Yeah but I was running a ribbon cable to my brother's VIC-20 for the garbage collection and extra 5K heap memory because I couldn't get my dad to buy me three more C-64 machines for a quad-core 32-bit CPU. He kept saying, there's nowhere to plug them in; just wait for the C-128 to come out. I was like "but Daaaad, it only has 8 bits!"
Cloud computing was really difficult too. There were a bunch of kids in my highschool running BBS systems but you couldn't really store your documents there because you always got busy signals, the 300 baud VIC modem was a POS, and the cloud had nothing but stupid foul-mouthed kids in it anyway.
Dude, back when I was a kid and had a C-64, I wrote a JVM for it. Unfortunately I had trouble, because while the JVM standard defines long as not being threadsafe (as a sop to 32-bit architectures), it defines operations on int, short, char, and Object references as being atomic. So I had to write single-threaded code to simulate multiple threads just to get the garbage collection to work. And my char mappings didn't support Arabic and Chinese- you had to stick with PETSCII.
I was so embarrassed in front of my friends when my games paused intermittently to clear out kilobytes of garbage from the little heap. They were like, WTF, what is it doing, and I said, give me a break, it's Java. The only program I ever really got to work right was my C-64 emulator.
Carl Sagan said it himself in Cosmos. I miss Carl [butthead astronomer] Sagan; our new token astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson isn't morose enough for my taste.
The problem is that the bad guys can buy this technology too, and test and re-test their attacks until they slip through. "Anybody can download and try every single antivirus engine against their malware before they ship it," Stamos said.
Ah, I have the solution. Antivirus software should keep the crap it finds a secret, in case bad guys are running it. That way, they'll never know!
My neurologist has me on a prescription (that neurologists seem to prescribe to everybody now) that lowers the sodium concentration in your body as a side effect, and is supposed to make you crave salt- although I don't feel cravings [for either salt or water].
Every time he looks over my blood test results he snaps at me. "Your body is too watery! Aren't you craving salt? You need to eat more salt!"
It also made me drop 40 pounds almost instantly. When I see pictures of me just a few years ago I'm shocked... I look fucking awesome now.
You can toss the citizenry in there for voting for whatever stupid proposition comes down the pike and locking up the budget... I'm going to get a bumper sticker:
But perhaps that's because I don't enjoy viewing sex as genocide.
I had a cognitive leap in my teenage years.
Before then, I almost did view careless sex as genocide. Although I've never been like most idiots... People who are always looking for some instant in time [snaps fingers for effect] upon which they can neatly hinge their moral decision making- because before then it's cells, and after then it's a person, right? There is no moment like that, because zygotes only become people gradually. It calls for continuous judgment. But I did view it as more and more immoral as the kid developed. I suppose I still feel that way at some point during development, but I don't think human cells become persons with such ridiculous immediacy.
What makes a huge difference in your outlook, I think, is whether you realize that the abortion war is between people who have sex and people who don't. And as far as that goes, the greatest teacher is experience.
Printing money steals from everyone else with the currency. If you have some amount of value or wealth in your country in terms of goods and land, and suddenly there's twice as much money in circulation, everything would suddenly have to cost twice as much for the same amount of value to be exchanged. In essence, by introducing twice as much money into circulation, the money printer has just stolen half the wealth from all users of the currency.
If the money printer doesn't print twice as much as in circulation (geez!) but say 1% as much, it will prompt people to stop sitting on their savings in a deflationary economy and start spending and loaning the money again.
Remember money itself is not a commodity like bread; you can't eat it or build a house with it or clothe yourself with it. You use it to get other people to help you out with these things. It's a tool we use to operate an economy, and when the tool jams everything up by appreciating in value by itself, someone gets to do us all a favor by stealing it a little. The "theft" is handled by the government (as opposed to counterfeiters) since the government does not counterfeit its own currency.
Slashdot Mirror
As an operator of a large botnet, what will Indexed DB mean for me? Can I sell cloud storage to clients?
Yeah but I was running a ribbon cable to my brother's VIC-20 for the garbage collection and extra 5K heap memory because I couldn't get my dad to buy me three more C-64 machines for a quad-core 32-bit CPU. He kept saying, there's nowhere to plug them in; just wait for the C-128 to come out. I was like "but Daaaad, it only has 8 bits!"
Cloud computing was really difficult too. There were a bunch of kids in my highschool running BBS systems but you couldn't really store your documents there because you always got busy signals, the 300 baud VIC modem was a POS, and the cloud had nothing but stupid foul-mouthed kids in it anyway.
1234567890 1234567890 1234567890 1234567890 1234567890 1234567890 1234567890
Tard. dysk.; fever; shaking/sweating/confus./incr. pulse/bloodpress (NMS)
1234567890 1234567890 1234567890 1234567890 1234567890 1234567890 1234567890
occas. fatal; [mini]strokes 4 psychotic old ppl.; suic. risk; coma; death
Yay!
