add a few giftet artists to all this potential, and I'm sure the world would never look the same again (:
Yes, I can imagine how it's going to be: World's Worst Website. Walk trough Walmart low price products will be a unforgettable experience.
And to think I had thought this would all start with Skynet...
Instead of let the destruction happen you could make it miserably fail. Skynet will be full of "useful" programs for a militar A.I. like minesweeper (Why not? WOPR plays tic-tac-toe), wordpad, Windows Media Player, outlook express and compatible Zune plugins for Internet Explorer 8. If the system don't kill itself probably a teenager script kiddie could do the work.
Welcome, and good bye, to our Ms-Skynet overlords.
.lit files were a PDF killer also. And then sure adobe was also "screwed " for sure.
Microsoft Reader (.lit)
OEB "under the hood", Microsoft's Reader format is a compiled binary compressed ebook format that at the least protected publically available DRM, is "sealed" from user changes. Although it used OEB source files, you can't read.lit files in a browser. You have to have a copy of Microsoft Reader to properly decompress and unencrypt them. Microsoft Reader files look great, and offer many of the advantages of paper books (pagination, highlighting, annotation) along with the advantages of ebooks (small file sizes, keyword searching, hyperlinks), but it's not as "durable" a format as ASCII since you can only read it on platforms for which a version of Microsoft Reader is available. The Bormat Blues
This is stupid. We live in a free market democracy.
A free market democracy where you can contaminate my air and you don't pay me in return isn't a free market at all.
Air is not used as a product of a free market, so laws that apply to it must be different from laws that apply to other "products".
The day you put your car in a plastic bag (and the head, and the chemical plant, etc. ) and you pay for every cubic meter that you use I will agree with you, until then well come to a communist market: air.
Microsoft really seem to be shooting themselves in the foot lately, even if this isn't their fault.
Consequently, the European Vista will be be bundled with Microsoft's new killer app, Duke Nukem Forever.
One of Microsoft's biggest problems (along with their seemingly insane devotion to their own proprietary formats and obsession with control) is something they've always done: early overhype. The same thing happened with the Windows XP. They put out so much overblown hype early on in their product announcements (making ridiculous claims like "this will be more powerful than a supercomputer" and other such bunk) that later, inevitably, when they have to pull back and announce REAL specs and features, it comes off as a disappointment.
They are nothing less than the victims of their own unrealistic promises.
-Eric
if you had a PS3 would you run this in down time?
I'm running folding@home at 2 PCs that runs all night (using electric power at night is more cheap than during the daytime). And it's installed on other 3 PCs, so when I'm only browsing the Internet or so, it uses the unused processor.
So if I buy a PS3, or a Cell personal computer, I'm sure that it is going to run folding@home.
"you can see and compile all the code, but no way are you going to be redistributing this as any kind of commercial project"
From Sun:
Sun also makes the JDK source code available for researchers and others interested in exploring the details of the JDK. Over the past several years, Sun has made the source code available via the Sun Community Source License (SCSL) terms. Sun continues to use SCSL for JDK 5.0. In addition, Sun is also releasing JDK 5.0 under the new Java Research License (JRL) which simplifies access to JDK 5.0 source code. Researchers and universities should find the JRL much easier to understand and work with compared to SCSL.
For Research Use only you can access the source code of the implementation of Java from Sun. If they are going to open source Java, I think that they think on more than that.
So if they are going to open source java, but you can't use it for commercial use, then they are only to change the name of the lincense.
Spain is not third world, by any account or figure.
Although economic performance is very good and it's one of the most growing economies of Europe (so medicine, technological consumption, style of life, etc. is very similar to other developed countries...) there is a lot of municipal corruption. Corruption is as usual in Spanish councils as in third world countries: Marbella it's only the most known corruption case. Spain it's not comparable to northern countries.
instead the matter pulled in is spun for a while then ejected at near lightspeed
What may happen if a planet falls into MECO? There are who knows how many collapsed stars spinning chunks of matter at near lightspeed.
That's bad news for poor planet Earth, but good news for Armageddon's fans.
However, this is more about the troubles with doing international work ...and I like Elephants Dream a lot. I can understand what had happened, and I can't get angry with Matt Ebb because has been a mistake.
The problem isn't about international work, but about internal politics. It isn't the firs time that happens some thing like this, and it is going to happen again international or not.
The better option is to say the true, people is not so foolish not to understand. And it's fixed now.
The Cava Boycott is an example about internal Spanish problems.
The History of Catalonia is an interesting one (like any other history). And is a good example of how a XVIII century problem becomes an issue nowadays.
