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I hain't no lawyer, so I can't tell you if it is a right to look under the hood of a car. I do believe it is the responsability of a company to disclose exactly what they send back and forth between computers and any changes that it makes to any file it does not create, and I think this should be law. I don't fully understand reverse engineering, so I won't say anything about it. I do know that it is possibly a very bad thing to allow people to see your source code. Looking under the hood of a car and source code of a program are completely different. Seeing how an engine works does not allow you to build a nearly free version of the car. It also does not lend itself to instant duplication. Companies should have the option of close-sourcing their code. If they want to open source it, that's fantastic. If they don't, fine. They spent money building it. They can charge for it. You do have a right to know exactly what the code does to your computer and info, but if you want it bad enough to get it, as opposed to writing it yourself, chances are that it was not obvious code, and it cost them lots of money to develop. They should not have to reveal it to people so that they can copy it for free without any real effort. Sorry for this post. If anyone bothers to moderate it, it will probably be down. I'm sure no one really cares though.
When did showing someone smoke on TV become unacceptable?
I don't know, but it just recently became real unnacceptable for a cartoon to smoke a cigarette. Stupid people sued for 200 billion. I wouldn't want to take the chance that some retarded kids mom would misconstrue it as advertising and get my ass sued off. I like my ass. It's sad though... What if a cartoon character is addicted. They have to quit cold turkey. It must get real tough after sex^H^H^H^H lying in bed with a fellow cartoon character with a computer generated swimsuit on.
Okay, maybe five. I live in a small room. it had to come in before I saw it. I used to think that "My Computer" meant, "Hey, this computer belongs to me, a valued customer," or some such. Now I understand. That's Billy G. talking. It's HIS computer. Sorry I was using your computer Willy. Won't happen again. (Just in case The Gatekeeper is reading this) I think the Justice Department is stupid. Keep on Innovating(TM)*, oh Defender of the Truth, Bringer of the Light, and Maker of a Really Great Operating System.
Innovating (Patent Pending)is a registered trademark of MicroSoft. No innovation of any kind is permitted without the express, written permission of the NBA and MicroSoft.
The internet will be just like it is today, only there will be more commercials. They will take up half the page, have annoying jingles, and they automatically bring you to the sponsor's page. They will be much more annoying than banners because they will be half your screen size. They will be auto-playing mpegs and realvideo because of the increased bandwidth. They will move down the page as you scroll down so you can constantly wonder whether someone had recently said "McDonalds."
I did not mean to troll. If I wanted to, I would do it anonomously:JP. I was kidding when I said they should eat each other. I probably wouldn't eat other people, and I doubt most others would. Even if it had nutritional value. I wasn't kidding about most of it. Science should always come before people, within reason. The people who live in rainless regions fall into the tragiccategory. I meant to imply that, but I can't remember what I said. I could look back, but I am exceptionally lazy. I still think that science should come before them. I had a good reason a second ago, and it made sense to me at least, but I turned my head to look at MTV news, and I lost the capacity for what seemed like rational thought.
It was not my intention to troll. If I have, then I beg forgiveness. I am unfortunately unaware of the definition of trolling. If you wouldn't mind, please lift the 18 wheel TIP Systems(TM) truck of ignorance from my nasal bridge and allow me to see the truth. This also is not meant as a troll, though it may look like it is. I can't tell. In conclusion, it would be an excruciating amount of help if someone could fill me in on what trolling is. Thanks.
They aren't sending spacecraft for $h@ts and giggles. They are testing theories and technologies that could save thousands of lives. As for starving people, timid, stupid people starve. Children of those people starve, which is tragic, but they are genetically similar to their poor provider parents, which makes it not as bad. All lives are equal, but the end of the life of a person who refuses to care for themself should not make anyone sad. Smart, bold people and their children don't wait for handouts when they exhaust their food source. They move on. They survive. If I, although I am very dumb, had to make a choice between dumb people and science, I would choose science. Starving people starve because they don't steal, grow, or catch what they need to survive. When they can't, it is tragic. When they won't it is dumb. The latter happens much more than the former. You can tell by watching any Christian's Children's Fund commercial. They all just sit there. Perhaps there is some reason they sit there waiting to die. If so many die, then there is plenty of food. Lots of corpses=lots of food. Sure there are health risks, but certain death is worse than potential death. If they refuse to eat the dead because of religion, then when they die, they go to a better place. There is no reason for them to fear death, and there is no reason for us to mourn them. While they live they endure pain. So do most people. Considering their short lives, they probably suffer less than most. There is another reason not to feel sorry for them.
In summary: I hope you are kidding, lots of stuff, summary, sig file.
Do you think it is possible to get the cost down to $74 by buying cheap components. What about home made ones? I make a pretty mean Celeron 366. The reason I ask is that my projected life earnings total $76. I don't think I will be able to get it unless I kill someone and take their wallet. Does anyone plan on hanging out in a dark alley soon? Could you call me first? How hard would it be to turn some sand into some RAM? I have plenty of sand, and I heard that that is what they get silcon out of.
