An older Leia could have worked well. She'd have been closer to Han Solo's age, making their romance seem a bit more likely to last. Luke Sykwalker, boy from the middle of the desert, would likely have been attracted to anyone glamorous. It would also have lent a bit more gravitas to the part. There are a few bits in the original trilogy where she just seems too young and inexperienced for the amount of deference that the Rebellion is giving her.
Note that he said 20th century and you've included figures from the 20th and 21st. It looks as if, if you just include the films from the 20th century, Bond comes in at around $4bn, Star Wars at about $3bn. That said, none of the numbers are inflation-adjusted, so simply counting the total number of dollars favours the later films: I very much doubt that Tomorrow Never Dies actually made anywhere near as much as Goldfinger, if you adjust for inflation.
The UK had a very short period (only a few years) in between women's suffrage and universal suffrage. We were denying a load of other people the right to vote, not just women.
Exactly. Marriage comes with a bunch of legal rights, for things such as inheritance. For a robot to be able to marry a human (or another robot), it would first need to be allowed to independently own property (and not be owned itself), which means that it would need to be regarded as a sentient entity in its own right. I think that we're more than 35 years away from that.
I've managed to pick up about half of them second hand - definitely recommended. Entertaining stories and one of the best historical fiction authors for putting the real history in the books (albeit with endnotes, which are a horrible invention). I'm a bit surprised that no one has turned them into a TV series.
It took me a couple of months to get through (the Gideons left a copy in my room at university and I ran out of other things to read in my first year). I wouldn't recommend it. There's a reason that the same few dozen stories keep getting made into films: the rest of it is tedious drivel (and a horrific basis for an ethical system).
Want to explain that? Varoufakis had a sensible plan for Greece and was forced by the EU to adopt economic ideas that were discredited before I was born.
Conn Iggulden's series dramatising his life is very enjoyable. There are some quite large historical inaccuracies and, for the sake of narrative, he condenses a lot of things that happen years apart, but the broad strokes are pretty accurate.
Spoken like someone who hasn't read it. Seriously, Chronicles, Numbers - entire books of the bible enumerating the inventory of the twelve tribes. Leviticus? Some quite horrific examples of attempts at ethics. The old testament is entirely inconsistent about whether there are other gods and they're just not as good or if they don't exist, changing stance between the two repeatedly. Romans and Corinthians are St Paul's rambling blog (the occasional good post, but mostly drivel).
But VLC on the iPad doesn't include the GPL'd components, so you can't play back a DVD that's just copied but not re-encoded as something else, so you still need something like Handbrake if you want to play back ripped DVDs on your iPad.
There's something ironic about the fact that it got out of beta long after the media it originally supported went extinct
I'm still buying (and renting) DVDs. There's still no good replacement that works well across different platforms and isn't laden with DRM (DVDs technically have DRM, but it's so thoroughly broken that it may as well not exist).
not wanting your children raped by welfare migrants,
Migrants from the EU are statistically less likely to be criminals, less likely to be claiming state benefits, and likely to be paying a higher tax rate. Now, if you're in a low-skilled job then you might have a convincing argument that you've suffered disproportionately from freedom of movement driving down wages.
not wanting to be controlled by distant unelected beauracrats
Which Bureaucrats are those? The European Commission employs around 30,000 civil servants. To put that in perspective, that's less than a tenth of the total number employed by the UK alone (and that's only counting ones employed centrally, not anyone employed by local governments). Or did you mean the European Parliament, elected via a party list system? You know, the one that Britain vetoed shifting power towards? Or the Council, composed of elected ministers from the member states? Or the Commission, comprised of one delegate for each country, nominated by their elected governments?
You have one choice for a sensible ISP in England in the form of BT, and they haven't really invested in anything beyond basic ADSL
In most urban areas, you have a choice between a BT Openreach reseller (including BT Retail) or Virgin Media. In a few places, you also have LLU operators. Virgin Media uses fibre to the curb and coaxial copper to the premises. Their cheapest offering is 50Mb/s and they go up to 200Mb/s. BT OpenReach has been laying fibre to the premises and fibre to the curb under the BT Infinity brand for a few years now. I have fibre to the premises (living in a city that isn't in the top 150 largest in Britain) and have an option of packages from 52Mb/s up to 300Mb/s. The last-mile fibre should support 1Gb/s without further upgrades, so there's a fair bit of headroom in the infrastructure. I'm on the cheapest package, because I stopped caring about Internet speed at around 30Mb/s (and at work I have 1Gb/s to my laptop for the rare occasions when I really need higher speed for something). Before I moved, I'd been a Virgin Media customer for over a decade. I used to pay for their 1Mb/s connection back around 2002 when it was the expensive option. I kept buying their expensive option until it was 10Mb/s. When 10Mb/s was the cheapest. It became 20Mb/s and then 30Mb/s and they'd just bumped it to 50Mb/s when I moved.
