Any question about this person inteligence was settled down when he put his phone on the microwave. Now we are asking what would make a stupid person do such a thing.
The best think I could think was also that he was trying to dry it.
CPU intensive tasks are fine. The Sun's JVM used to have some problems with memory management, but I don't know how it is now (and don't know about other VMs).
Of course, there is also all the imprevisibility of Java. It doesn't make your task use more CPU, but it can make it fail for taking too much CPU time at the wrong moment.
It may eventually get to the point where PC hardware is just a big (very big) tablet with a mount and connections for network, keyboard,and mouse, but it still will be a PC.
I kind of doubt that. The software industry is stagnated, that's why we don't use the entire capacity of out comupters. But I wouldn't count on this stagnation going on forever.
Welcome to the future, where people put a PC on their desk, another on their pocket, another one on their bag (and they buy several, to put on the several bags they can use), another one near their TVs, another on the kitchen wall...
It is not a post PC world. It's a "computers everywhere" world. That includes the desktop.
As far as I know (IANAP), dark matter is supposed to be "warm", that is, it is supposed to have enough energy that it doesn't concentrate on bodies, like barionic matter do.
Now, of course, the problem with that is that if dark matter is warm, it must be light, and we should have already found it on accelerators. But cold dark matter has several theoretical problems.
Or, in other words. Yeah, our understanting of the Universe has some deep flaws.
If it is open, count on me to buy a device. Even if the only things running on this device are a text editor and a mail client. Hell, even if I need to write the mail client myself.
If those things were aimed at stopping piracy, one'd expect them to be detrimental to piracy in any way. They aren't.
DRM and all the DRM laws around are about control, not piracy. The big media companies want them because they'll arguably make things harder for people that don't give them the rights to their work. Software companies want them because they are the ultimate lock-in. Governments want them because they'll make it harder to spot and punish corruption.
Notice that the word "piracy" doesn't appear anywhere.
Nukes prevent full scale war (not only between countries that hold them), but they increase the pressure of governments over their own citizens. The mere existence of nukes is enough to discorage foreign intervention, and the organization needed to keep them is an anti-democratic force.
Is there any doubt that the overall destructiveness is huge? It is way too unlikely that a thermonuclear war stays at the level of WWII destructiveness or just a bit above it.
Anyway, it is futile to expect most people to not get the stuff they want. There are two options here, either people will pay for it, or they'll get without paying.
You are quit right when thinking it is wrong. But getting without paying is the lesser of those two evils.
Only on Slashdot can such a comment be modded Insightful.
Really? The GP simply showed the fastest route to make change happen. You may not think it is right, but it is the one most effective way to get the change he wants.
I also don't agree with him. I just not give money to the companies that support the status quo, those without lobbying branches, I'm ok with. But that's irrelevant, everybody is already aligned with the GP. That'll create a few problems, but overall is a good thing.
Well, I don't remember they being innovators anywhen, and I brought Microsoft software on K7 tapes.
They started their company getting code from the trash of better coders (literaly), putting copyright notices on it and then asking those same coders for money because they were using their (aledgedly MS') code.
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No problem. Just make sticks that act as keyboards and, once installed, download and run your malware.
Linux != Ubuntu
Yeah. That old, trusted argument of confusing patens and copyrights.
Exactly. Samsung is not cool enough for that.
-- An avid Samsung customer, for rational reasons.
Any question about this person inteligence was settled down when he put his phone on the microwave. Now we are asking what would make a stupid person do such a thing.
The best think I could think was also that he was trying to dry it.
Don't worry, they know it better. They have enough people to push patents for both complex stuff that do usefull things and the rectangle.
It's pretty and powerfull. No argument here.
Also, at the wrong hands it is much more dangerous than operator overloading or any other C++ only feature that people like to complain.
I didn't know they retired the C preprocessor.
CPU intensive tasks are fine. The Sun's JVM used to have some problems with memory management, but I don't know how it is now (and don't know about other VMs).
Of course, there is also all the imprevisibility of Java. It doesn't make your task use more CPU, but it can make it fail for taking too much CPU time at the wrong moment.
Thanks, I was looking for that number. That's quite significant with 45k people.
Aparently, a bit more than 15% of them. That's a very worrysome number.
Some religions and science are oposed because the people of those religions decided they need to destroy science. There is nothing to interpret.
That got me thinking... How can I get a religion to become against teaching of math without simultaneous teaching of its practical use in schools?
I kind of doubt that. The software industry is stagnated, that's why we don't use the entire capacity of out comupters. But I wouldn't count on this stagnation going on forever.
That.
Welcome to the future, where people put a PC on their desk, another on their pocket, another one on their bag (and they buy several, to put on the several bags they can use), another one near their TVs, another on the kitchen wall...
It is not a post PC world. It's a "computers everywhere" world. That includes the desktop.
As far as I know (IANAP), dark matter is supposed to be "warm", that is, it is supposed to have enough energy that it doesn't concentrate on bodies, like barionic matter do.
Now, of course, the problem with that is that if dark matter is warm, it must be light, and we should have already found it on accelerators. But cold dark matter has several theoretical problems.
Or, in other words. Yeah, our understanting of the Universe has some deep flaws.
If it is open, count on me to buy a device. Even if the only things running on this device are a text editor and a mail client. Hell, even if I need to write the mail client myself.
If those things were aimed at stopping piracy, one'd expect them to be detrimental to piracy in any way. They aren't.
DRM and all the DRM laws around are about control, not piracy. The big media companies want them because they'll arguably make things harder for people that don't give them the rights to their work. Software companies want them because they are the ultimate lock-in. Governments want them because they'll make it harder to spot and punish corruption.
Notice that the word "piracy" doesn't appear anywhere.
I'd say things are more extreme.
Nukes prevent full scale war (not only between countries that hold them), but they increase the pressure of governments over their own citizens. The mere existence of nukes is enough to discorage foreign intervention, and the organization needed to keep them is an anti-democratic force.
Is there any doubt that the overall destructiveness is huge? It is way too unlikely that a thermonuclear war stays at the level of WWII destructiveness or just a bit above it.
The only open question is about the frequency.
Anyway, it is futile to expect most people to not get the stuff they want. There are two options here, either people will pay for it, or they'll get without paying.
You are quit right when thinking it is wrong. But getting without paying is the lesser of those two evils.
I wont arguee over the definition of 'faith', except to say that yours is certainly different from Feyman's, but:
No, it's not. There is no evidence that the real world exists, and lots of evidence that any such evidence is impossible to get.
Really? The GP simply showed the fastest route to make change happen. You may not think it is right, but it is the one most effective way to get the change he wants.
I also don't agree with him. I just not give money to the companies that support the status quo, those without lobbying branches, I'm ok with. But that's irrelevant, everybody is already aligned with the GP. That'll create a few problems, but overall is a good thing.
No, you can't. You can steal the credit for an idea, smething called "plagialism".
Well, I don't remember they being innovators anywhen, and I brought Microsoft software on K7 tapes.
They started their company getting code from the trash of better coders (literaly), putting copyright notices on it and then asking those same coders for money because they were using their (aledgedly MS') code.