Hate to be a counter example to your argument, but I used to write my games in hand-compiled hexcode for Z80/6802/6502 - as a hobbyist programmer. Professionals used an assembler.
The world's largest tractor maker, John Deere, in fact, says that people who purchase tractors don't really own them and instead they are getting an "implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle."
If this is true, then why does the manufacturer not have an obligation to repair the tractor for free?
This app already exists, it's called "Phone". Give police access to a database of license plates and cell phone numbers and you could already achieve this.
Both the app and your alternative would only work if I get forced to own (or rather be owned) and carry a phone. No thanks.
There is only one way the UK can really achieve those age verification and website rating plans: by disconnecting their island from the world's internet cables and shooting all telecom satellites from the sky above them, so that Brits can only to connect to local servers which fall under British jurisdiction.
"No, the basic premise of the movie (robots turning against their makers) is the complete opposite of Asimov's books."
I think you should read more of the actual books. The idea of the robots protecting humanity by removing control from them was covered in the latter caves of steel novels.
Then watch the film again, they didn't turn against, they took over control.
I have read the books. Seeing the movie once was enough.
I the later books, the robots did not "take over control" from the humans. They did however manipulate humanity from behind the scenes into a future where mankind would not need robots any more.
R. Giskard and R. Daneel Olivaw added the zeroth law of robots, which is protecting humanity as such. Since that is an infraction on the firs law, which is about protecting individual humans, accepting this new law disables R. Giskard. R. Daneel Olivaw evolves into something different than a robot, since over the centuries his positronic brain gets replaced by a biological brain.
The events in the movie are not related to that in any way.
The movie is based on a script which is in no way related to Asimov's book. Marketing slapped the Asimov brand on it and a couple of scenes which refer to Asimov's stories were added at that point.
Smith's movie actually incorporates several themes and ideas from the original book.
No, the basic premise of the movie (robots turning against their makers) is the complete opposite of Asimov's books.
"I, Robot" is a collection of short stories. As "Golden Age" scifi it's top-of-the-line, but it's pretty outdated so any one story from it would make a pretty horrible movie.
Like most AI and robot movies, it is a variation on Frankenstein, and as such not very original. A movie in the spirit of Asimov's stories would be a lot more refreshing.
Reports were that engineers hoped to keep Sunway TaihuLight running Windows 7 in perpetuity, but the system's record-breaking performance caused a forced Windows 10 upgrade to be completed in 2.4 seconds - just too quickly for anyone to hit "Cancel".
It runs on Raise OS 2.0.5, which is "Linux based" - whatever that may be (a fork of the kernel? a distro?).
Naw, they are just using Cheap Chinese knock off of some AMD processors they purchased on EBay..
The Acorn Archimedes 305 and 310 models were also sold under the BBC Micro label. That was in 1987, when 32-bit ARM was running circles around (8/)16/32-bit x86 in terms of instructions per second.
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You are assuming far too much about me or about what I intend.
I have read GEB (did all the exercises/puzzles in it too) and Goedel's paper, and I do not in any way support or defend Trump/Putin/Erdogan/Duterte.
My remark was on logic and nothing else.
Libertarians believe very strongly in property rights and that one of government's most important functions is to preserve property rights:
Same problem: just as "liberal", "libertarian" has changed its meaning in American English.
Historically, the libertarians were non-statist (non-Marxist) communists.
(Interestingly enough, it is logically possible for both sides of a contradiction to be false, but not for both sides to be true.)
Seems you are unaware of the existence of paraconsistent logic.
Did you ever hear of the x86 emulator which exists for ARM since July 1987?
1988 Review in PCW
1991 Edition of the manual
I suppose you're also the inventor of the Z80, 6502 and 6802 and you hand built your PCs from raw materials, huh?
Nope, that was not me.
Hate to be a counter example to your argument, but I used to write my games in hand-compiled hexcode for Z80/6802/6502 - as a hobbyist programmer. Professionals used an assembler.
The world's largest tractor maker, John Deere, in fact, says that people who purchase tractors don't really own them and instead they are getting an "implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle."
If this is true, then why does the manufacturer not have an obligation to repair the tractor for free?
