They are fighting over what all wars have fought over: power. One side want's to assert themselves over the other, in some way.
During episodes 1-3, it was the Trade Confederation, who wanted money and unlimited trade power. Over those episodes, they gradually assumed the guise of the Separatists. Of course, what noone saw coming was that it was all a ploy by Palpatine to rule the galaxy: yet another quest for power.
During episodes 4-6, it was still a struggle for power, albeit it was justified by today's standards. The rebels were fighting to re-gain the power they had lost when Palaptine formed the Empire. They were fighting back for personal power. (As the US did in it's revolutionary war).
Taking this and applying it to the Jedi: their battle was also one for power. Sith have more influential/external power. The power eventually comes to "rule over you" -- much similar to a dictatorship & tyrrany. Meanwhile, Jedi have more hidden/internal power. As a Jedi, your focus is on controlling your urges, and striking a balance between yourself and everything around you. This has ties in with democracy & personal freedom.
Concerning war happening for no good reason... I agree, this war isn't for a good reason. However, it has reasons nonetheless.
And an interesting side note: Utopia originally meant "Nowhere" when it was fisrt used. The reasoning behind the epistomology was that a perfect place cannot exist. (Particualrly because humanity defines it's existence through misery & strife, but I digress).
While I do not beleive he wrote all 6 movies at the same time, I do believe he came up with the entire plot line when he wrote IV-VI. Why the hell else would he start with episode 4??
Palaptine had clones of himself made in some bumblefuck part of the galaxy. His soul, instead of being destroyed, finds it's way to the clones, and inhabits them. I have no clue what he does to create the other sith... who he trains, or what not.
There was some wierd plotline along the way about a "sun crusher", which happened to be piloted by his sith apprentice. It piloted around the galaxy blowing up shit, until Luke (or one of his apprentices, as he started the academy again) destroyed it.
They also end up killing the emperor a few more times, as well as destroying his armada. If you want to read some really good books though, I highly reccomend the Han Solo Series. It goes into detail about why everyone is so pissed at him, and how he became a smuggler.
I used to be into the whole filesharing gig. Even managed to pick up a few movies before release, got most of my music collection from it, and had more than a few e-books. (I am in the process of replacing it all, btw. Slowly but surely, it's leaving.)
Why? I get guarenteed fair use, if they get their broadcast flag. In other words, we are giving them the ability to enact the DMCA on television signals, and open technology isn't prohibited from decrypting the signal. So, I can finally legally use an open-source mplayer/xine codec to watch my DVDs.
Same goes for the broadcast flag. I can still watch TV, and even record the show on my home-brew TiVo. The TiVo would be able to strip the signal, and I get my cool copy. What do I have to trade? Not much: I'm not distributing it on the internet anyway.
And, because I am on a roll: Practical reasons not to fileshare (illegally):
1) Most stuff on P2P networks is crap. Have you ever compared a DivX rip to DVD/vob? DivX gets it's ass kicked.
2) Most Mp3's available are crap. They are either incorrectly tagged, or have shitty bitrates. I am still tracking down faulty mp3s from the downloading I stopped 4 years ago.
3) Spyware. Hopefully you saw the earlier article about that.
4) If you get caught, you're fucked.
Now, you may use the excuse that you fileshare as a form of civil disobedience. The idea of you shafting them back is rather noble, in a twisted sense. Unfortunately, P2P networks are somewhat prohibited from performing civil disobedience, specifically because they anonymise their users (to an extent). In order for action to qualify as civil disobedience, not only does it need to occur, but the users need to do it in a completely open manner. (Then, watch as the RIAA tries to sue over a million Americans for $20,000+). Read up on your Thoreau -- you'll see.
Note: I do believe IP law is too powerful in this country. However, I'd rather attempt to abolish it from within the system, than ignore it from without. And, to those ends, any step towards users having more rights is well worth the cost--particualrly for something as trivial as the broadcast flag.
I've ranted long enough. Hope I have you peeps something to think about.
I believe what you are saying as well--so long as the access times and other such data that can be retrieved from the harddrive are taken into account.
