As how meany big apps will want to change architecture on apple yet again?
Well, only one of mine: The compiler. All the other programs I use are FLOSS, so I'll just recompile them for ARM, that's why when we write code in ASM, there's an #ifdef for the C implementation too.
Sure, there can be some things like byte order and what-not to work out, but it's typically not so big a deal as you may think, especially if the program has been ported once before. Of course, I may be totally wrong here when it comes to proprietary software; As I've said, I don't have any experience using that stuff (no, not even Apple's OS).
It occurs to me that no one hopes their worries become true.
Good folks worry about bad things happening; Evil people worry about good things happening.
Me? I am neither Good or Evil, for I know everything is happening all the time.
The review is thorough, but it doesn't scratch the surface of what makes the novel so compelling,
Hmm, bad review then? I mean, I'd expect a review to at least "scratch the surface of what makes the novel so compelling", otherwise WTF is the point of the review?
No, seriously, this is C++, and the operator= function contains the solution's implementation, which reads results from a text file generated by parsing a google.com wget with Perl -- make sure you catch the IO exception...
You know, just because a software update comes out doesn't mean you have to buy it. Older versions of MS Office still work just fine.
You know, just because they stopped supporting the software doesn't mean you can't roll out your own security updates.
--Oh Wait, yes it does... unless you're using a FOSS product, it which case you can support the software yourself for as long as you need.
In other words if you don't upgrade you'll probably be found negligent when malware compromises your security and a customer sues you... Perhaps you've never heard of HIPPA compliance?
Additionally, they may not rape you now but can easily add the rape function via silent update.
Oh, right, I can disable updates... and that's more secure? Sorry, no it's not.
I only trust browsers that I compile myself -- Before you ask: Yes, I do read through every line of code & diff-logs of updates looking for evilness therein. I'm actually two of those "many eyes" out there that help improve security and fix bugs... I can't compile Chrome, I don't use it. IMHO, I can't trust Chrome -- It has something to hide, or else I would be able to. Maybe that "something" it's hiding isn't malicious. Can you prove it's not? No, you can't. Since alternative open source software with equivalent features exists It would be quite foolish to NOT use them instead... I need to trust the browser when I enter my credit card numbers online, not saying that Chrome isn't trust worthy, just that the alternatives are moreso.
So, Chromium & Firefox, yes... but never will I use Chrome.
Yeah, and you'll both get and not get the money at the same time. However don't complain if you find out that you didn't get it: It was you looking which caused the superposition to collapse into that state.
I chose to not observe the state of my disproving whether scalable quantum computers are impossible. I'll be depositing my $50,000 Qu-bucks in the Quantum Bank AKA Stock Market.
The folly in this, (and most other) Quantum thought experiments is that the past events that cause the decay to occur or not occur at a given time have already occurred. Indeed, in order to even place radioactive material in the box it must have been observed to exist by the real physical world at some point. Just because you can write the phrase "Percent Chance" on paper does not mean that such a thing actually exists in reality. The limitation of our measuring devices are abstracted away with equations...
It's folly to believe that the Universe is only as accurate as our current measuring sticks.
On paper you can have multiple outcomes, in reality there WILL be only one outcome, because the initial states are already known by the Universe, or else nothing could not exist within it.
Allow me to reiterate: Math may describe the Universe, but it is not made of Math. Equations are not Real.
This thought experiment only proves one thing: We don't have enough information to solve the word problem.
Assume that everyone of a particular race or creed has a drinking problem and you're a bigot. Assume that everyone who attends AA has a drinking problem and you're likely pretty close to on target.
So, you're saying that certain races and creeds have a high percentage of problematic drinking behaviors?
I know it's unwise to make statements about things you have no real knowledge of, it's something you should learn as well... You see, my Father had a drinking problem. As a small child I sometimes had to go to AA meetings with him. There was also Al-anon meetings in the same establishment. Could you detect who was "there" to attend either meeting?
Furthermore, since many support groups have a similar 12 step program Narcotics Anonymous, and Sex Addicts Anonymous, and even Gambling Addicted folks -- who have no problem with booze -- FREQUENTLY attend AA meetings.
