It does very little but take money from people and make them think they're owed more then they really are.
I agree. My professors could have been replaced by DVD players. The labs could have been done at home, and submitted online (in fact, many were). I already knew more about all of the subjects than the textbooks tried to teach me thanks largely to the Internet, and partially to the local library I've had access to since I was 6.
Universities (currently) exist to force people to learn. Without requiring a certificate (diploma) how else would businesses know you're "qualified" (whatever that means)? If you could get the same job with the same pay with or without the certificate, how many people would study things they aren't interested in to get the job?
Personally, I hated college. It was more of a mental prison, shackling me with constraints of time via assignments. It forced me to perform the standard set of mental motions required to graduate. For this worthless piece of paper, I wasted 4 years of my life not doing what I was already good at, and not learning what I already knew. If only there was a way to opt out of the certificate and simply take all the finals, I would have gladly done so (in fact, I did just this -- tested out of some classes, but all classes should have this option, IMHO).
For those truly interested in learning and thus already possessing much knowledge, college is a waste of time except for the exposure to other people or facilities that you might not get access to otherwise. For the average person college is a mental training ground that is probably necessary to get them in the right mindset for learning.
Looking back, I should have just started a small business out of high school; I'd be farther along at it than I am now, having spent years in corporations and in college.
It's a shame. There are two types of people that college isn't right for: Those who don't need a college education for their career, and those who've already acquired the equivalent of a college education, but have no proof.
Getting all super sensitive about this stuff is not being smart... its buying into hysteria.
"Better safe than sorry" I suppose the chances of a car crossing my path at 3:30 AM on a Sunday morning are vanishingly small, however, I always stop at the red-lights and stop signs anyway.
We really only get one shot at this planet. What's more foolish: Being needlessly careful or being heedlessly careless?
Ingenious has no prefix, nor does insightful, because they are not modifying genius or sight. They are ingenuity and insight. One of them does have a suffix, though...
I believe you take the words to mean the incorrect things.
For example: sight and insight. The former deals with vision, the second deals with things invisible...
To be insightful you have to comprehend things that can not be seen on the surface. An insightful person can see beyond, into the inner workings of things. A sightful person would be one who has much sight.
genius and ingenious: the former relates to things requiring higher levels of thought than average, the latter deals with things that anyone could have thought of, but didn't.
Ingenuity is a term for the quality required to produce ingenious solutions. Genuity would be apt for describing qualities of geniuses.
Before you throw the book at me I think it best you should consider the source. For example: lipsync is in the dictionary, as well as asshole. You can argue the etymology of these compound words, or tell me that prefixes and suffixes don't apply to this or that with no supporting evidence whatsoever; However, this only further proves my point: The English language is all made up, on the spot based on popular opinion. Dost thou deceive thy self into believing thine own illogic prattling? The language evolves: Words' meanings change and fall out of use as well.
English has no rule that it does not break itself.
I ain't buying it. For example, the Xbox could just give them 100 friends of the player's, starting with the most recently seen online... Any such arguments are irrelevent. MS has plenty of capital, they don't want to support something, they'll "extinguish" it -- I ran a 16 bit executable on XP... Xbox x86 games are running on the PowerMac in the 360... Tell me backwards compatibility isn't something they are pros at. Don't delude yourself.
As for the servers being gone -- the bungie.net servers maybe, but MS hosts the matchmaking & achievement servers -- look into XNA. If I'm using game X, or game Y, then I'm using R resources of the matchmaking server irreguardless of which game it is... If the game company wants to hard-code in dependency for another system that they know the game can't function without, then I'm out of their target demographic, for ever.
It doesn't matter anyhow. Because my friends and I have decided not to fall apart over the years (since high school), and dedicate a slice of each week to gaming and/or hanging out: We've decided to go back to PC Gaming where the environment is a bit more friendly. Here's a hint: Yesterday morning we had a nostalgic Frag-Fest in our old favorite Doom2 WADs. That game is.. 16 years old?
You can be an apologist all you want. Fact is, it takes 0 additional resources to allow unranked multi-player matches in most games. No more excuses for walled garden bullshit. An "advanced" option buried in a config menu that lets you manually set: "I'm a server, this is the level" or "Connect to server at IP: xx.xx.xx.xx" takes no time to create -- (I've seen the damn menu option, it was there for the testers, but it's been removed before going gold... it took MORE DEV TIME to remove it.)
If basic continued multi-player support beyond the planned obsolescence of the game isn't going to be supported in favor of a vendor lock-in system, we'll not be funding that decision.
You, my friend, have clearly never played that game.
BASIC Gorilla tactics 101
The tactics are to look at the wind-speed meter, consider elevation, and then try an angle and velocity that will strike the opponent with your explodo-banana. Refine your velocity and angle per the rules of "playing the odds" guess too much one way, and too little the other, then extrapolate the correct angle and velocity by interpolation.
A quick search turns up this website that has a flash implementation of the game (covered with a skippable ad) that you may use to refine your "BASIC Gorilla" skills.
I can't help but think that this is exactly what I would do if I were a once hacktivist turned undercover government agent trying to further the polictical agenda of censorship.
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What do you want to bet that LulzSec is taken down as soon as the powers that be wish them down, and that no real damage will come of their attacks?
What did LulzSec accomplish? They raised the general public's awareness of the dangers of "hackers".
It should be easy to point to their "attacks" when trying to pass more strict legislation now: "It could happen to You!"
This is really the only argument that ever need to be voiced when arguing against laws that make it illegal to record police in public:
Who are Police? They are people. Some people do wrong things sometimes. Thus, some police break the law. Making it illegal for others to record the police only makes illegal behavior by corrupt police easier.
In this instance the officer was not on duty, but it shows that just because you are employed as a Police officer or Government agent doesn't mean your morals are always intact.
Irrelevant. Once a day the $10 clock I purchased at the drug store wirelessly synchronizes itself to the radio time signal (WWVB) emitted by the U.S. Atomic Clock in Fort Collins, Colorado. I can't believe this feature isn't in every clock -- Oh well, live and learn.
My PCs (and servers) all synchronize clocks over the network time protocol (NTP) and are connected to uninterrupted power supplies (UPS) which regulate the voltage and Hz. I can't believe anyone still connects computers directly to wall outlet power -- Oh well, live and learn.
It's really too bad that the WWVB isn't broadcast with a cryptographic signature so that the time signal can not be pirated; Thus allowing public clocks to be updated to a time signal that is verifiability correct. I can't believe anyone still trusts data that isn't cryptographically signed -- Oh well, live and learn.