For instance: Say I have 10 illegal pictures in my internet cache. Now, if the "access time" spans 30sec-1min (e.g. it could concievably be from some malicious program or site) then that's fine. However, 4 hours? Without being given any additional information, that sounds fishy.
Hell will have frozen over when/. manages to go for a week without a dupe.
Fat chance, you say?? With all of the other odd shit going on, I wouldn't be so surprised if that happened.;)
Definitely trolling for hits with that article -- Did you see the amount of advertizing on that page?? Damn.
Maybe he was hoping that all the movement would distract readers from the meat of his article. It was goddamn anoying.
He does make some interesting points as you read down the article though.
It's like the entire collection of supposed Mac experts put their collective heads in the sand (or in some other dark orifice) and have decided to sing Pollyanna-like songs rather than thoughtfully looking at the situation. This migration has costly consequences for both consumers and business users depending on the decisions made.
I have heard the rumors that MS disbanded the IE dev team. I see them as "possibly valid". Overall, I don't care about it... I use Konq most of the time. However, I will take some time to point out a few flaws in your reasoning.:)
otherwise where is IE7 coming from??
Could it be that Microsoft, along with it's power to disband teams, can also put them together? Is such a thing impossible?
If you've ever done any serious app development you'd know that the work going into the product in the first few versions FAR outweighs the last few. Later versions of applications are often refactoring or building on your existing base.
Actually, that only applies for software that you don't plan on supporting. Software maintenance accounts for over 75% of the computer programming industry. This doesn't only include refactoring and adding/changing functionality. Finding and fixing bugs and security exploits is the most important aspect.
Even excluding that, new standards for internet document design come out all the time. The past few years have seen the fall of HTML for XHTML, and CSS2 will be succeeded by CSS3. That alone should cause microsoft to have a full contingent of staff working on IE.
2. If you've ever taken a look at microsoft's roadmap throughout the mid-late 90's & early 2K you'd know why they needed many more developers; During that time they launched Win95 (new OS codebase), NT4, WinXP, and Win2K. Dramatically different and new OS's and APIs requiring a lot more developers at the time.
This point is already covered by my last paragraph--Web standards have sped up, not slowed down.
Also, Microsoft claims to be incredably innovative, but what innovations have they touted with their browser?? None. Nada. Nothing Zip. Zilch. Zero. They haven't even add tabbed browsing in the past 4 years... (Yes, I know. IE7 has it)
Meanwhile, let's look at how KDE has chosen to innovate their browser (I look at konq b/c I know it better than Mozilla):
Tabbed browsing
Integration with tons of internet resources -- from google to babelfish (granted, IE has plugins).
Integration with KWallet (KDE password manager)
Integration with KGet (KDE download manager)
Mouse gestures (via KHotKeys)
Text boxes that not only have their own undo & redo queue, but also save their text when you press forward & backward... and spellcheck.
That in itself lends particularly well to the credability of the rumor.
2 point 2's? heh. Sorry, just had to be a pedantic bastard.
Yeah, especially the part that says "You are not licensed to sublicense or transfer your rights."
True. Where is the list of patents that Microsoft has, which specifically apply to the Open Schema? I ask this in ignorance. However, if no such patents apply, you do not need to agree to the license--it effectively would be granting you nothing. It seems to be a cookie-cut document more than anything else.
And nothing Microsoft has done with their smart people is particularly innovative either... it works both ways. Microsoft, however, has changed from a company that motivates it's employees to one that... stifles them. Google is now how MS was 10 years ago.
In retrospect, I should have said "most companies now do not apply their smart people" appropriately.
"On an unrelated note, I have a bridge that I'd like to sell to you"
I'm interested in that thar bridge. Let's talk price. Say I start high, you lowball it, and we meet somewhere in the middle? Mind you, never been good at the whole haggling thing.
What they have done is taken some old ideas and implemented them very well. Google have done nothing, let me repeat that, nothing groundbreaking.
Actually, I consider implementing those old ideas well to be Google's most groundbreaking accomplishment.
Just imagine MS produced a web accelerator which recorded personally identifable information about you and made unrequested downloads to your machine.
