It is observed when it interacts with something else in some way.
What that something else is and how it interacts is completely irrelevant, however any and all interactions are relevant. In order for something to exist, has to at some point interact with something else, there for... here it comes... everything that exists is observed, so... quantum physics is a bunch of talking in theoretical circles because we don't ACTUALLY have the slightest fucking clue how the universe works and this gives a bunch of douche bags a way to pretend they know what they are talking about so they don't have to come out and admit it, which would be pretty disappointing to hear, don't you think?
Sure, sounds good. You should create a set of benchmarks for those things.
Linpack was created for what people actually want however, a way to measure their super computing dicks.
Even if you come up with something new, its still going to turn in to a way to measure their penis, its human nature, survival of the fittest and all that. You're just creating artificial measurements we naturally turn into tests to determine who is better than the other. Long long ago, the winner was the guy who knew how to use a club the best, now we don't use clubs, but evolution won't stop regardless of how hard we humans try to halt our own progress in the name of civilization.
I believe the argument is not that oil was made from old dinosaurs, but that it was made from old plants. Plants which have been growing continually since those that turned into oil.
The problem isn't that its not a replenishing supply. It is, as long as their is plant life.
The problem is that it takes millions of years to fill your gas tank.
A single pump can pull out more oil in a day than has been created during the entire span of human history.
Of course, thats assuming oil comes from plant matter and all that crap.
Either way, the amount of oil currently in the planet that we are aware of tells us that it is far too little of an amount for the rate at which its produced to be high enough to be sustainable on any scale we currently think of.
If the rate of replenishment was fast enough to keep up with our level of usage, the planet would have turned into one big ball of oil a billion years ago.
Doesn't matter HOW its created, its not sustainable at our current rate of consumption.
The iOS API is far more stable than Android at this point, so if thats one of the reasons Windows did so good (which I agree with) the fact that android doesnt have consistency, its quality so far in the real world has been substandard due to the carriers, and lets face it, when most people who buy an android device have no urge to buy another one, yet most iOS users do... well you aren't winning in user satisfaction either...
Making geeks spew in their shorts, sure, android is kicking ass there, but realistically, it has none of the advantages you're claiming it does, and you found nothing really wrong with iOS and said everyone likes it, and it actually does what you claim gave Windows the distinct advantage in regards to the API (not the openness to random hardware).
So are Stallman and Woz getting married or something? That almost sounded like a Linux based marriage proposal.
The lack of SMS tone changing (finally here, christ!) was ridiculous.
Uhm, its always been listed under 'Sounds' in the Settings.app, not sure why you think thats a new feature.
I kept reading your post but then just realized you just don't like apple and want to be an android fanboy as you rant about apple doing one thing than rave about an android app that basically emulates the same features available on the iPhone.
Perhaps the hippie fanboy needs to lay off the smoke long enough for reality to step back in the door before he rants on about bullshit.
Show man an android device to which you have the source required to go from pure source code (no binary blobs at all for the device) to a working phone.
You can't. You need binary only graphics drivers, or radio blobs, all sorts of crap. Hardware manufactures aren't giving away the keys to the kingdom either.
Throw Darwin into the mix, and you've basically got the same thing as android is concerned from the kernel perspective. Both have some open code that build a decent base, but both have serious, required components that are closed tight.
Userland is different, sort of. iOS, completely closed. Android, somewhat open, sorta, if you want something different than pretty much every phone actually sold, since you know, pretty much everyone has closed source UI mods and other things to make their phone actually have something their competitors don't.
Every company that makes money using Linux as a base does so because it has proprietary software and services on top that you'll never see the source too.
Does the pseudo OSS nature of android make it easier to work with? I've seen no actual proof that its true, just people spewing on about how its OSS so it must be useful because its open.
I suspect you have no concept of whats required to make android work beyond the OSS source tree, nor do you have any idea what goes into most Android devices sold. Do you even own one?
Heres another novel idea... backwards and forwards compatibility.
You know, like making an effort to have it?
Anything that runs on 1.6 should run on 2.2, if it doesn't, you fucked up.
Something for 2.2 should run on 1.6 assuming it doesn't need any new features, if it doesn't, you fucked up.
Version 5 and version 1 not being compatibile is a little different, and no, releasing versions 1 through 8 in the same year isn't an acceptable way to 'get around that problem.
You need a good 2 years in each direction, 1 is an absolute minimum, even with phones.
Windows also runs in all those places that run Linux, and it also dominates on the desktop.
Not really sure how you call that an argument for it having 'won' and its certainly not 'dominating' smart phones yet. Your perspective is completely warped by fanboy.
What? You really can't? You mean EVERY SINGLE ONE of what you want to call a Distributed RCS actually depends on something centralized to make it useful to anyone?
