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Every time I hear about the great research that MS does I think about how great it is that they are putting their money into these IT projects. Then I stop and think "wait a minute, will this only work on Windows?"
Well it seems obvious to me that a display technology should not be impacted by an OS but then my more synical nature takes over and asks if there is SOMEHOW a way that they could make this a Windows only thing.
Well is it possible?

Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language, claims that C++ is experiencing a revival and
that there is a backlash against newer programming languages such as Java and C#. "C++ is bigger than ever.
There are more than three million C++ programmers. Everywhere I look there has been an uprising
- more and more projects are using C++. A lot of teaching was going to Java, but more are teaching C++ again.
There has been a backlash.", said Stroustrup.

He continues.. ..What would the world be like without Google?... Only C++ can allow you to create applications as powerful as MapReduce which allows them to create fast searches.

I totally agree. If Java ( or Pyhton etc. for that matter ) were fast enough why did Google choose C++ to build their insanely fast search engine. MapReduce rocks.. No Java solution can even come close.
I rest my case.

> when I claim that Cthuluh is controlling the internet.

That was not supposed to be revealed. A nasty tentacle is on its way to claim your mortal husk.

Much more importantly, you're guilty of copyright infringement simply by using the product that you paid to use. Quite the precedent. It's all this nonsense about per-device licensing, except in some sort of insane micromanagement level (which I suppose is to be expected from a company that's developed as many RTS games as Blizzard). This could very well outdo the RIAA in their quest to banish everyone from listening to music while simultaneously charging everyone for every song a dozen times.

This kind of bullshit really makes me want to avoid D3 (as if not losing four years of my life wasn't reason enough).

Then talk to MDY's counsel.

To me, this is the smoking gun.

If A grants a software license to B on the express
condition that the license will remain in effect only so long as B makes monthly payments
to A, and B then stops making payments to A, any subsequent copying of the software to
RAM by B would constitute copyright infringement â" a conclusion with which MDYâ(TM)s
counsel agreed during oral argument.

Here, MDY's counsel is agreeing that "Copying to RAM" is copying, an act that it reserved and controlled by the copyright holder. They agree that if you are no longer in compliance with whatever license you agreed to in order to access the content, then you are no longer entitled to the content -- since the license controls that access on behalf of the copyright holder.

Regardless of how you may feel, this is what MDY's counsel agreed to. He basically said "Yes, this it true".

The case then proceeded to prove that Glider is, in fact, a breach of the license.

The judge made no law here, nothing new here. It's all been done before in other cases. He's simply applying it.

> Scientists are still examining possible causes..

Nah. If something gets warmer it is caused by Global Warming and the solution is to eliminate Western industrial civilization.

If something gets colder it is Global Climate Change and the solution is to eliminate Western industrial civilization.

If we have more hurricanes it is Global Warming. Fewer and it is Climate Change. More tornadoes? Global Warming. Floods caused by increased snowfall? Somehow that was also Global Warming, I'd have thought they would have went with Global Climate Change, but every rule seems to need an exception.

I've worked on military CPU replacement in the past for a subcontractor. We were upgrading an early 60s avionics set built from, get this, AND, OR and NOR gates. The most complex part was a 4 bit shift register - pretty wild. So I know a bit about this.

The major problem with using components newer than the mid-90s is that they are so sensitive to radiation. Not EM, but Alpha particles and other cosmic rays. Its prohibitively expensive to rad-harden (radiation harden) sub-100nm chips and when that is achieved the yields are so low that the cost balloons even more. Radiation hits my cause the rare BSOD for you, on a nuclear armed aircraft its may show up as a MCOD - mushroom cloud of destruction.

Hmmm... I feel safer killing insurgents in their backyard rather than killing them here, but I am probably strange that way.

No trolling intended, but the war in Iraq now is the biggest piece of security theater on the planet. It does not make the US safer ( indeed it probably does the reverse ) but it does give certain people benefits. Chaney and friends make millions on no-bid contracts, and neocons get to implement policies that in more normal conditions would not be tolerated by the public.

An anonymous reader writes "A Brazilian company is selling a Windows 2000 clone based on Linux, called Blanes (English translation). The screenshots are promissing, but the catch is: Blanes is a proprietary software, and requires an activation key. My question is: from an ethical and legal point of view, shouldn't they release the source code?"

Klatoo55 writes "Eric Wilkinson, producer of the late Jerome Bixby's "The Man From Earth", wrote an email to Releaselog thanking them for the free publicity spurred by their review of a ripped screener of his film.

Wilkinson writes: "Our independent movie had next to no advertising budget and very little going for it until somebody ripped one of the DVD screeners and put the movie online for all to download. After that happened, people were watching it and started posting mostly all positive reviews... ...People like our movie and are talking about it, all thanks to piracy on the net!"

Wilkinson is, however, asking for people who enjoyed the pirated release to consider contributing via PayPal on his MySpace."
http://www.rlslog.net/piracy-isnt-that-bad-and-they-know-it/

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said he expects to scrap subscription fees for The Wall Street Journal's Web site, WSJ.com.

On WSJ.com, Mr. Murdoch said, "We are studying it ...

• THE FULL WSJ.com ARTICLE IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS."

http://www.davetec.net/?p=571

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