The value in that company isn't in the existing products, its in the knowledge of the people to make next generation products.
you seem to be missing a point. the value of this company is in its revenue and ability to pay the wages of 800 people. it may not seem like a lot, but its also lost tax revenue as well. this adds up.
sure, that talent will go elsewhere and get absorbed into the rest of the economy, somewhere, somehow, hopefully. but the point gates is making: this won't be fun for anyone.
thats an interesting technique.. and its also interesting to note the different techniques for persistence that/.'ers are describing. seems like there's more than one way to stick around..
Would they create a 'MyObject.savemyself()' method for every object in their game?
isn't the purpose of 'object oriented programming' that you don't have to think like this? you just call the one big 'Game Object' save method, and.. all other derived/related objects, do their big save?
seems a bit wonky to me.
"game saves" is not just a game problem, of course. there are many, many parallels in other types of application.. embedded data loggers, for example, getting a warning that the shack is about to flood for winter, need to save their state too..
for me, the 'global context save and restore' is a 'built-in' to the design. i'm rather fond of libs and services which provide persistence natively.. though i think that some would argue that mmap's to flash RAM are cheating...;)
Bullshit. Go ahead, quote anywhere I did any such thing. Show me where I said what North Koreans should do.
Typically American hostile reaction when confronted with the failings of your own ego. ("Bullshit") You said:
"North Korea has no need for huge expensive nuclear plant for electricity. They can easily satisfy their miniscule electricty usage more cheaply and more easily with conventional power sources"
Who are you to make that judgement? You really think you know more about NK's power needs than they do?
So, why don't you take your pedantic vitriol and shove it, then turn your attention to the fact that it is people like you who have given your criminal government the free leash it needs to let loose misery on the world.. shame on you!!!
it's not reasonable to expect that there's never any local copy of data on any system in the company.
umm.. its entirely the 'reasonable' nature of the situation that led to this disaster in the first place.
policy is there for a reason. enforced policy - i.e. no sensitive data on un-secured, non-ops room computers - is also there for a reason.
enforced policy of this nature would have prevented this occurring. its precisely for 'reasonableness' that allows these circumstances to occur.
you might be saying "absolutes aren't", but absolutely: a well-enforced ops-room policy on protected data, is as absolute as you can get in the computer world.
what is negligent about this situation, is the policy. completely negligent policy led to this disaster, nothing less..
the reason you can't see lights on your pretty little map, is that there is no power. the infrastructure *is* there.
you, an american, making vast sweeping assumptions about what you think is right for the north koreans IS THE MAJOR PROBLEM. stop thinking you know best.
US hegemony is a serious, serious issue. americans fail to take any responsibility for it. you are not the guardians of the world you think you are, and you do not have the right to assume that position, all higher and mightier.
believe me, i give thanks every day i come to my house, knowing full well there are millions of people out there not anywhere near as fortunate as me... and believe me, i am truly grateful. i've been on both sides of these bricks.
2 hours of your life is nothing, dude. while you cut that grass, give thanks that you can. every blade of grass you tread on should represent one of the billions of people alive, at the same time as you, who can only dream of such luxury.
get your head out of your ass! its what cutting grass is good for!
... first, they modified lawn-grass, such that it won't grow too far... then they did the same thing to our children, such that they won't eat too much..
Do you really trust Future Fascists of America not to use this technology to evil intent? Science should not be providing such tools to the mad-men of tomorrow.. and that is what you're suggesting.
All for the sake of a bit of fat consumerican comfort. No Thanks!!!
"Science" is too often used as the justification for horrific acts.
"The Final Solution" was a 'scientific' one. You think you want to trust Future Fascist Dictators Of America with 'scientific rational' to remove sectors of DNA from -any- species; not just lawn-grass? Fuck no.
Close down Monsanto now, before it goes too far. There is already evidence that the DNA-pimps will have gotten us into a lot of trouble within the next two decades..
(And no, don't tell me you can just 'remove the Fascist gene'.. I trust that angle not one iota...)
so why don't you just move into an apartment, then?
sheesh, i can't help but despair at the utter decadence of some people. whats wrong with cutting the grass? its a grand activity, supposed to remind you of the vigors of life.. same with chasing snakes! i do that for fun!
honest, are we all becoming cyborgs? ew!! get a life!
.. such as a page full of checkerboard or something, and work from there.
if you can see the 'obvious' change in pattern in the file, you've got a lead. but the important thing is to start from the very beginning with something you know.. and look for that pattern at each stage through the pipeline...
seriously though, i'd like to see tech like this machine-grown housing, combined with the sandbag house or 'old rubber tire' house concepts that have been experimented with, successfully.
imagine a machine you just feed sandbags into, and it crawls over the building site, laying down bags (or tires).. that'd be an awesome robot worthy of respect, and i for one would welcome its overlord-i-ness...
