So basically, it's Java without Sun's APIs and without the support of any other large partner. Not quite. Just similar. This is designed to be just in time compiled, and also optimised for compact code, and a compact interpreter.
This is almost as bad as when "Life is Beautiful" was re-released with English dubbing.
I've only seen it that way. But this is more stupid than that. DVD allows multiple languages, and optional subtitles. Since they (presumably) have subtitles anyway, and they certainly found room for an extra language track, it wouldn't have caused a problem to add Japanese. And yeah, I'm impressed. There's nothing like watching a Ja[anese film in French with english subtitles.
There are after all some people who like dubbing. And since its possible to cater for both, they should. Copyright really should cary some responsibilities with it.
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A big screen doesn't make crappy actors and a stupid plot any better.
Yes it does. The huge bombastic sound effects and spaceships whizzing all about the auditorium are a great distraction from bad acting.
Abstract: A process whereby one uses the a method that is least unusual than any other methods to convert an incomplete task to a totally completed task, possibly going through processes which may consist of but are not confined to a partially completed task, and an almost completed task.
Possible extensions include patenting this to prevent other people from doing it.
Hell, yeah. England's getting there. All we need now is for them to get rid of any books and media that could lead to dangerous thoughts, and find some way to make sure that we all vote the right way, and we'll be the envy of the world.
To be fair, the Prevention of Terrorism Act is not meant to be implemented permanently, and is voted on regularly. It will cease to be passed after terrorism is considered a very minor risk (....shyeahright, well, thats the theory).
The Criminal Justice Act was not the fault of our current government, although they don't seem to be taking any steps to make it a little bit more just.
Sorry, we prefer Thatecherism which lives on in the persona of Jack Straw.
Actually, it was better with Thathcher. She had such a reputation of being a meglomaniac, that anything like RIP would have only helped to prove this.
Doesn't quite work like that. Its about preventing data from being censored. Example: I have the top secret secrets of the secret society (X). Encrypted with random data A gives B.
I have the noble and heroic story of the noble hero (Y) and the constituition of the contitutional country (Z).
Y is encrypted with B to give C. Z is encrypted with A to give D.
The secret society seeks to ban X. Obviously they can't ban A. A isn't part of X. A is an important part of the constitution (Z). They can't ban B. B isn't part of X. B is part of a piece of famous legend (Y). C and D have nothing to do with X, so they're safe. It simply means that no data can be removed because all data is dependent on all other data. Of course, by XORing everything with everything you could find everything thats hidden. But so what? What can you do with it?
Of course they'd make a software patch for it, if possible; that's much cheaper and more convenient for them.
This is surprisingly common. Not so much with memory, but a lot of device drivers have code in to work around hardware bugs. Look at the Linux kernel config. There are a lot of options for chipset bug fixes.
It's a shame that this didn't show up when either company should have been testing them,
It only happens about once a week when the memory's almost full though. Even if the bug was spotted, its not an easily reproducable one.
Relax. Don't get so defensive so quickly. I'm sure a lot of these evil tongued foreign heathens do consider us all to sound like the Pythons what with them being English and creating characters with English regional accents and everything.
but it's already been demonstrated numerous times that NSI can't be sued.
Why not? Is it just that they have good legal people? I can't recall any case of someone claiming that NSI caused problems for a third party through negligence. Only their customers.
But if he had secured his own server so that the crackers couldn't have broken
It wasn't broken into. Just that packets were directed at him rather than at Nike.
Apart from that your analogy is quite accurate. Although I'd say it was more like the bank suing the owner of the car that was stolen as a getaway vehicle.
Its a nice idea, with a few potential problems. This would require new game engines to be commisioned for specific games, which would require that the people with money are willing to let others use their stuff, requiring a change in corporate culture. Of course, if everyone was giving away their code, they would see the benefit of code reuse.
The other problem is that it could result in new engine development slowing down. All games would have to be designed to use modified existing engines rather than designing the engine to fit the game. A lot of games are sufficiently similar for this not to matter. All first person shooters are essentially Quake. All flight sims have a sky and aircraft and and similar controls. But some games don't fit the mold. Nothing I can think of uses the same graphics technique as Grand Theft Auto. Would the result of free game engines be that new ideas are avoided? Or am I just being paranoid here?
