It seems to me that if I look straight down from on top of the center of the dome, I see nothing. This doesn't seem like true 3D, just like Doom isn't true 3D (collision detection done in 2 dimensions). Also, wouldn't it be cheaper to just spin a disc-shaped flat panel rather than projecting onto a disc-shaped screen?
I assume, then, that they have also now applied for patents for using hyperlinks over ethernet, using hyperlinks over cable modems, using hyperlinks over DSL, using hyperlinks over wireless broadband, using hyperlinks over sattelite... come on, at what point does this become so absurd as to be laughable? Doing something over a network is NOT substantially different than doing it on a single device!
If you were the FBI, and really doing this in the interests of national security, AND really afraid that somebody that understood how it works could circumvent it, then wouldn't security clearances for all reviewers be pretty much a prerequisite? I guess this comes down to the security through obscurity vs. massive peer review argument all over again.
Ok, so if I license a single, 30 second song to MP3.com, and then create 3000 bots to continuously stream it, each earning 1/3 of a cent each time, that adds up to $20/minute, or $28,800/day, or over $10 million/year... damn, sounds like a good business model to me... but not for mp3.com!
But imagine an ideal world, where an artist gets every penny of profit from their work. Why would they bother to record a song, if as soon as they release a single copy it's immediately pirated and distributed worldwide for free, in a form absolutely indistinguishable from the original?
Damn right! Beethoven would never have composed and performed some of the greatest music known to man if he wasn't guaranteed a small percentage of the record companies profits... hey, wait a minute, most "classic" music was written before record companies, or the fiction of intellectual properties rights was even invented!
...FREE ART is crappy art, because there's no profit motive in it, and the worthwhile would-be artists are off doing something which allows them to put food on the table.
Thank you for sharing your hallucination with us; I've got a different one: art created for art's sake is the best art (e.g. Grateful Dead). Art created just to make a buck is crappy art (e.g. Britney Spears) And by the way, the Grateful Dead, even while allowing people to freely record concerts and freely distribute those recording, were the most profitable band in America for at least a few years...
Guess that blows all your crackpot theories out of the water, doesn't it?
You're missing a major point here -- MPEG encoding is an order of magnitude more CPU intensive than MPEG playback (try the video encoder that comes with the Voodoo 3500 and see how badly it sucks). You pretty much need custom hardware to do your MPEG encoding in real time.
You write your contact list on several napkins with a borrowed pen, stuff them all in your pocket, and then slowly sort through them all.
A better question is: how do you get that napkin to sound an alarm telling you you're about to be late for a meeting? To my mind, this is the only real advantage that a $150 PDA has over a $20 paper daytimer.
The benefit of keeping logs in electronic form is you can search through them a heckofa lot quicker... ever try to find an event in a 2000-page stack of printouts?
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Alaska is a special case; it gets a huge share of it's revenues by taxing oil taken out of Pruhoe bay. Its sort of like Kuwait that way...
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And if nobody mailed anything to the MPAA or RIAA, the MPAA and RIAA could still send anonymous death threats to themselves, thus justifying their position, couldn't they? How do we know the emails cited were not in fact sent by agents of the MPAA?
By that same criterion, I wouldn't call Windows an engineering project either. "Whilst elaborate, the actual engineering would have been fairly minimal." Yep, sounds like Windows to me!
I firmly beleive everybody should learn Java as a first programming language; it's simple, and it teaches you good habits. Try to learn object oriented design concurrently with Java. Personally, I learned BASIC first - absolutely the worst programming language for structure or object oriented, it teaches really bad habits.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it sounds like they're charging $1300 for $650 worth of hardware, if I purchased the PC equivalent. If preinstalling Linux justifies a 100% markup, than I'm in the wrong line of work!
Wouldn't it be much more valid to compare sales around colleges that have block Napster to sales around colleges that have not?
When they say "a 4% drop in sales", do they mean unit volumes (# of CD's purchased) or revenues (# of dollars spent). Obviously, the record stores have increased their prices faster than college students have increased their income, so unit sales have to drop as students choose between eating and listening to the Spice Girls.
How does this does jive with the fact that the record companies have, by their own admission, posted record profits for the last fiscal year? How can sales be down and profits be up at the same time? (Again, perhaps they've raised their prices to the point where students can afford to buy far fewer albums...)
Yes, the current version of Linux is not optimized for 64 CPUs. However, the cool thing about open source is that IBM is free to rewrite the kernel using best-case practices to make a new version of the kernel that DOES run well on 64 CPUs. IBM must then give those improvements back to the main Linux developers, who then have to decide whether they want to incorporate the changes, package them as an add-on, etc.
