buy a CD online, have it shipped to you, but also immediately have it available online as an MP3 through a password protected account that only allowed a single simultaneous user. They also provided a method to "upload" your previously purchased CDs - you stuck your CD in your cd-rom drive and ran their program that verified that the CD had the same contents as the released one (so either you had a legit copy or a perfect rip&dupe, either way you *already* had the music) and then that disc was also made available in your private mp3.com account.
The RIAA freaked and sued and won. They won on the premise that mp3.com was making copies without permission (from the RIAA) and then sharing them. Never mind that the only people who had access where those who had proven they already owned the music to begin with. They won big too, something like $25M per RIAA member company. That used up a *lot* of VC and IPO cash.
Not really. The majority of our anti-starvation supplies are provided by freaking-huge-genetic-pharmacological-industrial-c omplex companies. Ma, Pa and John-Boy are mostly boutique farmers and their disappearance probably wouldn't be noticed by 98% of the population.
The soldiers are always *told* they are fighting for freedom and they actively discouraged from questioning what they are told. So, yeah they often believe that they fought and died for a good cause. Now, the power-brokers pulling the strings and running the military-industrial complex, they have a whole different set of motivations, usually greed being number one on the list. So in effect, both reasons are true and that applies to pretty much every armed conflict the US has participated in, all the way back to the revolution.
From today's perspective it sure seems like freedom was once high on the list of motivations for the power-brokers and that it's importance has steadily declined through the centuries. But, as the saying goes - the victors write the history, so I'm willing to bet that greed was just as much of a disproportionate motivation back in 1776 as it is today.
That's the "fallacy of a balanced story" in action. Usually you see this effect in politically controversial coverage - one "side" makes a fairly reasonable, if a bit biased, statement and the other side says something totally whacko that sounds like it might be reasonable if the only background in the topic you have is the news coverage itself.
I bet if I were to actually cite such a case in current events I'd get modded up to +5. Instead, I'll just do something equally inflammatory and say, "turn to any major news channel - CNN, Fox, MSNBC, Al-Jazeera - and you'll see it in almost every story they carry." You just might not recognize it as such since your background in the story topics is probably as limited as the general population's background in unix/linux.
Re:Hardass American Businessman
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Yeah, he sounds like a freak. Just like that guy who ran Power Computing - an ex-military "hard ass" taking on the monopoly that Apple had on Macintosh computing. He even did the salute thing, as well as trying to run his entire company like the military.
Steve Jobs, that long-haired hippy freak kicked his ass pretty hard once he got back in control of Apple. The military is all about top-down command-and-control, conform-or-be-crushed, regimented no-questions-asked thinking. That ain't no way to run a business in today's world.
Why would an introvert (someone who doesn't like dealing with other people) talk to someone else for information they could get without talking to someone?
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I doubt that they sang and recorded the songs thousands of times. More than likely they sang and recorded them about once and then use a pitch and beat correcting machine to take each newly requested name and match it to the contexts in the songs and digitally insert it wherever needed.
You are right, and Microsoft is beating us to it. The next generation MS Windows desktop will be fully 3D -- as in all objects are 3D objects and the text, or images or video will be "rendered" on to the object's surfaces using the video card's 3D engine, even if most objects are effectively 2D.
This move to all 3D all the time is partially implemented today in their latest API for doing video, called something along the lines of VMR9 (video mixing render 9 I think) that obsoletes the idea of a video overlay and instead uses the texture units of the 3D engine to render and scale the video on screen on one or more 3D surfaces. VMR9 let Nvidia catch up with and maybe even surpass ATI in terms of video rendering quality - their overlay implementation was always subpar, but their texturing is top notch.
Carbon nanotubes are primarily, well, carbon. ... Potentially less toxic than second hand cigarette smoke.
What if it was made of marijuna nanotubes? Imagine a fatty from here to the moon? That would be some serious toking.
With condolences to Tommy Chong.
a cheaper alternative is to use off-the-shelf 2.4GHz wireless video senders.
And, to save money on the receiver side, just use off-the-shelf wireless video getters.
vi is an excellent editor allowing full control from the QUERTY keyboard home position.
You must have a really mutant left hand.
Screw the Bush! Vote Kazaa in 2004! I hear Napster is on the short list for running mate too.
Some guy named Kazaa.
P2P - Porn 2 Pistols!
No, you got it wrong and so did the AC.
, a= 20322,00.aspp lom/lawton.txt
Here, read up on self-virtualization for x86/ia32:
http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3998
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~jn4/di
assuming that it was not in the public domain
And where did you get that idea from? The whole point is that the original data *is* in the public domain.
Myself I don't have a gun, I think most city dwellers need a gun like they need their SUV.
That's why I installed a gun-rack in my SUV!