Although 4 G4s is a lot of processing power. I get the feeling that you could probably compress mpegs at about the same speed that you can feed uncompressed image data.
If a G4 dissipates 10W, then a 4 CPU board will dissipate 40W. 8 of them will dissipate 320W. Okay only a problem forpeople with more CPU's than sense.
Sending in a video person might help. It depends on the skill of the conman. If he said something that didn't make sense, then a good tech would be able to spot it. If he didn't understand a concept that should be obvious (eg bitrate or compression ratios) he would be able to spot it.
Of course a skilled conman would be able to judge whether he could intimidate the tech by suggesting better knowledge, or whether to cloud the issue by mentioning trade secrets, but this would provide an extra layer of protection. Getting a technical opinion on the matter would be an extra layer of safety, and at least as useful as getting the opinion of a financial expert. Its a matter of getting enough levels of security.
I'll now slightly contradict myself by suggesting that its quite reasonable that a lot of potential investors did this, and saw this guy for the con artist he was and decided not to invest their money in his business. He doesn't really want people who might ask awkward questions anyway.
Very funny, but we still need some jokes to handle M17 thru 24. M15 looked like MI5 and an M16 is a rifle so that was okay. M17 doesn't really suggest anything, apart from a few obscure references like the swan Nebula, and probably a tax form.
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So basically, it's Java without Sun's APIs and without the support of any other large partner. Not quite. Just similar. This is designed to be just in time compiled, and also optimised for compact code, and a compact interpreter.
This should have considerable speed benefits.
Will the thing have Amiga style screens?
Am I the only person to see the important issues in life?
This is almost as bad as when "Life is Beautiful" was re-released with English dubbing.
I've only seen it that way. But this is more stupid than that. DVD allows multiple languages, and optional subtitles. Since they (presumably) have subtitles anyway, and they certainly found room for an extra language track, it wouldn't have caused a problem to add Japanese. And yeah, I'm impressed. There's nothing like watching a Ja[anese film in French with english subtitles.
There are after all some people who like dubbing. And since its possible to cater for both, they should. Copyright really should cary some responsibilities with it.
A big screen doesn't make crappy actors and a stupid plot any better.
Yes it does. The huge bombastic sound effects and spaceships whizzing all about the auditorium are a great distraction from bad acting.
Abstract: A process whereby one uses the a method that is least unusual than any other methods to convert an incomplete task to a totally completed task, possibly going through processes which may consist of but are not confined to a partially completed task, and an almost completed task.
Possible extensions include patenting this to prevent other people from doing it.
Hell, yeah. England's getting there. All we need now is for them to get rid of any books and media that could lead to dangerous thoughts, and find some way to make sure that we all vote the right way, and we'll be the envy of the world.
I think I'll start selling newspeak dictionarys.
To be fair, the Prevention of Terrorism Act is not meant to be implemented permanently, and is voted on regularly. It will cease to be passed after terrorism is considered a very minor risk (....shyeahright, well, thats the theory).
The Criminal Justice Act was not the fault of our current government, although they don't seem to be taking any steps to make it a little bit more just.
Sorry, we prefer Thatecherism which lives on in the persona of Jack Straw.
Actually, it was better with Thathcher. She had such a reputation of being a meglomaniac, that anything like RIP would have only helped to prove this.
Doesn't quite work like that. Its about preventing data from being censored. Example: I have the top secret secrets of the secret society (X). Encrypted with random data A gives B.
I have the noble and heroic story of the noble hero (Y) and the constituition of the contitutional country (Z).
Y is encrypted with B to give C. Z is encrypted with A to give D.
The secret society seeks to ban X. Obviously they can't ban A. A isn't part of X. A is an important part of the constitution (Z). They can't ban B. B isn't part of X. B is part of a piece of famous legend (Y). C and D have nothing to do with X, so they're safe. It simply means that no data can be removed because all data is dependent on all other data. Of course, by XORing everything with everything you could find everything thats hidden. But so what? What can you do with it?
