I should think it would not be that hard to re-implement minecraft in a cleanroom fashion. Which makes me wonder what aspects of a game are actually copyrightable. What would stop some open source team from making a duplicate minecraft then selling logins just like in ye olde days.
One of the nice things about f77 and i presume cobol is that memory is allocated in a fixed way at compile time. so no mallocs and no deallocs and thus no null pointers. string buffer sizes are known. and relatively speaking, its harder to find cases where typos are not also syntax errors. for exapmle typing = instead of ==.
now for many things this memory issue is the pits which is why we like those other laguages. it makes object oriented styles impossible though for a fixed maximum number of objects you can fake it. but for a lot of things its all you need. and the block memory structures of multi dimensional arrays make data contiguous in memory and enable very efficient parallel optimizations. so there are advantages to giving up features.
if you are wanting very reliable code its not a crazy choice,
i think most companies would love a market as large as a diminished iphone market. on top of which the deployed base is not diminishing-- lots of money from apps and music. Your point is...
A mac computer, these days, is the thingy you plug you iphone or tablet into. The latter two are more visible sexy status symbols whereas the latter is less so and if it's a desktop doesn't even get seen in public. And yet it's still a money maker and more importantly gets you to embrace the whole apple ecosystem which becomes self re-inforcing with itunes, and appleTV and any number of things you'd prefer not to lose if you were to switch to something else. Wrap that up in a superior customer service package and voila. It's home.
Likewise the tesla battery is not only what you plug your status symbol Tesla car into but also your gorgeous tesla roof and you power your house off of. And each of these items is best in class with great customer service experience and little complexity to be concerned about.
You will be able to plug your Ford or GM car into your telsa battery just like you can plug your microsoft phone into an apple computer. But it won't be smooth I would bet. When you update the OS in your battery (yes your battery is intelligent) you will need to wait for the new driver miodification from Ford to use the new features. Whereas the tesla battery and car will work together always.
Or so I think.
Tesla isn't just building a car. It's building an energy ecosytem.
I am definitely not a novice Linux user. But I'm just that a user not a Linux developer. I develop applications that happen to run on Linux and other machines.
I've never formally understood what the difference between Unity and Gnome and KDE really is. decades ago I used KDE and loved it's crisp germanic feel. I installed Unity a couple of times by mistake and always found myself puzzled how to get a terminal up or lauch applications or really do anything. Randomly clicking stuff sometimes produced results but it was forever a mystery. I've run Damnsmall linux (XCFE) and liked that. I've used redhat on servers but never really liked RPM. As well as rasberry pi noobs. And these days I just awlays head straight for mint.
Mint makes everything easy.
But really what's the difference??? the only think I see as an end user is 1) Unity . baffling desktop 2).Debian: you get apt-get 3) . Redhat: RPM Kde used to be good but lost out.
But I don't really understand what it means to use gnome. What changes? where files go? what sort of API apls can call? I really don't know enlighten me.
What's it like. Not a magic fantasy fan myself so I like to only read great books in that genere.
in the last month I read: 1) THe Girl on the Train.
Yet another novel with "the Girl" in the title. But this one holds up because of the superb point of view telling from not one but three unreliable selfish narrators, the good prose, and a reasonable intrigue. The characters are distinct and well drawn, people's personalities come across.
2) Red Shirts. After the grim Girl on the Train, I went for lighthearted. This was just laugh out loud hillarious. Great set of twists on an initial comic premise make it far more than a one-joke story. It gets meta. And has great ripping dialogue. funny funny funny and clever to boot.
3) The Spaceship Nextdoor. The art in this one is the telling of it. very wry. Humorous with a premise I'd not encountered before. It wraps up a bit abruptly but it was a fun ride all the way through and kept me curious.
4) Having enjoyed the spaceship next door I got the author's earlier book "immortal". This is crass shadow of the space ship next door and not stimulating. Not going to finish this one.
5) the pervious couple months I read Hamilton. Now that is one of the most amazing human adventure biographies I've ever read. Hamilton started out in Dickensian poverty in the caribbean and rose to be not just the most influential desginer of our government but also the one's influences on our banking system remains the most important today. I highly recommend this extraordinary work.
Instead of using heat production to mine for currency why not use planet finding? It's something that's hard to do but significantly easier to verify than it is to find in the first place. And it's useful.
In general we need a new bitcoin model that creates things of value in the process of mining. For example, perhaps genome assembly or finding primes.
What I recall about these printers was the ballistic sheet feed velocity. The paper was thrown out of it so fast that it was just sort of floaring down and landing in a pile more than being placed there by an guides.
