(which is always with me except when I'm flying now).
Funny you mention it, it seems like I haven't taken a single flight since the TSA went nuts that I haven't stepped off the plane, checked my pockets to make sure I have 'everything' and found my pocket knife, or realize it shortly before getting to the TSA agent and just not saying anything and going right through.
All of my last 3 flights were done with my knife in my pocket, not intentionally, just forgot to take it out of my pocket.
You do realize the only reason people fly into Canada is because they can't legally enter the US directly and its easier to cross the border illegally from Canada than it is from Mexico at the moment, right?
Not saying we don't need to get our house in order, we're pretty fucked up right now... but not so fucked up that people are going to go to Canada as tourists instead. Somali Pirate Meet and Greet tours are more popular for god sakes.
On 9/11 3 out of 4 aircraft were filled with passengers which did nothing. The 4th only did something when they know they were dead anyway.
American's have been trained to sit down, shut up, and be quiet until the government saves them, no one sticks their necks out for anyone else anymore.
You mean back when it worked just fine and transported over 600 million people in the US alone every year without really any incidents?
The TSA screenings are simply the result of 'Terrorists Win'. They caused terror and people's fearful response is the TSA. But they don't actually do anything useful, have never caught anyone doing anything wrong, and are just flat out useless.
The rate of airline terrorist attacks before 9/11 is exactly the same as it is after 9/11, so the security hasn't changed anything.
Things like 9/11 only work once in a blue moon when everyone in the nation has been trained to sit on their ass in that sort of situation and wait for the government to save them.
9/11 simply won't happen again anytime in the near future, passengers on aircraft won't allow it, again, making all of the TSA bullshit a waste of freaking time
That's one of the biggest complaints about government employees. They are paid relatively equally no matter where they are. So the folks in NYC suffer, but the people in Little Rock are "makin' bank."
This is pretty much not true about any government office job. Sorry to break it to you, the government doesn't work that way.
So how do developers know how to write code that works in AppEngine?
The APIs are infact documented.
The APIs have in fact been copied and Google actually hosts the code (though they only host, don't think they have any other involvement than it sitting on their servers)
x86 is an aging architecture, which still pulls back the PC market
blah blah blah, I'm going to repeat some crap I heard someone else say or some blogger post about how x86 is dead.
Show me the chip for general purpose computing that is clearly better than x86. You can't do it.
Nothing is holding x86 back, it continues to be the most popular GP cpu on the planet and is used in more and more new hardware designs every day. Sure, its not the ONLY CPU out there, others have specific advantages, but for general purpose, x86 is the choice everyone makes. ARM does great at performing reasonably while sipping almost no power, but isn't nearly as fast. Other chips are faster, but requires small rivers for cooling. RISC can do some things faster, as can GPUs, and of course some things slower.
The core architecture has multiple independent COMPATIBLE implementations, Intel and AMD both having their own core designs, and then all the other smaller players. x86 at this point is an API. What runs under it is really not important, as long as it meets the performance requirements.
The Native code library (NaCl) will be unportable currently.
Native code is not NaCl. NaCl is an entirely different beast, x86 in a browser, in theory sandboxed.
However, they plan to base the next version on LLVM making that too platform independent.
LLVM won't help anything be platform independent. Native code is platform specific, thats why its called native. Using LLVM to produce byte code that runs in an interpreter like Dalvik is not making native code platform independent.
Reading your post, I'm fairly certain you have no idea how business works.
he difference is they control what their employees do, but not what the kids do. What if the kids in the lab create something "naughty" that gets them sued
The other difference is, they aren't responsible for what the kids do... because they don't control them. I'm not responsible for what your kids do, even if I give you $50 and you give it to them to buy a gun and shoot people. What world do you live in where someone is responsible for your actions but have no control what so ever over your actions?
I'm more worried about the kids creating "Napster 2012" or equivalent. Intel wants / needs no part of that, thats for sure.
