Check this out. TFA's stuff is slow, and pisses away power like it was water. This stuff... they can make a functional transistor by bouncing a single electron off force-field walls. One electron. To test it at full speed, they first need to figure out what to use as a THz scope.
Ah. There are smart, murderous people out there who want to set up authoritarian regimes. Therefore, we should convert to an authoritarian regime ourselves at once, to stop them. It's the only way. Of, by, for, representative democracy, republican form of government, all wasted idiot dreams. This new breed, the smart, murderous kind, have caught a defenseless free world utterly by surprise. No evil to date has managed to kill a thousand people per year. It's unprecedented, and everyone should cower in fear.
These are men with minds so coarse they can't conceive of anything beyond pure hierarchy, and souls so small they worship it.
We have foiled terroist attacks and cells within the US for 5 years now.
Absolutely. Just look at all the terrorist invaders in jail!
Oh. No invaders. So sad. Maybe those guys reselling cell phones? Nope. The guys who bought boots? Nope. Enough evidence to charge even one single person? Nope. No evidence of anything at all. But there's an invasion in progress anyway. He says so, and that makes it true.
Does anyone know of a amendment to the constitution giving the president the right to disregard the consitution?
No amendment needed. Everything that civil law forbids he does using his authority as Commander in Chief. Oh, by the way: Congress *did* approve it. They "sort of, stumble[d] upon it", unconsciously. It'll be this way until He declares the war over.
There's one thing I've seen as constant in Google's products: they raise the bar on too-cheap-to-meter. Then they do a value add and make money with the pros. Some things, nobody can make money on, so they just give it away to drive the nickel-and-dimers back to boiler rooms and fax spamming where they belong.
The freebies also make everyone more willing to tolerate their main profit generator, the ubiquitous ads which they already take great pains to make as unobtrusive as possible. gmail, groups, news, earth, books,... free. no ads. major resource commitments.
Damn straight their new products don't have to "succeed", because the guys who claim they're not succeeding don't know success when it's staring them in the face. You can spend your advertising budget telling people how great their lives will be after they give you money, or you can spend it making life great for people so they know who's doing it. Google sponsors good stuff. That used to be how advertising worked.
No, no no. See, it's ok if we do it, because we're the good guys. That's what evil looks like in the mirror, but so what? Before you answer, don't forget: "Americans should watch what they say", and those who claim the administration is gutting the liberty America is famous for
"only aid the terrorists"
:
"All persons being detained have the right to contact their lawyers and their families". Never mind that that liberty was a phantom six months later. Ashcroft couldn't be bothered with phantom niceties like keeping his word or honoring habeas corpus.
But that was then. Now? They're still at it. Now they're sending Generals to the Supreme Court to argue:
GENERAL CLEMENT: And if you think, in order for there be to a -- to be a valid suspension, Congress has to do it consciously, then I think you could see why the arguments are mutually exclusive. My view would be that if Congress, sort of, stumbles upon a suspension of the writ, but the preconditions are satisfied, that would still be constitutionally valid.
Those preconditions, by the way, are invasion or insurrection. Lincoln tried it with the Civil War in progress and it's widely considered a permanent stain on not just his reputation but his character. Nobody else, ever before, never since. Not in 1941 when the Japanese Navy invaded Pearl Harbor. Not in 1814 when the invading army reached Washington D.C. and burned every government building to the ground. No. Now the country's in real danger. We must suspend accountability now, and apply only his military authority to whomever he pleases. Bush has been scouring the country for almost five years to find evidence of those Islamo-fascists' secret invasion, and hasn't come up with enough evidence to charge even one person, so we must suspend habeas to stop it from succeeding.
He promises the only people he'll imprison without enough evidence to convince a criminal court will be Scary Bad non-citizens. We must trust the President. If that invasion nobody can find but he tells the Supreme Court is underway anyway really doesn't exist, that would be... sad.
God. That video isn't just humbling, it's damn near humiliating. Compare it to the nextstep 3 demo someone else posted I think today. It isn't that nextstep isn't better - in many places it is, by far. But only in detail, and only some ways. There's stuff in NLS I still want. Anybody else seen folding that good? Where? I want it. What the hell have we been doing for forty years?
