This is why most good programmers will stop contributing to the global community because there are those who will steal their work...
That's rather a bold statement. It might even be true if there were no possible redress. But publicizing the wrongdoing and ousting the offenders is quite a powerful part of the community. Of course any similarly-wronged author, proprietary or open-source, also has the law on their side. Hardly an abject situation.
Those ARM extensions you cite are implementations of operations specified by machine standards (JVM) or for well-known CPU-bound algorithms (multiply-accumulate for DSP). By their nature those specifications lead to optimized hardware as evidenced by x86/PPC extensions like SSE2/Altivec. Heck, the ARM's RISC instruction set itself is riddled with cool features like predicated execution to avoid pipeline starvation and the barrel-shifter.
In sharp contrast, however, an OS like WinCE makes specifications squarely pointed at software applications (okay, drivers too). Apples and oranges.
Michael (on jail pay phone):... and tell Gob I've got a nice hard cot with his name on it.
Lucille: You'd do that to your own brother?
Michael: I said *cot*.
I've crawled around a number of hydroelectric generators, from 1 MW to 300 MW; a 1 MW turbine "runner" is about the size of a truck tire. There is simply no way anyone would spend billions on a dozen of those.
And the math doesn't work either. At $100 per MWh, a 12 MW generator would have to run for about 5 million hours to earn $6B. TFA says 1100 MW, which is more like it.
And within a few more years, that storage just might be implanted, attached to your cerebral cortex. If this is even remotely possible, and MAFIAA get their way, we will have a totalitarian society complete with thought monitoring. This is why we must fight their ideas off, now.
Wow, you seem like a person who has never even read or heard Dawkins or his colleagues, ever. Dawkins of course says you cannot *prove* the non-existence of God. He then points out the same is true for sasquatch, FSM, Xenu, Apollo, Zeus, Thor, unicorns, fairies, elves, leprechauns...
The funny thing is that we have about the same level of evidence for sasquatch as God.
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That's rather a bold statement. It might even be true if there were no possible redress. But publicizing the wrongdoing and ousting the offenders is quite a powerful part of the community. Of course any similarly-wronged author, proprietary or open-source, also has the law on their side. Hardly an abject situation.
For real. I mean, if the iJobs had a removable liver like everyone else, this wouldn't be such a problem.
Those ARM extensions you cite are implementations of operations specified by machine standards (JVM) or for well-known CPU-bound algorithms (multiply-accumulate for DSP). By their nature those specifications lead to optimized hardware as evidenced by x86/PPC extensions like SSE2/Altivec. Heck, the ARM's RISC instruction set itself is riddled with cool features like predicated execution to avoid pipeline starvation and the barrel-shifter.
In sharp contrast, however, an OS like WinCE makes specifications squarely pointed at software applications (okay, drivers too). Apples and oranges.
Apparently someone doesn't appreciate the difference between hardware and software.
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I always thought Ritchie's father was "Mr. C". Oh, and sit on it, Potsie.
Can you spot the difference between Skeletor and Ballmer?
Give up? The difference lies in the control over minions. Skeletor uses telepathy and Ballmer throws chairs (or does a fruity dance with chanting).
Let me get this straight. You are saying:
"My iPhone gets wicked good reception up here"
Of course North Korea is in the good books. A totalitarian regime like North Korea is exactly what the copyright lobby wants for our internet.
Aperently, you think it's cute to make fun of someone's name. MOD PERENT UP!
Well apparently this is the king of all swine flus, so I call if flu-king swine.
Michael (on jail pay phone): ... and tell Gob I've got a nice hard cot with his name on it.
Lucille: You'd do that to your own brother?
Michael: I said *cot*.
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I've crawled around a number of hydroelectric generators, from 1 MW to 300 MW; a 1 MW turbine "runner" is about the size of a truck tire. There is simply no way anyone would spend billions on a dozen of those.
And the math doesn't work either. At $100 per MWh, a 12 MW generator would have to run for about 5 million hours to earn $6B. TFA says 1100 MW, which is more like it.
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return 0;
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Mmm.
GM's new president is Gob Bluth. Except his title is RESIDENT because he lost his P. And GM has a new business model: Starla.
And within a few more years, that storage just might be implanted, attached to your cerebral cortex. If this is even remotely possible, and MAFIAA get their way, we will have a totalitarian society complete with thought monitoring. This is why we must fight their ideas off, now.
I'm sure "Truth" smells a lot better than the follow-on to "Obsession", "Rubberglovesession".
Just ask 5 dentists.
Wow, you seem like a person who has never even read or heard Dawkins or his colleagues, ever. Dawkins of course says you cannot *prove* the non-existence of God. He then points out the same is true for sasquatch, FSM, Xenu, Apollo, Zeus, Thor, unicorns, fairies, elves, leprechauns...
The funny thing is that we have about the same level of evidence for sasquatch as God.
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