I don't remember hearing anything about unrequested downloads. Regardless, I wouldn't be up-in-arms either way. However, this opinion should not take things out of context. If MS screwed up their beta software, I wouldn't be giving them pain. Surely enough, I'd be pissed. However, it was my decision to use beta software. Same for the people who got burned using the accelerator. Same for OSS. Beta is not guarenteed to work.
Meanwhile, if it was officially released software... You'd have every justification to be pissed. In that case, time to dust off your bat and smash the proverbial windshields.
Maybe. Or do you mean the system is able to translate arbritrary text into semantically correct text in the target language? Highly unlikely.
I believe that google isn't aspiring to "perfection", instead leaning towards "better". And if their system lives up to the hype, then more power to them.
"People are trying this vor decades now"
Apparently, he just ran into a translation problem himself;)
And other companies and institutes have smart people too.
While they may have the "smart people" you speak of, none of them have applied those people appropriately. Another thing you have to consider: How many companies throw on additional staff who don't give a damn? My bet is quite a few. How many let their employees work with their passion? My bet is not so many.
I don't know the math, but it seems perfectly feasible to me. Use 1 or 2 procs to perform the translations, and the other one to actually "run" the game. It all depends on how the PPC core is implemented--you'll need one hell of a backplane to make it work.
Why would the US be routinely patroling their own airspace with expensive stealth fighters?
Because you don't want to put that technology at risk. It's safer here.
Nor can they find it by switching one of their satellites to infrared and looking in the general area of air force 1 for a whopping great "ooh look at me I'm a jet engine!" signature
The engines of stealth fighters use cooling techniques to mask their exhausts.
Air force one's pilot apparently doesn't know how to fly evaside maneuvers of any kind
When you can perform evasive maneuvers with a commercial airliner, let me know.
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During episodes 1-3, it was the Trade Confederation, who wanted money and unlimited trade power. Over those episodes, they gradually assumed the guise of the Separatists. Of course, what noone saw coming was that it was all a ploy by Palpatine to rule the galaxy: yet another quest for power.
During episodes 4-6, it was still a struggle for power, albeit it was justified by today's standards. The rebels were fighting to re-gain the power they had lost when Palaptine formed the Empire. They were fighting back for personal power. (As the US did in it's revolutionary war).
Taking this and applying it to the Jedi: their battle was also one for power. Sith have more influential/external power. The power eventually comes to "rule over you" -- much similar to a dictatorship & tyrrany. Meanwhile, Jedi have more hidden/internal power. As a Jedi, your focus is on controlling your urges, and striking a balance between yourself and everything around you. This has ties in with democracy & personal freedom.
Concerning war happening for no good reason... I agree, this war isn't for a good reason. However, it has reasons nonetheless.
And an interesting side note: Utopia originally meant "Nowhere" when it was fisrt used. The reasoning behind the epistomology was that a perfect place cannot exist. (Particualrly because humanity defines it's existence through misery & strife, but I digress).
Yeh. I know. I'm an idiot.
While I do not beleive he wrote all 6 movies at the same time, I do believe he came up with the entire plot line when he wrote IV-VI. Why the hell else would he start with episode 4??
There was some wierd plotline along the way about a "sun crusher", which happened to be piloted by his sith apprentice. It piloted around the galaxy blowing up shit, until Luke (or one of his apprentices, as he started the academy again) destroyed it.
They also end up killing the emperor a few more times, as well as destroying his armada. If you want to read some really good books though, I highly reccomend the Han Solo Series. It goes into detail about why everyone is so pissed at him, and how he became a smuggler.
I used to be into the whole filesharing gig. Even managed to pick up a few movies before release, got most of my music collection from it, and had more than a few e-books. (I am in the process of replacing it all, btw. Slowly but surely, it's leaving.)
Why? I get guarenteed fair use, if they get their broadcast flag. In other words, we are giving them the ability to enact the DMCA on television signals, and open technology isn't prohibited from decrypting the signal. So, I can finally legally use an open-source mplayer/xine codec to watch my DVDs.
