Suppose a person taped that missing episode at that time for themselves. Would they get a share of the profit they make for archiving their stuff for 50 years or would they be prosecuted for theft if they came forward? Copyright is very strange. I suppose it depends on the local laws. It seems there is a statute I recall from grade school called "Finders keepers, losers weepers".
Perhaps they still own the copyright of the story, but the tapeholder can cut an excellent deal. And should.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.". C.S. Lewis
Full computer, office suite, surfing with top browser, what else?
High-end games, of course, but almost all big PC games are first console design, with port to PC. Microsoft was instrumental in this shift, succeeding in co-development via Direct X for PC and X-Box, thinking the console would take over as game/surf/TV machine. cThere are no games tying people to the PC anymore.
I cry for them as much as I cried for IBM when Microsoft ascendant.
You're looking at about 2035 before Google slips to something else.
The government tit is about the opposite of an efficient operation. You have a nominal bid process, but that's the only throttle on the spending.
Everything else after that is how cleverly you can whine and obfuscate and exaggerate. There is no investor looking for a return. Oddly, some view that as a feature. Fair enough, but don't expect efficiency.
It's not just a little wasteful, but wasteful by a magnitude. There used to be a joke in the farm bureau where a local manager would exclaim, "Oh no! My farmer died!"
These rooms are common for anywhere people build radio products. We had dozens in an auto radio group I worked in. You also need them so you can run test broadcasts without it escaping to mess with the real world.
"a skeleton crew remains to monitor the nation's 100 nuclear reactors , regulatory efforts to prevent a Fukushima-like incident in the United States have ceased"
I'm fine with that. The engineering flaw is already known -- assuming two simultaneous catastrophes to knock out both backups as highly unlikely when in fact they were predictably related.
Most of these systems have a gateway processor to the car network -- precisely because the big 32-bit processor shouldn't be directly touching the network.
Most don't control safety-critical things like climate control, as that bumps up the safety category of the device, again a problem for giant, 32-bit processors doing navigation, voice recognition, and a million other complex (i.e. potentially buggy) and CPU-intensive things.
That's all reserved for small processors with executive loops and mathematical guarantees of real-time cycle limits on functions to guarantee maximum return time. There is no pre-emptive multitasking, just loops calling functions every 100ms, for example.
99.99% of programmers don't need to use single = in a conditional, so add a compiler switch to disallow it as a syntax error instead of just a warning.
Given modern optimizing compilers designed hand-in-hand with chips, probably 99.99999%. Like 3 guys maybe.
Which was from The Music Man, more directly applicable as that was about a swindler trying to convince a town to spend money buying instruments for a school.
Hint to everyone reading and blathering: Studies show item 3, parental involvement, AKA family emphasis on scholastics, outweighs all other factors together.
This is where both Democrats and Republicans make mistakes, fighting over school control and money. A kid from a family that cares will do better in a terrible school than a brat whose family doesn't in a great school.
Contrats, you aren't a tiger mom, and you produced a fatass who needs to vote for politicians to give him a raise (and are happy to do so).
Government has taken over most of that, so nobody cares anymore. Who needs to work hard among the "common man" when government cares and guides you? Who wants to work hard among the business leaders when you are decried as evil by those seeking government power and, should your risky investment succeed, they will scream you are even more evil and must give up an ever-increasing chunk of the success as your "fair share", perpetually defined as a few percent more than the current tax rate?
One of the best things Congress did was blow away most regulations and monopoly granting of phone and cable companies, and let them fight it out building giant digital pipe data delivery, as phone would just be a tiny corner of that. Even hundreds of HD video channels pales compared to millions of homes now downloading videos or streaming.
This town council-granted monopoly shit (and the whole last 100 feet fiber optic poop) is an anachronistic thorn still plaguing us.
Physicists, please leave this to computer people. Interpretation is just a transformation, and is no magic door to computational efficiency.
If a slime mold could, via interpretation, solve some NP-Hard problem, that would be an astounding result with major implications for the computational ability of the universe.
This is independent of the interpretation. It is the equivalency of reducing a problem to another, of which physicists are indeed well aware.
The ITC can authorize nations to fight back economically to recalcitrant countries. The US has given up in the past on some disputes it disagrees with.
You pick your battles, as big as the US is, and Obama has decided this ain't one. The internal veto of the reverse, as enforcer of the laws, he can reject any regulation as he is the top regulator. The correct solution to that is, if you disagree with him, to deal with it at the next election.
Politics, but good luck getting Apple's tens of millions of buyers to kick themselves in the balls.
Same for wine. IIRC, ancient wines had lower alcohol and were ndeed used for drinking, not just for the alcohol effect. You might carry a wine skin for drinking, not drunking.
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And they wouldn't even be there if it weren't for violent military threats from the US getting underway, for better or for worse.
It's like giving a prize for a painting to the guy who came in and put a frame around it.
> plus my aging mother is also an anchor. I plan to do it immediately when opportunity presents itself.
(Michael York in Austin Powers voice) She's your mother, man! Let her expire naturally!
You were wise to not include a link to the "lemon test". Slashdotters have learned the hard way not to click links with "lemon" in them.
They should forget about England and offer it straight up to BBC America, or some other US cable company.
BBC America has been the financial tail wagging the dog back home for several years now, especially with respect to Whoverse sci-fi.
