You build a huge ship and start leaving earth today, then 10 years later another group does. They by then have developed a faster earth ship, and soon pass you by.
Same deal with some complex computing problems. The best strategy for solving one is to wait for faster computers to be invented.
the word 'google' *means* to search for something online.
Not to me, it doesn't. At least not exactly. To me it means to search for something online using Google.
I wouldn't consider myself to be googling using Alta Vista, for instance. I suppose, though, that maybe at one point xeroxing something meant only with a Xerox machine. But there weren't really any others.
Stop spamming proprietary closed source SHIT solutions on Slashdot, terrorist. Nobody here gives a fuck about "WinHeap{ofShit}"
Yeah! What's he thinking? Depriving a wonderful guy like you the opportunity to make the programs you are most likely incapable of writing run ten times as fast.
"Here I've busted my ass getting this program to print "hello world1{/.];3@&fO_#", but look how slow it is! If only that Kiwi bastard terrorist made WinHeap open source!
How about the Rolling Stones renting "Start Me Up" to Unlcle Bill for the Windows 95 launch? The world's greatest rock band sucks ass...
You know the story, don't you? Microsoft approached them and asked to use the song. They said, "Yeah, OK, twelve million bucks." They forgot with whom they were dealing. Microsoft said yes.
What's the big deal? Most people pee into a toilet or urinal when they have to go. What they ought to be investigating is why so many people don't wash their hands afterward. Now that's something worth looking into.
And more importantly, they'd end up losing money on the deal.
1. The more they sell, the lower their per-unit cost.
B. Even among those who buy one to run Linux will be some who also buy games. And further, as they already own an XBox they'll be less likely to buy a Playstation. repeat this enough times and suddenly one day it's a whole new 90% MS, 10% Others deal.
And most importantly, you get really good tech support. One of my friends has a laptop by them (not that specific model though), and she says that the tech support is more than worth the added price.
So then by that logic the cost of ownership of Linux is more than $650 the first year. Sheesh. And they say Macs are expensive.
(I reposted this because some stupid modaraotor flagged my original as flamebait - it's supposed to be a joke. Maby a poor joke, but that's another issue)
The reason it's illegal to give you credit (not that anyone would anyway) is that it's illegal for a minor to enter *any* kind of contract. You could maybe get one if your folks cosigned.
You left out the IANAL disclaimer, but that's ok, because it's damned obvious anyway. Do you really think it's illegal for a minor to enter into a contract? It only happens millions of times a day. I hope they don't haul them all off to jail.
They could give minors credit cards if they wanted to. It's just not a very bright thing to do. The problem, at least in the US, is that most contracts a minor enters into can be, by the minor, broken at will and without consequence. So credit card issuers don't like the idea of a kid going on a spending spree and then saying "I changed my mind and won't be honoring my agreement." But there's nothing illegal about it.
thirty years ago a human beating chess computer would be only on an episode of Star Trek
A little more than 30. Even then the best programs would beat 99% of humans, and maybe 10% of local tournament players. And by the late 70's one of the authors of the then world computer champion was predicting a computer would beat the human champ in five years, maybe ten. He was a little off, of course.
I say if you're going to play the computer, then you do it balls-to-the-wall. Why can't we get a chessmaster who isn't scared to lose to play a computer one of these days?
There are certain types of positions that computers play much better than any human can or ever will. In such positions, computer find weird, unepexpected moves that just happen to succeed for that particular arangement of pieces. These moves seem to come out of nowhere. It is for that reason that when the position is open and complicated even the best players sweat even the most obvious of moves. The tiniest inaccurracy can lead to sudden death.
It was wide-open piece play with king safety issues for both sides. This sort of thing fits a computer like a tailored Armani suit. A human will never win these positions against a computer. NEVER. You can only lose. It simply sees everything. Unless you already have a forced win on the board it is time to start looking for a way to draw before you fall into something nasty.
The above is from this article on game three of the match.
as does "same difference" when what is meant is "no difference"
I've always taken same difference to be a quick way of saying the differences are not important. It's never bothered me the way things such as irregardless, very unique, unloosen, etc. have.
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Same deal with some complex computing problems. The best strategy for solving one is to wait for faster computers to be invented.
Not to me, it doesn't. At least not exactly. To me it means to search for something online using Google.
I wouldn't consider myself to be googling using Alta Vista, for instance. I suppose, though, that maybe at one point xeroxing something meant only with a Xerox machine. But there weren't really any others.
Yeah! What's he thinking? Depriving a wonderful guy like you the opportunity to make the programs you are most likely incapable of writing run ten times as fast.
"Here I've busted my ass getting this program to print "hello world1{/.];3@&fO_#", but look how slow it is! If only that Kiwi bastard terrorist made WinHeap open source!
You know the story, don't you? Microsoft approached them and asked to use the song. They said, "Yeah, OK, twelve million bucks." They forgot with whom they were dealing. Microsoft said yes.
What's the big deal? Most people pee into a toilet or urinal when they have to go. What they ought to be investigating is why so many people don't wash their hands afterward. Now that's something worth looking into.
You don't have comments enabled.
Sshhh. It may not be so wise to let the NRA know you're worth more to them dead than alive.
1. The more they sell, the lower their per-unit cost.
B. Even among those who buy one to run Linux will be some who also buy games. And further, as they already own an XBox they'll be less likely to buy a Playstation. repeat this enough times and suddenly one day it's a whole new 90% MS, 10% Others deal.
I think maybe you'll this link helpful in your reading.
Clearly the best of the several variations of this joke. It would have been even better if the others hadn't spoiled it.
You call yours the newsprint? I like to call mine "li'l Elvis. The laughing part is right, though.
So then by that logic the cost of ownership of Linux is more than $650 the first year. Sheesh. And they say Macs are expensive.
Well I liked it.
Yeah, and you also like to think of yourself as a "web developer."
Weird. This and the "10 kinds of people...binary" joke can't be spoken, only written.
And on that day it will be one day too late.
And your post is -1, Doesn't know what a pun is.
You left out the IANAL disclaimer, but that's ok, because it's damned obvious anyway. Do you really think it's illegal for a minor to enter into a contract? It only happens millions of times a day. I hope they don't haul them all off to jail.
They could give minors credit cards if they wanted to. It's just not a very bright thing to do. The problem, at least in the US, is that most contracts a minor enters into can be, by the minor, broken at will and without consequence. So credit card issuers don't like the idea of a kid going on a spending spree and then saying "I changed my mind and won't be honoring my agreement." But there's nothing illegal about it.
A little more than 30. Even then the best programs would beat 99% of humans, and maybe 10% of local tournament players. And by the late 70's one of the authors of the then world computer champion was predicting a computer would beat the human champ in five years, maybe ten. He was a little off, of course.
There are certain types of positions that computers play much better than any human can or ever will. In such positions, computer find weird, unepexpected moves that just happen to succeed for that particular arangement of pieces. These moves seem to come out of nowhere. It is for that reason that when the position is open and complicated even the best players sweat even the most obvious of moves. The tiniest inaccurracy can lead to sudden death.
The above is from this article on game three of the match.AppleScript. Oh wait, you said Windows.
Slashdot already has too many self-proclaimed pundance.
I've always taken same difference to be a quick way of saying the differences are not important. It's never bothered me the way things such as irregardless, very unique, unloosen, etc. have.
That would depend on exactly which bit of Millie it was. Some bits are more interesting than others.
Or at least if you do, don't try that at home.