Intel won the CPU wars because of manufacturing, not because of a superior instruction set.
There's nothing inherently "superior" about ARM or PPC instruction sets.
Each has its strengths and weaknesses and prescribed methods of capitalizing on the former while working around the latter.
Is x86, possibly, more inelegant than ARM or PPC? Maybe. Then again, what exactly is so elegant about a "catch all" platform where the basic processor architecture can change wildly between manufacturers, leading one to require many "flavors" of code simply to cover multiple vendor platforms?
x86 may be ugly and hackish. But it's probably THE best documented platform in history and has very VERY few platform segregation points.
As someone who works conventions as a booth monkey (even a blind man couldn't think of me as a "babe"), I can tell you that standing for eight hours isn't fun even with comfortable shoes.
Normally the booth I work has foam matting down to help cushion it somewhat. But this only helps reduce the amount of pain in short stints.
Standing on bare concrete for 3-4 days is enough to make you think everything below the navel has been reduced to the consistency of Jell-O.
You know how people who work retail can do it (without requiring knee and hip replacements every 6 months that is)? Frequent breaks.
It also doesn't mean that the structures they're setting up with withstand the pressures the real world will introduce into their nice, neat closed systems.
Essentially what you're talking about here is communism, but instead of just offering us the same old pig, you've put lipstick on it.
The two largest communist regimes on the planet?
Both born in revolution. Both of which cost millions of lives as things were reordered to align with a founder's world view.
Both eroded from within by social dynamics that communism simply isn't capable of addressing, and without by pressures of various and sundry neighbors who don't subscribe to their political rhetoric, yet ultimately live a visibly better existence.
Now neither is a communist regime anymore.
The Russians are trying to reinvent themselves as a western-style capitalist system.
The Chinese are essentially a despotic oligarchy of the same sort that the Soviets devolved into, and more, they've even made inroads into cursory capitalism. But, as their society stratifies, it is going to introduce greater and greater social pressure until their government collapses in the way the Soviets did. But, with a population that may exceed 2 billion at that time, the "interim" between the collapse and the emergence of a new government structure will probably be completely horrendous for them (an possibly dangerous to their neighbors).
Sorry, you jacking the known term "anarchy" around until it means something besides the destruction of government and a period of general lawlessness is like trying to classify rape as "free love".
Being against a form of government and wanting to replace it with another form of government is NOT anarchy or anarchism.
Usually what people start talking about when they do this is is Kropotkin. What they neglect to talk about is that Kropotkin was an anarcho-communist. Emphasis on "communist".
That's really what's being agitated for here. Not "anarchism". Communism under a different moniker.
I think it's already been shown that communism only works in the realm of social insects. The minute you introduce any smidgeon of enlightened self interest, the whole "share everything" ethos that makes communism seem so attractive goes right out the window.
I've had this same line of rhetoric spewed at me endlessly. I've actually READ Kropotkin. So please don't try to feed me another line of bullshit.
Sorry, that may be what you, as an idealist, think of it.
But destroying "the state" isn't necessarily a desirable thing.
Anarchy is not a form of government, nor is it a self-perpetuating.
It's merely an interim state until a large enough coalition forms to impose their will on others and forms a new state.
Usually the entire process of teardown, chaos, and reformation involves lots and lots of people suffering and dying while people try to "get it right".
What constitutes piracy in the purview of the survey?
Using software you didn't pay money for?
Filezilla: PIRATE! Firefox: PIRATE! Linux: PIRATE! VPN Software licensed for you by your company? PIRATE! Free antivirus suite? PIRATE! A program you slapped together yourself? PIRATE!
It's so that Apple can have their own clean, friendly production facility so that Foxconn can stop disrupting work at their hellhole^H^H^H^slave camp^H^H^H^H^other sweatshops to comply with public inspections by people who'd be outraged by how they NORMALLY do business.
In other words, a facade, like everything else at Apple.
If he's black and from Chicago, he has very good reason to hate cops.
Nope. White as snow, from a decent middle-class suburb, but yeah. He's had some run-ins with the cops in Chicago. Like the one he beaned in the head with a bottle in the 2004 Gay Pride parade.
