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Yes, even Microsoft has a difficult time being compatible and interoperable with Microsoft
And this is supposed to indicate the difficulty of adhering to principles of backward compatibility? Or the flaws of the design process used by Microsoft?
Without wishing to be especially contradictory (because it's clear that shit is happening in the world today), I would like to point out that Orwell has already been 20 years, 15 years and possibly 10 or even 5 years early with his prediction. I would hazard a suspicion that he was also 5 years, 10 years or even 15 years late, although that was long before my time and I wouldn't know.
Looks like those formats might become obsolete before they have even become mainstream. I am suddenly glad that I don't have a player for them yet.
Also, it is very nice to have a new data format developed by the tech industry, rather than the movie industry. Archival quality is going to be a more important aspect than copy protection.
Whoops. Vague memories of high school science apparently need to be refreshed from time to time, lest they turn into gibberish. Well, at least I got one out of three right.
But... why is Venus a lot hotter--- oh wait. Never mind. It's closer, duh.
If I want to get outside and feel alive, I take my bicycle. How can it be so exciting or vitalizing to travel in a device that doesn't even make you sweat while you drive it? Burning fossilized hydrocarbons is overrated.
The nuclear winter is a concept that works only on Earth due to our unique atmosphere which lets a bit of sunlight in and prevents a bit of that from radiating out, thus warming our planet. If our atmosphere grew a bit more dusty, we'd reflect more sunlight and become colder.
You cannot apply this concept to Mars, which has no greenhouse effect in the first place. Its surface reflects most of the sunlight already, so reflective dust in its thin atmosphere would make no difference. You also can't apply it to Venus, which is a greenhouse. Its atmosphere is already highly reflective, and it is only as hot as it is because the tiny amount of sunlight it absorbs is prevented from escaping.
"Yea and let it end up in Redmond. Source code of Opera is a treasure"
Yeah, if you open your Good source, the Evil closed-source people might see it and use it in their Evil closed-source product. So you keep your source closed. But your software is Good closed-source, of course, not Evil closed-source!;)
Torture? If an organization wished to put this to evil use, about the only thing it could do with it is engineer an epidemic disease to commit acts of mass murder/terrorism against an enemy population. For interrogating or assassinating individuals, it would just make no sense as the defining strength of biological weapons is their ability to spread on their own.
For most of the last century, everyone who could have responded badly to such an event would have had only one nation to aim at (namely, the USSR and USA, respectively). I gather that they wouldn't have waited to find out who shot at them before firing back at the most likely culprit...
Addendum: The GP's calculation *does* give a useful result, namely that of the area likely to be *affected* by an asteroid blast in the next 50 years. Multiply this by average population density on Earth, and you will find out how many people will be affected directly by the blast.
It's smaller than one by definition, actually. Sorry to spoil the joke.
At least it would be after you fix the error of multiplying by the blast area. It sounds like the GP is trying to calculate the probability of the asteroid hitting a populated center. While the blast area does influence this slightly, it's pretty much negligible (just as the width of the point of a dart is negligible in determining the probability of it hitting the dart board).
Apparently the essential difference is the time at which the drive is wiped: Before the subpoena, it is fine, while after the subpoena has been served, it is destruction of evidence. Not being a lawyer and never having been sued, I have no idea what notifications you get and what order they arrive in. How long before the subpoena do you usually know you are being sued (if at all), and does evidence have to be preserved already during this time?
Also, if the hard drive *is* deleted/lost, and the time is not clear... do you need to prove the drive was lost before, or does the prosecution have to prove that you lost it after you were served the subpoena?
No, you aren't. Glorfindel didn't survive this one either. If I recall correctly, he was fighting Gothmog (boss of the Balrogs) in the battle of Gondolin, and they slew each other.
I believe I remember a passage from Letters From Middle-Earth where Tolkien explains that he didn't realize he had used the name Glorfindel twice, and ended up developing a theory about Elven reincarnation.
I seem to remember some comment saying it was difficult to make him look like a "younger" Bilbo in the introduction for a single scene. Would he be able to play the young Bilbo for the entirety of a film?
(If so, it would be cool if they managed to insert a part of the LotR ring-finding scene as it is, retroactively turning it into a flashback scene from the prequel while maintaining continuity with the other scenes in the Hobbit film itself. Movie continuity is an amusing topic.)
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And this is supposed to indicate the difficulty of adhering to principles of backward compatibility? Or the flaws of the design process used by Microsoft?
Vertical integration uses market share as a lever. One day, MS is going to leverage its market share so much that it breaks.
They want a world where everyone uses either only MS products or not at all? The path of least resistance will eventually lead away from MS.
They have successfully established themselves as Evil in the hearts and minds of all right-thinking people.
Wait, that wasn't what they were trying to accomplish? Could have fooled me.
