Of course all that is predicated on using a profiler first to find out where the actual problem is. Abrash accurately pointed out years ago that programmers suck at that. They'll spend hours making a nice optimized function that ends up making no noticeable difference in execution time.
Many programs spend most of their time in an idle loop. Optimising the idle loop rarely causes a "noticeable difference in execution time". They just idle faster!
These seem to be serious allegations. I hope there's action taken this time.
You mean you hope there's action taken if they are proven to be true, right?
Due process applies to everyone, not just the people we like.
No. The mere existence of an association of so-called "competitors", like the RIAA, should be very worrying to anyone who wants a free, competitive market.
There are more Chinese people on the web than American, aren't there (or soon will be)?
Why base privacy expectations on the behaviour of Americans, rather than people in other countries?
I suspect the answer is: the Internet only matters to British law in so far as it is English-speaking. It is biased, then, to Americans - the largest group of English-speakers.
That's not to say evolution in humans has stopped. Instead, we're simply not weeding out the negative traits.
Nowadays it is being done in a controlled fashion.
First, you lure all the people with negative traits to a single website that would only attract such people.
You let them make lots of stupid posts like "Frist psot!", to verify that you have caught a bunch of losers and to lull them into a state of complacency.
Then you start rounding them up and disappearing th.....$%%*^)(& {no carrier}
Why don't we just make it illegal for people under 18 to have bodies? They're too young anyway, and having a body just encourages them to explore it. At their age they shouldn't be taking on such adult burdens.
In one stroke, we get rid of under-age pregnancies, statutory rape, pedophilia and many other issues related to under-age sexuality.
I'm amazed it took 8 whole minutes of comments for someone to utter this, and more amazed the article wasn't already tagged as such. I really hope they don't put too much of a dent in things; I'm rather fond of SVG.
(Mafia voice:) "That's a nice graphics standard you got there. Pity if anything happened to it."
The solutions to so many design problems pop into my head while I'm walking to get coffee or on my lunchbreak it's not funny.
The shower. Best place to solve programming problems. Because there is no keyboard to distract you from the problem. You are just standing there, mind in idle mode... so your mind plays with problems and doesn't get hung up about having to solve them right now.
I don't know where it all went wrong in the UK and the US, but the Italians are clearly doing something better than we are.
The Italians had their empire 1600 years ago. They are over it - or more to the point, they are over themselves and their own importance.
The UK had its empire back in the days of Queen Victoria. There are still Brits who fondly remember the empire, even if they were not alive when it really was the world power.
The Americans are in the slow process of losing their world empire. They are definitely not over it, and are definitely not ready to see themselves in a more relaxed light. Half the population still believes all the propaganda, and don't giggle when they hear terms like "leader of the free world".
If he had set it off in the toilet, then the restrictions introduced would probably be worse. They would probably have banned the use of the toilet on planes.
We have found a new use for those airline barf bags.
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IP laws are a construct of the state. They artificially create a monopoly that otherwise wouldn't exist.
That's better.
My Cowon S9 does not play your fancy new formats. It plays AVI/XVid, or WMV - not mp4 etc.
Handbrake dropped support for the formats I need. I have dropped Handbrake. It is no longer useful to me.
Of course all that is predicated on using a profiler first to find out where the actual problem is. Abrash accurately pointed out years ago that programmers suck at that. They'll spend hours making a nice optimized function that ends up making no noticeable difference in execution time.
Many programs spend most of their time in an idle loop. Optimising the idle loop rarely causes a "noticeable difference in execution time". They just idle faster!
These seem to be serious allegations. I hope there's action taken this time.
You mean you hope there's action taken if they are proven to be true, right?
Due process applies to everyone, not just the people we like.
No. The mere existence of an association of so-called "competitors", like the RIAA, should be very worrying to anyone who wants a free, competitive market.
Funny how Vista is oddly missing in that list of achivements. But then again, there are times when a hole in your CV is preferable to being truthful.
Well, to be truthful, Vista is a hole.
It's hard (not impossible, but hard) to kill yourself doing 20 mph on a bike.
It is easy to kill yourself doing just 1 mile per hour on a bike.
Ride it slowly over a high cliff.
This is the most invasive government search
Well, the 2nd most. The most invasive search requires rubber gloves.
If only they would check prostates while they were at it, it would at least be medically worthwhile.
There are more Chinese people on the web than American, aren't there (or soon will be)?
Why base privacy expectations on the behaviour of Americans, rather than people in other countries?
