Think about it. He designed the parachute, but did he ever jump off the Leaning Tower of Pisa with one he designed and built?
Does any navy in existance sail a DaVinci class submarine? No. And the reason is simple. DaVinci came up with some killer ideas in a hypothetical scientific sort of way, but the fact is that he couldn't figure out how to build them. As to the other 3 choices well, have you ever used a phone, lightbulb, or airplane? Exactly, me too.
I guess it just goes to prove that old saying: Just because you paint portraits of yourself in drag; that doesn't make you an engineer.
The G4 chip was supposed to be multi coreson one chip, but they're not. IBM has a dual core chip working, the Power3 or something like that. The 'G' chips are Apple's names for the Motorola versions of the IBM Power line, so the G5 when it comes out should be dual or maybe quad core. ---CONFLICT!!---
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It's different than other PPC Linux distributions in that it's SuSE. Whether that's good or bad is an opinion. I run LinuxPPC on my mac, and SuSE on my K62 homebuilt and my laptop. I like the SuSE distribution better than the LinuxPPC one, so I might swap it out once it's out of beta. SuSE has different configuration tools. LinuxPPC is based on Red Hat, so if you have a preference between RedHat and SuSE, that would be the way to go.
Do you even read what you write? Seriously I'm amazed your brain has the capacity to process oxygen. This is the whole point. They are FORCING people to install their browser to use a freaking word processor and every other one of their products. ---CONFLICT!!---
>> couldn't MS complain that their market position is being hurt because the competition is giving away what they'd like to sell? Well, good old Billy Boy said when they started dumping IE that a browser is a necessary part of an OS and that they were merely bringing it down from its inflated price to its natural price of $0.00. An OS is much more basic and essential to the operation of a computer. Linux is then merely bringing the much more inflated price down to its natural level. >>some firms would be favored over others by the government, and that seems wrong to me. No firms are being favored in any of this. One firm guilty of many CRIMINAL actions is being punished for its blatant CRIMINAL actions. I think the quality of the astroturfers is really going downhill around here;-) ---CONFLICT!!---
Excuse me, but you have just made abundantly clear that you are a moron.
It is a standard agreed upon by the m. p. e. g., but the standard they chose IS Quicktime 4. The codecs are a different issue as was pointed out above, but please try to know anything about something before talking about it. What a fucking retarded ass you are.
There is nothing that even comes close to Quicktime4 for streaming video. Also, avi is much closer to a gif. Mpg is more like a jpg. it's a good compressed format, but pretty much requires hardware compression.
Also the MPEG-4 standard is quicktime 4.
Repeat after me: I will not moderate as informative if I don't know shit about the subject.
M$ is actually trying to get it's act together here. They know as well as anyone that the MCSE isn't worth anything. They just created it to be buzzword compliant, "Sure we have a certification". So now they actually want to make it mean something and the people who believe their certification means they are 31337 computer gods while in fact not knowing crap are getting pissed. Well hot tip folks: That's what you get for taking the easy way out as opposed to learning your business. ---CONFLICT!!---
Yeah, essentially. If you graph it that's what you get. The idea is that only at the speed of light does the equation blow up. I think that this is what led to the theory of "tachyons" which were theoretical particles which only travel faster than light. I don't think anyone believes in them any more though. What imaginary time is though I have no interpretation for though as Troller pointed out. ---CONFLICT!!---
Well, it doesn't really. If you can make sense of it then you would be a shoo-in for a nobel prize in physics. Hell, they'd probably throw in a literature one too just 'cause. I'm not saying that there necessarily is a real interpretation of this, but the mathematics don't rule it out. ---CONFLICT!!---
Actually, the only mathematical impossibilty arises when you go exactly the speed of light. The expression inside the radical would be zero and it's in the denominator hence infinite. The square roots of negatives are not real numbers, but that doesn't mean that they are fake:-). They're complex which are actually more complete than the reals. Complex numbers arise in reality. Inductors and capacitors have a complex impedance (resistance). Also Feynman's quantum theory of the electromagnetic field, QED, (think Maxwell's equations on crack) only works when you realize that you can't just "throw out" the complex solutions. I think they show up in general relativity too, but I don't know for sure.
