I'm fairly sure your parent was trolling. You cannot construct a Turing machine that simulates itself simulating itself simulating itself... it's an infinite loop. You can't even state the problem, because in order to do the simulation it has to simulate the simulation, and in order to simulate the simulation it has to simulate itself simulating the simulation, and so on.
Backup, servers, and bandwidth all require manpower to keep them operational. I take it *you* don't work in the IT industry.
And the performance question is separate from the "do I like how this looks question," which is what everyone looks at when asking if this site was worth 4 million. Whatever that money went into, most of it was probably not UI design, and this is natural and understandable for a site of that size.
They were demoing how you can browse the web and never have to worry about obtrusive Flash ads.
Which is actually a feature I can get behind. That said, unless iBooks is opened up to other platforms like iTunes, this is just going to be another Apple TV - after all, that's what killed it and every other set-top box is that it's not worthwhile to buy a device that's locked into a single market when there are other markets that give you the full range of programming.
I love how people toss around these huge million dollar figures as if the end-user experience was the primary driver of cost in these things. It's mostly backup, servers, and bandwidth.
For me the issue has always been video. I refuse to watch a video to read text. A splash image ad that requires click through would be more reasonable. But even then, what do you do with a Kindle?
The browser is a Google application, and is open source. Now of course you're going to come out with "but that doesn't count, most of the hard stuff is closed-source."
But that's not the point. Google provides the FOSS OS and some FOSS apps. Just because there are some closed components doesn't remove the FOSS of the platform.
No, it's more insulting, because you're implying that their stance against homosexuals is somehow proper, but that they themselves are equally worthy of disdain. You're saying "I agree with you about this, but you're just as bad."
If they welcomed homosexuals you might simply be disdaining anyone who is welcoming to homosexuals. So it's "I disagree with you, and you're terrible."
So clearly the AC referring to the church of Scientology as SciFags actually agrees with the Church of Scientology on something.
They're just adding complexity in the hopes that they can shore up their advantage over indie developers and FOSS hobbyists. The amount of stuff that's not only freely available, but legally available is getting larger every day.
Personally I don't care much for a game that doesn't have an active and involved modding community. Whether or not I'm involved in the community, it just makes the game higher quality. As more and more high-quality FOSS engines show up, it's entirely plausible that modders can move in and do everything.
Especially in the shooter department. Eye-candy is nice, but if I want a shooter the Quake engine is perfectly adequate.
Imagination and skill have very little to do with convincing management of these qualities in you. (at least not any imagination or skill that pertains to your job.)
Bull. I get paid less than that straight out of college to program on a late 80's non-relational non-SQL database that powers our organization.
On the other hand, I'm still a temp, it seems likely that I might get a pay raise if and when I get hired full time soon (and it had better happens soon or I'm gonna go for the cool and hip stuff.)
A series of nukes strategically placed deep in the Earth's surface could conceivably do it, if you chose the right places and used all nukes presently on Earth.
Incidentally, it's annoying that all the Google results for kill all life on earth return stuff about killing all human life on earth.
Bing is more varied, but no more relevant.
And incidentally the first completion for "kill all l" is "kill all liberals" on both Google and Bing.
Actually, I am fairly certain that any creature capable of technological advancement will go through an EM Radiation phase. That's not a terra-centric idea. It's the most straightforward way of transmitting information.
But yeah, I think the 'goldilocks' search is just absurd. Life is just as likely to be silicon-based, or deep in the heart of a star where I suppose you're right that matter takes on properties we can't even begin to fathom.
Actually, I think a Dyson sphere should be fairly easy to detect. It would be massive enough that it should be a star, but not emitting any light. (nor absorbing so much as a black hole.
And smaller values should be discernible in the same manner that we find planets. We haven't found them, but we should be able to recognize them if they exist.
There's no reasonable explanation for why they would want to enslave us, or eat us, or otherwise exploit us.
It's conceivable that they might want to wipe us out and repurpose Earth, as it does have some useful minerals, but especially given our nuclear arsenal and the (minor) headaches that would cause, I don't see why they'd go for Earth over the many uninhabited rocks in the universe. Direct harvesting of solar energy would be far more effective than exploiting us, whatever their goals are. We're far less useful than robots.
