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Sure there is. Brainf**k, for example, which has only eight instruction types. Or Malbolge, where you can peruse all existing programs in an afternoon.
is when the hell the FINAL Final Fantasy game is going to come out? Actually, what I'm more interested is when all the non-final Final Fantasy games will stop coming out. Because it's getting really old.
So after each new firmware is released on a disc, the hacker cracks it, then distributes the new cracked firmware. Interested people burn this to a new disc, and the player conveniently updates the firmware for you, re-opening your box.
Upon rereading your comment, I see that you did indeed say if the electricity is made and you don't use it, you didn't conserve it, you wasted it.. I apologize for missing this the first time around.
But now I will argue that it is in theory possible to conserve unused already-produced electricity. If an energy storing device, such as a battery or flywheel, or even an appropriate inductance/capacitance, is attached to the circuit, and configured to absorb unused energy from the circuit, then it will not be wasted.
Since I am not an electrical engineer, this idea is pure handwavium, and I welcome comment on its feasibility. (If it really was feasible, I imagine it would already be in use.)
... eventually anonymous buying services will provide the ability to mask your identity completely.
Not if your friendly government has anything to say about it. According to the original PATRIOT act, you're not even supposed to be able to borrow books from the library anonymously.
Perhaps you have forgotten that the power companies can measure the total load at any given moment, and turn generators on and off (or just run them faster or slower) to match. If the load is light, less electricity is generated, hence fuel is saved.
Funny man. But there will come a time when removing a barrel of oil from the ground consumes more than a barrel of oil's worth of energy in powering the equipment. That will be a sad day.
No, I can say for certain that retail banks want, no, need your business.
They may need my business, but they certainly don't show any sign of needing my happiness. Every change that a bank has made in the last thirty years appears scrupulously designed to annoy, intimidate, or otherwise bully "ordinary" checking/savings account customers. Some apparent exceptions, e.g. the inventions of the ATM, online banking and bill payment, seem to incidentally be a convenience to the customer -- but their real purpose is to decrease the cost of keeping tellers; and such accidental improvements are quickly followed by balancing degradations, like ATM fees, or unfriendly bill payment requirements or rules, or (most common) outrageously high fees for totally innocuous and non-bank-harming overdrafts.
The bank takes THREE DAYS to hold on to our money from my wife's GOVERNMENT PAYROLL CHECK before making it available to us. (What, do they think the government is going to skip town before making good on the check?) Why don't I get even ONE day to float a mortgage payment until my DIRECT DEPOSIT comes in, as it has, as regular as clockwork, for the last SEVEN YEARS?
Simulated Universe Posted by Zonk on 2005-06-03 20:25 from the not-the-matrix dept.
anonymous lion writes "A story in the Guardian Unlimited reports on The Millennium Simulation saying that it is 'the biggest exercise of its kind'. It required 25 million megabytes of memory to take our universe's initial conditions along with the known laws of physics to create this simulated universe." From the article: "The simulated universe represents a cube of creation with sides that measure 2bn light years. It is home to 20m galaxies, large and small. It has been designed to answer questions about the past, but it offers the tantalising opportunity to fast-forward in time to the slow death of the galaxies, billions of years from now."
To back up that statement, you'd first have to define "as random as" or "more random than" in some meaningful way that people can accept without arguing.
You are correct as far as fair use, which is definitely laid out explicitly in the Copyright Act. I apologize for the error.
However, I was unable to find any explicit mention of personal/private use. The closest I could find was "private research", which I believe is distinct from private use.
Slashdot Mirror
All right, people, get your modding straight. My comment above was clearly flamebait, but it was NOT a troll!
"I'm on a never-ending quest to save my girlfriend!"
Neither, as I believe I made clear.
000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD.
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000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000900
001000 DATA DIVISION.
001100 FILE SECTION.
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100000 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
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100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.
100300 BEGIN.
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100500 DISPLAY "Hello world!" LINE 15 POSITION 10.
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Sure there is. Brainf**k, for example, which has only eight instruction types. Or Malbolge, where you can peruse all existing programs in an afternoon.
is when the hell the FINAL Final Fantasy game is going to come out? Actually, what I'm more interested is when all the non-final Final Fantasy games will stop coming out. Because it's getting really old.