Perhaps more effort on typing? It's about the focus. You paid to get in so you give it your full attention. And the reward for you is when you do give something your full attention your mind dives deep. It's a wonderful sensation. And when you get out of it you want to talk about it with the people you shared it with. In your own house there's always something else to do next. the mind moves on.
how does that work? TRiangles are gaurenteed to be planar (3 points determine a line) quadrangles are not necessarily planar. Doesn't that screw up a lot of the interpolation and shading and such?
Yes, and I admitted it's flawed. But the flaws you point to don't nullify the conclusion they just require complications. Has your physics teacher ever mentioned the frictionless surface, or the massless point. These don't exist either. Nor does a maxwell's demon. but all provide insight. Don't get bogged in the weeds.
I'm going to get yelled at for posting this but there's this science fiction short story called "manna" by marshall brain. For the record I'm not marshall brain. In fact the story is rather poorly written. But it does contain a brilliant insight on this problem so I recommend it in the same way would recommend the poorly written but insightful science fiction of the 40s, 50s, 60s. A must read.
SO anyhow getting back on track here. These robots would not be used if caused the company to make less money or to produce fewer products. therefore someone is profiting from this. At the same time we just freed up some labor. Now if you have ever studied the debate between Hayak and Keynes economics you know that this presents a problem. If new higher paying jobs don't srping up to use that labor then one can enter a stalled economic situation where one hasn't increased the velocity or the total amount of money in circulation but has created dis-employment. the classic example is the 2 person village where the candle maker buys 2 loves of bread everyday from the baker, and baker buys 2 candles from thecandle maker. this cycle repeats every day. One day the baker decided to same some money to send to his sick mother, so he bought one candle. The next day the candlestick maker only had money to buy one loaf of bread. and the cycle now became one of a lower productivity. Everyone would like to be working at a higher level of productivity but there's no way to get there. The baker only has enough money to buy the resources he needs to make one loaf. He can't make 2 if he wanted to. Same for the candle maker. The a Mr Keynes comes to town and loans the baker enough money to make two loves and the candle stick maker enough money to make two candles. They then resume the 2 by 2 economy. In return Mr. Keynes, who was actually the tax man in disguise, gets more taxes in the long run.
Yes you can poke some holes in that reductionist example but the point is there are different nash equilubria in economines and you can through no fault of your own end up in a lousy one.
As we become more productive with robots one can either go to an economy where fewer people are employed and fewer people buy the now cheaper goods while wealth concentrates into the few people wiht enough capital to buy these expensive robots, or you could consider an increasingly socialist econonmy where we the increasing cheapness of goods lets us lead more procutive happy lives or lives with more leisure. It requires preventing excess capital accumualtion to achieve. This doesn't mean everyone has to be equal. But one can realistically consider a miniium basic income economy (e.g. finland is experimenting with this) where industrious people are free to earn more by working. Everyone can follow their hearts once the robots are able to make cheap buildings and grow cheap food and make cheap clothing, without it being a burden on the people who choose to work or create or invest.
Yes you can quibble, but if you extrapolate to infinite cheapness clearly I'm right. So ar what level of finite cheapness am I also mostly right?
Anyhow read marshall brains story to see how this can be made plausible.
this is tacked onto the bottom of the linked article: Update on March 27: the search feature has been added back, and is still exposing personal information. Microsoft hasn't explained why it reintroduced the feature again.
I'm kinda dumbfounded this consumer freindly move wasn't squelched yet. After all the logic for the FCC nixing net neutrality and consumer privacy was because this stifles innovative revenue streams for productizing consumers. Actually I think they just said "bussiness innovation" for short. In anycase stopping robocalls seems like it will hurt someones revenue stream. You should write your congessman and demand to be productized more! Seriously, what's the angle here. My guess is that maybe the carrier's and google and all the rest want to prevent all the free robo calls and create a partner channel for authorized, paid, robocalls.
If this is true then why hasn't apple sent me a password reset notice? In this particular case I agree with them not paying the ransom as there's no way to verify the passwords would be deleted.
verifying 50 is not a convincer they have millions. turning over 5 to 10% of the number would be. The fact they could easily have done that and didn't tells me they don't have this.
Of course that didn't stop me from changing my password just in case.
Newer versions are turning out to not allow bios disablement. The sad history of this, from what I can peice together is that initially you could disable it in bios. Then newver versions had "hidden" bios diablement. that is to say, no GUI bios diablement but still an editable firmware disablement. Then newer still ones, no possibility to disablement. For these some people have discovered that overwriting certain blocks (basically all blocks after the first block) of this allows disablement without the 30 second shutdown. One can see where this is headed in the next generation very easily.
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this is not new.
I should think it would not be that hard to re-implement minecraft in a cleanroom fashion. Which makes me wonder what aspects of a game are actually copyrightable. What would stop some open source team from making a duplicate minecraft then selling logins just like in ye olde days.
yes, that's what I mean by faking it. No need for ad hoc instantiation as demanded, just re-use memory.
