Over here, the only people you see using those machines are orientals. So I guess that's why it appeals to californians: so many orientals there...:):):):)
Strangely when I was at school I was the only boy in the gymnastics class (an attempt to keep fit). It seems strange that no other boys thought of the benefits of this class!
You must go to school in West Hollywood or San-Francisco...
Over here, the only people you see using those machines are orientals. So I guess that's why it appeals to californians: so many orientals there...:):):):)
Re:Why the fuck we have to drag around libraries??
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Libraries are the biggest stupidity since Windoze.
It's just as st000p1d as the DLL crap with Windoze. You might have an excuse with proprietary software that's kit-bashed from different sources or of which you may want to update or patch a "feature", but with software of which you have the source, there is NO EXCUSE for that dependency crap.
At least, that's one thing most Macintrash programs have right: no goddam fucking library/DLL dependencies. Everything is in one binary file!
With the big disks we have nowadays and the high bandwidth, there is no reason why you should not be able to include the whole fucking shebang with the application, and keep it isolated (to prevent it from breaking other programs) on your system while you compile it.
It just won't fly. Engineering has been around for thousands of years, so the "natural laws" behind it have been sufficiently understood.
On the other hand, program writing is too young a discipline to have yet evolved a set of absolutely-proven "natural laws" yet, especially when programming paradigms (high-level/structured/oop) change every generation or so.
Those "natural laws" just won't happen for a while, especially if the architecture eventually changes from Von-Neumann to something else (parallel/neural/photonic).
The main problem behind attribution of liability stems from the lack of "natural laws" governing programming itself, thus making the analysis of software failure a shaky endeavour.
Finally, the programming establishment will simply not accept liability, and, most importantly (to the point of dooming the whole liability scene), no underwriter will accept to back software liability insurers either.
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You just made it up without thinking about, don't you?
You are talking about static linking for everything - it could work until some point. One of the points is disk capacity - when instead couple kilobytes for simple program you'll have couple megabytes, and instead couple megabytes for complex program you'll have couple hundred megabytes...
I thought it very carefully, after working many years supporting & fixing Unix, Windoze and Macintrash boxes.
Macintrashes have plenty of shortcomings for sure, but one of them isn't the library mess, c'oz the binaries carry everything they need with them.
Specifically, Zimbabwe's President Mugabe is virulantly anti-British. Following the recent 'elections', fixed according to all international observers, Mugabe has expelled any BBC reporters and most other British journalists.
This is because of the UK press' reporting of the 'War Veterans' issue, where Mugabe encourages members of his old revolutionary guard to simply take white farmers' land, usually by violence, quite often by killing the farmer in question.
Mugabe claims that this policy is Britain's fault, and that the farmers should look to Britain for compensation - indeed that they should leave Zimbabwe and go to Britain.
Indeed, they should go back to britain. For years, Rhodesia was isolated internationally because a little handful of whites held all political power, much like South Africa. Those britshit whites came and stole all the land for themselves, so it's only right that the blacks should reclaim it back to themselves.
And if the whites aren't happy about it, though shit, they oughta indeed go complain to britain who started the whole mess in the first place.
the material is available in print in England and on English computers; it is therefore the fault of Zimbabwe's ISPs for connecting to the offending servers.
If a book is banned somewhere according to a law the prevent publishing it, someone who imports the book will be liable for breaking the law, right?
So, therefore, since it was the top-level ISP(that is, the one with the line out of the country) who imported it into the country, it should be liable.
The only recourse, then, is for all ISP to shut down (or at least, sever their outside connections).
Why the fuck we have to drag around libraries???
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Libraries are the biggest stupidity since Windoze.
It's just as st000p1d as the DLL crap with Windoze. You might have an excuse with proprietary software that's kit-bashed from different sources or of which you may want to update or patch a "feature", but with software of which you have the source, there is NO EXCUSE for that dependency crap.
At least, that's one thing most Macintrash programs have right: no goddam fucking library/DLL dependencies. Everything is in one binary file!
With the big disks we have nowadays and the high bandwidth, there is no reason why you should not be able to include the whole fucking shebang with the application, and keep it isolated (to prevent it from breaking other programs) on your system while you compile it.
It's a valid point, but then double taxation is a pretty common and accepted thing.
