* I get to pause the movie for food / bathroom / etc. * I get to control the volume,; treble, AND bass. * I get to turn on/off sub-titles * I get to to adjust the PQ (Picture Quality) to my likes. Movie to dark? Just turn up the brightness. * I get to avoid all the stupid annoying kids that won't STFU. 4 months ago a kid was snoring loudly next to me. WTF. * I get to laugh as loud or as soft as I like and I don't to worry about disturbing someone. * I get to to wear nothing, full clothes, or anything in between. * I get to to drink as much, or as little, as I want. * I get to avoid all the other idiots on the road * I don't waste gas * I don't pollute by driving a archaic gas vehicle
1. Agreed that this greed over licensing only harms consumers.
/Oblg. Clueless exec is clueless:
"If you were passionate (about a movie), you've already seen it," he said.
Gee, isn't that precisely the problem in the first place !!! Netflix is so late to the party that they are becoming so irrelevant due to lack of content that they are having a hard time get new subscribers.
This artificial time-delayed release (movie theater first, cable second, streaming third) IS precisely the problem caused by greed over licensing.
2. The study is flawed. How about letting users TAG _which_ content they WANT To see but can't. Then you would actually have relevant data. The study is akin to asking "Which numbers do you like?"
Yes, he should go back and update his book with _actual_, popular, assembly languages. Using _practical_ languages means a student doesn't learn some obscure language that no one gives a fuck about but can _apply_ their skills immediately.
Also, by learning _multiple_ assembly languages the student doesn't pigeon-holed into myopic thinking. By being exposed to multiple languages they see how different design and implementation trade-offs were made.
The day of professors inventing yet-another-language are over. You can teach Theory AND Application, not just "my pet theory".
> KDE3's tech had reached a dead-end, there was no way forward there, to keep building a new base was needed. KDE4 had to happen,
WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menu, Pointer) has been around since 1980.. yeah, the 80's -- over 30 years.
Design and Implementation a GUI isn't rocket science -- WTF are people doing that they are constantly hacking SO much SHIT into it that they need to throw the whole thing away and start again from scratch?!?!
> More like pseudo-assembly than high-level pseudo-code.
It is actually worse then that. You learn some bullshit imaginary assembly languageMMIX, instead of a pragmatic real assembly language like 6502, x86, or ARM which you could have immediately tried out. And while an assembler and debugger exist for MMIX this is yet more time you need to waste on some obscure, niche, proprietary language and toolchain.
That said, what The Art of Computer Programming lacks in quality it makes up in quantity.
> and understood it right away from CLR
100% agree that Introduction to Algorithms is a fantastic book! It definitely is on the "short list" of every books a computer programmer should own.
It has been a mystery ever since it was discovered more than fifty years ago, and all good theoretical physicists put this number up on their wall and worry about it.) Immediately you would like to know where this number for a coupling comes from: is it related to Ï or perhaps to the base of natural logarithms? Nobody knows. It's one of the greatest damn mysteries of physics: a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man. You might say the "hand of God" wrote that number, and "we don't know how He pushed his pencil." We know what kind of a dance to do experimentally to measure this number very accurately, but we don't know what kind of dance to do on the computer to make this number come out, without putting it in secretly!
-- On the numerical value of α, the fine-structure constant, p. 129
The Social Security Act does not require a person to have a Social Security Number (SSN) to live and and work in the United states, nor does it require an SSN simply for the purposes of having one.
-- Response from SSA to Mr. Scott McDonald, March 18, 1998 from Charles Mullen, Associate Commissioner, Office of Public Inquiries, SSA
1. Hemp competed with cotton -- by confusing the public over hemp by using a different name, marijuana, which was demonized -- hemp was outlawed. How America Lost the War on Drugs
2. Hell, even the US Department of Agriculture in 1942 supported Hemp: Hemp for Victory
Sadly Apple no longer gives a fuck about us professionals -- you know, people who use their computers day in, day out, for creating content. They would rather everyone use iPads for consuming content.
Why?
