Re:Gotta love governments who don't understand tec
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Send out the Clones?
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I think the choice of phrasing was intended to set the stage to ban imports of any clone, not just humans. As well as the eerie in-between partial-clones that Taco wants..
point 1: we DID patent the transistor, and then we sold the patent. Oops.
point 2: the really big things like atomic weapons are on a whole different level...patents on those are outright ignored by everyone. "You patented that? I'm so sorry, I have a thousand nukes pointed at you, want to come make me stop?"
point 3: Internationally-honored patents are a relatively new thing. Only recently are nations beginning to align their patent systems...mainly because a) we all formed things like the World Trade Organization that were easy for the equally-new international corporations to lobby heavily...I'm young yet, but I'd venture to say that even as recently as 1985, there was no way to enforce an international patent.
That's actually one of the big arguments against internationally-binding patents: "why the hell should some other country get to pass laws that apply to us?"
i hate to be a dick, but after a whole post railing some guy for getting fission/fusion mixed up, you then say we dropped fission bombs in WWI rather than WWII...
The catch is that they could sue HIM for doing it, as he's an american citizen who wrote that paper in america. They just couldn't shut down his foreign server as easily, that's all.
I believe PGP did it by forming a foreign company, re-engineering the program with new people, and releasing it that way.
I always had the impression not that cyborg parts are specifically 'computer assisted' so much as they are in some way better than the original...'enhanced'. Possessed of greater strength, stamina, or structural toughness. After all, the term cyborg has been around since the days when most people believed a computer that fit in a single house and weighed less than a few tons was amazing =)
weirder still though, is what will happen when natural, genetically engineered, prosthetic, cyborg, and nanotech parts all come together. I can only begin to guess what the world will be like then..
You don't WANT a FoF transmitter on soldiers...that's a death wish. Would you want the enemy triangulating on your signal and knowing exactly how may of you are out there, where you are, and what direction and speed you're moving?
neither would you explode and kill everyone if your 2 pound fuel cell got hit, "fuckface". Most of that two pounds is the casing...plus, hydrogen burns fast and not very hot. Its not napalm. It might give you the equivalent of a sunburn. 9th graders play with burning hydrogen in chemistry class.
bah, what does the average user need with 1000fps? the human eye can't discern more than 30 fps. Do we really need all that power just to surf the web, read email, and play windows solitaire? This is just another ploy by the evil chip manufacturers to pump us for more money, when our current boxen will serve fine for years to come!
he may simply live on the East coast instead. I do, and my high school only had french and spanish. college was more interesting (i went to indiana university for a while), but they offered so many languages more because they were huge than anything else. From what I gather, their high schools were still mainly european languages.
The west coast as a LOT more asian influence than the east, and that probably accounts for the different language course offerings.
if you ever call any company ever, you would be wise to consider caller-id blocking. Otherwise, sooner or later (likely sooner) your number will be harvested like any other, sold to every telemarketer on earth.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Microsoft strongly *against* copy control in hard drives? I seem to remember them publicly stating that they would not build in the neccesary changes to Windows to support it...
But here, they've voted FOR it? What gives? For good or evil, Windows is pretty damn big. If it ends up in Windows, especially if it's required to use new versions of Windows...well...we'd be forced to eat it.
like it or not, Linus is not just a coder, he's also a manager now. Which means sometimes he has to make decisions that rub people the wrong way, in order to preserve some sort of order in the kernel structure. If he lets any tangle of code into the design now, it gets that much more impossible to manage the design for the next version.
I don't recall the article anymore, but this was once on/. Some big patches came in and Linus insisted that they be broken down into smaller more logical units (instead of the big all-encompassing glob of code it was) and some people got very offended.
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FPGA Supercomputers
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I wouldn't be so quick to say that. Continuing with the GeForce 3 as our example, the GF3 has more transistors than my celeron 500!
theoretically, you could have a FPGA graphics card be aware of which features it is being called on to use and then optimize its free gates to do higher-quality rendering of those options. Run quake3 with all the normal goodies on, but when you run quake1 the card does super high quality full screen antialiasing for you.
I do see your point though. For simpler things like an ethernet or sound card, normal chips will be faster.
what a nice apples-to-oranges comparison you make!