Suppose a person taped that missing episode at that time for themselves. Would they get a share of the profit they make for archiving their stuff for 50 years or would they be prosecuted for theft if they came forward? Copyright is very strange. I suppose it depends on the local laws. It seems there is a statute I recall from grade school called "Finders keepers, losers weepers".
Perhaps they still own the copyright of the story, but the tapeholder can cut an excellent deal. And should.
a country with a name like that must have free drugs everywhere.
Well if logic works that way then I am moving to Jabooty (Djibouti)!
There is already a country with that name -- NETHER-Lands Perhaps you would like their red light district.
Well, i think Obama is the lesser of two evils.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.". C.S. Lewis
Impressive scientific work -- most nerds nave never even come close to touching a female hand.
What does he think China had, for that matter?
"If a man drift with another man as if with a woman, they shall be stoned."
Full computer, office suite, surfing with top browser, what else?
High-end games, of course, but almost all big PC games are first console design, with port to PC. Microsoft was instrumental in this shift, succeeding in co-development via Direct X for PC and X-Box, thinking the console would take over as game/surf/TV machine. cThere are no games tying people to the PC anymore.
I cry for them as much as I cried for IBM when Microsoft ascendant.
You're looking at about 2035 before Google slips to something else.
The government tit is about the opposite of an efficient operation. You have a nominal bid process, but that's the only throttle on the spending.
Everything else after that is how cleverly you can whine and obfuscate and exaggerate. There is no investor looking for a return. Oddly, some view that as a feature. Fair enough, but don't expect efficiency.
It's not just a little wasteful, but wasteful by a magnitude. There used to be a joke in the farm bureau where a local manager would exclaim, "Oh no! My farmer died!"
These rooms are common for anywhere people build radio products. We had dozens in an auto radio group I worked in. You also need them so you can run test broadcasts without it escaping to mess with the real world.
Not sure even then. Here's the scare-you hook:
I'm fine with that. The engineering flaw is already known -- assuming two simultaneous catastrophes to knock out both backups as highly unlikely when in fact they were predictably related.
Most of these systems have a gateway processor to the car network -- precisely because the big 32-bit processor shouldn't be directly touching the network.
Most don't control safety-critical things like climate control, as that bumps up the safety category of the device, again a problem for giant, 32-bit processors doing navigation, voice recognition, and a million other complex (i.e. potentially buggy) and CPU-intensive things.
That's all reserved for small processors with executive loops and mathematical guarantees of real-time cycle limits on functions to guarantee maximum return time. There is no pre-emptive multitasking, just loops calling functions every 100ms, for example.
99.99% of programmers don't need to use single = in a conditional, so add a compiler switch to disallow it as a syntax error instead of just a warning.
Given modern optimizing compilers designed hand-in-hand with chips, probably 99.99999%. Like 3 guys maybe.
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It's shut down rigt now, fools. That's why it isn't working right!
monorail...Monorail...MONORAIL!
Which was from The Music Man, more directly applicable as that was about a swindler trying to convince a town to spend money buying instruments for a school.
Hint to everyone reading and blathering: Studies show item 3, parental involvement, AKA family emphasis on scholastics, outweighs all other factors together.
This is where both Democrats and Republicans make mistakes, fighting over school control and money. A kid from a family that cares will do better in a terrible school than a brat whose family doesn't in a great school.
Contrats, you aren't a tiger mom, and you produced a fatass who needs to vote for politicians to give him a raise (and are happy to do so).
Government has taken over most of that, so nobody cares anymore. Who needs to work hard among the "common man" when government cares and guides you? Who wants to work hard among the business leaders when you are decried as evil by those seeking government power and, should your risky investment succeed, they will scream you are even more evil and must give up an ever-increasing chunk of the success as your "fair share", perpetually defined as a few percent more than the current tax rate?
Not Skinner boxes, he meant BF Skinner boxes cured him, AKA prison cells, emphasis on the BF.
One of the best things Congress did was blow away most regulations and monopoly granting of phone and cable companies, and let them fight it out building giant digital pipe data delivery, as phone would just be a tiny corner of that. Even hundreds of HD video channels pales compared to millions of homes now downloading videos or streaming.
This town council-granted monopoly shit (and the whole last 100 feet fiber optic poop) is an anachronistic thorn still plaguing us.
Physicists, please leave this to computer people. Interpretation is just a transformation, and is no magic door to computational efficiency.
If a slime mold could, via interpretation, solve some NP-Hard problem, that would be an astounding result with major implications for the computational ability of the universe.
This is independent of the interpretation. It is the equivalency of reducing a problem to another, of which physicists are indeed well aware.
The ITC can authorize nations to fight back economically to recalcitrant countries. The US has given up in the past on some disputes it disagrees with.
You pick your battles, as big as the US is, and Obama has decided this ain't one. The internal veto of the reverse, as enforcer of the laws, he can reject any regulation as he is the top regulator. The correct solution to that is, if you disagree with him, to deal with it at the next election.
Politics, but good luck getting Apple's tens of millions of buyers to kick themselves in the balls.
Same for wine. IIRC, ancient wines had lower alcohol and were ndeed used for drinking, not just for the alcohol effect. You might carry a wine skin for drinking, not drunking.