MS should be the good guys here. Burst were suing them for patent infringement which we all know is an evil practice and should be resisted by all possible means.
Only for patents with titles like "A Method Of Compressing ASCII Text Files By Flagging The 128 Most Common English Words With The Parity Bit"
Last year there was a big dustup at Microsoft when management briefly stopped providing clean towels in the locker room to save costs. When Google meets Mr. Entropy, as all organizations eventually do, the cute little benefits will either go away or be rationed to the Beautiful People, ie. middle management and above.
There must be three or four dozen radio stations in town, but they all are worthless. Radio wave broadcasting is a dead industry.
Agreed, the radio industry is dead, the music industry is dying, but one of the most beloved and influential radio stations in Seattle is KNHC, or "C89.5", a non-profit high school 24/7 voc ed program with listeners worldwide. And some people (/me clears throat) have to use classic radio at work because their workplace rules prohibit streaming audio.
I'm more surprised that Microsoft was allowed to sell Cuba copies of Windows in the first place.
MicroSoft sells copies of Windows to OEMS, see, maybe in Hong Kong, and it's the OEMs who sell them to Cuba. Stallman probably got Castro to switch to Linux by pointing out the new "feature" in Vista that lets M$ revoke driver priveleges at their pleasure. Imagine if GM had a lever in Detroit that could make all those mint-condition classic '57 Chevys in Cuba stop working.
Are there any other 'big picture' problems out there you think would benefit from the grid approach?
Using distributed computing to find molecular cures or the shape a protein will fold into as it comes out of the business end of a ribosome is all well and good, but if you can find a shape on the political map that concentrates all left-wingers into little ghetto-districts and gives solid 55% majorities to right-wingers across all the other ones, and you can deliver this IT solution around the time of the 2010 reapportionment, the Bush Administration has a no-bid contract with your name on it.
1Kings 7:[23] And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
Since we are dealing with enough cubits, it should be 31 cubits around by 10 cubits across. But the bible is completely free of error, of course, so what the bleep do we know?
Amen to that. I've peer reviewed papers, and for most part you end up trusting the authors. It's not like the reviewer can rerun the experiments or inspect the raw data.
Gosh, that reminds me of a scene in the original five-book Foundation Trilogy:
"...Why not go to Arcturus and study the remains for yourself?"
Lord Dorwin raised his eyebrows and took a pinch of snuff hurriedly. "Why, whatevah foah, my deah fellow?"
"To get the information firsthand, of course."
"But wheahs the necessity? It seems an uncommonly woundabout and jopelessly wigmawolish method of getting anywheahs. Look heah now, I've dot the wuhks of the mastahs- the gweat ahchaeologists of the past. I wigh them against each othah- balance of the disagweements- analyze the conflicting statements- decide which is pwobably cowwect- and come to a conclusion. That is the scientific method. At least"- patronizingly- "as I see it. How insuffewably cwude it would be to go to Ahctuwus, oah to Sol, foah instance, and blundah about, when the old mastahs have covahed the gwound so much moah effectually than we could possibly hope to."
Expect to see Microsuckware style "product activation" with anything you get from Amazon in the future, where you have to log in to your account on their home page, type in your invoice number, and receive confirmation from Amazon that they have not had second thoughts about the price they negotiated with you, which then gives you clearance to open the package.
Solution: Make a little back-lit doodad you can stick over the webcam lens which has a slide showing your attentive smiling face. The computer thinks you are watching ads all the time. Then go about your business.
"If you're into pro audio, you're not into Linux toys."
Some people have to dual-boot with WinDoze because they're gamers and Linux isn't ready for prime time. For me it's MIDI hassles and the fact that I can't get Cakewalk stuff to even install under Whine, let alone work.
"Granted, this is quite a fine quantization (so fine that it took scientists a while to realize that it WAS quantized) but it can't encode an infinite amount of information."
The photon that encodes information to observer "A" (10 million parsecs distant) by its frequency, encodes different information to observer "B" (20 million parsecs distant) because of red-shift.
"So in some sense the information is there, it's just not extractable."
In the Akashic Library there are a enormous number of books written by monkeys, each one containing 100 pages, each page containing one kilobyte of random ASCII text, and no two books are alike. The biography of you from cradle to grave is in there, but so are millions of lying biographies which get any number of details about your life totally wrong. In some sense the information is there, it's just not extractable.
"Bonus fact: as you pass Alpha Centauri, you will be covering 5 light years (as measured in the Earth frame of reference) per year (as measured in your own frame of reference)!"
Extra bonus fact, travel at sqrt(1/2)*c, you have the local illusion of traveling one light-year per year.
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MS should be the good guys here. Burst were suing them for patent infringement which we all know is an evil practice and should be resisted by all possible means.
Only for patents with titles like "A Method Of Compressing ASCII Text Files By Flagging The 128 Most Common English Words With The Parity Bit"
(Communism)
whats so terrible wrong about that?
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man; Communism is the complete reverse.
Reminds me of the picture that says something along the lines of "When you pirate music you help communism."
Gosh, maybe Stallman is pitching GNU/Linux to Osama bin Laden in his cave right now, and we can bring the War on Terror into this.
Last year there was a big dustup at Microsoft when management briefly stopped providing clean towels in the locker room to save costs. When Google meets Mr. Entropy, as all organizations eventually do, the cute little benefits will either go away or be rationed to the Beautiful People, ie. middle management and above.