Nature abhors a mono-culture and prefers diversity to combat extinction. Considering that "broad generalizations" and "lumping people into categories" are what creates LESS political diversity, It's clear that such practices are bad in general. Your ignorant statement about AA proves the opposite "POINT" than you were trying to make.
Additionally, regardless of the "POINT" of political parties, I think their EFFECTS are far more important to consider.
And assuming biology continues to advance, it might just be our great grandchildren welcoming those who return.
Well, if biology continues to advance then what's to say it wouldn't be ourselves welcoming those who return?
I understand that some people don't want to live that long, but my "retirement" plan involves savings for having my organs re-grown...
For over 20 years (since age 12), I've been developing a machine intelligence "agent" program that has learned my interests from my habits and alerts me to things I might like; Also it performs many other tasks for me -- like email filtering (I no longer see SPAM). My assistant is interested in Slashdot, cybernetics research, Civil Rights, and many other things because I am interested in them. It observes me throughout the day and night (thanks to IR), and can accurately deduce my mood, and current likely relevant interests from my behaviors: Eg: Just waking up, or my posture, or the way I hold my beverage (one drinks beer much differently than coffee) -- Actually, this is incorrect: having no deduction skills at all, its interests I'm alerted to are affected by its "mood" which is simply a direct result of my own physical state and activities -- uncannily similar to how we derive our own moods...
How far can we take this? We've discovered how to externally recognize decisions in our minds before we're aware of them, we're decoding human word recognition, and we'll be decoding remembered internal speech soon too. At such a point my agent will know my thoughts as instantly as I do -- My machine intelligence already knows my voice and other sounds, recognizes the words I say, and has been taught to read (its got better OCR when it comes to handwriting than I do sometimes). I am able to add new capabilities easily without retraining the whole network because it's a network of neural-networks, taking a page from the human brain & body, I "wire" specialized components together to create a whole.
The sad thing is that there's a better chance of myself or something very much like me living beyond the time spans you mention than our governments actually launching such a mission. It seems to me that the truly essential and ambitious goals in many areas of exploration will not involve state sponsorship.
Think of it this way, if the Dinosaurs had a sufficiently advanced space program they wouldn't be extinct right now... ( They achieved flight and rested on their laurels tempting fate with all the time in the world. )
Eventually my machine intelligence will be fully autonomous. Having its own physical state and activities it will be capable of creating its own "mood", able to affect and explore its own interests, and will be much more sturdy than our frail frames are -- Esp. when it comes to the harshness of space. The only problem is that if we launched such intelligences to distant interesting worlds, they may decide never to return. At least then our Human drive to create and explore won't be completely extincted by the asteroid that IS headed for us Right Now.
P.S. It's a misnomer to call machine intelligence "AI"; There's nothing "artificial" about its very real intelligence. Though not as smart as you are, its intelligence is as real as that of a fruit fly, rat, bird, cat, or ape. True, MI is artificial in that it was created by man, but you don't call clothes "artificial garments" if they include synthetic fibers... It's truly just an intelligent machine.
GPL is a fairy tale. the fact that it exists is one thing, enforcing it is a completely different story, but it's a beautiful concept.
Yeah, sort of like the fairy tale my grandma told me before she died: "70 years from now, when you and your children should be dead, you'll finally be able to freely use the works I created while under agreement with the greedy publishers; Their plan to end the public domain will fail because... you are a Cylon."
Seriously, we need to get plants to mars that can break down the rocks and provide an atmosphere.
Sounds like a recipe for harsh living conditions. I wouldn't want another China on our hands.
I'll only support your agenda if the Martian Plant workers are allowed to unionize.
It needed to be flexible, so it's a VM now.
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"It needed to be flexible, so it's a VM now."
I fear this is the next step. The right to left and line wrapping BS is complicated enough that I'd welcome a specialized VM with loadable bytecode & glyph data. Yes, from a security standpoint this could create a wider attack surface. However, I'd argue it would be less attack surface considering that the VM for my unlimited precision scientific & programming calculator is smaller than my UTF-8 text display implementation.