Seriously folks. I don't buy games that don't have private or dedicated servers. Would it really be such a bad thing if little groups of players could host their own worlds? They can't really compete with the experience of the main servers, but at least some people would be able to play, even after the game's plug has been pulled.
Some determined players have done so with WoW by reverse engineering the client server protocol, so I gave it a spin -- It wasn't my cup of tea, but my brother became a subscriber because of the added exposure -- That's right: Blizzard made money because a private server existed.
Some people don't have the time to grind forever -- the private servers can have different exp rates; WoW and RuneScape servers I've seen do, anyway. One such WoW server almost won me over due to the benefits afforded to the time-challenged player.
It's really a shame that games have to die at all. Welcome to the future folks. There is some hope, some FPS franchises still have dedicated servers that players can run... but, for the most part it looks rather bleak.
Some game titles are deprecated for no good reason eg: Halo2 multi-player is canned. How the hell does this make sense? When playing most of these games one player's console becomes the "server" for the others... All you have to do is ALLOW the game to talk to other games and bingo, multi-player. However, we can't do this -- and that makes me mad.
So, 5 friends and I all join up in party chat. We then all pop Halo2 in the 360. We can each see that the others have inserted the game by looking at the Icon next to our names on the friends list. Our XBoxes KNOW that we are all playing the game, and we have connections to each other ALREADY because of the party chat. However, WE CAN'T play online together because the matchmaking server was killed (because of Halo3 & Reach no doubt -- bet they'll eventually get killed to force migration to other new games too).
Now, there is such a thing as unranked matches, so the score keeping server isn't an issue... Additionally there is LAN play. So, we all join my VPN, and play Halo2 -- No XBox Live needed (we use it for party chat and coordinating matches). THANKS FOR NOTHING MICROSOFT! My XBox Live subscription seems to lose value over time... not.. very.. smart.
That's when we all made a pact when in comes to new games: No private/dedicated server? SCREW IT -- DO NOT WANT.
Yes. In fact it would make the worst example considering that Sega ported it to PC (Sonic2 [in a pack of other games along with Vector Man], Sonic3, Sonic&Knukles, and Sonic3+Knuckles) and I still have it installed and running via WINE (runs natively on XP).
Additionally, I've also got the XBox 360 Ports of Sonic 1, 2, 3, Knuckles, Even the Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure (Directors cut) is available on the XBox Live marketplace. I've got the MegaMan series on the 360 (as a single disk) as well...
I think the author just grew up, and/or got bored with the games; Hence the desire for novelty in the old format. I still enjoy the old games and buy old carts of games I never had the money to buy as a kid. I get just as much enjoyment out of these games and their music as I ever did as a child -- Even more so now since I have the patience to beat them, and there are SAVE FEATURES for the games that did not have them.
I still have my original (S)NES. My original Genesis croaked, but I still have it along with all of my cartridges. Unlike most, who may be operating in a gray area WRT copyright laws, I dump my own original ROMs for use in emulators on my PC (no DRM = fair use).
To address the lack of novelty issue: LOOK HARDER PAL. Seriously. There is a mod community. Whether or not it's legal: The holy grail of Sonic mods Knuckles in Sonic 1 exists... o_O (remember, you could plug Sonic2 into the top of Sonic&Knuckles to play as Knuckles in Sonic 2... but Sonic 1 was too different, so you got a mini-game instead -- Well now modders have done what the original devs at Sega never did by reverse engineering and modifying the machine code [and palette] of the game ).
There are mods for Everything from new levels for classic Mario & Sonic to Commander Keen (which I still play in DosBox). The Doom modding community has come leaps and bounds, even adding whole new game types and RPG or RTS components (Currently enjoying Shotgun Frenzy Cooperative FPS vs invading demons + Real time strategy elements and in-level weapon purchasing & upgrading -- deployable turret FTW!)
If you can't find enjoyment in the older games, I'm afraid you may have been dropped on your head as an adult.
I agree: JavaScript is the fastest way to get into coding today. It's an Interpretor that every one can use with no setup -- like BASIC on my trusty Osborne One, except with JS you just open a browser.
[Hint the URL bar is a console... think BASIC's > prompt. Try entering: javascript:alert(document.cookie); ]
Using only the address bar I created a simple JS evaluator. that beginners can use immediately at the click of a link...
Here is a Tetris clone I created using the address bar (which prompted the creation of the aforementioned JS evaluator).
Here is a SHA1 Password Hasher bookmarklet created using the evaluator (use one master password to generate a new password for each website you visit).
Note: I only tested these in Firefox. IE has too short of a URL limit to be useful without pulling in code from a server.
IMHO, all web browsers should come with a nice JS console feature; It's really inexcusable not to...
Yubikey has secure tokens that you can "seed" yourself, for use with your own authentication servers. The scam is that RSA made some idiots think think there was no way to do this without their auth servers; Thereby fooling fools into using a less secure system with a mandatory recurring payment for RSA (to access the auth servers).
Re-configuration of YubiKeys by customers
For high security environments, customers may select not to share the
AES key information for their YubiKeys outside of their organization.
Customers may also for other reasons want to be in control of all AES
keys programmed into the Yubikey devices. Yubico therefore supports the
use of a personalization tool to reconfigure the YubiKeys with new AES
keys and meta data.
Additionally, I prefer the model that has RFID for physical access.
Relying on an outside source to have our cryptokeys is just adding another point of failure. EVERYONE relying on them is just creating THE BIGGEST point of failure possible... Every time I talked to security minded folks that used RSA tokens, I asked them, "So. How secure are RSAs severs? You do any security audits on them lately?" The blank expressions were priceless.
Hair splitting seems to be your specialty... It's called Potter slash when Ron and Harry play with eachother's "wands". By your definition the slash would have had to involve Pratchett humping a book. MS makes OSs, and fictional representations of them as well (much like the fictional characters in the Harry Potter series), thus slash involving said characters is indeed MS slash fiction. Perhaps a more accurate "slash" fiction (by your standards) would involve AI evolving from actual MS OSes, and their holographic representations having intercourse? (How is this much different from the above cited slash?)
This is the Internet, it would not surprise me that some would like to see the sexual acts described in your post -- if fact, I have stumbled upon Ballmer's Gates' heads transposed onto gay porn images. Would that meet your criteria, given that it was accompanied by some rather raunchy textual descriptions of their lovemaking? If so, you may sate your twisted desire for such things at 4chan.org.
