You are right. The problem is that if he could get it back from all of such programs (for instance the new stadium being built in x influential senator's hometown) he could reclaim half his taxes. That a lot of writing to do.
"Greenspun's 10th law is this inside joke among Smug Lisp Weenies (TM) that any sufficiently complicated Fortran program (back in the day, today substitute C/C++ program) implements a good chunk of Common Lisp, only slower and with a lot of bugs." You are forgetting the corollary: "even common LISP."
"When we choose to sin," I assume you mean "chose", and I wonder why the choice "we" made didn't ask for my input. Seems like more of a "they." If you meant "choose," that doesn't make much sense when a baby gets dropped on its head now does it?
If you write it in java you can only make outgoing connections to the domain from which you downloaded the applet... not very useful for bittorrent eh?
"They are not very nice insects," Holzer confesses. "They are a little bit smelly, and there's something about the way they move their antennae. But they look nicer when you put a little circuit on their backs and remove their wings."
I wonder if the roaches would consider us "very nice."
"audio/video encoding"--Both of those have been able to benefit massively from multiple processors for some time. Infact both of these operations are damn near 100% parallelizable.
He said, "High end gaming rigs are AMD becasue AMD is cool and not 'the man'. The performance difference for games is not noticable by human beings." And you went on to blather on about how something with twice the frame rate is perceivably better. Great point--if AMD produced twice the framerate as intel. They don't. The race isn't nearly that far apart my sad sad little friend.
Hmm, I realise you said "appears" but I just want to point out that you know it isn't just that they don't have to fool around with dentures all the time (extra walking and chance for a fall), or a billion other things.
No, it just means that you aren't responsible for the content on your network; to a certain extent. If you and someone else plan to murder someone over the phone, no one can prosecute or sue the phone company for "facilitating" the murder.
"but often finds it frustrating that the programming aspect of the games he envisions often lacks the necessary capability to bring his work to life in the way it was originally intended." Then he isn't a good designer. Period. You have to know the limitations and do your best to produce the best work possible within them. He doesn't do this. At all.
"Lawyers are not hired on the basis of their beliefs..." That and the rest of that paragraph may be true for the ideal lawyer, but when you have clients who don't know this and simply think, "this firm has lawyers with views opposed to ours," well, you have to fire the guy no matter how good he is at holding back his views during work(err... you don't have to fire him, it just makes business sense).
"and oh yeah...when you stop paying your monthly fee, everything goes away. Hundreds of dollars over years gone with one missed payment. All that money and you own absolutely *nothing*." If you are going to make criticism at least understand how the system works. If you miss a payment, you can simply pay again next month *and still get all the songs you had before*. What you are saying happens doesn't make any sense. Lets say I join netflix, if I miss a month's payment, when I join back I don't have to do something to build back up to having access to netflix's full catalog: the same thing applies here. So it's not if you miss *a* month; it's if you quit subscribing permenantly.
Shawn Fanning's first incarnation of Napster went completely bankrupt after the lawsuits. How did he get to keep ownership of his trademark? I would have thought the bankruptcy court would have made him auction off the trademark.
"Copyright is not a restriction on free speech because for speaking your mind freely you can always choose a form that does not break anyone's copyright." The fact that you have to "choose another form" means that you are being limited and your speech is no longer free. Yes you are free to speak a particular political opinion in the US no matter what, there is always a legal way to phrase your idea. But that isn't the end all of free speech.
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You are right. The problem is that if he could get it back from all of such programs (for instance the new stadium being built in x influential senator's hometown) he could reclaim half his taxes. That a lot of writing to do.
Your modem activity LED can be read by someone miles away.. I'm not so amazed.
I know what you meant and I hate to be pedantic but cell phones are indeed two-way radios.
If the price of oil goes up that much the price of manufacture of those panels does as well (not to the same degree, but you would be surprised).
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Whoa, calm down. This is from Roland Piquepaille for christ's sake, not Woodward and Bernstein.
"Greenspun's 10th law is this inside joke among Smug Lisp Weenies (TM) that any sufficiently complicated Fortran program (back in the day, today substitute C/C++ program) implements a good chunk of Common Lisp, only slower and with a lot of bugs." You are forgetting the corollary: "even common LISP."
"When we choose to sin," I assume you mean "chose", and I wonder why the choice "we" made didn't ask for my input. Seems like more of a "they." If you meant "choose," that doesn't make much sense when a baby gets dropped on its head now does it?
If you write it in java you can only make outgoing connections to the domain from which you downloaded the applet... not very useful for bittorrent eh?
"They are not very nice insects," Holzer confesses. "They are a little bit smelly, and there's something about the way they move their antennae. But they look nicer when you put a little circuit on their backs and remove their wings."
I wonder if the roaches would consider us "very nice."
So when I fall and scrape my knee it is because of a sin?
"audio/video encoding"--Both of those have been able to benefit massively from multiple processors for some time. Infact both of these operations are damn near 100% parallelizable.
He said, "High end gaming rigs are AMD becasue AMD is cool and not 'the man'.
The performance difference for games is not noticable by human beings." And you went on to blather on about how something with twice the frame rate is perceivably better. Great point--if AMD produced twice the framerate as intel. They don't. The race isn't nearly that far apart my sad sad little friend.
Give an explanation beyond "hippy fear" for not eating artificially sweetened sugar-free foods. And related it to tooth care.
Hmm, I realise you said "appears" but I just want to point out that you know it isn't just that they don't have to fool around with dentures all the time (extra walking and chance for a fall), or a billion other things.
No, it just means that you aren't responsible for the content on your network; to a certain extent. If you and someone else plan to murder someone over the phone, no one can prosecute or sue the phone company for "facilitating" the murder.
"but often finds it frustrating that the programming aspect of the games he envisions often lacks the necessary capability to bring his work to life in the way it was originally intended." Then he isn't a good designer. Period. You have to know the limitations and do your best to produce the best work possible within them. He doesn't do this. At all.
Even with 3g and beyond latency is so bad on cell networks that it isn't feasible, except maybe for a turn based game.
"Lawyers are not hired on the basis of their beliefs..." That and the rest of that paragraph may be true for the ideal lawyer, but when you have clients who don't know this and simply think, "this firm has lawyers with views opposed to ours," well, you have to fire the guy no matter how good he is at holding back his views during work(err... you don't have to fire him, it just makes business sense).
They are called lepers.
"and oh yeah...when you stop paying your monthly fee, everything goes away. Hundreds of dollars over years gone with one missed payment. All that money and you own absolutely *nothing*." If you are going to make criticism at least understand how the system works. If you miss a payment, you can simply pay again next month *and still get all the songs you had before*. What you are saying happens doesn't make any sense. Lets say I join netflix, if I miss a month's payment, when I join back I don't have to do something to build back up to having access to netflix's full catalog: the same thing applies here. So it's not if you miss *a* month; it's if you quit subscribing permenantly.
Shawn Fanning's first incarnation of Napster went completely bankrupt after the lawsuits. How did he get to keep ownership of his trademark? I would have thought the bankruptcy court would have made him auction off the trademark.
"Copyright is not a restriction on free speech because for speaking your mind freely you can always choose a form that does not break anyone's copyright." The fact that you have to "choose another form" means that you are being limited and your speech is no longer free. Yes you are free to speak a particular political opinion in the US no matter what, there is always a legal way to phrase your idea. But that isn't the end all of free speech.
Exactly. I'm awaiting the day that extreme versions of "stupid jock" syndrome make it into the DSM-IV.
They would have had to do the same thing if they used Direct X.