HEY! It's perfectly okay to do integrals when you sleep!
As long as you give yourself really tricky ones!
@AC: Don't believe grumpy, and please, go on to some integral heavy field like Antenna theory, (septuple integrals? Yes please!), or put your skills to use somewhere in physics/applied mathematics/pure mathematics.
Although, they also say that they don't mind people using 'real-ish' fake names.
They kicked me pretty quickly for being 'Cthulhu', but have allowed me to stay as 'Gareth Jacks'.
(The email I received the first time actually encouraged me to use such a name)
Meanwhile, yes, it's hard to avoid them, but that means they have good products?
I can use hotmail & google search, I can use myspace and google maps, and if I wanted to stop them tracking me, I only have to block one URL from loading, (urchin tracker).
Heck, I can open a google account and click on the options button: "Don't track me".
This is entirely unlike the microsoft/IE situation, (Didn't microsoft win that anyways?), in that it is perfectly possible, in fact, convenient, to use any other service.
Even the parts that are convenient between google services; Did you know that you can use your openID from your google account to log into anything that accepts openID? Give said 3rd party permission, and it can grab your address book, your preferences & settings, your google docs . . .
Personally, I use a 3rd party tool to archive everything I have with google onto my hard drive. I trust google, but only a fool goes without backups.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Comparing two very different things
Heh, tell me about it. On the site I bought my current PC from, the windows option was labelled +$120, and the ubuntu option +$0, but both worked out to the same price . . .
OTOH, the option where I picked no hard drive and purchased one separately worked out to $120 less.
That's the argument for it being anti-competitive.
I'm not really sure what I think of it, other than everything I've heard has been from an interested party/fanboy and almost certainly 100% reality-free.
First, you should be aware of Micrisoft's expand, extend, extinguish strategy.
First, they expand their operations into a new area that already has competition. They integrate all their products with said area, and welcome everyone to help expand further.
Then they use that to extend. They outright steal innovation & code to extend that area and create new business; And prevent the extensions from working anywhere but on their product.
Then they extinguish, and stop the extensions from working with anything but base microsoft product, killing off all the devs and apps that microsoft needed to expand into the territory to begin with.
So, with netscape, it wasn't just the install time, but every click you made to open a link or anything, would open IE. Even clicking on links in netscape. And of course, IE is on every windows computer.
Once that was established, they extended past the standards and encouraged everyone to build on them to create new stuff. Then they locked down the libraries needed to do so, and built them straight into IE. They also locked down a ton of other things related to it in the windows API, so that if you wanted to do the same things, you had to use crappy workarounds and inefficient methods.
As a result, key functions of the system were completely within the IE structure, so you can't even uninstall the damn thing without crashing windows.
At that point, you can't just go back to the old standards. Consumers and webmasters expect all the stuff that everyone used to be able to provide, and now only IE can.
In order to provide those functions, netscape had to take on a lot of crappy workarounds. And so yes, it became slow and crappy. On windows.
I believe the result was IE 5 or IE 6? I'm sure pretty much everyone here who has ever made a webpage can verify that if you make a page for IE5/6, it will work for no other browser.
And IE6 is still in use today, because microsoft was rolling out corporate licenses and anti-viruses, and other tolls and stuff to promote IE6, and a lot of those companies still haven't changed. After they sold all that, they didn't really care to capture the consumer market, and stop developing IE at all until more competition came along.
The space moving comes from Greevar, I answered what I thought he was talking about.
It makes sense to me that the universe can be growing at 'faster than the speed of light', since the universe is more than one entity, and things at opposite sides can be moving at near the speed of light. Is that wrong?
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Re: Re:
As long as you give yourself really tricky ones!
@AC: Don't believe grumpy, and please, go on to some integral heavy field like Antenna theory, (septuple integrals? Yes please!), or put your skills to use somewhere in physics/applied mathematics/pure mathematics.
On the post: What's In A Name: The Importance Of Pseudonymity & The Dangers Of Requiring 'Real Names'
Re: Re: I sympathize with this author, but...
They kicked me pretty quickly for being 'Cthulhu', but have allowed me to stay as 'Gareth Jacks'.
(The email I received the first time actually encouraged me to use such a name)
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That reminds me . . .
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Re:
I believe you can patent gestures made with devices, or even just the human body.
Which is why when I search to verify this piece of information, I find a lot of posts about apple's gesture patents . . .
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Re:
There are many servers, and it's free to setup your own, that don't require verified players.
On the post: Is Google Antitrust Investigation Simply A Repeat Of Wasteful Microsoft Antitrust Effort?