Forget the segway, get yourself an ibot. The ibot is what Kamen was really working on and the segway was just a an offshoot. Since the FDA finally approved the device, it should soon be commercially available. Convince your health insurance or medicare or your rich uncle that you need one and you'll be ten times the geek a segway would make you.
I thought Sharman Networks was incorporated in Australia. How can they use a foreign law like that?
Because they are a corporation and American law gives more rights and less responsibilities to corporatations than they do to real people.
I like the sound of Xr/Cairo, seems pretty cool.
Zer-kai-roh. Sounds like an anime title to me.
It sounds like Cairo has morphed into this "WinFS" thingee which is not an FS but rather a OO database layer on top of NTFS or some other filesystem.
Duh. RMS "earned his cash" through contract development of free software. Somebody wanted a new feature added to Emacs or a port of gcc to a new arch, they'd hire RMS. He'd get paid (handsomely), they'd get what they needed and we'd get the improvements in the Free software.
I don't know one way or the other, but nowadays I bet RMS makes more money from speaking engagements than he does from contract work. Just a guess though.
The key reason that nobody wanted to license MicroChannel from IBM is that not only did IBM want some fairly reasonable fees going forward, they wanted retroactive licensing fees on ISA-bus as part of the deal. So, the more ISA-bus products a company had manufactured in the past, the more expensive it was for them to license MicroChannel from IBM.
That was stupid and arrogant of IBM. They got punched in the face for it. It appears that they learned from that experience. But stupidity reasserts itself all the time, especially when where is an entirely new generation of people in the ranks now, that corporate memory may not be strong enough to keep the stupid ones at bay.
No, you are demonstrably wrong. The RIAA cares about sharing because it means loss of control for them. The RIAA is all about controlling distribution channels and sharing disintermediates their existence. Make no mistake, if they could come up with a way to sell you the same song twice, they would (ever try to get a cracked 3-year old CD replaced? They won't do it, you gotta buy a new one even though you already "own" the music.
Now here is where it gets good - the downfall of mp3.com was exactly because of sharing. They put together a system where you could buy a CD online, have it shipped to you, but also immediately have it available online as an MP3 through a password protected account that only allowed a single simultaneous user. They also provided a method to "upload" your previously purchased CDs - you stuck your CD in your cd-rom drive and ran their program that verified that the CD had the same contents as the released one (so either you had a legit copy or a perfect rip&dupe, either way you *already* had the music) and then that disc was also made available in your private mp3.com account.
The RIAA freaked and sued and won. They won on the premise that mp3.com was making copies without permission (from the RIAA) and then sharing them. Never mind that the only people who had access where those who had proven they already owned the music to begin with. They won big too, something like $25M per RIAA member company. That used up a *lot* of VC and IPO cash.
Alias is only 1280x720p as are all HDTV shows on ABC.
Not really. The majority of our anti-starvation supplies are provided by freaking-huge-genetic-pharmacological-industrial-c omplex companies. Ma, Pa and John-Boy are mostly boutique farmers and their disappearance probably wouldn't be noticed by 98% of the population.
The soldiers are always *told* they are fighting for freedom and they actively discouraged from questioning what they are told. So, yeah they often believe that they fought and died for a good cause. Now, the power-brokers pulling the strings and running the military-industrial complex, they have a whole different set of motivations, usually greed being number one on the list. So in effect, both reasons are true and that applies to pretty much every armed conflict the US has participated in, all the way back to the revolution.
From today's perspective it sure seems like freedom was once high on the list of motivations for the power-brokers and that it's importance has steadily declined through the centuries. But, as the saying goes - the victors write the history, so I'm willing to bet that greed was just as much of a disproportionate motivation back in 1776 as it is today.
No, it is Bruce Curly-Brace.
That's the "fallacy of a balanced story" in action. Usually you see this effect in politically controversial coverage - one "side" makes a fairly reasonable, if a bit biased, statement and the other side says something totally whacko that sounds like it might be reasonable if the only background in the topic you have is the news coverage itself.
I bet if I were to actually cite such a case in current events I'd get modded up to +5. Instead, I'll just do something equally inflammatory and say, "turn to any major news channel - CNN, Fox, MSNBC, Al-Jazeera - and you'll see it in almost every story they carry." You just might not recognize it as such since your background in the story topics is probably as limited as the general population's background in unix/linux.
Yeah, he sounds like a freak. Just like that guy who ran Power Computing - an ex-military "hard ass" taking on the monopoly that Apple had on Macintosh computing. He even did the salute thing, as well as trying to run his entire company like the military.
Steve Jobs, that long-haired hippy freak kicked his ass pretty hard once he got back in control of Apple. The military is all about top-down command-and-control, conform-or-be-crushed, regimented no-questions-asked thinking. That ain't no way to run a business in today's world.
So, you are saying that gossip was the opiate of the masses?
Why would an introvert (someone who doesn't like dealing with other people) talk to someone else for information they could get without talking to someone?
Editorial perspective.