I'm sure if you simply apply your searching skills and know of the proper key words you'll find the specific gay porn fiction of which you speak. You'll also find "erotic" pictures of people having sex with real OS install disks. If you look hard enough, and are of twisted enough mind you may even stumble upon the "money-shots" involving real men and their beloved Sandy-Bridge chips (as I have -- anonymous image-boards are not a place for the feint of heart).
There are official MS OS Anime personifications, and there have been for quite some time.
I see that although you are not new to the net, you are new to this topic, so I'll link you to one list of the OS-tans. I'm sure you'll have no problem finding the other less NSFW places yourself to see more and better quality pics/fics, if you are so inclined...
There is indeed slash fiction. I read one not too long ago about XP-tan having an affair with Windows7-tan, Vista-tan was quite upset (her abandonment issues surfacing yet again); The always compassionate Linux-tan tried to console her, but it made the needy OSX Leopard-tan very jealous (apparently consoling a rival is a grave transgression on her home planet).
There are OS-kuns (males) as well... My girlfriend told me of the new yaoi slash she was reading where OSX-Kun fell in love with the heroic and savage XP-kun who had rescued him from the lair of the evil scientist Dr. Mac-Defender. In the heat of their passion OSX-kun had unknowingly infected XP-kun with a virus; Thus, both OS-kuns were soon on their way to see the comically bungling Dr. Norton-kun.
How can you prove who you are when you're anonymous?
How can you claim you had nothing to do with it, when you just asked every cracker to help you "Hack The Planet" yesterday? (Operation AntiSec)
LulzSec requested assistance from Anonymous as well as any other crackers, stating that their "top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation."
It may not be a "top" priority, but doesn't this sound a little bit contradictory: "Help us hack the world's Governments!" Look, I hacked the census for the Lulz! AntiSec, FTW! "LulzSec is not responible, even though we are running #AntiSec, and all targets of opportunity should be cracked under our AntiSec banner; For the Lulz!"
In fact, the Slashdot story is still on the tab for me.
Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation.
I can't help but think that this is exactly what I would do if I were a once hacktivist turned undercover government agent trying to further the polictical agenda of censorship.
Around the same time that the US declares they will create a Cyber-Security strategy, (they already have cyber-attack force NSA, and professional espionage agencies as well) LulzSec is formed from those who cracked HBGary... Soon "the lulz" dictates that the common man (young and old) become witness to the threats of hacking (via attacks against porn and game servers).
Now, we have LulzSec requesting the assistance of everyone (including Anonymous -- though they have not confirmed their participation), to directly attack all governments while their are Internet censorship and cyber security bills afoot. It seems to me just the sort of disinformation and FUD campaign I would perform if I wanted to give all hackers an even worse name, and drag down Anonymous too.
Funny how Anonymous used primarily an unsophisticated traffic generation tool -- the equivalent of repeatedly pressing [F5] while viewing a website (not even a reflected distributed denial of service, which would have been much harder to trace and deliver more traffic) -- to attack primarily pro censorship political targets, yet LulzSec focuses on the most buzz generating of targets with much more sophisticated attacks.
What do you want to bet that LulzSec is taken down as soon as the powers that be wish them down, and that no real damage will come of their attacks?
Even if they are not government agents, anyone who follows behind the LulzSec banner is playing directly into the censors hands...
I think now would be a good time to begin archiving our important scientific and mathematic discoveries for the future sentient beings that may eventually take our place. Primates, I'm looking at you...
I am developing a language that any intelligent creature grasping basic mathematics should be able to decipher. Previous attempts seem sophomoric to me, and assume too much (low res. raster of a man, child and woman? Don't make me laugh).
In the stone and crystalline tablets we should denounce the perception of the knowledge as coming from a race of Gods, and to this end include the story of our great achievements in gene pool pollution.
Do you have a genetic defect? Welcome to the gene pool! We'll be happy to go through any lengths to ensure you can spread your corrupted genetic sequence on to other lifeforms -- Even if it means growing your offspring in another being, or transplanting wombs!
Natural Selection be damned; We'll do whatever it takes to not discriminate against your deformities in the bedroom.
Of course I would tone down the irony and describe the principals in simple genetic and mathematical terms for our successors. However, I assume my fellow Slashdoters -- being of the same culture and language -- can easily grasp the principals I have sarcastically alluded to above.
Many people think that LulzSec is has been infiltrated by the government to further a political agenda. Even if they haven't been, they are playing right into the hands of those who wish to eradicate anonymity from the Internet, and impose harsh censorship.
Just after I watched an online video wherein Hillary Clinton and others discussed the importance of forming America's Cyber Security Plan with International cooperation in mind I talked to my friends about this; Most all of them said, "What? Why do we need an Internet Police, this is just more big government getting into things they don't understand. Sure, make some rules for government systems, set some guidelines for security, and make sure to audit security practices of banks, but stay out of the Internet as a whole."
After LulzSec began attacking servers of some of my friends Minecraft and League of Legends games along with other game companies, and releasing thousands of email addresses for porn surfers my friend's attitudes have mostly changed.
Now when asked if we should have harsher punishments for "hacking" (read: cracking), government mandated security practices, or if penetration tools should be made illegal and require a license to own my friends have changed their mind. When asked they say, "I think this is a good thing."
Step back a moment and look at the big picture. Anonymous cracks a few servers and mostly does a weak DDoS (read: not even a RDDoS) against websites perceived to be pro censorship (DDoS doesn't have the same effect as releasing thousands of passwords, etc). If you are a pro censorship government body, you may rally your forces and point at the weakness of the systems and say to others in places of power: "You could be Next!" to get them on board with your Cyber Security plans.
However, we're forgetting the common man. How do we get them on board with this Cyber Security agenda? And then LulzSec is formed Possibly with the help of Anonymous members that were turned by the FBI or NSA? Who knows. I just find it a little too convenient that "doing it for the lulz" equates to placing the "dangers of hackers" in the face of the common man.
The first Computers were people, given math problems on paper, they solved such problems.
These computers worked for organisations / businesses / governments.
The first "Personal Computer" would be the first person hired for that role on a personal basis... Thus, secretaries and/or (lab)assistants would classify as Personal Computers.
Considering that someone could decide to perform the task themselves, they would be their own "Personal Computer".
Thus most humans have been born equipped with at least one Personal Computer -- The Brain.
I'd like to register with the single Unicode codepoint TLD: U+0008
URLs were never meant to be seen or entered by humans, and yet they are.
"There needs to be a way to get to a server without manually looking up it's IP address in the 'Internet Phonebook' directory."
Thus DNS was born. Now we can change the IP address without losing visitors.
