This isn't amateur hour, guys - there's real money at stake here.
People make mistakes every day of their lives. We always have, we always will. It's how we learn what not to do. It's just that almost all mistakes are harmless... except on the internet. There it's like living in a minefield. Make a bad step and boom. It's not a question of amateur hour, it's a question of being human.
"Nobody will ever need more than 2 digits for a year, so the crazies suggesting years be represented by 4 digits are just that - crazy."
Even the people who knew it would be an issue still used two digits. Resources were extremely constrained. It wasn't worth spending all of that for a problem that would happen decades later. I used to write complete programs that fit in 8K.
Computer programming, even setting aside the practical value, is a much better brain trainer than chess. I was a chess master in my youth and made my living programming. The two were not even in the same ballpark as far as learning to think.
The tactics (he takes and I take...) computers have down cold. That's how they beat humans. They never miss a trick, and so even the best humans get worn out sweating every crazy possibility. Many many computer games have been won by some one crazy move that makes a seemingly lost position tenable.
The strategy (long-term planning and positioning) is where computers are weaker. Not weak, but weaker.
Once the end game is reached a large database of positions is used. (Humans effectively do this too, in the sense that a particular ending is a known win, and so they can steer for it without having to work it all out ahead of time.)
But at least it's consistent. If you truly believed that people will go to Hell if they don't convert, wouldn't it be your moral obligation to do everything you could to help them? Sure, the least annoying fanatics are the ones who leave you alone, but they are also, at best, hypocrites.
1080p is the limit your camera can successfully show to you. Any other pixels are a waste of disk space unless you're saving everything for the future.
So earlier in the discussion we've got a post confusing RAM and storage, and now one "thinking" that 1080p is the limit of usefulness. WTF?
How about walk-racing? The rule is the walker must be in contact with the ground at all times....but slow motion video clearly shows they break the rule with every stride. So now they say "visible to the naked eye." And it's back in the hands of judges who, knowing full well that the walker is losing contact, have to decide if they can actually see it or just "know" it.
I guess the reason they don't fully enforce it that it would be even less interesting to watch.
the relatives of the one shot will sue Sony for millions of dollars due to the release of the film that Sony KNEW could unleash terrorism.
You don't really think they could win that lawsuit, do you? The only think they KNEW was that there was a threat. Sure, lawyers would probably have made the theaters and Sony post signs about the threat, but then the patrons also KNEW about the threat.
Otherwise any event in the country could be stopped by a mere phone call or email or even a tweet.
It's not that it should be, it's that the Ruble is collapsing. It's a problem for any company doing business in Russia. Many have halted sales. That would be Steam's other option.
I thought it was understood because it was so painfully obvious? If only I had known the world was so stupid I would have published the law myself decades ago...
Good on you! But surely this can't be the only thing that is obvious to you but a marvel to the rest of us. So get cracking and start publishing. Don't miss another opportunity!
Would Disney pay for the rights to Starwars if they could just wait it out and take it for free?
Trademarks and copyright are two different things. But I like the idea of after a short period of time, say half a dozen years, there's a small fee for renewing a copyright, with that fee rising year after year. That way the large majority falls into the public domain and remains useful to society, while the monetarily valuable ones can remain protected for as long as they're worth the escalating fee.
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I once came up with an algorithm that wasn't very good, so I just commanded the computer to "Enhance!", and it got much better.
People make mistakes every day of their lives. We always have, we always will. It's how we learn what not to do. It's just that almost all mistakes are harmless... except on the internet. There it's like living in a minefield. Make a bad step and boom. It's not a question of amateur hour, it's a question of being human.
Even the people who knew it would be an issue still used two digits. Resources were extremely constrained. It wasn't worth spending all of that for a problem that would happen decades later. I used to write complete programs that fit in 8K.
I see what you did there.
FWIW, Apple's stock is worth more than the entire Russian stock market combined.
Computer programming, even setting aside the practical value, is a much better brain trainer than chess. I was a chess master in my youth and made my living programming. The two were not even in the same ballpark as far as learning to think.
No it isn't. Far far from it.
The strategy (long-term planning and positioning) is where computers are weaker. Not weak, but weaker.
Once the end game is reached a large database of positions is used. (Humans effectively do this too, in the sense that a particular ending is a known win, and so they can steer for it without having to work it all out ahead of time.)
But at least it's consistent. If you truly believed that people will go to Hell if they don't convert, wouldn't it be your moral obligation to do everything you could to help them?
Sure, the least annoying fanatics are the ones who leave you alone, but they are also, at best, hypocrites.
Plus it's got the mirror scene. I'll bet The Interview doesn't have that.
Those brake things are still governed by how the tire interacts with the surface.
Of course not. The Facebook, porn, and shopping, for the most part. Oh, and cat videos.
Thank you for your two cents on the matter.
The author suggested how to work around that in his opening post. Sign a sheet of acetate and place that over the copyright page.
So earlier in the discussion we've got a post confusing RAM and storage, and now one "thinking" that 1080p is the limit of usefulness. WTF?
How about walk-racing? The rule is the walker must be in contact with the ground at all times....but slow motion video clearly shows they break the rule with every stride. So now they say "visible to the naked eye." And it's back in the hands of judges who, knowing full well that the walker is losing contact, have to decide if they can actually see it or just "know" it.
I guess the reason they don't fully enforce it that it would be even less interesting to watch.
Are you sure North Korea was actually the culprit? Bruce Schneier doesn't think so.
How would they do that? You created the connection to the proper server. They are not connecting to you, so there's no spoofing.
I did say "after this." However (heh), as you have now made a more recent mistake, now we do have to reset the timer....
I hate to sound dumb, but what pun?
You don't really think they could win that lawsuit, do you? The only think they KNEW was that there was a threat. Sure, lawyers would probably have made the theaters and Sony post signs about the threat, but then the patrons also KNEW about the threat.
Otherwise any event in the country could be stopped by a mere phone call or email or even a tweet.
It's not that it should be, it's that the Ruble is collapsing. It's a problem for any company doing business in Russia. Many have halted sales. That would be Steam's other option.
Good on you! But surely this can't be the only thing that is obvious to you but a marvel to the rest of us. So get cracking and start publishing. Don't miss another opportunity!
The court was not asked to decide either one of those things. You're not even paying attention.
Trademarks and copyright are two different things. But I like the idea of after a short period of time, say half a dozen years, there's a small fee for renewing a copyright, with that fee rising year after year. That way the large majority falls into the public domain and remains useful to society, while the monetarily valuable ones can remain protected for as long as they're worth the escalating fee.