Before Jobs passed away Tim Cook was responsible for getting Apple's supply chain down from months to days. Apple doesn't want to be holding onto millions of dollars of inventory just sitting there taking up space. This means they remove options and "dumb down" the machines so there is only 1 (or very few) parts. Tim Cook has continued this obsession that it actually has become counter-productive. You can't upgrade a MBP to more then 16 GB of RAM because the RAM is soldered onto the motherboard? WTF.
Apple also has a hard-on for wireless. My current MBP (Mid 2014) has a whopping 7 ports (2x USB, 2x Thunderbolt, 3.5 digital+analog audio, 1x HDMI, SDXC card) and I LOVE it because I use all of them. Apple TV gen 4 removed the audio port because they want everyone to use WiFi streaming. It doesn't take courage to remove an audio jack on the iPhone, they are a bunch of cowards. Gee, oh look, 2 out of 3 "solutions" are wireless.
It is a far cry from the days of Jobs when he actually cared about building not only a cosmetic computer and a functional one.
i.e. When is the Mac Pro going to updated?? It has been over 1075 days!
The only thing Apple cares about these days is making money whilst they whore our their brand. Apple would rather sell over-priced "Beats" garbage headphones to ignorant customers rather then make quality products for the power user. Those days are LONG dead.
It is hard to argue against "Oooh, Shiny!" when all they care about is profits.
> I don't know how our universe came to be or where the "energy" came from.
FTFY.
Why do you assume everyone is as ignorant as you??
Just because _you_ don't know doe NOT imply no one else doesn't know. This is the height of arrogance.
You haven't had my experiences -- you don't have my knowledge. As a mystic I'm quite well aware were the Universe and Energy come from. If you can't even understand basic concept of Infinity or Existence then labeling someone who is aware of God as "primitive thinking", ironically, only proves how primitive your thinking is.
But go ahead and keep pretending that the Laws of Physics just magically appeared out of nothing.
> We don't even know what "energy is; it's a concept
I guess the "Sun" is just a concept and this "heat" that I _experience_ is jus a concept, along with this sunburn.
*facepalm*
There is a term for someone who doesn't understand concepts: An idiot.
Thankfully there is also a place to get educated: It is called School and University. You might want to try it sometime.
Only a complete and total idiot attempts to call Code + Data == A.I. We already have a name for that: Algorithm.
The complete and total fail of the Standard Model is that consciousness, let alone intelligence, doesn't even exist! They just "magically" emerge out of nothing./sarcasm Yeah, right. Can I have some of what you're smoking!
This obsession over Artificial Ignorance (A.I) compared to actual intelligence (a.i.) is total joke. There is NOTHING artificial about intelligence -- either you have it or you don't.
Biocomputing is where actual intelligence will come -- hijacking the term algorithm to mean A.I. doesn't make it so.
-- First Contact is tentatively scheduled allowed to happen in 2024. Are you ready to move past the junk Science of Darwinism and the junk Faith of Creationism?
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You missed the parts where:
* I get to pause the movie for food / bathroom / etc.
* I get to control the volume,; treble, AND bass.
* I get to turn on/off sub-titles
* I get to to adjust the PQ (Picture Quality) to my likes. Movie to dark? Just turn up the brightness.
* I get to avoid all the stupid annoying kids that won't STFU. 4 months ago a kid was snoring loudly next to me. WTF.
* I get to laugh as loud or as soft as I like and I don't to worry about disturbing someone.
* I get to to wear nothing, full clothes, or anything in between.
* I get to to drink as much, or as little, as I want.
* I get to avoid all the other idiots on the road
* I don't waste gas
* I don't pollute by driving a archaic gas vehicle
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Region Locking is Price Fixing.
Actually the ad is stealing MY bandwidth.
So kindly fuck off your with your trojan pixels.
Nordstrom is late to the party.
The De Beers propoganda slave-labor cartel has been scamming suckers for years selling overpriced rocks when in 1939 they kicked their marketing campaign in high gear. i.e. Only an idiot would pay $100 million for a De Beers Centenary Diamond
You know what they say: A fool and his money are soon parted.