Since my karma has been getting pretty high lately (I finally broke 4!) I thought I'd throw something in for the moderators:
Mmm... Natalie Portman down my grits with hot pants, naked and petrified. Did I forget anything?
A) Computers will be obsolete in seven years, so we only need to keep increasing cooling methods until then.
B) The best way to get more performance from a processor is to glue more pins to the outside. This tricks the motherboard into thinking that the processor could be doing so much more if only the motherboard had someplace to stick those extra pins. It will usually kick up the bus speed to make itself feel less inferior. Don't worry about the multiplier. It doesn't tell the processor that it changed the bus speed. They are usually too embarrassed to admit they are working hard. Plus, with all those extra pins to dissipate an electric field, you can just throw water on it if it gets too hot.
I realized how stupid this post is about 1/4 of the way through. I can't stop because I have an itchy posting finger. I'm sorry.
Firewire has a tendancy to be less reliable underwater due to the need for high temperatures and oxygen to maintain transmission quality. Another drawback is production of greenhouse gasses during production. It is also only good for a few uses. More than that, and there is a good chance your signal will get corrupted with 2's and 3's instead of the usual 1's and 0's. I'm sorry for this post.
Once, about twenty years ago, I was testing an electrical outlet in my garage. I couldn't find my volt meter, and my blender was full of three day old rum, so I stuck a couple of paper clips in the holes. Between the time my face lit on fire and the time I hit the ground I thought up the c++ language. I woke up bald as a baby's butt and dedicated never to let c++ be created because I knew all the pain that it would cause. Unfortunately I was only three years old at the time. OO is a good thing. If you are writing a program that can be easily represented as an object, then use classes. Classes are good, readable, and semi-intuitive. They taste like chicken. They behave similarly to ansi c things. Inheritence is also a good thing. Makes things Object oriented. Doesn't really conflict with c type stuff. Operator overloading (which might be available in ansi c, I'm not too bright) is a good idea that is badly implemented. It has no similarities to anything else in C(unless it is actually a C feature, then you can feel free to punch me in the face many times). Passing by reference is also good. It gives you more options. I personally liked pointers just fine, but whatever floats your 1984 Ford Taurus. It isn't all that different from ansi c stuff. Everything else in c++ that I can currently think of should have been left off or done some other way. The whole using namespace std stuff is bad. It makes code less readable. Templates have a different problem. They don't look like anything in C. They use greater than and less than signs instead of parentheses, which would be inconsistent, but would look better. There is no case in C that I can think of where you would put things in angle brackets.
Disclaimer: All of the stuff I said is just my opinion, and I am an idiot. Please disregard anything that conflicts with anything you think. Use the rest as evidence that you are right, have always been right, and will always be right. For those of you who have taken time out of your day to read this foolishness, I am sorry. Please don't bother yelling at me and correcting me. I know I am dumb and probably off topic (It seems on topic to me, but I have been up for 30 hours). I am sorry to have robbed you of thirty seconds of your life. Know that I will use them well.
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I hain't no lawyer, so I can't tell you if it is a right to look under the hood of a car. I do believe it is the responsability of a company to disclose exactly what they send back and forth between computers and any changes that it makes to any file it does not create, and I think this should be law. I don't fully understand reverse engineering, so I won't say anything about it. I do know that it is possibly a very bad thing to allow people to see your source code. Looking under the hood of a car and source code of a program are completely different. Seeing how an engine works does not allow you to build a nearly free version of the car. It also does not lend itself to instant duplication. Companies should have the option of close-sourcing their code. If they want to open source it, that's fantastic. If they don't, fine. They spent money building it. They can charge for it. You do have a right to know exactly what the code does to your computer and info, but if you want it bad enough to get it, as opposed to writing it yourself, chances are that it was not obvious code, and it cost them lots of money to develop. They should not have to reveal it to people so that they can copy it for free without any real effort. Sorry for this post. If anyone bothers to moderate it, it will probably be down. I'm sure no one really cares though.
I don't know, but it just recently became real unnacceptable for a cartoon to smoke a cigarette. Stupid people sued for 200 billion. I wouldn't want to take the chance that some retarded kids mom would misconstrue it as advertising and get my ass sued off. I like my ass. It's sad though... What if a cartoon character is addicted. They have to quit cold turkey. It must get real tough after sex^H^H^H^H lying in bed with a fellow cartoon character with a computer generated swimsuit on.
Okay, maybe five. I live in a small room. it had to come in before I saw it. I used to think that "My Computer" meant, "Hey, this computer belongs to me, a valued customer," or some such. Now I understand. That's Billy G. talking. It's HIS computer. Sorry I was using your computer Willy. Won't happen again. (Just in case The Gatekeeper is reading this) I think the Justice Department is stupid. Keep on Innovating(TM)*, oh Defender of the Truth, Bringer of the Light, and Maker of a Really Great Operating System.