Nice summary (truly). I agree with almost every point, including some I hadn't really thought about (probably because I was using all-caps languages at the time) — I do know the fuzzy-CRT problem, and that's dead-on the mark.
But you're discussing output legibility. That's got nothing to do with scrubbing user input. One standard Caps-and-Strip call, you're done, and you've just eliminated untold hours of training, five minutes at a time while every new employee eventually finds somebody to explain to them that they can't hit the space bar before hitting tab, or whatever mistakes are easiest to make on that particular field. Let alone the expense every time they do it again by mistake, and have to retype the entire screen because they can't see the invisible space, or just have to poot the cursor around, and at all events have to break stride.
It's faster in every way to scrub than to check-and-reject, and always has been. Reentry overhead so vastly swamps the most inefficient scrubber that "ludicrous" won't begin to cover the CPU-time argument. The code-size argument isn't that bad, somewhere in truly-bad-judgement-call territory. Save any extra fifty bytes somewhere else when it's clear you need to and where it doesn't sacrifice function, not right here right now where it isn't and it does.
On the other hand, do you know how many of the Acid2 non-compliance things are relevant to me? None, just like any other web developer who actually writes pages that follow W3C specs.
It seems to me this part misses the point. It's a trip test, not lint. What else a browser does when it renders known-bad code as required is a quality-of-implementation issue, just as whether compilers heckle you for using deprecated features is. But compilers that compile deprecated syntax wrong are out of spec, and there's lots of deprecated code out there, and there's a reason for the test.
Forget the false-positive rate. Focus on the false-accusation and failure rates. With ten terrorists targeting a 30M-passenger airport, that's 99.999625% false accusations and 100% failure.
I still like to believe the threshold to criminal comes before the threshold to illegal, and to illegal before "de minimis" takes hold. And that it's a long, long way from rude to criminally rude. And that "wrong" kicks in even before the "rude" threshold.
When was buying stock anywhere but direct from the company ever "investing" in the company?
Sure: if I buy APPL shares from you, I've just put a momentary lower bound on the share price, and maybe eventually APPL will sell some more shares to raise money. But the actual investing only comes when people buy those shares. APPL still doesn't see a dime of my money and can't do a damn thing with it, worthwhile or otherwise.
What you've got there is called a "strawman" rebuttal: a reply to a different point than the one at hand.
The problem isn't with them bundling. Never was. The problem is what they'll do to vendors who want to build different bundles, what they'll do to customers that want different software. Microsoft doesn't like to talk about those parts. They want to talk about everything but those parts. They got convicted of a felony for those parts. They act all hurt when people remember and act accordingly.
All of this is very familiar to anyone who's ever had to deal with bad-prognosis 12-steppers. But, hey, at least they're showing up for the first meeting.
the entire value of traditional print, radio, TV and billboard ads
isn't even the point of Google's ads. Google's ad service exists to get buyers to the seller's place of business in less than a second. For those not looking, they're so discreet (on most sites) nobody even has to notice them. No traditional medium can play that game.
I'm sure there are other ways to charge advertisers what their advertisements are worth, and increase their effectiveness at the same time.
Yeah. Small-timers are getting waaaaaaaay too much bang out of the ads almost nobody minds at all, and the web's full of amateur and semi-pro sites that cover or at least help with their costs with nearly trivial convenience. The successful ones even make money! That's bad. The world won't be right until big flashy expensive advertising doesn't have to compete with ads nobody minds, and big flashy expensive companies don't have to compete with the ones that need wide exposure to reach enough market. See, when we say "level" playing field, we mean "razed" playing field. The Google approach doesn't even allow advertisers to make demands on the businesses that run their ads! What's the point of advertising if you can't threaten to pull your ads??!!!?? It's galling.
So how to make the world right? Gotta get everybody who's happy with the current arrangement unhappy, right?
I know! Let's appeal to greed!.
LPARs came later than the 1960's. Virtual memory and virtual machines, yeah. But LPAR is their hardcore stuff, introduced in 1976 and steadily worked on since. Intel's only 30 years behind IBM, not 40.
Not even remotely. Neat hacks are recognizable in hindsight, too, regardless of how well they hold their value over the years. setuid still makes me grin. What some guy at IBM did for mergesort on long keys. Pixie dust. Those are the result of a lot more than rubbing two nickels together to get a dime.