FROM: HUMAN RACE, PLANET EARTH TO: ANY ADVANCED LIFE-FORMS IN THE UNIVERSE We have come into some big problems maintaining our biosphere. If any life-forms with experience dealing with advanced atmospheric problems in a carbon-based ecosystem would be willing to help, we would be much obliged.
FROM: [garbled] TO: HUMAN RACE, PLANET EARTH
Solution: quit being such selfish fuckers. Was that so hard?
Idiots. Call us in 100 years if you haven't blown yourselves up.
You're penalizing people for using something that has >50% market share. Forcing the margins on developing a worm down by forcing the market to split so that no one has as much market share as Windows would greatly increase the security of the Internet.
You can't really use an OS with 90% market share in a reasonably secure manner. That kind of install base insures that you have dozens of attackers clawing at your door. And what's more, such attacks will be undetectable without very careful analysis.
While it's true that scriptkids can do this sort of thing, that's only a reflection of how easy it can be. However, I think you're vastly underestimating China. Sure, a scriptKid can do it. But the people working on the Great Firewall of China have access to just about every level of the Internet. Owning every machine in China is pretty trivial when you think about it in terms of the government department in charge of regulating the Internet also being responsible for botnet management, by which I mean ensuring that the existing botnets are under the control of the regime.
Blaming entertainment obscures the true issue. So long as people have to work long hours to put food on the table, they don't revolt. It's when they cannot put food on the table that they revolt. There are some notable exceptions, but most revolutions are traced to shortages.
They did what Open Source and Open Source advocates fear horribly, which is built a proprietary windowing API (Cocoa) that makes porting what users see (the GUI) extremely difficult.
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That was a joke. Sorry. I shouldn't mix sarcasm with informed commentary.
I'm fairly sure your parent was trolling. You cannot construct a Turing machine that simulates itself simulating itself simulating itself... it's an infinite loop. You can't even state the problem, because in order to do the simulation it has to simulate the simulation, and in order to simulate the simulation it has to simulate itself simulating the simulation, and so on.
Backup, servers, and bandwidth all require manpower to keep them operational. I take it *you* don't work in the IT industry.
And the performance question is separate from the "do I like how this looks question," which is what everyone looks at when asking if this site was worth 4 million. Whatever that money went into, most of it was probably not UI design, and this is natural and understandable for a site of that size.
They were demoing how you can browse the web and never have to worry about obtrusive Flash ads.
Which is actually a feature I can get behind. That said, unless iBooks is opened up to other platforms like iTunes, this is just going to be another Apple TV - after all, that's what killed it and every other set-top box is that it's not worthwhile to buy a device that's locked into a single market when there are other markets that give you the full range of programming.
I love how people toss around these huge million dollar figures as if the end-user experience was the primary driver of cost in these things. It's mostly backup, servers, and bandwidth.
For me the issue has always been video. I refuse to watch a video to read text. A splash image ad that requires click through would be more reasonable. But even then, what do you do with a Kindle?
The browser is a Google application, and is open source. Now of course you're going to come out with "but that doesn't count, most of the hard stuff is closed-source."
But that's not the point. Google provides the FOSS OS and some FOSS apps. Just because there are some closed components doesn't remove the FOSS of the platform.
No, it's more insulting, because you're implying that their stance against homosexuals is somehow proper, but that they themselves are equally worthy of disdain. You're saying "I agree with you about this, but you're just as bad."
If they welcomed homosexuals you might simply be disdaining anyone who is welcoming to homosexuals. So it's "I disagree with you, and you're terrible."
So clearly the AC referring to the church of Scientology as SciFags actually agrees with the Church of Scientology on something.
They're just adding complexity in the hopes that they can shore up their advantage over indie developers and FOSS hobbyists. The amount of stuff that's not only freely available, but legally available is getting larger every day.
Personally I don't care much for a game that doesn't have an active and involved modding community. Whether or not I'm involved in the community, it just makes the game higher quality. As more and more high-quality FOSS engines show up, it's entirely plausible that modders can move in and do everything.
