So with dual licensing you can cover two different cases, right? But can you make it conditional, like, specify in your license statement that depending on certain conditions license A applies and else license B applies?
Wait, you can dual-license something? How does that work, I mean, for example if I license a program with both GPLv2 and BSD, do people who use my code have to make theirs GPL or not?
So solid state disks are all about NAND flash memory, right? I thought that SSDs would be all about MRAM, and that MRAM SSDs would be viable by the late 2000's. What's up with that?
my idea for representing each pixel as a 256-bit floating point number representing the wavelength of light it emitted
That's fine and dandy, but only one figure isn't enough (try making white with that technique). However you could represent each pixel using an array of numbers (integers are fine) that would represent the portion of the light spectrum you're interested in.
Jeez, if you are going to take a holier than thou attitude, at LEAST be right about it!
I'm right about it, asshole. Huygens is purely europeean. Cassini is american, and didn't do anything impressive, just like a Saturn version of Galileo (Galileo dropped a probe as well, except it was to the atmosphere of Jupiter).
OK, then which is the most impressive, to do what we've been doing since 1971 (if you're too lazy to read, the Soviets landed a rover on mars in 1971, except contact was lost with it due to a dust storm) except make it last longer, or drop a probe on a frozen satellite 15 times farther without even knowing what hides under its thick clouds, make it land smoothly, take pictures and communicate with another probe before running out of power (due to the fact that little solar power is available under the thick clouds of Titan)?
By any criteria you choose the martian rovers stand heads and shoulders beyond those efforts.
Riiight. Like I said, we're just doing what we could do 36 years ago except make it last longer. Big fucking whoop.
Am I the only one who read the article and still hasn't understood what's that 2,3 machine about? 2 states and 3 colours? What the hell is that? How does that translate in terms of numbers of operands and what not?
How many countries outside the US have a working rover on the surface of Mars?
How many countries outside Europe have landed a probe on Titan? How many countries outside USSR have landed probes on Venus (in the 1970's!). Of course, if you handpick the criterion for being on the cutting edge of technology..
2D gaming is not dead. Why? Because 2D is not uniformly better than 2D. Sometimes, choosing 2D over 3D means your game will be simpler. Because 3D can tremendously complicate things, look at the Sonic games, they started to suck when they moved to (true) 3D for these reasons.
Sure, 3D is most of the time nicer, but not in certain kinds of games, that's why we'll always have 2D games.
lol. Only I meant to use an adjective, not a noun. Efficiency? You're ought to love Newspeak then.
And I don't support adding extra letters to words where they aren't needed. I call this 'efficiency'.
And I don't support making comments about such insignifying things (nor do I support people who claim they support things, that sounds so "I support the troops"-ish, and that is so 2004). I call this 'arseholery' (oh but maybe I should have said 'assholery' instead as it's one letter shorter and thus more 'efficient'. Heh, sucker).
There's mostly nothing right next to it, and by right next to it I mean the huge "field" of atomic test craters there is in that area. In case you don't believe me check out the surrondings of Area 51 in Google Earth
And now we don't anymore? Oh of course if Google offers a mail service, it's for the sole purpose of selling us targetted ads! Right, wild baseless speculation.
Making voip traffic available for analysis will significantly increase the range and amount of data available for nurturing a nascent AI.
Thanks for your insight, Mister Fud Monger. What on Earth do you think, that Google is going to perform voice recognition on your phone calls? To what end? Giving you more targeted ads? Never gonna happen, cause people would realize quickly enough, besides, most of what people say on the telephone is completely irrelevant to advertising. Besides, Google being as mighty as they can be, they still can't make a Skynet type AI. In case you don't know, that kind of AI has been pretty much shiting up for the last 30 years.
Excuse me, can you remind me what we're supposed to be scared of again?
Racism is a sign of an unstable and immature person with an inferiority complex and terrible parents who needs to find someone - anyone - who they can cause to become lower than themselves in their eyes.
Whose arse did you pull that shit from? Most of the time racism stems from the fear/hate of members of groups which are not your group, even more when the feeling of belonging to this group is strong.
1) The kind who wants to sell you shit you don't need, by filling your inbox and snail-mail box with junk mail for crap you don't need, and call you during dinner time to hawk crap you don't need.
Ditto what the other poster said, "And the spam in my inbox is just sooooo targeted"
2) The kind who wants to put you in jail (if you're lucky) for being within 6 degress of separation from the wrong people.
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So with dual licensing you can cover two different cases, right? But can you make it conditional, like, specify in your license statement that depending on certain conditions license A applies and else license B applies?
Err, nevermind, the answer's in TFA (people choose the license they want) :-/
Wait, you can dual-license something? How does that work, I mean, for example if I license a program with both GPLv2 and BSD, do people who use my code have to make theirs GPL or not?
So solid state disks are all about NAND flash memory, right? I thought that SSDs would be all about MRAM, and that MRAM SSDs would be viable by the late 2000's. What's up with that?
allow devs to drop into one of these things and we could have software that would normally take months to build developed in mere minutes!
What makes you think experience is so important when coding? A strong logic is much much more important.