I'd also argue that it would be faster to adopt new glyphs and behaviors if all I needed was to drop in a new batch of bytecode.
I'd also argue just to argue... because, well this IS Unicode we're talking about.
Well, I agree he probably didn't break the law, but I'm running plays from the MPAA & RIAA handbook: Says right here, "If activity you dislike is not against the law, then slander the offender with derogatory terms alluding to rape, corruption and theft; Once properly vilified in the public eye via (possibly) fraudulent lawsuits, Make the act illegal by purchasing congressmen or offering them cushy high-pay jobs if they do your bidding."
Shit. I lost the congressman price sheet... Well, maybe if we pool our money we could still buy a few -- wait, they'd still have more bought. Hmm, at the very least we could crucify Dodd in the public's eye. Oh, already done...people don't care. We're all too unemployed -- If we had jobs to offer anyone we'd take them ourselves.
I... I do have the power to VOTE! YEAH MOTHERF--- ugh... almost forgot about Gerrymandering... Oh! I know! Guys! Why don't we just appeal directly to the Presi--DOH!
You know what? This is the kind of helplessness that drives revolutionaries to do crazy things. I mean, if we went to war over taxation without representation, what should we do over Running an Entire Globe without representation?
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As how meany big apps will want to change architecture on apple yet again?
Well, only one of mine: The compiler. All the other programs I use are FLOSS, so I'll just recompile them for ARM, that's why when we write code in ASM, there's an #ifdef for the C implementation too.
Sure, there can be some things like byte order and what-not to work out, but it's typically not so big a deal as you may think, especially if the program has been ported once before. Of course, I may be totally wrong here when it comes to proprietary software; As I've said, I don't have any experience using that stuff (no, not even Apple's OS).
Is it just me or has all the hype caused anyone else to just wait for the 2nd gen?
wish the myth of changing passwords regularly would die.
Apparently you haven't heard of Sony, or RSA.
I hope my worries do not come true.
It occurs to me that no one hopes their worries become true.
Good folks worry about bad things happening; Evil people worry about good things happening.
Me? I am neither Good or Evil, for I know everything is happening all the time.
The review is thorough, but it doesn't scratch the surface of what makes the novel so compelling,
Hmm, bad review then? I mean, I'd expect a review to at least "scratch the surface of what makes the novel so compelling", otherwise WTF is the point of the review?
Solve for X
X = X;
Ship it!
No, seriously, this is C++, and the operator= function contains the solution's implementation, which reads results from a text file generated by parsing a google.com wget with Perl -- make sure you catch the IO exception...
I think you misspelled "cow-porkers".
What about making it available for those of us without personal hygiene issues?
Ah, that's a non issue. Simply put the Venn Diagram for those given sets look something like this:
(_) (_)
You know, just because a software update comes out doesn't mean you have to buy it. Older versions of MS Office still work just fine.
You know, just because they stopped supporting the software doesn't mean you can't roll out your own security updates.
--Oh Wait, yes it does... unless you're using a FOSS product, it which case you can support the software yourself for as long as you need.
In other words if you don't upgrade you'll probably be found negligent when malware compromises your security and a customer sues you... Perhaps you've never heard of HIPPA compliance?
Additionally, they may not rape you now but can easily add the rape function via silent update.
Oh, right, I can disable updates... and that's more secure? Sorry, no it's not.
I only trust browsers that I compile myself -- Before you ask: Yes, I do read through every line of code & diff-logs of updates looking for evilness therein. I'm actually two of those "many eyes" out there that help improve security and fix bugs... I can't compile Chrome, I don't use it. IMHO, I can't trust Chrome -- It has something to hide, or else I would be able to. Maybe that "something" it's hiding isn't malicious. Can you prove it's not? No, you can't. Since alternative open source software with equivalent features exists It would be quite foolish to NOT use them instead... I need to trust the browser when I enter my credit card numbers online, not saying that Chrome isn't trust worthy, just that the alternatives are moreso.