"There needs to be a way to find something on the web without having to remember the unique convoluted DNS entry, especially since you cant put a site description or keywords in the DNS records."
Thus Web-Crawling Search Engines were born, along with page ranking algorithms depending on the keywords or meta data you search for.
"There needs to be a way to get to a specific company, organization, business, band, or trademark website, but I can never remember if it's XXXX.com, XXXX.biz, XXXX.org, XXXX.info -- These TLD's are useless! Besides, phishers can own the other TLD, so making a mistake eg: paypal.biz, or a typo eg: pyapal.com is dangerous. TLD domain owners have to register with multiple TLDs for each misspelling just to prevent people from entering the wrong URL!"
Thus, security experts advise: don't enter the URL. Use a reputable search engine
Type paypal.com into the search box of your web browser. If you make a typo, it will be corrected by your selected search engine. The search engine will also alert you if you click on a dangerous site, and helps to weed out pages that are not relevant. (Oh, some of you thought those people doing that were just morons -- See how foolish your arrogance and ignorance makes your judgments...)
Some browser makers get this, and are creating a combination search / URL bar -- there are privacy issues here though, since you do not want the web browser informing a search service of everywhere you go online (but, they do have other ways of mining this very information).
Hint: The solution isn't more TLDs.
You're just moving the typo problem into the TLD field instead of the defacto standard xxxxx.com field. Sure, requiring a large cost to run a TLD will prevent a lot of malicious uses. However, web services will still be registering multiple.com et al. domains (for reasons mentioned above).
In any event this won't change the fact we're beyond IP addresses and beyond DNS as a way to identify a web page.
Typing $companyName into a search box will return the correct page URL along with short descriptions to help you differentiate ambiguous URLs/sites, whereas trying to remember the TLD of a given company is fraught with peril.
"If only there was a registry of valid company names for a given region or even internationally, which also respected trademarks so that two companies don't step on each other -- Thus allowing customers to identify with a brand name, and trust that the establishment under the company name is the same as the other establishments wearing the same name."
Thus Doing Business As (DBA) registrations, Assumed Business Names registries, and trademark offices were born (far earlier than the Web or the Internet, I might add...)
Now -- It would be nice to enter Motorola or Fisher Price, or Johnson & Johnson, and not have to guess how these names map into a URL.
motorola.biz? motorola.com? go-moto.info? motorola.mobile?
fisherprice.com? fisher-price.com? fp.com? fisherprice.toys?
johnsonandjohnson.com? jnj.com? johnson-johnson.com? johnson-and-johnson.health?
Hint: It's the second domain in each list...
The answer is to provide a way to search the Fictitious or Doing Business As name databases -- I know this is possible, because Several of my chosen company names were rejected instantly when my county clerk asked for my assumed business name (She had a search tool!!!)
The way forward would be to integrate these Assumed Company Name databases into our search engines, and allow a Domain to Company Name registration, similar to our Server IP Address to Company Name syst
There is no solid definition of what fair use is -- it's up to a court to decide.
I applaud those who would mock via parody any copyrighted work -- They have made a mockery of us with the laws we granted them. Think about it. The software and books I write today may live on beyond my life, however, my publisher owns the rights to these works for the duration of my lifetime + 70 years (the duration of my children). This is how you enforce the worst censorship of all -- Prevent culture from spreading to the next generation by keeping them under lock and key until all who remember their short-lived success are DEAD -- Thus, robbing the public domain so that only newly minted knowledge, songs, software, books, and other works will be available.
You can take your ideas of what fair use is, and shove them -- firmly. The law is unjust, and invalid, it matters not what it states: I REFUSE TO SIT AT THE BACK OF THE BUSS, and I applaud others that will stand with me.
0. Be n == 0 (MOD 365.25) days old. 1. Go to restaurant to celebrate. 2. Begin to sing: "Happy Birthday To You... Happy --" 3. Get sued for public performance of Warner Bros. copyrighted song: "Happy Birthday" 4. Realize why all restaurants sing a different crappy song for birthday parties...
Seriously -- If an artist wants to be so flipping famous that everyone is singing their songs, or quoting their books, then their work now belongs to everyone.
To such artists: Mission Accomplished, you have added a small piece to our culture. However, you used our language, our instrument inventions, our literary concepts, our "rhyming" techniques, our aesthetic tastes for melody -- You have never owned the totality of your work, you were leasing it from us. We have chosen to grant you a short monopoly over such works, for the betterment of society. Now you have used your wealth to harm society with the very laws we chose to grant you protection under. You have gone too far. We choose to revoke your monopoly rights.
DOWN WITH ALL COPYRIGHTS -- They are a disease that humanity must not bear. We exist as leaders of this world above all other creatures due to our ability to share knowledge and culture -- To outlaw any such conveyance is to outlaw human nature. We do not welcome the police state you are building for us. We will now commence to tear it apart those constructs we find offensive.
-- Yours Truly, We, the people.
According to the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records, "Happy Birthday to You" is the most recognized song in the English language, followed by "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and "Auld Lang Syne". The song's base lyrics have been translated into at least 18 languages.
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In 1998, the rights to "Happy Birthday to You" and its assets were sold to The Time-Warner Corporation. In March 2004, Warner Music Group was sold to a group of investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr. The company continues to insist that one cannot sing the "Happy Birthday to You" lyrics for profit without paying royalties: in 2008, Warner collected about $5000 per day ($2 million per year) in royalties for the song.[2], pp. 4,68 This includes use in film, television, radio, anywhere open to the public, or even among a group where a substantial number of those in attendance are not family or friends of whoever is performing the song.
Yep. Look at RISC... Reduced instruction set, means lower power consumption, smaller chip size and complexity.
Having a whole bunch of features tacked on is good when they are used by everyone all the time -- It's best to get rid of the features you really don't need to make it easier for the chip fabricators and/or computer programmers.
C++ is the absolute worse. It's the only language I've encountered where an entire other language lives inside it and slowly killing it like a parasitic twin. As a C++ coder I'm not supposed to use the C specific features because "C is not C++", and yet, it is... Thus, crazy semantic workarounds for things that should be simple, but conflict with the base language, are shoehorned in.
I like C++, and I understand that C++ was born by adding features to C, but it's time to cut that umbilical cord. C and C++ can live on separately -- well, they could have if they would have made the decision to split before so much code was written...
C'est la vie. Some people never learn. Riding the coat-tails of another language is a strategy that can yield results in terms of popularity (see: JavaScript) -- However it comes at the price of confusion (JavaScript is not Java; C++ is not C), and in C++'s case, unnecessary complexity -- the very enemy of "performance" in every sense of the word.
