that's better than where I live, some well meaning but practically clueless people used their influence to get charging units at the rail stations and some large malls. I've never ever seen them used. what a waste. let's face it, electric cars are right now a toy for people with money to burn, they don't have range to be useful and the batteries are horribly expensive. may as well use a golf cart if your commute is a mile or two. the rest of us can wait for a serious breakthrough in battery technology, about an order of magnitude better ampere-hour storage at a third the cost.
well, we're talking about copyright with this article, not patents. There are plenty of songs from the 1950s onward that are still popular "hits", they have stood the test of time.
As for technology and products and thinking nothing much beyond basics endures, maybe you need to learn the history of engineering and technology, it is easy to point to massive world-changing inventions from each and every decade from the 1600s onward that are still relevant today.
barbarian? no the "elite" of any age, a barbarian is mostly only a danger to those he can club or stab. those with your government in their pockets are the extremely dangerous to humanity
that's the point, it is irrelevant where you are from. all modern humans are of mixed racial ancestry. As an exampe, if you are Japanese, you are of mixed racial ancestry of part east asian and part caucasian (the Ainu), this is genetically proven fact. Now again, what geographic areas are your ancestors from?, I will enlighten you and rid you of your foolish and wrong notions
The original purpose of copyright in the USA was to give sole right of reproduction and distribution for a *limited* time, after which the work became the public's (the culture's). that time period was 14 years, with an option to renew for another 14 years if the author was still around and still wished to do so. So 28 years, and then it became the common cultural property. but the system we have today is the opposite of that, to keep things from the people indefinitely. This is done by cabals of power and money grubbing scum who are robbing the people of things valauble to culture.
it isn't about "the latest boyband". it's saying that any song should not be allowed to be copied for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years. If the author transfers ownership or their identity is unknown the copyright will expire 95 years after publication or 120 years after creation, whichever is shorter.
it's past time to put these power and money grubbing cartel fucks into the garbage can
bad track record means anyone who believes microsoft marketing promises may be in for disappointment, especially when your ISP has other ideas about the future of your phone
I have news for you that may be of interest. you are of mixed racial ancestry, and I can prove it. Name the geographical locations of your supposed "racially pure" ancestors.
no god hates geeks and has that divine plan for them only. Meanwhile, God wants others to get women drunk at the bar, to have their procreative ways with them.
doesn't work that way, you can't just attack the populated cities. hundreds of bombs would have to target silos, communications and power facilities, military bases....otherwise Putin's ruined day will include rewarding your thousand bomb investment back with 300% interest
it's amusing you think access to supercomputer simulation would have somehow solved the problem. ridiculous, a reaction they didn't consider would not be part of the simulation parameters
I am not forgetting anything, I'm talking of the whole end to end process not of a specific subsystem like graphics.
we still use postscript and the related PDF. nothing ridiculous about it, it is much terser and faster processed way of representing display information than the bloated X11.
As for talking about graphics power, that is irrelevant. I am talking of the shear bulk of code and processing that must happen outside the GPU to get a document to screen, that's bloated to hundreds of times the size and often show through in sluggish updating and response to user actions. the machines back then did there work with less than 16M of RAM, and an operating system plus software that fit on less than 200MB of disk.
we see the same problem with today's trendy method of making web pages, unbelievable bloat with async javascript to make purposeless eye candy, annoying hover-over artifacts that only serve to block view of desired content, etc. the ability to waste cycles on nonessential "designer wankage" has outrun the processing power of our systems.
in round numbers it's the only consumer operating system laptops use, 93% of the global market. and the other 7% *isn't* mostly linux and open source bsd....
most people don't want needless complexity in having a room light they can turn off or on. a dimmer switch is as complicated as it need get. the idea that I would need IT infrastructure to control lights is silly. sure, farting around with X10 can be fun, but slashdotters are hobbyist geeks and not joe average.
ditto. and Display Postscript was far superior to X11 and Aqua, much faster rendering and much snappier response to user actions. todays pigware takes 100 X the RAm and 100X the disk space and gives less most of the time for normal work.
hah, read your title as suggesting the VMS operating system. having had at one time a VaxStation at work, I can with experience tell you it's not really the best desktop OS.....
being in a hurry to get some work done, and having stupid balloons and pop-up notices get in the way of work. windows is always trying to take control away and set the user's priorities.
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that's better than where I live, some well meaning but practically clueless people used their influence to get charging units at the rail stations and some large malls. I've never ever seen them used. what a waste. let's face it, electric cars are right now a toy for people with money to burn, they don't have range to be useful and the batteries are horribly expensive. may as well use a golf cart if your commute is a mile or two. the rest of us can wait for a serious breakthrough in battery technology, about an order of magnitude better ampere-hour storage at a third the cost.
well, we're talking about copyright with this article, not patents. There are plenty of songs from the 1950s onward that are still popular "hits", they have stood the test of time.