Do you have any idea how much money was made by smart people off of Napster? The only guy who gets stuffed is the last guy holding onto it. Plenty of people made a fortune in profit directly off Napster, ignoring Fanning completely.
if the kids invented something that Intel would own that would make them vaguely in violation of some kind of anti-trust law.
You have absolutely no idea what anti-trust means. Monopoly laws are to punish bad behavior, not being good at what you do.
In summary, no profit off the kids makes the odds of financial loss from the kids somewhat lower.
Name one instance where someone has been sued (and actually lost) because they contributed open ended grants to someone else which resulted in something bad happening. The only financial loss for Intel is the money they are giving in grants for research and potential losses if someone patents something then uses it against intel.
This is anticompetitive, it ensures no one else can use these patents as an advantage against intel. Works out well for all of us, but it prevents someone using this money to find something out, patent it, and then bend intel over for the patented tech.
They've extinguished POTENTIAL competition before it actually existed.
On that note however, nothing from any university that receives any public funding what so ever should be patentable. You must apply it to the university as a whole, not one program or part of a program to prevent funding from being funneled around just to skirt the rules.
No, you're supposed to believe them when you carefully weigh up the huge weight of accumulated scientific evidence.
See heres the problem...
I haven't seen any accumulated scientific evidence that proves that point. I've seen plenty of evidence attributed too it. But I've also seen the same evidence exist before humans. Well, okay, that whole statement is wrong I guess... I've seen what people such as yourself call evidence and science. I however do not call it evidence and I certainly don't label whats being does as science.
Best part is... I know the world is getting warmer. It has been for 10 thousand years. Thats not the argument.
I see you've never heard of New Orleans. I can assure you, morons build in low lying coastal areas for none of the reasons you mentioned, and to top it off, they will go right back after having their homes destroyed.
Probably in Windows, which has had full screen apps for the past 17 years or so, if you just start at Win95, or do you mean the Windows app store http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/ which has been around since 2003?
I love my iPhone and Mac, but neither of these two things did Apple invent, Microsoft has been doing BOTH of them before Apple even considered thinking about it.
Vista didn't fuck up bad enough to make it 'The Year of the Linux Desktop', nothing is going to.
Until Linux gets some polish it will continue to be nothing but a sock puppet for political fanatics like Stallman and self serving 'developers' who can't be bothered with finishing features they start.
But why would you waste 90+ percent of your (idle) cycles when your computer is ON?
All modern processors in modern OSes idle themselves when not actually working. My CPU isn't wasting cycles when its on and idle, its sleeping, conserving energy and generating less heat.
I waste no CPU cycles because I understand how my computer works.
Fact: this is extremely bad for human civilization for a number of very obvious reasons.
That isn't a fact, that is your opinion. And thats why the rest of what you're saying has already fallen apart. Change is change. It may be good, it may be bad, probably depends on where you live in this case, making blanket statements just makes you look ignorant and people will write you off, as they should, for being irrational and lying.
And thats the problem, all of these discussions are tainted with opinions such as this, labeled as facts. Statements like yours are why people argue against AGW.
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(which is always with me except when I'm flying now).
Funny you mention it, it seems like I haven't taken a single flight since the TSA went nuts that I haven't stepped off the plane, checked my pockets to make sure I have 'everything' and found my pocket knife, or realize it shortly before getting to the TSA agent and just not saying anything and going right through.
All of my last 3 flights were done with my knife in my pocket, not intentionally, just forgot to take it out of my pocket.
Sigh, at least the Russians were worthy adversaries.
Come to Canada instead! We welcome visitors
You do realize the only reason people fly into Canada is because they can't legally enter the US directly and its easier to cross the border illegally from Canada than it is from Mexico at the moment, right?
Not saying we don't need to get our house in order, we're pretty fucked up right now ... but not so fucked up that people are going to go to Canada as tourists instead. Somali Pirate Meet and Greet tours are more popular for god sakes.
