His company probably already was not computers related. Being a cloud computing hosting company probably meant that he rented rooms to people wanting to calculate something about clouds in the sky.:-)
Hence his request to make it a criminal offend. Because then you can answer to that "I see your one thousand lawyers and raise you a Crown Prosecutor."
If you properly encrypt your most private thoughts before sending it to the cloud, you don't have to worry about to whom that company may give that pile of bits, because without the key it will not be worthwhile anyway.
The human brain can not visualize the pipeline like a compiler can.
I seriously doubt the compiler can visualize anything. Actually, it would be a very inefficient way of compiling, given that computers are not that good in interpreting images.
Interestingly, the x86 architecture (since the 286) allows to separate code and data on the user level, it's just that operating systems don't make use of that (I don't know whether this is still true for the x86-64 architecture; given that it wasn't used on x86, they might have removed that possibility).
Of course at the fundamental level, you don't want to do that, because you would take away the possibility to compile programs.
At this point it will most certainly be in the merchant's interest to drop Bitcoin.
If Bitcoin grows enough that the credit card companies are concerned about losing business, it will no longer be clear whether it is a better idea to drop Bitcoin, or to drop the credit card option.
Anyway, I'm not aware that credit card companies are threatening to block payments to companies offering PayPal. Why should Bitcoin be any different?
And besides, at least in Europe I'm pretty sure it would be illegal to credit card companies to do this.
If I were considering whether to accept payments by Bitcoin, I'd be more concerned about legal aspects than about whether the credit card companies would like it.
Now, please tell me what nedit can do that neither Emacs nor vim can do.
Also, please tell me what you do if you remote login to another computer over a connection which is too slow to run a GUI and want to edit a file there.
Here you have two people who clearly were motivated by patents (or else they wouldn't be racing to the patent office),
The race to the patent office is only a proof that they didn't want to have all their hard work invalidated by someone else getting the patent. Where is the evidence that they both wouldn't have invented the telephone if there had not been the possibility by anyone to patent it?
And by the way, the purpose of patents is to encourage progress, not 'let it happen in due time anyway'.
The purpose of patents is to encourage disclosing the inventions instead of keeping them secret. Nobody sits down saying "I'd like to have a patent, what could I invent?"
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They could name it after an asp.
Or a viper.
His company probably already was not computers related. Being a cloud computing hosting company probably meant that he rented rooms to people wanting to calculate something about clouds in the sky. :-)
And everyone knows Ruby runs on Rails!
Of course rails are very inflexible. You can only go in the direction the builder of the rails envisioned.
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Yes, of course.
Wake me up when Python has something even closely related to Moose.
Python has not only the Majestic Moose, but also the Wonder Llama.
I'm speaking about the Monty one, of course.
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Hence his request to make it a criminal offend. Because then you can answer to that "I see your one thousand lawyers and raise you a Crown Prosecutor."
If you properly encrypt your most private thoughts before sending it to the cloud, you don't have to worry about to whom that company may give that pile of bits, because without the key it will not be worthwhile anyway.
I would have guessed that they render the actual 3D graphics with Direct3D or OpenGL on the graphics card.
I seriously doubt the compiler can visualize anything. Actually, it would be a very inefficient way of compiling, given that computers are not that good in interpreting images.
Interestingly, the x86 architecture (since the 286) allows to separate code and data on the user level, it's just that operating systems don't make use of that (I don't know whether this is still true for the x86-64 architecture; given that it wasn't used on x86, they might have removed that possibility).
Of course at the fundamental level, you don't want to do that, because you would take away the possibility to compile programs.
Indeed, he might have looked at what happened to Wikileaks, and decided to take preventive measures.
If Bitcoin grows enough that the credit card companies are concerned about losing business, it will no longer be clear whether it is a better idea to drop Bitcoin, or to drop the credit card option.
Anyway, I'm not aware that credit card companies are threatening to block payments to companies offering PayPal. Why should Bitcoin be any different?
And besides, at least in Europe I'm pretty sure it would be illegal to credit card companies to do this.
If I were considering whether to accept payments by Bitcoin, I'd be more concerned about legal aspects than about whether the credit card companies would like it.
Can you sue a company for having a consumer base with lower-than-average intelligence and disrupting business as an unfair act of subterfuge?
No. Otherwise you could sue half of the TV stations out of existence. :-)
Apple products just work. That's why they are so expensive.
See, that's the problem with Apple products. While other products work great, Apple products just work. ;-)
You can get cider at Apple stores?
I wonder how much trouble this man might have had with his real name ;-)
Mind equals the factorial of blown.
You mean a smartphone with Emacs as operating system? :-)
Typing all those C-M-somethings on a touchscreen might be a bit complicated.
You are aware that Emacs has a GUI?
You are aware that vim also has a GUI?
Now, please tell me what nedit can do that neither Emacs nor vim can do.
Also, please tell me what you do if you remote login to another computer over a connection which is too slow to run a GUI and want to edit a file there.
Maybe because vim has no elisp.
So maybe you need a midnight commander implementation in Emacs?
Vim is a cleaning powder. It doesn't suck, it scrubs.
The race to the patent office is only a proof that they didn't want to have all their hard work invalidated by someone else getting the patent. Where is the evidence that they both wouldn't have invented the telephone if there had not been the possibility by anyone to patent it?
The purpose of patents is to encourage disclosing the inventions instead of keeping them secret. Nobody sits down saying "I'd like to have a patent, what could I invent?"
I think the most open cloud is this one.
While they were ultimately successful, the Catholic church did fight against the fork. Literally.