Innovating (Patent Pending)is a registered trademark of MicroSoft. No innovation of any kind is permitted without the express, written permission of the NBA and MicroSoft.
MicroSoft: We own your sorry ass.
The internet will be just like it is today, only there will be more commercials. They will take up half the page, have annoying jingles, and they automatically bring you to the sponsor's page. They will be much more annoying than banners because they will be half your screen size. They will be auto-playing mpegs and realvideo because of the increased bandwidth. They will move down the page as you scroll down so you can constantly wonder whether someone had recently said "McDonalds."
I did not mean to troll. If I wanted to, I would do it anonomously :JP. I was kidding when I said they should eat each other. I probably wouldn't eat other people, and I doubt most others would. Even if it had nutritional value. I wasn't kidding about most of it. Science should always come before people, within reason. The people who live in rainless regions fall into the tragiccategory. I meant to imply that, but I can't remember what I said. I could look back, but I am exceptionally lazy. I still think that science should come before them. I had a good reason a second ago, and it made sense to me at least, but I turned my head to look at MTV news, and I lost the capacity for what seemed like rational thought.
It was not my intention to troll. If I have, then I beg forgiveness. I am unfortunately unaware of the definition of trolling. If you wouldn't mind, please lift the 18 wheel TIP Systems(TM) truck of ignorance from my nasal bridge and allow me to see the truth. This also is not meant as a troll, though it may look like it is. I can't tell. In conclusion, it would be an excruciating amount of help if someone could fill me in on what trolling is. Thanks.
In summary: I hope you are kidding, lots of stuff, summary, sig file.
I'm sorry.
Do you think it is possible to get the cost down to $74 by buying cheap components. What about home made ones? I make a pretty mean Celeron 366. The reason I ask is that my projected life earnings total $76. I don't think I will be able to get it unless I kill someone and take their wallet. Does anyone plan on hanging out in a dark alley soon? Could you call me first? How hard would it be to turn some sand into some RAM? I have plenty of sand, and I heard that that is what they get silcon out of.
Since my karma has been getting pretty high lately (I finally broke 4!) I thought I'd throw something in for the moderators:
Mmm... Natalie Portman down my grits with hot pants, naked and petrified. Did I forget anything?
I'm sorry for this post.
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A) Computers will be obsolete in seven years, so we only need to keep increasing cooling methods until then.
B) The best way to get more performance from a processor is to glue more pins to the outside. This tricks the motherboard into thinking that the processor could be doing so much more if only the motherboard had someplace to stick those extra pins. It will usually kick up the bus speed to make itself feel less inferior. Don't worry about the multiplier. It doesn't tell the processor that it changed the bus speed. They are usually too embarrassed to admit they are working hard. Plus, with all those extra pins to dissipate an electric field, you can just throw water on it if it gets too hot.
I realized how stupid this post is about 1/4 of the way through. I can't stop because I have an itchy posting finger. I'm sorry.
Firewire has a tendancy to be less reliable underwater due to the need for high temperatures and oxygen to maintain transmission quality. Another drawback is production of greenhouse gasses during production. It is also only good for a few uses. More than that, and there is a good chance your signal will get corrupted with 2's and 3's instead of the usual 1's and 0's. I'm sorry for this post.
Once, about twenty years ago, I was testing an electrical outlet in my garage. I couldn't find my volt meter, and my blender was full of three day old rum, so I stuck a couple of paper clips in the holes. Between the time my face lit on fire and the time I hit the ground I thought up the c++ language. I woke up bald as a baby's butt and dedicated never to let c++ be created because I knew all the pain that it would cause. Unfortunately I was only three years old at the time.
OO is a good thing. If you are writing a program that can be easily represented as an object, then use classes. Classes are good, readable, and semi-intuitive. They taste like chicken. They behave similarly to ansi c things.
Inheritence is also a good thing. Makes things Object oriented. Doesn't really conflict with c type stuff.
Operator overloading (which might be available in ansi c, I'm not too bright) is a good idea that is badly implemented. It has no similarities to anything else in C(unless it is actually a C feature, then you can feel free to punch me in the face many times).
Passing by reference is also good. It gives you more options. I personally liked pointers just fine, but whatever floats your 1984 Ford Taurus. It isn't all that different from ansi c stuff.
Everything else in c++ that I can currently think of should have been left off or done some other way. The whole using namespace std stuff is bad. It makes code less readable. Templates have a different problem. They don't look like anything in C. They use greater than and less than signs instead of parentheses, which would be inconsistent, but would look better. There is no case in C that I can think of where you would put things in angle brackets.
Disclaimer: All of the stuff I said is just my opinion, and I am an idiot. Please disregard anything that conflicts with anything you think. Use the rest as evidence that you are right, have always been right, and will always be right.
For those of you who have taken time out of your day to read this foolishness, I am sorry. Please don't bother yelling at me and correcting me. I know I am dumb and probably off topic (It seems on topic to me, but I have been up for 30 hours). I am sorry to have robbed you of thirty seconds of your life. Know that I will use them well.