Bein male or female is also a physical/medical condition. Doesn't mean there should be any changes about that. Ok, there are a few people who are unhappy with the sex they have, and they may opt for changing that. It's not that rare that someone just doesn't get along with males or females. But what would be if people would start forcing other people to change their sex, because they don't like it? Exactly that's what's happening with most of those syndromes. A change of their physical condition is forced upon them becasue others don't get along with it, not becasue they want it themselves. If you want it yourself...Everyone can do with his own body whatever he want's. Take any drug he wants, mutilate it any way he wants kill himself. And if you want Ritalin..so be it.
If Microsoft just had taken all it's code from BSD
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Having inherited, and now to clean up and later to maintain a fairly big chunk (unbelievably huge, cumbersome and bloated actually, when considering what it should do) of Microsoft code at my job, I don't wonder anymore about anything concerning Microsoft products, except them reliably working. Found no OpenSource code in there though. Only loads of Microsoft technology where it isn't needed, and retarded code constructs where there is actually an appropriate standard way in the MS environment.
In private I'm all MS less for months already (after another Windows breakdown I decided it was time to part). Still have to deal at work with it though.
Actually I'm an SVG fanboy, but there is just too many inconsistencies in the standard, which is actually the biggest obstacle to a real implementation. I'm long waiting already to have SVG in Mozilla by standard...so many things you can do with it.
Well, there will be devices that are not bound to formal systems (there are already, they are just not man made). Wether we still call them computers is a whole different question.
Now they should make some efford and really put the Gecko Runtime Environment in a seperate package on each platform that can be installed independently of the single applications, and you can have all the advantages of the Mozilla suite (no overhead for running every singe application) and of Firefox and Thunderbird etc. (e.g. sleeker clients with better marketing) at the smae time. Would also ignite a whole new development movement for XUL tools and applications.
Since telling it nicely doesn't work, and telling it with lots of money is out of the question, we should find other ways to uhm...convince them. The first step is to peel them out of this anonymus term "European Commission", so they can't hide in it.
90% percent of graphics processing is high school vector graphics (and aim shoot as well, you have a poitn where it should go and a point where it will com from...the vector is defined, add some error to make it not too unfair and you have it). Economical (the stuff they use in real world models) mathematics is also just high school level. They just use awkward words to talk about it to seem smart. But simulating a society with a few hundred thousand individuals making independent decisions...that also has to appear realistic, and without prescripting everything they do. There you are right in the middle of a lot still not solved and complex questions.
CPU power is only really used for game logic, which isn't terribly complex compared to the other parts of a game.
Game logic (I'm talking about actual KI and physics and economical systems and RPG-Code, not "aim -> shoot") is complex, compared to all graphics operations. It's just that high end graphics needs so much more brute force to get through all this data. The hard part is getting the most out of your hardware. The actual complexity is laughable in most cases.
Which is you "maximalist approach" but highly modular and at leats a clean interface. Not the heap of historically grown madness the bios is. Noone wants to have the BIOS to provide all the drivers for all hardware. Just basic functionality (like a textmode graphics) and all the nifty stuff left to the OS. Noone wants to flash the whole bios every time you get your newest ATI driver that gives you 3.1 fps more after looking that your running program is doom3 exe.
Having this defined device tree in the firmware,and all this debugging capabilities in it, and the minimal functionality too, is makes the system programmers life so much easier. And if you really need to, you can translate the hardware semantics provided by the firmware in the semantics you came up with on your system. Real drivers are OS-specific anyway.
I'm all for getting rid of the crufted BIOS and letting it become a footnote in computing and go the way of ebcdi,and self-modifying code.
500 years ago you needed an army of mercenaries to defend your interests. Today the people that would have been mercenaries back then, are lawyers. The resemblies are striking.
They benefit from all conflicts, and all sides of the conflicts. They rape, loot and soil everything they get their hands on. Whole areas are starved by them. They still are asskissing servants....the list could go on and on. The major difference actually is, that mercenaries had balls and risked their life while doing all this.
We all know that patents stifle innovation and progress. Now that it isn't patented we will see immense progress and competition in the area, since noone has to fear a lawsuit from this side.
Actually the system of the gouvernment is only of secondary importance. What's by far more important is the people who run it. And although it is never easy to find people to run a gouvernment who are able to do it and are willing to do it for the people, finding those people in the US is virtually impossible with their political culture.
Of course there are a lot of crap/unoriginal games. But just when you think of it, what kinds and ways of expression you have available in computer games, you will be overwhelmed. Merely thinking about once being able to master it all will make you a whimping heap of desolation...and even make you more willing to learn it all. In a computer game you can do anything a writer can do, you can do everything a movie maker can do, you can o everything a composer can do. In a way you can do anything any painter or sculptor can do. And you can do so much more that nooe else can do. Like creating interactions between people scattered all over the world, making them all to contribute to it, interpretating your piece of art.
It just hurts to see where this is headed though. To become a dull, dumbing vehicle to exploit those artists and to make publishers rich. But well, we live in a world of humans, so this is just the normal development.