There must be three or four dozen radio stations in town, but they all are worthless. Radio wave broadcasting is a dead industry.
Agreed, the radio industry is dead, the music industry is dying, but one of the most beloved and influential radio stations in Seattle is KNHC, or "C89.5", a non-profit high school 24/7 voc ed program with listeners worldwide. And some people (/me clears throat) have to use classic radio at work because their workplace rules prohibit streaming audio.
I'm more surprised that Microsoft was allowed to sell Cuba copies of Windows in the first place.
MicroSoft sells copies of Windows to OEMS, see, maybe in Hong Kong, and it's the OEMs who sell them to Cuba. Stallman probably got Castro to switch to Linux by pointing out the new "feature" in Vista that lets M$ revoke driver priveleges at their pleasure. Imagine if GM had a lever in Detroit that could make all those mint-condition classic '57 Chevys in Cuba stop working.
Are there any other 'big picture' problems out there you think would benefit from the grid approach?
Using distributed computing to find molecular cures or the shape a protein will fold into as it comes out of the business end of a ribosome is all well and good, but if you can find a shape on the political map that concentrates all left-wingers into little ghetto-districts and gives solid 55% majorities to right-wingers across all the other ones, and you can deliver this IT solution around the time of the 2010 reapportionment, the Bush Administration has a no-bid contract with your name on it.
Apparently that translates to pi being exactly 3.
1Kings 7:[23] And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
Since we are dealing with enough cubits, it should be 31 cubits around by 10 cubits across. But the bible is completely free of error, of course, so what the bleep do we know?
If HaHa is a tag for every story on Microsoft, then what is the tag for a story on Linux?
It is NeenerNeener.
You have to watch these local governments. In 1897 in the Indiana state house there was a War on Pi which almost made it equal to 3.20
Amen to that. I've peer reviewed papers, and for most part you end up trusting the authors. It's not like the reviewer can rerun the experiments or inspect the raw data.
Gosh, that reminds me of a scene in the original five-book Foundation Trilogy: "...Why not go to Arcturus and study the remains for yourself?" Lord Dorwin raised his eyebrows and took a pinch of snuff hurriedly. "Why, whatevah foah, my deah fellow?" "To get the information firsthand, of course." "But wheahs the necessity? It seems an uncommonly woundabout and jopelessly wigmawolish method of getting anywheahs. Look heah now, I've dot the wuhks of the mastahs- the gweat ahchaeologists of the past. I wigh them against each othah- balance of the disagweements- analyze the conflicting statements- decide which is pwobably cowwect- and come to a conclusion. That is the scientific method. At least"- patronizingly- "as I see it. How insuffewably cwude it would be to go to Ahctuwus, oah to Sol, foah instance, and blundah about, when the old mastahs have covahed the gwound so much moah effectually than we could possibly hope to."
It's a bluff notice that won't stand up in court the first time a downloader calls bolshevik.
Expect to see Microsuckware style "product activation" with anything you get from Amazon in the future, where you have to log in to your account on their home page, type in your invoice number, and receive confirmation from Amazon that they have not had second thoughts about the price they negotiated with you, which then gives you clearance to open the package.
Slashdot said $1250/day yesterday and $32,600/day today. Will hate to see how much they loose a day for copyright violations in about a week!
That's about right. If you're in a bittorrent swarm you share less than 1% of a file, but you owe MPAA $150,000 and your first-born child.
That there are no real females on the internet. I think SCO may have something here.
I resemble that remark.
But jeez, couldn't they grant an exception for Mars camera software?
Solution: Make a little back-lit doodad you can stick over the webcam lens which has a slide showing your attentive smiling face. The computer thinks you are watching ads all the time. Then go about your business.
Buy two Vista(tm) Operating System upgrades, get one Jar Jar action figure for half-price.
IBM: What are you going to do, bleed on me?
SCO: I'm invincible!
IBM: You're a looney.
SCO: SCO always triumphs! Have at you! Come on, then. [whop]
[IBM chops SCO's last leg off]
SCO: Oh? All right, we'll call it a draw.
IBM: Come, Patsy.
SCO: Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
What's the false positive rate?
"If you're into pro audio, you're not into Linux toys."
Some people have to dual-boot with WinDoze because they're gamers and Linux isn't ready for prime time. For me it's MIDI hassles and the fact that I can't get Cakewalk stuff to even install under Whine, let alone work.
"NASA has (apparently) gotten wiser and moved away from satellites that BSOD at random."
Buggy Spontaneous Orbital Decay?
"Granted, this is quite a fine quantization (so fine that it took scientists a while to realize that it WAS quantized) but it can't encode an infinite amount of information."
The photon that encodes information to observer "A" (10 million parsecs distant) by its frequency, encodes different information to observer "B" (20 million parsecs distant) because of red-shift.
"So in some sense the information is there, it's just not extractable."
In the Akashic Library there are a enormous number of books written by monkeys, each one containing 100 pages, each page containing one kilobyte of random ASCII text, and no two books are alike. The biography of you from cradle to grave is in there, but so are millions of lying biographies which get any number of details about your life totally wrong. In some sense the information is there, it's just not extractable.
"Bonus fact: as you pass Alpha Centauri, you will be covering 5 light years (as measured in the Earth frame of reference) per year (as measured in your own frame of reference)!" Extra bonus fact, travel at sqrt(1/2)*c, you have the local illusion of traveling one light-year per year.