"... the quick 100 line program someone like me could write in a couple of weeks..."
Contradictory phrase. But, after wading through the FUD - no, that was too generous, bullshit - I presume your solution is a business should just "trust you". I worked corporate all my life, it doesn't operate the way you describe.
You failed to include the left's predilection for eugenics. This would be a marvelous tool for that. Very, very proactive would be preventing the birth, after all. Both extremes want to eliminate those who aren't.
Problem is, you're talking about a many decades long process that is very probably not going to occur, whereas the 'fingerprinting' by storing a string of digits is possible, around the corner and something law enforcement would positively drool over, seeing as how it would easily remove a definite bug up their butt - wrongful prosecution.
Of the two, I'll go with fuck simply letting use a damned number sequence to convict someone.
Please explain to me how you can take a batch program which processes a data stream and simply put it onto 100 machines and make it run faster? Assume the parameter of the data stream being serially relevant from record 1 to record n.
Horse shit. I rewrote a bank's microfiching nightly batch run. Why? It was pushing five hours and inching towards the next day's processing. After the rewrite, it ran in forty-five minutes. It was taking so damned long for a trivial reason. The record keys were insufficient and it was reading the entire week's file to get at that day's data. Optimization isn't restricted to a friggin' hundred line algorithm, it spans the entire project. It's a way of thought from the start, not something you apply later as needed.
OK, you answered half of his question. I think it's valid to question the idea advertisers have that views mean anything. I often read the first paragraph of an article and close the tab because I find it doesn't interest me. Any and all adds below my screen cutoff are unviewed (as well as most above), but they record as viewed. It's a skewed count.
"In Nature, the amount of cattle raised by humans is not sustainable."
2009 cattle/hog count was ~ 65.807 million head. Estimates of bison herds of the nineteenth century have been made at up to 75 million head. You are incorrect.
"The simple fact is that plagiarism does not exist. Only in the academic world does the concept exist. In the real world, plagiarism itself is perfectly legal, and at worst is a moral/ethical failing."
"That's like saying that if a thug violently raped a woman, and impregnated her, and then their offspring grew up to be a great author, that it sorta makes rape ok."
Actually, I think it's only you that made that particular leap.
You don't use auto-cap? I reported it's several failures and was told (I shit you not), "You shouldn't be typing with auto-cap anyway. Use the shift key." Uh, don't provide a feature and then say people shouldn't use it.
Completely OT, but C3PO is a Lucas fart, and a degenerative one. The Stainless Steel Rat, Adam Link, Asimov's robots, and many others predate that drek by decades.
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And how do you get all your old books on the Kindle? I also presume you have one that does pdf instead of plain text.
Yes. You got conned into believing him. It was either sleight of hand or pushing. There was no precognition going on.
"... the quick 100 line program someone like me could write in a couple of weeks ..."
Contradictory phrase. But, after wading through the FUD - no, that was too generous, bullshit - I presume your solution is a business should just "trust you". I worked corporate all my life, it doesn't operate the way you describe.
"Also there's the fact that DNA tests aren't cheap, or particularly quick."
Neither were fingerprints when I was a kid. What was your point again?
You failed to include the left's predilection for eugenics. This would be a marvelous tool for that. Very, very proactive would be preventing the birth, after all. Both extremes want to eliminate those who aren't.
Problem is, you're talking about a many decades long process that is very probably not going to occur, whereas the 'fingerprinting' by storing a string of digits is possible, around the corner and something law enforcement would positively drool over, seeing as how it would easily remove a definite bug up their butt - wrongful prosecution.
Of the two, I'll go with fuck simply letting use a damned number sequence to convict someone.
Please explain to me how you can take a batch program which processes a data stream and simply put it onto 100 machines and make it run faster? Assume the parameter of the data stream being serially relevant from record 1 to record n.
Oh yes. Do so without modifying the program.
Horse shit. I rewrote a bank's microfiching nightly batch run. Why? It was pushing five hours and inching towards the next day's processing. After the rewrite, it ran in forty-five minutes. It was taking so damned long for a trivial reason. The record keys were insufficient and it was reading the entire week's file to get at that day's data. Optimization isn't restricted to a friggin' hundred line algorithm, it spans the entire project. It's a way of thought from the start, not something you apply later as needed.
And you were paid "jack shit" for your "time, effort, and your brain"? Right.
"When the supply is infinite the cost is nil."
Your gray matter doesn't do logic or math well. Perhaps an overabundance of hubris.
Would that Adblock maintained two lists and I could put offending and offensive ads on a "don't load" and all others on a "don't view".
OK, you answered half of his question. I think it's valid to question the idea advertisers have that views mean anything. I often read the first paragraph of an article and close the tab because I find it doesn't interest me. Any and all adds below my screen cutoff are unviewed (as well as most above), but they record as viewed. It's a skewed count.
Only to people who had no interest in ever purchasing a car.
"In Nature, the amount of cattle raised by humans is not sustainable."
2009 cattle/hog count was ~ 65.807 million head. Estimates of bison herds of the nineteenth century have been made at up to 75 million head. You are incorrect.
Yeah, right. It will be UN bureaucrats. There will be no voting or even asking.
"The simple fact is that plagiarism does not exist. Only in the academic world does the concept exist. In the real world, plagiarism itself is perfectly legal, and at worst is a moral/ethical failing."
That paragraph contradicts itself several ways.
"Artistic questions aside, can you argue that plagiarism damages the author of the plagiarized work if it increases sales?"
Sure. Copyright is not about sales. It is about the author having exclusive distribution. When you plagiarize, you take that right from the author.
"That's like saying that if a thug violently raped a woman, and impregnated her, and then their offspring grew up to be a great author, that it sorta makes rape ok."
Actually, I think it's only you that made that particular leap.
"Copyright law should not be an artificial obstacle that limits the texts an artist can write."
It doesn't. It limits the texts that you haven't written from being used/claimed as your own. You do see the difference?
"Like in music, sampling significant pieces of text might require monetary compensation."
You've just contradicted yourself. It's copyright that enforces the "require".
You don't use auto-cap? I reported it's several failures and was told (I shit you not), "You shouldn't be typing with auto-cap anyway. Use the shift key." Uh, don't provide a feature and then say people shouldn't use it.
Anyone know if it's fixed in this release.
I use it on XP on an HP Pavilion a305w. Not exactly a humming machine. It starts in several seconds.
Completely OT, but C3PO is a Lucas fart, and a degenerative one. The Stainless Steel Rat, Adam Link, Asimov's robots, and many others predate that drek by decades.
Keep in mind the inventor of the guillotine was guillotined.
Fast stupid is still stupid.