Well, this isn't really surprising, really. Obviously goody-two-shoes who wouldn't even download unlicensed music are not going to be shop lifting. But I think there is a large percentage of people who would download music and would not cheat at school or steal physical things.
The (paid for by the music industry) study is being totally disingenuous by claming that downloading music causes other criminal behavior, when really it's just a coincidence
I don't understand why this kind of BS is allowed. We need an amendment that requires laws and regulations to be voted on seperately from budgetary crap.
Back in the 70's "Black man on white woman" porno was considered obscine.
I have no idea why people want to get all up in other people's grill about pornography. But I don't understand the War on Drugs either, so perhaps I'm just crazy. What with my "utilitarian ethics" and everything.
Seriously though, under what logical ethical theory should pornographers be punished?
This isn't an article about some groundbreaking new discovery that's going to revolutionize the computer industry, or even change it slightly (like the thing on photon clocking the other day) It's a story about one company winning a lawsuit it had with another company that hasn't even been in business for two years.
Seriously, who the hell cares? What do you know about CPU design that you didn't know before this article?
Seriously, you're talking to someone who's used Altera's software and hardware to code FPGAs.
Obviously it means 1/10th as many deaths per N usages. Of course, this thing will probably be less then 1/10th the cost of shuttle mission, so it will be used more then 10 times as often, meaning more death.
Oh well. It will probably have 10x fewer people dying, and 10x fewer explosive disasters.
you might find this more helpful. Or maybe less helpfull.
Basically what they are saying is there should be no redundant data in a table. Meaning if you shouldn't have 'city' and 'zip code' in a table unless one of them is the primary key, because city and zip code are tied together. Otherwise you'd not be in 3rd normal form, which is, uh, not that important...
While sterotypes are always dangerous, I think you'll find that the stronger artists have a talent or strong appreciation for poetry. Poetry may offer them an outlet to express their emotions with only a minimum of structure standing in their way.
That's great if you're idea of 'poetry' is sitting around feeeling good about yourself while reciting Emo Lyrics from your live-journal.
Quality poetry sticks with a meter, yeah, you can change it but you have to know what you're doing first. Poetry is much more like music then visual art.
I think software developers have the same percentage of good designers as the population at large, and vise versa. I've known some coders who were incredible graphic designers.
But most of those people are not going to be interested in something like this, they do their HTML by hand:P
Just more attempts to kill inoperability betwixt things that are not Microsoft. "Sparkle"? Come on.
That said, having developed in flash for the first time recently, I can't help but hope it dies a slow and painful death.
Transistors don't need clocks, logic gates don't need clocks, but flip-flops do. The reason you need a clock is because the outputs of a bit of logic will be 'unstable' for a while the result is computed. The clock tells the next piece of the system when to read. In place of that, you'd need a 'done' signal, which would rase transistor counts quite a bit.
Not to mention it would be very hard to find people who would know how to design these things.
I think the future of the CPU involves different parts of the system operating on separate clocks, transferring data via a 'networking' type system. Computers connected via Ethernet don't need to have their clocks synched in order to work.
Think of a simple instruction decoder. The decoder reads the instructions, and opens the right 'gates' in the CPU so that there is an electrical connection between the two registers and the ALU, and inside the ALU to the adder or subtractor, or whatever depending on what instruction you're trying to run. Then, the clock signals and tells the ALU that the registers are ready. Without the clock, the ALU might try to add the wrong things. (the ALU doesn't need a clock to work)
In the future you could have some sort of system where the decoder just sends a message to the ALU telling it to setup the adder, and to the registry file to access these two registers. Then the register file will send the data to the ALU whenever it's ready.
I'm still running win2k as my prefered OS. I'll switch to linux rather then buying a new windows, why get stuck in M$s' upgrade cycle?
If I ever get a new computer, it'll probably come with vista, so if I ever get it, it'll be that way.
