I'm more thinking along the line of - a species that allows relatively arbitrary mutation without making kill switches out of them...could diversify into different species quickly (i.e. cannot interbreed).
Assuming this is right, highly specialized species like the humans should have a relatively high number of "kill switches".
i.e. a genetic defect can kill a human much easier than it does bacteria.
I don't know if it is right or not, it is just logical to me.
> There is no way for any sort of kill switch to evolve that way.
Right.
However, it is probable that the species has evolved in a way that a minor defect in any of the few crucial genes can make the organism fail miserably - i.e. evolution makes it easier to activate any "kill switch", by making a lot of minor defects such "kill switches".
>Basically, the idea is to make binary drivers such a PITA >that no one does it.
I don't see the additional PITA of binary drivers over Open drivers with regard to this.
Kernel update. Binary interface changes. Everyone has to rerelease - open or closed. Assuming the person who released a closed driver has the source, it's just as easy (or as PITA) as open drivers. No difference here. No deterrence.
People still need to reinstall their drivers whether it's open or closed. Again, no deterrence.
Conclusion: Keep changing the interface makes it a PITA for all driver writers, regardless of driver openness. Thus it is an ineffective measure to discourage closed source development.
Hardware-assisted mpeg decoding is so 10 years ago.
What really makes hardware hot now, is hardware-assisted *encoding*. Now if a video card can help me encode mpeg4 in faster than real time, I'll grab it without much thinking.
One could for example choose RTF files, but the main issue is, MS Products continually bug people for not saving to its newest format, so eventually people will get tired and succumb to the proprietary MS format.
MS needs to add a "Don't bother me again" checkbox in that "Some format will be lost" dialog box before complaining about being excluded.
Girls are always girls, and Boys are always boys. You're mixed up "looks like a girl" with "being a girl", which is for humans only defined as having 2 X chromosomes, nothing else.
So because it's arguable that it's illegal in one country, they should ban it anywhere in the world?
Re: thus exploiting a loophole in the GPL.
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The GPL can prevent vendor lock-in because people can study the code and resolve compatibility issues if any.
Not in the sense that anyone can pick up the code and be a competitor - although it is also permitted under the GPL, it is not what prevents vendor lock-in.
No one is perfect or bats 1000. But you're making the wrong level of comparison - perfect? 1000? Bush is not even close - 300, MAYBE.
He may have good intentions, but saying that "his outlook on things is based upon common sense rather than brain-dead ideology" is ludicrous - ask the Red Cross what they think about Bush's stance on condoms, for example - like cohersing an African country into an abstinence-based policy in order to receive AIDS aid is common sense.
Your post is implying the left has far more BS than the right. Please enumerate them and then everyone can count.
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My guess is, it is probably compiled with the Intel ICC compiler...
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I'm more thinking along the line of - a species that allows relatively arbitrary mutation without making kill switches out of them...could diversify into different species quickly (i.e. cannot interbreed).
Assuming this is right, highly specialized species like the humans should have a relatively high number of "kill switches".
i.e. a genetic defect can kill a human much easier than it does bacteria.
I don't know if it is right or not, it is just logical to me.
> There is no way for any sort of kill switch to evolve that way.
Right.
However, it is probable that the species has evolved in a way that a minor defect in any of the few crucial genes can make the organism fail miserably - i.e. evolution makes it easier to activate any "kill switch", by making a lot of minor defects such "kill switches".
Exactly.
Especially if he could have made history and (as a side effect) fame/fortune due to that.
It'd be not only selfish, but actually stupid not to help.
Doesn't matter it is Canadian or not.
Had the US Government chosen a US company for its mobile email needs, in a patent dispute like this one the system STILL can be shut down.
Using technology from a US company probably will give you an even HIGHER chance of shutdown in case of a patent dispute.
When MS asks you to give up a name, give up and leak the name all over the place.
Imagine when somebody predicted the correct name of a MS product months before any announcement.
>Basically, the idea is to make binary drivers such a PITA
>that no one does it.
I don't see the additional PITA of binary drivers over Open drivers with regard to this.
Kernel update. Binary interface changes. Everyone has to rerelease - open or closed. Assuming the person who released a closed driver has the source, it's just as easy (or as PITA) as open drivers. No difference here. No deterrence.
People still need to reinstall their drivers whether it's open or closed. Again, no deterrence.
Conclusion: Keep changing the interface makes it a PITA for all driver writers, regardless of driver openness. Thus it is an ineffective measure to discourage closed source development.
Hardware-assisted mpeg decoding is so 10 years ago.
What really makes hardware hot now, is hardware-assisted *encoding*. Now if a video card can help me encode mpeg4 in faster than real time, I'll grab it without much thinking.
It weakens whatever key to be generated to the length of the paraphrase.
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One could for example choose RTF files, but the main issue is, MS Products continually bug people for not saving to its newest format, so eventually people will get tired and succumb to the proprietary MS format.
MS needs to add a "Don't bother me again" checkbox in that "Some format will be lost" dialog box before complaining about being excluded.
Girls are always girls, and Boys are always boys. You're mixed up "looks like a girl" with "being a girl", which is for humans only defined as having 2 X chromosomes, nothing else.
The FA does not say what happens after 2012.
It is too easy but wrong to assume VeriSign to *relinquish* control after 2012.
"Control until 2012" does not mean "Not control starting 2013". I think the EU are fooled.
Water price dips to $50 a barrel...
In 2-5000 years.
The TJ37 is good...
Except the screws unscrew themselves occassionally.
Until a JVM implemented in pure Java works as well as a JVM implemented in C/C++ (like all of today's JVMs), Java's still slow.
They got the concept right. The implementation is crap.
So because it's arguable that it's illegal in one country, they should ban it anywhere in the world?
Insightful?
The GPL can prevent vendor lock-in because people can study the code and resolve compatibility issues if any.
Not in the sense that anyone can pick up the code and be a competitor - although it is also permitted under the GPL, it is not what prevents vendor lock-in.
I've figured it out, it's the significant figures.
100% can mean anything from 99.5% onwards!
It reminds me a lot of the old Game & Watch series.
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All it needs is a built-in digital watch, and it'd be complete!!
Bah. First thing that came to mind:
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"to gather more of a specific object than their opponent"
But does it support booting from SATA CD drives? It is 2005 and almost no Live CD can boot off a SATA-only system...
Interesting. I find myself typing on a normal keyboard at least twice as fast as 100% of whoever I see who type with thumbs...
And I guess my touchtyping speed probably isn't in the top 10%.
No one is perfect or bats 1000. But you're making the wrong level of comparison - perfect? 1000? Bush is not even close - 300, MAYBE.
He may have good intentions, but saying that "his outlook on things is based upon common sense rather than brain-dead ideology" is ludicrous - ask the Red Cross what they think about Bush's stance on condoms, for example - like cohersing an African country into an abstinence-based policy in order to receive AIDS aid is common sense.
Your post is implying the left has far more BS than the right. Please enumerate them and then everyone can count.