Who else just thought "Wait, didn't the C64 have this?" But the C64 had one benefit over this: You could actually automate things with little scripts. Try this in the retard-GUI du jour...
Oh, and as other users mentioned: How do I update that system? You know, when the exploits and rootkits start to pop up. I think this is why hard drives were invented.:P
But I must say that I second the motion, to remove as many inner platforms as possible. It's sad that Transmeta did not take off. I would have loved to combine this with virtualization, and basically have every tab in a browser be its own VM, with the JavaScript or other code interpreted directly by the loadable microcode in the CPU. This would make JS, and every other language extremely fast. There would be no need for software compilers. Just load an interpreter as microcode. Combine this with GPGPU technology, and the same hardware as today would run many things between 10 and 100 times faster, *and* more secure.
I second that p.o.v.. But even whole Linux distributions, like Suse and also Ubuntu, try to show the shell / command line / terminal as uncool and for total freaks only. But it is the most basic and essential tool, with the most power. I think users should only gain the right to use a GUI, after they know how to work the shell, the file system, and some basic tools. Same as you should only use a calculator function, after you did it by hand at least once, and understood it.
I also wonder who those "people" are, and why I should care about them?
I definitely use my computer for my OS. Because my OS (which includes the GNU apps, and many others) has a million parts, that I can put together like Lego bricks, and make out of it, whatever I need. Like a stack of notes, that I can access to keyboard commands. Or a network-controlled tool to arm StreamRipper, which integrates with AmaroK, so you can say "keep this" after you heard a song, without recording everything. Try that in windows, without programming your own app onto OS-level APIs.
You think you are a power-user when you know the depth of Windows registry, what all the files do, made your own slipstreamed installation DVD, and know all the cool tools. But you don't know shit yet. And I didn't too.
The key difference: Bash scripts + everything is a file. Seriously. I could never go back, because I became dependend on slowly growing my one-liners to whole applications, and integrating them into everything (cron, kde, config-files, etc). And the other key difference is the full control of the kernel and services. It's just another level of in-depth knowledge.
Of course the amount of stuff to learn is overwhelmingly gigantic. But this is ok, because you're a power-user.
I could not even imagine, how I would create a file system out of an encrypted compressed tunnel via http , which goes to a zfs-fuse or LVM2 disk system which is mapped trough an encryption loop. (Something I needed in a workplace with an idiotic firewall, so I could access my home server.) Or similar stuff.
The power to slap it all together out of small parts is just about the best thing that ever happened in computing, since transistors.:)
And the only sad part is, that the desktop environments completely ignore that philosophy, and fight over who imitates Windows the best. (Especially the dumbed-down "features".)
What do you expect, with all the new users that came over from 4chan now getting into to "eligible for moderation" zone? Just look at the amount of 4chan memes that pop up around here.
Because if it works on HIV too, you will see this disappear in the drawers of big medical companies, because it actually heals people instead of keeping them on an expensive lifelong dependence/addiction.
Excessive use of anything will make you sick or kill you. You can even die from too much water. It's just that it is much quicker to happen with obvious crap like Cola, "Wonder Bread" (the only wonder is, that people survive it for so long), Margarine, etc.
Oh, and now for the insightful part: If you consume smaller doses, if often does not prevent anything. It just makes it take longer, be more sneaky, and end up being called "age related diseases". Remember that, when you're 50, and start to develop those problems. ^^
[...] we need to treat children differently in the eyes of the law due to brain development.
Why did I understand that as "We need to treat their brains, so they stop developing." and "At least they got any brains. Which we clearly don't. Let's nuke them!"
Maybe I'm just tired. ^^ But I don't know it it's from the retardedness of such people, or from fatigue. ^^
In case the laylifeform* is a retard, then yes. Come on. It was a tech site. We are a tech site. And even if not: Wikipedia is just a bookmark away. Or don't you learn polarization and wavelengths in early high school (or high school equivalent)?
* Making everything end in "-person" is just p.c. personism.:P
His toaster is in fact really four-dimensional. Even in the "usual" sense. It has 3 dimensions of space, and exists for a certain range in the dimension of time.
We'll see who does whatever he likes, when you see burning trikes in craters popping up around the UK. ^^ I guess the government and the people of the UK are a *bit* stronger than a single company who gravely overestimates itself. ^^
...every professional game designer could have told you this in five minutes. Of course they are going to game the system. I think it's even mentioned in the book by Jesse Schell.
Aaah... The trolls got modpoints *again*? I noticed more and more 4chan-style comments here. I guess they are overtaking/.. And they left all their humor there too.
Well, that's why knowledge bases were invented for. Save it. Put in in your Wiki. Whatever you use. Besides: When you have to shutdown your system, the state can become lost anyway. Even a script inside the page can do that.
No. I am not you. So I do not think in the way you assume. When I say something like that, I am *happy* if someone can come up with a good point to prove me wrong (or right). in fact, It is completely irrelevant to me if I was right. What counts is that the process brings us both more knowledge, and therefore closer to agreement.
