It's important to realize that if you had a perfect radar gun pointed at a car moving exactly 100mph relative to the train it is on top of, which is also moving at exactly 100mph, you would find that the car is not going exactly 200mph. The perfect radar gun will give the result of Einstein's equation (the (v1+v2)/(1+v1*v2) you have there). You will also find that a clock in the car will start to run behind a clock on the train or on the ground, and if you had two perfect laser measurement devices, when you measure the from the ground it will measure shorter than when the driver measures it, and shorter than when you measured it before you put it on the train.
A good question is "why does this happen," but I don't think we know.
The equation is kinda right, but V1 and V2 are normalized to lightspeed. Thus, if the first object is are traveling half lightspeed, V1 is 1/2, and the object inside is traveling a quarter lightspeed, V2 is 1/4. This gives (3/4)/(9/8)=2/3. This last number is normalized to lightspeed as well.
Note, because lightspeed is a maximum, you couldn't have V1=100 and V2=20, they have to be <=1.
The Neo 4 is the most complex PS2 modchip and only requires 20 solder points. The NEO 4.5 has gotten that down to 11. There are single swap mods for the PS2 that don't require soldering at all and cost $20, and on top of all this, you can buy premodded PS2s for about $50 more than a regular PS2.
I agree that not a lot of people have mods for this generation of systems, but it isn't because it's prohibitive. Even getting it professionally installed will pay itself off after your 3rd blockbuster "rental".
You are right about the public key being used to encrypt (although here symmetrical keys are used), but you can't necessarily easily derive a private key from a public key. In RSA, the two keys are interchangable since they come from e*d=1 mod (p-1)(q-1) and multiplication is commutable, it just tends to be out of courtesy you give out the smaller key (because it requires less cycles to encrypt). Incidentally, it is this interchangeable property that makes digital signing so much easier with RSA than with other algorithms.
you're saying I shouldn't have a right to register disgust
Where did I say this? My post was directed at your second paragraph, where you imply that UnitedLinux is being slimy and that the law isn't the only way of determining right and wrong. No where do I (nor, in fact, does the grandparent post so I don't know where it came into the conversation) say you don't have the right to register these opinions. I just give my opinion that in this case looking at the legality is appropriate.
As far as arguments I hate, it's the ones where words I would never say are put into my mouth and deconstructed.
We looked into the cost of SunRays at the company I was working for in 2000. It ended up that, admin aside (we didn't have any data on that), a SunRay plus it's share of the server and switch network (switch was required) was ~$800, which isn't that much less than a PC, but a lot less than a laptop.
They were kinda cool, but only kinda. Like people are saying, this has been done before, and can be accomplished with VNC (although you won't get the whole SmartCard thing).
The fact of the matter is that we aren't talking about a law that was passed without our input. Developers who release GPLed code agree to license their code on those terms. If they didn't like the stipulations in the GPL, then they should have picked a different license for their code or not extended a GPL project (the 2 ways to end up with GPLed code). If a developer thinks this is wrong, then why did they license their code with these terms?
I believe he was referring to development. Because they see their work hijacked on linux, they'll go to QNX or BSD as a result. I disagree with this thesis in general, mostly because QNX and BSD offer no more protection, and I'd say less protection than staying under a GPL'ed linux, but I agree that when people are threatened like this they won't necessarily act 100% rationally.
Re:The coders are getting a bit punch though.
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Sometimes to meet a release date, you have to cut a non-working feature with the intention of putting it back in later. It seems like a good judgement call to me.
I think you have it reversed. At 30 million PS2 units sold (I think that is U.S. only), the PS2 may become the dominant gaming platform. While there are certainly more than 30 million windows boxes out there, how many of them are owned by gamers?
I don't understand this logic. The original article was saying that people were interested in Echelon, and this was proven by finding 1000 articles on it. I'd say 753,000 pages about unicorns does proven that people are interested in them.
The evidence of echelon's existance is the fact that a guy who worked on the system testified to it's existance. Of course, this isn't proof because he could just be a loon.
If I perform a search on the word 'Echelon' right now, I can find maybe one thousand articles dealing with Echelon, so it is a pretty well-known system by now
Ok, so what do you say to me, who has never cheated on my spouse, only expense what the company tells me to, have never itemized my deductions because the standard deduction is less, and don't view gay porn (at home or otherwise).
Some how I don't think you'll hit on many people using the above criteria (maybe on the cheating, but certainly not on the gay porn). This case even has the whole "well these executives should have told the truth to get paid millions/year" or "the company should have done the background check" aspect to it.
Not that I'm saying these databases are a good thing, in fact, I think they are a bad thing, but this isn't a good arguement against "I have nothing to hide"
Personally, I prefer the "you may not be doing anything illegal now, but something you do now may be made illegal" and "while the government of today is relatively benign, handing over our rights allows the government of tomorrow to become an effective oppressive force. This is not the legacy I want to leave for my children".
