IIRC, Coleco with the Colecovision tried to lock down cartridge creation by tying recognizing valid cartridges to the cartridge sending a copyrighted string to the console. Other companies fought it and won in court.
Linux is its own hurd that tries to defend itself on places where it is dominant, like Slashdot.
Whenever an OP appeared here about some problem with Microsoft and viruses, people immediately chimed in how MS sucked and Linux was awesome.
I would regularly point out that if Linux were the dominant worldwide OS, and thus a target-rich environment to thousands of hackers worldwide, it wouldn't be remotely so solid as people think it is.
And this regularly got -1 troll. You...hurd types are all alike.
With economic giants like China, and a lesser extent, India, coming online, capitalism is rising to the occasion quite nicely, thank you. Some of you perhaps missed the last 100 years of human history vis-a-vis government intervention in the economy.
Having said that, government can force into existence things capitalism doesn't generally buy directly, like nuclear missiles and fighter aircraft technology, and faster than it would develop without financial prompting, but, as anyone here knows, you have to keep a close eye on government waste, kickbacks, Congressional directives as where research should be done, and so on.
But in the case of oil prices, it's going nowhere as help. What help vs. giant stabilized robot ships that go down through miles of water, drill down miles, make a right turn and drill even more miles, making rigs obsolete? Or fracking, which made low-hanging apples of the "hard-to-get high-hanging apples" chicken littles screamed about?
A theory that makes counter-intuitive predictions which come true over and over and over again, through the decades, should be given high value, and those who say things which turn out false over and over again should fall into the category of extraordinary claims, as in "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."
Simon's theory predicts, and if you are intellectually honest, you must consider it at least, that oil prices will drop sans intervention, and natural gas prices, and that Peak Oil will turn out to be yet another corps thrown on the heap of history. By capitalism. Minimum granularity 10 years, and ideally more, especially given unprecedented things like China coming online.
Don't rub your chin and argue. Write it down and watch as history unfolds. Again
Yes but that isn't how it is supposed to be. Sophistry tied to permissive understandings of things like the Commerce Clause stretch, hell, erase the principle government is granted limited, well-defined powers, and nothing else.
In the SC ruling a few years back, that found the government's Rube Goldbergian commerce clause allowing banning of guns near schools was finally stretched too far, the majority challenged the dissent to come up with anything that would, by the dissent's understanding, be not allowed. They couldn't come up with anyhing.
The only lesson is the one the Founding Fathers tried to teach history, that government will always work to increase power.
"This whole idea that extinction is forever is just nonsense," [Novak]says.
I've been saying his for 10 damned years. While local ecosystem issues might be of mild concern, the idea of some horrific, inconceivable, once-and-for-all loss is asinine, and people a hundred years from now will look back on grinding regulations as beyond stupid insofar as it slows down the economy, when delta-tech outweighs all other considerations when seeking to save lives.
Most people run around, oblivious to their role spreading memes, doing their bidding in the exact same way chemicals in your cells do the bidding of DNA.
Intelligence involved developing such mechanism, which evolves much more quickly than DNA, scouring the meme, not gene, survival gradient descent space in real-time, not evolutionary time.
Notably and tellingly, the biggest cluster of autistic children is in Hollywood. How much is real, how much is better detection, and how much is bizarre wishful thinking of the same anti-placebo effect?
Now all C++ needs is the ability to treat its own source code as data, and an eval(source code-as-data) function, and it will have caught up to LISP in the 1950s.
Superamoled is the way to go. The colors are much richer that those other screens obviously manufactured in a former East German assembly line sometime during the early 1980s.
Ten years from now, a Pulitzer Prize winning photo of President Christie, or maybe President Hillary, in the War Room, head slung low, hand across furrowed brow.
"President micro-managing the war, agonizes over accidental bombing of Habbo Hotel."
If they did that, the auto companies would currently have to shut down production thanks to the sequester because government deliberately chose to furlough useful stuff like factory inspections to irritate the population, rather than cut back slghtly on giant, amorphous blobs of spending.
By the way, a wise man once said the business of America is business.
A cynic once said the business of government is getting in the way of business for the purpose of getting paid to get back out of the way.
Now look at government shutting down private factories because government refuses to send inspectors because of the sequester, and re-evaluate your judgement, son.
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Rare cases, in an age of omnipresent cameras, are not the norm.
Some musician's effort is not your "cultural birthright" any more some farmer's effort is your "stomach birthright".
They should be kicking scientists to let more private citizens on, not the other way around.
The trivial science being done pales in comparison to the benefits of getting private space travel going.
IIRC, Coleco with the Colecovision tried to lock down cartridge creation by tying recognizing valid cartridges to the cartridge sending a copyrighted string to the console. Other companies fought it and won in court.
Exactly. I just saw a 30s Windows 8 phone ad on Hulu halfway through Glee, and seriouslyness doesn't get any seriously than that.
Well, if someone would actually build a browser with a popup blocker that actually worked, the popup issue would be solved.
One shouldn't have to turn off scripts to stop popups. All they have to do is insert into the code:
if (going to open a new window from this web site and
user doesn't want these popups)
then
tough shit
Linux is its own hurd that tries to defend itself on places where it is dominant, like Slashdot.
