So I write a little app I want to share with a friend... do I have to go to Microsoft to get their permission to let them run it? Brilliant... in the next breath you will probably complain about big brother preventing you from Tivoing your favorite TV program (it's my hardware, I can do whatever I want).
After "Sammy Lightfoot," someone told me that there was a way on the Apple to determine when video-blank occured [the brief period between frames that occurs roughly sixty times per second]. If that moment could be determined then other animation techniques that would be much faster could be employed. By combining the page flipping with the now discovered perfect timing, it was possible to display several more true colors on the Apple; up till then, the "twenty-one colors" bragged about by Ken Williams was accomplished through dithering. For example, display one color on one page and another on the other page and flip the pages at perfectly timed intervals and the two colors appear as a brand new color just as yellow and blue when combined produce green.
Anyone else remember the original King's Quest? If I remember correcectly, the worked with a palette of 16(?) colors. I believe the authors weree innovative in using pixelation/color combinations to make it look like they had 256 colors to work with. Of course, my memory isn't so great, and my numbers could be off.
It is amazing how much fun I could have with such cheesy graphics, and low memory requirements. Somehow, I think games became less fun when the imaginatino requirement got removed.
Fortunately for you, the Linux crowd throws like girls. They don't get out much to do real physical activity, so they couldn't throw much harder than my two-year-old.
Now if they get ahold of some open source robotic arm code, you are screwed.
To the mods who decided this was insightful. Go research some news articles from early 1980's. Pull up repotrs on Japanese economic growth. Replace ever instance of 'Japan' with 'China'. You will get parent post.
Then research early 90's to today. Take a look at why Japan did not grow past a certain point. Why the marriage between business and government allowed the country to expand rapidly originally, but ended up choking. Then research how restrictive and centrally planned the Chinese markets really are.
And if you look at the "leadership" of the Catholic church during those days, you will find most of them were NOT Christian. They used Christianity as a means to power. Some of the ugliest individuals rose to power in a very corrupt system. I'd argue that some of the Popes of those days were, for all intents and purposes, atheist themselves.
The fact is, people want power. Regarless of whether we live in a securlar, christian, muslim, or buddhist society, we will have folks use their power for evil.
More quotes: "The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity."
"The decisive falsification of Jesus' doctrine was the work of St.Paul. He gave himself to this work... for the purposes of personal exploitation....
"Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure."
"There is something very unhealthy about Christianity "
"It would always be disagreeable for me to go down to posterity as a man who made concessions in this field. I realize that man, in his imperfection, can commit innumerable errors-- but to devote myself deliberately to errors, that is something I cannot do. I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch Uin the next 200 yearse will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity.... My regret will have been that I couldn't... behold."
You are full of it. If you read his writings, he planned on targeting non-Catholic Christians after dividing and conquering the rest of the religous folks. First the Jews, then Catholics, then other Christians. One of his quotes: "The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death.... When understanding of the universe has become widespread... Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity..."
Atheists have killed more folks. Look at the numbers that died in the Bolshevik revolution and "Cultural" revolution. I could throw in the European deaths of WW II. Read a little bit about the beliefs of Hitler, and you'll see it isn't too much of a stretch.
Pol Pot, and a few others, make the bloody Christian history look like a fairy tale.
Perhaps you are anti-social, hence your "no society when we are self-sufficient". Believe it or not, folks will still choose to interact with each other, even if they don't NEED each other. And simply because one's basic needs are automatically met does not mean folks won't WANT other things. Bill Gates still spends a boat load of money even though his needs are easily met.
It appears you are trying to access a function that is not installed. Install the sarcasm detector now? Please insert the Microsoft Office supplemental CD now.
Untrue. Money is a way to allow for the flow of scarce goods. Until goods are no longer scarce, we will need money. "No longer scarce" means that we have goods in such plentiful supply that they can be obtained without effort.
This will probably never hold true. Until humanity is wiped out entirely, we will need money.
Yup. They invented the search engine. And web based e-mail. And keyword based advertising.
Nothing wrong with using other people's ideas. They have implemented them better than their competition (I use gmail, personalized search, etc). But their products are not revolutionary despite what their fans may thinh.
Cost? Ability to get large objects into space is about nil right now. And even when it is possible, cost is astronomical (sad pun intended). I believe in the order of $20,000 per pound (156,800 british pounds per stone for those of you on the other side of the pond). Rather expensive.
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Or was that humor? With the level of comments on Slashdot, I am never quite sure
So I write a little app I want to share with a friend... do I have to go to Microsoft to get their permission to let them run it? Brilliant... in the next breath you will probably complain about big brother preventing you from Tivoing your favorite TV program (it's my hardware, I can do whatever I want).
