Not sure what you're trying to say but that's a good argument FOR DRM - The customers (dogs) can't help themselves but WILL copy and share media (the dogs will grab the steak) unless we put DRM around it (lock the doors so the dogs won't steal the DVD's, uhm, steak).
Altho it's a little clearer for the e^(i*pi) case to express it as cos(pi)+jsin(pi), where you can see that cos(pi) + jsin(pi) = -1 + 0j = -1. But in general, yeah it's a LOT easier to multiply and divide exponentials where you just add and subtract the exponents, instead of figiting around with tables of transcendental equivilents and complex multiplication and (yuk) division.
And for the > 130 iq comment, he has a point too, put a linux livecd in a room with 1 computer and 10 monkeys and they'll probably succeed eventually, but it'll take a while
Actually, the secret to their success is mostly the consistant interface - I mean any give Linux desktop is as easy to LEARN to use as a Windows desktop (for people starting out cold with no preconceptions of how it should be), but the Windows 95 gui is consistant everywhere you go. Go into any office and sit down at any machine and things will be where you learned they will be. Try that with any given Linux box and odds are each one will be customized differently, or each corporation will have a 'standard' desktop different from other corporations so it is more difficult for an accountant to take his templates from one to another and be instantly productive with a spreadsheet and a printer.
That's actually a good question that's always bugged me about artificial intelligence and life: what actually is it that feels pain or emotions? We can easily understand the mechanism of nerve endings and transmission of a signal to the brain, but when ANY machine does anything it's just a bunch of cogs and gears blindly, mechanically responding to forces with no sight of feeling anywhere. That is, when a thermostat kicks the furnace on, where is the "brrrr it's cold in here" feeling in the sensor / signaling / furnace heat response? Neurosurgeons can stir around in the gray matter mapping pathways and stimulus / response all day long but they can't seem to find the "me" that is experiencing the feelings that corresponds to the observed actions.
I've solved many problems, or at least came up with an opinion, but that one has always stumped me.
leverage n.
2. Positional advantage; power to act effectively: "started his... career with far more social leverage than his father had enjoyed" (Doris Kearns Goodwin).
3. The use of credit or borrowed funds to improve one's speculative capacity and increase the rate of return from an investment, as in buying securities on margin.
tr.v. leveraged, leveraging, leverages
2. To improve or enhance: "It makes more sense to be able to leverage what we [public radio stations] do in a more effective way to our listeners" (Delano Lewis).
Ah, 10ft of 1/4" copper tube, a 5 ft long piece of 1" pvc makes a nice loop. That's $10 - add a 365pf variable cap and it'll tune about 3.5 to 15 Mhz. Pickup loop is 2 ft length of wire soldered to RG-58, matches nicely for a feedline. Q is pretty sharp. In fact, I just added some MVAM109 varactors for remote fine tuning. My MW loop is a length of ribbon cable, wired to make about 5 turnes on a frame, with another 365pf tuning cap and a pickup loop. Heck, there's even a Yahoo! group dedicated to loop antennas;)
FCC could not care less about the HF and ham radio spectrum, any more than city government cares about the slums. It's been left to deteriorate as no serious business uses anything other than VHF and above, satellites and cells. I've been listening to short wave and ham bands for years and the amount of interference from consumer electronics in a dense apartment complex is getting to be too much to fight. I've recently used a 'loop' antenna to try to cut thru the noise, but depending on how many 'touch' lamps and dimmers the neighbors have, and the onslaught of flat screen tv's and cheaper Chinese electronics it's a losing battle. I'm getting ready to install an mpeg satellite dish (the fcc protects the installation of those!) for radio exploring in the near term future.
Well, they could team up with International Star Registry and pick some lucky winners name at random when needed - at least a few kids would actually have objects named after them.
My thoughts exactly - powerusers like Linus and me (ahem) prefer kde, those needing more hand holding use gnome, and absolute mental basket cases that need animated paper clips to help them type a memo should either use Windows or be packing boxes in the warehouse.
Unfortunately (I didn't read the article for all the nuances) Linus comes off sounding like an Interface Nazi in declaring "Use KDE" and calling the gnome folks interface nazis, and should promote the world of choice. But that psychology comes with the territory (cf Gates' or Jobs' demeanor) I guess (lots of mental stress). Folks who need more hand holding need a dictator, as they're unable to make the best choices so of course Gnome devs look like fascists, whereas Windows folks need an entire church and the PC Pope.
35 years ago it was "Future Shock", when market demands of science and technology create such rapid changes that it leaves people incapable of adjusting fast enough, leaving them in a state of perpetual disorientation.
Now we have just the opposite, where the insatiable market demands for faster, cheaper and better technology based products cannot be adaquately met by scientific research quickly enough, leaving consumers in a perpetual state of disillusionment and disappointment.;)
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Not sure what you're trying to say but that's a good argument FOR DRM - The customers (dogs) can't help themselves but WILL copy and share media (the dogs will grab the steak) unless we put DRM around it (lock the doors so the dogs won't steal the DVD's, uhm, steak).
gawd that's so, like, last century dude.
Altho it's a little clearer for the e^(i*pi) case to express it as cos(pi)+jsin(pi), where you can see that cos(pi) + jsin(pi) = -1 + 0j = -1. But in general, yeah it's a LOT easier to multiply and divide exponentials where you just add and subtract the exponents, instead of figiting around with tables of transcendental equivilents and complex multiplication and (yuk) division.