In Canada, there is a 7% federal sales tax, then several provinces add their own sales tax on the amount paid PLUS the federal sales tax. So, you pay a tax on the tax!!!
This figures takes account of the WHOLE sncf operation; this includes commuter trains, regional trains, mainline trains, high-speed trains and freight trains. Of all those, only the high speed trains and very few mainline trains make money.
The total subsidies and losses you quote are simply payment by various levels of governments who contract passenger train services out to the SNCF.
Your assumption that the SNCF loses money is ludicrous given that it simply provides a public service to the State, regions and municipalities and is simply paid by them to provide the service.
The SNCF requires *massive* state subsidies to do this. If the US government paid Amtrak anything like what the French paid SNCF, then you wouldn't just have TGVs and Bullet trains, you'd have MagLev's running at 1000mph.
Total bullshit. The original Paris_Lyon TGV-PSE line was open in 1981. In 1989, it had fully repaid:
the construction cost of the track
the building cost of the trains
the previous 25 years of research & development that led to the TGV.
Maglev is bullshit; it's a dead-end technology. I mean, 500 km/h in 2002? Geeez, 12 years ago, a PERFECTLY NORMALbeas^h^h^h^h stock train ran at 515.3 km/h. The only modification were fewer cars, bigger power transformers in the engines, bigger wheels and a faster gear ratio.
Maglev is simply too expensive for what it does; unlike the current TGVs and ICEs, it is NOT compatible with the current rail network, so one cannot go high-speed for most of the trip, then go to another town not served by the high-speed line. Maglev is just an excuse to spend lots of money to featherbed unemployed aerospace engineers.
Maglev has also a very big hurdle: the size of the switches, which makes it impractical to put enough on a rail network to make it flexible and efficient enough.
And even if maglev was practical, the higher speeds yield a diminishing return on the gain of time; since to halve the journey time, you have to double the speed, soon enough, the cost of going much faster will outweigh the advantages of doing to.
And then how fast can you go? You clearly can't have a supersonic train, unless you don't mind the reaction of the people who live near the tracks... The only way a maglev can be practical is underground, within an evacuated tunnel; there, the speed limit would be twice the orbital speed at the distance the tunnel is from the center of the earth, which is several orders of magnitude greater than the speed of sound. But to get such performance would call for a level of expenditure several orders of magnitude of what such a high-speed service would be worth.
My guess for most bucks for the bit would be in the field of Brand Naming. Companies pay naming firms tens of thousands of dollars to come up with new words like "Lucent", "Pentium" and "Infiniti".
It is not that "easy"... Such names come attached with thousand-page long reports explaining in detail the market research behind the name.
Some years ago, a friend of mine did a logo for a BIG company. The logo looks like a head with an ellipse going though it. It came about in a totally unrelated office, er, "event" (everyone was drunk) when someone was clowning and put an old UHF TV antenna around a bust of Lenin. Voilà, instant multi hundreds$$$$ logo.
The hard part was then writing up all the bullshit to "explain" the newfangled logo...
Now, you have a bunch of scumbags going in front of a judge, and ask him to declare that a device that allows anyone (including the judge) to get rid of the scourge of modern (even pay-for-play) television programming, advertising.
And they expect the judge to give them reason????
Let's hope that, just before hearing the case, the judge will have had 2 week of cable outage and will have been forced to watch TV programs full commercials!!!!
I think it's really interesting that China has spent so much time and effort trying to protect its citizens from ideas from outside without realising that ideas that come from inside are just as dangerous.
This is the more funny given that Mao Tse-Tung's communism is ALSO an idea that came from outside China...
Was it in Carl Sagan's CONTACT that there is a Hadden Cybernetics product that is able to identify political speech that is confiscated by the government? Likewise, the government could confiscate from Microsoft the source code to Orifice...
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Hey! It's not my problem if you're clueless...
Over here, the only people you see using those machines are orientals. So I guess that's why it appeals to californians: so many orientals there... :) :) :) :)
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Hey, dope, I lived with an oriental for 3 years and he told me that "asian" is insulting.
Over here, the only people you see using those machines are orientals. So I guess that's why it appeals to californians: so many orientals there... :) :) :) :)
It's just as st000p1d as the DLL crap with Windoze. You might have an excuse with proprietary software that's kit-bashed from different sources or of which you may want to update or patch a "feature", but with software of which you have the source, there is NO EXCUSE for that dependency crap.
