Thanks; interesting (if dismaying) figures. (And congratulations to Greece!) I note, though, that Scotland scores substantially better than the rest of the UK. Perhaps therein lies the root of a solution - move to Scotland, then vote for independence?
Aye, but where? The UK is far from the worst country for piling petty tyrannies onto its citizens... although quite how the British political system ever came to be described as "democracy" is a complete mystery to me, unless democracy can really be stretched to mean "the Crown's subjects receive the occasional opportunity to give the job of pretending to run the country to a different set of chancers, spongers, curtain-twitchers, busybodies and nest-featherers, and they should be grateful that their ruler allows them that! grateful, I tell you!".
Hey, at least it's a common law system - imagine the combination of elected despotism and civil law...
Presumably there's no reason why one couldn't go straight from executing an AST to compiling that AST on demand, in the same way as modern JITs do for bytecode? Would this be a way to keep the parsing / direct execution speed from which one-off scripts benefit, whilst optimising loops and hotspots down to tight machine code to benefit more intensive JS apps and libraries?
But if I meet another entity who originated as an exact copy of me, I will still recognise that the entity is not me, and the entity will recognise that I am not it. Self-consciousness is non-transferable by definition; we become self-conscious not with any positive realisation of our own individuality, but with the dawning awareness of our own isolation from others - it isn't "I am nobody else", it's "Nobody else is me". Exact duplication doesn't alter that.
Moreover, even if we are merely the sum of our accumulated memories and the connections we make between them, and even if duplication of that is possible, then as soon as the duplicate is made, the two entities will begin to diverge - their experiences are no longer completely identical. It won't take very long before they are recognisable as two different individuals - particularly if they come into contact with one another.
If you only have £100 spare, then the ONE wins by default; whilst you could get a "proper", much higher spec'd, second-hand laptop for that money, you'd almost certainly end up lashing out £50 or so on a new battery straight away.
I liked 2K as well (still have a copy of Server kicking around somewhere), and I'd agree that it's the best version of Windows in terms of those metrics that matter; but it was more of a consolidation than an advance. On the other hand, Windows 95 was probably the biggest jump forward from its predecessor of any Microsoft OS, so it's probably justifiable to call it a milestone.
More interestingly, after '95, Microsoft had achieved dominance; before that, it was still getting there. Maybe Bill Gates is expressing a preference for the battle over the victory?
The reason they want to ban it is because it's made by converting REAL CHILD PORN into computer generated images.
Great, so all we need is a cast iron way to distinguish that which is converted from that which is a product only of imagination, and then we can ban the right stuff and let artistic expression continue unhindered. Just like they did for images of simulated BDSM and acts between consenting adults... oh, wait.
Well, in fairness, the film isn't the root of the problem. I suspect that this November 5 we'll all be asked to burn copies of the book, and on top of many bonfires will be sitting effigies of Vladimir Nabokov.
Future governments might even pass a decree that every householder in the UK is required to own a pitchfork.
It's 16 over here, for both heterosexual and homosexual relationships (the latter is one of the vanishingly few good things New Labour did).
Incidentally, Jacqui Smith is a complete and utter idiot. This is entirely in keeping with her attitude to her responsibilities. It appears that not only has Britain become a nanny state, it is now being run by precisely those people who should have become nannies.
Kind of. Sometimes the perception arises that it's tougher to get cases accepted by the CPS than it is to get a guilty verdict out of a jury, though, so I never for a second believed this one would go the distance. What's nice is to hear them basically demolish the idea that there might have been a case and dress down the City of London police, rather than saying that prosecution would "not be in the public interest" or something equivalent.
Well, this is what happens when you go to court. You sometimes lose.
Except that Vernor took Autodesk to court, not the other way around; if anyone appeals this, it will be Autodesk; even were they minded to want the whole thing to go away, they cannot let this judgement stand - even without setting precedent, if unchallenged it will certainly be influential... and not only will it throw a spanner in the software companies' works, the RIAA and MPAA will want to see it overturned pretty quickly too - if not in court, then by statute.
At which point, Congress will roll over and waggle its paws in the air. As usual.
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Surely it's a few more than that now?
Do they feel the same sense of comfort when they get a hundred empathectomised 13-year-old boys piling on the insults?