I've been working on flash apps for work. God the networking library sucks ass. Creating a connection returns true or false. True if it succeeds, false if it doesn't. There's absolutely no way to figure out why it didn't work!
Insane. I set policies first with my XMLSocket server, and then with an HTTP server. Doesn't seem to be it and it's driving me nuts. Every other networking library will tell you exactly why it failed. Not Actionscript!.
Fuck macromedia. And fuck Microsoft for killing client-side java!!!
I did. Having graduated from collage, I now realized I knew enough going in to do most programming jobs out there. Computer science is a branch of mathimatics. If you just want to program without learning anything, take MIS, and quit cha bitching.
I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why they would need to use 'ant logic' or whatever for this system. All it does is take readings and process them in each cell... why not just use a central database of all the cells and a central (yet redundant) computer to process all the data.
Seems like you'd get the same result, but it wouldn't be as 'cool' or expensive to develop...
If they are trying to prevent mitocondrial diseases from being passed on, I take it they are using the egg cell from one mother with the neclious removed, and implanting DNA from another in there? That way, they'll have the mitocondria from one, but the DNA from another. A man's DNA will need to be added to the egg in order to reproduce. So really it's Two woman and one man.
Or are they actualy somehow doing meosis with two eggs?
Each person transfers in large chunks of money, and then paypal only needs add money to one account and subtract it from another. They'll probably use simplified record keeping on the micropayments, and set a limit of the total amount you can send each month.
(dealing with money, they're going to have to keep good records, for legal reasons but they can probably get away with letting people spend $20-$50 a month would be OK. Who's going to sue them for $50?)
Then, paypal will seize the all the money for themselves.
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Well, this isn't really surprising, really. Obviously goody-two-shoes who wouldn't even download unlicensed music are not going to be shop lifting. But I think there is a large percentage of people who would download music and would not cheat at school or steal physical things.
The (paid for by the music industry) study is being totally disingenuous by claming that downloading music causes other criminal behavior, when really it's just a coincidence
I don't understand why this kind of BS is allowed. We need an amendment that requires laws and regulations to be voted on seperately from budgetary crap.
Chinese Leetspeak? What does that look like, I wonder.
Back in the 70's "Black man on white woman" porno was considered obscine.
I have no idea why people want to get all up in other people's grill about pornography. But I don't understand the War on Drugs either, so perhaps I'm just crazy. What with my "utilitarian ethics" and everything.
Seriously though, under what logical ethical theory should pornographers be punished?
This isn't an article about some groundbreaking new discovery that's going to revolutionize the computer industry, or even change it slightly (like the thing on photon clocking the other day) It's a story about one company winning a lawsuit it had with another company that hasn't even been in business for two years. Seriously, who the hell cares? What do you know about CPU design that you didn't know before this article? Seriously, you're talking to someone who's used Altera's software and hardware to code FPGAs.
Seriously, why does this matter?
Obviously it means 1/10th as many deaths per N usages. Of course, this thing will probably be less then 1/10th the cost of shuttle mission, so it will be used more then 10 times as often, meaning more death. Oh well. It will probably have 10x fewer people dying, and 10x fewer explosive disasters.
you might find this more helpful. Or maybe less helpfull. Basically what they are saying is there should be no redundant data in a table. Meaning if you shouldn't have 'city' and 'zip code' in a table unless one of them is the primary key, because city and zip code are tied together. Otherwise you'd not be in 3rd normal form, which is, uh, not that important...
That is some ugly box art. Ugly bux art for a design product is never a good sign...
While sterotypes are always dangerous, I think you'll find that the stronger artists have a talent or strong appreciation for poetry. Poetry may offer them an outlet to express their emotions with only a minimum of structure standing in their way. That's great if you're idea of 'poetry' is sitting around feeeling good about yourself while reciting Emo Lyrics from your live-journal. Quality poetry sticks with a meter, yeah, you can change it but you have to know what you're doing first. Poetry is much more like music then visual art.
