Your Republican Party is becoming a parody of itself. Most people on this side of the Atlantic are mystified that the GOP polls any votes at all.
Here's how confused we are: my family was playing some crappy trivia game at Christmas and the question came up "who was the Republican president elected in 1860". Here in the UK, we don'[t know our US presidents very well, and most of us could only name one from that time period. However, the person who had to answer the question got it wrong because he couldn't accept the fact that Lincoln was not a Democrat. I would guess that nine out of ten people in the UK, who know who the Democrats and Republicans are, would guess Lincoln was a Democrat.
In the C99 standard, there are definitions that make char and byte effectively the same size. The standard purposely leaves out a definition of exactly how big that is in terms of bits.
Then let us all behave like you, and then there will be no strings of bits to copy anymore.
There will be strings of bits to copy, but it will all be amateur shit that nobody wants to see/hear/use, or it will be riddled with advertisements and product placements.
Well, that's just the thing now, isn't it? Bitcoins are not shares of stock. They are currency. If I do as you say, and "borrow" bitcoins from party A, in exchange for cash
That bit in the parent is wrong. When you borrow the bitcoins, you don't give party A any cash, or at most you give them a fee for renting the bitcoins.
The engineers and tech didn't kill Sun, bad Management and cheap Intel Linux boxes did. Sun should have dropped their hardware division sooner. Why buy 1 $100,000 Sun box when I can buy 5 $2,000 Intel boxes for the same.
Remind me never to hire you as my purchasing manager.
Ha! My first regular watch had to be"recharged" every day. You didn't need to plug it in though, you just rotated the little knob on the side of it until the spring was tight.
Opensource Darwin doesn't even include CoreAudio, or Quartz. or any of the Coreobject system. I would say those are all core components of OSX, but they are not Darwin and not open source. The Finder? nope, not open source.
So, no.
This is true. Everything that makes OS X OS X rather than just another BSD with a heavily modified kernel is proprietary.
It's actually a significant improvement over Mountain Lion. It looks much the same as it used to, but there have been significant performance improvements. The UI has less Skeuomorphism too.
Also, you can now get iBooks for Mac. Frankly, it should have been a major embarrassment that Amazon had better support on Apple equipment than their own eBook reader..
The difference is that the AI can be exactly modeled, simply by making another copy of it. Given all the same inputs and the same data and initial conditions, a digital processing system comes to the same result every time. Humans are not digital processing systems, an identical copy of a human (or indeed any animal) cannot be made and the exact same combination of data and initial conditions cannot be produced.
The bit you are glossing over here is that, in your imagination, the AI system's inputs are vastly less complex than the inputs of a human being. Attach a couple of video cameras and microphones to the AI that are constantly streaming data from the real world to it, and you'll find it's just as hard to replicate the exact same combination of data and initial conditions as it is with the human.
But free will means a lot of things.
In one version, we ask, "Is the decision determined by the inputs alone, or does the person making the decision change the outcome?" This is pretty trivially answerable. No two humans will do the same thing in every situation, so we say a person has free will.
Define the inputs. The person's internal state that changes the outcome is determined by historic inputs, so if you take into account all the inputs right back to the moment of conception and including the genome of the person, can you say that two people with exactly the same history would make different decisions?
Of course, two such people couldn't exist in the same Universe because they would have to inhabit exactly the same space.
In another version, we ask, "Are peoples' actions determined purely by physical processes, or is there something ineffable that has to be considered to explain how people behave?" This is pretty obviously not answerable.
I'll answer it. The answer is yes and it is falsifiable. If there was something ineffable that is somehow pulling the levers behind the scenes, it would be, in principle, possible to observe components of the brain not behaving in accordance with physical law.
Some of the trains on the Circle Line are now articulated. I've only been on one, but it was much better than the old way. Of course, that might partly be due to the fact that the stock was brand new. There even seemed to be air con.
If you read the article, you'll realise that this is not Apple, but Mark Shuttleworth claiming to know what Apple are going to do. It is like me saying "Linus Torvalds is going to implement the Win32 API directly and you saying "who is running Linux? Steve Balmer?"
It's quite funny actually. He admits his own attempt failed to reach its crowd funding target, but the support he did get "blew him away" which implies that he was never expecting the crowd funding target to be met.
The rest of your post is exactly why Apple would be stupid to consider merging their laptop and tablet lines.
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Your Republican Party is becoming a parody of itself. Most people on this side of the Atlantic are mystified that the GOP polls any votes at all.
Here's how confused we are: my family was playing some crappy trivia game at Christmas and the question came up "who was the Republican president elected in 1860". Here in the UK, we don'[t know our US presidents very well, and most of us could only name one from that time period. However, the person who had to answer the question got it wrong because he couldn't accept the fact that Lincoln was not a Democrat. I would guess that nine out of ten people in the UK, who know who the Democrats and Republicans are, would guess Lincoln was a Democrat.
C is only a portable assembler. It was designed to be that by K&R. ...
Basically I'm terribly tired about this: "learn C and all is good" /. myth.
Strangely, I'm terribly tired of the "C is a portable assembler" myth. It's not, it's a high level language, albeit a small one.
