You say this as if it were a wrong thing. Which means you're totally brainwashed to be a "good citizen", who has no right to decide for himself what is right an wrong, and needs laws (made by others) for it.
You have not understood what a compiler is, do you? It's a translator/transformer from one language into another. Machine language as just a language like any other. And the javascript VM is just a machine like any other. (It's virtual. But every processor you can buy got simulated before it got produced.) Even a real processor is written in a language (eg. Verilog) nowadays.
The only difference between a compiler and a "normal" program is, that the data that compilers process is code too. Oh, and how about a compiler that processes its own code in-memory?;)
LOL. Do you know what they do when they get that "0WNED" message? They click it away quicker than they can read it. After all, that's why they ended up being infected in the first place.;)
The best way would be, to *infect* the control system, and trough that, control the botnet. Then piggyback a trojan into the virus, that acts as a disinfecter. It should harden all the zombies and then kill the bot-software on all bots at the same time and close the ports. Shortly before that, it should wreak havoc on the control system in a stealth way. Corrupting random sectors...and infecting the clients of the spammer, until the situation is completely flipped. Oh, and then, send the contact data of the spammers, together with evidence straight to the police and some big global intelligence services. THAT would show them.:D
That's exactly what happens in the whole construction material industry (at least in Europe).
Every client (craftsman's business) gets a different price (or discount as they call it), depending on how a "good client" they are. (Depending on how much they like to keep you because you buy much and pay early, and so on).
I'm pretty sure HP does the same. It makes sense to handle good old clients different than that new company that can't quite guarantee a quick payment.
Of course, if that "bad" company starts to know how much they really can push the price, they might start making demands.
On the other hand, this is a typical monopoly problem, because in working economies, the client can do the same, and pay more for quality suppliers.
Wrong. The media cartels fight so hard, because they have nearly no money left.:) Wait some years, and they can't afford to enforce anything anymore and have no business left to get new money.
The more it hurts them, the harder they fight, but the quicker they go away too. And downloading media does not hurt them a bit. Not buying anything from them does "hurt". (In reality it does not hurt too. It just does not make them feel good.:)
Hmm... conflict is an essential part of evolution. Ending wars is a nice dream... But in reality, it's just nice for the oppressor. Because no wars always means, that something/someone is extremely predominant. Those who think otherwise will normally fight for their way. If they can't, it's because of a horribly strong oppression.
The illusion, that we can do without conflicts (which sometimes end in wars), comes from the illusion that there is one global truth, when in reality, everything is relative. So in reality, you will never have a whole planet with one point of view, or even with 100% compatible views.
What we must realize, is that, no matter how disgusting and strange the views of others look to us (if you want an example, think of a group, where it is generally accepted to rape everybody you see, and then eat him), as long as they do not hurt anyone (eating someone of that group, who thinks that way too, is not hurting someone), we have no right so tell them what to do.
One great example could be the USA. There you have the more liberal areas and people. And the (from my pov!) religious fanatics. They could both live happy, if they just had their own countries. And why the hell not? They could still work together in areas that they both agree on or need each other for.
That's why I oppose something like big countries and world governments: Because, if you disagree, there is no place you could go to anymore. Before I realized this, I thought, a world government where everything is peaceful, would be an ideal. In theory: Yes. In reality, there is no such thing, as long as there is evolution.
Oh, and if we must have a world government, then at least I want to be the leader.;)
But note one typical but totally crazy thing: IE behaves slightly different, when used in an embedded way. (Like in IE Tab or those "Browsers" that internally use IE.)
The anwer is simple. The basic rule is: Survive, or die.
Those that can survive spam, trojans, virii, fraud, rootkits, scams, and the rest of it, will be the those that still use the internet in some decades.:) (Unfortunately, this most likely includes the users that are the source of those problems too.)
It's a question of being able. If we can do it, the only question is, who does it first. And I already have plans for an army of grunts for my evil lair's meat-shield.:D
You should know, that people always block something that would destroy their reality or self-respect too much. It does not matter if it's true. This is, because else, they would become insane. Ask a studied psychologist about it.
If you really want him to change his mind, you must form your words in a way, that allows him to still accept himself and his reality. The best way is, to tell him he can make his life even better by changing his mind that way, and that not he was wrong but he fell for a trick or something like that. Yeah, it's distorting reality. But it's his distorted reality that you use. And do you want it to work, or just flame?:)
I know that our instinct tells us to back-attack like you did. But this does not work if he does not respect your opinion and does not listen to you. The above way on the other hand works nicely if done right. You can even make new friends out of enemies and fix their distortions somewhat.