Whenever an OP appeared here about some problem with Microsoft and viruses, people immediately chimed in how MS sucked and Linux was awesome.
I would regularly point out that if Linux were the dominant worldwide OS, and thus a target-rich environment to thousands of hackers worldwide, it wouldn't be remotely so solid as people think it is.
And this regularly got -1 troll. You...hurd types are all alike.
China is the future as long as they remain, ironically, more economically free than the US.
Of course, the entire idea we need government to research alternatives to ostensibly reduce oil costs is historically 180 degrees in the wrong direction.
With economic giants like China, and a lesser extent, India, coming online, capitalism is rising to the occasion quite nicely, thank you. Some of you perhaps missed the last 100 years of human history vis-a-vis government intervention in the economy.
Having said that, government can force into existence things capitalism doesn't generally buy directly, like nuclear missiles and fighter aircraft technology, and faster than it would develop without financial prompting, but, as anyone here knows, you have to keep a close eye on government waste, kickbacks, Congressional directives as where research should be done, and so on.
But in the case of oil prices, it's going nowhere as help. What help vs. giant stabilized robot ships that go down through miles of water, drill down miles, make a right turn and drill even more miles, making rigs obsolete? Or fracking, which made low-hanging apples of the "hard-to-get high-hanging apples" chicken littles screamed about?
A theory that makes counter-intuitive predictions which come true over and over and over again, through the decades, should be given high value, and those who say things which turn out false over and over again should fall into the category of extraordinary claims, as in "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."
Simon's theory predicts, and if you are intellectually honest, you must consider it at least, that oil prices will drop sans intervention, and natural gas prices, and that Peak Oil will turn out to be yet another corps thrown on the heap of history. By capitalism. Minimum granularity 10 years, and ideally more, especially given unprecedented things like China coming online.
Don't rub your chin and argue. Write it down and watch as history unfolds. Again
While it may be irritating, as long as they don't feed data to governments, it's not really Orwellian.
The correct solution is ever-better cryptography and disallowing government from making it illegal, or mandating backdoors into things.
Yes but that isn't how it is supposed to be. Sophistry tied to permissive understandings of things like the Commerce Clause stretch, hell, erase the principle government is granted limited, well-defined powers, and nothing else.
In the SC ruling a few years back, that found the government's Rube Goldbergian commerce clause allowing banning of guns near schools was finally stretched too far, the majority challenged the dissent to come up with anything that would, by the dissent's understanding, be not allowed. They couldn't come up with anyhing.
The only lesson is the one the Founding Fathers tried to teach history, that government will always work to increase power.
I've been saying his for 10 damned years. While local ecosystem issues might be of mild concern, the idea of some horrific, inconceivable, once-and-for-all loss is asinine, and people a hundred years from now will look back on grinding regulations as beyond stupid insofar as it slows down the economy, when delta-tech outweighs all other considerations when seeking to save lives.
Most people run around, oblivious to their role spreading memes, doing their bidding in the exact same way chemicals in your cells do the bidding of DNA.
Intelligence involved developing such mechanism, which evolves much more quickly than DNA, scouring the meme, not gene, survival gradient descent space in real-time, not evolutionary time.
Notably and tellingly, the biggest cluster of autistic children is in Hollywood. How much is real, how much is better detection, and how much is bizarre wishful thinking of the same anti-placebo effect?
How about stealing billions of dollars through fraud? Is that worth 30 years?
This is why the anti-trust watchdogs have backed off in the US -- MS agreed to build in backdoors for spying in its OS.
I had suspected it, but proof was hard to come by.
I predict antitrust problems for Google Chrome/Android products in a few years.
Now all C++ needs is the ability to treat its own source code as data, and an eval(source code-as-data) function, and it will have caught up to LISP in the 1950s.
"Panic set in when studies showed over 70% of youngsters thought Sheilas were filipina IT chicks."
Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge. What you described is just the beginning.
If distraction is a problem, you might want to get some medical marijuana from the guy right down the hall.
Superamoled is the way to go. The colors are much richer that those other screens obviously manufactured in a former East German assembly line sometime during the early 1980s.
This stuff moves fast. My Droid Charge's 2 years isn't even up yet, and it was before the one before the original Galaxy S.
Ten years from now, a Pulitzer Prize winning photo of President Christie, or maybe President Hillary, in the War Room, head slung low, hand across furrowed brow.
"President micro-managing the war, agonizes over accidental bombing of Habbo Hotel."
Are you sure you're bitching at the correct place?
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Boy, I'll bet you feel really dumb right now.
The only people who celebrate Steak&BJ Day are those who are too dumb to know it's Pi Day.
Wait for it.
Keep thinking...
If they did that, the auto companies would currently have to shut down production thanks to the sequester because government deliberately chose to furlough useful stuff like factory inspections to irritate the population, rather than cut back slghtly on giant, amorphous blobs of spending.
By the way, a wise man once said the business of America is business.
A cynic once said the business of government is getting in the way of business for the purpose of getting paid to get back out of the way.
Now look at government shutting down private factories because government refuses to send inspectors because of the sequester, and re-evaluate your judgement, son.