Same goes for the broadcast flag. I can still watch TV, and even record the show on my home-brew TiVo. The TiVo would be able to strip the signal, and I get my cool copy. What do I have to trade? Not much: I'm not distributing it on the internet anyway.
And, because I am on a roll: Practical reasons not to fileshare (illegally):
1) Most stuff on P2P networks is crap. Have you ever compared a DivX rip to DVD/vob? DivX gets it's ass kicked.
2) Most Mp3's available are crap. They are either incorrectly tagged, or have shitty bitrates. I am still tracking down faulty mp3s from the downloading I stopped 4 years ago.
3) Spyware. Hopefully you saw the earlier article about that.
4) If you get caught, you're fucked.
Now, you may use the excuse that you fileshare as a form of civil disobedience. The idea of you shafting them back is rather noble, in a twisted sense. Unfortunately, P2P networks are somewhat prohibited from performing civil disobedience, specifically because they anonymise their users (to an extent). In order for action to qualify as civil disobedience, not only does it need to occur, but the users need to do it in a completely open manner. (Then, watch as the RIAA tries to sue over a million Americans for $20,000+). Read up on your Thoreau -- you'll see.
Note: I do believe IP law is too powerful in this country. However, I'd rather attempt to abolish it from within the system, than ignore it from without. And, to those ends, any step towards users having more rights is well worth the cost--particualrly for something as trivial as the broadcast flag.
I've ranted long enough. Hope I have you peeps something to think about.
I believe what you are saying as well--so long as the access times and other such data that can be retrieved from the harddrive are taken into account.
For instance: Say I have 10 illegal pictures in my internet cache. Now, if the "access time" spans 30sec-1min (e.g. it could concievably be from some malicious program or site) then that's fine. However, 4 hours? Without being given any additional information, that sounds fishy.
Question: What if it does both?
// The lock was set, but somehow we're in the think-it's-unlocked section.
Both informative and you get to use fuck^H^H^H^H the "F-Word".
Granted, this isn't necessarily the best way to operate, but I try to make my comments both informative and funny. e.g:
// mult_add(*a, *b, *c, *d): a= (b * c) + d
And so on. The object is not to be less informative, it's to add some flavor to the code.
Hell will have frozen over when /. manages to go for a week without a dupe.
Fat chance, you say?? With all of the other odd shit going on, I wouldn't be so surprised if that happened. ;)
Definitely trolling for hits with that article -- Did you see the amount of advertizing on that page?? Damn.
Maybe he was hoping that all the movement would distract readers from the meat of his article. It was goddamn anoying.
He does make some interesting points as you read down the article though.
It's like the entire collection of supposed Mac experts put their collective heads in the sand (or in some other dark orifice) and have decided to sing Pollyanna-like songs rather than thoughtfully looking at the situation. This migration has costly consequences for both consumers and business users depending on the decisions made.
Ah... Real Genius. What a spectacular film.
Hey there Chief. That was the point.
I have heard the rumors that MS disbanded the IE dev team. I see them as "possibly valid". Overall, I don't care about it... I use Konq most of the time. However, I will take some time to point out a few flaws in your reasoning. :)
otherwise where is IE7 coming from??
Could it be that Microsoft, along with it's power to disband teams, can also put them together? Is such a thing impossible?
If you've ever done any serious app development you'd know that the work going into the product in the first few versions FAR outweighs the last few. Later versions of applications are often refactoring or building on your existing base.
Actually, that only applies for software that you don't plan on supporting. Software maintenance accounts for over 75% of the computer programming industry. This doesn't only include refactoring and adding/changing functionality. Finding and fixing bugs and security exploits is the most important aspect.
Even excluding that, new standards for internet document design come out all the time. The past few years have seen the fall of HTML for XHTML, and CSS2 will be succeeded by CSS3. That alone should cause microsoft to have a full contingent of staff working on IE.
2. If you've ever taken a look at microsoft's roadmap throughout the mid-late 90's & early 2K you'd know why they needed many more developers; During that time they launched Win95 (new OS codebase), NT4, WinXP, and Win2K. Dramatically different and new OS's and APIs requiring a lot more developers at the time.
This point is already covered by my last paragraph--Web standards have sped up, not slowed down.