Re:How far do you want to extend this argument?
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Again, it would be wrong to prosecute the software companies that made the software that hosted that site, because the software doesn't know that the content was illegal: the person who posted it does.
I would say that no two diamonds are alike in chemical and physical properties. a C_20492982931023 has slightly diffent properties than a C_20492982931022, because, for example 20492982931023 O_2 would react with it to a different outcome, and a different amount or energy would be released.
I don't think he was refering to the expansion packs, but the fact that you can go and download an "I Dream of Genie" skin and many other pop culture/racey/strange skins and objects for your Simms. My understanding is that this had a lot of apeal for people, but I never really could get into the Simms that much.
The review goes on to say how he has been skimming it but the text it too dense to have read within the time of release and the present time -- the first inidication that the poster is responding to very little of the actual review, and not cybrpnk2's whole essay.
But to do that they would have to sell 10-20 additional titles to just recoup that loss, putting the average number of titles required to make profit 20-40. Even in my teen years, where all I really spent money on was NES games (okay, and GB games and issues of Nintendo Power) and every birthday and Christmas had one or two NES titles as presents, I only had 45 games when I went to the SNES (which I only got 10 titles for, and 5 were used).
The sucessful ones do last this long and longer. The Nintendo Entertainment was released in 1985 and was still going strong in 1991 when the Super NES was released. The SNES eventually failed to the Genisis, but it some games being made for it 5 years later when, in 1996 the N64 was released. With the N64 behind the playstation, the GameCube was released in 2001.
The Sega Genesis was released in 1989 and was also going well when the Saturn was released in 1995. The Saturn and the Dreamcast never became winning systems.
The Playstation was released in 1995. 5 years later in 2000, the Platstation 2 was released. As the article states, there are games still being made for the first version, and PSOne sales are still moderate. I feel that the PS2 backwards compatibility will carry the first platform for a while.
Not to mention that by having console developers make games for a PC-like windows platform, it encourages them to make the leap to PC games, which in turn will sell more copies of Windows XP (once Microsoft stops upgrading DirectX on 98).
Canadian audiences are often reluctant to make noise during movies, but the final climatic light-sabre battle in the movie drew many involuntary gasps and cheers from even the most stoic viewers.
You must have not seen independance day in Canada, specifically the scene where the whitehouse is destroyed.
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It's important to realize that if you had a perfect radar gun pointed at a car moving exactly 100mph relative to the train it is on top of, which is also moving at exactly 100mph, you would find that the car is not going exactly 200mph. The perfect radar gun will give the result of Einstein's equation (the (v1+v2)/(1+v1*v2) you have there). You will also find that a clock in the car will start to run behind a clock on the train or on the ground, and if you had two perfect laser measurement devices, when you measure the from the ground it will measure shorter than when the driver measures it, and shorter than when you measured it before you put it on the train.
A good question is "why does this happen," but I don't think we know.
The equation is kinda right, but V1 and V2 are normalized to lightspeed. Thus, if the first object is are traveling half lightspeed, V1 is 1/2, and the object inside is traveling a quarter lightspeed, V2 is 1/4. This gives (3/4)/(9/8)=2/3. This last number is normalized to lightspeed as well.
Note, because lightspeed is a maximum, you couldn't have V1=100 and V2=20, they have to be <=1.
The solution to this is redundancy, preferably at different locations.
The Neo 4 is the most complex PS2 modchip and only requires 20 solder points. The NEO 4.5 has gotten that down to 11. There are single swap mods for the PS2 that don't require soldering at all and cost $20, and on top of all this, you can buy premodded PS2s for about $50 more than a regular PS2.
I agree that not a lot of people have mods for this generation of systems, but it isn't because it's prohibitive. Even getting it professionally installed will pay itself off after your 3rd blockbuster "rental".
You are right about the public key being used to encrypt (although here symmetrical keys are used), but you can't necessarily easily derive a private key from a public key. In RSA, the two keys are interchangable since they come from e*d=1 mod (p-1)(q-1) and multiplication is commutable, it just tends to be out of courtesy you give out the smaller key (because it requires less cycles to encrypt). Incidentally, it is this interchangeable property that makes digital signing so much easier with RSA than with other algorithms.
you're saying I shouldn't have a right to register disgust
Where did I say this? My post was directed at your second paragraph, where you imply that UnitedLinux is being slimy and that the law isn't the only way of determining right and wrong. No where do I (nor, in fact, does the grandparent post so I don't know where it came into the conversation) say you don't have the right to register these opinions. I just give my opinion that in this case looking at the legality is appropriate.
As far as arguments I hate, it's the ones where words I would never say are put into my mouth and deconstructed.
We looked into the cost of SunRays at the company I was working for in 2000. It ended up that, admin aside (we didn't have any data on that), a SunRay plus it's share of the server and switch network (switch was required) was ~$800, which isn't that much less than a PC, but a lot less than a laptop.
