please show me a flow chart for a kernal, or a modern 3d game engine complete with ai. now write it in basic...
even a kernal(sic) or game engine can be chopped up into conceptual smaller pieces, and those pieces can be chopped up as well, until you do reach a level where flowcharts can be used.
Heck, your "AI" is a perfect example. The decision making process of an NPC/monster/whatever in a computer game qualifies perfectly for a flowchart.
It still does. The electorate just willfully and purposefully chooses to ignore them in favor of the guys with the flagpins, white teeth, perfect hair and the massive budgets.
I'm sorry, could you explain what share of this cheese you're entitled to, having done nothing to contribute to the making of it?
Considering it's our taxes at work that makes the very concept of "intellectual property" possible in the first place...quite a bit actually.
Copyright is a fictional concept made possible by We, the People, collectively maintaining it is in our best interest that there be some degree of control for artists over how their works are distributed and under what conditions.
Circumstances (the internet, making billions of copies without significant cost or effort) is changing the deal. Instead praying that it does not change any further, adapt.
Despite it more or less having a happy ending, the underlying theme which pops up in most of the Culture books, that a couple of Minds are pretty much running anything and everything and the humans are just there to look pretty and provide scenery, is very strong in that one.
The only way a third party will ever get in office is when the electorate starts to give a flying fuck, and if that ever happens (we can dream, right?), some degree of accountability might actually take place.
Then again, considering the majority of the stuff that gets blamed/credited on/to the President is actually the legislative branch, I hold very little hope for the U.S. to do anything but continue its downward spiral towards irrelevancy.
You can do it folks, but you're gonna have to do it 1 congressperson at a time.
That Noah sure was groovy. Didn't bother with the dinosaurs but brought the head lice, crabs, ticks, mosquitoes and all the other little parasites we're so fond off.
Not too long ago my national government was looking for a way to make digital dealings with the government easier. As usual, a truckload of very, very expensive consultants were brought in (Cap Gemini) who then spent a lot of time, money and paper working on possible ways to accomplish this.
Their final verdict? Facebook integration. I kid you not. These guys actually thought using Facebook as the primary identifier to facilitate dealings with local and national government would be a good idea.
Fortunately it seems there must have been some civil servants with a bit of sense, because those documents were very quickly never heard from again.
While user stupidity played a massive role, I do recall a time when Windows XP connected to the web would literally be infected by a worm within minutes. You could actually plug in the cable, start a stopwatch and wait for Blaster to do its thing.
it IS time for a new revolution this time the "well armed militia " will do what it was intended to do remove a govt that is TOO corrupt and can NOT be fixed
Oh please. The Americans can't even be bothered to *vote* in their own best interests, what makes you think they can be bothered to pick up a firearm and revolt in an organized fashion?
The best part is the other countries where I see politicians holding up the US as a wonderful 2 party system where shit gets done. Because it's the kind of shit that politicians *want* to do instead of what they *should* be doing.
Then again, it does conjure up the image of the Russians arriving on US shore somewhere and finding thousands of gangbangers fully loaded waiting for them:)
So basically, in London only the rich can afford to drive; everyone else just has to make do somehow.
Got it.
Totally a model for the US to emulate.
And in a really dense city...that makes perfect sense.
How many New Yorkers get around by car? How many Parisians? At that kind of population density cars simply do not make sense, they take up way too much space and cough out way too much crap compared to the number of people that need moving around.
Where there's massive amounts of people, there needs to be mass transit.
The peak need for air conditioning comes during the day which is also the peak overall electrical demand time.
Define "need". What percentage of this need is homes for the elderly and sick that actually *have* to be cooled, and what percentage is people at work and home who would be merely uncomfortable, or who might have to take off their jacket and tie and dress appropriately for the weather instead?
If prices go up a lot of folks may very well decide that getting hot and sweaty a bit is worth saving the money.
it is COMPLETELY reasonable to not do anything personal on the internet while you're at work
It is also completely reasonable to not do anything work-related on your own time. Or during your lunch break. But in order to be explicit maybe it's a good idea to also specify the exact amount and duration of toilet breaks. Wouldn't want to anger our corporate overlords, now would we?
Or, alternatively, all parties concerned behave like adults. The boss only calls after hours if it is really important and trusts the employee not to goof off all the time, and in return the employee enjoys a modicum of trust and freedom without going too far.
I have yet to encounter a "dirty is better" theorist who is also an anti-vaccer, considering vaccines perform the same function as playing around in the dirt: introducing the immune system to the bad guys, so it knows what they look like and how to kill them.
Besides, generally the argument is hardly to keep the house filthy, but against sterilizing everything and anything and preventing children from playing outside.
Washing your hands after using the bathroom and before preparing food is good. Sterilizing them every time one touches a door-handle is over the top.
Bullshit. Plenty of folks recognize that taxes are part of the social contract. We may not approve of everything that money gets used for, we complain and grumble, but generally speaking we recognize the need/benefits of a centralized system for providing necessary services, even if we disagree on the necessity of some of these services.