But instead of bringing something to the table, you chose to attack me. Wow. Way to go... This of course brings me to the dilemma of having nothing new to say, when I do not want to talk about your failure.:\
I know that plenty of people have lots of tabs open. And obviously this means that they are using the browser differently. But even more people voted for Bush. And even more people do not rise up an kill their government, because they allow the torturing of innocent people. In one sentence: Plenty of people doing something is no argument for anything. I, with the information I got, still think it's stupid. (Haven't gotten anything new from you, have I? ^^)
Now please come up with some point, so you do not embarrass yourself even more.
Repeat after me: There are no robots, doing decisions! Robots are fully controlled by programs. Those programs got written by humans And those humans are the ones who act! The fact that the tool is detached from the human, and it it pre-planned for a long period, does not make it self-thinking!
The only self-thinking ones would be those that have neural networks and learn by themselves. And I don't mean pre-trained to a target behavior and then locked on that. (Which essentially is just a way to implement a deterministic function.) Those really self-thinking robots are still waaay ahead. And when I see even the human soldiers being trained not to think for themselves, but to blindly follow orders, I don't think they will ever exist in military.
I don't know... But... How are they going to prove that I took the data from their site? If it is physically possible for me to create them from other sources, they can't, can they. So the point is moot. Except for scientific work, where you have to state your sources, and where you can not make up your own sources on-the-fly. ^^
A Wolfram! And all alone on on this dark site? My dark site?! Grabbing my statistical data for its "computational" engine? *grins* You see, I heard the birds twittering about you, Wolfram. Wanna know what they told me? *pulls professional killer gun, aka army of lawyers* Weeell... They told me, that you claim copyright on my data. Can you believe that? *cocks hammer solely for dramatic reason, aka takes legal action* You know I have terms on my data too, do you? And they say, that in case someone steals my data and claims copyright on it, that that one might get hurt really bad. You don't want to get hurt really bad, do you, Wolfram?
Dude! Wayyy to early to make jokes about Michael J. Fox. As long as he still looks like in Back To The Future (so as long as he lives ^^), this is taboo.
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Who else just thought "Wait, didn't the C64 have this?"
But the C64 had one benefit over this: You could actually automate things with little scripts. Try this in the retard-GUI du jour...
Oh, and as other users mentioned: How do I update that system? You know, when the exploits and rootkits start to pop up. :P
I think this is why hard drives were invented.
But I must say that I second the motion, to remove as many inner platforms as possible.
It's sad that Transmeta did not take off. I would have loved to combine this with virtualization, and basically have every tab in a browser be its own VM, with the JavaScript or other code interpreted directly by the loadable microcode in the CPU. This would make JS, and every other language extremely fast. There would be no need for software compilers. Just load an interpreter as microcode. Combine this with GPGPU technology, and the same hardware as today would run many things between 10 and 100 times faster, *and* more secure.
Only on Slashdot... Only on Slashdot...
Oh wait... and perhaps *chan. :P
I second that p.o.v..
But even whole Linux distributions, like Suse and also Ubuntu, try to show the shell / command line / terminal as uncool and for total freaks only. But it is the most basic and essential tool, with the most power. I think users should only gain the right to use a GUI, after they know how to work the shell, the file system, and some basic tools. Same as you should only use a calculator function, after you did it by hand at least once, and understood it.
I also wonder who those "people" are, and why I should care about them?
I definitely use my computer for my OS. Because my OS (which includes the GNU apps, and many others) has a million parts, that I can put together like Lego bricks, and make out of it, whatever I need. Like a stack of notes, that I can access to keyboard commands. Or a network-controlled tool to arm StreamRipper, which integrates with AmaroK, so you can say "keep this" after you heard a song, without recording everything. Try that in windows, without programming your own app onto OS-level APIs.
You think you are a power-user when you know the depth of Windows registry, what all the files do, made your own slipstreamed installation DVD, and know all the cool tools.
But you don't know shit yet. And I didn't too.
The key difference: Bash scripts + everything is a file.
Seriously. I could never go back, because I became dependend on slowly growing my one-liners to whole applications, and integrating them into everything (cron, kde, config-files, etc).
And the other key difference is the full control of the kernel and services.
It's just another level of in-depth knowledge.
Of course the amount of stuff to learn is overwhelmingly gigantic. But this is ok, because you're a power-user.
I could not even imagine, how I would create a file system out of an encrypted compressed tunnel via http , which goes to a zfs-fuse or LVM2 disk system which is mapped trough an encryption loop. (Something I needed in a workplace with an idiotic firewall, so I could access my home server.) Or similar stuff.
The power to slap it all together out of small parts is just about the best thing that ever happened in computing, since transistors. :)
And the only sad part is, that the desktop environments completely ignore that philosophy, and fight over who imitates Windows the best. (Especially the dumbed-down "features".)
What do you expect, with all the new users that came over from 4chan now getting into to "eligible for moderation" zone?
Just look at the amount of 4chan memes that pop up around here.
