Seconded. Nothing beats Al Bundy. The amount of epic quotes and facial expressions alone is endless. (Sorry, I only saw the German version. So the translations may not be the exact ones you knew.)
They aren’t fat. They only have a cream filling!
Today a fat woman came to the shoe store. She was so fat, that three smaller women revolved around her!
Al: Son? What is the family credo? Bud: Hooters, hooters, yum, yum, yum! Al: No, the other one!
(Bud is in a Mexican shoe factory / sweat shop, and writes “Help! Budro!” on a box. Later, Peggy actually gets the box, takes out the shoes, doesn’t look at the huge writing, and throws the box aside.)
And best of all: After the taxes, your mother and you both, I”m left with exactly one cent.... (Later)... Waitaminute... One cent?... (rubs chin)... ONE cent?...Why am I working then??
Oh: PLEASE, if you have a site that can show me how the original quotes were in English, do post the link!:)
Repeat after me: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. AS. OBJECTIVITY. Never. If the laws of general relativity hold, it’s a physically impossible concept. And in a context of a human society, where nobody ever knows that more than an irrelevant tiny part of his knowledge for a fact, and has heard nearly everything via hearsay from other people, it is just completely silly to talk about “objectivity”.
What those people who scream about “objectivity” and “being biased” really mean, is that what was said does not fit their very personal own point of view and model of reality, and that they are such egocentric dicks, that they think everyone in the world has to be and think exactly like them. Which of course is physically impossible for two people. If only because they can’t be both at the exact same place and time.
And this is why big states can by definition never have one single common set of laws and make even a minority happy.
A neural network is only as good as its training. A NN is basically like a function in your program that can do everything, when you train it to match input with the expected output beforehand. So it’s not that special. The hard part is, creating the right input and output pre-/postprocessing / formats. And of course the training data. Which, in this case is provided by Chinese people. (Am I the only one who thinks that this is a pretty weird thing, that we can just use people in masses for nothing like that?)
“teach” is for actual information about reality. The word for bullshit and brainwashing is “indoctrination”. You know, like people in North Korea are brainwashed into thinking touching something with the US flag on it, would make their hands rot of. (According to a guy who helps people get out of there.) Same thing here. Exactly the same thing. Only that the churches are the power-hungry dictators.
I can not see why I would need a optical drive at all anymore... The OS installs from an USB stick. And the rest goes over the network. Optical drives are the new floppies. Except that in this case, some anachronistic companies think they can put stuff on them, and actually sell them. Lol. Sell data. Now that’s just silly...
Bullshit. They can state all they want. But until those 5 years have passed, and we have actual data on a significant amount of SSDs, it’s all just wild guesswork right out of the marketing department.
Oh, and others are not pretty similar, but much much worse. You know that, because you deliberately picked Intel. The only manufacturer to have the balls to make up numbers that are in the acceptable range. (But they are still made up. Unless they got a time machine.)
Error correction techniques can be employed that allowed a damaged disk to be be playable.
No they can’t!
All optical media already have at least CIRC ECC. If that fails, you’re done. ECC is not magic. It is additional information that is encoded in a very wise way, so you can calculate missing data from the rest of the data. Storing that additional information on an ECC won’t help whoever you give the disc to. And it also does not help you, if someone else has ECC on his SSD, when you get a disk from him.
And the same think also makes it very unlikely that it’s useful for DRM.
Seems like you two... the MojoKid (16?) and you... think that ECC is some kind of magic.
While OS's have been written in languages like Pascal (original MacOS for instance and early versions of Windows) those were also largely custom compilers that added low-level functionality to the language.
Uuum, I have done systems programming in Pascal (starting at TurboPascal 3.0), and you can do everything perfectly well in it. If you can do it in C, you can do it in Pascal. The effort is about the same. No need for additional low-level stuff. Interrupts, ports, registers, pointers, etc... Everything there.
You contradict yourself. First you say, GCC is not a C compiler. Then you say that GCC is a compiler for C, C++, Java, etc. Which means GCC IS (also) a C compiler.
And Einstein was wrong. The quote already is a wonderful example of what happens when things are made simpler than they should. Actually he should have said: Make things as efficient as possible. Period. Because “should” refers to the actual goal. Which is efficiency. And that’s why “KISS” is so retarded. It already fell for its own fallacy. From that point on, there is nothing you can do anymore. You already fucked up. The basis of the whole logic is rotten.