The complex numbers are your friends;-) They just got a bad rap since they were originally called imaginary. When the Greeks first discovered the irrationals, (hypotenuse of a right triangle with sides length 1) a cult started to hide their existence since they thought society would freak out if they knew there were such "not nice" numbers. ---CONFLICT!!---
He came up with an extension to a mathematical theorem by Ramanujan. This is pretty impressive since most people have no idea what that guy was talking about;-)
If you don't know, Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician who was born an "untouchable". He was poor, sickly and almost totally uneducated. He recreated a large portion of modern mathematics independently. He wrote to a British mathematician whose name escapes me with a lot of his work included. At first glance it looked like all previously proven theorems and so he disregarded it and threw it away. He started thinking about it and realized there were many novel approaches and new ideas so he brought him over to England and set him up at the university. He died a few years later due basically to poor health attributable to a really shitty life, but his work blew open doors into mathematical realms we are still trying to probe.
So, in long;-) , this kid might be a candidate for a Fields medal in the future. ---CONFLICT!!---
The one thing I don't understand is why a company would care how many units Loki sells. I know they can't really talk about the details of their deals, but it seems to me like if Loki sells even one copy the original author wins. Say Loki ported (just an example, I'm sure no one really cares about this;-) Diablo II to Linux and sells one box. Blizzard makes $5.00 or whatever off of this. Loki is out $100K or whatever it costs them to port it which sucks for them but it doesn't hurt Blizzard at all.
The only real issue I see with this is the question of trusting Loki with their source code, but I think they've proven their reliability. I mean given how little Loki talks about their business issues I think the NSA is thinking of using their servers as a backup for their critical data;-).
So seriously what am I missing here? Given that the original authors have already paid their development costs, assuming that they at least broke even on the game wouldn't every dollar they make from Loki be pure profit? How does it cost them anything?
By the way I am a happy Heroes of Might and Magic III owner. Thanks Loki.
I was there too, and you're off by about ten years. Examples:
Black Flag (up until My War) 7Seconds (up until new wind) Septic Death Ramones Code of Honor Condemned to Death Fang The Freeze The FU's The Faction JFA NOFX The Germs FEAR Suicidal Tendencies (First Album) Bad Religion (until the last couple) Dead Kennedys
These are just a few of the Punk bands I saw in the 80's. There are still real punk bands playing today. Green Day and the Offspring are not them though. Of course maybe you're one of those people who think the Sex Pistols were the first punk band even though Johnny Rotten sang a Ramones song from their released album to audition for the band.
I wasn't logged in before. Actually I was saying that it is a troll and a good one. Sarcasm is probably the primary way of trolling. Trolling is not what most of the people on slashdot who get labeled trolls are doing. Think trolling as in fishing. You throw out your bait (in this case an argument so silly that anyone who took the time to think about it would realise that no one could actually believe it) and drag it through the water looking for a bite (someone more eager to post a heated response than to use their brain). This was accomplished very well in this case. For those who actually got it, it was also funny because it ridiculed the idiots who actually think hearing "fart" is worse than seeing peoples heads blown off and such. 99% of the posts marked "troll" on/. should be marked "flamebait" since that's what grits, don knots. natalie portman and all that other crap is. It's posted for the sole purpose of interrupting the discussion. It takes more intelligence to troll than to post some mindless crap like that. ---CONFLICT!!---
The article doesn't deal with the issue in this respect.
An interesting thing about SuperString theory is that it clears up this problem in a very concise manner. I got this information from the book The Elegant Universe by someone whose name slips my mind. Essentially the idea is that The Planck length is the quantum of distance. Given this, it makes no sense to discuss distances less than this. The pure mathematics of General Relativity exist in a totally continuous space. When they try to reconcile QM and GR at arbritrarily small distances the mess arises because the questions they are asking are nonsense. If they restrict their "questions" to distances on the scale of the Planck length or greater, QM and GR integrate seamlessly.
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I mean isn't that part of the big deal with it?
That would be like totally sweet.
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Think about it.
He designed the parachute, but did he ever jump off the Leaning Tower of Pisa with one he designed and built?
Does any navy in existance sail a DaVinci class submarine?
No.
And the reason is simple.
DaVinci came up with some killer ideas in a hypothetical scientific sort of way, but the fact is that he couldn't figure out how to build them.