But Ibooks have 7h battery life. Anything under 10h is just not right for me. When I'm at home or at work I have my workstation. The work I do there I cannot do on Laptops properly (graphics programming, lots of compiling). When I'm on business trips or trips by myself I want to be able to be productive, no matter where I am at the moment. Typing documents and doing organizational stuff there would be great. But having less than 8h(most less than 4h) to work or having no proper keyboard...that are the only available options at the moment.
The funny thing is, ARM sees multicore as a chance to save power. Just see their marketing talk on their MP architechture. And if done right, it is actually a chance to save power.
And on Laptops...I still havent found any that are anything close to my needs. Could not anyone make a 10'' screen/overall (maybe even those new organic displays) with an ARM processor, 2GB flash(or even this in the line magnetic ram), a ethernet port and a few USB ports? And 15h+ battery life? Not even a hd is needed to get a nice Linux running there. And I could do all my development/office work on this.
Actually - this is sort of true. Earth is in the center of the observable universe. And by strict scientific standards, this is the only universe that matters. The problem with this, is, we might never have the means to change our perspective in this.
This is actually the main thing that is wrong with capitalism: the breakup between the connection of property and responsibility. The laws are there to make it impossible to legally take the ones into account that foster civil wars, drain chemicals everywhere, rob everyone in sight etc. It's just normal business practice. The shareholder, that actually feels responsible for things the company he co-owns does is the vast minority. And the manager can do what they want as well, the worst thing that can happen to them is getting fired, after receiving their millions, and then they either get hired to manage the next company or to consult the Bush administration.
So I'm just guessing now. But the wave probably put Diego Garcia out of operation for a little while...and prbably saved a few lifes inthe course of this.
Everything we are so proud of in our western culture: Democracy, a legal system with judges, defenders, juries. The whole scientific approach, academies. Parliaments, representative gouvernments, all this origins from pagan ancient Greece and Rome.
The Christian understanding of justice is a priest that condemns and a mob that stones. The Christian understanding of aquiring wisdom is sitting in the desert and letting the sun shine on your head. Just read the Bible.
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Bein male or female is also a physical/medical condition. Doesn't mean there should be any changes about that. Ok, there are a few people who are unhappy with the sex they have, and they may opt for changing that. It's not that rare that someone just doesn't get along with males or females. But what would be if people would start forcing other people to change their sex, because they don't like it? Exactly that's what's happening with most of those syndromes. A change of their physical condition is forced upon them becasue others don't get along with it, not becasue they want it themselves.
If you want it yourself...Everyone can do with his own body whatever he want's. Take any drug he wants, mutilate it any way he wants kill himself. And if you want Ritalin..so be it.
Having inherited, and now to clean up and later to maintain a fairly big chunk (unbelievably huge, cumbersome and bloated actually, when considering what it should do) of Microsoft code at my job, I don't wonder anymore about anything concerning Microsoft products, except them reliably working. Found no OpenSource code in there though. Only loads of Microsoft technology where it isn't needed, and retarded code constructs where there is actually an appropriate standard way in the MS environment.
/. MS rant.
In private I'm all MS less for months already (after another Windows breakdown I decided it was time to part). Still have to deal at work with it though.
Ok, so here we have the standard
They just need to clean up the standard.
Actually I'm an SVG fanboy, but there is just too many inconsistencies in the standard, which is actually the biggest obstacle to a real implementation. I'm long waiting already to have SVG in Mozilla by standard...so many things you can do with it.
Well, there will be devices that are not bound to formal systems (there are already, they are just not man made). Wether we still call them computers is a whole different question.
Now they should make some efford and really put the Gecko Runtime Environment in a seperate package on each platform that can be installed independently of the single applications, and you can have all the advantages of the Mozilla suite (no overhead for running every singe application) and of Firefox and Thunderbird etc. (e.g. sleeker clients with better marketing) at the smae time. Would also ignite a whole new development movement for XUL tools and applications.
Isn't the red hot poker crammed up the ass the royal treatment among you Anglo-Saxons?
Just like heads off is the Royal treatment among the Frenchmen?
The members of the commission.
Since telling it nicely doesn't work, and telling it with lots of money is out of the question, we should find other ways to uhm...convince them. The first step is to peel them out of this anonymus term "European Commission", so they can't hide in it.
You again seem to confuse complexity with efford.
90% percent of graphics processing is high school vector graphics (and aim shoot as well, you have a poitn where it should go and a point where it will com from...the vector is defined, add some error to make it not too unfair and you have it). Economical (the stuff they use in real world models) mathematics is also just high school level. They just use awkward words to talk about it to seem smart. But simulating a society with a few hundred thousand individuals making independent decisions...that also has to appear realistic, and without prescripting everything they do. There you are right in the middle of a lot still not solved and complex questions.
CPU power is only really used for game logic, which isn't terribly complex compared to the other parts of a game.
Game logic (I'm talking about actual KI and physics and economical systems and RPG-Code, not "aim -> shoot") is complex, compared to all graphics operations. It's just that high end graphics needs so much more brute force to get through all this data. The hard part is getting the most out of your hardware. The actual complexity is laughable in most cases.