One of the nice things about f77 and i presume cobol is that memory is allocated in a fixed way at compile time. so no mallocs and no deallocs and thus no null pointers. string buffer sizes are known. and relatively speaking, its harder to find cases where typos are not also syntax errors. for exapmle typing = instead of ==.
now for many things this memory issue is the pits which is why we like those other laguages. it makes object oriented styles impossible though for a fixed maximum number of objects you can fake it. but for a lot of things its all you need. and the block memory structures of multi dimensional arrays make data contiguous in memory and enable very efficient parallel optimizations. so there are advantages to giving up features.
if you are wanting very reliable code its not a crazy choice,
i think most companies would love a market as large as a diminished iphone market. on top of which the deployed base is not diminishing-- lots of money from apps and music. Your point is...
A mac computer, these days, is the thingy you plug you iphone or tablet into. The latter two are more visible sexy status symbols whereas the latter is less so and if it's a desktop doesn't even get seen in public. And yet it's still a money maker and more importantly gets you to embrace the whole apple ecosystem which becomes self re-inforcing with itunes, and appleTV and any number of things you'd prefer not to lose if you were to switch to something else. Wrap that up in a superior customer service package and voila. It's home.
Likewise the tesla battery is not only what you plug your status symbol Tesla car into but also your gorgeous tesla roof and you power your house off of. And each of these items is best in class with great customer service experience and little complexity to be concerned about.
You will be able to plug your Ford or GM car into your telsa battery just like you can plug your microsoft phone into an apple computer. But it won't be smooth I would bet. When you update the OS in your battery (yes your battery is intelligent) you will need to wait for the new driver miodification from Ford to use the new features. Whereas the tesla battery and car will work together always.
Or so I think.
Tesla isn't just building a car. It's building an energy ecosytem.
That and switching from stone washed Jeans to coral washed Jeans. It's the only thing Kendal Jenner will wear.
I am definitely not a novice Linux user. But I'm just that a user not a Linux developer. I develop applications that happen to run on Linux and other machines.
I've never formally understood what the difference between Unity and Gnome and KDE really is. decades ago I used KDE and loved it's crisp germanic feel. I installed Unity a couple of times by mistake and always found myself puzzled how to get a terminal up or lauch applications or really do anything. Randomly clicking stuff sometimes produced results but it was forever a mystery. I've run Damnsmall linux (XCFE) and liked that. I've used redhat on servers but never really liked RPM. As well as rasberry pi noobs. And these days I just awlays head straight for mint.
Mint makes everything easy.
But really what's the difference??? the only think I see as an end user is .Debian: you get apt-get
1) Unity . baffling desktop
2)
3) . Redhat: RPM
Kde used to be good but lost out.
But I don't really understand what it means to use gnome. What changes? where files go? what sort of API apls can call? I really don't know
enlighten me.
What's it like. Not a magic fantasy fan myself so I like to only read great books in that genere.
in the last month I read:
1) THe Girl on the Train.
Yet another novel with "the Girl" in the title. But this one holds up because of the superb point of view telling from not one but three unreliable selfish narrators, the good prose, and a reasonable intrigue. The characters are distinct and well drawn, people's personalities come across.
2) Red Shirts. After the grim Girl on the Train, I went for lighthearted. This was just laugh out loud hillarious. Great set of twists on an initial comic premise make it far more than a one-joke story. It gets meta. And has great ripping dialogue. funny funny funny and clever to boot.
3) The Spaceship Nextdoor. The art in this one is the telling of it. very wry. Humorous with a premise I'd not encountered before. It wraps up a bit abruptly but it was a fun ride all the way through and kept me curious.
4) Having enjoyed the spaceship next door I got the author's earlier book "immortal". This is crass shadow of the space ship next door and not stimulating. Not going to finish this one.
5) the pervious couple months I read Hamilton. Now that is one of the most amazing human adventure biographies I've ever read. Hamilton started out in Dickensian poverty in the caribbean and rose to be not just the most influential desginer of our government but also the one's influences on our banking system remains the most important today. I highly recommend this extraordinary work.
Instead of using heat production to mine for currency why not use planet finding? It's something that's hard to do but significantly easier to verify than it is to find in the first place. And it's useful.
In general we need a new bitcoin model that creates things of value in the process of mining. For example, perhaps genome assembly or finding primes.
What I recall about these printers was the ballistic sheet feed velocity. The paper was thrown out of it so fast that it was just sort of floaring down and landing in a pile more than being placed there by an guides.
But is it worth my the effort?
Perhaps more effort on typing?
It's about the focus. You paid to get in so you give it your full attention. And the reward for you is when you do give something your full attention your mind dives deep. It's a wonderful sensation. And when you get out of it you want to talk about it with the people you shared it with. In your own house there's always something else to do next. the mind moves on.