Especially in the shooter department. Eye-candy is nice, but if I want a shooter the Quake engine is perfectly adequate.
Bull. I straight up do not see (or hear) half of the ads that come up on television.
Most ads on Hulu, by contrast, I do see. So ignoring Hulu is ridiculous.
Actually, I would say that most Christian fundamentalists are pacifists like the Amish.
Imagination and skill have very little to do with convincing management of these qualities in you. (at least not any imagination or skill that pertains to your job.)
Bull. I get paid less than that straight out of college to program on a late 80's non-relational non-SQL database that powers our organization.
On the other hand, I'm still a temp, it seems likely that I might get a pay raise if and when I get hired full time soon (and it had better happens soon or I'm gonna go for the cool and hip stuff.)
I said there's no reason they would want to exploit us. If they want our natural resources we'll be dead before we know what hit us.
A series of nukes strategically placed deep in the Earth's surface could conceivably do it, if you chose the right places and used all nukes presently on Earth.
Incidentally, it's annoying that all the Google results for kill all life on earth return stuff about killing all human life on earth.
Bing is more varied, but no more relevant.
And incidentally the first completion for "kill all l" is "kill all liberals" on both Google and Bing.
We're trying to selectively eradicate life. Simply eradicating life would be a much easier problem to solve.
Actually, I am fairly certain that any creature capable of technological advancement will go through an EM Radiation phase. That's not a terra-centric idea. It's the most straightforward way of transmitting information.
But yeah, I think the 'goldilocks' search is just absurd. Life is just as likely to be silicon-based, or deep in the heart of a star where I suppose you're right that matter takes on properties we can't even begin to fathom.
Actually, I think a Dyson sphere should be fairly easy to detect. It would be massive enough that it should be a star, but not emitting any light. (nor absorbing so much as a black hole.
And smaller values should be discernible in the same manner that we find planets. We haven't found them, but we should be able to recognize them if they exist.
There's no reasonable explanation for why they would want to enslave us, or eat us, or otherwise exploit us.
It's conceivable that they might want to wipe us out and repurpose Earth, as it does have some useful minerals, but especially given our nuclear arsenal and the (minor) headaches that would cause, I don't see why they'd go for Earth over the many uninhabited rocks in the universe. Direct harvesting of solar energy would be far more effective than exploiting us, whatever their goals are. We're far less useful than robots.
FROM: HUMAN RACE, PLANET EARTH
TO: ANY ADVANCED LIFE-FORMS IN THE UNIVERSE
We have come into some big problems maintaining our biosphere. If any life-forms with experience dealing with advanced atmospheric problems in a carbon-based ecosystem would be willing to help, we would be much obliged.
FROM: [garbled]
TO: HUMAN RACE, PLANET EARTH
Solution: quit being such selfish fuckers. Was that so hard?
Idiots. Call us in 100 years if you haven't blown yourselves up.
I was probably going to use anyway, being far less spammy, and providing easy export of my source tree.
You're penalizing people for using something that has >50% market share. Forcing the margins on developing a worm down by forcing the market to split so that no one has as much market share as Windows would greatly increase the security of the Internet.
You can't really use an OS with 90% market share in a reasonably secure manner. That kind of install base insures that you have dozens of attackers clawing at your door. And what's more, such attacks will be undetectable without very careful analysis.
While it's true that scriptkids can do this sort of thing, that's only a reflection of how easy it can be. However, I think you're vastly underestimating China. Sure, a scriptKid can do it. But the people working on the Great Firewall of China have access to just about every level of the Internet. Owning every machine in China is pretty trivial when you think about it in terms of the government department in charge of regulating the Internet also being responsible for botnet management, by which I mean ensuring that the existing botnets are under the control of the regime.
Blaming entertainment obscures the true issue. So long as people have to work long hours to put food on the table, they don't revolt. It's when they cannot put food on the table that they revolt. There are some notable exceptions, but most revolutions are traced to shortages.
They did what Open Source and Open Source advocates fear horribly, which is built a proprietary windowing API (Cocoa) that makes porting what users see (the GUI) extremely difficult.