If only Sony would combine Home with LittleBigPlanet.... That would yield exactly what (you think) people want, at least from what I've seen of the two.
Of course the Fourier Transform and analysis is done in hardware! That's what being "hard-wired" means. Hell, if it were done in software, it'd mean we'd have to learn how to hear. When neurons fire and are routed to the brain signals with lower priority (like an itch) yield to signals with higher priority (like excruciating pain). Signals are mutliplexed and demultiplexed at every conceivable location in the body. Fourier Transforms, Signal Processing, and many others. Math is very involved, just not on a conscious level.
What I'm really wondering is why punitive damages are paid to the person who sues/their lawyer. I mean, sure, the suer deserves compensatory damages, but what right do they have to the punitive damages? Since punitive damages are supposed to reform the entity in question, supposedly for the greater good, why don't they go to the government? That way, we can reduce our debt and lower interest rates for all, instead of making one random person rich. We'd probably also cut down the number of frivolous lawsuits.
Could this be a hint that sharks may have evolved from eels? Sharks certainly have multiple sets of teeth, and this seems to be a possible first step from one to the other.
Please, someone explain this to me. It would seem like the general consensus on/. is that the PS3 sucks, that Sony is the devil, that everyone is perfectly content with their XBoxes, that they don't need to make up for the size of their Wiis with a PS3 (pun intended). And yet, almost every day, there's an article about a possible price drop on the PS3. And people respond with the same tired reply every time.
However, the fact that there's an article every day about this makes it seem like people actually do really want PS3s, and are just waiting for the price to come down, and they're just trying to validate it by saying what they have is "good enough for me."
Of course, this is only IMHO, and may or may not bear any resemblance to reality, so please, treat me like a child and explain this to me.
"He could save his time and the students by prepping his examples, or whatever else he'd write on the board, before school. Then just pull up a saved slide so he doesn't have to spend all that time rewriting it for each class period."
Actually, I feel that would be a bad idea. It's much much harder to take notes when the teacher/professor is flying through a powerpoint. Writing things down at the same pace as students makes note taking much easier (for those who do it). As for color coding, there ARE different colors of chalk. You know that, right? And animations are annoying at best, disruptive at worst.
The only benefit you mentioned is consistent fonts for better readability, but it's a hassle to input characters for integral (almost impossible if you want limits of integration), fractions (or anything separated by a bar, like dy/dx) (and especially fractions with more than one level), the symbols for a partial derivative and multiple integrals, Greek characters, square roots, n'th roots, etc. Yes, I know there's OpenOffice.org Math for that. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying that the time spent on it is not worth it just to teach a class.
The only thing worse than using a powerpoint that I can think of would be to hand-write your powerpoints. I have a professor this semester who does that, and it's just nuts.
No. Just, no. Your model would be more valid if you were standing on one of the tops, and trying to get another one to spin. The one you're on would start spinning too. You're trying to add energy from outside the system, which just doesn't work for a model of the universe. Nothing goes into or comes out of the universe.
In that case, it depends on your definition of "normally used." If "normally used" means "what the company says is normally used," or "what the company says it's intended for," then your statement makes sense. However, if "normally used" means "what it's used for more often than other things" or "what the company actually intends it for," then they still can't do it. However, only the meaning you can't check for.
"The GPL3's own consumer-product-only rule lets Dell off the hook."
Uhh...FYI, businesses are consumers, too. Hell, anyone who's an end-user (those who would have to agree to the EULA on Proprietary Software) is a consumer. It doesn't matter whether or not they're producers of anything as well. A company doing internal development would be an example of a non-consumer, as well as a company doing development for a subsidiary or a parent company. In other words, corporations can tivoize within themselves, just like they can redistribute binaries without source or a promise of it within themselves.
More likely, what this will do is make more students choose these majors simply for financial reasons. Do we really want students who have absolutely no interest in these fields that would be successful in others:
draining from these fields by being merely competent (which they will likely turn out to be)
draining from other fields by not being what they otherwise would have been, and
draining from the already-broke US government by being a financial burden with little to no benefit?
Now, personally, I'd enjoy this seeing as how I'm a CompE student, but it just doesn't seem to me like it's been thought through very well.
Also, it seems similar to the case a while back where a university wanted to charge students more if they were majoring in Science/Engineering, based on the argument that it cost the university more to teach them. However, IIRC, a major argument against it was that choosing a major shouldn't be influenced by finances, but rather by genuine interest in the subject.