You're probably right. But the thing is, Hammond can't afford the kind of bail that'd be set in his case. His parents bailed him last time, and they can't afford to do so again.
At this point, he's better off riding out the time in his cell reading up for his defense. If he's lucky, the time he spends incarcerated will count against any sentence he's given.
It's so wonderful to be distilled down to a single word.
Then no thought is required to actually think about what happened or what was done.
Also, a snitch implies that my interests and activities somehow aligned with those of Hammond.
Close but no cigar. I was interested in hacking from a social and security standpoint and the things it could teach me to keep myself and my clients safe.
He was just interested in breaking into (as well as just breaking) things to demonstrate e-peen. He wasn't really interested in who, what or why.
Then he attacked me. Personally. So I went to the authorities.
But hey, don't let ME change your preconception of this scumbag as some heroic Robin Hood.
And, unlike his fawning sycophants, I'm going to call him what he is.
A douchebag. Plain and simple.
I was involved with the FBI and helped them put him away the first time. It's a sad commentary that a couple years in prison didn't straighten him out at all. I've seen his name pop up a couple times in local news. Usually for some new random act of overweening stupidity. I'm just stunned that he stooped to credit card theft AGAIN.
Then again, with his record, and his lack of anything even resembling social skills, he's damn near unemployable.
But Jeremy now has what he always desired. A national audience. And, unfortunately, there are just enough brain-sick slobs out there for whom his half-witted messsage is attractive. And he's got a martyr complex the size of the Sears Tower.
He basically belongs in prison, deprived of computer access. Hopefully they'll send him someplace slightly harsher than FCI Greenville this time.
Dude, if you think the future of connectivity is fiber, you need to leave the 90s and come join us here in 2012. I'm not sure what's so 'future proof' about a relatively temperamental connectivity media that is supported by exactly *no* household devices, and very few wifi access points. As for the "future," I would point out that every high-speed LAN technology started as fiber and then became copper...because fiber is a colossal pain in the ass compared to copper. When something consistently goes from one thing to another, this is called a "trend," and trends tell you about the future. It ain't fiber.
Fiber is what the countries with the (presently) fastest residential user internet infrastructure in the world are using.
Singapore is presently rolling out it's nation wide fiber network and somewhere close to 70% of the households have been fiber connected. 95% of the households islandwide are scheduled/projected to be connected by the end of 2012.
I recently had fiber installed in my home, though 1000Mbps is an option at $319 per month, I opted to go for 100Mbps for $47 per month.
You're talking about fiber-to-premises.
So your long-haul connection is fiber.
Once it gets into your home and goes through the physical bridge device, it's going out to your computer either on copper or wireless.
They're talking about wiring the home itself with fiber. Which is expensive overkill and adds nothing to the venture other than cost.
CAT6 and 1Gbps are several orders of magnitude cheaper than a full in-house fiber setup and deliver identical or superior performance to Gigabit fiber.
Hulu has elected to cut off their own, collective testicles with a spoon and shove them down their own throats until they block their airway and suffocate to death.
That's essentially what this is going to do to them.
Step 1: Do something to completely alienate your viewership Step 2: Viewership (and therefore ad revenues) drop like a penny off the Empire State Building. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit? (Yeah. Right.)
Because the TSA isn't about security, it is about making people feel secure.
Wrong!
The TSA isn't about security, or security theater, or making people feel secure.
At this point, they're like every other useless, failed agency in this country. A bunch of hacks trying to cover their asses so they continue to get paid for doing a job that isn't actually needed.
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Intel won the CPU wars because of manufacturing, not because of a superior instruction set.
There's nothing inherently "superior" about ARM or PPC instruction sets.
Each has its strengths and weaknesses and prescribed methods of capitalizing on the former while working around the latter.
Is x86, possibly, more inelegant than ARM or PPC? Maybe. Then again, what exactly is so elegant about a "catch all" platform where the basic processor architecture can change wildly between manufacturers, leading one to require many "flavors" of code simply to cover multiple vendor platforms?
x86 may be ugly and hackish. But it's probably THE best documented platform in history and has very VERY few platform segregation points.
So what's better?