Without wishing to be especially contradictory (because it's clear that shit is happening in the world today), I would like to point out that Orwell has already been 20 years, 15 years and possibly 10 or even 5 years early with his prediction. I would hazard a suspicion that he was also 5 years, 10 years or even 15 years late, although that was long before my time and I wouldn't know.
This does not mean he was not right, of course.
The clacks, I think he called it?
Looks like those formats might become obsolete before they have even become mainstream. I am suddenly glad that I don't have a player for them yet.
Also, it is very nice to have a new data format developed by the tech industry, rather than the movie industry. Archival quality is going to be a more important aspect than copy protection.
Whoops. Vague memories of high school science apparently need to be refreshed from time to time, lest they turn into gibberish. Well, at least I got one out of three right.
But... why is Venus a lot hotter--- oh wait. Never mind. It's closer, duh.
This... this is a joke. Isn't it? Please.
If I want to get outside and feel alive, I take my bicycle. How can it be so exciting or vitalizing to travel in a device that doesn't even make you sweat while you drive it? Burning fossilized hydrocarbons is overrated.
Presumably the same way that gems like "your RAM is evidence, do not delete" come about.
> Andromeda strain wipes out life on Earth (like it did on Mars in the past)
That sounds like a cool movie. What was it called?
So: If an asteroid explodes in a forest and there is nobody around to hear it... ? =)
The nuclear winter is a concept that works only on Earth due to our unique atmosphere which lets a bit of sunlight in and prevents a bit of that from radiating out, thus warming our planet. If our atmosphere grew a bit more dusty, we'd reflect more sunlight and become colder.
You cannot apply this concept to Mars, which has no greenhouse effect in the first place. Its surface reflects most of the sunlight already, so reflective dust in its thin atmosphere would make no difference. You also can't apply it to Venus, which is a greenhouse. Its atmosphere is already highly reflective, and it is only as hot as it is because the tiny amount of sunlight it absorbs is prevented from escaping.
But does it pass Acid2 when running Linux?
Apparently not. =)
"Yea and let it end up in Redmond. Source code of Opera is a treasure"
;)
Yeah, if you open your Good source, the Evil closed-source people might see it and use it in their Evil closed-source product. So you keep your source closed. But your software is Good closed-source, of course, not Evil closed-source!
Torture? If an organization wished to put this to evil use, about the only thing it could do with it is engineer an epidemic disease to commit acts of mass murder/terrorism against an enemy population. For interrogating or assassinating individuals, it would just make no sense as the defining strength of biological weapons is their ability to spread on their own.
And the judge rules whether the defendant knew what was coming on a case by case basis?
For most of the last century, everyone who could have responded badly to such an event would have had only one nation to aim at (namely, the USSR and USA, respectively). I gather that they wouldn't have waited to find out who shot at them before firing back at the most likely culprit...
Addendum: The GP's calculation *does* give a useful result, namely that of the area likely to be *affected* by an asteroid blast in the next 50 years. Multiply this by average population density on Earth, and you will find out how many people will be affected directly by the blast.
It's smaller than one by definition, actually. Sorry to spoil the joke.
At least it would be after you fix the error of multiplying by the blast area. It sounds like the GP is trying to calculate the probability of the asteroid hitting a populated center. While the blast area does influence this slightly, it's pretty much negligible (just as the width of the point of a dart is negligible in determining the probability of it hitting the dart board).
Apparently the essential difference is the time at which the drive is wiped: Before the subpoena, it is fine, while after the subpoena has been served, it is destruction of evidence. Not being a lawyer and never having been sued, I have no idea what notifications you get and what order they arrive in. How long before the subpoena do you usually know you are being sued (if at all), and does evidence have to be preserved already during this time?
Also, if the hard drive *is* deleted/lost, and the time is not clear... do you need to prove the drive was lost before, or does the prosecution have to prove that you lost it after you were served the subpoena?
No, you aren't. Glorfindel didn't survive this one either. If I recall correctly, he was fighting Gothmog (boss of the Balrogs) in the battle of Gondolin, and they slew each other.
I believe I remember a passage from Letters From Middle-Earth where Tolkien explains that he didn't realize he had used the name Glorfindel twice, and ended up developing a theory about Elven reincarnation.
I seem to remember some comment saying it was difficult to make him look like a "younger" Bilbo in the introduction for a single scene. Would he be able to play the young Bilbo for the entirety of a film?
(If so, it would be cool if they managed to insert a part of the LotR ring-finding scene as it is, retroactively turning it into a flashback scene from the prequel while maintaining continuity with the other scenes in the Hobbit film itself. Movie continuity is an amusing topic.)
(No wait: Actually, it just has the causal relationship reversed. After all, Napoleon's defeat was directly responsible for the 1812 overture!)
That, or Google believes it is on to a little known historical secret, related to the role of music in warfare.