Also, Microsoft claims to be incredably innovative, but what innovations have they touted with their browser?? None. Nada. Nothing Zip. Zilch. Zero. They haven't even add tabbed browsing in the past 4 years... (Yes, I know. IE7 has it)
Meanwhile, let's look at how KDE has chosen to innovate their browser (I look at konq b/c I know it better than Mozilla):
That in itself lends particularly well to the credability of the rumor.
2 point 2's? heh. Sorry, just had to be a pedantic bastard.
True. Where is the list of patents that Microsoft has, which specifically apply to the Open Schema? I ask this in ignorance. However, if no such patents apply, you do not need to agree to the license--it effectively would be granting you nothing. It seems to be a cookie-cut document more than anything else.
And nothing Microsoft has done with their smart people is particularly innovative either... it works both ways. Microsoft, however, has changed from a company that motivates it's employees to one that... stifles them. Google is now how MS was 10 years ago.
In retrospect, I should have said "most companies now do not apply their smart people" appropriately.
I'm interested in that thar bridge. Let's talk price. Say I start high, you lowball it, and we meet somewhere in the middle? Mind you, never been good at the whole haggling thing.
Actually, I consider implementing those old ideas well to be Google's most groundbreaking accomplishment.
Just imagine MS produced a web accelerator which recorded personally identifable information about you and made unrequested downloads to your machine.I don't remember hearing anything about unrequested downloads. Regardless, I wouldn't be up-in-arms either way. However, this opinion should not take things out of context. If MS screwed up their beta software, I wouldn't be giving them pain. Surely enough, I'd be pissed. However, it was my decision to use beta software. Same for the people who got burned using the accelerator. Same for OSS. Beta is not guarenteed to work.
Meanwhile, if it was officially released software... You'd have every justification to be pissed. In that case, time to dust off your bat and smash the proverbial windshields.
DISCLAIMER: Not a /bot, nor to I speak for them.
I believe that google isn't aspiring to "perfection", instead leaning towards "better". And if their system lives up to the hype, then more power to them.
"People are trying this vor decades now"Apparently, he just ran into a translation problem himself ;)
And other companies and institutes have smart people too.While they may have the "smart people" you speak of, none of them have applied those people appropriately. Another thing you have to consider: How many companies throw on additional staff who don't give a damn? My bet is quite a few. How many let their employees work with their passion? My bet is not so many.
I liked Fusion Frenzy. It's more of a party game, but quite entertaining.
Metal arms was great as well. Not only did it have a killer storyline, but the mechanics were fresh, and the multiplayer action brilliant.
Fable was interesting, but failed to love up to the hype. It was also painfully short. From my experience, it's a love it or leave it game.
If you are into arcade sims and noir, Crimsom skies is worth checking out.
Ninja Gaiden: hot. Hard, but hot.
I think I'll leave it at that. Out of the list, I'd say that Metal Arms was the most fun.
I don't know the math, but it seems perfectly feasible to me. Use 1 or 2 procs to perform the translations, and the other one to actually "run" the game. It all depends on how the PPC core is implemented--you'll need one hell of a backplane to make it work.
It was at least discussed in an earlier article
Better tell that one to Microsoft.
50% Interesting
20% Troll
20% Redundant
And as you all can see, the last 10% is 90% of the work...
Because you don't want to put that technology at risk. It's safer here.
Nor can they find it by switching one of their satellites to infrared and looking in the general area of air force 1 for a whopping great "ooh look at me I'm a jet engine!" signatureThe engines of stealth fighters use cooling techniques to mask their exhausts.
Air force one's pilot apparently doesn't know how to fly evaside maneuvers of any kindWhen you can perform evasive maneuvers with a commercial airliner, let me know.
Not that I actually watch 24...
-j3 actually. make.conf (5) reccomends setting the number of concurrent compiles between [Number of CPUs]+1 and 2*[Number of CPUs]+1
The only concern is that RIGHT NOW I don't think Windows will do The Right Things
If you mean NUMA, you're right. They didn't have it till 64-bit edition. (And they call themselves innovative? ;)