I agree completely that we need more exclusives, but I'm pretty sure the first point you make is incorrect:
Installing to a PC simply means copying the files for faster read times (and originally to be able to play the game without the CD, but you're not even supposed to do that anymore). Nothing actually "compiles" during the install process. I'm pretty sure that if it did, the disc would have to be even bigger. Also, the PS3 is a lot more likely to be able to heavily crunch the numbers required for binaries/artwork/audio etc. Finally, the PS3 does have the ability to "install" games--That's why Virtua Fighter 5 has such a long first-start time.
I love my PS3, too, and hope we'll both have many more fine games to enjoy. [Can't wait]
"Are they going to release it for the PC?"
I highly doubt it. IIRC, this is one of those games that required Blu-ray. I'm pretty sure it's a 25 GB game, and I doubt you'd enjoy installing it from 5 DVDs (or 35(?) CDs) and having it take 25 Gigs on your drive.
And it probably wouldn't look nearly as "gorgeous," either, because most computers are probably massively underpowered for it. According to Wiki, it's got:
Progressive Mesh
HDR Lighting
Real-time Dynamic physics and
Fluid dynamics
just to name a few.
I doubt if even 1% of PCs currently being sold have the capability of real-time fluid dynamics.
Hmm...Aren't we humans technically devices for decoding DNA into music? I mean, our DNA defines who we are (along with supposedly environmental factors, but most of that is either just pure chance, or caused by other blobs defined by DNA/environmental factors), so technically, any musician who will produce, or is producing music that they describe is violating the patent, and anyone who has produced music has prior art. US Patent Office FTW!
The "crappier hardware" comment is a statement of fact. It's well-known that the sheer hardware of the PS3 is better than that of the XBox360, regardless of its firmware/software.
And yes, it would send a consumer-initiated message if no one bought the demos, but people are going to buy the demos because they have no other way of getting them. Just like people have no other way of playing online without being charged for XBox Live. It may be optional in theory, but it's not by any means optional in practice. Think labor unions (which often didn't work anyway), except without any organization whatsoever. Workers had the theoretical option of not working for whatever company, but in practice it just wasn't an option.
Your conclusion to my argument would make sense if phone companies sold you your telephone and charged you $500 for it, and I'd agree with you if the cable company charged you $1000 for a cable box and $5000 for the TV you have to watch it on.
Likewise, I'd agree with you if Microsoft simply gave out XBoxes (or charged $10 for them) and then charged a monthly fee. But that's not what they're doing.
And yes, the WOW pricing scheme is ridiculous, too.
OK. Wait. WTF? This absolutely makes me cringe. First of all, it's ridiculous that Microsoft even has the guts to make people pay for XBox Live. You pay for the console, you pay for the game, online play is fucking part of the game! A monthly/yearly fee is just nuts! Next, it's demos that people have to pay for. And this is only for the simple reason that Microsoft saw that gamers would bend over and take it for the online play--demos only logically follow.
Instead of charging $600 per console, they nickel-and-dime us to death. They drop the price to $400, and in just four years, ($60 per 12-month subscription), you've paid for more than a PS3 (and you still have crappier hardware). And they've probably lost more money than Sony has (for replacing your console, what? three times now? four?) Now, I'm not a Sony fanboi, but it seems to me like Sony's receiving way too much flak for their price, and Microsoft's not receiving nearly enough for theirs.
While I agree it's true that Turing Machines can't distinguish mathematical truths from falsehoods, I don't agree that human brains can do the same thing. What both Turing Machines and human brains *can* do, on the other hand, is be able to show what logically follows from a set of given axioms. Neither humans nor machines can prove axioms, if only by the definition of an axiom. Axiom may seem more intuitive to humans than to machines, but I argue that it's not so--most axioms we immediately accept have been ingrained into our minds through birth (either through teaching or visually), or follow from definitions.
Linux CANNOT have a killer app, because it contradicts what Linux stands for: Freedom, Openness, Choice, to name a few. If the Linux community creates something, it's damn well going to be F/OSS, and therefore, portable to just about any other platform. The fact that something is proprietary is the essence of what makes it "killer," and that just might be why Linux hasn't been able to dominate.
Isn't the world's largest operational telescope always up and running? There may be a new largest, but the old one was the largest back then as well, as were all the ones before it.
On the other hand, when your network is faster than your disk, the only things worth storing locally are things that need fast random access to (latency is still going to be bigger over the network than the disk). This is a great scheme to cripple p2p! Finally, everyone's connection will be so fast that no one will have to store anything locally, so no one will share!