As to the other 3 choices well, have you ever used a phone, lightbulb, or airplane?
Exactly, me too.
I guess it just goes to prove that old saying:
Just because you paint portraits of yourself in drag; that doesn't make you an engineer.
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The G4 chip was supposed to be multi coreson one chip, but they're not.
IBM has a dual core chip working, the Power3 or something like that. The 'G' chips are Apple's names for the Motorola versions of the IBM Power line, so the G5 when it comes out should be dual or maybe quad core.
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maybe, the test box they had running did run simple text, but after 2 typing sentences It ran out of memory and segfaulted ;-)
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It's different than other PPC Linux distributions in that it's SuSE. Whether that's good or bad is an opinion.
I run LinuxPPC on my mac, and SuSE on my K62 homebuilt and my laptop. I like the SuSE distribution better than the LinuxPPC one, so I might swap it out once it's out of beta.
SuSE has different configuration tools. LinuxPPC is based on Red Hat, so if you have a preference between RedHat and SuSE, that would be the way to go.
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>> The only "STANDARD" MS has created is USER INTERFACE
Actually MS's interface is as near as possible a copy of Apple's. They didn't create shit.
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>> YOUR choice
>> REQUIRE IE
Do you even read what you write?
Seriously I'm amazed your brain has the capacity to process oxygen. This is the whole point. They are FORCING people to install their browser to use a freaking word processor and every other one of their products.
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>> couldn't MS complain that their market position is being hurt because the competition is giving away what they'd like to sell? Well, good old Billy Boy said when they started dumping IE that a browser is a necessary part of an OS and that they were merely bringing it down from its inflated price to its natural price of $0.00. An OS is much more basic and essential to the operation of a computer. Linux is then merely bringing the much more inflated price down to its natural level. >>some firms would be favored over others by the government, and that seems wrong to me. No firms are being favored in any of this. One firm guilty of many CRIMINAL actions is being punished for its blatant CRIMINAL actions. I think the quality of the astroturfers is really going downhill around here ;-)
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It's the funniest april fools site I've seen.
If you don't know it's a site for shareware/demos etc.
happypuppy
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Excuse me, but you have just made abundantly clear that you are a moron.
It is a standard agreed upon by the m. p. e. g.,
but the standard they chose IS Quicktime 4.
The codecs are a different issue as was pointed out above, but please try to know anything about something before talking about it.
What a fucking retarded ass you are.
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What idiot marked this up as informative?
There is nothing that even comes close to Quicktime4 for streaming video. Also, avi is much closer to a gif. Mpg is more like a jpg. it's a good compressed format, but pretty much requires hardware compression.
Also the MPEG-4 standard is quicktime 4.
Repeat after me: I will not moderate as informative if I don't know shit about the subject.
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Of course, the new MPEG-4 standard is..... .........
wait for it
Quicktime 4
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M$ is actually trying to get it's act together here. They know as well as anyone that the MCSE isn't worth anything. They just created it to be buzzword compliant, "Sure we have a certification". So now they actually want to make it mean something and the people who believe their certification means they are 31337 computer gods while in fact not knowing crap are getting pissed.
Well hot tip folks: That's what you get for taking the easy way out as opposed to learning your business.
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Yeah, essentially. If you graph it that's what you get. The idea is that only at the speed of light does the equation blow up. I think that this is what led to the theory of "tachyons" which were theoretical particles which only travel faster than light. I don't think anyone believes in them any more though. What imaginary time is though I have no interpretation for though as Troller pointed out.
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Well, it doesn't really.
If you can make sense of it then you would be a shoo-in for a nobel prize in physics. Hell, they'd probably throw in a literature one too just 'cause.
I'm not saying that there necessarily is a real interpretation of this, but the mathematics don't rule it out.
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Actually, the only mathematical impossibilty arises when you go exactly the speed of light. The expression inside the radical would be zero and it's in the denominator hence infinite. The square roots of negatives are not real numbers, but that doesn't mean that they are fake :-). They're complex which are actually more complete than the reals. Complex numbers arise in reality. Inductors and capacitors have a complex impedance (resistance). Also Feynman's quantum theory of the electromagnetic field, QED, (think Maxwell's equations on crack) only works when you realize that you can't just "throw out" the complex solutions. I think they show up in general relativity too, but I don't know for sure.
