Perhaps, but you don't hear people whining about cheap westrn-European knockoffs, or mid-western-American knockoffs much.
Mainly because not much in those regions is cheap, and trademark & copyright laws are enforced against commercial entities that would try to make those knockoffs. China, Taiwan and such may have laws but the enforcement is quite lax.
but bankruptcy stays any legal matters....therefore, until they get out of bankruptcy (or judge allows the case to move forward), Gencon gets a get out of jail free (temporarily).
Is that really true? That's pretty sucky of a delay tactic.
After all, which is harder, to design a car from scratch, or steal plans for a car and improve those plans?
Given what we've seen so far, they haven't improved on them. As it is, they're cheap clones with major structures left out because they either didn't know their significance or simply didn't care because that makes them cheaper.
I don't think sampling can necessarily tell whether a given batch will have a lot of chips with one defective core. I think they have to go farther with testing. It sounds like the kind of defect that's dependent on like a microscopic speck of dust to fall onto the silicon, but in a good enough place such that you can just map out an entire CPU core.
"And yet, there are computer operating environments of equal (and, in some cases, greater) complexity that are thriving and healthy, adapting and even - dare I say it - evolving at a remarkable rate."
Despite all that, it's not self-replicating. Over a billion transistors in a Core 2 Quad and very little of its circuitry is changeable after it's shipped.
We should concentrate on making computers be the best computers and leave being human to the billions of us who do it without massive hardware.
The thing is, Kurzweil is trying to achieve immortality, which is pretty much predicated on the ability to simulate his brain. I don't know if that's coloring his predictions or not, and it really doesn't say anything about whether there can be a machine that can do a full scan of an entire human brain. I don't know if he'll live that long. He'll be over 80 years old at that time, and to be frank, I don't think he looks like a healthy 60 years old now, despite his voracious vitamin intake.
My post isn't a defense of 95 year copyright, I think that too is a bad idea, it's absurdly long. I'm just arguing against assumptions that look false to me.
Why should anyone get a lifetime income for one thing they created? If they do, why would they bother creating anything else?
If what you assert was true, then the likes of Stephen King, Tom Clancy, Danielle Steel and wouldn't need to write one book. But it's not. I really doubt that residual income on one single work is enough to live on except very rare cases. We don't hear about these one-hit wonders retiring off to the Bahamas to retire from their one hit.
I doubt that there's no liability in lying, but maybe there's less liability. It's probably time for a "Supersize Me" equivalent documentary on Best Buy, though hopefully better because I thought the premise and execution of "Supersize Me" was silly.
I think service warranties and what you have to sign to get repairs done usually include a clause that says that the repairer is not responsible for the data that's on the computer. So they could just give her a new computer and that would be it.
This dithering on where the computer is, is simply inexcusable.
In addition to the above industrial espionage potential, they could also be used to aid in a DoS. The second might not be that likely as it's so easy to root a Windows system.
The Chinese really aren't pillaging the US economy. I think the US is doing that on its own very well if anyone is doing it at all.
Amazingly, despite the job situation, we still have a good unemployment rate, currently at about 5%. The 2007 GDP was over $13T, and our trade deficit is $800B, small in comparison to the GDP.
Samsung Blu-Ray players are crap, probably the worst of the lot. What I see are complaints of problems that are greater than the rest of them combined. And Samsung was the slowest of the lot to make a patch. Their BRP should not be sold in my opinion.
Antarctica is hardly a tourist attraction and will never be unless we get severe climate change. I hope the scientists don't screw anything up, but I think preventing contamination is a primary consideration on their minds anyway.
The problem with the idea terraforming Mars is that it doesn't seem to be able to hold its own atmosphere that well. It has a weak gravity and little magnetic field. To make terraforming an actual long-term project, there needs to be a good way to keep the atmosphere trapped, or else it's not going to last, maybe not even take hold.
It's an honest mistake and I think people would be clearly unreasonable if they didn't like Amazon coming clean and declared this a misprice. But if it's true that Amazon just erased all traces of their order without explanation or notice, then I would have a problem with that.
Windows will happily keep everything on processor 0 until such time as a scheduling threshold is reached on processor 0 at which time it will move the thread to another processor if available.
That's not my experience at all. Windows seems to balance the load pretty well, even if the system is 95% idle, all cores seem to have an equal chance at getting the load. It's not very often where I see one core getting a lot more load than another.
Maybe he's found his own "celebrity lock-in", where he's getting headlines for stating what's basically f**cking obvious. I think he should stick with security.
Has your team considered puting the hard drives in a pressure vessel of some sort? It seems silly to put data on drives that you're afraid to rely on because of altitude problems.
You're missing a significant issue. If paint flecks can get in, what else is getting in there? Why would you have any confidence in the quality of the pills if they can't be bothered to actually control what actually gets in there?
I for one don't think it's expensive on a per-pill basis to keep a plant like that clean, they should have been clean in the first place.
I think you have a misunderstanding of military people, in many ways they seem to be the last people you can expect to "keep their pants on", as it were.
That, and Lisa Nowak was not a "people person" based on statements by her coworkers.
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Perhaps, but you don't hear people whining about cheap westrn-European knockoffs, or mid-western-American knockoffs much.
Mainly because not much in those regions is cheap, and trademark & copyright laws are enforced against commercial entities that would try to make those knockoffs. China, Taiwan and such may have laws but the enforcement is quite lax.