By the way: Every human has distortions. But an alpha-male knows how to convince others, that his views are the best.;)
I expect the ability to add add-ons like in Firefox. Add-ons that are simple to develop in a scripting language. This community effect is what makes Firefox the default browser. If it were for the speed or default features, I'd still be using Opera, like the years before Firefox 1.0, and not touch Firefox at all.
Oh, and as a ex professional web developer, I have to say that I wish every single person who is or was ever responsible for the code in Trident (IE's "engine") so much pain that they want to die, plus immortality! This is the most horrible API ever made by humans. You could run Oracle on SymbianOS, run by PHP's horrible interpreter with a Gnome GUI, and Vista's DRM, and you would not even come close!;)
IE is responsible for 80% of the loudly yelled "WTF?"s in my life.:\
Nah. Many animals are self-aware. For example ravens and similar birds. And most importantly, as with the question if something is alive, there is no digital switch "reflects its own thoughts" or "does not reflect its own thoughts". It's a gradient. And many even simple animals can do some basic self-reflecting things.
The problem is the still existing arrogance of humans, with statements like "we are the most important lifeform", "the earth is the center of the universe", "we are alive", "only we are truly sentient", "only we can really reflect our thoughts" or "we live on the only inhabited planet in the universe". They are are used in an either-or way, when in fact they all are gradients.
You are right with the emotions. Or to be more exact: I am pretty sure, that a brain can't work without messenger substances (I don't know the exact translation for the German word "Botenstoff".) It would work like a very powerful neuronal net, used in software today: For pattern recognition, pattern mapping, detection of similarities, simple learning and acting based on that. Not more. A human without his emotions and messenger substances would die in a few minutes.
But what stops us from implementing the rest too? It's a bit harder than neurons, but it's far from impossible. If we can simulate the atoms of a nuclear explosion, or the global weather (Which - only because of the missing resolution and imperfect initial input data - is not good at predicting things. [Bad English. I know. Sorry.]), then we can do this too.
IE is the best I've used in terms of compatibility (It gets this by default simply because of ActiveX, but also because you know that odd site that just doesn't play nice in FF or Opera probably works in IE, and you won't get pages telling you to install quicktime or the latest flash, despite the fact that you did that 5 fucking times already, like you do in FF).
Oh, come on. The last time I saw a site that did not play nice in Firefox or required ActiveX, was years ago. I think it was my banking site in anno 2003...
You mean like... I could implement a complete... editor in it?
On a more serious note: I dislike emacs because it's a prime example of the "inner-platform effect". It's nearly as wrong as implementing an e-mail application in HTTP+HTML+CSS+JS.;) This does not mean that I dislike the (default) UI of emacs, or the freedom to customize (in fact I love that freedom). Just please stop adding another useless but fat layer to it.
6) License Bu-Ray. When playing back Blu-Ray, require HDCP for any external screens trough a updatable firmware. Then "leak" a "hacked" firmware (the original one) which does allow playback everywhere. And be sure, to make a big press release, that you will get "them" and sue "them", for creating such an incredibly well working "hacked" firmware *hint* *hint*.
At least that's what I would do. And I'm pretty sure some companies already did similar things.
Except that the 5 GHz CPU is a POWER 5 processor (if I am right), that beats the living shit out of AMD or intel, when it comes to computational power per clock cycle.;)
Why are they even taking something that is on the same level as cocain, heroine and lsd? Or are all of them junkies? (Well they are either way. Either you are taking prozac and a junkie. Or you've never taken it.)
Oh, and prozac in my drinking water is enough for me to sue them (the drug companies, the city council, the doctors and the "patients") to hell and back for attempted murder.
Except that the Mono project is part of the EEE (embrace, extend and extinguish) strategy of microsoft. Microsoft has a deal with Novell. But not with other Distributions or Gnome. So they can still sue the hell out of them if they want. Now that Gnome largely depends on Mono (indirect dependencies), they reached an important step.
These people warn about this problem. Many are badly informed because it's some kind of retard magnet, but this makes the base point not untrue. Oh, and I myself act trough boycotting Gnome. Their philosophy is "Make it as easy as possible, and do not care if the user wants to confgure it differently or have a choice". This is what I disliked about Windows (except for it being closed source and made by a highly criminal company). This Mono problem is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
And just for those who disagree: This is - per definition - my POV. Of course you can disagree.:) But be prepared to bring a hell of a good set of arguments to the table.:)
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You say this as if it were a wrong thing. Which means you're totally brainwashed to be a "good citizen", who has no right to decide for himself what is right an wrong, and needs laws (made by others) for it.
You would be the tool of an epic win in a milgram experiment.
You have not understood what a compiler is, do you?
It's a translator/transformer from one language into another.
Machine language as just a language like any other. And the javascript VM is just a machine like any other. (It's virtual. But every processor you can buy got simulated before it got produced.)