Thanks; interesting (if dismaying) figures. (And congratulations to Greece!) I note, though, that Scotland scores substantially better than the rest of the UK. Perhaps therein lies the root of a solution - move to Scotland, then vote for independence?
Aye, but where? The UK is far from the worst country for piling petty tyrannies onto its citizens... although quite how the British political system ever came to be described as "democracy" is a complete mystery to me, unless democracy can really be stretched to mean "the Crown's subjects receive the occasional opportunity to give the job of pretending to run the country to a different set of chancers, spongers, curtain-twitchers, busybodies and nest-featherers, and they should be grateful that their ruler allows them that! grateful, I tell you!".
Hey, at least it's a common law system - imagine the combination of elected despotism and civil law...
It says more about Mensa. Remember, this is the organisation whose IQ tests are easier than anyone else's.
Presumably there's no reason why one couldn't go straight from executing an AST to compiling that AST on demand, in the same way as modern JITs do for bytecode? Would this be a way to keep the parsing / direct execution speed from which one-off scripts benefit, whilst optimising loops and hotspots down to tight machine code to benefit more intensive JS apps and libraries?
It's just a flesh wound!
Hey, at least it's not black, oily and sentient.
But if I meet another entity who originated as an exact copy of me, I will still recognise that the entity is not me, and the entity will recognise that I am not it. Self-consciousness is non-transferable by definition; we become self-conscious not with any positive realisation of our own individuality, but with the dawning awareness of our own isolation from others - it isn't "I am nobody else", it's "Nobody else is me". Exact duplication doesn't alter that.
Moreover, even if we are merely the sum of our accumulated memories and the connections we make between them, and even if duplication of that is possible, then as soon as the duplicate is made, the two entities will begin to diverge - their experiences are no longer completely identical. It won't take very long before they are recognisable as two different individuals - particularly if they come into contact with one another.
But people's faces do change colour when they're angry; they tend to flush pink.
Is anyone else wondering what exactly it was about this Big Michael guy that caused someone to name a large and tasty banana after him...?
If you only have £100 spare, then the ONE wins by default; whilst you could get a "proper", much higher spec'd, second-hand laptop for that money, you'd almost certainly end up lashing out £50 or so on a new battery straight away.
I liked 2K as well (still have a copy of Server kicking around somewhere), and I'd agree that it's the best version of Windows in terms of those metrics that matter; but it was more of a consolidation than an advance. On the other hand, Windows 95 was probably the biggest jump forward from its predecessor of any Microsoft OS, so it's probably justifiable to call it a milestone.
More interestingly, after '95, Microsoft had achieved dominance; before that, it was still getting there. Maybe Bill Gates is expressing a preference for the battle over the victory?
Future governments might even pass a decree that every householder in the UK is required to own a pitchfork.
It's 16 over here, for both heterosexual and homosexual relationships (the latter is one of the vanishingly few good things New Labour did).
Incidentally, Jacqui Smith is a complete and utter idiot. This is entirely in keeping with her attitude to her responsibilities. It appears that not only has Britain become a nanny state, it is now being run by precisely those people who should have become nannies.
Frankly, I think the people who thought this was patentable were already pretty well caned.
So how exactly does the busy anarchocapitalist define and protect intellectual property without recourse to legal structures and statutes?
youtube-dl -b -o funny-youtube-link.flv [URL]
mplayer -ao alsa -vo fbdev funny-youtube-link.flv
I strongly urge you to pay them a visit and get this iniquity stamped out, once and for all.
:)
And please, remember to take some photos whilst you're there.
Hey! Some of us still, and will always, think of these boring beige boxen as "IBM-compatibles"! We shall not forget whence we came"...
I believe that'd be Ms Osborne, there not being many boys in England called Tamsin.
Kind of. Sometimes the perception arises that it's tougher to get cases accepted by the CPS than it is to get a guilty verdict out of a jury, though, so I never for a second believed this one would go the distance. What's nice is to hear them basically demolish the idea that there might have been a case and dress down the City of London police, rather than saying that prosecution would "not be in the public interest" or something equivalent.
At which point, Congress will roll over and waggle its paws in the air. As usual.