come on... any law taken entirely literally looks retarded. It does make sense that jailbreaking might allow the jailbreaker to find details about the inner workings of the device.
So please stop faking a lack of common sense. People taking laws too literally are why lawyers make absurd amounts of money, why license agreements are 100 pages long and why every little thing must be reglemented instead of the government just letting us do whatever we want as long as we don't kill people and steal stuff.
It's not like the others won't do it or aren't doing it anyway without calling it location-based advertising. Or like if a company/government/anyone with incentive says it won't retain information about you, it really won't. You still need to not let anyone know your location if you really want your privacy.
That's training only using Linux instead of Windows. I'd rather put my kid in front of a MS-DOS install with nothing but QBasic and a few simple programs (and me being around to help). That would help a lot more. Of course, I have no kids and I'm still in college but that's what I'd do:P
And no, you can't teach a kid how to program directly in linux because it simply sucks at first. You want him to see code that does something for each line instead of needing to include headers, initialize variables, handle events, etc.
Physics is very friendly to multithreading since most computations are done in parallel anyway. N objects interacting with each other would be simulated in a series of steps, and for each step you need to calculate the next attributes taking into account the previous ones of all the objects. Then, you would save this instance and start again. During each step, threads can more or less operate independent to each other.
A very good example of this would be NVidia PhysX.
More like California exporting heat to Canada (if you look at it energy wise) but I suppose California is more need of cooling than Canada is in need of heating.
24C is way too much for a comfortable working environment. In my house, the heating system keeps the air at an average of 22C and it's sometimes so warm it's tiring.
At least in my country the educational system doesn't always follow this "need to know" methodology (read that: they just dumped 20 year old shit on us and made us memorize it in the exact way the teachers learned it and when we were done some of the information was outdated, wrong or just pointless). I'm pretty sure it's not much better in other places.
There is no way that post is _sarcastic_. It was a joke. That's what you intended and what the replier understood. However, he also pointed out that that joke is old and unfunny. You probably didn't have illusions of superiority (heck, maybe you're not even from the US) though. Anyway, just adding a "sarcasm tag" afterward won't make it look better, it's still a lame stereotypical joke that adds nothing to the discussion.
Move to a country with less bureaucracy and a less complex economy. Not somewhere where 80% of people milk each other out of money for almost no tangible work done (lawyers, clerks, consultants, advisers, economists, managers, get-rich-quick-schemers, etc. ). That's why everything is so expensive in developed countries. Here, a movie at the cinema is equivalent to 1-3$ (5$ for the 3D ones), a dinner is 10$ and 100$ would be enough to buy a night of drinking to 5-10 people at a fancy bar. That's why almost everyone pirates software, it wouldn't be feasible to buy a 40$ game when for that amount of money you could go on a camping trip for 3 days.
They do indirectly. Of course they won't give like 50% of the income from rentals to the makers but they did give money to some superstore that in turn gave the makers money. If you don't rent it, maybe small shops won't buy it, if not enough shops buy it the superstore will not buy it either (or will give a smaller sum). It's kind of backwards actually but in time it balances nicely.
Seriously? What kind of question is that? It's like asking 'why would you need 3D graphics on a phone? You're just using it to talk to people'. Practicality doesn't count that much these days.
If it gets to be used by enough people, in time some will want feature X,Y or Z and they will have to patch up new functionality to the OS. For example, wanting 3D acceleration is enough to bloat it up real good.
True, I'm tired of idiots saying a movie is bad because important characters die in it. I know this is fantasy and it's not necessary to follow reality, but the ultra happy endings get boring and repetitive after a while. I want some authenticity and realism too and if possible some plot development.
In most shows, the plot stays the same for seasons or doesn't actually move at all. No-one (important) ever dies and just when someone is about to change the main story (even for the better), something happens in the last 5minutes of the episode to revert all the things to the state they were at the start.
I agree with you except for the "educational" part. TV is not supposed to be educational, or it shouldn't anyway. At least not the way it looks like now. In the '90s the cartoons were not made for braindead children and channels like Discovery were not made of consumerist bullshit centered around the average idiot.
Those shows were actually good (if watched a few hours a day) but we shouldn't say TV should be educational. It's not a good medium, not for important stuff. Sure, it's nice to give kids a little imagination as long as there is a responsible parent near telling them that choking your dog is not funny in real life. It's also nice to show some cool stuff you can do with science or that you can in see in space/<insert niche scientific domain here> but not if average Joe understands it wrong and starts rumors of how scientists plan to take over the world with the LHC, or he blows up himself while putting mentos in coke, or starts a church trying to stop the evil demon asteroid coming in 2012 to kill us all.
TV is mainly entertainment and usually low quality stuff. If that's what the dumb masses want, that's what it's on.
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>> they'll have to make breathing illegal
Better not to give them an excuse to do so...
So a hospital without highly specialized surgery equipment will have instead the robot and all the infrastructure it needs?
come on... any law taken entirely literally looks retarded. It does make sense that jailbreaking might allow the jailbreaker to find details about the inner workings of the device.