Re: Re: Re: Tall poppy syndrome
On the post: Is Google Antitrust Investigation Simply A Repeat Of Wasteful Microsoft Antitrust Effort?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Comparing two very different things
On the post: Is Google Antitrust Investigation Simply A Repeat Of Wasteful Microsoft Antitrust Effort?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Comparing two very different things
On the post: Is Google Antitrust Investigation Simply A Repeat Of Wasteful Microsoft Antitrust Effort?
Re: Re: Comparing two very different things
Meanwhile, yes, it's hard to avoid them, but that means they have good products?
I can use hotmail & google search, I can use myspace and google maps, and if I wanted to stop them tracking me, I only have to block one URL from loading, (urchin tracker).
Heck, I can open a google account and click on the options button: "Don't track me".
This is entirely unlike the microsoft/IE situation, (Didn't microsoft win that anyways?), in that it is perfectly possible, in fact, convenient, to use any other service.
Even the parts that are convenient between google services; Did you know that you can use your openID from your google account to log into anything that accepts openID? Give said 3rd party permission, and it can grab your address book, your preferences & settings, your google docs . . .
Personally, I use a 3rd party tool to archive everything I have with google onto my hard drive. I trust google, but only a fool goes without backups.
On the post: Is Google Antitrust Investigation Simply A Repeat Of Wasteful Microsoft Antitrust Effort?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Comparing two very different things
OTOH, the option where I picked no hard drive and purchased one separately worked out to $120 less.
On the post: Is Google Antitrust Investigation Simply A Repeat Of Wasteful Microsoft Antitrust Effort?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Huh?
I'm not really sure what I think of it, other than everything I've heard has been from an interested party/fanboy and almost certainly 100% reality-free.
On the post: Is Google Antitrust Investigation Simply A Repeat Of Wasteful Microsoft Antitrust Effort?
Re: Re: Re: Huh?
First, you should be aware of Micrisoft's expand, extend, extinguish strategy.
First, they expand their operations into a new area that already has competition. They integrate all their products with said area, and welcome everyone to help expand further.
Then they use that to extend. They outright steal innovation & code to extend that area and create new business; And prevent the extensions from working anywhere but on their product.
Then they extinguish, and stop the extensions from working with anything but base microsoft product, killing off all the devs and apps that microsoft needed to expand into the territory to begin with.
So, with netscape, it wasn't just the install time, but every click you made to open a link or anything, would open IE. Even clicking on links in netscape. And of course, IE is on every windows computer.
Once that was established, they extended past the standards and encouraged everyone to build on them to create new stuff. Then they locked down the libraries needed to do so, and built them straight into IE. They also locked down a ton of other things related to it in the windows API, so that if you wanted to do the same things, you had to use crappy workarounds and inefficient methods.
As a result, key functions of the system were completely within the IE structure, so you can't even uninstall the damn thing without crashing windows.
At that point, you can't just go back to the old standards. Consumers and webmasters expect all the stuff that everyone used to be able to provide, and now only IE can.
In order to provide those functions, netscape had to take on a lot of crappy workarounds. And so yes, it became slow and crappy. On windows.
I believe the result was IE 5 or IE 6? I'm sure pretty much everyone here who has ever made a webpage can verify that if you make a page for IE5/6, it will work for no other browser.
And IE6 is still in use today, because microsoft was rolling out corporate licenses and anti-viruses, and other tolls and stuff to promote IE6, and a lot of those companies still haven't changed. After they sold all that, they didn't really care to capture the consumer market, and stop developing IE at all until more competition came along.
On the post: Apple Does Not Have More Cash Than The US Gov't; Stop Saying That It Does
Re: You are being way too glib
LOL
On the post: By Definition, A Defensive Patent Is A Bad Patent
Re: Re: Re:
So you're saying they're undoing the harm of patents in a particular field by buying patents?
On the post: Physicists Claim Time Travel Is Impossible (This Time, They Mean It)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Time is but an illusion
And under warping space, he does address the energy and utility of current methods.
On the post: Physicists Claim Time Travel Is Impossible (This Time, They Mean It)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Time is but an illusion
That sounds more like using gravity to change aspects of space near the gravitational field, and not so much like portioning off an area of space.
But y'know, that's well beyond my ken.
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For that matter, I would go back in time to make my time machine the very first patent.
Oh, wait, there's a boardgame based around that . . .
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Time is but an illusion
It makes sense to me that the universe can be growing at 'faster than the speed of light', since the universe is more than one entity, and things at opposite sides can be moving at near the speed of light. Is that wrong?
Thanks, Richard!
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Re: Mike: someone else being wrong does not make you right.
1. Send astronauts to moon, one female, one male.
2. Make them have a kid.
3. ???
4. profit
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Pfft
"Sorry, TIMEMACHINE will have been removed"
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