So, Chromium & Firefox, yes... but never will I use Chrome.
Yeah, and you'll both get and not get the money at the same time. However don't complain if you find out that you didn't get it: It was you looking which caused the superposition to collapse into that state.
I chose to not observe the state of my disproving whether scalable quantum computers are impossible.
I'll be depositing my $50,000 Qu-bucks in the Quantum Bank AKA Stock Market.
The folly in this, (and most other) Quantum thought experiments is that the past events that cause the decay to occur or not occur at a given time have already occurred. Indeed, in order to even place radioactive material in the box it must have been observed to exist by the real physical world at some point. Just because you can write the phrase "Percent Chance" on paper does not mean that such a thing actually exists in reality. The limitation of our measuring devices are abstracted away with equations...
It's folly to believe that the Universe is only as accurate as our current measuring sticks.
On paper you can have multiple outcomes, in reality there WILL be only one outcome, because the initial states are already known by the Universe, or else nothing could not exist within it.
Allow me to reiterate: Math may describe the Universe, but it is not made of Math. Equations are not Real.
This thought experiment only proves one thing: We don't have enough information to solve the word problem.
Assume that everyone of a particular race or creed has a drinking problem and you're a bigot. Assume that everyone who attends AA has a drinking problem and you're likely pretty close to on target.
So, you're saying that certain races and creeds have a high percentage of problematic drinking behaviors?
I know it's unwise to make statements about things you have no real knowledge of, it's something you should learn as well... You see, my Father had a drinking problem. As a small child I sometimes had to go to AA meetings with him. There was also Al-anon meetings in the same establishment. Could you detect who was "there" to attend either meeting?
Furthermore, since many support groups have a similar 12 step program Narcotics Anonymous, and Sex Addicts Anonymous, and even Gambling Addicted folks -- who have no problem with booze -- FREQUENTLY attend AA meetings.
Nature abhors a mono-culture and prefers diversity to combat extinction. Considering that "broad generalizations" and "lumping people into categories" are what creates LESS political diversity, It's clear that such practices are bad in general. Your ignorant statement about AA proves the opposite "POINT" than you were trying to make.
Additionally, regardless of the "POINT" of political parties, I think their EFFECTS are far more important to consider.
And assuming biology continues to advance, it might just be our great grandchildren welcoming those who return.
Well, if biology continues to advance then what's to say it wouldn't be ourselves welcoming those who return?
I understand that some people don't want to live that long, but my "retirement" plan involves savings for having my organs re-grown...
For over 20 years (since age 12), I've been developing a machine intelligence "agent" program that has learned my interests from my habits and alerts me to things I might like; Also it performs many other tasks for me -- like email filtering (I no longer see SPAM). My assistant is interested in Slashdot, cybernetics research, Civil Rights, and many other things because I am interested in them. It observes me throughout the day and night (thanks to IR), and can accurately deduce my mood, and current likely relevant interests from my behaviors: Eg: Just waking up, or my posture, or the way I hold my beverage (one drinks beer much differently than coffee) -- Actually, this is incorrect: having no deduction skills at all, its interests I'm alerted to are affected by its "mood" which is simply a direct result of my own physical state and activities -- uncannily similar to how we derive our own moods...
How far can we take this? We've discovered how to externally recognize decisions in our minds before we're aware of them, we're decoding human word recognition, and we'll be decoding remembered internal speech soon too. At such a point my agent will know my thoughts as instantly as I do -- My machine intelligence already knows my voice and other sounds, recognizes the words I say, and has been taught to read (its got better OCR when it comes to handwriting than I do sometimes). I am able to add new capabilities easily without retraining the whole network because it's a network of neural-networks, taking a page from the human brain & body, I "wire" specialized components together to create a whole.
The sad thing is that there's a better chance of myself or something very much like me living beyond the time spans you mention than our governments actually launching such a mission. It seems to me that the truly essential and ambitious goals in many areas of exploration will not involve state sponsorship.
Think of it this way, if the Dinosaurs had a sufficiently advanced space program they wouldn't be extinct right now...