North Korea has no need for huge expensive nuclear plant for electricity. They can easily satisfy their miniscule electricty usage more cheaply and more easily with conventional power sources.
umm... yeah.. and this is something for foreigners to decide.
the supreme arrogance of this statement belies more to the issue than the content. americans have no right to decide how any nation warms its people. north korea, being a sovereign state, should be allowed to decide for itself whether or not it needs electricity, generated cheaply, to warm its citizens.
we've haven't turned into a police state.
having lived there for 15 years, i have decided that it was a police state long before i was born. just, a 'soft' one, that its citizens can barely recognize, given their predilection towards studying history and familiarity with other cultures.. oh, sorry, i mean, proclivity to tune into 'Friends' and 'Seinfeld' each and every sorry day...
I haven't heard anyone in the administration raise any "military options" with North Korea.
Veiled threats from Condi, 'leaked' details about Pentagon war-game planning not-withstanding, right...
the solution to the North Korea/Iran situation is simple. a world body ought to be formed to protect all peaceful use of nuclear reactors, and this should consist of a) inspectors, and b) armed forces to protect the sites. it should be a world body administered by the U.N. with the purpose of providing security and power, through nuclear reactors. a kind of 'peaceful nuke guard team', if you will, consisting of multi-national membership.
that no politician has recommended this yet, in light of all other clear evidence that it could work, means that there are vested interests at work, playing this issue for all its worth...
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Just sit back and watch the movies ...
pearls versus swine, my man, pearls versus swine ..
(give me style over mass, any time..)
how does a normal person get a reliable USENET feed these days?
yeah, thats what i would do too .. only have to write it once, let it propagate throughout the whole hierarchy as needed ..
The value in that company isn't in the existing products, its in the knowledge of the people to make next generation products.
you seem to be missing a point. the value of this company is in its revenue and ability to pay the wages of 800 people. it may not seem like a lot, but its also lost tax revenue as well. this adds up.
sure, that talent will go elsewhere and get absorbed into the rest of the economy, somewhere, somehow, hopefully. but the point gates is making: this won't be fun for anyone.
thats an interesting technique .. and its also interesting to note the different techniques for persistence that /.'ers are describing. seems like there's more than one way to stick around ..
Would they create a 'MyObject.savemyself()' method for every object in their game?
.. all other derived/related objects, do their big save?
.. embedded data loggers, for example, getting a warning that the shack is about to flood for winter, need to save their state too ..
.. though i think that some would argue that mmap's to flash RAM are cheating ... ;)
isn't the purpose of 'object oriented programming' that you don't have to think like this? you just call the one big 'Game Object' save method, and
seems a bit wonky to me.
"game saves" is not just a game problem, of course. there are many, many parallels in other types of application
for me, the 'global context save and restore' is a 'built-in' to the design. i'm rather fond of libs and services which provide persistence natively
okay, you win nazi. have fun with your straw man!
all you gotta do is drape a canvas bag over it, and oila.. no more rolly polly.
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which is why i am in favour of robobally-cop havin' frickin' lazer beams on its head^H^H^H^Houter circumference, somewhere
Bullshit. Go ahead, quote anywhere I did any such thing. Show me where I said what North Koreans should do.
.. and they even funded it.
.. shame on you!!!
Typically American hostile reaction when confronted with the failings of your own ego. ("Bullshit") You said:
"North Korea has no need for huge expensive nuclear plant for electricity. They can easily satisfy their miniscule electricty usage more cheaply and more easily with conventional power sources"
Who are you to make that judgement? You really think you know more about NK's power needs than they do?
Apparently, even your own government thought it was necessary for NK to have their own nuclear power
I'm sure they know more about it than you do.
So, why don't you take your pedantic vitriol and shove it, then turn your attention to the fact that it is people like you who have given your criminal government the free leash it needs to let loose misery on the world
it's not reasonable to expect that there's never any local copy of data on any system in the company.
.. its entirely the 'reasonable' nature of the situation that led to this disaster in the first place.
umm
policy is there for a reason. enforced policy - i.e. no sensitive data on un-secured, non-ops room computers - is also there for a reason.
enforced policy of this nature would have prevented this occurring. its precisely for 'reasonableness' that allows these circumstances to occur.
you might be saying "absolutes aren't", but absolutely: a well-enforced ops-room policy on protected data, is as absolute as you can get in the computer world.
what is negligent about this situation, is the policy. completely negligent policy led to this disaster, nothing less..
the reason you can't see lights on your pretty little map, is that there is no power. the infrastructure *is* there.
you, an american, making vast sweeping assumptions about what you think is right for the north koreans IS THE MAJOR PROBLEM. stop thinking you know best.