But allowing only one day is excessive. Can you track down and fix security problems in your software within one day of notification?
I think we all know already that disclosing the exploit is what brings the motivation to fix the hole.
You haven't given a specific example of Opera needlessly hiding an exploit.
but bankruptcy stays any legal matters....therefore, until they get out of bankruptcy (or judge allows the case to move forward), Gencon gets a get out of jail free (temporarily).
Is that really true? That's pretty sucky of a delay tactic.
After all, which is harder, to design a car from scratch, or steal plans for a car and improve those plans?
Given what we've seen so far, they haven't improved on them. As it is, they're cheap clones with major structures left out because they either didn't know their significance or simply didn't care because that makes them cheaper.
I don't think sampling can necessarily tell whether a given batch will have a lot of chips with one defective core. I think they have to go farther with testing. It sounds like the kind of defect that's dependent on like a microscopic speck of dust to fall onto the silicon, but in a good enough place such that you can just map out an entire CPU core.
"And yet, there are computer operating environments of equal (and, in some cases, greater) complexity that are thriving and healthy, adapting and even - dare I say it - evolving at a remarkable rate."
Despite all that, it's not self-replicating. Over a billion transistors in a Core 2 Quad and very little of its circuitry is changeable after it's shipped.
We should concentrate on making computers be the best computers and leave being human to the billions of us who do it without massive hardware.
The thing is, Kurzweil is trying to achieve immortality, which is pretty much predicated on the ability to simulate his brain. I don't know if that's coloring his predictions or not, and it really doesn't say anything about whether there can be a machine that can do a full scan of an entire human brain. I don't know if he'll live that long. He'll be over 80 years old at that time, and to be frank, I don't think he looks like a healthy 60 years old now, despite his voracious vitamin intake.
wouldn't need to write one book.
I meant "would only need to write one book".
My post isn't a defense of 95 year copyright, I think that too is a bad idea, it's absurdly long. I'm just arguing against assumptions that look false to me.
Why should anyone get a lifetime income for one thing they created? If they do, why would they bother creating anything else?
If what you assert was true, then the likes of Stephen King, Tom Clancy, Danielle Steel and wouldn't need to write one book. But it's not. I really doubt that residual income on one single work is enough to live on except very rare cases. We don't hear about these one-hit wonders retiring off to the Bahamas to retire from their one hit.
Insightful? How can Comcast "contribute" to the FCC in the way hinted?
I doubt that there's no liability in lying, but maybe there's less liability. It's probably time for a "Supersize Me" equivalent documentary on Best Buy, though hopefully better because I thought the premise and execution of "Supersize Me" was silly.
I think service warranties and what you have to sign to get repairs done usually include a clause that says that the repairer is not responsible for the data that's on the computer. So they could just give her a new computer and that would be it.
This dithering on where the computer is, is simply inexcusable.
In addition to the above industrial espionage potential, they could also be used to aid in a DoS. The second might not be that likely as it's so easy to root a Windows system.
The Chinese really aren't pillaging the US economy. I think the US is doing that on its own very well if anyone is doing it at all.
Amazingly, despite the job situation, we still have a good unemployment rate, currently at about 5%. The 2007 GDP was over $13T, and our trade deficit is $800B, small in comparison to the GDP.
Samsung Blu-Ray players are crap, probably the worst of the lot. What I see are complaints of problems that are greater than the rest of them combined. And Samsung was the slowest of the lot to make a patch. Their BRP should not be sold in my opinion.
A disaster is still a disaster, but I'd take a situation where humanity can at least carry on vs. total extinction.
Antarctica is hardly a tourist attraction and will never be unless we get severe climate change. I hope the scientists don't screw anything up, but I think preventing contamination is a primary consideration on their minds anyway.
The problem with the idea terraforming Mars is that it doesn't seem to be able to hold its own atmosphere that well. It has a weak gravity and little magnetic field. To make terraforming an actual long-term project, there needs to be a good way to keep the atmosphere trapped, or else it's not going to last, maybe not even take hold.
It's an honest mistake and I think people would be clearly unreasonable if they didn't like Amazon coming clean and declared this a misprice. But if it's true that Amazon just erased all traces of their order without explanation or notice, then I would have a problem with that.
Windows will happily keep everything on processor 0 until such time as a scheduling threshold is reached on processor 0 at which time it will move the thread to another processor if available.
That's not my experience at all. Windows seems to balance the load pretty well, even if the system is 95% idle, all cores seem to have an equal chance at getting the load. It's not very often where I see one core getting a lot more load than another.
Once again, Bruce thinks we were born yesterday.
Maybe he's found his own "celebrity lock-in", where he's getting headlines for stating what's basically f**cking obvious. I think he should stick with security.
Has your team considered puting the hard drives in a pressure vessel of some sort? It seems silly to put data on drives that you're afraid to rely on because of altitude problems.
You're missing a significant issue. If paint flecks can get in, what else is getting in there? Why would you have any confidence in the quality of the pills if they can't be bothered to actually control what actually gets in there?
I for one don't think it's expensive on a per-pill basis to keep a plant like that clean, they should have been clean in the first place.
I think you have a misunderstanding of military people, in many ways they seem to be the last people you can expect to "keep their pants on", as it were.
That, and Lisa Nowak was not a "people person" based on statements by her coworkers.
No, he used an annular confinement beam to direct graviton particles to the main deflector dish.