So please stop faking a lack of common sense. People taking laws too literally are why lawyers make absurd amounts of money, why license agreements are 100 pages long and why every little thing must be reglemented instead of the government just letting us do whatever we want as long as we don't kill people and steal stuff.
Yeah, I personally 'liked' the parts where the gunner says "come on, let us shoot".
because then you would have to buy only one game you silly man
It's not like the others won't do it or aren't doing it anyway without calling it location-based advertising. Or like if a company/government/anyone with incentive says it won't retain information about you, it really won't. You still need to not let anyone know your location if you really want your privacy.
If Chuck Norris ever fights himself (like if he goes back in time) he will win. End of story.
That's training only using Linux instead of Windows. I'd rather put my kid in front of a MS-DOS install with nothing but QBasic and a few simple programs (and me being around to help). That would help a lot more. Of course, I have no kids and I'm still in college but that's what I'd do :P
And no, you can't teach a kid how to program directly in linux because it simply sucks at first. You want him to see code that does something for each line instead of needing to include headers, initialize variables, handle events, etc.
Physics is very friendly to multithreading since most computations are done in parallel anyway. N objects interacting with each other would be simulated in a series of steps, and for each step you need to calculate the next attributes taking into account the previous ones of all the objects. Then, you would save this instance and start again. During each step, threads can more or less operate independent to each other.
A very good example of this would be NVidia PhysX.
Wow, you treat this analogy making like a job or something don't you?
More like California exporting heat to Canada (if you look at it energy wise) but I suppose California is more need of cooling than Canada is in need of heating.
24C is way too much for a comfortable working environment. In my house, the heating system keeps the air at an average of 22C and it's sometimes so warm it's tiring.
At least in my country the educational system doesn't always follow this "need to know" methodology (read that: they just dumped 20 year old shit on us and made us memorize it in the exact way the teachers learned it and when we were done some of the information was outdated, wrong or just pointless). I'm pretty sure it's not much better in other places.
There is no way that post is _sarcastic_. It was a joke. That's what you intended and what the replier understood. However, he also pointed out that that joke is old and unfunny. You probably didn't have illusions of superiority (heck, maybe you're not even from the US) though. Anyway, just adding a "sarcasm tag" afterward won't make it look better, it's still a lame stereotypical joke that adds nothing to the discussion.
Move to a country with less bureaucracy and a less complex economy. Not somewhere where 80% of people milk each other out of money for almost no tangible work done (lawyers, clerks, consultants, advisers, economists, managers, get-rich-quick-schemers, etc. ). That's why everything is so expensive in developed countries. Here, a movie at the cinema is equivalent to 1-3$ (5$ for the 3D ones), a dinner is 10$ and 100$ would be enough to buy a night of drinking to 5-10 people at a fancy bar. That's why almost everyone pirates software, it wouldn't be feasible to buy a 40$ game when for that amount of money you could go on a camping trip for 3 days.
Nor am I.
They do indirectly. Of course they won't give like 50% of the income from rentals to the makers but they did give money to some superstore that in turn gave the makers money. If you don't rent it, maybe small shops won't buy it, if not enough shops buy it the superstore will not buy it either (or will give a smaller sum). It's kind of backwards actually but in time it balances nicely.
Seriously? What kind of question is that? It's like asking 'why would you need 3D graphics on a phone? You're just using it to talk to people'. Practicality doesn't count that much these days.
If it gets to be used by enough people, in time some will want feature X,Y or Z and they will have to patch up new functionality to the OS. For example, wanting 3D acceleration is enough to bloat it up real good.
When did Google delete any information they had on their drives? :P
> Someone's been watching Smallville!
I tried to watch it, but it started to piss me off after an episode or two.
True, I'm tired of idiots saying a movie is bad because important characters die in it. I know this is fantasy and it's not necessary to follow reality, but the ultra happy endings get boring and repetitive after a while. I want some authenticity and realism too and if possible some plot development.
In most shows, the plot stays the same for seasons or doesn't actually move at all. No-one (important) ever dies and just when someone is about to change the main story (even for the better), something happens in the last 5minutes of the episode to revert all the things to the state they were at the start.
So, are you agreeing with me or not? :P
So? Some sick fucks strapped bombs and guns on airplanes, does that mean we shouldn't have invented them?
I agree with you except for the "educational" part. TV is not supposed to be educational, or it shouldn't anyway. At least not the way it looks like now. In the '90s the cartoons were not made for braindead children and channels like Discovery were not made of consumerist bullshit centered around the average idiot.
Those shows were actually good (if watched a few hours a day) but we shouldn't say TV should be educational. It's not a good medium, not for important stuff. Sure, it's nice to give kids a little imagination as long as there is a responsible parent near telling them that choking your dog is not funny in real life. It's also nice to show some cool stuff you can do with science or that you can in see in space/<insert niche scientific domain here> but not if average Joe understands it wrong and starts rumors of how scientists plan to take over the world with the LHC, or he blows up himself while putting mentos in coke, or starts a church trying to stop the evil demon asteroid coming in 2012 to kill us all.
TV is mainly entertainment and usually low quality stuff. If that's what the dumb masses want, that's what it's on.