To say that C++ is designed for high performance, when in fact it was designed for popularity and ease of migration / incorporation for C coders and existing C (and C++) code, is not only a lie but a false premise that corrupts the very language itself.
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It does very little but take money from people and make them think they're owed more then they really are.
I agree. My professors could have been replaced by DVD players. The labs could have been done at home, and submitted online (in fact, many were). I already knew more about all of the subjects than the textbooks tried to teach me thanks largely to the Internet, and partially to the local library I've had access to since I was 6.
Universities (currently) exist to force people to learn. Without requiring a certificate (diploma) how else would businesses know you're "qualified" (whatever that means)? If you could get the same job with the same pay with or without the certificate, how many people would study things they aren't interested in to get the job?
Personally, I hated college. It was more of a mental prison, shackling me with constraints of time via assignments. It forced me to perform the standard set of mental motions required to graduate. For this worthless piece of paper, I wasted 4 years of my life not doing what I was already good at, and not learning what I already knew. If only there was a way to opt out of the certificate and simply take all the finals, I would have gladly done so (in fact, I did just this -- tested out of some classes, but all classes should have this option, IMHO).
For those truly interested in learning and thus already possessing much knowledge, college is a waste of time except for the exposure to other people or facilities that you might not get access to otherwise. For the average person college is a mental training ground that is probably necessary to get them in the right mindset for learning.
Looking back, I should have just started a small business out of high school; I'd be farther along at it than I am now, having spent years in corporations and in college.
It's a shame. There are two types of people that college isn't right for: Those who don't need a college education for their career, and those who've already acquired the equivalent of a college education, but have no proof.
Getting all super sensitive about this stuff is not being smart ... its buying into hysteria.
"Better safe than sorry" I suppose the chances of a car crossing my path at 3:30 AM on a Sunday morning are vanishingly small, however, I always stop at the red-lights and stop signs anyway.
We really only get one shot at this planet. What's more foolish: Being needlessly careful or being heedlessly careless?
Ingenious has no prefix, nor does insightful, because they are not modifying genius or sight. They are ingenuity and insight. One of them does have a suffix, though...
I believe you take the words to mean the incorrect things.
For example: sight and insight. The former deals with vision, the second deals with things invisible...
To be insightful you have to comprehend things that can not be seen on the surface. An insightful person can see beyond, into the inner workings of things. A sightful person would be one who has much sight.
genius and ingenious: the former relates to things requiring higher levels of thought than average, the latter deals with things that anyone could have thought of, but didn't.
Ingenuity is a term for the quality required to produce ingenious solutions. Genuity would be apt for describing qualities of geniuses.
Before you throw the book at me I think it best you should consider the source. For example: lipsync is in the dictionary, as well as asshole. You can argue the etymology of these compound words, or tell me that prefixes and suffixes don't apply to this or that with no supporting evidence whatsoever; However, this only further proves my point: The English language is all made up, on the spot based on popular opinion. Dost thou deceive thy self into believing thine own illogic prattling? The language evolves: Words' meanings change and fall out of use as well.
English has no rule that it does not break itself.
Yes. Look at the etymology of the word. A Jester is a joke teller. To jest is to be joking, To injest would be to not be joking.
As in: I do not injest; I've ingested poison!
I ain't buying it. For example, the Xbox could just give them 100 friends of the player's, starting with the most recently seen online... Any such arguments are irrelevent. MS has plenty of capital, they don't want to support something, they'll "extinguish" it -- I ran a 16 bit executable on XP... Xbox x86 games are running on the PowerMac in the 360... Tell me backwards compatibility isn't something they are pros at. Don't delude yourself.
As for the servers being gone -- the bungie.net servers maybe, but MS hosts the matchmaking & achievement servers -- look into XNA. If I'm using game X, or game Y, then I'm using R resources of the matchmaking server irreguardless of which game it is... If the game company wants to hard-code in dependency for another system that they know the game can't function without, then I'm out of their target demographic, for ever.
It doesn't matter anyhow. Because my friends and I have decided not to fall apart over the years (since high school), and dedicate a slice of each week to gaming and/or hanging out: We've decided to go back to PC Gaming where the environment is a bit more friendly. Here's a hint: Yesterday morning we had a nostalgic Frag-Fest in our old favorite Doom2 WADs. That game is.. 16 years old?
You can be an apologist all you want. Fact is, it takes 0 additional resources to allow unranked multi-player matches in most games. No more excuses for walled garden bullshit. An "advanced" option buried in a config menu that lets you manually set: "I'm a server, this is the level" or "Connect to server at IP: xx.xx.xx.xx" takes no time to create -- (I've seen the damn menu option, it was there for the testers, but it's been removed before going gold... it took MORE DEV TIME to remove it.)
If basic continued multi-player support beyond the planned obsolescence of the game isn't going to be supported in favor of a vendor lock-in system, we'll not be funding that decision.
BASIC Gorilla tactics 101
The tactics are to look at the wind-speed meter, consider elevation, and then try an angle and velocity that will strike the opponent with your explodo-banana. Refine your velocity and angle per the rules of "playing the odds" guess too much one way, and too little the other, then extrapolate the correct angle and velocity by interpolation.
A quick search turns up this website that has a flash implementation of the game (covered with a skippable ad) that you may use to refine your "BASIC Gorilla" skills.
Called it.
What did LulzSec accomplish? They raised the general public's awareness of the dangers of "hackers".
It should be easy to point to their "attacks" when trying to pass more strict legislation now: "It could happen to You!"
This is really the only argument that ever need to be voiced when arguing against laws that make it illegal to record police in public:
Who are Police? They are people. Some people do wrong things sometimes. Thus, some police break the law. Making it illegal for others to record the police only makes illegal behavior by corrupt police easier.
In this instance the officer was not on duty, but it shows that just because you are employed as a Police officer or Government agent doesn't mean your morals are always intact.
Go die in a fire scum. I have only three words to say to idiots like you: INTERNET EXPLORER SIX
Irrelevant. Once a day the $10 clock I purchased at the drug store wirelessly synchronizes itself to the radio time signal (WWVB) emitted by the U.S. Atomic Clock in Fort Collins, Colorado. I can't believe this feature isn't in every clock -- Oh well, live and learn.
My PCs (and servers) all synchronize clocks over the network time protocol (NTP) and are connected to uninterrupted power supplies (UPS) which regulate the voltage and Hz. I can't believe anyone still connects computers directly to wall outlet power -- Oh well, live and learn.