J2ME (Java) is an example of how to do it properly. For every action that could be abused, there is a security rule. That rule is by default disabled. Then e.g. when the program tries to make a call, the JVM itself asks if you want to allow it [Never] [No] [This time] [Always]. (Something like this.)
But hey: Windows is brain dead because it has to fits its users. ^^ They would complain if it were different, for being “too complicated to use”. (With is another way for them to say that they are just too damn lazy and feel entitled to 10 miles of soft retard padding.)
When we treat people like idiots, the BECOME idiots. And my theory is, that that is the reason most people are idiots nowadays. Because they CAN. And still live a pretty nice life. It’s just a (short-sighted) question of efficiency.
All those people in those companies that put people in miles of padding, should go to jail for crimes against humanity, until they have undone the damage.
You should first learn to make logically sound arguments.
Experience is not likeliness. It is only a hint that this could be more likely. Example: Go to Africa. Your experience of nearly all people around you being white will suddenly not have anything to do with the likeliness anymore. And it does not need to be Africa. Some parts of the US suffice. Or South America for example.
As you see, there are more factors to likeliness than just “pure experience”. Because experience is a function with a nearly endless amount of parameters. And you never know whether you didn’t miss a crucial, maybe even previously completely unknown, factor.
Those factors are the actual circumstances. Which I called “facts” in GP comment.
Also, nature does not prefer simplicity. It does prefer efficiency. And I hate, how apparently most software designers fell for oversimplification and not only oversimplified the software, but also the goal, by thinking they could losslessly replace “efficient” with “simple”. Even though it actually has become less efficient. (Just look at Clippy for a prime example.) But even then, a preference does not mean, that things did in fact happen that way. Or do you drive air line all the time? Of course not. There is stuff in the way. And that stuff, again, is those factors/parameters from above, that you might have missed.
You also fell for your own dog food of oversimplification. Some things just can’t be simplified any more. Some things are even mathematically proven to not be simplifiable (is that a word?) even more.
You say that as if it were a good thing. Remember: If you can do everything, so can the exploit code. And if you thing nobody will do that to you, somebody already did.
ChromeOS... if you can even call it an OS (which would be an insult to real OSes), is even more an appliance OS than OS X and Windows. It’s a toy/gadget OS. Not something to do real professional work on.
Or in other words: It’s a very wrong tool for the choice. Like heating your house with lots of cigarette lighters or electric blankets.
You seem to be under the mistaken delusion, that that “pinnacle of reality” is anything other than extremely egocentric pure mental masturbation. There is no such thing as “THE pinnacle”. I think when all the matter and energy in the universe gets an equal vote about what is considered a pinnacle, in whatever they want to measure here (as you did not specify “the pinnacle in WHAT?”, our views will be a two-bit value in a 256 bit field. ^^
No it is not more likely. That’s a common misconception. It is only the one you should pursuit first. Actual facts make things more likely. Not simplicity. Simplification is a artifact injected by humans, because they prefer it for efficiency. (What is commonly calley “laziness”)
...and that's the problem with the good old "globalAmericanisation" plague inflicting our planet - this idea that if a statistic says it's "within acceptable limits" then everything is okay and nobody needs to do anything about it.
It’s a far worse dynamic: When people still aren’t doing as bad in one place, the government / bosses will argue that because those others are worse, one can still go down. (Which of course is a logic fallacy.) And then one of them by random chance gets a bit worse, and everyone else gets an excuse to make it even worse. This continues until some ultimate catastrophe or until it becomes actually impossible to be worse.
But what I *hate* just as much, is those people who are taking those jobs with the excuse of “needing to live” or some other short-sighted thing, despite everyone knowing exactly, that over the long term it makes it worse for us all, and then nobody can live anymore. If enough people would stand by their rules, no matter what, then this wouldn’t happen. Unfortunately in the face of such a bad life (which they will have anyway, but only see it for one choice), many just don’t have the pride / balls / etc.
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Seconded. Nothing beats Al Bundy.
The amount of epic quotes and facial expressions alone is endless.
(Sorry, I only saw the German version. So the translations may not be the exact ones you knew.)