US hegemony is a serious, serious issue. americans fail to take any responsibility for it. you are not the guardians of the world you think you are, and you do not have the right to assume that position, all higher and mightier.
end of discussion.
believe me, i give thanks every day i come to my house, knowing full well there are millions of people out there not anywhere near as fortunate as me... and believe me, i am truly grateful. i've been on both sides of these bricks.
and this is the problem with america today. well-cut grass is more important than quality time spent improving the environment.
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and no, they are not one and the same
Never buy anything that claims to work with Linux. Buy things that Linux supports.
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thats pathetic advice, especially on a 'hacker'-related story.
if people only ever bought things that 'linux supports', linux wouldn't support very much, you know
oh, wait, should i call a whaaa-mbulance?
2 hours of your life is nothing, dude. while you cut that grass, give thanks that you can. every blade of grass you tread on should represent one of the billions of people alive, at the same time as you, who can only dream of such luxury.
get your head out of your ass! its what cutting grass is good for!
... first, they modified lawn-grass, such that it won't grow too far. .. then they did the same thing to our children, such that they won't eat too much ..
.. and that is what you're suggesting.
Do you really trust Future Fascists of America not to use this technology to evil intent? Science should not be providing such tools to the mad-men of tomorrow
All for the sake of a bit of fat consumerican comfort. No Thanks!!!
"Science" is too often used as the justification for horrific acts.
..
"The Final Solution" was a 'scientific' one. You think you want to trust Future Fascist Dictators Of America with 'scientific rational' to remove sectors of DNA from -any- species; not just lawn-grass? Fuck no.
Close down Monsanto now, before it goes too far. There is already evidence that the DNA-pimps will have gotten us into a lot of trouble within the next two decades
(And no, don't tell me you can just 'remove the Fascist gene'.. I trust that angle not one iota...)
so why don't you just move into an apartment, then?
sheesh, i can't help but despair at the utter decadence of some people. whats wrong with cutting the grass? its a grand activity, supposed to remind you of the vigors of life.. same with chasing snakes! i do that for fun!
honest, are we all becoming cyborgs? ew!! get a life!
Should Monsanto bring us designer maples that don't shed leaves?
No. Monsanto should go away. It should die a quiet corporate death.
This is one technocratic religion we don't need more of, thanks very much. Monsanto plays God, and we are its Eden.
Science goes too far. This is an example.
.. such as a page full of checkerboard or something, and work from there.
.. and look for that pattern at each stage through the pipeline ...
if you can see the 'obvious' change in pattern in the file, you've got a lead. but the important thing is to start from the very beginning with something you know
"GPS-tooth" on the train to Bath ...
seriously though, i'd like to see tech like this machine-grown housing, combined with the sandbag house or 'old rubber tire' house concepts that have been experimented with, successfully.
.. that'd be an awesome robot worthy of respect, and i for one would welcome its overlord-i-ness ...
imagine a machine you just feed sandbags into, and it crawls over the building site, laying down bags (or tires)
North Korea has no need for huge expensive nuclear plant for electricity. They can easily satisfy their miniscule electricty usage more cheaply and more easily with conventional power sources.
... yeah .. and this is something for foreigners to decide.
.. oh, sorry, i mean, proclivity to tune into 'Friends' and 'Seinfeld' each and every sorry day ...
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umm
the supreme arrogance of this statement belies more to the issue than the content. americans have no right to decide how any nation warms its people. north korea, being a sovereign state, should be allowed to decide for itself whether or not it needs electricity, generated cheaply, to warm its citizens.
we've haven't turned into a police state.
having lived there for 15 years, i have decided that it was a police state long before i was born. just, a 'soft' one, that its citizens can barely recognize, given their predilection towards studying history and familiarity with other cultures
I haven't heard anyone in the administration raise any "military options" with North Korea.
Veiled threats from Condi, 'leaked' details about Pentagon war-game planning not-withstanding, right
the solution to the North Korea/Iran situation is simple. a world body ought to be formed to protect all peaceful use of nuclear reactors, and this should consist of a) inspectors, and b) armed forces to protect the sites. it should be a world body administered by the U.N. with the purpose of providing security and power, through nuclear reactors. a kind of 'peaceful nuke guard team', if you will, consisting of multi-national membership.
that no politician has recommended this yet, in light of all other clear evidence that it could work, means that there are vested interests at work, playing this issue for all its worth
You can't cross-compile assembly because it is designed for the target platform from the start.
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what? of course you can cross-compile assembly. assembly is just another language - you can teach any computer that language.
as86/bin86 can be compiled under OSX. write your code on your powerbook, compile, send it to a real PC for testing/running