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If only Sony would combine Home with LittleBigPlanet.... That would yield exactly what (you think) people want, at least from what I've seen of the two.
Of course the Fourier Transform and analysis is done in hardware! That's what being "hard-wired" means. Hell, if it were done in software, it'd mean we'd have to learn how to hear.
When neurons fire and are routed to the brain signals with lower priority (like an itch) yield to signals with higher priority (like excruciating pain). Signals are mutliplexed and demultiplexed at every conceivable location in the body.
Fourier Transforms, Signal Processing, and many others. Math is very involved, just not on a conscious level.
And let's not forget, it's cheap!
Oh wait...
What I'm really wondering is why punitive damages are paid to the person who sues/their lawyer. I mean, sure, the suer deserves compensatory damages, but what right do they have to the punitive damages?
Since punitive damages are supposed to reform the entity in question, supposedly for the greater good, why don't they go to the government? That way, we can reduce our debt and lower interest rates for all, instead of making one random person rich. We'd probably also cut down the number of frivolous lawsuits.
Could this be a hint that sharks may have evolved from eels? Sharks certainly have multiple sets of teeth, and this seems to be a possible first step from one to the other.
Please, someone explain this to me. It would seem like the general consensus on /. is that the PS3 sucks, that Sony is the devil, that everyone is perfectly content with their XBoxes, that they don't need to make up for the size of their Wiis with a PS3 (pun intended). And yet, almost every day, there's an article about a possible price drop on the PS3. And people respond with the same tired reply every time.
However, the fact that there's an article every day about this makes it seem like people actually do really want PS3s, and are just waiting for the price to come down, and they're just trying to validate it by saying what they have is "good enough for me."
Of course, this is only IMHO, and may or may not bear any resemblance to reality, so please, treat me like a child and explain this to me.
"He could save his time and the students by prepping his examples, or whatever else he'd write on the board, before school. Then just pull up a saved slide so he doesn't have to spend all that time rewriting it for each class period."
Actually, I feel that would be a bad idea. It's much much harder to take notes when the teacher/professor is flying through a powerpoint. Writing things down at the same pace as students makes note taking much easier (for those who do it).
As for color coding, there ARE different colors of chalk. You know that, right?
And animations are annoying at best, disruptive at worst.
The only benefit you mentioned is consistent fonts for better readability, but it's a hassle to input characters for integral (almost impossible if you want limits of integration), fractions (or anything separated by a bar, like dy/dx) (and especially fractions with more than one level), the symbols for a partial derivative and multiple integrals, Greek characters, square roots, n'th roots, etc. Yes, I know there's OpenOffice.org Math for that. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying that the time spent on it is not worth it just to teach a class.
The only thing worse than using a powerpoint that I can think of would be to hand-write your powerpoints. I have a professor this semester who does that, and it's just nuts.
No. Just, no. Your model would be more valid if you were standing on one of the tops, and trying to get another one to spin. The one you're on would start spinning too. You're trying to add energy from outside the system, which just doesn't work for a model of the universe. Nothing goes into or comes out of the universe.
In that case, it depends on your definition of "normally used." If "normally used" means "what the company says is normally used," or "what the company says it's intended for," then your statement makes sense. However, if "normally used" means "what it's used for more often than other things" or "what the company actually intends it for," then they still can't do it. However, only the meaning you can't check for.
"The GPL3's own consumer-product-only rule lets Dell off the hook."
Uhh...FYI, businesses are consumers, too. Hell, anyone who's an end-user (those who would have to agree to the EULA on Proprietary Software) is a consumer. It doesn't matter whether or not they're producers of anything as well. A company doing internal development would be an example of a non-consumer, as well as a company doing development for a subsidiary or a parent company. In other words, corporations can tivoize within themselves, just like they can redistribute binaries without source or a promise of it within themselves.
IMHO, of course.
More likely, what this will do is make more students choose these majors simply for financial reasons. Do we really want students who have absolutely no interest in these fields that would be successful in others:
Now, personally, I'd enjoy this seeing as how I'm a CompE student, but it just doesn't seem to me like it's been thought through very well.
Also, it seems similar to the case a while back where a university wanted to charge students more if they were majoring in Science/Engineering, based on the argument that it cost the university more to teach them. However, IIRC, a major argument against it was that choosing a major shouldn't be influenced by finances, but rather by genuine interest in the subject.
Yes, but does it run Linux?
