If you don't plan to program in assembly language, but you'd like to learn what it's all about, just find one of the many introductions on the web and read it. There are no profound concepts to learn and nothing complicated to understand (unless you want to get into the details of virtual memory or exactly how multiple simultaneous interrupts are handled). You'll have it figured out in an afternoon. You won't be an expert, but it sounds like you've no need to be one. This is a short enough time that it's really not worth agonising over whether it's useful to learn. In a single day, if you have a few dollars to spare, you could even go from ground zero to programming your own embedded hardware with a project like this. So really, stop asking, and just get on with it.
Now if you asked if it was worth learning Haskell, that would be a question worth thinking hard about because it'll demand a significant chunk of your time.
I could just reply that you are a moron, which would be deserved given the ignorance you display in your obnoxious reply, but instead I'm going to be polite and point out that VMWare provides no facilities to run Windows programs that aren't already available on a PC without VMWare.
For the record I've worked in the industry for 15 years. There doesn't seem to be a hair of truth in this article.
Yeah, but your position in the games industry has nothing to do with the price decision making so you're talking out of your ass as much as anyone else. More so, you have a vested interest in bitching about the profits of games companies while people outside the industry can think rationally about the subject.
I just thought I'd remind you that the original story is about some actual science carried out by real researchers, not a proposed plot for an episode of Star Trek.
It's worse thab that. By spending time doing stem cell research he has sacrificed time spent sowing his wild oats and has therefore prevented kids from even coming into existence. Now that's evil.
"I've seen firsthand how easy it is to get miilions of dollars out of government agencies for cockamamy schemes."
The CEO of my second last employer set up a fake company into which was sunk 3 or 4 million dollars of grants from the city. They had no employees but used the reputations of people who had previously worked for this guy. For example, in one press release they quoted me as if I worked for him (because I have a good reputation in the niche I work in). They were just this empty shell that the city trumpeted as this amazing new company all over the newspapers. Eventually really caught up with them, but not before the ex-CEO was off working his next scam. All of this guy's ex-employees knew it was a scam, and one friend informed the local newspaper, but the city turned a blind eye. Now there are all these news stories about how sad it was that it didn't work out, as if it wasn't a scam in the first place. All you had to do was a web search to find out about this guy's previous companies.
So I have no doubt that if you schmooze with the right people it's trivial to redirect millions of dollars into your pocket.
...government agency into complicity in their scam. How is this news? I've seen firsthand how easy it is to get miilions of dollars out of government agencies for cockamamy schemes.
Your talk of Holmes and Doyle is completely irrelevant and shows you don't really have an argument beyond repetition of standard philosophical dogma. The fact is, attempting to interview Holmes may fail to tell you anything about Watson, but there's little doubt that investigating the CNS can tell us plenty about intentions. Care to suggest any more inappropriate analogies? Here's one: if you rub a cabbage, maybe pi will become rational.
As the evidence comes in that certain CNS events are correlated with states like intention, the walls between these categories will come tumbling down, in exactly the same way that heat is now considered to be identical to a certain kind of motion, even though once upon a time heat and motion were considered to be in entirely different categories.
"giving a sense of floating free in infinite space"
Well I tried standing in a dark space with my eyes shut, which must be pretty much the same thing, and all that happened to me was that I felt like an idiot, especially when people saw me climbing back out of the office supply cabinet.
Punishment is supposed to (1) deter criminals and (2) keep them from committing crimes. So the question isn't "What was this person's intentions?" but "If we lock this person up, will it (1) discourage other criminals and (2) prevent this person from committing crimes?" I don't see where intentions have to come into it.
We can consider your examples in this light. Whatever punishment you dangle in front of me, I'm not going to get better reflexes. So you don't punish the first person. But punishing people who carry out actions like stalking, practicing an approach and then running people over might put people off those actions. No need to talk about intentions.
A big portion of the work of prosecution in this country is spent proving intent.
And I've always complained about it. People make a lot of noise about freedom of speech but we don't even have freedom of thought. If you unlawfully kill someone while intending to do it you get a longer sentence than if you didn't intend it. Punish someone for killing, but to punish them additionally because of what they were thinking at the time seems like the grossest kind of human rights abuse to me.
Firstly, that stuff about aspergers is a lot of bull. Sure, s proportion of mathematicians have social issues, especially at research level, but among people at degree level they're mostly a fairly normal bunch. Secondly, if enough money was offered then people who might otherwise study economics or history might be motivated to study and teach math and science.
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You had it easy. In my day you'd have to retype not just the code but the hex loader itself every time there was a bug.
Now if you asked if it was worth learning Haskell, that would be a question worth thinking hard about because it'll demand a significant chunk of your time.
I could just reply that you are a moron, which would be deserved given the ignorance you display in your obnoxious reply, but instead I'm going to be polite and point out that VMWare provides no facilities to run Windows programs that aren't already available on a PC without VMWare.
I just thought I'd remind you that the original story is about some actual science carried out by real researchers, not a proposed plot for an episode of Star Trek.
It's worse thab that. By spending time doing stem cell research he has sacrificed time spent sowing his wild oats and has therefore prevented kids from even coming into existence. Now that's evil.
Why are you posting on /. when you could be out saving lives? Could it be that not everyone has to work on the same thing all the time?
So I have no doubt that if you schmooze with the right people it's trivial to redirect millions of dollars into your pocket.
...government agency into complicity in their scam. How is this news? I've seen firsthand how easy it is to get miilions of dollars out of government agencies for cockamamy schemes.
You try getting in and out of the office supply cabinet without putting your feet on office supplies.
Your talk of Holmes and Doyle is completely irrelevant and shows you don't really have an argument beyond repetition of standard philosophical dogma. The fact is, attempting to interview Holmes may fail to tell you anything about Watson, but there's little doubt that investigating the CNS can tell us plenty about intentions. Care to suggest any more inappropriate analogies? Here's one: if you rub a cabbage, maybe pi will become rational.
As the evidence comes in that certain CNS events are correlated with states like intention, the walls between these categories will come tumbling down, in exactly the same way that heat is now considered to be identical to a certain kind of motion, even though once upon a time heat and motion were considered to be in entirely different categories.
Since it was too high level an activity for most kids coming out of school.
"giving a sense of floating free in infinite space" Well I tried standing in a dark space with my eyes shut, which must be pretty much the same thing, and all that happened to me was that I felt like an idiot, especially when people saw me climbing back out of the office supply cabinet.
We can consider your examples in this light. Whatever punishment you dangle in front of me, I'm not going to get better reflexes. So you don't punish the first person. But punishing people who carry out actions like stalking, practicing an approach and then running people over might put people off those actions. No need to talk about intentions.
Firstly, that stuff about aspergers is a lot of bull. Sure, s proportion of mathematicians have social issues, especially at research level, but among people at degree level they're mostly a fairly normal bunch. Secondly, if enough money was offered then people who might otherwise study economics or history might be motivated to study and teach math and science.