Jerry: There's been a big misunderstanding here! We did that whole thing for your benefit. We knew you were eavesdropping. That's why my friend said all that. It was on purpose! We're not gay! Not that there's anything wrong with that...
$600 isn't so expensive for first adopters. And don't forget that to play with a XBOX 360 you need a new $1200 TV. So you are spending $1600, but if you buy a PlayStation 3 you are spending $1800. It's so different?
If you want to play XBOX 360 without HD, you can buy a XBOX or a PlayStation 2 at a lower price per hardware and per game.
In the Spanish version of Slashdot (Barrapunto) there is a history about Cómo convertir Barcelona en un Silicon Valley (How convert Barcelona in other Silicon Valley). There are some interesting ideas about technology business and Spain economy.
They are like M$, they can't do anything anymore without bad press.
May be it's to blame Sony Music. Sony has great products. I like, and have bought, a lot of them.
I think that Sony Music must change it's name to Rootkit Music or whatever they want, and dissociate the Sony image from RIAA and the like. Because Sony it's Cool (PSP, Vaio,...), but prepotent music companies aren't.
Rootkit it's about Sony Music. It's like say that Sony Playstation isn't going to sell because you don't like Spiderman 3.
I Like Sony HDR-HC1, the first afordable Hight Definition Camcorder.
I love my Sony PSP.
I have also a Sony TFT 19".
And the Sony VAIO line of Notebooks are great.
And PS3 is gonig to have Linux preinstalled, and ready to be amateur-developed.
So I don't understand why you are never going to buy, recommend, anything SONY again. SONY sells pretty god products.
The only difference with 8MP cameras is that now people are posting 4MB images on their Web pages, or emailing them to Grandma who's still stuck on dialup.
There is a difference. A 8MP camera is equivalent to a 4MB camera plus a x2 zoom.
In the old good times you could zoom on a film image quite a lot. But with digital cameras it's imposible, unless you have more megapixels.
With a 800MPixel (low noise) camera you didn't ever need a zoom again (only a gitial one in the preview screen to ). So you can get a 28000x28000 image and later make any crop you need with The Gimp.
A good zoom lenses may be very, very expensive.
A just don't know how cheap can get a very high resolution low noise sensor.
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and all asian people go kung fu fighting.
In my games when japanese girls fight agains enourmous tentacled monsters they don't go kung fu fighting. I think my games aren't stereotyped.
Otherwise may be to the 158,500 employees or to Vanguard with 11 million shares Sony isn't so dead.
Yahoo! Finance
add a few giftet artists to all this potential, and I'm sure the world would never look the same again (:
Yes, I can imagine how it's going to be: World's Worst Website. Walk trough Walmart low price products will be a unforgettable experience.
And to think I had thought this would all start with Skynet...
Instead of let the destruction happen you could make it miserably fail. Skynet will be full of "useful" programs for a militar A.I. like minesweeper (Why not? WOPR plays tic-tac-toe), wordpad, Windows Media Player, outlook express and compatible Zune plugins for Internet Explorer 8. If the system don't kill itself probably a teenager script kiddie could do the work.
Welcome, and good bye, to our Ms-Skynet overlords.
...maybe it's a good idea to vote schwarzenegger for president. Just in case.
This is stupid. We live in a free market democracy.
A free market democracy where you can contaminate my air and you don't pay me in return isn't a free market at all.
Air is not used as a product of a free market, so laws that apply to it must be different from laws that apply to other "products".
The day you put your car in a plastic bag (and the head, and the chemical plant, etc. ) and you pay for every cubic meter that you use I will agree with you, until then well come to a communist market: air.
Sounds familiar to European PS3 Launch Delayed to 2007
Microsoft really seem to be shooting themselves in the foot lately, even if this isn't their fault.
Consequently, the European Vista will be be bundled with Microsoft's new killer app, Duke Nukem Forever.
One of Microsoft's biggest problems (along with their seemingly insane devotion to their own proprietary formats and obsession with control) is something they've always done: early overhype. The same thing happened with the Windows XP. They put out so much overblown hype early on in their product announcements (making ridiculous claims like "this will be more powerful than a supercomputer" and other such bunk) that later, inevitably, when they have to pull back and announce REAL specs and features, it comes off as a disappointment.
They are nothing less than the victims of their own unrealistic promises.
-Eric
Sony for Microsoft
Vista for PS3
And so on...
if you had a PS3 would you run this in down time?
I'm running folding@home at 2 PCs that runs all night (using electric power at night is more cheap than during the daytime). And it's installed on other 3 PCs, so when I'm only browsing the Internet or so, it uses the unused processor.