From both of the major providers, 50Mb/s is the slowest connection that you can buy in any urban area. In rural areas, it's not as good: if you're in a small village then you're likely to be stuck with ADSL to an exchange that's quite a distance away. In quite a few of these places, you can get a faster connection with a mobile phone.
Like Britain was some kind of financial wasteland until the EU formed and saved everyone?
The formation of the EEC (which later morphed into the EC under the UE) was driven in a large part by Britain trying to regain the international status it lost after losing the Empire post second world war.
Not really. WinQuake and GLQuake were win32 executables, and only worked on Windows NT and Windows 9x. I ran both on Windows NT 4, which wasn't in any sense a DOS program. Windows 95 used DOS as a bootloader, but then ran its own drivers, scheduler, and memory manager (DOS didn't support protected mode directly). It did thunk to DOS for a few things, but it's not really accurate to call it a DOS program.
DOS was the first PC operating system that really became popular. (CP/M didn't really take off.)
That depends on what you mean by PC. If you mean x86, IBM PC compatible, then you're correct. If you mean personal computer: one of the big selling points for DOS early on was that it was easy to port CP/M software and a lot of companies had legacy CP/M programs that they needed.
The problem with markets in general is that you're relying on emergent properties of a complex system to give you a desired response. Markets will always optimise for some utility function, but that might not be the one that you're aiming for. In particular, each of the actors in a market is going to optimise locally: it is obviously better for a company to reduce its costs. The down side of this for the entire market is that the newly unemployed workers are now not able to afford the products of the company. That's fine for one company, because the its former workers are a negligible fraction of the total workforce and so their efficiency gains outweigh the losses from a small reduction in potential customers. It's a big problem when a lot of companies do the same. In a global market, it actually might not be bad for the overall market, because people in the countries to which the jobs moved are now potential customers, but it is bad for the nation that is no longer making things and can't afford imports.
Tax laws elsewhere are going to have to start taking worldwide revenues into account, otherwise it's too easy to game the system. Here's one example used by a major corporation that's probably familiar to all Slashdot readers:
The company sets up a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, or some other tax haven. They sell their trademark to this subsidiary for $1. They then license the trademark back for a huge amount to each of their profit-making divisions. They now no longer make a profit, because the huge cost of the trademark license conveniently offsets it. No profits, no tax, lots of money funnelled into the subsidiary in the tax haven.
I can understand that, on a mobile device, you might want to conserve battery by moving all of the processing elsewhere, but it really doesn't make sense for something like Alexa. I'd love to have something like this in my house with all of the processing done locally in a sandboxed process, but there's no way I'm putting an internet-connected microphone in my living room.
Welcome to 1976. This is exactly how Smalltalk works. Unlike later class-based languages, it's a purely imperative system: you create a new class by sending a subclass: message to a class, with the name of the new class as the argument. The return value is the new subclass. You then add instance variables and methods to the class in a similar way.
The top of the stack actually is just one case of the COW rules. If it gets modified, it gets copied just like any other page.
The return to userspace will always modify the top of the stack, so it's common to prefault this, rather than bounce straight back into the kernel, though not universal.
File tables and such may or may not get deferred until a file is touched.
At the very least, every file descriptor table entry needs its reference count bumping, but typically the entire table is duplicated. This involves a lot of locking (because other threads can be opening and closing file descriptors during a fork), so is not as cheap as you might think.
So forking really is pretty cheap. It's cost is negligible when it's for opening a new tab in the browser.
It's pretty cheap, and you're unlikely to notice it in this context. Unfortunately, you are going to notice the increase in TLB pressure from having a lot of processes. This is one of the big reasons why neither Chrome nor Safari will put all of your tabs in separate sandboxes beyond a certain threshold and will instead begin sharing renderer processes between tabs.
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If your TV can be exploited by installing an app through the curated app store, then it's the TV's fault, not the user's.
And of course, she is also seven years older.