Even a real processor is written in a language (eg. Verilog) nowadays.
The only difference between a compiler and a "normal" program is, that the data that compilers process is code too. Oh, and how about a compiler that processes its own code in-memory? ;)
LOL. Do you know what they do when they get that "0WNED" message? They click it away quicker than they can read it. ;)
After all, that's why they ended up being infected in the first place.
The best way would be, to *infect* the control system, and trough that, control the botnet. Then piggyback a trojan into the virus, that acts as a disinfecter. It should harden all the zombies and then kill the bot-software on all bots at the same time and close the ports. Shortly before that, it should wreak havoc on the control system in a stealth way. Corrupting random sectors.. .and infecting the clients of the spammer, until the situation is completely flipped. Oh, and then, send the contact data of the spammers, together with evidence straight to the police and some big global intelligence services. THAT would show them. :D
Ignore parent. I make pudding this evening anyway.
Mmmmhhh... Yorkshire pudding is people... tasty people...
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That's exactly what happens in the whole construction material industry (at least in Europe).
Every client (craftsman's business) gets a different price (or discount as they call it), depending on how a "good client" they are. (Depending on how much they like to keep you because you buy much and pay early, and so on).
I'm pretty sure HP does the same. It makes sense to handle good old clients different than that new company that can't quite guarantee a quick payment.
Of course, if that "bad" company starts to know how much they really can push the price, they might start making demands.
On the other hand, this is a typical monopoly problem, because in working economies, the client can do the same, and pay more for quality suppliers.
Wrong. The media cartels fight so hard, because they have nearly no money left. :)
Wait some years, and they can't afford to enforce anything anymore and have no business left to get new money.
The more it hurts them, the harder they fight, but the quicker they go away too. :)
And downloading media does not hurt them a bit. Not buying anything from them does "hurt". (In reality it does not hurt too. It just does not make them feel good.
Hmm... conflict is an essential part of evolution. Ending wars is a nice dream... But in reality, it's just nice for the oppressor. Because no wars always means, that something/someone is extremely predominant. Those who think otherwise will normally fight for their way. If they can't, it's because of a horribly strong oppression.
The illusion, that we can do without conflicts (which sometimes end in wars), comes from the illusion that there is one global truth, when in reality, everything is relative.
So in reality, you will never have a whole planet with one point of view, or even with 100% compatible views.
What we must realize, is that, no matter how disgusting and strange the views of others look to us (if you want an example, think of a group, where it is generally accepted to rape everybody you see, and then eat him), as long as they do not hurt anyone (eating someone of that group, who thinks that way too, is not hurting someone), we have no right so tell them what to do.
One great example could be the USA. There you have the more liberal areas and people. And the (from my pov!) religious fanatics.
They could both live happy, if they just had their own countries. And why the hell not? They could still work together in areas that they both agree on or need each other for.
That's why I oppose something like big countries and world governments: Because, if you disagree, there is no place you could go to anymore.
Before I realized this, I thought, a world government where everything is peaceful, would be an ideal. In theory: Yes. In reality, there is no such thing, as long as there is evolution.
Oh, and if we must have a world government, then at least I want to be the leader. ;)
No. They would never pull trough with that. It would not be Emo to actually do something.
Bitchin' about it on the other hand... ;)
No, he's not. It's great for web development too:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/1419
But note one typical but totally crazy thing: IE behaves slightly different, when used in an embedded way. (Like in IE Tab or those "Browsers" that internally use IE.)
The anwer is simple. The basic rule is: Survive, or die.
Those that can survive spam, trojans, virii, fraud, rootkits, scams, and the rest of it, will be the those that still use the internet in some decades. :)
(Unfortunately, this most likely includes the users that are the source of those problems too.)
It's a question of being able. If we can do it, the only question is, who does it first. And I already have plans for an army of grunts for my evil lair's meat-shield. :D
You should know, that people always block something that would destroy their reality or self-respect too much. It does not matter if it's true.
This is, because else, they would become insane. Ask a studied psychologist about it.
If you really want him to change his mind, you must form your words in a way, that allows him to still accept himself and his reality. :)
The best way is, to tell him he can make his life even better by changing his mind that way, and that not he was wrong but he fell for a trick or something like that.
Yeah, it's distorting reality. But it's his distorted reality that you use. And do you want it to work, or just flame?
I know that our instinct tells us to back-attack like you did. But this does not work if he does not respect your opinion and does not listen to you.
The above way on the other hand works nicely if done right. You can even make new friends out of enemies and fix their distortions somewhat.
By the way: Every human has distortions. But an alpha-male knows how to convince others, that his views are the best. ;)
WTF? This was +1, Funny, and now it's offtopic.