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Check this out. TFA's stuff is slow, and pisses away power like it was water. This stuff... they can make a functional transistor by bouncing a single electron off force-field walls. One electron. To test it at full speed, they first need to figure out what to use as a THz scope.
...still doesn't include Duke Nukem Forever...
Ah. There are smart, murderous people out there who want to set up authoritarian regimes. Therefore, we should convert to an authoritarian regime ourselves at once, to stop them. It's the only way. Of, by, for, representative democracy, republican form of government, all wasted idiot dreams. This new breed, the smart, murderous kind, have caught a defenseless free world utterly by surprise. No evil to date has managed to kill a thousand people per year. It's unprecedented, and everyone should cower in fear.
These are men with minds so coarse they can't conceive of anything beyond pure hierarchy, and souls so small they worship it.
Absolutely. Just look at all the terrorist invaders in jail!
Oh. No invaders. So sad. Maybe those guys reselling cell phones? Nope. The guys who bought boots? Nope. Enough evidence to charge even one single person? Nope. No evidence of anything at all. But there's an invasion in progress anyway. He says so, and that makes it true.
There's one thing I've seen as constant in Google's products: they raise the bar on too-cheap-to-meter. Then they do a value add and make money with the pros. Some things, nobody can make money on, so they just give it away to drive the nickel-and-dimers back to boiler rooms and fax spamming where they belong.
The freebies also make everyone more willing to tolerate their main profit generator, the ubiquitous ads which they already take great pains to make as unobtrusive as possible. gmail, groups, news, earth, books, ... free. no ads. major resource commitments.
Damn straight their new products don't have to "succeed", because the guys who claim they're not succeeding don't know success when it's staring them in the face. You can spend your advertising budget telling people how great their lives will be after they give you money, or you can spend it making life great for people so they know who's doing it. Google sponsors good stuff. That used to be how advertising worked.
No, no no. See, it's ok if we do it, because we're the good guys. That's what evil looks like in the mirror, but so what? Before you answer, don't forget: "Americans should watch what they say", and those who claim the administration is gutting the liberty America is famous for "only aid the terrorists" :
"All persons being detained have the right to contact their lawyers and their families". Never mind that that liberty was a phantom six months later. Ashcroft couldn't be bothered with phantom niceties like keeping his word or honoring habeas corpus.
But that was then. Now? They're still at it. Now they're sending Generals to the Supreme Court to argue:
Those preconditions, by the way, are invasion or insurrection. Lincoln tried it with the Civil War in progress and it's widely considered a permanent stain on not just his reputation but his character. Nobody else, ever before, never since. Not in 1941 when the Japanese Navy invaded Pearl Harbor. Not in 1814 when the invading army reached Washington D.C. and burned every government building to the ground. No. Now the country's in real danger. We must suspend accountability now, and apply only his military authority to whomever he pleases. Bush has been scouring the country for almost five years to find evidence of those Islamo- fascists' secret invasion, and hasn't come up with enough evidence to charge even one person, so we must suspend habeas to stop it from succeeding.
He promises the only people he'll imprison without enough evidence to convince a criminal court will be Scary Bad non-citizens. We must trust the President. If that invasion nobody can find but he tells the Supreme Court is underway anyway really doesn't exist, that would be ... sad.
God. That video isn't just humbling, it's damn near humiliating. Compare it to the nextstep 3 demo someone else posted I think today. It isn't that nextstep isn't better - in many places it is, by far. But only in detail, and only some ways. There's stuff in NLS I still want. Anybody else seen folding that good? Where? I want it. What the hell have we been doing for forty years?
You'll be surprised, then. It started out at 420W. Pu238 halflife is ~90 years: I think it'll still melt your Dell, if you want to put ~120Kg of power supply into it.
Nice summary (truly). I agree with almost every point, including some I hadn't really thought about (probably because I was using all-caps languages at the time) — I do know the fuzzy-CRT problem, and that's dead-on the mark.