At least, that's one thing most Macintrash programs have right: no goddam fucking library/DLL dependencies. Everything is in one binary file!
With the big disks we have nowadays and the high bandwidth, there is no reason why you should not be able to include the whole fucking shebang with the application, and keep it isolated (to prevent it from breaking other programs) on your system while you compile it.
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On the other hand, program writing is too young a discipline to have yet evolved a set of absolutely-proven "natural laws" yet, especially when programming paradigms (high-level/structured/oop) change every generation or so.
Those "natural laws" just won't happen for a while, especially if the architecture eventually changes from Von-Neumann to something else (parallel/neural/photonic).
The main problem behind attribution of liability stems from the lack of "natural laws" governing programming itself, thus making the analysis of software failure a shaky endeavour.
Finally, the programming establishment will simply not accept liability, and, most importantly (to the point of dooming the whole liability scene), no underwriter will accept to back software liability insurers either.
Macintrashes have plenty of shortcomings for sure, but one of them isn't the library mess, c'oz the binaries carry everything they need with them.
And if the whites aren't happy about it, though shit, they oughta indeed go complain to britain who started the whole mess in the first place.
So, therefore, since it was the top-level ISP(that is, the one with the line out of the country) who imported it into the country, it should be liable.
The only recourse, then, is for all ISP to shut down (or at least, sever their outside connections).
It's just as st000p1d as the DLL crap with Windoze. You might have an excuse with proprietary software that's kit-bashed from different sources or of which you may want to update or patch a "feature", but with software of which you have the source, there is NO EXCUSE for that dependency crap.
At least, that's one thing most Macintrash programs have right: no goddam fucking library/DLL dependencies. Everything is in one binary file!
With the big disks we have nowadays and the high bandwidth, there is no reason why you should not be able to include the whole fucking shebang with the application, and keep it isolated (to prevent it from breaking other programs) on your system while you compile it.
Wow! Now, instead of paying the microsoft tax, Wall-Mart will pocket it...
The total subsidies and losses you quote are simply payment by various levels of governments who contract passenger train services out to the SNCF.
Your assumption that the SNCF loses money is ludicrous given that it simply provides a public service to the State, regions and municipalities and is simply paid by them to provide the service.
- the construction cost of the track
- the building cost of the trains
- the previous 25 years of research & development that led to the TGV.
High-speed rail IS profitable.Gamers will be able to download it here.
Here is the speed recording chart of the record.
Maglev is simply too expensive for what it does; unlike the current TGVs and ICEs, it is NOT compatible with the current rail network, so one cannot go high-speed for most of the trip, then go to another town not served by the high-speed line. Maglev is just an excuse to spend lots of money to featherbed unemployed aerospace engineers.
Maglev has also a very big hurdle: the size of the switches, which makes it impractical to put enough on a rail network to make it flexible and efficient enough.
And even if maglev was practical, the higher speeds yield a diminishing return on the gain of time; since to halve the journey time, you have to double the speed, soon enough, the cost of going much faster will outweigh the advantages of doing to.
And then how fast can you go? You clearly can't have a supersonic train, unless you don't mind the reaction of the people who live near the tracks... The only way a maglev can be practical is underground, within an evacuated tunnel; there, the speed limit would be twice the orbital speed at the distance the tunnel is from the center of the earth, which is several orders of magnitude greater than the speed of sound. But to get such performance would call for a level of expenditure several orders of magnitude of what such a high-speed service would be worth.
It is still big...
Some years ago, a friend of mine did a logo for a BIG company. The logo looks like a head with an ellipse going though it. It came about in a totally unrelated office, er, "event" (everyone was drunk) when someone was clowning and put an old UHF TV antenna around a bust of Lenin. Voilà, instant multi hundreds$$$$ logo.
The hard part was then writing up all the bullshit to "explain" the newfangled logo...
here is my mirror of the "old" report, safely out of the reach of the DMCIA...
And they expect the judge to give them reason????
Let's hope that, just before hearing the case, the judge will have had 2 week of cable outage and will have been forced to watch TV programs full commercials!!!!
Was it in Carl Sagan's CONTACT that there is a Hadden Cybernetics product that is able to identify political speech that is confiscated by the government? Likewise, the government could confiscate from Microsoft the source code to Orifice...