Must be the late cancer of the dozen minds of the Twitter.
*ROFL* Parent is definitely on topic and underrated. See the xkcd link above.
I expect the ability to add add-ons like in Firefox. Add-ons that are simple to develop in a scripting language. This community effect is what makes Firefox the default browser. If it were for the speed or default features, I'd still be using Opera, like the years before Firefox 1.0, and not touch Firefox at all.
Oh, and as a ex professional web developer, I have to say that I wish every single person who is or was ever responsible for the code in Trident (IE's "engine") so much pain that they want to die, plus immortality! This is the most horrible API ever made by humans. You could run Oracle on SymbianOS, run by PHP's horrible interpreter with a Gnome GUI, and Vista's DRM, and you would not even come close! ;)
IE is responsible for 80% of the loudly yelled "WTF?"s in my life. :\
Nah. Many animals are self-aware. For example ravens and similar birds. And most importantly, as with the question if something is alive, there is no digital switch "reflects its own thoughts" or "does not reflect its own thoughts". It's a gradient. And many even simple animals can do some basic self-reflecting things.
The problem is the still existing arrogance of humans, with statements like "we are the most important lifeform", "the earth is the center of the universe", "we are alive", "only we are truly sentient", "only we can really reflect our thoughts" or "we live on the only inhabited planet in the universe". They are are used in an either-or way, when in fact they all are gradients.
You are right with the emotions. Or to be more exact: I am pretty sure, that a brain can't work without messenger substances (I don't know the exact translation for the German word "Botenstoff".)
It would work like a very powerful neuronal net, used in software today: For pattern recognition, pattern mapping, detection of similarities, simple learning and acting based on that. Not more.
A human without his emotions and messenger substances would die in a few minutes.
But what stops us from implementing the rest too? It's a bit harder than neurons, but it's far from impossible. If we can simulate the atoms of a nuclear explosion, or the global weather (Which - only because of the missing resolution and imperfect initial input data - is not good at predicting things. [Bad English. I know. Sorry.]), then we can do this too.
There's a cancer that infects...cancer?? ;)
IE is the best I've used in terms of compatibility (It gets this by default simply because of ActiveX, but also because you know that odd site that just doesn't play nice in FF or Opera probably works in IE, and you won't get pages telling you to install quicktime or the latest flash, despite the fact that you did that 5 fucking times already, like you do in FF).
Oh, come on. The last time I saw a site that did not play nice in Firefox or required ActiveX, was years ago. I think it was my banking site in anno 2003...
You mean like... I could implement a complete... editor in it?
On a more serious note: I dislike emacs because it's a prime example of the "inner-platform effect". It's nearly as wrong as implementing an e-mail application in HTTP+HTML+CSS+JS. ;)
This does not mean that I dislike the (default) UI of emacs, or the freedom to customize (in fact I love that freedom). Just please stop adding another useless but fat layer to it.
You forgot the best of all options:
6) License Bu-Ray. When playing back Blu-Ray, require HDCP for any external screens trough a updatable firmware. Then "leak" a "hacked" firmware (the original one) which does allow playback everywhere. And be sure, to make a big press release, that you will get "them" and sue "them", for creating such an incredibly well working "hacked" firmware *hint* *hint*.
At least that's what I would do. And I'm pretty sure some companies already did similar things.
You can complain all you want, but...
TLDR ;) ...nobody will hear you then.
Except that the 5 GHz CPU is a POWER 5 processor (if I am right), that beats the living shit out of AMD or intel, when it comes to computational power per clock cycle. ;)
Are you for real??
Why are they even taking something that is on the same level as cocain, heroine and lsd? Or are all of them junkies? (Well they are either way. Either you are taking prozac and a junkie. Or you've never taken it.)
Oh, and prozac in my drinking water is enough for me to sue them (the drug companies, the city council, the doctors and the "patients") to hell and back for attempted murder.
Except that the Mono project is part of the EEE (embrace, extend and extinguish) strategy of microsoft.
Microsoft has a deal with Novell. But not with other Distributions or Gnome. So they can still sue the hell out of them if they want.
Now that Gnome largely depends on Mono (indirect dependencies), they reached an important step.
These people warn about this problem. Many are badly informed because it's some kind of retard magnet, but this makes the base point not untrue.
Oh, and I myself act trough boycotting Gnome. Their philosophy is "Make it as easy as possible, and do not care if the user wants to confgure it differently or have a choice". This is what I disliked about Windows (except for it being closed source and made by a highly criminal company).
This Mono problem is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
And just for those who disagree: This is - per definition - my POV. Of course you can disagree. :) :)
But be prepared to bring a hell of a good set of arguments to the table.
Oh, and on the gay part... I know this is protection. *hopes* ;))