Oh: PLEASE, if you have a site that can show me how the original quotes were in English, do post the link! :)
Repeat after me: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. AS. OBJECTIVITY.
Never. If the laws of general relativity hold, it’s a physically impossible concept.
And in a context of a human society, where nobody ever knows that more than an irrelevant tiny part of his knowledge for a fact, and has heard nearly everything via hearsay from other people, it is just completely silly to talk about “objectivity”.
What those people who scream about “objectivity” and “being biased” really mean, is that what was said does not fit their very personal own point of view and model of reality, and that they are such egocentric dicks, that they think everyone in the world has to be and think exactly like them.
Which of course is physically impossible for two people. If only because they can’t be both at the exact same place and time.
And this is why big states can by definition never have one single common set of laws and make even a minority happy.
A neural network is only as good as its training. A NN is basically like a function in your program that can do everything, when you train it to match input with the expected output beforehand. So it’s not that special.
The hard part is, creating the right input and output pre-/postprocessing / formats. And of course the training data. Which, in this case is provided by Chinese people. (Am I the only one who thinks that this is a pretty weird thing, that we can just use people in masses for nothing like that?)
Pshh. Nah. Use a 0.4 mm mechanical pencil, and get 63.5 DPI!
“teach” is for actual information about reality.
The word for bullshit and brainwashing is “indoctrination”.
You know, like people in North Korea are brainwashed into thinking touching something with the US flag on it, would make their hands rot of. (According to a guy who helps people get out of there.)
Same thing here. Exactly the same thing.
Only that the churches are the power-hungry dictators.
Yeah right. And shoe companies never used child labor.
If the shoe companies say so, it must be true.
Owww! Charlie bit my finger off!
And he’s using it to check books out of the school library!
I can not see why I would need a optical drive at all anymore...
The OS installs from an USB stick. And the rest goes over the network.
Optical drives are the new floppies. Except that in this case, some anachronistic companies think they can put stuff on them, and actually sell them. Lol. Sell data. Now that’s just silly...
Bullshit. They can state all they want. But until those 5 years have passed, and we have actual data on a significant amount of SSDs, it’s all just wild guesswork right out of the marketing department.
Oh, and others are not pretty similar, but much much worse. You know that, because you deliberately picked Intel. The only manufacturer to have the balls to make up numbers that are in the acceptable range. (But they are still made up. Unless they got a time machine.)
Even worse:
Error correction techniques can be employed that allowed a damaged disk to be be playable.
No they can’t!
All optical media already have at least CIRC ECC. If that fails, you’re done.
ECC is not magic. It is additional information that is encoded in a very wise way, so you can calculate missing data from the rest of the data.
Storing that additional information on an ECC won’t help whoever you give the disc to. And it also does not help you, if someone else has ECC on his SSD, when you get a disk from him.
And the same think also makes it very unlikely that it’s useful for DRM.
Seems like you two... the MojoKid (16?) and you... think that ECC is some kind of magic.
While OS's have been written in languages like Pascal (original MacOS for instance and early versions of Windows) those were also largely custom compilers that added low-level functionality to the language.
Uuum, I have done systems programming in Pascal (starting at TurboPascal 3.0), and you can do everything perfectly well in it. If you can do it in C, you can do it in Pascal. The effort is about the same. No need for additional low-level stuff. Interrupts, ports, registers, pointers, etc... Everything there.
You contradict yourself. First you say, GCC is not a C compiler.
Then you say that GCC is a compiler for C, C++, Java, etc. Which means GCC IS (also) a C compiler.
Learn the concept of sets and subsets please.
And Einstein was wrong.
The quote already is a wonderful example of what happens when things are made simpler than they should.
Actually he should have said: Make things as efficient as possible. Period.
Because “should” refers to the actual goal. Which is efficiency.
And that’s why “KISS” is so retarded. It already fell for its own fallacy. From that point on, there is nothing you can do anymore. You already fucked up. The basis of the whole logic is rotten.
J2ME (Java) is an example of how to do it properly. For every action that could be abused, there is a security rule. That rule is by default disabled. Then e.g. when the program tries to make a call, the JVM itself asks if you want to allow it [Never] [No] [This time] [Always]. (Something like this.)