They were kinda cool, but only kinda. Like people are saying, this has been done before, and can be accomplished with VNC (although you won't get the whole SmartCard thing).
The fact of the matter is that we aren't talking about a law that was passed without our input. Developers who release GPLed code agree to license their code on those terms. If they didn't like the stipulations in the GPL, then they should have picked a different license for their code or not extended a GPL project (the 2 ways to end up with GPLed code). If a developer thinks this is wrong, then why did they license their code with these terms?
I believe he was referring to development. Because they see their work hijacked on linux, they'll go to QNX or BSD as a result. I disagree with this thesis in general, mostly because QNX and BSD offer no more protection, and I'd say less protection than staying under a GPL'ed linux, but I agree that when people are threatened like this they won't necessarily act 100% rationally.
Sometimes to meet a release date, you have to cut a non-working feature with the intention of putting it back in later. It seems like a good judgement call to me.
I think you have it reversed. At 30 million PS2 units sold (I think that is U.S. only), the PS2 may become the dominant gaming platform. While there are certainly more than 30 million windows boxes out there, how many of them are owned by gamers?
I don't understand this logic. The original article was saying that people were interested in Echelon, and this was proven by finding 1000 articles on it. I'd say 753,000 pages about unicorns does proven that people are interested in them.
The evidence of echelon's existance is the fact that a guy who worked on the system testified to it's existance. Of course, this isn't proof because he could just be a loon.
If I perform a search on the word 'Echelon' right now, I can find maybe one thousand articles dealing with Echelon, so it is a pretty well-known system by now
Uh, try 397,000
IIRC, they were $2.50 (cheap)
Ok, so what do you say to me, who has never cheated on my spouse, only expense what the company tells me to, have never itemized my deductions because the standard deduction is less, and don't view gay porn (at home or otherwise).
Some how I don't think you'll hit on many people using the above criteria (maybe on the cheating, but certainly not on the gay porn). This case even has the whole "well these executives should have told the truth to get paid millions/year" or "the company should have done the background check" aspect to it.
Not that I'm saying these databases are a good thing, in fact, I think they are a bad thing, but this isn't a good arguement against "I have nothing to hide"
Personally, I prefer the "you may not be doing anything illegal now, but something you do now may be made illegal" and "while the government of today is relatively benign, handing over our rights allows the government of tomorrow to become an effective oppressive force. This is not the legacy I want to leave for my children".
Again, it would be wrong to prosecute the software companies that made the software that hosted that site, because the software doesn't know that the content was illegal: the person who posted it does.
How did you think that case was different?
I would say that no two diamonds are alike in chemical and physical properties. a C_20492982931023 has slightly diffent properties than a C_20492982931022, because, for example 20492982931023 O_2 would react with it to a different outcome, and a different amount or energy would be released.
A diamond would be a better example.
I don't think he was refering to the expansion packs, but the fact that you can go and download an "I Dream of Genie" skin and many other pop culture/racey/strange skins and objects for your Simms. My understanding is that this had a lot of apeal for people, but I never really could get into the Simms that much.
The review goes on to say how he has been skimming it but the text it too dense to have read within the time of release and the present time -- the first inidication that the poster is responding to very little of the actual review, and not cybrpnk2's whole essay.
;)
But then again, this is Slashdot...
But to do that they would have to sell 10-20 additional titles to just recoup that loss, putting the average number of titles required to make profit 20-40. Even in my teen years, where all I really spent money on was NES games (okay, and GB games and issues of Nintendo Power) and every birthday and Christmas had one or two NES titles as presents, I only had 45 games when I went to the SNES (which I only got 10 titles for, and 5 were used).
The sucessful ones do last this long and longer. The Nintendo Entertainment was released in 1985 and was still going strong in 1991 when the Super NES was released. The SNES eventually failed to the Genisis, but it some games being made for it 5 years later when, in 1996 the N64 was released. With the N64 behind the playstation, the GameCube was released in 2001.
The Sega Genesis was released in 1989 and was also going well when the Saturn was released in 1995. The Saturn and the Dreamcast never became winning systems.
The Playstation was released in 1995. 5 years later in 2000, the Platstation 2 was released. As the article states, there are games still being made for the first version, and PSOne sales are still moderate. I feel that the PS2 backwards compatibility will carry the first platform for a while.
Not to mention that by having console developers make games for a PC-like windows platform, it encourages them to make the leap to PC games, which in turn will sell more copies of Windows XP (once Microsoft stops upgrading DirectX on 98).
There was actually a /. article about these (actually, I think two. I recall it being reposted for some reason)
Canadian audiences are often reluctant to make noise during movies, but the final climatic light-sabre battle in the movie drew many involuntary gasps and cheers from even the most stoic viewers.
You must have not seen independance day in Canada, specifically the scene where the whitehouse is destroyed.