I agree completely that we need more exclusives, but I'm pretty sure the first point you make is incorrect:
Installing to a PC simply means copying the files for faster read times (and originally to be able to play the game without the CD, but you're not even supposed to do that anymore). Nothing actually "compiles" during the install process. I'm pretty sure that if it did, the disc would have to be even bigger.
Also, the PS3 is a lot more likely to be able to heavily crunch the numbers required for binaries/artwork/audio etc.
Finally, the PS3 does have the ability to "install" games--That's why Virtua Fighter 5 has such a long first-start time.
I love my PS3, too, and hope we'll both have many more fine games to enjoy. [Can't wait]
They're just making sure that the hidden porn is better-hidden.
"Are they going to release it for the PC?" I highly doubt it. IIRC, this is one of those games that required Blu-ray. I'm pretty sure it's a 25 GB game, and I doubt you'd enjoy installing it from 5 DVDs (or 35(?) CDs) and having it take 25 Gigs on your drive. And it probably wouldn't look nearly as "gorgeous," either, because most computers are probably massively underpowered for it. According to Wiki, it's got: Progressive Mesh HDR Lighting Real-time Dynamic physics and Fluid dynamics just to name a few. I doubt if even 1% of PCs currently being sold have the capability of real-time fluid dynamics.
Annoyance? Thanks to the separate brick (well, at least partially), the PS3 doesn't overheat, unlike some other consoles without bricks that I know.
Hmm...Aren't we humans technically devices for decoding DNA into music? I mean, our DNA defines who we are (along with supposedly environmental factors, but most of that is either just pure chance, or caused by other blobs defined by DNA/environmental factors), so technically, any musician who will produce, or is producing music that they describe is violating the patent, and anyone who has produced music has prior art. US Patent Office FTW!
The "crappier hardware" comment is a statement of fact. It's well-known that the sheer hardware of the PS3 is better than that of the XBox360, regardless of its firmware/software. And yes, it would send a consumer-initiated message if no one bought the demos, but people are going to buy the demos because they have no other way of getting them. Just like people have no other way of playing online without being charged for XBox Live. It may be optional in theory, but it's not by any means optional in practice. Think labor unions (which often didn't work anyway), except without any organization whatsoever. Workers had the theoretical option of not working for whatever company, but in practice it just wasn't an option.
Your conclusion to my argument would make sense if phone companies sold you your telephone and charged you $500 for it, and I'd agree with you if the cable company charged you $1000 for a cable box and $5000 for the TV you have to watch it on. Likewise, I'd agree with you if Microsoft simply gave out XBoxes (or charged $10 for them) and then charged a monthly fee. But that's not what they're doing. And yes, the WOW pricing scheme is ridiculous, too.
OK. Wait. WTF? This absolutely makes me cringe. First of all, it's ridiculous that Microsoft even has the guts to make people pay for XBox Live. You pay for the console, you pay for the game, online play is fucking part of the game! A monthly/yearly fee is just nuts! Next, it's demos that people have to pay for. And this is only for the simple reason that Microsoft saw that gamers would bend over and take it for the online play--demos only logically follow. Instead of charging $600 per console, they nickel-and-dime us to death. They drop the price to $400, and in just four years, ($60 per 12-month subscription), you've paid for more than a PS3 (and you still have crappier hardware). And they've probably lost more money than Sony has (for replacing your console, what? three times now? four?) Now, I'm not a Sony fanboi, but it seems to me like Sony's receiving way too much flak for their price, and Microsoft's not receiving nearly enough for theirs.
While I agree it's true that Turing Machines can't distinguish mathematical truths from falsehoods, I don't agree that human brains can do the same thing. What both Turing Machines and human brains *can* do, on the other hand, is be able to show what logically follows from a set of given axioms. Neither humans nor machines can prove axioms, if only by the definition of an axiom. Axiom may seem more intuitive to humans than to machines, but I argue that it's not so--most axioms we immediately accept have been ingrained into our minds through birth (either through teaching or visually), or follow from definitions.
Linux CANNOT have a killer app, because it contradicts what Linux stands for: Freedom, Openness, Choice, to name a few. If the Linux community creates something, it's damn well going to be F/OSS, and therefore, portable to just about any other platform. The fact that something is proprietary is the essence of what makes it "killer," and that just might be why Linux hasn't been able to dominate.
That's what they said about Vista. And look at it now.
Isn't the world's largest operational telescope always up and running? There may be a new largest, but the old one was the largest back then as well, as were all the ones before it.