Statstics are against you.
On 9/11 3 out of 4 aircraft were filled with passengers which did nothing. The 4th only did something when they know they were dead anyway.
American's have been trained to sit down, shut up, and be quiet until the government saves them, no one sticks their necks out for anyone else anymore.
You mean back when it worked just fine and transported over 600 million people in the US alone every year without really any incidents?
The TSA screenings are simply the result of 'Terrorists Win'. They caused terror and people's fearful response is the TSA. But they don't actually do anything useful, have never caught anyone doing anything wrong, and are just flat out useless.
The rate of airline terrorist attacks before 9/11 is exactly the same as it is after 9/11, so the security hasn't changed anything.
Things like 9/11 only work once in a blue moon when everyone in the nation has been trained to sit on their ass in that sort of situation and wait for the government to save them.
9/11 simply won't happen again anytime in the near future, passengers on aircraft won't allow it, again, making all of the TSA bullshit a waste of freaking time
That's one of the biggest complaints about government employees. They are paid relatively equally no matter where they are. So the folks in NYC suffer, but the people in Little Rock are "makin' bank."
This is pretty much not true about any government office job. Sorry to break it to you, the government doesn't work that way.
And flying, just like driving, is not a fucking right either.
Google has credibility and trust... they're not Microsoft
Really? Cause the first thing I thought when I read this story was 'wow, this feels a lot like a Microsoft move I've seen before'.
but I ended up going with Ruby on Rails.
You do realize from this point on, anyone with half a clue already realizes you don't have even half, right?
No published docs, no information about the API's
So how do developers know how to write code that works in AppEngine?
The APIs are infact documented.
The APIs have in fact been copied and Google actually hosts the code (though they only host, don't think they have any other involvement than it sitting on their servers)
http://code.google.com/p/appscale/
Pretty much the same result as with .NET isn't it.
x86 is an aging architecture, which still pulls back the PC market
blah blah blah, I'm going to repeat some crap I heard someone else say or some blogger post about how x86 is dead.
Show me the chip for general purpose computing that is clearly better than x86. You can't do it.
Nothing is holding x86 back, it continues to be the most popular GP cpu on the planet and is used in more and more new hardware designs every day. Sure, its not the ONLY CPU out there, others have specific advantages, but for general purpose, x86 is the choice everyone makes. ARM does great at performing reasonably while sipping almost no power, but isn't nearly as fast. Other chips are faster, but requires small rivers for cooling. RISC can do some things faster, as can GPUs, and of course some things slower.
The core architecture has multiple independent COMPATIBLE implementations, Intel and AMD both having their own core designs, and then all the other smaller players. x86 at this point is an API. What runs under it is really not important, as long as it meets the performance requirements.
The Native code library (NaCl) will be unportable currently.
Native code is not NaCl. NaCl is an entirely different beast, x86 in a browser, in theory sandboxed.
However, they plan to base the next version on LLVM making that too platform independent.
LLVM won't help anything be platform independent. Native code is platform specific, thats why its called native. Using LLVM to produce byte code that runs in an interpreter like Dalvik is not making native code platform independent.
No shit? Intel is going to work with OS vendor to make OS run better on their chips ...
Are we going to have headlines that read 'Intel does research into making microprocessors!' next?
This is not news, this is SOP at any business like this.
Reading your post, I'm fairly certain you have no idea how business works.
he difference is they control what their employees do, but not what the kids do. What if the kids in the lab create something "naughty" that gets them sued
The other difference is, they aren't responsible for what the kids do ... because they don't control them. I'm not responsible for what your kids do, even if I give you $50 and you give it to them to buy a gun and shoot people. What world do you live in where someone is responsible for your actions but have no control what so ever over your actions?
I'm more worried about the kids creating "Napster 2012" or equivalent. Intel wants / needs no part of that, thats for sure.