In the C99 standard, there are definitions that make char and byte effectively the same size. The standard purposely leaves out a definition of exactly how big that is in terms of bits.
A better option than pirating is to delete the app from your phone and post a negative review on the app store to warn other people off.
Then let us all behave like you, and then there will be no strings of bits to copy anymore.
There will be strings of bits to copy, but it will all be amateur shit that nobody wants to see/hear/use, or it will be riddled with advertisements and product placements.
Under such a standard, everyone would take the word to be intended to be hurtful.
Guy Gibson's dog was called Nigger.
Would the reasonable man consider that my usage of the word there was intended to be hurtful? I think not, I am merely repeating a fact.
For the record, I am a male caucasian from the UK.
If I take your $50 bill and give you $100 british pounds, that's actually changing of money, but you can bet I'd expect to be regulated.
I'll take that deal. (the exchange rate is currently 0.61 GBP to the USD)
Well, that's just the thing now, isn't it? Bitcoins are not shares of stock. They are currency. If I do as you say, and "borrow" bitcoins from party A, in exchange for cash
That bit in the parent is wrong. When you borrow the bitcoins, you don't give party A any cash, or at most you give them a fee for renting the bitcoins.
Or you just price everything in local currency and only accept local currency and let the purchaser deal with all the messy bits.
Well just get the 32 bit version and recompile it for 64 bit.... .... oh, wait...
Please let it be a DLT cartridge
I've read the whole thread and this is the first post off which I can legitimately hang an obligatory XKCD reference.
The engineers and tech didn't kill Sun, bad Management and cheap Intel Linux boxes did. Sun should have dropped their hardware division sooner. Why buy 1 $100,000 Sun box when I can buy 5 $2,000 Intel boxes for the same.
Remind me never to hire you as my purchasing manager.
Yes you can as long as you license it with the GPL
Or they have, but they think it's cool.
Ha! My first regular watch had to be"recharged" every day. You didn't need to plug it in though, you just rotated the little knob on the side of it until the spring was tight.
Darwin and XNU was closed.
Wrong
Opensource Darwin doesn't even include CoreAudio, or Quartz. or any of the Coreobject system. I would say those are all core components of OSX, but they are not Darwin and not open source. The Finder? nope, not open source.
So, no.
This is true. Everything that makes OS X OS X rather than just another BSD with a heavily modified kernel is proprietary.
It's actually a significant improvement over Mountain Lion. It looks much the same as it used to, but there have been significant performance improvements. The UI has less Skeuomorphism too.
Also, you can now get iBooks for Mac. Frankly, it should have been a major embarrassment that Amazon had better support on Apple equipment than their own eBook reader..
The difference is that the AI can be exactly modeled, simply by making another copy of it. Given all the same inputs and the same data and initial conditions, a digital processing system comes to the same result every time. Humans are not digital processing systems, an identical copy of a human (or indeed any animal) cannot be made and the exact same combination of data and initial conditions cannot be produced.
The bit you are glossing over here is that, in your imagination, the AI system's inputs are vastly less complex than the inputs of a human being. Attach a couple of video cameras and microphones to the AI that are constantly streaming data from the real world to it, and you'll find it's just as hard to replicate the exact same combination of data and initial conditions as it is with the human.
But free will means a lot of things.
In one version, we ask, "Is the decision determined by the inputs alone, or does the person making the decision change the outcome?" This is pretty trivially answerable. No two humans will do the same thing in every situation, so we say a person has free will.
Define the inputs. The person's internal state that changes the outcome is determined by historic inputs, so if you take into account all the inputs right back to the moment of conception and including the genome of the person, can you say that two people with exactly the same history would make different decisions?
Of course, two such people couldn't exist in the same Universe because they would have to inhabit exactly the same space.
In another version, we ask, "Are peoples' actions determined purely by physical processes, or is there something ineffable that has to be considered to explain how people behave?" This is pretty obviously not answerable.
I'll answer it. The answer is yes and it is falsifiable. If there was something ineffable that is somehow pulling the levers behind the scenes, it would be, in principle, possible to observe components of the brain not behaving in accordance with physical law.
trains are able to curve almost 360 degrees.
What does that mean? Do you mean form a circle?
Some of the trains on the Circle Line are now articulated. I've only been on one, but it was much better than the old way. Of course, that might partly be due to the fact that the stock was brand new. There even seemed to be air con.
We have servers that are still getting hammered with password attacks on port 22.
It's always worth posting links to XKCD in order to wind up Anonymous Cunts like your good self.
I'm looking at it now, I have no idea what you are talking about.
NOBODY WANTS THIS! Who's running Apple, Balmer?
If you read the article, you'll realise that this is not Apple, but Mark Shuttleworth claiming to know what Apple are going to do. It is like me saying "Linus Torvalds is going to implement the Win32 API directly and you saying "who is running Linux? Steve Balmer?"
It's quite funny actually. He admits his own attempt failed to reach its crowd funding target, but the support he did get "blew him away" which implies that he was never expecting the crowd funding target to be met.
The rest of your post is exactly why Apple would be stupid to consider merging their laptop and tablet lines.