Seriously, you guys need to get over the 'dstributed' bullshit and start realizing that anarchy and decentralization is not actually the solution to ever problem on the planet.
There has to be some point for software to go to start looking for 'distributed' copies.
So many people rant about which RCS to use, and 99% of you don't even know how to fully exploit even the most basic of RCS systems to their advantages.
However, its also unacceptable for the kid to be running rampant in the mall.
The TSA agent was doing a job she was assigned to do. She was doing it in public and she clearly wasn't trying to molest the child.
Touching someone does not mean you're fucking molesting them for fucks sake. I suppose you think changing a little girls diaper and having to clear her vagina afterwords is molestation as well? Do you think everyone in the world has been molested because someone had to diaper them and touch their genitals to clean them?
Learn the difference. Just touching someone doesn't make it fucking sexual, just because you get a raging hardon when some woman brushes up against you, doesn't mean it was intended to be sexual.
Do you think the TSA's screening is just so they can play with peoples saggy balls and tits, just so once in a blue moon they can fondle some kid or young adult?
The whole thing would have been a non-issue had the child not thrown a fucking temper tantrum cause she had to let go of her teddy bear for it to go through the xray machine. THAT IS WHY THE PARENTS NEED TO CONTROL THIER LITTLE BITCH OF A KID.
Can't you just join reality instead of dreaming about what you want to do to some sheep somewhere?
Yes, its ridiculous that we're being subjected to this kind of bullshit.
Yes, the fucking reporter should teach his fucking kid to behave and that throwing temper tantrums will get you a swift response. I promise you, my daughter would not behave like that in when she was that age.
The only thing truely evil about this particular video is the kids behavior. The TSA crap is bullshit, but theres nothing damning about the TSA here, its just a video of a kid throwing a temper tantrum because someone took her teddy bear away for 15 seconds.
We've seen that terrorists are more than willing to kill themselves and others in the name of God, I fail to see why anyone would think they wouldn't kill a child all the same? If God is going to treat you to 72 virgins for giving your live, he certainly would reward the child that was blown up in his name...
The problem with everyone getting excited and pissed off about this because its a child is that people don't realize that 'the enemy' doesn't give a fuck about life, its highly unlikely they would care about a child if they think giving their own is acceptable.
They think they will be rewarded for what they are doing... think about that.
However, I'm inclined to believe MS cheated. History is known to repeat itself, the track record of MS in this case is going to make any intelligent person wonder about this particular incident.
I won't call them cheaters, but I will say that I suspect it. It could be a stupid bug, I totally understand HOW it could happen if I were writing the code. I tend to think of MS as having more resources than I and probably should have caught this sort of thing during testing, but larger things do slip through the cracks.
I'm not the kind of person who works on GCC, but I've done a little bit of compiler type work for my own 'languages' stuffed into apps I've written.
Personally, I can totally see how that kind of a performance hit would happen, handling a function entirely differently when it returns a value versus when it doesn't return a value.
If it never returns a value, and never touches non-local vars (or objects), its easy to just nop the whole thing, when values get returned then you have to wonder what the caller is doing with the data, though you could just turn the function into a static returned value if it still touches no external vars, which would as fast as not calling it for practical purposes.
I think Microsoft should have people that would have written tests to catch this sort of thing, so I'm not ruling out the possibility of cheating by any means, but I can understand exactly how this got missed.
It happens all the time, its what happens people are fanatical, not really sure why this is news, even on slashdot. Giving them attention just furthers their behavior.
Wonder when you'll realize that 'four desktops' on a 'phone' is retarded.
Its not target at the general market because no normal intelligent person would try to do the things you think makes the N900 rock on a phone, they'd use a full size device.
Stop thinking the way to win the phone/tablet wars is to make a fully functional desktop computer out of them and realize that they have a place beside the desktop, not in place of the desktop.
Why the fuck would I want to work on a 2-3" or 10" screen when I have a laptop that bearly consumes any more space than a tablet and is actually a real machine with a real OS that doesn't have to run cut down versions of apps.
WebOS and BlackberryOS are only worth mentioning because of the companies they USED to be. They are so far behind its like a 200 lap race, where the race is over and HP and RIM are still trying to roll over the first lap.
Android had a chance, but its openness is killing it, too much fragmentation for normal end users so its going to be unlikely it'll take over anything anytime soon unless something changes. Sure, people buy android devices, but very few people own one for any length of time and continue to say 'I'll buy another' once you exclude the geeks who buy it just cause its Linux.
Apple still wins, sadely, as I'm sick of them. I'd love to see Android not suck, but I certainly won't be devoting any development time too it, I can make several times more for several times less work by sticking with iOS for the time being.