Here Here! Me pointing out OpenFirmware!
Which is you "maximalist approach" but highly modular and at leats a clean interface. Not the heap of historically grown madness the bios is. Noone wants to have the BIOS to provide all the drivers for all hardware. Just basic functionality (like a textmode graphics) and all the nifty stuff left to the OS. Noone wants to flash the whole bios every time you get your newest ATI driver that gives you 3.1 fps more after looking that your running program is doom3 exe.
Having this defined device tree in the firmware,and all this debugging capabilities in it, and the minimal functionality too, is makes the system programmers life so much easier. And if you really need to, you can translate the hardware semantics provided by the firmware in the semantics you came up with on your system. Real drivers are OS-specific anyway.
I'm all for getting rid of the crufted BIOS and letting it become a footnote in computing and go the way of ebcdi,and self-modifying code.
500 years ago you needed an army of mercenaries to defend your interests. Today the people that would have been mercenaries back then, are lawyers. The resemblies are striking.
...the list could go on and on. The major difference actually is, that mercenaries had balls and risked their life while doing all this.
They benefit from all conflicts, and all sides of the conflicts.
They rape, loot and soil everything they get their hands on.
Whole areas are starved by them.
They still are asskissing servants.
Add the lawyer costs for contract and patent issues...
We all know that patents stifle innovation and progress. Now that it isn't patented we will see immense progress and competition in the area, since noone has to fear a lawsuit from this side.
Actually the system of the gouvernment is only of secondary importance. What's by far more important is the people who run it. And although it is never easy to find people to run a gouvernment who are able to do it and are willing to do it for the people, finding those people in the US is virtually impossible with their political culture.
I know this too well.
;)
After my first car crash:
"Ohmygodohmygodohmygod..."
After my second car crash:
"Fuck! Fuck it!"
After my third car crash:
"Ooops, so what?"
Never had any more car crashs since then
Of course there are a lot of crap/unoriginal games. But just when you think of it, what kinds and ways of expression you have available in computer games, you will be overwhelmed. Merely thinking about once being able to master it all will make you a whimping heap of desolation...and even make you more willing to learn it all.
In a computer game you can do anything a writer can do, you can do everything a movie maker can do, you can o everything a composer can do. In a way you can do anything any painter or sculptor can do. And you can do so much more that nooe else can do. Like creating interactions between people scattered all over the world, making them all to contribute to it, interpretating your piece of art.
It just hurts to see where this is headed though. To become a dull, dumbing vehicle to exploit those artists and to make publishers rich. But well, we live in a world of humans, so this is just the normal development.
No, I don't really want this law. This was just to point out the bias of the law mentioned in the article and to karma whore a little bit.
But Ibooks have 7h battery life. Anything under 10h is just not right for me. When I'm at home or at work I have my workstation. The work I do there I cannot do on Laptops properly (graphics programming, lots of compiling). When I'm on business trips or trips by myself I want to be able to be productive, no matter where I am at the moment. Typing documents and doing organizational stuff there would be great. But having less than 8h(most less than 4h) to work or having no proper keyboard...that are the only available options at the moment.
making Operating system vendors viable for jail, if they don't take enough care to prevent their OS to be hijacked and used for criminal activities?
The funny thing is, ARM sees multicore as a chance to save power. Just see their marketing talk on their MP architechture. And if done right, it is actually a chance to save power.
And on Laptops...I still havent found any that are anything close to my needs. Could not anyone make a 10'' screen/overall (maybe even those new organic displays) with an ARM processor, 2GB flash(or even this in the line magnetic ram), a ethernet port and a few USB ports? And 15h+ battery life? Not even a hd is needed to get a nice Linux running there. And I could do all my development/office work on this.
Actually - this is sort of true. Earth is in the center of the observable universe. And by strict scientific standards, this is the only universe that matters. The problem with this, is, we might never have the means to change our perspective in this.
This is actually the main thing that is wrong with capitalism: the breakup between the connection of property and responsibility. The laws are there to make it impossible to legally take the ones into account that foster civil wars, drain chemicals everywhere, rob everyone in sight etc. It's just normal business practice. The shareholder, that actually feels responsible for things the company he co-owns does is the vast minority. And the manager can do what they want as well, the worst thing that can happen to them is getting fired, after receiving their millions, and then they either get hired to manage the next company or to consult the Bush administration.
So I'm just guessing now. But the wave probably put Diego Garcia out of operation for a little while...and prbably saved a few lifes inthe course of this.
Cynical stuff, I know.
Everything we are so proud of in our western culture:
Democracy, a legal system with judges, defenders, juries. The whole scientific approach, academies. Parliaments, representative gouvernments, all this origins from pagan ancient Greece and Rome.
The Christian understanding of justice is a priest that condemns and a mob that stones. The Christian understanding of aquiring wisdom is sitting in the desert and letting the sun shine on your head.
Just read the Bible.
The perfect state for that would be the Vatican.
Ideas are devine after all, and shouldn't be owned by lowly humans.
Would bring them a little income and nobody in his right mind would threat or bully the Vatican.