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Region Locking IS Price Fixing
1. Agreed that this greed over licensing only harms consumers.
Gee, isn't that precisely the problem in the first place !!! Netflix is so late to the party that they are becoming so irrelevant due to lack of content that they are having a hard time get new subscribers.
This artificial time-delayed release (movie theater first, cable second, streaming third) IS precisely the problem caused by greed over licensing.
2. The study is flawed. How about letting users TAG _which_ content they WANT To see but can't. Then you would actually have relevant data. The study is akin to asking "Which numbers do you like?"
* 2
* 4
* 8
And then going "See, no one likes odd numbers!"
WTF.
You're only sampling PART of the data!
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Region Locking IS price fixing.
Ha! That's a pretty good analogy -- except for one minor thing: LOTR isn't as dry and boring as TAOCP. :-)
Yes, he should go back and update his book with _actual_, popular, assembly languages. Using _practical_ languages means a student doesn't learn some obscure language that no one gives a fuck about but can _apply_ their skills immediately.
Also, by learning _multiple_ assembly languages the student doesn't pigeon-holed into myopic thinking. By being exposed to multiple languages they see how different design and implementation trade-offs were made.
The day of professors inventing yet-another-language are over. You can teach Theory AND Application, not just "my pet theory".
> KDE3's tech had reached a dead-end, there was no way forward there, to keep building a new base was needed. KDE4 had to happen,
WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menu, Pointer) has been around since 1980 .. yeah, the 80's -- over 30 years.
Design and Implementation a GUI isn't rocket science -- WTF are people doing that they are constantly hacking SO much SHIT into it that they need to throw the whole thing away and start again from scratch?!?!
> More like pseudo-assembly than high-level pseudo-code.
It is actually worse then that. You learn some bullshit imaginary assembly language MMIX, instead of a pragmatic real assembly language like 6502, x86, or ARM which you could have immediately tried out. And while an assembler and debugger exist for MMIX this is yet more time you need to waste on some obscure, niche, proprietary language and toolchain.
That said, what The Art of Computer Programming lacks in quality it makes up in quantity.
> and understood it right away from CLR
100% agree that Introduction to Algorithms is a fantastic book! It definitely is on the "short list" of every books a computer programmer should own.
> Element 137 should be Feynmanium
Indeeded. Feynman had this quote about it:
-- On the numerical value of α, the fine-structure constant, p. 129
> the many legal tax loopholes that the government refuses to close?
Such as?
> Except you never consented to the contract. You were born. That is all.
That's false.
The contract IS the Socialist Slave Number, or Slave Identification Number.
In the US there is NO law that requires a person to have one.
-- Response from SSA to Mr. Scott McDonald, March 18, 1998 from Charles Mullen, Associate Commissioner, Office of Public Inquiries, SSA
Gee, religions are legal because in the US you might have heard of a LITTLE Law called the 1st Amendment.
You don't get to dictate to others what they can or can't believe.
That's total bollocks.
1. Hemp competed with cotton -- by confusing the public over hemp by using a different name, marijuana, which was demonized -- hemp was outlawed.
How America Lost the War on Drugs
2. Hell, even the US Department of Agriculture in 1942 supported Hemp:
Hemp for Victory
How does the Fashion Industry do it without copyright?
HINT: You don't Imaginary Property to make money.
Hell, when even a patent attorney are saying society should be Against Intellectual Property then you know there is a problem.
That will never happen. :-(((
Sadly Apple no longer gives a fuck about us professionals -- you know, people who use their computers day in, day out, for creating content. They would rather everyone use iPads for consuming content.
Why?
Before Jobs passed away Tim Cook was responsible for getting Apple's supply chain down from months to days. Apple doesn't want to be holding onto millions of dollars of inventory just sitting there taking up space. This means they remove options and "dumb down" the machines so there is only 1 (or very few) parts. Tim Cook has continued this obsession that it actually has become counter-productive. You can't upgrade a MBP to more then 16 GB of RAM because the RAM is soldered onto the motherboard? WTF.