As for technology and products and thinking nothing much beyond basics endures, maybe you need to learn the history of engineering and technology, it is easy to point to massive world-changing inventions from each and every decade from the 1600s onward that are still relevant today.
barbarian? no the "elite" of any age, a barbarian is mostly only a danger to those he can club or stab. those with your government in their pockets are the extremely dangerous to humanity
we're just nova and supernova ash pondering the cycles of novas and supernovas
that's the point, it is irrelevant where you are from. all modern humans are of mixed racial ancestry. As an exampe, if you are Japanese, you are of mixed racial ancestry of part east asian and part caucasian (the Ainu), this is genetically proven fact. Now again, what geographic areas are your ancestors from?, I will enlighten you and rid you of your foolish and wrong notions
The original purpose of copyright in the USA was to give sole right of reproduction and distribution for a *limited* time, after which the work became the public's (the culture's). that time period was 14 years, with an option to renew for another 14 years if the author was still around and still wished to do so. So 28 years, and then it became the common cultural property. but the system we have today is the opposite of that, to keep things from the people indefinitely. This is done by cabals of power and money grubbing scum who are robbing the people of things valauble to culture.
it isn't about "the latest boyband". it's saying that any song should not be allowed to be copied for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years. If the author transfers ownership or their identity is unknown the copyright will expire 95 years after publication or 120 years after creation, whichever is shorter.
it's past time to put these power and money grubbing cartel fucks into the garbage can
bad track record means anyone who believes microsoft marketing promises may be in for disappointment, especially when your ISP has other ideas about the future of your phone
linux zealot? guess again
and you believe billy boy and chair-flinger, when the track record says otherwise.
on a not unrelated note, many windows 7 users have found their genuine advantage key revoked mysteriously.
oh, touched a nerve there, microsoft stock holder-boy, did we?
I have news for you that may be of interest. you are of mixed racial ancestry, and I can prove it. Name the geographical locations of your supposed "racially pure" ancestors.
and biologically it's how many offspring you can have. socially, it's "power" i.e. how many other people's lives you can fuck up on a whim.
"I got the power, I got the money, I got the women".....
former coworker had a different version: "I had the power, I had the money, I had the women. Then the woman took all my money, and my power, and left"
no god hates geeks and has that divine plan for them only. Meanwhile, God wants others to get women drunk at the bar, to have their procreative ways with them.
if what you said was true, no one would be stuck on a win 7 phone....but there they are.
Redmond is the FUD factory
doesn't work that way, you can't just attack the populated cities. hundreds of bombs would have to target silos, communications and power facilities, military bases....otherwise Putin's ruined day will include rewarding your thousand bomb investment back with 300% interest
it's amusing you think access to supercomputer simulation would have somehow solved the problem. ridiculous, a reaction they didn't consider would not be part of the simulation parameters
I am not forgetting anything, I'm talking of the whole end to end process not of a specific subsystem like graphics.
we still use postscript and the related PDF. nothing ridiculous about it, it is much terser and faster processed way of representing display information than the bloated X11.
As for talking about graphics power, that is irrelevant. I am talking of the shear bulk of code and processing that must happen outside the GPU to get a document to screen, that's bloated to hundreds of times the size and often show through in sluggish updating and response to user actions. the machines back then did there work with less than 16M of RAM, and an operating system plus software that fit on less than 200MB of disk.
we see the same problem with today's trendy method of making web pages, unbelievable bloat with async javascript to make purposeless eye candy, annoying hover-over artifacts that only serve to block view of desired content, etc. the ability to waste cycles on nonessential "designer wankage" has outrun the processing power of our systems.
in round numbers it's the only consumer operating system laptops use, 93% of the global market. and the other 7% *isn't* mostly linux and open source bsd....
most people don't want needless complexity in having a room light they can turn off or on. a dimmer switch is as complicated as it need get. the idea that I would need IT infrastructure to control lights is silly. sure, farting around with X10 can be fun, but slashdotters are hobbyist geeks and not joe average.
ditto. and Display Postscript was far superior to X11 and Aqua, much faster rendering and much snappier response to user actions. todays pigware takes 100 X the RAm and 100X the disk space and gives less most of the time for normal work.
hah, read your title as suggesting the VMS operating system. having had at one time a VaxStation at work, I can with experience tell you it's not really the best desktop OS.....
being in a hurry to get some work done, and having stupid balloons and pop-up notices get in the way of work. windows is always trying to take control away and set the user's priorities.
sounds like BSD-user talk to me
you are wrong, there are plenty of silicon-polymer (silicone) based giant nippled life forms; they always attach to their hosts in pairs