But you're discussing output legibility. That's got nothing to do with scrubbing user input. One standard Caps-and-Strip call, you're done, and you've just eliminated untold hours of training, five minutes at a time while every new employee eventually finds somebody to explain to them that they can't hit the space bar before hitting tab, or whatever mistakes are easiest to make on that particular field. Let alone the expense every time they do it again by mistake, and have to retype the entire screen because they can't see the invisible space, or just have to poot the cursor around, and at all events have to break stride.
It's faster in every way to scrub than to check-and-reject, and always has been. Reentry overhead so vastly swamps the most inefficient scrubber that "ludicrous" won't begin to cover the CPU-time argument. The code-size argument isn't that bad, somewhere in truly-bad-judgement-call territory. Save any extra fifty bytes somewhere else when it's clear you need to and where it doesn't sacrifice function, not right here right now where it isn't and it does.
It seems to me this part misses the point. It's a trip test, not lint. What else a browser does when it renders known-bad code as required is a quality-of-implementation issue, just as whether compilers heckle you for using deprecated features is. But compilers that compile deprecated syntax wrong are out of spec, and there's lots of deprecated code out there, and there's a reason for the test.
Join the 21st Century! Update .plan and fire up fingerd!
And that ought to end every argument about the long-term importance of launch lists.
Alla same, gimmegimmegimme.
Forget the false-positive rate. Focus on the false-accusation and failure rates. With ten terrorists targeting a 30M-passenger airport, that's 99.999625% false accusations and 100% failure.
You guys direct linked a $15/mo server?!!!??!!!?!?!?!!!??????
Wheaties. Meds. Java. Whatever turns you on.
Jeez.
So, VMWare's gonna host on OS X, and Microsoft likes Xen? And the Xen guys are getting dinged for their proprietary attitude?
Ok. We've arrived. All ashore that's going ashore!
Clicks in the morning! Clicks at night!
Left click
Left click
Left click
Right.
I still like to believe the threshold to criminal comes before the threshold to illegal, and to illegal before "de minimis" takes hold. And that it's a long, long way from rude to criminally rude. And that "wrong" kicks in even before the "rude" threshold.
Right. And no principle's worth spending money to defend, right?
When was buying stock anywhere but direct from the company ever "investing" in the company?
Sure: if I buy APPL shares from you, I've just put a momentary lower bound on the share price, and maybe eventually APPL will sell some more shares to raise money. But the actual investing only comes when people buy those shares. APPL still doesn't see a dime of my money and can't do a damn thing with it, worthwhile or otherwise.
What you've got there is called a "strawman" rebuttal: a reply to a different point than the one at hand.
The problem isn't with them bundling. Never was. The problem is what they'll do to vendors who want to build different bundles, what they'll do to customers that want different software. Microsoft doesn't like to talk about those parts. They want to talk about everything but those parts. They got convicted of a felony for those parts. They act all hurt when people remember and act accordingly. All of this is very familiar to anyone who's ever had to deal with bad-prognosis 12-steppers. But, hey, at least they're showing up for the first meeting.
Yeah. Small-timers are getting waaaaaaaay too much bang out of the ads almost nobody minds at all, and the web's full of amateur and semi-pro sites that cover or at least help with their costs with nearly trivial convenience. The successful ones even make money! That's bad. The world won't be right until big flashy expensive advertising doesn't have to compete with ads nobody minds, and big flashy expensive companies don't have to compete with the ones that need wide exposure to reach enough market. See, when we say "level" playing field, we mean "razed" playing field. The Google approach doesn't even allow advertisers to make demands on the businesses that run their ads! What's the point of advertising if you can't threaten to pull your ads??!!!?? It's galling.
So how to make the world right? Gotta get everybody who's happy with the current arrangement unhappy, right? I know! Let's appeal to greed!.
It's nice to have allies, isn't it?
LPARs came later than the 1960's. Virtual memory and virtual machines, yeah. But LPAR is their hardcore stuff, introduced in 1976 and steadily worked on since. Intel's only 30 years behind IBM, not 40.
They use commercial CFD to model the flow around the swimmer. Been years now. This story? Ooooh. Now they're running exactly the same thing on a faster box.
Not even remotely. Neat hacks are recognizable in hindsight, too, regardless of how well they hold their value over the years. setuid still makes me grin. What some guy at IBM did for mergesort on long keys. Pixie dust. Those are the result of a lot more than rubbing two nickels together to get a dime.