Dude, back when I was a kid and had a C-64, I wrote a JVM for it. Unfortunately I had trouble, because while the JVM standard defines long as not being threadsafe (as a sop to 32-bit architectures), it defines operations on int, short, char, and Object references as being atomic. So I had to write single-threaded code to simulate multiple threads just to get the garbage collection to work. And my char mappings didn't support Arabic and Chinese- you had to stick with PETSCII.
I was so embarrassed in front of my friends when my games paused intermittently to clear out kilobytes of garbage from the little heap. They were like, WTF, what is it doing, and I said, give me a break, it's Java. The only program I ever really got to work right was my C-64 emulator.
This is a video of two combining neutron stars, not white dwarves, so you'll have to suspend disbelief.
Carl Sagan said it himself in Cosmos. I miss Carl [butthead astronomer] Sagan; our new token astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson isn't morose enough for my taste.
Don't bother replying to that guy. All his posts have always looked like that. Real short, idiotic, and hostile.
80-90% of them quickly sink to -1 and all the rest get 5, which probably reflects a political polarization among moderators.
There is a 30 day public comment period now, but they are still expected to approve the books on a final party line vote.
What do you think Lee Harvey Oswald used for his sniper's nest- an easy chair?
The problem is that the bad guys can buy this technology too, and test and re-test their attacks until they slip through. "Anybody can download and try every single antivirus engine against their malware before they ship it," Stamos said.
Ah, I have the solution. Antivirus software should keep the crap it finds a secret, in case bad guys are running it. That way, they'll never know!
But you don't need to commit a sex offense to get rid of a Facebook account.
Go to your profile page, select "Account Settings" from the drop down menu, and click the "deactivate" link.
My neurologist has me on a prescription (that neurologists seem to prescribe to everybody now) that lowers the sodium concentration in your body as a side effect, and is supposed to make you crave salt- although I don't feel cravings [for either salt or water].
Every time he looks over my blood test results he snaps at me. "Your body is too watery! Aren't you craving salt? You need to eat more salt!"
It also made me drop 40 pounds almost instantly. When I see pictures of me just a few years ago I'm shocked... I look fucking awesome now.
You can toss the citizenry in there for voting for whatever stupid proposition comes down the pike and locking up the budget... I'm going to get a bumper sticker:
VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION n
where n is an integer
You just had to add your own two cents, didn't you?
In other words: they had an "embarrassingly parallel" problem and did the obviously right thing.
Yes, they split the problem up into numerous tiny atomic work units to be handled simultaneously by 20 threads, and then had each intern write one.
We also know about the Mythical Commenter-Post, the argument that adding more commenters to a thread just makes the posts dumber and dumber.
You're right- I don't see anybody who's not there.
You just figure that out?
The payments on $86K are going to be a bitch. I can't wait for jetpacks to start appearing on Operation Repo.
But perhaps that's because I don't enjoy viewing sex as genocide.
I had a cognitive leap in my teenage years.
Before then, I almost did view careless sex as genocide. Although I've never been like most idiots... People who are always looking for some instant in time [snaps fingers for effect] upon which they can neatly hinge their moral decision making- because before then it's cells, and after then it's a person, right? There is no moment like that, because zygotes only become people gradually. It calls for continuous judgment. But I did view it as more and more immoral as the kid developed. I suppose I still feel that way at some point during development, but I don't think human cells become persons with such ridiculous immediacy.
What makes a huge difference in your outlook, I think, is whether you realize that the abortion war is between people who have sex and people who don't. And as far as that goes, the greatest teacher is experience.
It's being buried alive... you haven't heard the last from IE6.
BTW the roses from Microsoft are infected with a plant virus.
And they still had to make it look like Windows:
Doesn't everybody?
Crazy enough to work for Google maybe. I'm sure they'll take your money for rent on 3TB.
Can it watch my kids while I'm at work?
Printing money steals from everyone else with the currency. If you have some amount of value or wealth in your country in terms of goods and land, and suddenly there's twice as much money in circulation, everything would suddenly have to cost twice as much for the same amount of value to be exchanged. In essence, by introducing twice as much money into circulation, the money printer has just stolen half the wealth from all users of the currency.
If the money printer doesn't print twice as much as in circulation (geez!) but say 1% as much, it will prompt people to stop sitting on their savings in a deflationary economy and start spending and loaning the money again.
Remember money itself is not a commodity like bread; you can't eat it or build a house with it or clothe yourself with it. You use it to get other people to help you out with these things. It's a tool we use to operate an economy, and when the tool jams everything up by appreciating in value by itself, someone gets to do us all a favor by stealing it a little. The "theft" is handled by the government (as opposed to counterfeiters) since the government does not counterfeit its own currency.