But hey: Windows is brain dead because it has to fits its users. ^^
They would complain if it were different, for being “too complicated to use”. (With is another way for them to say that they are just too damn lazy and feel entitled to 10 miles of soft retard padding.)
Protip: COMMON FUCKING SENSE!
When we treat people like idiots, the BECOME idiots. And my theory is, that that is the reason most people are idiots nowadays.
Because they CAN. And still live a pretty nice life. It’s just a (short-sighted) question of efficiency.
All those people in those companies that put people in miles of padding, should go to jail for crimes against humanity, until they have undone the damage.
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Hey, I had to try that. But it seems nobody was at home right now. :/
I wouldn’t be so sure of that. There are lots of PHBs are Apple and even at RedHat.
You should first learn to make logically sound arguments.
Experience is not likeliness. It is only a hint that this could be more likely.
Example: Go to Africa. Your experience of nearly all people around you being white will suddenly not have anything to do with the likeliness anymore. And it does not need to be Africa. Some parts of the US suffice. Or South America for example.
As you see, there are more factors to likeliness than just “pure experience”. Because experience is a function with a nearly endless amount of parameters. And you never know whether you didn’t miss a crucial, maybe even previously completely unknown, factor.
Those factors are the actual circumstances. Which I called “facts” in GP comment.
Also, nature does not prefer simplicity. It does prefer efficiency. And I hate, how apparently most software designers fell for oversimplification and not only oversimplified the software, but also the goal, by thinking they could losslessly replace “efficient” with “simple”. Even though it actually has become less efficient. (Just look at Clippy for a prime example.)
But even then, a preference does not mean, that things did in fact happen that way. Or do you drive air line all the time?
Of course not. There is stuff in the way.
And that stuff, again, is those factors/parameters from above, that you might have missed.
You also fell for your own dog food of oversimplification. Some things just can’t be simplified any more. Some things are even mathematically proven to not be simplifiable (is that a word?) even more.
You say that as if it were a good thing.
Remember: If you can do everything, so can the exploit code.
And if you thing nobody will do that to you, somebody already did.
ChromeOS... if you can even call it an OS (which would be an insult to real OSes), is even more an appliance OS than OS X and Windows. It’s a toy/gadget OS. Not something to do real professional work on.
Or in other words: It’s a very wrong tool for the choice. Like heating your house with lots of cigarette lighters or electric blankets.
Never before did “get a real OS” fit better.
Mentally ill people flip out about things that their leader tells them to flip out about, because it treathens their illness... News at 11.
The problems start, if you give a rat’s ass about it.
You seem to be under the mistaken delusion, that that “pinnacle of reality” is anything other than extremely egocentric pure mental masturbation.
There is no such thing as “THE pinnacle”. I think when all the matter and energy in the universe gets an equal vote about what is considered a pinnacle, in whatever they want to measure here (as you did not specify “the pinnacle in WHAT?”, our views will be a two-bit value in a 256 bit field. ^^
No it is not more likely. That’s a common misconception. It is only the one you should pursuit first. Actual facts make things more likely. Not simplicity. Simplification is a artifact injected by humans, because they prefer it for efficiency. (What is commonly calley “laziness”)
...and that's the problem with the good old "globalAmericanisation" plague inflicting our planet - this idea that if a statistic says it's "within acceptable limits" then everything is okay and nobody needs to do anything about it.
It’s a far worse dynamic: When people still aren’t doing as bad in one place, the government / bosses will argue that because those others are worse, one can still go down. (Which of course is a logic fallacy.)
And then one of them by random chance gets a bit worse, and everyone else gets an excuse to make it even worse.
This continues until some ultimate catastrophe or until it becomes actually impossible to be worse.
But what I *hate* just as much, is those people who are taking those jobs with the excuse of “needing to live” or some other short-sighted thing, despite everyone knowing exactly, that over the long term it makes it worse for us all, and then nobody can live anymore. If enough people would stand by their rules, no matter what, then this wouldn’t happen.
Unfortunately in the face of such a bad life (which they will have anyway, but only see it for one choice), many just don’t have the pride / balls / etc.
Well, at least it would fit the imaginary quality and value of their products.
But they would have to make it all-DRM, to match the not-so-imaginary lack of freedom. ;)