I suspect the answer is: the Internet only matters to British law in so far as it is English-speaking. It is biased, then, to Americans - the largest group of English-speakers.
Since it's smaller than a laptop, but bigger than a smartphone, maybe we need to give it a new name.
Lapphone?
That's not to say evolution in humans has stopped. Instead, we're simply not weeding out the negative traits.
Nowadays it is being done in a controlled fashion.
First, you lure all the people with negative traits to a single website that would only attract such people.
You let them make lots of stupid posts like "Frist psot!", to verify that you have caught a bunch of losers and to lull them into a state of complacency.
Then you start rounding them up and disappearing th.....$%%*^)(& {no carrier}
Why don't we just make it illegal for people under 18 to have bodies? They're too young anyway, and having a body just encourages them to explore it. At their age they shouldn't be taking on such adult burdens.
In one stroke, we get rid of under-age pregnancies, statutory rape, pedophilia and many other issues related to under-age sexuality.
Children should be heard, but not seen!
I'm amazed it took 8 whole minutes of comments for someone to utter this, and more amazed the article wasn't already tagged as such. I really hope they don't put too much of a dent in things; I'm rather fond of SVG.
(Mafia voice:) "That's a nice graphics standard you got there. Pity if anything happened to it."
The solutions to so many design problems pop into my head while I'm walking to get coffee or on my lunchbreak it's not funny.
The shower. Best place to solve programming problems. Because there is no keyboard to distract you from the problem. You are just standing there, mind in idle mode ... so your mind plays with problems and doesn't get hung up about having to solve them right now.
On a sidenote, how do I get a license to fly a building?
First, you have to notch up enough flying hours under an instructor.
So I'd work on that, if I were you.
Just call up your nearest flying school and ask them for some lessons with a building-flying instructor.
Make sure you say "building-flying instructor", or they'll book you a lesson with the wrong person.
I can see it now: Method and process for reducing MRSA infections by not using drugs.
Don't even try it without paying.
Just wait until they have Genetically-Modified MRSA and you won't even be allowed to catch the infections without paying for it!
I don't know where it all went wrong in the UK and the US, but the Italians are clearly doing something better than we are.
The Italians had their empire 1600 years ago. They are over it - or more to the point, they are over themselves and their own importance.
The UK had its empire back in the days of Queen Victoria. There are still Brits who fondly remember the empire, even if they were not alive when it really was the world power.
The Americans are in the slow process of losing their world empire. They are definitely not over it, and are definitely not ready to see themselves in a more relaxed light. Half the population still believes all the propaganda, and don't giggle when they hear terms like "leader of the free world".
How is that odd?
The want to use old stuff for free, but they don't want anyone to use their old stuff for free.
That doesn't seem odd, that seems like standard human selfishness.
But why should the government - a.k.a. the collective of private citizens - underwrite this "standard human selfishness" by embodying it in law?
Let Disney be selfish - but let them do it by themselves without hijacking the law - our law - to enforce it.
Easy. Teach an eleven year old to program, and wait until he turns twelve!
And before you ask the obvious question: you teach a ten year old and wait until he turns eleven.
Sigh. Some people just don't get recursion.
That simplifies matters. We can have an undercover Dutch person on each flight.
Easier still.
We just issue some random person on each flight with a pair of clogs and make the terrorists think there are undercover Dutch people on each flight.
That way, we don't have to worry if the supply of Dutch people runs out.
And we can then truthfully say that our airlines have become clogged because of terrorism.
"Silence! Are you on the side of the drug smugglers/pedophiles/terrorists! Submit to us, and demonstrate it by quacking like a duck."
Makes sense, really.
I have never seen a terrorist quacking like a duck.
So if you quack like a duck, you are probably not a terrorist.
Therefore, every passenger should quack like a duck to prove they are not a terrorist.
Flawless logic.
Just make it a criminal offence to travel by air.
Problem solved!
If he had set it off in the toilet, then the restrictions introduced would probably be worse. They would probably have banned the use of the toilet on planes.
We have found a new use for those airline barf bags.
Newsflash: ... Mussolini was a good Italian, and a catholic.
Judging by what Italians did to him at the end of the war, I'd say that Mussolini was a bad Italian, and was seen as a bad Italian by other Italians.
One might as well ignore the Republicans, Anarchists, Communists and Basques, and say that Franco was a good Spaniard and a Catholic.
What does this "goodness" mean, and how does it differ from "badness"?
Can you name someplace where Christians are hard-core persecuted significantly more than atheists or Jews?
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