An older Leia could have worked well. She'd have been closer to Han Solo's age, making their romance seem a bit more likely to last. Luke Sykwalker, boy from the middle of the desert, would likely have been attracted to anyone glamorous. It would also have lent a bit more gravitas to the part. There are a few bits in the original trilogy where she just seems too young and inexperienced for the amount of deference that the Rebellion is giving her.
Note that he said 20th century and you've included figures from the 20th and 21st. It looks as if, if you just include the films from the 20th century, Bond comes in at around $4bn, Star Wars at about $3bn. That said, none of the numbers are inflation-adjusted, so simply counting the total number of dollars favours the later films: I very much doubt that Tomorrow Never Dies actually made anywhere near as much as Goldfinger, if you adjust for inflation.
The UK had a very short period (only a few years) in between women's suffrage and universal suffrage. We were denying a load of other people the right to vote, not just women.
Exactly. Marriage comes with a bunch of legal rights, for things such as inheritance. For a robot to be able to marry a human (or another robot), it would first need to be allowed to independently own property (and not be owned itself), which means that it would need to be regarded as a sentient entity in its own right. I think that we're more than 35 years away from that.
More accurately: When the competing empire at the time decided to use Communism in its marketing.
I've managed to pick up about half of them second hand - definitely recommended. Entertaining stories and one of the best historical fiction authors for putting the real history in the books (albeit with endnotes, which are a horrible invention). I'm a bit surprised that no one has turned them into a TV series.
It took me a couple of months to get through (the Gideons left a copy in my room at university and I ran out of other things to read in my first year). I wouldn't recommend it. There's a reason that the same few dozen stories keep getting made into films: the rest of it is tedious drivel (and a horrific basis for an ethical system).
Want to explain that? Varoufakis had a sensible plan for Greece and was forced by the EU to adopt economic ideas that were discredited before I was born.
Conn Iggulden's series dramatising his life is very enjoyable. There are some quite large historical inaccuracies and, for the sake of narrative, he condenses a lot of things that happen years apart, but the broad strokes are pretty accurate.
it's really well written
Spoken like someone who hasn't read it. Seriously, Chronicles, Numbers - entire books of the bible enumerating the inventory of the twelve tribes. Leviticus? Some quite horrific examples of attempts at ethics. The old testament is entirely inconsistent about whether there are other gods and they're just not as good or if they don't exist, changing stance between the two repeatedly. Romans and Corinthians are St Paul's rambling blog (the occasional good post, but mostly drivel).
If you'd actually read it, or even been in the presence of a copy of it, then you'd know that the title is Nineteen Eighty-Four, not 1984.
But VLC on the iPad doesn't include the GPL'd components, so you can't play back a DVD that's just copied but not re-encoded as something else, so you still need something like Handbrake if you want to play back ripped DVDs on your iPad.
There's something ironic about the fact that it got out of beta long after the media it originally supported went extinct
I'm still buying (and renting) DVDs. There's still no good replacement that works well across different platforms and isn't laden with DRM (DVDs technically have DRM, but it's so thoroughly broken that it may as well not exist).
not wanting your children raped by welfare migrants,
Migrants from the EU are statistically less likely to be criminals, less likely to be claiming state benefits, and likely to be paying a higher tax rate. Now, if you're in a low-skilled job then you might have a convincing argument that you've suffered disproportionately from freedom of movement driving down wages.
not wanting to be controlled by distant unelected beauracrats
Which Bureaucrats are those? The European Commission employs around 30,000 civil servants. To put that in perspective, that's less than a tenth of the total number employed by the UK alone (and that's only counting ones employed centrally, not anyone employed by local governments). Or did you mean the European Parliament, elected via a party list system? You know, the one that Britain vetoed shifting power towards? Or the Council, composed of elected ministers from the member states? Or the Commission, comprised of one delegate for each country, nominated by their elected governments?
You have one choice for a sensible ISP in England in the form of BT, and they haven't really invested in anything beyond basic ADSL
In most urban areas, you have a choice between a BT Openreach reseller (including BT Retail) or Virgin Media. In a few places, you also have LLU operators. Virgin Media uses fibre to the curb and coaxial copper to the premises. Their cheapest offering is 50Mb/s and they go up to 200Mb/s. BT OpenReach has been laying fibre to the premises and fibre to the curb under the BT Infinity brand for a few years now. I have fibre to the premises (living in a city that isn't in the top 150 largest in Britain) and have an option of packages from 52Mb/s up to 300Mb/s. The last-mile fibre should support 1Gb/s without further upgrades, so there's a fair bit of headroom in the infrastructure. I'm on the cheapest package, because I stopped caring about Internet speed at around 30Mb/s (and at work I have 1Gb/s to my laptop for the rare occasions when I really need higher speed for something). Before I moved, I'd been a Virgin Media customer for over a decade. I used to pay for their 1Mb/s connection back around 2002 when it was the expensive option. I kept buying their expensive option until it was 10Mb/s. When 10Mb/s was the cheapest. It became 20Mb/s and then 30Mb/s and they'd just bumped it to 50Mb/s when I moved.