It's really too bad that the WWVB isn't broadcast with a cryptographic signature so that the time signal can not be pirated; Thus allowing public clocks to be updated to a time signal that is verifiability correct. I can't believe anyone still trusts data that isn't cryptographically signed -- Oh well, live and learn.
TL;DR: Only the reckless will be affected.
Seriously folks. I don't buy games that don't have private or dedicated servers. Would it really be such a bad thing if little groups of players could host their own worlds? They can't really compete with the experience of the main servers, but at least some people would be able to play, even after the game's plug has been pulled.
Some determined players have done so with WoW by reverse engineering the client server protocol, so I gave it a spin -- It wasn't my cup of tea, but my brother became a subscriber because of the added exposure -- That's right: Blizzard made money because a private server existed.
Some people don't have the time to grind forever -- the private servers can have different exp rates; WoW and RuneScape servers I've seen do, anyway. One such WoW server almost won me over due to the benefits afforded to the time-challenged player.
It's really a shame that games have to die at all. Welcome to the future folks. There is some hope, some FPS franchises still have dedicated servers that players can run... but, for the most part it looks rather bleak.
Some game titles are deprecated for no good reason eg: Halo2 multi-player is canned. How the hell does this make sense? When playing most of these games one player's console becomes the "server" for the others... All you have to do is ALLOW the game to talk to other games and bingo, multi-player. However, we can't do this -- and that makes me mad.
So, 5 friends and I all join up in party chat. We then all pop Halo2 in the 360. We can each see that the others have inserted the game by looking at the Icon next to our names on the friends list. Our XBoxes KNOW that we are all playing the game, and we have connections to each other ALREADY because of the party chat. However, WE CAN'T play online together because the matchmaking server was killed (because of Halo3 & Reach no doubt -- bet they'll eventually get killed to force migration to other new games too).
Now, there is such a thing as unranked matches, so the score keeping server isn't an issue... Additionally there is LAN play. So, we all join my VPN, and play Halo2 -- No XBox Live needed (we use it for party chat and coordinating matches). THANKS FOR NOTHING MICROSOFT! My XBox Live subscription seems to lose value over time... not.. very.. smart.
That's when we all made a pact when in comes to new games: No private/dedicated server? SCREW IT -- DO NOT WANT.
Yes. In fact it would make the worst example considering that Sega ported it to PC (Sonic2 [in a pack of other games along with Vector Man], Sonic3, Sonic&Knukles, and Sonic3+Knuckles) and I still have it installed and running via WINE (runs natively on XP).
Additionally, I've also got the XBox 360 Ports of Sonic 1, 2, 3, Knuckles, Even the Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure (Directors cut) is available on the XBox Live marketplace. I've got the MegaMan series on the 360 (as a single disk) as well...
I think the author just grew up, and/or got bored with the games; Hence the desire for novelty in the old format. I still enjoy the old games and buy old carts of games I never had the money to buy as a kid. I get just as much enjoyment out of these games and their music as I ever did as a child -- Even more so now since I have the patience to beat them, and there are SAVE FEATURES for the games that did not have them.
I still have my original (S)NES. My original Genesis croaked, but I still have it along with all of my cartridges. Unlike most, who may be operating in a gray area WRT copyright laws, I dump my own original ROMs for use in emulators on my PC (no DRM = fair use).
To address the lack of novelty issue: LOOK HARDER PAL. Seriously. There is a mod community. Whether or not it's legal: The holy grail of Sonic mods Knuckles in Sonic 1 exists... o_O (remember, you could plug Sonic2 into the top of Sonic&Knuckles to play as Knuckles in Sonic 2... but Sonic 1 was too different, so you got a mini-game instead -- Well now modders have done what the original devs at Sega never did by reverse engineering and modifying the machine code [and palette] of the game ).
There are mods for Everything from new levels for classic Mario & Sonic to Commander Keen (which I still play in DosBox). The Doom modding community has come leaps and bounds, even adding whole new game types and RPG or RTS components (Currently enjoying Shotgun Frenzy Cooperative FPS vs invading demons + Real time strategy elements and in-level weapon purchasing & upgrading -- deployable turret FTW!)
If you can't find enjoyment in the older games, I'm afraid you may have been dropped on your head as an adult.
I agree: JavaScript is the fastest way to get into coding today. It's an Interpretor that every one can use with no setup -- like BASIC on my trusty Osborne One, except with JS you just open a browser.
[Hint the URL bar is a console... think BASIC's > prompt. Try entering: javascript:alert(document.cookie); ]
Using only the address bar I created a simple JS evaluator. that beginners can use immediately at the click of a link...
Here is a Tetris clone I created using the address bar (which prompted the creation of the aforementioned JS evaluator).
Here is a SHA1 Password Hasher bookmarklet created using the evaluator (use one master password to generate a new password for each website you visit).
Note: I only tested these in Firefox. IE has too short of a URL limit to be useful without pulling in code from a server.
IMHO, all web browsers should come with a nice JS console feature; It's really inexcusable not to...
Yubikey has secure tokens that you can "seed" yourself, for use with your own authentication servers. The scam is that RSA made some idiots think think there was no way to do this without their auth servers; Thereby fooling fools into using a less secure system with a mandatory recurring payment for RSA (to access the auth servers).
Additionally, I prefer the model that has RFID for physical access.
Relying on an outside source to have our cryptokeys is just adding another point of failure. EVERYONE relying on them is just creating THE BIGGEST point of failure possible... Every time I talked to security minded folks that used RSA tokens, I asked them, "So. How secure are RSAs severs? You do any security audits on them lately?" The blank expressions were priceless.
Hair splitting seems to be your specialty... It's called Potter slash when Ron and Harry play with eachother's "wands". By your definition the slash would have had to involve Pratchett humping a book. MS makes OSs, and fictional representations of them as well (much like the fictional characters in the Harry Potter series), thus slash involving said characters is indeed MS slash fiction. Perhaps a more accurate "slash" fiction (by your standards) would involve AI evolving from actual MS OSes, and their holographic representations having intercourse? (How is this much different from the above cited slash?)
This is the Internet, it would not surprise me that some would like to see the sexual acts described in your post -- if fact, I have stumbled upon Ballmer's Gates' heads transposed onto gay porn images. Would that meet your criteria, given that it was accompanied by some rather raunchy textual descriptions of their lovemaking? If so, you may sate your twisted desire for such things at 4chan.org.