"I pay a little bit more for my transaction"
or
"It's gone. All gone. What do I do now?"
I think the choice there is pretty fucking simple.
Bitcoin is a scam. It's always been a scam. But everyone hoping for something for nothing, being played like the rubes they are, keep at it.
As someone who works conventions as a booth monkey (even a blind man couldn't think of me as a "babe"), I can tell you that standing for eight hours isn't fun even with comfortable shoes.
Normally the booth I work has foam matting down to help cushion it somewhat. But this only helps reduce the amount of pain in short stints.
Standing on bare concrete for 3-4 days is enough to make you think everything below the navel has been reduced to the consistency of Jell-O.
You know how people who work retail can do it (without requiring knee and hip replacements every 6 months that is)? Frequent breaks.
It also doesn't mean that the structures they're setting up with withstand the pressures the real world will introduce into their nice, neat closed systems.
Essentially what you're talking about here is communism, but instead of just offering us the same old pig, you've put lipstick on it.
The two largest communist regimes on the planet?
Both born in revolution. Both of which cost millions of lives as things were reordered to align with a founder's world view.
Both eroded from within by social dynamics that communism simply isn't capable of addressing, and without by pressures of various and sundry neighbors who don't subscribe to their political rhetoric, yet ultimately live a visibly better existence.
Now neither is a communist regime anymore.
The Russians are trying to reinvent themselves as a western-style capitalist system.
The Chinese are essentially a despotic oligarchy of the same sort that the Soviets devolved into, and more, they've even made inroads into cursory capitalism. But, as their society stratifies, it is going to introduce greater and greater social pressure until their government collapses in the way the Soviets did. But, with a population that may exceed 2 billion at that time, the "interim" between the collapse and the emergence of a new government structure will probably be completely horrendous for them (an possibly dangerous to their neighbors).
Sorry, you jacking the known term "anarchy" around until it means something besides the destruction of government and a period of general lawlessness is like trying to classify rape as "free love".
Being against a form of government and wanting to replace it with another form of government is NOT anarchy or anarchism.
Usually what people start talking about when they do this is is Kropotkin. What they neglect to talk about is that Kropotkin was an anarcho-communist. Emphasis on "communist".
That's really what's being agitated for here. Not "anarchism". Communism under a different moniker.
I think it's already been shown that communism only works in the realm of social insects. The minute you introduce any smidgeon of enlightened self interest, the whole "share everything" ethos that makes communism seem so attractive goes right out the window.
I've had this same line of rhetoric spewed at me endlessly. I've actually READ Kropotkin. So please don't try to feed me another line of bullshit.
Sorry, that may be what you, as an idealist, think of it.
But destroying "the state" isn't necessarily a desirable thing.
Anarchy is not a form of government, nor is it a self-perpetuating.
It's merely an interim state until a large enough coalition forms to impose their will on others and forms a new state.
Usually the entire process of teardown, chaos, and reformation involves lots and lots of people suffering and dying while people try to "get it right".
So please, take your bullshit rhetoric elsewhere.
*DING DING DING!*
And we have a winnah!
*Forks over a cigar*
What constitutes piracy in the purview of the survey?
Using software you didn't pay money for?
Filezilla: PIRATE!
Firefox: PIRATE!
Linux: PIRATE!
VPN Software licensed for you by your company? PIRATE!
Free antivirus suite? PIRATE!
A program you slapped together yourself? PIRATE!
It's so that Apple can have their own clean, friendly production facility so that Foxconn can stop disrupting work at their hellhole^H^H^H^slave camp^H^H^H^H^other sweatshops to comply with public inspections by people who'd be outraged by how they NORMALLY do business.
In other words, a facade, like everything else at Apple.
If he's black and from Chicago, he has very good reason to hate cops.
Nope. White as snow, from a decent middle-class suburb, but yeah. He's had some run-ins with the cops in Chicago. Like the one he beaned in the head with a bottle in the 2004 Gay Pride parade.
You're probably right. But the thing is, Hammond can't afford the kind of bail that'd be set in his case. His parents bailed him last time, and they can't afford to do so again.