From both of the major providers, 50Mb/s is the slowest connection that you can buy in any urban area. In rural areas, it's not as good: if you're in a small village then you're likely to be stuck with ADSL to an exchange that's quite a distance away. In quite a few of these places, you can get a faster connection with a mobile phone.
Like Britain was some kind of financial wasteland until the EU formed and saved everyone?
The formation of the EEC (which later morphed into the EC under the UE) was driven in a large part by Britain trying to regain the international status it lost after losing the Empire post second world war.
Not really. WinQuake and GLQuake were win32 executables, and only worked on Windows NT and Windows 9x. I ran both on Windows NT 4, which wasn't in any sense a DOS program. Windows 95 used DOS as a bootloader, but then ran its own drivers, scheduler, and memory manager (DOS didn't support protected mode directly). It did thunk to DOS for a few things, but it's not really accurate to call it a DOS program.
DOS was the first PC operating system that really became popular. (CP/M didn't really take off.)
That depends on what you mean by PC. If you mean x86, IBM PC compatible, then you're correct. If you mean personal computer: one of the big selling points for DOS early on was that it was easy to port CP/M software and a lot of companies had legacy CP/M programs that they needed.
The problem with markets in general is that you're relying on emergent properties of a complex system to give you a desired response. Markets will always optimise for some utility function, but that might not be the one that you're aiming for. In particular, each of the actors in a market is going to optimise locally: it is obviously better for a company to reduce its costs. The down side of this for the entire market is that the newly unemployed workers are now not able to afford the products of the company. That's fine for one company, because the its former workers are a negligible fraction of the total workforce and so their efficiency gains outweigh the losses from a small reduction in potential customers. It's a big problem when a lot of companies do the same. In a global market, it actually might not be bad for the overall market, because people in the countries to which the jobs moved are now potential customers, but it is bad for the nation that is no longer making things and can't afford imports.
Tax laws elsewhere are going to have to start taking worldwide revenues into account, otherwise it's too easy to game the system. Here's one example used by a major corporation that's probably familiar to all Slashdot readers:
The company sets up a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, or some other tax haven. They sell their trademark to this subsidiary for $1. They then license the trademark back for a huge amount to each of their profit-making divisions. They now no longer make a profit, because the huge cost of the trademark license conveniently offsets it. No profits, no tax, lots of money funnelled into the subsidiary in the tax haven.
I can understand that, on a mobile device, you might want to conserve battery by moving all of the processing elsewhere, but it really doesn't make sense for something like Alexa. I'd love to have something like this in my house with all of the processing done locally in a sandboxed process, but there's no way I'm putting an internet-connected microphone in my living room.
newclass = cpp.Class()
meth = newclass.addMethod(name="dosomething")
meth.signature = cpp.Signature([cpp.int,cpp.float])
Welcome to 1976. This is exactly how Smalltalk works. Unlike later class-based languages, it's a purely imperative system: you create a new class by sending a subclass: message to a class, with the name of the new class as the argument. The return value is the new subclass. You then add instance variables and methods to the class in a similar way.
And Smalltalk was heavily inspired by Lisp.
The top of the stack actually is just one case of the COW rules. If it gets modified, it gets copied just like any other page.
The return to userspace will always modify the top of the stack, so it's common to prefault this, rather than bounce straight back into the kernel, though not universal.
File tables and such may or may not get deferred until a file is touched.
At the very least, every file descriptor table entry needs its reference count bumping, but typically the entire table is duplicated. This involves a lot of locking (because other threads can be opening and closing file descriptors during a fork), so is not as cheap as you might think.
So forking really is pretty cheap. It's cost is negligible when it's for opening a new tab in the browser.
It's pretty cheap, and you're unlikely to notice it in this context. Unfortunately, you are going to notice the increase in TLB pressure from having a lot of processes. This is one of the big reasons why neither Chrome nor Safari will put all of your tabs in separate sandboxes beyond a certain threshold and will instead begin sharing renderer processes between tabs.