Apple also has a hard-on for wireless. My current MBP (Mid 2014) has a whopping 7 ports (2x USB, 2x Thunderbolt, 3.5 digital+analog audio, 1x HDMI, SDXC card) and I LOVE it because I use all of them. Apple TV gen 4 removed the audio port because they want everyone to use WiFi streaming. It doesn't take courage to remove an audio jack on the iPhone, they are a bunch of cowards. Gee, oh look, 2 out of 3 "solutions" are wireless.
It is a far cry from the days of Jobs when he actually cared about building not only a cosmetic computer and a functional one.
i.e. When is the Mac Pro going to updated?? It has been over 1075 days!
The only thing Apple cares about these days is making money whilst they whore our their brand. Apple would rather sell over-priced "Beats" garbage headphones to ignorant customers rather then make quality products for the power user. Those days are LONG dead.
It is hard to argue against "Oooh, Shiny!" when all they care about is profits.
Apple is Dead.
Long Live Apple.
The funny thing is that the $3 (*) PC game called Grav: Reborn already had some of those features over a year ago.
* $3 when on sale; normally $10
I develop daily on OSX, Linux, and Windows. Guess what, ALL operating systems SUCK. The strengths of one tend to be the weakness of others.
Windows 7 works perfectly fine for my needs. I neither want nor need your spyware laden Windows 10.
Your fallacy is assuming Experiential knowledge can be taught.
If you would spend less time shooting the messenger and more time listening to the message you might actually learn something.
That reminds me of the Birth and Death of Javascript
> Unless you're one of those who give Nobel Prizes for nothing.
I'd still like to know how one gets a Nobel Peace Prize for doing fucking NOTHING !?
Talk about a No Shit, Sherlock moment for the execs. Everybody else has already known this for 20 years.
Gee, when content isn't legally available people's choices are:
* Pirate it,
* Don't watch it.
> I don't know how our universe came to be or where the "energy" came from.
FTFY.
Why do you assume everyone is as ignorant as you??
Just because _you_ don't know doe NOT imply no one else doesn't know. This is the height of arrogance.
You haven't had my experiences -- you don't have my knowledge. As a mystic I'm quite well aware were the Universe and Energy come from. If you can't even understand basic concept of Infinity or Existence then labeling someone who is aware of God as "primitive thinking", ironically, only proves how primitive your thinking is.
But go ahead and keep pretending that the Laws of Physics just magically appeared out of nothing.
> We don't even know what "energy is; it's a concept
I guess the "Sun" is just a concept and this "heat" that I _experience_ is jus a concept, along with this sunburn.
*facepalm*
There is a term for someone who doesn't understand concepts: An idiot.
Thankfully there is also a place to get educated: It is called School and University. You might want to try it sometime.
> Yeah, that part after the therefore is an addition of yours
Are you really that retarded? If something can't be created nor destroyed then BY DEFINITION it has existed for infinity.
It is like looking at circle and asking where the beginning or end is. There isn't one.
> while conveniently leaving out that the conservation of energy applies to closed / isolated systems.
The universe is a closed system.
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2024 is the year that Junk Science of Darwinism vs Junk Faith of Creationism are BOTH shown to be incomplete.
You DO realize Science preaches the exact same thing, right?
Energy can not be created nor destroyed, therefore it has always existed.
Who the fuck cares if someone calls it God while others call it Energy ???
I concur 100% !
Only a complete and total idiot attempts to call Code + Data == A.I. We already have a name for that: Algorithm.
The complete and total fail of the Standard Model is that consciousness, let alone intelligence, doesn't even exist! They just "magically" emerge out of nothing. /sarcasm Yeah, right. Can I have some of what you're smoking!
This obsession over Artificial Ignorance (A.I) compared to actual intelligence (a.i.) is total joke. There is NOTHING artificial about intelligence -- either you have it or you don't.
Biocomputing is where actual intelligence will come -- hijacking the term algorithm to mean A.I. doesn't make it so.
--
First Contact is tentatively scheduled allowed to happen in 2024. Are you ready to move past the junk Science of Darwinism and the junk Faith of Creationism?