So if I buy a PS3, or a Cell personal computer, I'm sure that it is going to run folding@home.
From Sun: For Research Use only you can access the source code of the implementation of Java from Sun. If they are going to open source Java, I think that they think on more than that.
So if they are going to open source java, but you can't use it for commercial use, then they are only to change the name of the lincense.
Instead this section has become Zonk's personal anti Sony flame board.
I'm with you in that. There are more objetive posts on Microsoft Windows Vista than in PSP and PS3 together.
Spain is not third world, by any account or figure.
Although economic performance is very good and it's one of the most growing economies of Europe (so medicine, technological consumption, style of life, etc. is very similar to other developed countries...) there is a lot of municipal corruption. Corruption is as usual in Spanish councils as in third world countries: Marbella it's only the most known corruption case. Spain it's not comparable to northern countries.
Disclaimer: Yes, I live in Spain.
instead the matter pulled in is spun for a while then ejected at near lightspeed
What may happen if a planet falls into MECO? There are who knows how many collapsed stars spinning chunks of matter at near lightspeed.
That's bad news for poor planet Earth, but good news for Armageddon's fans.
However, this is more about the troubles with doing international work
...and I like Elephants Dream a lot. I can understand what had happened, and I can't get angry with Matt Ebb because has been a mistake.
The problem isn't about international work, but about internal politics. It isn't the firs time that happens some thing like this, and it is going to happen again international or not.
The better option is to say the true, people is not so foolish not to understand. And it's fixed now.
The Cava Boycott is an example about internal Spanish problems.
The History of Catalonia is an interesting one (like any other history). And is a good example of how a XVIII century problem becomes an issue nowadays.
The Outing:
Jerry: There's been a big misunderstanding here! We did that whole thing for your benefit. We knew you were eavesdropping. That's why my friend said all that. It was on purpose! We're not gay! Not that there's anything wrong with that...
George: No, of course not...
It's said 11 times, or so, in the episode.
$600 isn't so expensive for first adopters. And don't forget that to play with a XBOX 360 you need a new $1200 TV. So you are spending $1600, but if you buy a PlayStation 3 you are spending $1800. It's so different?
If you want to play XBOX 360 without HD, you can buy a XBOX or a PlayStation 2 at a lower price per hardware and per game.
That's because HP printers have Ozone Emissions. Thanks HP for saving the World.
In the Spanish version of Slashdot (Barrapunto) there is a history about Cómo convertir Barcelona en un Silicon Valley (How convert Barcelona in other Silicon Valley). There are some interesting ideas about technology business and Spain economy.
They are like M$, they can't do anything anymore without bad press.
May be it's to blame Sony Music. Sony has great products. I like, and have bought, a lot of them.
I think that Sony Music must change it's name to Rootkit Music or whatever they want, and dissociate the Sony image from RIAA and the like. Because Sony it's Cool (PSP, Vaio,...), but prepotent music companies aren't.
SONY and RootKit-gate. 'nuff said.
Rootkit it's about Sony Music. It's like say that Sony Playstation isn't going to sell because you don't like Spiderman 3.
I Like Sony HDR-HC1, the first afordable Hight Definition Camcorder.
I love my Sony PSP.
I have also a Sony TFT 19".
And the Sony VAIO line of Notebooks are great.
And PS3 is gonig to have Linux preinstalled, and ready to be amateur-developed.
So I don't understand why you are never going to buy, recommend, anything SONY again. SONY sells pretty god products.
So no one is going to pay for a piece of plastic.
Say it to George Lucas.
I like to keep old 5 1/4 game disks. I love it's boxes.
May be, better than a "virtual" game it's a box with merchandising in it. Or may be sell games cheaper...
There is a difference. A 8MP camera is equivalent to a 4MB camera plus a x2 zoom.
In the old good times you could zoom on a film image quite a lot. But with digital cameras it's imposible, unless you have more megapixels.
With a 800MPixel (low noise) camera you didn't ever need a zoom again (only a gitial one in the preview screen to ). So you can get a 28000x28000 image and later make any crop you need with The Gimp.
A good zoom lenses may be very, very expensive.
A just don't know how cheap can get a very high resolution low noise sensor.
Visual Basic .NET, C# .NET, ASP .NET, ...
What the article says is that Windows Programmers Fall in CNN's Top 5 In-Demand.
There is going to be a new MMO that is going to be a the best ever....
Why they bother to make another one?
Ballmer: And it had, you know, the characteristics of communism that people love so very, very much about it. That is, it's free.
I'm sure Sam Palmisano has one of this posters in his office.