So the cool thing about this announcement is it means Linux will be getting good, efficient NUMA support even sooner than expected! Which should help it compete favorably with NT and perhaps even Solaris on high-end servers.
You mean "more", as in costing $0.30/minute, rather than free for ham?
Yes, I agree, it doesn't make sense to drop a repeater on the moon, geosynchronous and/or Low Earth Orbit are the way to go. The round trip time of speed of light to the moon make interactive communication awkward. Plus, an array of satellites would probably cost the same as single lunar repeater, which would be much more susceptible to failure.
A repeator on the moon would make sence if you are ok with a repeater that is mostly there at night and only sometimes during the day.
You mean the moon spends more time on the side of the Earth facing away from the sun than the side facing towards the sun? That's news to me! (Granted, when the moon is near to eclipsing the sun, the RF noise from the sun would probably make communication impossible, so a repeater would be slightly more available at night.) But just 'cause you can't see the moon in the daytime doesn't mean it's not there!
Perhaps the Athlon WAS flat before the Tiasol heatsink was mounted on it, and it was the heatsink itself that deformed the surface. In this case, lapping wouldn't have helped, would it?
Probably an optimal solution to the cooling problem would be to make the heatsink an integral part of the processor casing, with only the fan replaceable. Of course, this would make liquid cooling difficult, and would not be popular with over-clockers.
So, it's okay to harm others, as long as it doesn't benefit yourself? You've got it way wrong. The law exists to prevent people from harming others. You've got a right to do whatever you want with that CD, as long as nobody is harmed by it. The RIAA, Real, and others would argue that your ability to make a local copy of their content for your own use harms them, as you don't have to "pay" them every time you listen/view/use the content. This is based on the clearly erroneous assumption that each person that uses a free copy of content would have paid for the content had that free copy not been available, which is patentently absurd -- most people would have told them where to put their "pay-per-use" copy.
The main problem with the DMCA is that it removes the onus on the plaintiff to prove that there were any actual damages. The very act of using a product in a way not specifically authorized by the product maker is prohibited, and severe penalties are imposed, regardless of whether or not the use in question had any negative impact whatsoever on the maker!
Please ammend your comments to read "No one can deny me the right to do with it what I please so long as they are not harmed" and "No one can deny me the right to re-record the songs on that CD to a tape... so long as they are not harmed by it". Again, the assumption that they can intimidate you into buying both a CD and a tape is absurd; you are more likely to buy the CD if you can freely make use of it, so in fact the RIAA is harming itself by placing unreasonable and unnecessary restrictions on it's products!
Professor Pamela Samuelson of U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, a leading authority on the DMCA, has put the fair-use argument this way: "If owners of copies of copyrighted works do not have the ability to circumvent technical protection measures in order to make fair uses of protected material, fair use itself would cease to exist simply by virtue of the existence of technical protection measures."
How right she is! The concept of fair use has ceased to exist; wasn't that the intent of the DMCA in the first place?
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It seems to me that if I look straight down from on top of the center of the dome, I see nothing. This doesn't seem like true 3D, just like Doom isn't true 3D (collision detection done in 2 dimensions). Also, wouldn't it be cheaper to just spin a disc-shaped flat panel rather than projecting onto a disc-shaped screen?
Wouldn't the good folks at Corel be the perfect bunch of programmers to to successfully pull off a port of MSOffice to Linux?
I assume, then, that they have also now applied for patents for using hyperlinks over ethernet, using hyperlinks over cable modems, using hyperlinks over DSL, using hyperlinks over wireless broadband, using hyperlinks over sattelite... come on, at what point does this become so absurd as to be laughable? Doing something over a network is NOT substantially different than doing it on a single device!
If you were the FBI, and really doing this in the interests of national security, AND really afraid that somebody that understood how it works could circumvent it, then wouldn't security clearances for all reviewers be pretty much a prerequisite? I guess this comes down to the security through obscurity vs. massive peer review argument all over again.
If you've got 256GBytes of memory, do you REALLY need that 136MByte swap file?
Ok, so if I license a single, 30 second song to MP3.com, and then create 3000 bots to continuously stream it, each earning 1/3 of a cent each time, that adds up to $20/minute, or $28,800/day, or over $10 million/year... damn, sounds like a good business model to me... but not for mp3.com!
So I take it then, that they will be suing the Special Olympics for trademark infringement?
