The odd aren't just stacked in the casinos favor, they also throw out players who win too much. Casinos use the surveillance systems and facial ID systems to detect and bar players who are card counters. Card counters are not cheaters, they are people who are really good at math who carefully observe what cards have been played and place bets accordingly--just as expert poker players do consciously or unconsciously.
Now take the surveillance one step further. They've already got the camera's everywhere. So just modify your image recognition software to identify the cards as they are dealt out, and add a in a computer with a card counting algorithm. Voilà, now the casino can cheat, and on an automated wide-spread level. Whenever the shoe turns against the house's favor, the pit boss can nod to the dealer and they reshuffle the cards. All your cash are belong to us!
Sure. Just sell the gas at market value. As a result, only a very select minority of people would be able to drive their cars, and everyone else would be essentially out of luck.
Well, either it'll be greedy rich people fueling up their jetliners to fly to Paris for cocktails. Or, it'll be greedy rich people trying to make more money by putting the gas towards better uses, like say, for truck's bringing produce to market.
(Oh, and you're living in a dream world if you think rich people wouldn't just pay people to have a portion of their ration (what problem were we trying to solve again?))
It's like gas rationing back in the 70s. Who was the brilliant idiot who came up with cars waiting in line for gas? Just have one person standing there taking license plate numbers and telling people when to come back at a reserved time. Is it so hard?
Or, if you want a really radical solution, you could try selling stuff at market value. Voilà, no lines, no need for rationing.
Yes. The 65nm refers to the transistors gate length, which is only a small portion of the transistor. See sometransistorcross-sections.
Look at the first diagram, look at the red colored rectangle above and between the two blue regions labeled "S" and "D" (for "Source" and "Drain"). That red part is the gate.
Give DrScheme a look. Nice graphical IDE, libraries, dead simple syntax. Free. Different language levels to cater to the learning process. And pleanty of introductory texts.
I can't recall if it was Pike, Kernighan, Ritchie or Raymond that said function length is a better indicator of quality than indentation.
Here's an interesting paper which is somewhat relavent to your point...
Observes from a number of experiments that the fault curve rises logarithmically with function size until reaches a point at around 300 lines of code at which point it becomes quadratic. The implication is that both small and large components are unusually error prone. The paper then develops a mathematical model of reliability based on the properties of the human short term and long term memory which explains this.
Haskell syntax is very minimal. It's almost entirely function application by juxtaposition and function application by infix operator. There's not much else to it.
Not that I disagree with your other points, but Haskell isn't that regular. Or at least the Haskell code that I write is littered with list comprehensions, and do-notation, and lambda abstractions, etc.
I hate it whenever I see a sentence that equates the cost of creating software to the cost of copying the software.
Well, if we go back to Econ 101, we'll discover that in a competitive market, the actual price is driven down to the marginal cost of production and you'll have a hard time recovering your fixed (sunk) costs. So if you want to make money you have to make sure your fixed costs are low or you have no competitors.
If you think this is bad, then you should plan on being very scared of IPv6 since that will have the ability to give every device a permanent non-NATted IP address that will uniquely identify you.
Whew! Good thing we're not going to have to deal with the
IPv6 mess for at least another 20 years.
And this is paranoia on crack... it assumes that people will ALWAYS do the wrong thing and will ALWAYS try and screw you about, and that customer profiling NEVER results in a better service.
Well, either you can guess about how pure their motives are, or you can read their words and try to infer one. I, for one, am thinking they aren't so saintly...
In March, United Virtualities (UV), a New York-based digital marketing company, became one of the first to release a substitute.
"It gives you accurate counting of users, impressions and clicks," company founder Mookie Tenembaum says of the Persistent Identification Element (PIE). The technology, which is already being used by UV clients, both restores original cookies and places Macromedia Flash MX files on users' computers that can't be as easily deleted.
Your 'rights' are only rights so long as you obey the law.
I think you've got that backwards. Rights aren't defined by law. The law is only just (and therefore worthy of following) when it respects the rights of individuals.
No. That's incorrect. At least for those societies which govern themselves under the (English) system of common law.
As for rights, I feel the major problem we have is that everyone feels everything is a right.
That's the problem with a government with enumerated powers. Everything is a right, and the government only has limited power to remove those rights from you (after due process of law).
Here's some snippets you might recognize...
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...
...and...
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
...and...
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
I donate an infinite number of copies of Python, an infinite number of copies of PERL, an infinite number of copies of GCC and an infinite number of copies of Linux for anybody to download!
Wow. How much does it cost to get that kind of bandwidth?
The point of DRM is to be in the way when you try to distribute something.
But what if you want to distribute something to yourself? You know, something far-fetched like ripping a CD to MP3's. Is no one in the future going to want to do something similar? Or maybe there won't be any incompatible DRM schemes in the future, so it will always be possible?
So your choice isn't really between viewing this hi-def content as you wish or viewing it on a secure setup. It's a choice between content or no content.
Maybe
The Right to Read will give you some insight into minds of the anti-DRM crowd.
I before E except after C or before silent G
People never remember the last part; it leaves very few exceptions.
That's weird, I thought an efficient scientific society would rein those lazy bags of protein who couldn't follow the rules. Seeing how the threats to grammar aren't too thinly veiled. Our collective conscience shouldn't stop us from sufficiently censoring those deficient members of our species.
Either we have too much leisure, or too much caffeine in our veins.
Our feisty, omniscient ancients are probably very dissappointed in their heirs. Seize the day, or forfeit tomorrow!
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Yes, but is it recursive?
Give DrScheme a look. Nice graphical IDE, libraries, dead simple syntax. Free. Different language levels to cater to the learning process. And pleanty of introductory texts.
How can Joel hire good programmers if he insists on using Hungarian Notation instead of a choosing a decent language?
FWIW, it looks like the shootout shows O'Caml besting CMUCL on speed, memory, and lines of code.
Maybe you want Dr Scheme?