This is supposed to be an emulator, right? So it's supposed to emulate the processor's features accurately, including any bugs, right? So then shouldn't this emulator be several years late to market, over-priced, and about to be replaced by the next generation in SDKs to come out two quarters later?
Where's the dangerous radiation here? We're just talking about ions, particularly normal hydrogen-1 ions. There's no fission. There's no fusion. They're just stripping off the electrons and telling it to go "vrooom" out the ass end. Now maybe if you mention the fact that it works on similar principles to those of commercial microwave ovens, then you might scare someone, but it's still nonionizing radiation, and those people are still idiots.
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) pled guilty (and paid a fine) in 1996 to charges of conspiring to restrict trade in the lysine (an amino acid added to animal feed, among other things) market. You can read the court verdict. This was the same year two Korean companies and two Japanese ones pled guilty to similar charges. Read more over here.
Oligopolies can be illegal if they start colluding to maintain inflated prices, for example (the lysine market comes to mind). But rarely is a structural remedy imposed in such a case.
Solar should get a lot sexier in the next few decades when we start to see chlorophyl-derived solar cells. Few people will complain about a power plant if it just looks like your average redwood forest, and the squirrels will be happy too if someone remembers to leave an artificial food source.
If there's a color that people don't mind being surrounded by (besides blue), it's green.
[H]aving IE be the system makes things easier for both Microsoft and end users by providing updates to Windows through a nice web interface that previously in the past was decryptive on which components to install.
But whenever I've used it, IE has consistently crashed or grossly misbehaved -- my favorite was the "if you hit the delete key while typing in a field, IE will bump you back to the previous page" bug. Any benefit that may have been theoretically possible has been lost in the sea of sewage that is the implementation. I say: good riddens.
What are all of these MSOffice features the browser could leverage? None of those formats can get any less open (in contrast to the corruption of HTML). Plugins already exist for viewing documents. The only one I could imagine is remotely editing documents from within the browser, but if everyone had the ability to do that then fewer MSOffice liscenses would be sold. I honestly want to know what you have in mind.
The problem is that idiots can't seem to handle not spelling the "oo" sound in "lose" as anything other than "oo". I wish one of them would just start spelling it "looze", avoid the ambiguity in "se", and be done with it.
The BogoMIPS value is a measure of how many million times per second a processor can perform "do nothing" executions. It's measured at startup and used to tweak some timing loops in the kernel. From a marketing standpoint, however, there is absolutely nothing sexxy about publishing how good your cpu is at doing nothing.
You will leave the theater with lots to talk about, I promise, and a pleasant feeling of superiority.
And by paying money for an awful piece of crap entitles you to feel superior exactly how? Why the heck not just stay home in the first place and feel superior for not having been duped out of one's money? Stay home with some friends and have lots to talk about on one's own. Please tell me you at least went with someone when you saw it twice.
I confess, I wasn't expecting more when I read this essay, but when I did so, at least I wasn't paying cash for the opportunity.
But not if the law explicitly enumerates the key length. And it's not one of those things that can be conveniently indexed against inflation, for example.
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Who's going to clean the sewers just for the hell of it? Or will everyone take turns?
That's what the cyborgs are for, you silly goose.
Why reinvent the wheel when you don't need to?:80s.com. (Albeit, it's closed source.)
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Whoah. Like, build a Lego Institute. They, like, would never have seen it coming.
This is supposed to be an emulator, right? So it's supposed to emulate the processor's features accurately, including any bugs, right? So then shouldn't this emulator be several years late to market, over-priced, and about to be replaced by the next generation in SDKs to come out two quarters later?
They're not doing it to large amounts of hydrogen at a time. A regular RTG should suffice.
Where's the dangerous radiation here? We're just talking about ions, particularly normal hydrogen-1 ions. There's no fission. There's no fusion. They're just stripping off the electrons and telling it to go "vrooom" out the ass end. Now maybe if you mention the fact that it works on similar principles to those of commercial microwave ovens, then you might scare someone, but it's still nonionizing radiation, and those people are still idiots.
People seem to get upset every time the word nuclear is mentioned.
Except when you're talking about sex and parenting. Then, if you mention anything but "nuclear families", people get upset.
The conclusion: people are fickle.
Did you notice the emoticon? That tends to indicate humor, especially wry humor.
Now, now. You'll never beat Microsoft if that's your attitude.
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) pled guilty (and paid a fine) in 1996 to charges of conspiring to restrict trade in the lysine (an amino acid added to animal feed, among other things) market. You can read the court verdict. This was the same year two Korean companies and two Japanese ones pled guilty to similar charges. Read more over here.
That must make auditing a real pain in the ass, though. ;-)
Oligopolies can be illegal if they start colluding to maintain inflated prices, for example (the lysine market comes to mind). But rarely is a structural remedy imposed in such a case.
My car may have driven off the road and into a tree and two pedestrians, but dammit I got that wumpus!
Solar should get a lot sexier in the next few decades when we start to see chlorophyl-derived solar cells. Few people will complain about a power plant if it just looks like your average redwood forest, and the squirrels will be happy too if someone remembers to leave an artificial food source.
If there's a color that people don't mind being surrounded by (besides blue), it's green.
I also have a shelf of paper-back books at home running at 75-85*F. It's called "room-temperature".
One of the problems with electricity is that it cannot be stored for long periods to form a viable reserve.
"Can't" or "isn't"? How long until every office building has an enormous capacitor for a roof?
Sexual intercourse. I'm sure you can dig up plenty of examples and implementations on the web. ;-)
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[H]aving IE be the system makes things easier for both Microsoft and end users by providing updates to Windows through a nice web interface that previously in the past was decryptive on which components to install.
But whenever I've used it, IE has consistently crashed or grossly misbehaved -- my favorite was the "if you hit the delete key while typing in a field, IE will bump you back to the previous page" bug. Any benefit that may have been theoretically possible has been lost in the sea of sewage that is the implementation. I say: good riddens.
By posting in this discussion, you've removed your moderation already. Asking someone else to correct it further is redundant.
What are all of these MSOffice features the browser could leverage? None of those formats can get any less open (in contrast to the corruption of HTML). Plugins already exist for viewing documents. The only one I could imagine is remotely editing documents from within the browser, but if everyone had the ability to do that then fewer MSOffice liscenses would be sold.
I honestly want to know what you have in mind.
The problem is that idiots can't seem to handle not spelling the "oo" sound in "lose" as anything other than "oo". I wish one of them would just start spelling it "looze", avoid the ambiguity in "se", and be done with it.
The BogoMIPS value is a measure of how many million times per second a processor can perform "do nothing" executions. It's measured at startup and used to tweak some timing loops in the kernel. From a marketing standpoint, however, there is absolutely nothing sexxy about publishing how good your cpu is at doing nothing.
You will leave the theater with lots to talk about, I promise, and a pleasant feeling of superiority.
And by paying money for an awful piece of crap entitles you to feel superior exactly how? Why the heck not just stay home in the first place and feel superior for not having been duped out of one's money? Stay home with some friends and have lots to talk about on one's own. Please tell me you at least went with someone when you saw it twice.
I confess, I wasn't expecting more when I read this essay, but when I did so, at least I wasn't paying cash for the opportunity.
But not if the law explicitly enumerates the key length. And it's not one of those things that can be conveniently indexed against inflation, for example.