Damn right! Beethoven would never have composed and performed some of the greatest music known to man if he wasn't guaranteed a small percentage of the record companies profits... hey, wait a minute, most "classic" music was written before record companies, or the fiction of intellectual properties rights was even invented!
Thank you for sharing your hallucination with us; I've got a different one: art created for art's sake is the best art (e.g. Grateful Dead). Art created just to make a buck is crappy art (e.g. Britney Spears) And by the way, the Grateful Dead, even while allowing people to freely record concerts and freely distribute those recording, were the most profitable band in America for at least a few years...
Guess that blows all your crackpot theories out of the water, doesn't it?
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You're missing a major point here -- MPEG encoding is an order of magnitude more CPU intensive than MPEG playback (try the video encoder that comes with the Voodoo 3500 and see how badly it sucks). You pretty much need custom hardware to do your MPEG encoding in real time.
Now for this one they SHOULD get sued... for misusing a trademark!
A better question is: how do you get that napkin to sound an alarm telling you you're about to be late for a meeting? To my mind, this is the only real advantage that a $150 PDA has over a $20 paper daytimer.
The benefit of keeping logs in electronic form is you can search through them a heckofa lot quicker... ever try to find an event in a 2000-page stack of printouts?
Alaska is a special case; it gets a huge share of it's revenues by taxing oil taken out of Pruhoe bay. Its sort of like Kuwait that way...
And if nobody mailed anything to the MPAA or RIAA, the MPAA and RIAA could still send anonymous death threats to themselves, thus justifying their position, couldn't they? How do we know the emails cited were not in fact sent by agents of the MPAA?
By that same criterion, I wouldn't call Windows an engineering project either. "Whilst elaborate, the actual engineering would have been fairly minimal." Yep, sounds like Windows to me!
I firmly beleive everybody should learn Java as a first programming language; it's simple, and it teaches you good habits. Try to learn object oriented design concurrently with Java. Personally, I learned BASIC first - absolutely the worst programming language for structure or object oriented, it teaches really bad habits.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it sounds like they're charging $1300 for $650 worth of hardware, if I purchased the PC equivalent. If preinstalling Linux justifies a 100% markup, than I'm in the wrong line of work!
When they say "a 4% drop in sales", do they mean unit volumes (# of CD's purchased) or revenues (# of dollars spent). Obviously, the record stores have increased their prices faster than college students have increased their income, so unit sales have to drop as students choose between eating and listening to the Spice Girls.
How does this does jive with the fact that the record companies have, by their own admission, posted record profits for the last fiscal year? How can sales be down and profits be up at the same time? (Again, perhaps they've raised their prices to the point where students can afford to buy far fewer albums...)
So the cool thing about this announcement is it means Linux will be getting good, efficient NUMA support even sooner than expected! Which should help it compete favorably with NT and perhaps even Solaris on high-end servers.
Yes, I agree, it doesn't make sense to drop a repeater on the moon, geosynchronous and/or Low Earth Orbit are the way to go. The round trip time of speed of light to the moon make interactive communication awkward. Plus, an array of satellites would probably cost the same as single lunar repeater, which would be much more susceptible to failure.
A repeator on the moon would make sence if you are ok with a repeater that is mostly there at night and only sometimes during the day.
You mean the moon spends more time on the side of the Earth facing away from the sun than the side facing towards the sun? That's news to me! (Granted, when the moon is near to eclipsing the sun, the RF noise from the sun would probably make communication impossible, so a repeater would be slightly more available at night.) But just 'cause you can't see the moon in the daytime doesn't mean it's not there!
Probably an optimal solution to the cooling problem would be to make the heatsink an integral part of the processor casing, with only the fan replaceable. Of course, this would make liquid cooling difficult, and would not be popular with over-clockers.
You are correct; I meant to say "Ultrix", but the name escaped me at the time I was typing the comment.
The main problem with the DMCA is that it removes the onus on the plaintiff to prove that there were any actual damages. The very act of using a product in a way not specifically authorized by the product maker is prohibited, and severe penalties are imposed, regardless of whether or not the use in question had any negative impact whatsoever on the maker!
Please ammend your comments to read "No one can deny me the right to do with it what I please so long as they are not harmed" and "No one can deny me the right to re-record the songs on that CD to a tape... so long as they are not harmed by it". Again, the assumption that they can intimidate you into buying both a CD and a tape is absurd; you are more likely to buy the CD if you can freely make use of it, so in fact the RIAA is harming itself by placing unreasonable and unnecessary restrictions on it's products!
How right she is! The concept of fair use has ceased to exist; wasn't that the intent of the DMCA in the first place?