I assume it's the same way nowadays, though perhaps kids have been struck by a strange stupidity-causing disease and can no longer remember seven-digit numbers or write them on a card in their wallet.
Is there any cell phone today which is not able to store phone numbers? Generally there's no need to type in a number manually more than once (to store it on the phone).
Maybe because Microsoft didn't yet enter in the digital whiteboard business? If next year we'll see an announcement for the Microsoft digital whiteboard, we will know...:-)
(BTW, I duess you meant ^H instead of ^D:-))
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Of course. He uses the browser to search for good ideas on the net, and the email to communicate those great ideas to the rest of the company. What else should he need?:-)
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Well as I recall it was (1) flipping switches (machine code), then (2) assemblers, then (3) macroassemblers, then (4) fortran, then (6) lisp. I'm pretty sure that the first 5 didn't have garbage collection.
Shouldn't you be able to write a compiler for any language in any turing-complete language with file I/O and access to enough memory, provided it's possible to write a compiler for that language at all (which obviously is true for Eiffel)?
Don't forget meetings. With calendaring/scheduling software, I can call 20 different meetings a day and automatically check to see that you aren't already scheduled for a meeting.
So you think being able to hold 20 meetings a day is an advantage? When do you actually work in your company?:-)
Before, I'd have to send out at least one memo for a meeting and possibly several unless I went to each person and checked his/her availability. And if I'm going to that much effort, the meeting was usually pretty important.
If the meeting isn't pretty important, it probably shouldn't be held.
Note the second sentence you quoted: "It also refers to the theft of traditional knowledge from those cultures."
"Theft of knowledge" is, of course, a term which refers to "intellectual property", except that here obvioulsy a "collective IP" held by a culture is assumed. Google is obviously accused for violating this second part.
But independent of what one may think about the concepts of IP in general, and of the concept of IP held by a culture in particular, there's a nice contradiction in the very definition:
The first sentence states that monopolization of that knowledge is bad. The second one states that not granting a monopoly to those cultures is bad.
No, that was the point of the research. The point of the article was to attract readers. And of course the point of posting it to Slashdot was to enable jokes on good excuses for staying in bed:-)
Then you will be convicted for breaking the Time Travel Act, paragraph 4:
"Time travellers who, either willfully or due to carelessness, cause a causal situation, where one or more certain events, including but not limited to the coming into existance of a certain object or life form, including but not limited to human being, including but not limited to the time traveller himself, causally follows from the event itself, either in isolation or in conjunction with other events and/or circumstances, shall be punished by being arrested on prehistoric earth for at least one year, at most his remaining life time."
Yes, the Time Travel Act has not yet been passed, but then, the time machine has not yet been built, either. However, in your time line, of course both have already happened. All in all, it was a really bad idea to have sex with your own father!
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Sure, the situation would be much better if climate research would be financed by private companies like, say, oil companies?
... the RIAA and MPAA got the White House to hide the fact that global warming is caused by a lack of pirates ...
Indeed, that hack is quite simple:
1. Go to the library.
2. Leave the library without the phone.
3. Afterwards, come to the library again, to fetch your phone.
Only problem is to make sure that no one steals your phone in the mean time. But then, who would be silly enough to steal a tracked phone?
Is there any cell phone today which is not able to store phone numbers? Generally there's no need to type in a number manually more than once (to store it on the phone).
Don't worry, it gets balanced by funny getting modded insightful.
Of course the part which makes you feel bad. If it were the part which makes you feel great, the effect would be the opposite of what was intended :-)
So that is the truth behind Steve Ballmer's Monkey Dance?
Maybe because Microsoft didn't yet enter in the digital whiteboard business? If next year we'll see an announcement for the Microsoft digital whiteboard, we will know ... :-)
:-))
(BTW, I duess you meant ^H instead of ^D
Of course. He uses the browser to search for good ideas on the net, and the email to communicate those great ideas to the rest of the company. What else should he need? :-)
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I'm not sure that drunken languages are an advantage
Shouldn't you be able to write a compiler for any language in any turing-complete language with file I/O and access to enough memory, provided it's possible to write a compiler for that language at all (which obviously is true for Eiffel)?
So you think being able to hold 20 meetings a day is an advantage? When do you actually work in your company?
Well, you know, there are so many different trees you can paint, like red-black trees, B trees, B+ trees, ... :-)
You are approaching the whole thing from the wrong side. To get a better feeling of yourself, you should adopt the following view:
The blobs you painted look exactly like happy trees. It's just the trees out there which don't look tree-like at all.
But Google doesn't patent that material. It only creates a database of what is known.
Or maybe like this:
We are the Google-Borg. You will be assimilated. We will add your biological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
Note the second sentence you quoted: "It also refers to the theft of traditional knowledge from those cultures."
"Theft of knowledge" is, of course, a term which refers to "intellectual property", except that here obvioulsy a "collective IP" held by a culture is assumed. Google is obviously accused for violating this second part.
But independent of what one may think about the concepts of IP in general, and of the concept of IP held by a culture in particular, there's a nice contradiction in the very definition:
The first sentence states that monopolization of that knowledge is bad. The second one states that not granting a monopoly to those cultures is bad.
In short, the term "biopiracy" is ill-defined.
I'd prefer a verb "to Tuttle-Taylor". As in "he Tuttle-Taylored the $INNOCENT".
No, that was the point of the research. The point of the article was to attract readers. And of course the point of posting it to Slashdot was to enable jokes on good excuses for staying in bed :-)
But it makes a nice excuse for sleeping too long: "Sorry, my space journey took longer than planned." :-)
Then you will be convicted for breaking the Time Travel Act, paragraph 4:
"Time travellers who, either willfully or due to carelessness, cause a causal situation, where one or more certain events, including but not limited to the coming into existance of a certain object or life form, including but not limited to human being, including but not limited to the time traveller himself, causally follows from the event itself, either in isolation or in conjunction with other events and/or circumstances, shall be punished by being arrested on prehistoric earth for at least one year, at most his remaining life time."
Yes, the Time Travel Act has not yet been passed, but then, the time machine has not yet been built, either. However, in your time line, of course both have already happened. All in all, it was a really bad idea to have sex with your own father!
And of course:
1. [selected text]
2. ???
3. Profit!
I first decoded the headline as request to slashdot his Firefox extension (i.e. the page which provides it)