Single user and no security what-so-ever. IBM should have used the 68000 combined with a proper OS.
Yeah, that's what I said when the IBM 5150 PC was announced in 1981 with an 8/16-bit 8088 CPU running a rebranded Quick & Dirty Operating System:
"Too little, too late".
I was not aware yet that a brand name may be worth a lot more than technical specifications.
This app already exists, it's called "Phone". Give police access to a database of license plates and cell phone numbers and you could already achieve this.
Both the app and your alternative would only work if I get forced to own (or rather be owned) and carry a phone. No thanks.
There is only one way the UK can really achieve those age verification and website rating plans: by disconnecting their island from the world's internet cables and shooting all telecom satellites from the sky above them, so that Brits can only to connect to local servers which fall under British jurisdiction.
Brinternexit.
COBAL battles the FORTRAN Godzilla in Silicon Valley..
Is COBAL a mix of COBOL and COMAL?
I don't think she even understands what she is proposing.
Leadsom is proposing a Brinternexit.
Does this application ask for permission before upgrading?
Yes, I've tried the other options, they "kinda sorta work" most of the time, sometimes, often, but not 100% of the time...
The same is true for Microsoft Office. I had to open a MS Word 95 file. MS Office could not read it, OpenOffice had no problem with it.
"No, the basic premise of the movie (robots turning against their makers) is the complete opposite of Asimov's books."
I think you should read more of the actual books. The idea of the robots protecting humanity by removing control from them was covered in the latter caves of steel novels.
Then watch the film again, they didn't turn against, they took over control.
I have read the books. Seeing the movie once was enough.
I the later books, the robots did not "take over control" from the humans. They did however manipulate humanity from behind the scenes into a future where mankind would not need robots any more.
R. Giskard and R. Daneel Olivaw added the zeroth law of robots, which is protecting humanity as such. Since that is an infraction on the firs law, which is about protecting individual humans, accepting this new law disables R. Giskard. R. Daneel Olivaw evolves into something different than a robot, since over the centuries his positronic brain gets replaced by a biological brain.
The events in the movie are not related to that in any way.
Smith's movie actually incorporates several themes and ideas from the original book.
No, the basic premise of the movie (robots turning against their makers) is the complete opposite of Asimov's books.
"I, Robot" is a collection of short stories. As "Golden Age" scifi it's top-of-the-line, but it's pretty outdated so any one story from it would make a pretty horrible movie.
Like most AI and robot movies, it is a variation on Frankenstein, and as such not very original. A movie in the spirit of Asimov's stories would be a lot more refreshing.
It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
That's not Telegram but Telefon.
no legislation can be passed without the say-so of unelected bureaucrats (the European Commission)
This is not correct: the European Council stands above the European Commission and can over-rule them in everything.
Right, this has been discussed before. I think the overall conclusion is, "fine, re-assign the tag. But at least change the icon!!"
I have a suggestion for the new Digital icon.
https://laotsao.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/sw1600-and-alpha-21164/.
Reports were that engineers hoped to keep Sunway TaihuLight running Windows 7 in perpetuity, but the system's record-breaking performance caused a forced Windows 10 upgrade to be completed in 2.4 seconds - just too quickly for anyone to hit "Cancel".
It runs on Raise OS 2.0.5, which is "Linux based" - whatever that may be (a fork of the kernel? a distro?).
Naw, they are just using Cheap Chinese knock off of some AMD processors they purchased on EBay..
They are using the ShenWei SW26010 CPU.
Seems like the new owners of Slashdot have no idea what that "digital" logo is from, or for.
Probably the previous owner, who also had no clue, explained it to them.
Talk plain and you lose.
Nope you win. (Or do you really want to work for such an employer?)
That was the ABC 210/Acorn Cambridge Workstation, with a NS32016 second processor, which was also available as an expansion to the BBC,
The Acorn Archimedes 305 and 310 models were also sold under the BBC Micro label. That was in 1987, when 32-bit ARM was running circles around (8/)16/32-bit x86 in terms of instructions per second.
The whole "everybody needs to learn to code" thing has got out of hand.
This is nothing new, BBC Micro has been promoting learning to program since 1981.