Great decision, but it won't have much of an effect unless someone also throws out the approx. 100,000 to 1,000,000 remaining bogus patents on prior art, general math or totally obvious and trivial processes.
The word "terrorist" has a clear-cut and unambiguous definition. A terrorist is someone who deliberately and intentionally targets and attacks non-combatant civilians to further his political goals.
NATs are the biggest pain in the ass for every user, whether they know it or not. They have taken back the internet by decades. Not only are they full of bugs and incorrect protocol implementations, they have forced myriads of developers to spend thousands of hours on unreliable NAT hole punching hacks just to be able to use the internet for what it's intended to. In addition to this,they have frustrated and enraged millions of gamers.
Whether they pirate movies, music or software, pirates seem to be mostly driven by moral considerations. They also tend to have a strong moral code of conduct - don't attribute other group's releases to yourself, always provide the necessary cracks, add an "if you like it, buy it" clause, and so on.
This is NOT about privacy! People remove evidence of their past crimes, as well as past political statements and affiliations from their search results!
I encourage you to investigate further what is being removed, so you can come to a conclusion by yourself.
As a European who is generally very fond of the European Union, I'm truly ashamed about this "right to be forgotten". Whenever I see a link removed, I use a proxy to switch to Google US and I've seen countless abuses of the system. Many of the search results that are removed are clearly in the public interest.
I cannot believe that there is no discussion about this at higher levels of the EU. If France got this right world-wide, why not Russia, China, Saudia Arabia, or Nigeria? This regulation makes no sense whatsoever. The judges who decided in favour of it must be mentally retarded.
Sexbots for women and men might be the ultimate chance to remedy one humanity's greatest source of conflicts, ranging from the Troian War over annoyingly crazy teenagers to sexually frustrated housewives. They could finally stop men from objectifying women for purely sexual purposes. The effects of this change could be more beneficial than the pill and the invention of the vibrator taken together. In an age in which in-vitro fertilization is easy, it would be crazy to take away this unique chance for the evolution of humanity.
That being said, the cheapest option is probably to go for refurbished old laptops. When they come from an enterprise they are often in a surprisingly good state. I'm doing all my daily work on a Thinkpad Z61.
Not too long ago it used to be possible to send hand-written manuscripts to publishers. Admittedly, these times are mostly gone, but for classes handwriting still should be good enough. Unless you're too lazy to correct handwritten assignments or confuse writing skills with nice formatting.
I haven't watched TV since the 90s but I often watch TV series over streaming -- and I'm pretty sure I have not come across any series about programming. Not a single one.:( The closest to it was IT crowd, which was admittedly great but only entertainment.
Anyway, perhaps I'd start watching TV again if there were more series about programming. I'd also like to see good TV tutorials on combinatorics, but that might just be my personal preference. I suppose I'd need to purchase some sort of antenna first, though.
There's gonna be software, and it'll fit together like KACHUNG! Then stuff will flow through it all and be like woooosh! Then there'll be a result and one guy will own it all and be stood there with his hair waiving in the wind, and babes will be all like He's so awesome!
Goddammit, you just stole my business plan!!!! How did you get through the 7 firewalls into my Gibson server??
Not everything that is technically feasible becomes commonplace. Despite increasingly clever marketing creating artificial demands, people still tend to have their own mind.
I've just had an admittedly cursory look at the article about Obama and haven't found any problems. It seems to state facts only. What bias do you mean?
Modern languages with runtimes like Java, C# (and presumably Swift when it gets its act together) can actually be *faster* than C/C++ in some cases because they have more optimization information at runtime than exists statically at compile time.
They can but in fact they aren't. Performance must always be measured.
No matter of wishful thinking will change the fact that the C and C++ implementations gcc and icc are generally faster than implementations of other current languages (mostly due to smart compiler optimizations) except that Fortran tends to be faster than C for numerical stuff and GNAT Ada can sometimes beat C++ and even C or at least be on a par with it. I'm not saying that there are no occasional outliers or that speed is everything (often, it is not needed, of course) but the data is out there and it is easy to write some tests on your own.
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Great decision, but it won't have much of an effect unless someone also throws out the approx. 100,000 to 1,000,000 remaining bogus patents on prior art, general math or totally obvious and trivial processes.
That's probably because most businesses are so incredibly boooring that it constantly amazes me that capitalism appears to work to some extent.
That's alright. My Windows 7 is running fine and I am definitely not looking for anything else than security updates.