Of course they'd make a software patch for it, if possible; that's much cheaper and more convenient for them.
This is surprisingly common. Not so much with memory, but a lot of device drivers have code in to work around hardware bugs. Look at the Linux kernel config. There are a lot of options for chipset bug fixes.
It's a shame that this didn't show up when either company should have been testing them,
It only happens about once a week when the memory's almost full though. Even if the bug was spotted, its not an easily reproducable one.
Relax. Don't get so defensive so quickly. I'm sure a lot of these evil tongued foreign heathens do consider us all to sound like the Pythons what with them being English and creating characters with English regional accents and everything.
Amsterdam is also very welcoming for English speakers.
Londoners, OTOH, might argue as to whether Americans can speak English:)
This guy is in the U.K.
A country that seems to be attempting to challenge the US for the "most litigous country" title.
any judge with half a brain will see that and throw the case out.
So all Nike needs is a judge with at least half a brain. This could be harder than you make out.
Nike wasn't a customer of this ISP. They were just a victim of someone attacking Nike or this ISP. Or possibly someone causing general mischief.
but it's already been demonstrated numerous times that NSI can't be sued.
Why not? Is it just that they have good legal people? I can't recall any case of someone claiming that NSI caused problems for a third party through negligence. Only their customers.
But if he had secured his own server so that the crackers couldn't have broken
It wasn't broken into. Just that packets were directed at him rather than at Nike.
Apart from that your analogy is quite accurate. Although I'd say it was more like the bank suing the owner of the car that was stolen as a getaway vehicle.
Its a nice idea, with a few potential problems. This would require new game engines to be commisioned for specific games, which would require that the people with money are willing to let others use their stuff, requiring a change in corporate culture. Of course, if everyone was giving away their code, they would see the benefit of code reuse.
The other problem is that it could result in new engine development slowing down. All games would have to be designed to use modified existing engines rather than designing the engine to fit the game. A lot of games are sufficiently similar for this not to matter. All first person shooters are essentially Quake. All flight sims have a sky and aircraft and and similar controls. But some games don't fit the mold. Nothing I can think of uses the same graphics technique as Grand Theft Auto. Would the result of free game engines be that new ideas are avoided? Or am I just being paranoid here?
Although 4 G4s is a lot of processing power. I get the feeling that you could probably compress mpegs at about the same speed that you can feed uncompressed image data.
If a G4 dissipates 10W, then a 4 CPU board will dissipate 40W. 8 of them will dissipate 320W. Okay only a problem forpeople with more CPU's than sense.
Hey don't complain. You've got 8 moderations and not lost or gained any Karma (At this time at least) At least 4 people thought it was funny.
It wouldn't really be a "PC", would it?
If it was personally yours, and computed, then yes it would.
Alternatively, it could just become politically correct, or get a job as a police constable.
Perhaps this should be interpreted as "Televangelist who dropped the religion"
Sending in a video person might help. It depends on the skill of the conman. If he said something that didn't make sense, then a good tech would be able to spot it. If he didn't understand a concept that should be obvious (eg bitrate or compression ratios) he would be able to spot it.
Of course a skilled conman would be able to judge whether he could intimidate the tech by suggesting better knowledge, or whether to cloud the issue by mentioning trade secrets, but this would provide an extra layer of protection. Getting a technical opinion on the matter would be an extra layer of safety, and at least as useful as getting the opinion of a financial expert. Its a matter of getting enough levels of security.
I'll now slightly contradict myself by suggesting that its quite reasonable that a lot of potential investors did this, and saw this guy for the con artist he was and decided not to invest their money in his business. He doesn't really want people who might ask awkward questions anyway.
Yep. Thats the one. It means "Hail the great beast, devourer of worlds."
Very funny, but we still need some jokes to handle M17 thru 24. M15 looked like MI5 and an M16 is a rifle so that was okay. M17 doesn't really suggest anything, apart from a few obscure references like the swan Nebula, and probably a tax form.