;-) They just got a bad rap since they were originally called imaginary.
The complex numbers are your friends
When the Greeks first discovered the irrationals, (hypotenuse of a right triangle with sides length 1) a cult started to hide their existence since they thought society would freak out if they knew there were such "not nice" numbers.
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Actually Adobe's ports are to windows.
Mac is their primary platform.
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He came up with an extension to a mathematical theorem by Ramanujan. This is pretty impressive since most people have no idea what that guy was talking about ;-)
;-) , this kid might be a candidate for a Fields medal in the future.
If you don't know, Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician who was born an "untouchable".
He was poor, sickly and almost totally uneducated.
He recreated a large portion of modern mathematics independently. He wrote to a British mathematician whose name escapes me with a lot of his work included. At first glance it looked like all previously proven theorems and so he disregarded it and threw it away. He started thinking about it and realized there were many novel approaches and new ideas so he brought him over to England and set him up at the university. He died a few years later due basically to poor health attributable to a really shitty life, but his work blew open doors into mathematical realms we are still trying to probe.
So, in long
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>You are forgotting the cost of labour (programmer's time to do the port.)
But that is Loki's cost in this case. It doesn't cost the original company anything.
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The one thing I don't understand is why a company would care how many units Loki sells. I know they can't really talk about the details of their deals, but it seems to me like if Loki sells even one copy the original author wins. ;-) Diablo II to Linux and sells one box. Blizzard makes $5.00 or whatever off of this. Loki is out $100K or whatever it costs them to port it which sucks for them but it doesn't hurt Blizzard at all.
;-).
Say Loki ported (just an example, I'm sure no one really cares about this
The only real issue I see with this is the question of trusting Loki with their source code, but I think they've proven their reliability. I mean given how little Loki talks about their business issues I think the NSA is thinking of using their servers as a backup for their critical data
So seriously what am I missing here? Given that the original authors have already paid their development costs, assuming that they at least broke even on the game wouldn't every dollar they make from Loki be pure profit? How does it cost them anything?
By the way I am a happy Heroes of Might and Magic III owner. Thanks Loki.
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I was there too, and you're off by about ten years.
Examples:
Black Flag (up until My War)
7Seconds (up until new wind)
Septic Death
Ramones
Code of Honor
Condemned to Death
Fang
The Freeze
The FU's
The Faction
JFA
NOFX
The Germs
FEAR
Suicidal Tendencies (First Album)
Bad Religion (until the last couple)
Dead Kennedys
These are just a few of the Punk bands I saw in the 80's. There are still real punk bands playing today. Green Day and the Offspring are not them though.
Of course maybe you're one of those people who think the Sex Pistols were the first punk band even though Johnny Rotten sang a Ramones song from their released album to audition for the band.
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I wasn't logged in before. Actually I was saying that it is a troll and a good one. Sarcasm is probably the primary way of trolling. Trolling is not what most of the people on slashdot who get labeled trolls are doing. /. should be marked "flamebait" since that's what grits, don knots. natalie portman and all that other crap is. It's posted for the sole purpose of interrupting the discussion. It takes more intelligence to troll than to post some mindless crap like that.
Think trolling as in fishing. You throw out your bait (in this case an argument so silly that anyone who took the time to think about it would realise that no one could actually believe it) and drag it through the water looking for a bite (someone more eager to post a heated response than to use their brain). This was accomplished very well in this case.
For those who actually got it, it was also funny because it ridiculed the idiots who actually think hearing "fart" is worse than seeing peoples heads blown off and such.
99% of the posts marked "troll" on
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The article doesn't deal with the issue in this respect.
An interesting thing about SuperString theory is that it clears up this problem in a very concise manner. I got this information from the book The Elegant Universe by someone whose name slips my mind. Essentially the idea is that The Planck length is the quantum of distance.
Given this, it makes no sense to discuss distances less than this. The pure mathematics of General Relativity exist in a totally continuous space.
When they try to reconcile QM and GR at arbritrarily small distances the mess arises because the questions they are asking are nonsense. If they restrict their "questions" to distances on the scale of the Planck length or greater, QM and GR integrate seamlessly.
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