I'm sure if you simply apply your searching skills and know of the proper key words you'll find the specific gay porn fiction of which you speak. You'll also find "erotic" pictures of people having sex with real OS install disks. If you look hard enough, and are of twisted enough mind you may even stumble upon the "money-shots" involving real men and their beloved Sandy-Bridge chips (as I have -- anonymous image-boards are not a place for the feint of heart).
There are official MS OS Anime personifications, and there have been for quite some time.
I see that although you are not new to the net, you are new to this topic, so I'll link you to one list of the OS-tans. I'm sure you'll have no problem finding the other less NSFW places yourself to see more and better quality pics/fics, if you are so inclined...
There is indeed slash fiction. I read one not too long ago about XP-tan having an affair with Windows7-tan, Vista-tan was quite upset (her abandonment issues surfacing yet again); The always compassionate Linux-tan tried to console her, but it made the needy OSX Leopard-tan very jealous (apparently consoling a rival is a grave transgression on her home planet).
There are OS-kuns (males) as well... My girlfriend told me of the new yaoi slash she was reading where OSX-Kun fell in love with the heroic and savage XP-kun who had rescued him from the lair of the evil scientist Dr. Mac-Defender. In the heat of their passion OSX-kun had unknowingly infected XP-kun with a virus; Thus, both OS-kuns were soon on their way to see the comically bungling Dr. Norton-kun.
Fear not my friends, Rule 34 can not be denied.
How can you prove who you are when you're anonymous?
How can you claim you had nothing to do with it, when you just asked every cracker to help you "Hack The Planet" yesterday? (Operation AntiSec)
LulzSec requested assistance from Anonymous as well as any other crackers, stating that their "top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation."
It may not be a "top" priority, but doesn't this sound a little bit contradictory:
"Help us hack the world's Governments!"
Look, I hacked the census for the Lulz! AntiSec, FTW!
"LulzSec is not responible, even though we are running #AntiSec, and all targets of opportunity should be cracked under our AntiSec banner; For the Lulz!"
In fact, the Slashdot story is still on the tab for me.
From TFA:
Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation.
I can't help but think that this is exactly what I would do if I were a once hacktivist turned undercover government agent trying to further the polictical agenda of censorship.
Around the same time that the US declares they will create a Cyber-Security strategy, (they already have cyber-attack force NSA, and professional espionage agencies as well) LulzSec is formed from those who cracked HBGary... Soon "the lulz" dictates that the common man (young and old) become witness to the threats of hacking (via attacks against porn and game servers).
Now, we have LulzSec requesting the assistance of everyone (including Anonymous -- though they have not confirmed their participation), to directly attack all governments while their are Internet censorship and cyber security bills afoot. It seems to me just the sort of disinformation and FUD campaign I would perform if I wanted to give all hackers an even worse name, and drag down Anonymous too.
Funny how Anonymous used primarily an unsophisticated traffic generation tool -- the equivalent of repeatedly pressing [F5] while viewing a website (not even a reflected distributed denial of service, which would have been much harder to trace and deliver more traffic) -- to attack primarily pro censorship political targets, yet LulzSec focuses on the most buzz generating of targets with much more sophisticated attacks.
What do you want to bet that LulzSec is taken down as soon as the powers that be wish them down, and that no real damage will come of their attacks?
Even if they are not government agents, anyone who follows behind the LulzSec banner is playing directly into the censors hands...
I think now would be a good time to begin archiving our important scientific and mathematic discoveries for the future sentient beings that may eventually take our place. Primates, I'm looking at you...
I am developing a language that any intelligent creature grasping basic mathematics should be able to decipher. Previous attempts seem sophomoric to me, and assume too much (low res. raster of a man, child and woman? Don't make me laugh).
In the stone and crystalline tablets we should denounce the perception of the knowledge as coming from a race of Gods, and to this end include the story of our great achievements in gene pool pollution.
Do you have a genetic defect? Welcome to the gene pool! We'll be happy to go through any lengths to ensure you can spread your corrupted genetic sequence on to other lifeforms -- Even if it means growing your offspring in another being, or transplanting wombs!
Natural Selection be damned; We'll do whatever it takes to not discriminate against your deformities in the bedroom.
Of course I would tone down the irony and describe the principals in simple genetic and mathematical terms for our successors. However, I assume my fellow Slashdoters -- being of the same culture and language -- can easily grasp the principals I have sarcastically alluded to above.
I think that's a good thing.
Many people think that LulzSec is has been infiltrated by the government to further a political agenda. Even if they haven't been, they are playing right into the hands of those who wish to eradicate anonymity from the Internet, and impose harsh censorship.
Just after I watched an online video wherein Hillary Clinton and others discussed the importance of forming America's Cyber Security Plan with International cooperation in mind I talked to my friends about this; Most all of them said, "What? Why do we need an Internet Police, this is just more big government getting into things they don't understand. Sure, make some rules for government systems, set some guidelines for security, and make sure to audit security practices of banks, but stay out of the Internet as a whole."
After LulzSec began attacking servers of some of my friends Minecraft and League of Legends games along with other game companies, and releasing thousands of email addresses for porn surfers my friend's attitudes have mostly changed.
Now when asked if we should have harsher punishments for "hacking" (read: cracking), government mandated security practices, or if penetration tools should be made illegal and require a license to own my friends have changed their mind. When asked they say, "I think this is a good thing."
Step back a moment and look at the big picture. Anonymous cracks a few servers and mostly does a weak DDoS (read: not even a RDDoS) against websites perceived to be pro censorship (DDoS doesn't have the same effect as releasing thousands of passwords, etc). If you are a pro censorship government body, you may rally your forces and point at the weakness of the systems and say to others in places of power: "You could be Next!" to get them on board with your Cyber Security plans.
However, we're forgetting the common man. How do we get them on board with this Cyber Security agenda? And then LulzSec is formed Possibly with the help of Anonymous members that were turned by the FBI or NSA? Who knows. I just find it a little too convenient that "doing it for the lulz" equates to placing the "dangers of hackers" in the face of the common man.
A good thing? I think not.
The first Computers were people, given math problems on paper, they solved such problems.
These computers worked for organisations / businesses / governments.
The first "Personal Computer" would be the first person hired for that role on a personal basis... Thus, secretaries and/or (lab)assistants would classify as Personal Computers.
Considering that someone could decide to perform the task themselves, they would be their own "Personal Computer".
Thus most humans have been born equipped with at least one Personal Computer -- The Brain.
Now, that we've argued and settled this ridiculous case, while ignoring ancient computers -- Which may have been single personal use only.
I suggest we argue who first invented counting. (Which was no doubt discovered long before written languages).