Sure, just like if someone does not lock up their valuables you're free to take all you want.
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As I walk through this world
Nothing can stop the dupe of url
And you, you are my girl
No one can hurt you, oh, no
mods are drinking scotch too. Ask a simple question... Actually someone LATER answered it, vax is barely supported. Which makes sense actually.
I can install NetBSD on my, oh, (picks obscure platform) VAX, and have xen run multiple virtual vaxes?
which year are we celebrating electro-magnetism?
And for the > 130 iq comment, he has a point too, put a linux livecd in a room with 1 computer and 10 monkeys and they'll probably succeed eventually, but it'll take a while
Actually, the secret to their success is mostly the consistant interface - I mean any give Linux desktop is as easy to LEARN to use as a Windows desktop (for people starting out cold with no preconceptions of how it should be), but the Windows 95 gui is consistant everywhere you go. Go into any office and sit down at any machine and things will be where you learned they will be. Try that with any given Linux box and odds are each one will be customized differently, or each corporation will have a 'standard' desktop different from other corporations so it is more difficult for an accountant to take his templates from one to another and be instantly productive with a spreadsheet and a printer.
Well of course - the problem begins when the robot spills hot coffee on itself and still calls the lawyer.
That's actually a good question that's always bugged me about artificial intelligence and life: what actually is it that feels pain or emotions? We can easily understand the mechanism of nerve endings and transmission of a signal to the brain, but when ANY machine does anything it's just a bunch of cogs and gears blindly, mechanically responding to forces with no sight of feeling anywhere. That is, when a thermostat kicks the furnace on, where is the "brrrr it's cold in here" feeling in the sensor / signaling / furnace heat response? Neurosurgeons can stir around in the gray matter mapping pathways and stimulus / response all day long but they can't seem to find the "me" that is experiencing the feelings that corresponds to the observed actions.
I've solved many problems, or at least came up with an opinion, but that one has always stumped me.
phear the open source gods - I once made a statement questioning the open source business model and was promptly modded into oblivion.
from dictionary.com:
leverage n.
2. Positional advantage; power to act effectively: "started his... career with far more social leverage than his father had enjoyed" (Doris Kearns Goodwin).
3. The use of credit or borrowed funds to improve one's speculative capacity and increase the rate of return from an investment, as in buying securities on margin.
tr.v. leveraged, leveraging, leverages
2. To improve or enhance: "It makes more sense to be able to leverage what we [public radio stations] do in a more effective way to our listeners" (Delano Lewis).
Ah, 10ft of 1/4" copper tube, a 5 ft long piece of 1" pvc makes a nice loop. That's $10 - add a 365pf variable cap and it'll tune about 3.5 to 15 Mhz. Pickup loop is 2 ft length of wire soldered to RG-58, matches nicely for a feedline. Q is pretty sharp. In fact, I just added some MVAM109 varactors for remote fine tuning. My MW loop is a length of ribbon cable, wired to make about 5 turnes on a frame, with another 365pf tuning cap and a pickup loop. Heck, there's even a Yahoo! group dedicated to loop antennas ;)
FCC could not care less about the HF and ham radio spectrum, any more than city government cares about the slums. It's been left to deteriorate as no serious business uses anything other than VHF and above, satellites and cells. I've been listening to short wave and ham bands for years and the amount of interference from consumer electronics in a dense apartment complex is getting to be too much to fight. I've recently used a 'loop' antenna to try to cut thru the noise, but depending on how many 'touch' lamps and dimmers the neighbors have, and the onslaught of flat screen tv's and cheaper Chinese electronics it's a losing battle. I'm getting ready to install an mpeg satellite dish (the fcc protects the installation of those!) for radio exploring in the near term future.
Damnit, it's not "flamebait" - it's a LEGITIMATE QUESTION: How do you get IP and profits from a system dominated by THIS??
Considering how open source is tied to "gnu licensing" and Richard Stallman's opinions on IP.
Well, they could team up with International Star Registry and pick some lucky winners name at random when needed - at least a few kids would actually have objects named after them.
when you shop at WalMart, you support cyber-terrorism.
Think of all the money they'll save hiring undocumented workers.
there was a famous case with ATT but it looks more like an FTC fine than a lawsuit.
They need to count sanitary engineers, field engineers, train engineers, etc.
My thoughts exactly - powerusers like Linus and me (ahem) prefer kde, those needing more hand holding use gnome, and absolute mental basket cases that need animated paper clips to help them type a memo should either use Windows or be packing boxes in the warehouse.
Unfortunately (I didn't read the article for all the nuances) Linus comes off sounding like an Interface Nazi in declaring "Use KDE" and calling the gnome folks interface nazis, and should promote the world of choice. But that psychology comes with the territory (cf Gates' or Jobs' demeanor) I guess (lots of mental stress). Folks who need more hand holding need a dictator, as they're unable to make the best choices so of course Gnome devs look like fascists, whereas Windows folks need an entire church and the PC Pope.
Can you say techno-blase?
;)
35 years ago it was "Future Shock", when market demands of science and technology create such rapid changes that it leaves people incapable of adjusting fast enough, leaving them in a state of perpetual disorientation.
Now we have just the opposite, where the insatiable market demands for faster, cheaper and better technology based products cannot be adaquately met by scientific research quickly enough, leaving consumers in a perpetual state of disillusionment and disappointment.
We're better off waiting for Web 3.11.