At this point, he's better off riding out the time in his cell reading up for his defense. If he's lucky, the time he spends incarcerated will count against any sentence he's given.
*Facepalm*
Tolerance for idiocy only goes so far.
See what I mean about brainsick slobs ready to believe anything?
Ah. A snitch.
It's so wonderful to be distilled down to a single word.
Then no thought is required to actually think about what happened or what was done.
Also, a snitch implies that my interests and activities somehow aligned with those of Hammond.
Close but no cigar. I was interested in hacking from a social and security standpoint and the things it could teach me to keep myself and my clients safe.
He was just interested in breaking into (as well as just breaking) things to demonstrate e-peen. He wasn't really interested in who, what or why.
Then he attacked me. Personally. So I went to the authorities.
But hey, don't let ME change your preconception of this scumbag as some heroic Robin Hood.
And, unlike his fawning sycophants, I'm going to call him what he is.
A douchebag. Plain and simple.
I was involved with the FBI and helped them put him away the first time.
It's a sad commentary that a couple years in prison didn't straighten him out at all.
I've seen his name pop up a couple times in local news. Usually for some new random act of overweening stupidity.
I'm just stunned that he stooped to credit card theft AGAIN.
Then again, with his record, and his lack of anything even resembling social skills, he's damn near unemployable.
But Jeremy now has what he always desired. A national audience. And, unfortunately, there are just enough brain-sick slobs out there for whom his half-witted messsage is attractive. And he's got a martyr complex the size of the Sears Tower.
He basically belongs in prison, deprived of computer access. Hopefully they'll send him someplace slightly harsher than FCI Greenville this time.
Except that those pins are embedded in your bones. They aren't likely to move at all.
A small nib of ferrous material not anchored by anything other than skin?
Can you say *RRRRRIIIIIIPPPPPP!!!!!* ?
Good luck getting said person to actually part with the money.
It's like winning a judgement.
Good for you. You have a judgement. Now try to get paid...
Yeah! RIIIGHT!
Call me when you catch the tooth fairy.
Dude, if you think the future of connectivity is fiber, you need to leave the 90s and come join us here in 2012. I'm not sure what's so 'future proof' about a relatively temperamental connectivity media that is supported by exactly *no* household devices, and very few wifi access points. As for the "future," I would point out that every high-speed LAN technology started as fiber and then became copper...because fiber is a colossal pain in the ass compared to copper. When something consistently goes from one thing to another, this is called a "trend," and trends tell you about the future. It ain't fiber.
Fiber is what the countries with the (presently) fastest residential user internet infrastructure in the world are using.
Singapore is presently rolling out it's nation wide fiber network and somewhere close to 70% of the households have been fiber connected.
95% of the households islandwide are scheduled/projected to be connected by the end of 2012.
I recently had fiber installed in my home, though 1000Mbps is an option at $319 per month, I opted to go for 100Mbps for $47 per month.
You're talking about fiber-to-premises.
So your long-haul connection is fiber.
Once it gets into your home and goes through the physical bridge device, it's going out to your computer either on copper or wireless.
They're talking about wiring the home itself with fiber. Which is expensive overkill and adds nothing to the venture other than cost.
CAT6 and 1Gbps are several orders of magnitude cheaper than a full in-house fiber setup and deliver identical or superior performance to Gigabit fiber.
Hulu has elected to cut off their own, collective testicles with a spoon and shove them down their own throats until they block their airway and suffocate to death.
That's essentially what this is going to do to them.
Step 1: Do something to completely alienate your viewership
Step 2: Viewership (and therefore ad revenues) drop like a penny off the Empire State Building.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit? (Yeah. Right.)
Raging dumbassery, first to last.
Yeah. Some guy's house just blue-screened. It took most of his neighborhood down with it.
Have you considered emigrating to Somalia?
I am facepalming so hard...
Because the TSA isn't about security, it is about making people feel secure.
Wrong!
The TSA isn't about security, or security theater, or making people feel secure.
At this point, they're like every other useless, failed agency in this country. A bunch of hacks trying to cover their asses so they continue to get paid for doing a job that isn't actually needed.
Basically any kid who doesn't behave themselves when groped inappropriately MUST be this.
Right?