I'd like to register with the single Unicode codepoint TLD: U+0008
URLs were never meant to be seen or entered by humans, and yet they are.
"There needs to be a way to get to a server without manually looking up it's IP address in the 'Internet Phonebook' directory."
Thus DNS was born. Now we can change the IP address without losing visitors.
"There needs to be a way to find something on the web without having to remember the unique convoluted DNS entry, especially since you cant put a site description or keywords in the DNS records."
Thus Web-Crawling Search Engines were born, along with page ranking algorithms depending on the keywords or meta data you search for.
"There needs to be a way to get to a specific company, organization, business, band, or trademark website, but I can never remember if it's XXXX.com, XXXX.biz, XXXX.org, XXXX.info -- These TLD's are useless! Besides, phishers can own the other TLD, so making a mistake eg: paypal.biz, or a typo eg: pyapal.com is dangerous. TLD domain owners have to register with multiple TLDs for each misspelling just to prevent people from entering the wrong URL!"
Thus, security experts advise: don't enter the URL. Use a reputable search engine
Type paypal.com into the search box of your web browser. If you make a typo, it will be corrected by your selected search engine. The search engine will also alert you if you click on a dangerous site, and helps to weed out pages that are not relevant. (Oh, some of you thought those people doing that were just morons -- See how foolish your arrogance and ignorance makes your judgments...)
Some browser makers get this, and are creating a combination search / URL bar -- there are privacy issues here though, since you do not want the web browser informing a search service of everywhere you go online (but, they do have other ways of mining this very information).
Hint: The solution isn't more TLDs. .com et al. domains (for reasons mentioned above).
You're just moving the typo problem into the TLD field instead of the defacto standard xxxxx.com field. Sure, requiring a large cost to run a TLD will prevent a lot of malicious uses. However, web services will still be registering multiple
In any event this won't change the fact we're beyond IP addresses and beyond DNS as a way to identify a web page. Typing $companyName into a search box will return the correct page URL along with short descriptions to help you differentiate ambiguous URLs/sites, whereas trying to remember the TLD of a given company is fraught with peril.
"If only there was a registry of valid company names for a given region or even internationally, which also respected trademarks so that two companies don't step on each other -- Thus allowing customers to identify with a brand name, and trust that the establishment under the company name is the same as the other establishments wearing the same name."
Thus Doing Business As (DBA) registrations, Assumed Business Names registries, and trademark offices were born (far earlier than the Web or the Internet, I might add...)
Now -- It would be nice to enter Motorola or Fisher Price, or Johnson & Johnson, and not have to guess how these names map into a URL.
motorola.biz? motorola.com? go-moto.info? motorola.mobile?
fisherprice.com? fisher-price.com? fp.com? fisherprice.toys?
johnsonandjohnson.com? jnj.com? johnson-johnson.com? johnson-and-johnson.health?
Hint: It's the second domain in each list...
The answer is to provide a way to search the Fictitious or Doing Business As name databases -- I know this is possible, because Several of my chosen company names were rejected instantly when my county clerk asked for my assumed business name (She had a search tool!!!)
The way forward would be to integrate these Assumed Company Name databases into our search engines, and allow a Domain to Company Name registration, similar to our Server IP Address to Company Name syst
COPYRIGHT lasts TWO (2) GENERATIONS.
There is no solid definition of what fair use is -- it's up to a court to decide.
I applaud those who would mock via parody any copyrighted work -- They have made a mockery of us with the laws we granted them. Think about it. The software and books I write today may live on beyond my life, however, my publisher owns the rights to these works for the duration of my lifetime + 70 years (the duration of my children). This is how you enforce the worst censorship of all -- Prevent culture from spreading to the next generation by keeping them under lock and key until all who remember their short-lived success are DEAD -- Thus, robbing the public domain so that only newly minted knowledge, songs, software, books, and other works will be available.
You can take your ideas of what fair use is, and shove them -- firmly. The law is unjust, and invalid, it matters not what it states: I REFUSE TO SIT AT THE BACK OF THE BUSS, and I applaud others that will stand with me.
0. Be n == 0 (MOD 365.25) days old.
1. Go to restaurant to celebrate.
2. Begin to sing: "Happy Birthday To You... Happy --"
3. Get sued for public performance of Warner Bros. copyrighted song: "Happy Birthday"
4. Realize why all restaurants sing a different crappy song for birthday parties...
Seriously -- If an artist wants to be so flipping famous that everyone is singing their songs, or quoting their books, then their work now belongs to everyone.
To such artists: Mission Accomplished, you have added a small piece to our culture. However, you used our language, our instrument inventions, our literary concepts, our "rhyming" techniques, our aesthetic tastes for melody -- You have never owned the totality of your work, you were leasing it from us. We have chosen to grant you a short monopoly over such works, for the betterment of society. Now you have used your wealth to harm society with the very laws we chose to grant you protection under. You have gone too far. We choose to revoke your monopoly rights.
DOWN WITH ALL COPYRIGHTS -- They are a disease that humanity must not bear. We exist as leaders of this world above all other creatures due to our ability to share knowledge and culture -- To outlaw any such conveyance is to outlaw human nature. We do not welcome the police state you are building for us. We will now commence to tear it apart those constructs we find offensive.
-- Yours Truly,
We, the people.
- Happy Birthday To Me
Yep. Look at RISC... Reduced instruction set, means lower power consumption, smaller chip size and complexity.
Having a whole bunch of features tacked on is good when they are used by everyone all the time -- It's best to get rid of the features you really don't need to make it easier for the chip fabricators and/or computer programmers.
C++ is the absolute worse. It's the only language I've encountered where an entire other language lives inside it and slowly killing it like a parasitic twin. As a C++ coder I'm not supposed to use the C specific features because "C is not C++", and yet, it is... Thus, crazy semantic workarounds for things that should be simple, but conflict with the base language, are shoehorned in.
I like C++, and I understand that C++ was born by adding features to C, but it's time to cut that umbilical cord. C and C++ can live on separately -- well, they could have if they would have made the decision to split before so much code was written...
C'est la vie. Some people never learn. Riding the coat-tails of another language is a strategy that can yield results in terms of popularity (see: JavaScript) -- However it comes at the price of confusion (JavaScript is not Java; C++ is not C), and in C++'s case, unnecessary complexity -- the very enemy of "performance" in every sense of the word.
To say that C++ is designed for high performance, when in fact it was designed for popularity and ease of migration / incorporation for C coders and existing C (and C++) code, is not only a lie but a false premise that corrupts the very language itself.