What's with your fetish for "Third normal form"? I'd never heard of it, but then, I'm not a database monkey either...
I think software developers have the same percentage of good designers as the population at large, and vise versa. I've known some coders who were incredible graphic designers. But most of those people are not going to be interested in something like this, they do their HTML by hand :P
Just more attempts to kill inoperability betwixt things that are not Microsoft. "Sparkle"? Come on. That said, having developed in flash for the first time recently, I can't help but hope it dies a slow and painful death.
std::map>::iterator i = mymap[j].begin();
or
var i = mymap[j].begin;
Transistors don't need clocks, logic gates don't need clocks, but flip-flops do. The reason you need a clock is because the outputs of a bit of logic will be 'unstable' for a while the result is computed. The clock tells the next piece of the system when to read. In place of that, you'd need a 'done' signal, which would rase transistor counts quite a bit. Not to mention it would be very hard to find people who would know how to design these things. I think the future of the CPU involves different parts of the system operating on separate clocks, transferring data via a 'networking' type system. Computers connected via Ethernet don't need to have their clocks synched in order to work. Think of a simple instruction decoder. The decoder reads the instructions, and opens the right 'gates' in the CPU so that there is an electrical connection between the two registers and the ALU, and inside the ALU to the adder or subtractor, or whatever depending on what instruction you're trying to run. Then, the clock signals and tells the ALU that the registers are ready. Without the clock, the ALU might try to add the wrong things. (the ALU doesn't need a clock to work) In the future you could have some sort of system where the decoder just sends a message to the ALU telling it to setup the adder, and to the registry file to access these two registers. Then the register file will send the data to the ALU whenever it's ready.
I'm still running win2k as my prefered OS. I'll switch to linux rather then buying a new windows, why get stuck in M$s' upgrade cycle? If I ever get a new computer, it'll probably come with vista, so if I ever get it, it'll be that way.
Did he sell the laptop to someone else, or was the school just buying every laptop on Ebay that fit the description?
I've been working on flash apps for work. God the networking library sucks ass. Creating a connection returns true or false. True if it succeeds, false if it doesn't. There's absolutely no way to figure out why it didn't work!
Insane. I set policies first with my XMLSocket server, and then with an HTTP server. Doesn't seem to be it and it's driving me nuts. Every other networking library will tell you exactly why it failed. Not Actionscript!.
Fuck macromedia. And fuck Microsoft for killing client-side java!!!
I did. Having graduated from collage, I now realized I knew enough going in to do most programming jobs out there. Computer science is a branch of mathimatics. If you just want to program without learning anything, take MIS, and quit cha bitching.
"Centralized" dosn't mean single, thats why I said "redundant" centralized systems, rather then a weird, unessisary CA system.
I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why they would need to use 'ant logic' or whatever for this system. All it does is take readings and process them in each cell... why not just use a central database of all the cells and a central (yet redundant) computer to process all the data.
Seems like you'd get the same result, but it wouldn't be as 'cool' or expensive to develop...
If they are trying to prevent mitocondrial diseases from being passed on, I take it they are using the egg cell from one mother with the neclious removed, and implanting DNA from another in there? That way, they'll have the mitocondria from one, but the DNA from another. A man's DNA will need to be added to the egg in order to reproduce. So really it's Two woman and one man. Or are they actualy somehow doing meosis with two eggs?
Each person transfers in large chunks of money, and then paypal only needs add money to one account and subtract it from another. They'll probably use simplified record keeping on the micropayments, and set a limit of the total amount you can send each month.
(dealing with money, they're going to have to keep good records, for legal reasons but they can probably get away with letting people spend $20-$50 a month would be OK. Who's going to sue them for $50?)
Then, paypal will seize the all the money for themselves.
Everyone knows slashdotters never actualy read the article, so why bother linking to it?
Contact paypal, and tell them to either refund your money, or send it to lowtax. If they don't respond, have your CC company do a chargeback.