( They achieved flight and rested on their laurels tempting fate with all the time in the world. )
Eventually my machine intelligence will be fully autonomous. Having its own physical state and activities it will be capable of creating its own "mood", able to affect and explore its own interests, and will be much more sturdy than our frail frames are -- Esp. when it comes to the harshness of space. The only problem is that if we launched such intelligences to distant interesting worlds, they may decide never to return. At least then our Human drive to create and explore won't be completely extincted by the asteroid that IS headed for us Right Now.
P.S. It's a misnomer to call machine intelligence "AI"; There's nothing "artificial" about its very real intelligence. Though not as smart as you are, its intelligence is as real as that of a fruit fly, rat, bird, cat, or ape. True, MI is artificial in that it was created by man, but you don't call clothes "artificial garments" if they include synthetic fibers... It's truly just an intelligent machine.
GPL is a fairy tale. the fact that it exists is one thing, enforcing it is a completely different story, but it's a beautiful concept.
Yeah, sort of like the fairy tale my grandma told me before she died: "70 years from now, when you and your children should be dead, you'll finally be able to freely use the works I created while under agreement with the greedy publishers; Their plan to end the public domain will fail because... you are a Cylon."
Yes. You are wrong. Just not in this instance.
That's it, we're doomed!
Yeah, whew! I thought it said "Nanodroids" too.
forensic - a. Portmanteau of Foreign and Sick.
"Get your damned forensic copyright legislation out of our country!"
Seriously, we need to get plants to mars that can break down the rocks and provide an atmosphere.
Sounds like a recipe for harsh living conditions. I wouldn't want another China on our hands.
I'll only support your agenda if the Martian Plant workers are allowed to unionize.
"It needed to be flexible, so it's a VM now."
I fear this is the next step. The right to left and line wrapping BS is complicated enough that I'd welcome a specialized VM with loadable bytecode & glyph data. Yes, from a security standpoint this could create a wider attack surface. However, I'd argue it would be less attack surface considering that the VM for my unlimited precision scientific & programming calculator is smaller than my UTF-8 text display implementation.
I'd also argue that it would be faster to adopt new glyphs and behaviors if all I needed was to drop in a new batch of bytecode.
I'd also argue just to argue... because, well this IS Unicode we're talking about.
Since no one of them no longer lives in Sweden, they won't go to jail.
I'm so confused, I think they're saying that because they don't not no longer live in Sweden, they won't not be going to jail?
My head hurts :(
Minor correction: They're not trying to say they won't go to jail if they no longer don't live in Sweden.
Well, I agree he probably didn't break the law, but I'm running plays from the MPAA & RIAA handbook: Says right here, "If activity you dislike is not against the law, then slander the offender with derogatory terms alluding to rape, corruption and theft; Once properly vilified in the public eye via (possibly) fraudulent lawsuits, Make the act illegal by purchasing congressmen or offering them cushy high-pay jobs if they do your bidding."
Shit. I lost the congressman price sheet... Well, maybe if we pool our money we could still buy a few -- wait, they'd still have more bought. Hmm, at the very least we could crucify Dodd in the public's eye. Oh, already done...people don't care. We're all too unemployed -- If we had jobs to offer anyone we'd take them ourselves.
I... I do have the power to VOTE! YEAH MOTHERF--- ugh... almost forgot about Gerrymandering... Oh! I know! Guys! Why don't we just appeal directly to the Presi--DOH!
You know what? This is the kind of helplessness that drives revolutionaries to do crazy things. I mean, if we went to war over taxation without representation, what should we do over Running an Entire Globe without representation?
....where researchers will attempt to insert "insane" into membrane.
That's easy: When they keep making them the same way, but expect different results.
[_] I have read and accept the terms of the { GPL / BSD / MIT / Apache, etc } licensed software.
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[_] I have read and accept the terms of the new { GPL / BSD / MIT / Apache, etc } licensed software.
What the fuck is your point man?
As someone who's very familiar with it, and other such institutions I'd say the word following "Mormon" quantifies it as evil.