The main question is: Does it transform the oxygen, or does it get released on usage?
If it transforms it, then it should be a law, to plant an equivalent amount of plants (underwater or normal) so that the oxygen is transformed back.
A 5.1 exploding heart technique, of course!
Because if it works on HIV too, you will see this disappear in the drawers of big medical companies, because it actually heals people instead of keeping them on an expensive lifelong dependence/addiction.
Excessive use of anything will make you sick or kill you. You can even die from too much water.
It's just that it is much quicker to happen with obvious crap like Cola, "Wonder Bread" (the only wonder is, that people survive it for so long), Margarine, etc.
Oh, and now for the insightful part: If you consume smaller doses, if often does not prevent anything. It just makes it take longer, be more sneaky, and end up being called "age related diseases".
Remember that, when you're 50, and start to develop those problems. ^^
[...] we need to treat children differently in the eyes of the law due to brain development.
Why did I understand that as "We need to treat their brains, so they stop developing." and "At least they got any brains. Which we clearly don't. Let's nuke them!"
Maybe I'm just tired. ^^
But I don't know it it's from the retardedness of such people, or from fatigue. ^^
In case the laylifeform* is a retard, then yes. Come on. It was a tech site. We are a tech site. And even if not: Wikipedia is just a bookmark away.
Or don't you learn polarization and wavelengths in early high school (or high school equivalent)?
* Making everything end in "-person" is just p.c. personism. :P
His toaster is in fact really four-dimensional. Even in the "usual" sense. It has 3 dimensions of space, and exists for a certain range in the dimension of time.
We'll see who does whatever he likes, when you see burning trikes in craters popping up around the UK. ^^
I guess the government and the people of the UK are a *bit* stronger than a single company who gravely overestimates itself. ^^
...every professional game designer could have told you this in five minutes. Of course they are going to game the system.
I think it's even mentioned in the book by Jesse Schell.
So you think freedom is not an important thing to defend?? Because that's what's at stake here.
Oh, and how exactly could he lawyer (you know, his major skill) AIDS away, and lawyer an end to all wars?
Aaah... The trolls got modpoints *again*? I noticed more and more 4chan-style comments here. I guess they are overtaking /.. And they left all their humor there too.
Protip: It's funny. Laugh.
Well, that's why knowledge bases were invented for. Save it. Put in in your Wiki. Whatever you use.
Besides: When you have to shutdown your system, the state can become lost anyway. Even a script inside the page can do that.
No. I am not you. So I do not think in the way you assume.
When I say something like that, I am *happy* if someone can come up with a good point to prove me wrong (or right). in fact, It is completely irrelevant to me if I was right. What counts is that the process brings us both more knowledge, and therefore closer to agreement.
But instead of bringing something to the table, you chose to attack me. Wow. Way to go... :\
This of course brings me to the dilemma of having nothing new to say, when I do not want to talk about your failure.
I know that plenty of people have lots of tabs open. And obviously this means that they are using the browser differently. But even more people voted for Bush. And even more people do not rise up an kill their government, because they allow the torturing of innocent people. In one sentence: Plenty of people doing something is no argument for anything.
I, with the information I got, still think it's stupid. (Haven't gotten anything new from you, have I? ^^)
Now please come up with some point, so you do not embarrass yourself even more.
I'm talking about crystals that you get with *distilled* water. ^^
(Because it's never perfectly 100% pure.)
Repeat after me: There are no robots, doing decisions!
Robots are fully controlled by programs. Those programs got written by humans
And those humans are the ones who act!
The fact that the tool is detached from the human, and it it pre-planned for a long period, does not make it self-thinking!
The only self-thinking ones would be those that have neural networks and learn by themselves. And I don't mean pre-trained to a target behavior and then locked on that. (Which essentially is just a way to implement a deterministic function.)
Those really self-thinking robots are still waaay ahead. And when I see even the human soldiers being trained not to think for themselves, but to blindly follow orders, I don't think they will ever exist in military.
It contains a hidden sexual meaning. So no.
But it contains MS Word. So yes. ^^
I don't know... But... How are they going to prove that I took the data from their site? If it is physically possible for me to create them from other sources, they can't, can they. So the point is moot. Except for scientific work, where you have to state your sources, and where you can not make up your own sources on-the-fly. ^^
A Wolfram! And all alone on on this dark site? My dark site?!
Grabbing my statistical data for its "computational" engine?
*grins*
You see, I heard the birds twittering about you, Wolfram.
Wanna know what they told me?
*pulls professional killer gun, aka army of lawyers*
Weeell... They told me, that you claim copyright on my data.
Can you believe that?
*cocks hammer solely for dramatic reason, aka takes legal action*
You know I have terms on my data too, do you?
And they say, that in case someone steals my data and claims copyright on it, that that one might get hurt really bad.
You don't want to get hurt really bad, do you, Wolfram?
Dude! Wayyy to early to make jokes about Michael J. Fox.
As long as he still looks like in Back To The Future (so as long as he lives ^^), this is taboo.