The word "terrorist" has a clear-cut and unambiguous definition. A terrorist is someone who deliberately and intentionally targets and attacks non-combatant civilians to further his political goals.
NATs are the biggest pain in the ass for every user, whether they know it or not. They have taken back the internet by decades. Not only are they full of bugs and incorrect protocol implementations, they have forced myriads of developers to spend thousands of hours on unreliable NAT hole punching hacks just to be able to use the internet for what it's intended to. In addition to this,they have frustrated and enraged millions of gamers.
Whether they pirate movies, music or software, pirates seem to be mostly driven by moral considerations. They also tend to have a strong moral code of conduct - don't attribute other group's releases to yourself, always provide the necessary cracks, add an "if you like it, buy it" clause, and so on.
This is NOT about privacy! People remove evidence of their past crimes, as well as past political statements and affiliations from their search results!
I encourage you to investigate further what is being removed, so you can come to a conclusion by yourself.
As a European who is generally very fond of the European Union, I'm truly ashamed about this "right to be forgotten". Whenever I see a link removed, I use a proxy to switch to Google US and I've seen countless abuses of the system. Many of the search results that are removed are clearly in the public interest.
I cannot believe that there is no discussion about this at higher levels of the EU. If France got this right world-wide, why not Russia, China, Saudia Arabia, or Nigeria? This regulation makes no sense whatsoever. The judges who decided in favour of it must be mentally retarded.
Well, the "shit" is free for me, because I'm running an ultra aggressive ad blocker. :-)
I kindly disagree. A truly intelligent response would have been:
"Oh go fuck yourself, you useless corporate drone!"
I don't understand the question either.
That news is something like 65 years late - a new /. record!!
Sexbots for women and men might be the ultimate chance to remedy one humanity's greatest source of conflicts, ranging from the Troian War over annoyingly crazy teenagers to sexually frustrated housewives. They could finally stop men from objectifying women for purely sexual purposes. The effects of this change could be more beneficial than the pill and the invention of the vibrator taken together. In an age in which in-vitro fertilization is easy, it would be crazy to take away this unique chance for the evolution of humanity.
Private use of drones should be banned.
That would be illegal.
That being said, the cheapest option is probably to go for refurbished old laptops. When they come from an enterprise they are often in a surprisingly good state. I'm doing all my daily work on a Thinkpad Z61.
Not too long ago it used to be possible to send hand-written manuscripts to publishers. Admittedly, these times are mostly gone, but for classes handwriting still should be good enough. Unless you're too lazy to correct handwritten assignments or confuse writing skills with nice formatting.
Au contraire, mon cher, he did not invent a style, if at all his designers invented it for him. Big difference.
People who watch TV are stupid. Avoid them.
I haven't watched TV since the 90s but I often watch TV series over streaming -- and I'm pretty sure I have not come across any series about programming. Not a single one. :( The closest to it was IT crowd, which was admittedly great but only entertainment.
Anyway, perhaps I'd start watching TV again if there were more series about programming. I'd also like to see good TV tutorials on combinatorics, but that might just be my personal preference. I suppose I'd need to purchase some sort of antenna first, though.
There's gonna be software, and it'll fit together like KACHUNG!
Then stuff will flow through it all and be like woooosh! Then there'll be a result and one guy will own it all and be stood there with his hair waiving in the wind, and babes will be all like He's so awesome!
Goddammit, you just stole my business plan!!!! How did you get through the 7 firewalls into my Gibson server??
Not everything that is technically feasible becomes commonplace. Despite increasingly clever marketing creating artificial demands, people still tend to have their own mind.
I've just had an admittedly cursory look at the article about Obama and haven't found any problems. It seems to state facts only. What bias do you mean?
All of my code runs fastest with -O3 and slowest with -Os. Tested extensively. But it's Ada (GNAT gcc) on Linux.
Modern languages with runtimes like Java, C# (and presumably Swift when it gets its act together) can actually be *faster* than C/C++ in some cases because they have more optimization information at runtime than exists statically at compile time.
They can but in fact they aren't. Performance must always be measured.
No matter of wishful thinking will change the fact that the C and C++ implementations gcc and icc are generally faster than implementations of other current languages (mostly due to smart compiler optimizations) except that Fortran tends to be faster than C for numerical stuff and GNAT Ada can sometimes beat C++ and even C or at least be on a par with it. I'm not saying that there are no occasional outliers or that speed is everything (often, it is not needed, of course) but the data is out there and it is easy to write some tests on your own.