And there is a very easy way to opt out, just move to a country that has a different social contract. That might mean having to forego minor amenities like roads, firehouses, police, hospitals etc. and there's always the risk of *actual* theft at gunpoint by the local warlord, but it's an option.
So yeah, you *are* sounding like an anti-tax nut, if only because you have the arrogance of thinking your views are representative of the entire planet.
From the point of view of law enforcement it makes sense to claim these things. The executive branch of a lot of countries would like nothing more than an internet that spits out the information they need to (allegedly) do their jobs the way we see on tv shows(watch some NCIS to see the circumventing of checks and balances glorified). At the same time anything that makes it possible for us simple folk to hide what we're doing should be made illegal because, hey, if you ain't doing nothing wrong you ain't got nothing to hide, right?
Maybe I've been spoiled by the quality traffic lights systems I'm used to, but don't yours also have sensors in the roads to detect traffic? When a vehicle approaches a crossing that has no other traffic, it gets detected, and since there's no other traffic(all the other lights are red as well) his light switches to green soon enough to only require minimal slowdown.
Same principle applies to cyclists and pedestrians, only they push a button to request a green light.
While I agree with both you and GP, I do wonder if the principle would still apply to such an extent if the whole industry were to "get it".
Right now we happily give our money to Valve and the Humble Indie guys because they're the exception to the rule and we want to make clear (consciously or not) that we support what they do by voting with our wallets. If this modus operandi were to become an industry standard that urge would be gone since we would have won the battle.
There was a time way back when AMD Athlon cpu's delivered far more bang for the buck than their contempary intel competitors. Add to that the motherboards made for AMD CPU's with excellent support for single or dual Nvidia videocards and it was pretty plain which way to go for a gaming setup for a reasonable price. I especially liked the n-Force 2 chipset with the above combination.
I only switched from AMD to Intel CPU's after AMD acquired ATI and all of a sudden there was not a single decent motherboard on the market that would allow me to run both an AMD CPU and my 2 existing Nvidia videocards.
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please show me a flow chart for a kernal, or a modern 3d game engine complete with ai.
now write it in basic...
even a kernal(sic) or game engine can be chopped up into conceptual smaller pieces, and those pieces can be chopped up as well, until you do reach a level where flowcharts can be used.
Heck, your "AI" is a perfect example. The decision making process of an NPC/monster/whatever in a computer game qualifies perfectly for a flowchart.
It still does. The electorate just willfully and purposefully chooses to ignore them in favor of the guys with the flagpins, white teeth, perfect hair and the massive budgets.
I'm sorry, could you explain what share of this cheese you're entitled to, having done nothing to contribute to the making of it?
Considering it's our taxes at work that makes the very concept of "intellectual property" possible in the first place...quite a bit actually.
Copyright is a fictional concept made possible by We, the People, collectively maintaining it is in our best interest that there be some degree of control for artists over how their works are distributed and under what conditions.
Circumstances (the internet, making billions of copies without significant cost or effort) is changing the deal. Instead praying that it does not change any further, adapt.
How about Player of Games?
Despite it more or less having a happy ending, the underlying theme which pops up in most of the Culture books, that a couple of Minds are pretty much running anything and everything and the humans are just there to look pretty and provide scenery, is very strong in that one.
Poor Gurgeh...
They are you and you are them, and on some deep buried level you know it.
Grokking is.
My english teacher back when I was...oh, 13 or so made us read On The Beach.
The scars...they never quite go away.
The only way a third party will ever get in office is when the electorate starts to give a flying fuck, and if that ever happens (we can dream, right?), some degree of accountability might actually take place.
Then again, considering the majority of the stuff that gets blamed/credited on/to the President is actually the legislative branch, I hold very little hope for the U.S. to do anything but continue its downward spiral towards irrelevancy.
You can do it folks, but you're gonna have to do it 1 congressperson at a time.
I couldn't help but think of Ibanez when reading your post. :)
It's a funny thing that the whole "lawsuit era" of Japanese manufacturers copying US instrument designs is an urban myth.
Isn't that what jury selection is for? To make sure anyone that even smells of having a clue doesn't actually make it on the jury?
That Noah sure was groovy. Didn't bother with the dinosaurs but brought the head lice, crabs, ticks, mosquitoes and all the other little parasites we're so fond off.
And they say *Job* had a hard time...
Not too long ago my national government was looking for a way to make digital dealings with the government easier. As usual, a truckload of very, very expensive consultants were brought in (Cap Gemini) who then spent a lot of time, money and paper working on possible ways to accomplish this.
Their final verdict? Facebook integration. I kid you not. These guys actually thought using Facebook as the primary identifier to facilitate dealings with local and national government would be a good idea.
Fortunately it seems there must have been some civil servants with a bit of sense, because those documents were very quickly never heard from again.