You can only sell a ditch or a road once, and then it isn't yours anymore. These corps force crappy signing terms for authors and then sell that article over and over and over and over...
Okay, earlier today I posted in anger (gasp!) in reponse to some moron. I owe it to more levelheaded persons to do something reasonable as penance =)
The web site wasn't posting addresses of clinics and saying "go picket". It was posting addresses of the doctors (and I am told their family members also, and other abortion supporters/workers). No, they didn't specifically say "go kill these people", or it would have been a very short trial. But they said "pressure these people, and we don't mind if they get hurt, wink wink nudge nudge".
Mafia members who say the same about a person end up in jail when that person gets shot.
There is free speech, and there is assisting in murder. The question is: which one was that site? The first trial said murder, the second said speech. I personally hope the third trial overturns it, because people on those lists are being killed.
And either way, if the ruling is too harsh it sets a bad precident for freedom. If the web site gets off free, the mob rule wins. If they get fined into oblivion and censored, it becomes precedent for more censorship.
Either way, some things, whether you call it a life or not, will die. One way, adults will die also.
You asshole, picketing a corporation is NOT the same as advocating murder, providing useful instructions on how to go about the murder, and appauding successful murders. Sure the info is all public, but that doesn't make it legal to package it nicely and hand it to someone with orders to kill!
Oh, i'm swearing at an idiot on slashdot! Theres goes my karma....
No. Religious extremists give christianity a bad name. As recently as '98 I still ran into some vehemently AD&D-is-evil-you-gamers-are-going-to-hell sites on the net.
That said, I don't think they really had an impact on the game...it was more corporate screwups and the rise of other gaming systems that caused AD&D's decline (there are some good posts in this story with more in-depth info to that effect).
Nintendo can attract the younger crowd with Mario and Pokemon, but they don't have the bait to attract the elders
This is a common misconception based on Nintendo's current platform...the game boy. Which is a) targeted at that age group b) incapable of really doing anything that complex anyway. But we already have proof that Nintendo is going to grab mainstream games now, and do so well: take a look at pocket.ign.com, where there's a screenshot of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2...on the game boy advance!
That one screenshot speaks volumes to me. It demonstrates that 1) nintendo's new stuff can handle "the" games 2) nintendo is willing to actually produce "the" games again.
And it shows. They sold 650 million GBAs on its first day for sale in Japan. Yes, this is no guarantee it will catch on in the US, but it pretty much assures that Nintendo isn't going to curl up and die either.
Well honestly, most of us question ANY of those security warnings popping up about such and such a signature, but most of us just blindly accept microsoft-certified ones. If people are already stupid enough to click on email attachments after the 15 millionths vb virus, what havoc might this wreak?
It doesn't seem childish at all to me. It seems more like yet another sign of the Ascendancy of Linux. And even if it was only childish rivalry, well, at least it's the good kind - the kind that gets things done. And it comes with some free positive press too. A no-lose scenario.
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I think the choice of phrasing was intended to set the stage to ban imports of any clone, not just humans. As well as the eerie in-between partial-clones that Taco wants..
"he is like you in every way....but one eigth the size"
"i shall call him...mini-Taco"
point 2: the really big things like atomic weapons are on a whole different level...patents on those are outright ignored by everyone. "You patented that? I'm so sorry, I have a thousand nukes pointed at you, want to come make me stop?"
point 3: Internationally-honored patents are a relatively new thing. Only recently are nations beginning to align their patent systems...mainly because a) we all formed things like the World Trade Organization that were easy for the equally-new international corporations to lobby heavily...I'm young yet, but I'd venture to say that even as recently as 1985, there was no way to enforce an international patent.
That's actually one of the big arguments against internationally-binding patents: "why the hell should some other country get to pass laws that apply to us?"
i hate to be a dick, but after a whole post railing some guy for getting fission/fusion mixed up, you then say we dropped fission bombs in WWI rather than WWII...
I believe PGP did it by forming a foreign company, re-engineering the program with new people, and releasing it that way.
weirder still though, is what will happen when natural, genetically engineered, prosthetic, cyborg, and nanotech parts all come together. I can only begin to guess what the world will be like then..