A bit clumsy, but classic troll style.
Manicheanist! Heretic! Only God is capable of true creation. The Devil can only produce illusion!
throw current launch prices for a loop
Maybe that's not the right tack either...
Funny thing ... everyone respects RMS, or claims to, yet he's very frequently called upon as a punishment...
So after each new firmware is released on a disc, the hacker cracks it, then distributes the new cracked firmware. Interested people burn this to a new disc, and the player conveniently updates the firmware for you, re-opening your box.
"Let him without sin cast the first stone" is a good tenet to live by, whether you believe in the godhood of the guy who said it or not
Please define "sin" in a self-consistent way without resorting to deity.
Just trying to raise the pedantry level until it's intolerable.
Wow. Didn't think there was anyone on /. that didn't understand GB = 10^9 bytes and GiB = 2^30 bytes.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
Upon rereading your comment, I see that you did indeed say if the electricity is made and you don't use it, you didn't conserve it, you wasted it.. I apologize for missing this the first time around.
But now I will argue that it is in theory possible to conserve unused already-produced electricity. If an energy storing device, such as a battery or flywheel, or even an appropriate inductance/capacitance, is attached to the circuit, and configured to absorb unused energy from the circuit, then it will not be wasted.
Since I am not an electrical engineer, this idea is pure handwavium, and I welcome comment on its feasibility. (If it really was feasible, I imagine it would already be in use.)
... eventually anonymous buying services will provide the ability to mask your identity completely.
Not if your friendly government has anything to say about it. According to the original PATRIOT act, you're not even supposed to be able to borrow books from the library anonymously.
Perhaps you have forgotten that the power companies can measure the total load at any given moment, and turn generators on and off (or just run them faster or slower) to match. If the load is light, less electricity is generated, hence fuel is saved.
One year later, ISPs, having become fabulously rich on selling everybody expensive broadband, start buying studios. The network is reborn.
Funny man. But there will come a time when removing a barrel of oil from the ground consumes more than a barrel of oil's worth of energy in powering the equipment. That will be a sad day.
The real problem is that we may not have enough time to change our economy away from oil before rising oil prices do major damage to our economy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
No, I can say for certain that retail banks want, no, need your business.
They may need my business, but they certainly don't show any sign of needing my happiness. Every change that a bank has made in the last thirty years appears scrupulously designed to annoy, intimidate, or otherwise bully "ordinary" checking/savings account customers. Some apparent exceptions, e.g. the inventions of the ATM, online banking and bill payment, seem to incidentally be a convenience to the customer -- but their real purpose is to decrease the cost of keeping tellers; and such accidental improvements are quickly followed by balancing degradations, like ATM fees, or unfriendly bill payment requirements or rules, or (most common) outrageously high fees for totally innocuous and non-bank-harming overdrafts.
The bank takes THREE DAYS to hold on to our money from my wife's GOVERNMENT PAYROLL CHECK before making it available to us. (What, do they think the government is going to skip town before making good on the check?) Why don't I get even ONE day to float a mortgage payment until my DIRECT DEPOSIT comes in, as it has, as regular as clockwork, for the last SEVEN YEARS?
Over a month old, too?
Simulated Universe
Posted by Zonk on 2005-06-03 20:25
from the not-the-matrix dept.
anonymous lion writes "A story in the Guardian Unlimited reports on The Millennium Simulation saying that it is 'the biggest exercise of its kind'. It required 25 million megabytes of memory to take our universe's initial conditions along with the known laws of physics to create this simulated universe." From the article: "The simulated universe represents a cube of creation with sides that measure 2bn light years. It is home to 20m galaxies, large and small. It has been designed to answer questions about the past, but it offers the tantalising opportunity to fast-forward in time to the slow death of the galaxies, billions of years from now."
No, you'd call it a "Personnel Computer."
To back up that statement, you'd first have to define "as random as" or "more random than" in some meaningful way that people can accept without arguing.
You are correct as far as fair use, which is definitely laid out explicitly in the Copyright Act. I apologize for the error.
However, I was unable to find any explicit mention of personal/private use. The closest I could find was "private research", which I believe is distinct from private use.