While user stupidity played a massive role, I do recall a time when Windows XP connected to the web would literally be infected by a worm within minutes. You could actually plug in the cable, start a stopwatch and wait for Blaster to do its thing.
Good times...
Ahhh, the "american model". Where you take a team and transform it into a family feud.
Because nothing says efficiency like a setup where the whole is less than the smallest part.
it IS time for a new revolution
this time the "well armed militia " will do what it was intended to do
remove a govt that is TOO corrupt and can NOT be fixed
Oh please. The Americans can't even be bothered to *vote* in their own best interests, what makes you think they can be bothered to pick up a firearm and revolt in an organized fashion?
The best part is the other countries where I see politicians holding up the US as a wonderful 2 party system where shit gets done. Because it's the kind of shit that politicians *want* to do instead of what they *should* be doing.
Then again, it does conjure up the image of the Russians arriving on US shore somewhere and finding thousands of gangbangers fully loaded waiting for them :)
So basically, in London only the rich can afford to drive; everyone else just has to make do somehow.
Got it.
Totally a model for the US to emulate.
And in a really dense city...that makes perfect sense.
How many New Yorkers get around by car? How many Parisians? At that kind of population density cars simply do not make sense, they take up way too much space and cough out way too much crap compared to the number of people that need moving around.
Where there's massive amounts of people, there needs to be mass transit.
Politicians that tell the truth don't stand a chance of getting elected.
We, the electorate, get exactly the "leaders" we deserve.
The peak need for air conditioning comes during the day which is also the peak overall electrical demand time.
Define "need". What percentage of this need is homes for the elderly and sick that actually *have* to be cooled, and what percentage is people at work and home who would be merely uncomfortable, or who might have to take off their jacket and tie and dress appropriately for the weather instead?
If prices go up a lot of folks may very well decide that getting hot and sweaty a bit is worth saving the money.
it is COMPLETELY reasonable to not do anything personal on the internet while you're at work
It is also completely reasonable to not do anything work-related on your own time. Or during your lunch break. But in order to be explicit maybe it's a good idea to also specify the exact amount and duration of toilet breaks. Wouldn't want to anger our corporate overlords, now would we?
Or, alternatively, all parties concerned behave like adults. The boss only calls after hours if it is really important and trusts the employee not to goof off all the time, and in return the employee enjoys a modicum of trust and freedom without going too far.
I have yet to encounter a "dirty is better" theorist who is also an anti-vaccer, considering vaccines perform the same function as playing around in the dirt: introducing the immune system to the bad guys, so it knows what they look like and how to kill them.
Besides, generally the argument is hardly to keep the house filthy, but against sterilizing everything and anything and preventing children from playing outside.
Washing your hands after using the bathroom and before preparing food is good. Sterilizing them every time one touches a door-handle is over the top.
Bullshit. Plenty of folks recognize that taxes are part of the social contract. We may not approve of everything that money gets used for, we complain and grumble, but generally speaking we recognize the need/benefits of a centralized system for providing necessary services, even if we disagree on the necessity of some of these services.
And there is a very easy way to opt out, just move to a country that has a different social contract. That might mean having to forego minor amenities like roads, firehouses, police, hospitals etc. and there's always the risk of *actual* theft at gunpoint by the local warlord, but it's an option.
So yeah, you *are* sounding like an anti-tax nut, if only because you have the arrogance of thinking your views are representative of the entire planet.
From the point of view of law enforcement it makes sense to claim these things. The executive branch of a lot of countries would like nothing more than an internet that spits out the information they need to (allegedly) do their jobs the way we see on tv shows(watch some NCIS to see the circumventing of checks and balances glorified). At the same time anything that makes it possible for us simple folk to hide what we're doing should be made illegal because, hey, if you ain't doing nothing wrong you ain't got nothing to hide, right?
Maybe I've been spoiled by the quality traffic lights systems I'm used to, but don't yours also have sensors in the roads to detect traffic? When a vehicle approaches a crossing that has no other traffic, it gets detected, and since there's no other traffic(all the other lights are red as well) his light switches to green soon enough to only require minimal slowdown.
Same principle applies to cyclists and pedestrians, only they push a button to request a green light.
While I agree with both you and GP, I do wonder if the principle would still apply to such an extent if the whole industry were to "get it".
Right now we happily give our money to Valve and the Humble Indie guys because they're the exception to the rule and we want to make clear (consciously or not) that we support what they do by voting with our wallets. If this modus operandi were to become an industry standard that urge would be gone since we would have won the battle.
There was a time way back when AMD Athlon cpu's delivered far more bang for the buck than their contempary intel competitors. Add to that the motherboards made for AMD CPU's with excellent support for single or dual Nvidia videocards and it was pretty plain which way to go for a gaming setup for a reasonable price. I especially liked the n-Force 2 chipset with the above combination.
I only switched from AMD to Intel CPU's after AMD acquired ATI and all of a sudden there was not a single decent motherboard on the market that would allow me to run both an AMD CPU and my 2 existing Nvidia videocards.