While everything you said is fairly accurate there is the fact that oil is useful for other things besides being burned. It's most useful when used to make things: plastics, pharamceuticals, fertilizers, etc etc etc. If I were a government that had access to free energy I would still want oil...and to deny oil to my enemys.
Speech compression algorithms by using linear prediction and other tricks can reduce the bandwidth required for transmitting speech by a factor of 8 with no perceptible quality loss. You can reduce the bandwidth required even more by taking a quality hit. Also, the latency in a voice conversation can be quite high(500ms or more) before anyone will notice that there is a delay. I expect that a miner that was trapped would not care that much if while he was talking to the rescuers that the sound quality was poor and it took a few seconds for the response to come.
If you used the bandwidth from all of ELF and SLF...not sure if that's feasible or not, you would be short by a factor of 10 (if 300hz-3hz=297 and hz=> 297bps and the speech requires 2400 bps) which could be used for a "store and forward" radio...like underground voicemail.
What are you talking about? Something as complex as windows? Windows is hardly a good example since it sucks so much. and the space shuttle is a crappy design, as well, being neither totally reusuable nor disposable...and it's unsafe. the russians have way better space tech, but I digress.
Anyway, whether a project is open source or not says absolutely nothing about the hierarchical arrangement, or lack thereof of the developers. If a group of OSS developers wants to arrange themselves into a flat consensus based organization then they can do that. If they want a strict, totalitarian hierarchy then they can do that too. People are experimenting with different ways to arrange themselves and that's a good thing--it's *innovative*. In the for profit corporate model you're almost always going to get the traditional top down approach, which sometimes is the right way but not always. Maybe if NASA wasn't so top down someone on the bottom would have been able to tell the higher ups that the shuttle was a stupid design and we'd have cheaper, safer space travel.
Re:So, you programmers ready to give up your jobs?
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So, what happens to all the programmers in the world when everything goes open source and free? Are you all willing to take jobs flipping burgers at McDonalds to pay your rent while you do your old job for free at night to "support the cause"?
OSS if taken to it's core is inherently anti-capitalist. Shit.. I can't think of *any* other possible way to arrange an economy than capitalism...damn, I guess we'll have to stick to closed source.
OSS doesn't work if developers are greedy
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McVoy lives in the San Francisco Bay area. The rents there are enormous. EVERYTHING costs an insane amount there. If McVoy and his *team* weren't wrapped up in the idea of living in a swanky place like SF then they wouldn't have to spend so much damn money. Still they don't even really need it there. Lots of poor people live in the bay area but McVoy has obviously bought into the materialistic, capitalistic notion that if you're a software developer you DESERVE fast cars, nice houses, going out to expensive restaurants, etc. We have computer networks, he could live almost anywhere in the world, i.e. some place cheaper to live, and do his job just as well. McVoy is a greedy SOB!
I don't know about "insecure" but it sure is stupid to get so uptight about mere semantics... as if there is something sacred about the letter permutation H-A-C-K-E-R.
"don't waste your time on the internet..."
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really... modern software is bloated as all get out. who cares about new fancy shmancy processors when all it would take for our computers to run fast would be some good, old fashioned efficient coding? These new procs are just a way to get money for the chip manufacturers they do NOT translate to increased productivity.
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Well spoken.
There is an assumption that most people make that if they haven't heard about something it doesn't exist...it's the google effect...
While everything you said is fairly accurate there is the fact that oil is useful for other things besides being burned. It's most useful when used to make things: plastics, pharamceuticals, fertilizers, etc etc etc. If I were a government that had access to free energy I would still want oil...and to deny oil to my enemys.
Speech compression algorithms by using linear prediction and other tricks can reduce the bandwidth required for transmitting speech by a factor of 8 with no perceptible quality loss. You can reduce the bandwidth required even more by taking a quality hit. Also, the latency in a voice conversation can be quite high(500ms or more) before anyone will notice that there is a delay. I expect that a miner that was trapped would not care that much if while he was talking to the rescuers that the sound quality was poor and it took a few seconds for the response to come.
If you used the bandwidth from all of ELF and SLF...not sure if that's feasible or not, you would be short by a factor of 10 (if 300hz-3hz=297 and hz=> 297bps and the speech requires 2400 bps) which could be used for a "store and forward" radio...like underground voicemail.
Well if you have a PC in a mac case why do you need a mac? They're just pretty boxes.
or maybe the police just choose people at random to pull over?
That's like asking the fox to guard the hen house.
"Certainly, most of the radar guns are working totally correctly..."
On what basis are you making the claim that most of the radar guns are working totally correctly?
stfu, you queer. whose side are you on?
I hate to break it to you. But you'll never be rich...so get over it.
fuck the FCC-- do what you want, their enforcement budgets are miniscule.
all good points!
but it's goddamn pointless. who gives a fuck if you have a picture of it or not?
Your MOM supplies end-to-end IPv6 connectivity.
What are you talking about? Something as complex as windows? Windows is hardly a good example since it sucks so much. and the space shuttle is a crappy design, as well, being neither totally reusuable nor disposable...and it's unsafe. the russians have way better space tech, but I digress.
Anyway, whether a project is open source or not says absolutely nothing about the hierarchical arrangement, or lack thereof of the developers. If a group of OSS developers wants to arrange themselves into a flat consensus based organization then they can do that. If they want a strict, totalitarian hierarchy then they can do that too. People are experimenting with different ways to arrange themselves and that's a good thing--it's *innovative*. In the for profit corporate model you're almost always going to get the traditional top down approach, which sometimes is the right way but not always. Maybe if NASA wasn't so top down someone on the bottom would have been able to tell the higher ups that the shuttle was a stupid design and we'd have cheaper, safer space travel.
rofl
OSS if taken to it's core is inherently anti-capitalist. Shit.. I can't think of *any* other possible way to arrange an economy than capitalism...damn, I guess we'll have to stick to closed source.
McVoy lives in the San Francisco Bay area. The rents there are enormous. EVERYTHING costs an insane amount there. If McVoy and his *team* weren't wrapped up in the idea of living in a swanky place like SF then they wouldn't have to spend so much damn money. Still they don't even really need it there. Lots of poor people live in the bay area but McVoy has obviously bought into the materialistic, capitalistic notion that if you're a software developer you DESERVE fast cars, nice houses, going out to expensive restaurants, etc. We have computer networks, he could live almost anywhere in the world, i.e. some place cheaper to live, and do his job just as well. McVoy is a greedy SOB!
I've been staying up nights worrying about how this was going to happen. I can rest easy now.
I don't know about "insecure" but it sure is stupid to get so uptight about mere semantics... as if there is something sacred about the letter permutation H-A-C-K-E-R.
Yeah, this whole internet thing is just a fad...
What an idiot
Now windows apps can be even MORE bloated.
That's a kick ass idea...
Bill's boyfriend must have broken up with him.
really... modern software is bloated as all get out. who cares about new fancy shmancy processors when all it would take for our computers to run fast would be some good, old fashioned efficient coding? These new procs are just a way to get money for the chip manufacturers they do NOT translate to increased productivity.