My fellow art nerds and I are all poor. We can't afford to go out and buy expensive software like photoshop
Hold on, are you trying to say that some people actually BUY Photoshop?
so what do we do?
Err, you go to the Pirate Bay like everybody else?
Also it'd be useful for tetrachromic people.
Sure, for tetrachromic women with tetrachromic displays. Oh wait.. ;-)
my idea for representing each pixel as a 256-bit floating point number representing the wavelength of light it emitted
That's fine and dandy, but only one figure isn't enough (try making white with that technique). However you could represent each pixel using an array of numbers (integers are fine) that would represent the portion of the light spectrum you're interested in.
Jeez, if you are going to take a holier than thou attitude, at LEAST be right about it!
I'm right about it, asshole. Huygens is purely europeean. Cassini is american, and didn't do anything impressive, just like a Saturn version of Galileo (Galileo dropped a probe as well, except it was to the atmosphere of Jupiter).
I pick by technical feat.
OK, then which is the most impressive, to do what we've been doing since 1971 (if you're too lazy to read, the Soviets landed a rover on mars in 1971, except contact was lost with it due to a dust storm) except make it last longer, or drop a probe on a frozen satellite 15 times farther without even knowing what hides under its thick clouds, make it land smoothly, take pictures and communicate with another probe before running out of power (due to the fact that little solar power is available under the thick clouds of Titan)?
By any criteria you choose the martian rovers stand heads and shoulders beyond those efforts.
Riiight. Like I said, we're just doing what we could do 36 years ago except make it last longer. Big fucking whoop.
Am I the only one who read the article and still hasn't understood what's that 2,3 machine about? 2 states and 3 colours? What the hell is that? How does that translate in terms of numbers of operands and what not?
How many countries outside the US have a working rover on the surface of Mars?
How many countries outside Europe have landed a probe on Titan? How many countries outside USSR have landed probes on Venus (in the 1970's!). Of course, if you handpick the criterion for being on the cutting edge of technology..
2D gaming is not dead. Why? Because 2D is not uniformly better than 2D. Sometimes, choosing 2D over 3D means your game will be simpler. Because 3D can tremendously complicate things, look at the Sonic games, they started to suck when they moved to (true) 3D for these reasons.
Sure, 3D is most of the time nicer, but not in certain kinds of games, that's why we'll always have 2D games.
lol. Only I meant to use an adjective, not a noun. Efficiency? You're ought to love Newspeak then.
And I don't support adding extra letters to words where they aren't needed. I call this 'efficiency'.
And I don't support making comments about such insignifying things (nor do I support people who claim they support things, that sounds so "I support the troops"-ish, and that is so 2004). I call this 'arseholery' (oh but maybe I should have said 'assholery' instead as it's one letter shorter and thus more 'efficient'. Heh, sucker).
Is the word 'desertic' the nerdy word?
Let me guess, American? Who else could find this word nerdy? ;-)
No I only remember this figure, but just look at a map of the USA, it's full of desertic areas.
Oh come on, this is America! We extract oil even in protected natural reserves, and we (used to) test atmospheric atomic bombs in these deserts.
There's mostly nothing right next to it, and by right next to it I mean the huge "field" of atomic test craters there is in that area. In case you don't believe me check out the surrondings of Area 51 in Google Earth
I seems like a perfectly reasonable solution to one of the big worries over standard solar arrays: land use.
Funny to hear that about a country which 42% of its territory is desertic.
we might have said the same about e-mail
And now we don't anymore? Oh of course if Google offers a mail service, it's for the sole purpose of selling us targetted ads! Right, wild baseless speculation.
Making voip traffic available for analysis will significantly increase the range and amount of data available for nurturing a nascent AI.
Thanks for your insight, Mister Fud Monger. What on Earth do you think, that Google is going to perform voice recognition on your phone calls? To what end? Giving you more targeted ads? Never gonna happen, cause people would realize quickly enough, besides, most of what people say on the telephone is completely irrelevant to advertising. Besides, Google being as mighty as they can be, they still can't make a Skynet type AI. In case you don't know, that kind of AI has been pretty much shiting up for the last 30 years.
Excuse me, can you remind me what we're supposed to be scared of again?
The iPhone occupies a mobile market that is far separate from what Google will be targeting with its series of lower-end, consumer-level devices.
If they include a built-in flashlight, count me in!
Racism is a sign of an unstable and immature person with an inferiority complex and terrible parents who needs to find someone - anyone - who they can cause to become lower than themselves in their eyes.
Whose arse did you pull that shit from? Most of the time racism stems from the fear/hate of members of groups which are not your group, even more when the feeling of belonging to this group is strong.
If that's we people call free these days.. plus I guess you can't play on (most) servers with those.
1) The kind who wants to sell you shit you don't need, by filling your inbox and snail-mail box with junk mail for crap you don't need, and call you during dinner time to hawk crap you don't need.
Ditto what the other poster said, "And the spam in my inbox is just sooooo targeted"
2) The kind who wants to put you in jail (if you're lucky) for being within 6 degress of separation from the wrong people.
Riiight, and the last time that happened was?