Do you have any idea how much money was made by smart people off of Napster? The only guy who gets stuffed is the last guy holding onto it. Plenty of people made a fortune in profit directly off Napster, ignoring Fanning completely.
if the kids invented something that Intel would own that would make them vaguely in violation of some kind of anti-trust law.
You have absolutely no idea what anti-trust means. Monopoly laws are to punish bad behavior, not being good at what you do.
In summary, no profit off the kids makes the odds of financial loss from the kids somewhat lower.
Name one instance where someone has been sued (and actually lost) because they contributed open ended grants to someone else which resulted in something bad happening. The only financial loss for Intel is the money they are giving in grants for research and potential losses if someone patents something then uses it against intel.
This is anticompetitive, it ensures no one else can use these patents as an advantage against intel. Works out well for all of us, but it prevents someone using this money to find something out, patent it, and then bend intel over for the patented tech.
They've extinguished POTENTIAL competition before it actually existed.
On that note however, nothing from any university that receives any public funding what so ever should be patentable. You must apply it to the university as a whole, not one program or part of a program to prevent funding from being funneled around just to skirt the rules.
No, you're supposed to believe them when you carefully weigh up the huge weight of accumulated scientific evidence.
See heres the problem ...
I haven't seen any accumulated scientific evidence that proves that point. I've seen plenty of evidence attributed too it. But I've also seen the same evidence exist before humans. Well, okay, that whole statement is wrong I guess ... I've seen what people such as yourself call evidence and science. I however do not call it evidence and I certainly don't label whats being does as science.
Best part is ... I know the world is getting warmer. It has been for 10 thousand years. Thats not the argument.
"Morons" didn't build on coastal areas...
I see you've never heard of New Orleans. I can assure you, morons build in low lying coastal areas for none of the reasons you mentioned, and to top it off, they will go right back after having their homes destroyed.
Probably in Windows, which has had full screen apps for the past 17 years or so, if you just start at Win95, or do you mean the Windows app store http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/ which has been around since 2003?
I love my iPhone and Mac, but neither of these two things did Apple invent, Microsoft has been doing BOTH of them before Apple even considered thinking about it.
Sigh, still with this shit?
Vista didn't fuck up bad enough to make it 'The Year of the Linux Desktop', nothing is going to.
Until Linux gets some polish it will continue to be nothing but a sock puppet for political fanatics like Stallman and self serving 'developers' who can't be bothered with finishing features they start.
they've included the option to reimage your Windows install as a basic OS feature.
Except thats not what they are giving you. They're giving you the same thing you've always had, install over the top of an existing install.
option to refresh a PC with a clean install of the OS with apps and setting left intact.
Considering that 99 times out of a 100, its the settings that broke the install in the first place, recopying new files over isn't all that useful.
and probably find a way to automatically run that on login.
Which will be done the same way it is now, by changing a registry key. from metro.exe back to explorer.exe
Even after Windows 7 went on sale it was possible to get a new PC with WindowsXP, if you couldn't figure out how, slashdot is not meant for you.
But why would you waste 90+ percent of your (idle) cycles when your computer is ON?
All modern processors in modern OSes idle themselves when not actually working. My CPU isn't wasting cycles when its on and idle, its sleeping, conserving energy and generating less heat.
I waste no CPU cycles because I understand how my computer works.
I fail to see how the inability to create suns and planets has hampered Astronomy's claim to be a science.
That would mean you don't understand the meaning of the word science. Its a rather common problem.
Fact: this is extremely bad for human civilization for a number of very obvious reasons.
That isn't a fact, that is your opinion. And thats why the rest of what you're saying has already fallen apart. Change is change. It may be good, it may be bad, probably depends on where you live in this case, making blanket statements just makes you look ignorant and people will write you off, as they should, for being irrational and lying.
And thats the problem, all of these discussions are tainted with opinions such as this, labeled as facts. Statements like yours are why people argue against AGW.