I didn't think so.
neither would you explode and kill everyone if your 2 pound fuel cell got hit, "fuckface". Most of that two pounds is the casing...plus, hydrogen burns fast and not very hot. Its not napalm. It might give you the equivalent of a sunburn. 9th graders play with burning hydrogen in chemistry class.
think before you speak.
bah, what does the average user need with 1000fps? the human eye can't discern more than 30 fps. Do we really need all that power just to surf the web, read email, and play windows solitaire? This is just another ploy by the evil chip manufacturers to pump us for more money, when our current boxen will serve fine for years to come!
heh!
The west coast as a LOT more asian influence than the east, and that probably accounts for the different language course offerings.
paranoid? yes. Justified? youbetcha.
You could argue that they're really good proof that prison is working; those people who got caught got locked up and didn't kill anyone else.
Truly, anyone who has brought themselves to kill once is capable of killing again...it probably gets easier every time when there are no penalties.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Microsoft strongly *against* copy control in hard drives? I seem to remember them publicly stating that they would not build in the neccesary changes to Windows to support it...
But here, they've voted FOR it? What gives? For good or evil, Windows is pretty damn big. If it ends up in Windows, especially if it's required to use new versions of Windows...well...we'd be forced to eat it.
argh
I don't recall the article anymore, but this was once on /. Some big patches came in and Linus insisted that they be broken down into smaller more logical units (instead of the big all-encompassing glob of code it was) and some people got very offended.
theoretically, you could have a FPGA graphics card be aware of which features it is being called on to use and then optimize its free gates to do higher-quality rendering of those options. Run quake3 with all the normal goodies on, but when you run quake1 the card does super high quality full screen antialiasing for you.
I do see your point though. For simpler things like an ethernet or sound card, normal chips will be faster.
what a nice apples-to-oranges comparison you make!
You can only sell a ditch or a road once, and then it isn't yours anymore. These corps force crappy signing terms for authors and then sell that article over and over and over and over...
Okay, earlier today I posted in anger (gasp!) in reponse to some moron. I owe it to more levelheaded persons to do something reasonable as penance =)
The web site wasn't posting addresses of clinics and saying "go picket". It was posting addresses of the doctors (and I am told their family members also, and other abortion supporters/workers). No, they didn't specifically say "go kill these people", or it would have been a very short trial. But they said "pressure these people, and we don't mind if they get hurt, wink wink nudge nudge".
Mafia members who say the same about a person end up in jail when that person gets shot.
There is free speech, and there is assisting in murder. The question is: which one was that site? The first trial said murder, the second said speech. I personally hope the third trial overturns it, because people on those lists are being killed.
And either way, if the ruling is too harsh it sets a bad precident for freedom. If the web site gets off free, the mob rule wins. If they get fined into oblivion and censored, it becomes precedent for more censorship.
Either way, some things, whether you call it a life or not, will die. One way, adults will die also.
You asshole, picketing a corporation is NOT the same as advocating murder, providing useful instructions on how to go about the murder, and appauding successful murders. Sure the info is all public, but that doesn't make it legal to package it nicely and hand it to someone with orders to kill!
Oh, i'm swearing at an idiot on slashdot! Theres goes my karma....
No. Religious extremists give christianity a bad name. As recently as '98 I still ran into some vehemently AD&D-is-evil-you-gamers-are-going-to-hell sites on the net.
That said, I don't think they really had an impact on the game...it was more corporate screwups and the rise of other gaming systems that caused AD&D's decline (there are some good posts in this story with more in-depth info to that effect).
sorry...650 thousand. oops.
Well honestly, most of us question ANY of those security warnings popping up about such and such a signature, but most of us just blindly accept microsoft-certified ones. If people are already stupid enough to click on email attachments after the 15 millionths vb virus, what havoc might this wreak?
Why is this moderated Informative? Shouldn't it be Funny?
wait, he said he saw it on Fox, so it must be true!
It doesn't seem childish at all to me. It seems more like yet another sign of the Ascendancy of Linux. And even if it was only childish rivalry, well, at least it's the good kind - the kind that gets things done. And it comes with some free positive press too. A no-lose scenario.
damn! I wish he'd mentioned it sometime during fall semester when I was in his C335 class at IU!
:)
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-evilwurst