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Paranoid survivor 17 years ago

Although not mentioned till the very end of the article, his views on patents are interesting and somewhat surprising coming from the former head of Intel. I've thought patent reform has very little chance since the current system is such a short term benefit to the big companies. But maybe even they will start to become aware of the longer term downsides?

To my lay understanding (IANAL) it seems the legal system used to have a strong distinction between "things you have" and "things you know". To the point in the U.S. where "taking the 5th" is very much in the public consciousness as not having to say anything that could be used against you. A warrant certainly can be used to take the drive with any encrypted material on it, but forcing divulgence of the keys seems like another level entirely.

Don't forget the distinctive odor that allows you to tell if you have arrived near that love, even in complete darkness. Of course if the new biomass engine does not lack this feature it probably ruins it for any covert use.

If you find yourself bored with the article at least skip down to the end and read the Q&A discussion at the end. I found it pretty interesting to read his speculation about where the future of computing was heading. His description of the ideal computer is interestingly close to an iphone, although the iphone still lacks a bit.

[dead] 17 years ago

So who is going to setup the Senior-Junior Communities of Canada (srjc.ca) free email service?

[dead] 17 years ago

Thanks for the smaller image. While it was more of a surprise to me than an annoyance I'm sure all the dial-up users will be much happier with the smaller image.

I am genuinely interested in knowing what tool(s) or possibly sequence of events led to such a poor png generation though.

Can't wait to see future posts expanding on the four legs of the pyramid and measurements thereof. It certainly does seem like an interesting and useful way to think about it.

[dead] 17 years ago

Gah, can someone explain how the first png in the article (pyramid.png) came to be well over 1 megabyte? Simply opening it and resaving in gimp brings it down to 83kb and running it through optipng will bring it down to 45kb.