Here's a snippet of what I was misremembering:
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After "Sammy Lightfoot," someone told me that there was a way on the Apple to determine when video-blank occured [the brief period between frames that occurs roughly sixty times per second]. If that moment could be determined then other animation techniques that would be much faster could be employed. By combining the page flipping with the now discovered perfect timing, it was possible to display several more true colors on the Apple; up till then, the "twenty-one colors" bragged about by Ken Williams was accomplished through dithering. For example, display one color on one page and another on the other page and flip the pages at perfectly timed intervals and the two colors appear as a brand new color just as yellow and blue when combined produce green.
All that work for 21 freaking colors
Anyone else remember the original King's Quest? If I remember correcectly, the worked with a palette of 16(?) colors. I believe the authors weree innovative in using pixelation/color combinations to make it look like they had 256 colors to work with. Of course, my memory isn't so great, and my numbers could be off.
It is amazing how much fun I could have with such cheesy graphics, and low memory requirements. Somehow, I think games became less fun when the imaginatino requirement got removed.
Don't get me started on Zork.
Fortunately for you, the Linux crowd throws like girls. They don't get out much to do real physical activity, so they couldn't throw much harder than my two-year-old.
Now if they get ahold of some open source robotic arm code, you are screwed.
To the mods who decided this was insightful. Go research some news articles from early 1980's. Pull up repotrs on Japanese economic growth. Replace ever instance of 'Japan' with 'China'. You will get parent post.
Then research early 90's to today. Take a look at why Japan did not grow past a certain point. Why the marriage between business and government allowed the country to expand rapidly originally, but ended up choking. Then research how restrictive and centrally planned the Chinese markets really are.
Folks forget history so quickly it is pathetic.
And if you look at the "leadership" of the Catholic church during those days, you will find most of them were NOT Christian. They used Christianity as a means to power. Some of the ugliest individuals rose to power in a very corrupt system. I'd argue that some of the Popes of those days were, for all intents and purposes, atheist themselves.
The fact is, people want power. Regarless of whether we live in a securlar, christian, muslim, or buddhist society, we will have folks use their power for evil.
More quotes: "The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity."
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"The decisive falsification of Jesus' doctrine was the work of St.Paul. He gave himself to this work... for the purposes of personal exploitation....
"Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure."
"There is something very unhealthy about Christianity "
"It would always be disagreeable for me to go down to posterity as a man who made concessions in this field. I realize that man, in his imperfection, can commit innumerable errors-- but to devote myself deliberately to errors, that is something I cannot do. I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch Uin the next 200 yearse will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity.... My regret will have been that I couldn't... behold
You are full of it. If you read his writings, he planned on targeting non-Catholic Christians after dividing and conquering the rest of the religous folks. First the Jews, then Catholics, then other Christians. One of his quotes: "The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death.... When understanding of the universe has become widespread... Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity..."
Atheists have killed more folks. Look at the numbers that died in the Bolshevik revolution and "Cultural" revolution. I could throw in the European deaths of WW II. Read a little bit about the beliefs of Hitler, and you'll see it isn't too much of a stretch.
Pol Pot, and a few others, make the bloody Christian history look like a fairy tale.
Perhaps you are anti-social, hence your "no society when we are self-sufficient". Believe it or not, folks will still choose to interact with each other, even if they don't NEED each other. And simply because one's basic needs are automatically met does not mean folks won't WANT other things. Bill Gates still spends a boat load of money even though his needs are easily met.
It appears you are trying to access a function that is not installed. Install the sarcasm detector now? Please insert the Microsoft Office supplemental CD now.
How does not being human remove the need for goods and services?
Untrue. Money is a way to allow for the flow of scarce goods. Until goods are no longer scarce, we will need money. "No longer scarce" means that we have goods in such plentiful supply that they can be obtained without effort.
This will probably never hold true. Until humanity is wiped out entirely, we will need money.
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Yup. They invented the search engine. And web based e-mail. And keyword based advertising.
Nothing wrong with using other people's ideas. They have implemented them better than their competition (I use gmail, personalized search, etc). But their products are not revolutionary despite what their fans may thinh.
I, for one, only recognize our glorious and double-plus-good Oceania. Perhaps you should report yourself to the ministry of love for re-education.
Really, people. Think before you hit "submit".
You must be new here.
Cost? Ability to get large objects into space is about nil right now. And even when it is possible, cost is astronomical (sad pun intended). I believe in the order of $20,000 per pound (156,800 british pounds per stone for those of you on the other side of the pond). Rather expensive.
You fail it. Badly.
Finally get a first post, and have nothing to say. Oh well.
Then get off your ass and work on it. Don't criticize someone for doing their part to help disadvantaged countries if you aren't doing yours.