I think two trending names would be:
Huli
Cath
What's your suggestion?
how does that work? TRiangles are gaurenteed to be planar (3 points determine a line) quadrangles are not necessarily planar. Doesn't that screw up a lot of the interpolation and shading and such?
Is windows still free?
no. Photons have momentum unlike a massless point
Yes, and I admitted it's flawed. But the flaws you point to don't nullify the conclusion they just require complications. Has your physics teacher ever mentioned the frictionless surface, or the massless point. These don't exist either. Nor does a maxwell's demon. but all provide insight. Don't get bogged in the weeds.
I'm going to get yelled at for posting this but there's this science fiction short story called "manna" by marshall brain. For the record I'm not marshall brain. In fact the story is rather poorly written. But it does contain a brilliant insight on this problem so I recommend it in the same way would recommend the poorly written but insightful science fiction of the 40s, 50s, 60s. A must read.
SO anyhow getting back on track here. These robots would not be used if caused the company to make less money or to produce fewer products. therefore someone is profiting from this. At the same time we just freed up some labor. Now if you have ever studied the debate between Hayak and Keynes economics you know that this presents a problem. If new higher paying jobs don't srping up to use that labor then one can enter a stalled economic situation where one hasn't increased the velocity or the total amount of money in circulation but has created dis-employment. the classic example is the 2 person village where the candle maker buys 2 loves of bread everyday from the baker, and baker buys 2 candles from thecandle maker. this cycle repeats every day. One day the baker decided to same some money to send to his sick mother, so he bought one candle. The next day the candlestick maker only had money to buy one loaf of bread. and the cycle now became one of a lower productivity. Everyone would like to be working at a higher level of productivity but there's no way to get there. The baker only has enough money to buy the resources he needs to make one loaf. He can't make 2 if he wanted to. Same for the candle maker. The a Mr Keynes comes to town and loans the baker enough money to make two loves and the candle stick maker enough money to make two candles. They then resume the 2 by 2 economy. In return Mr. Keynes, who was actually the tax man in disguise, gets more taxes in the long run.
Yes you can poke some holes in that reductionist example but the point is there are different nash equilubria in economines and you can through no fault of your own end up in a lousy one.
As we become more productive with robots one can either go to an economy where fewer people are employed and fewer people buy the now cheaper goods while wealth concentrates into the few people wiht enough capital to buy these expensive robots, or you could consider an increasingly socialist econonmy where we the increasing cheapness of goods lets us lead more procutive happy lives or lives with more leisure. It requires preventing excess capital accumualtion to achieve. This doesn't mean everyone has to be equal. But one can realistically consider a miniium basic income economy (e.g. finland is experimenting with this) where industrious people are free to earn more by working. Everyone can follow their hearts once the robots are able to make cheap buildings and grow cheap food and make cheap clothing, without it being a burden on the people who choose to work or create or invest.
Yes you can quibble, but if you extrapolate to infinite cheapness clearly I'm right. So ar what level of finite cheapness am I also mostly right?
Anyhow read marshall brains story to see how this can be made plausible.
from what it says, it's the default. If so, that's assbackwards.
this is tacked onto the bottom of the linked article:
Update on March 27: the search feature has been added back, and is still exposing personal information. Microsoft hasn't explained why it reintroduced the feature again.
Consumer Reports clearly forgot that 0 mph is a speed.
Pesky Theory of Relativity called, want's their "other car was moving" frame shift back.
I'm kinda dumbfounded this consumer freindly move wasn't squelched yet. After all the logic for the FCC nixing net neutrality and consumer privacy was because this stifles innovative revenue streams for productizing consumers. Actually I think they just said "bussiness innovation" for short. In anycase stopping robocalls seems like it will hurt someones revenue stream. You should write your congessman and demand to be productized more! Seriously, what's the angle here. My guess is that maybe the carrier's and google and all the rest want to prevent all the free robo calls and create a partner channel for authorized, paid, robocalls.
If this is true then why hasn't apple sent me a password reset notice? In this particular case I agree with them not paying the ransom as there's no way to verify the passwords would be deleted.
verifying 50 is not a convincer they have millions. turning over 5 to 10% of the number would be. The fact they could easily have done that and didn't tells me they don't have this.
Of course that didn't stop me from changing my password just in case.
Perhaps there needs to be an End User License Agreement for movies that bars unfavorable reviews. **ducks**
Newer versions are turning out to not allow bios disablement. The sad history of this, from what I can peice together is that initially you could disable it in bios. Then newver versions had "hidden" bios diablement. that is to say, no GUI bios diablement but still an editable firmware disablement. Then newer still ones, no possibility to disablement. For these some people have discovered that overwriting certain blocks (basically all blocks after the first block) of this allows disablement without the 30 second shutdown. One can see where this is headed in the next generation very easily.