If anyone wants to beat out Apple, they're going to have to start paying attention to why people like iOS, and contrary to what everyone seems to think, its not just that its got apps or a fucking home screen with buttons on it. Making all these other OSes LOOK like iOS with its eye candy isn't why people buy A SECOND or REPLACEMENT iOS device, its because the device worked well, easy to use, not a freaking hassle, updates are plugin and click okay and not constrained by the carrier and for the most part work on all devices except several year old models. The same can not be said about anyone else.
People aren't going to buy the others the first time without the eye candy, but the eye candy certainly isn't keeping anyone around for the second purchase, especially after they use the devices for any length of time and they realize the eye candy feels crappy and unresponsive.
Tablet computing IS a fad right now, 90% of the people with iPads won't be using them (or anything else) in 2 years. That doesn't mean the other 10% won't continue to use pads (from apple or anyone else) in the future, but the general population isn't going to use pads all the time. A phone is pretty close to a pad, can accomplish the same stuff and is far smaller, when that doesn't cut it a pad is bearly a step up unless its a specific function (doctors using a pad to view medical data/imaging for instance) but really for any sort of real work, you want a real computer with real input devices.
Tablets won't go away, but this fad of everyone buying one will once the 'new' and 'trendy' wears off.
I'm forced to use it more and more because of friends and family
Really? Forced? They hold a gun to your head and say 'sign into facebook right now and add me as a friend or I'll kill you'? I mean, that would be forcing you to do it.
You choosing to play the attention whoring game that is facebook and saying you're are 'forced' is just a cop out.
If your friends and family can't be bothered to contact you directly, they aren't your friends, they are just people you know.
You'll find GMail and its integrated inbox a lot more useful when you stop trying to use a web based client for IM and email. Web based is useful when you're away from your properly configured computers, but to use it every day shows you really aren't that heavy of a user.
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It is observed when it interacts with something else in some way.
What that something else is and how it interacts is completely irrelevant, however any and all interactions are relevant. In order for something to exist, has to at some point interact with something else, there for ... here it comes ... everything that exists is observed, so ... quantum physics is a bunch of talking in theoretical circles because we don't ACTUALLY have the slightest fucking clue how the universe works and this gives a bunch of douche bags a way to pretend they know what they are talking about so they don't have to come out and admit it, which would be pretty disappointing to hear, don't you think?
True, except when the bug is in the software thats doing the rating, not the software thats being tested.
Read the article, Windows wasn't buggy (in relation to this situation), the benchmark software was.
Sure, sounds good. You should create a set of benchmarks for those things.
Linpack was created for what people actually want however, a way to measure their super computing dicks.
Even if you come up with something new, its still going to turn in to a way to measure their penis, its human nature, survival of the fittest and all that. You're just creating artificial measurements we naturally turn into tests to determine who is better than the other. Long long ago, the winner was the guy who knew how to use a club the best, now we don't use clubs, but evolution won't stop regardless of how hard we humans try to halt our own progress in the name of civilization.
I believe the argument is not that oil was made from old dinosaurs, but that it was made from old plants. Plants which have been growing continually since those that turned into oil.
The problem isn't that its not a replenishing supply. It is, as long as their is plant life.
The problem is that it takes millions of years to fill your gas tank.
A single pump can pull out more oil in a day than has been created during the entire span of human history.
Of course, thats assuming oil comes from plant matter and all that crap.
Either way, the amount of oil currently in the planet that we are aware of tells us that it is far too little of an amount for the rate at which its produced to be high enough to be sustainable on any scale we currently think of.
If the rate of replenishment was fast enough to keep up with our level of usage, the planet would have turned into one big ball of oil a billion years ago.
Doesn't matter HOW its created, its not sustainable at our current rate of consumption.
Sorry Woz,
The iOS API is far more stable than Android at this point, so if thats one of the reasons Windows did so good (which I agree with) the fact that android doesnt have consistency, its quality so far in the real world has been substandard due to the carriers, and lets face it, when most people who buy an android device have no urge to buy another one, yet most iOS users do ... well you aren't winning in user satisfaction either ...
Making geeks spew in their shorts, sure, android is kicking ass there, but realistically, it has none of the advantages you're claiming it does, and you found nothing really wrong with iOS and said everyone likes it, and it actually does what you claim gave Windows the distinct advantage in regards to the API (not the openness to random hardware).
So are Stallman and Woz getting married or something? That almost sounded like a Linux based marriage proposal.
Uhm, its always been listed under 'Sounds' in the Settings.app, not sure why you think thats a new feature.
I kept reading your post but then just realized you just don't like apple and want to be an android fanboy as you rant about apple doing one thing than rave about an android app that basically emulates the same features available on the iPhone.
Perhaps the hippie fanboy needs to lay off the smoke long enough for reality to step back in the door before he rants on about bullshit.
Show man an android device to which you have the source required to go from pure source code (no binary blobs at all for the device) to a working phone.
You can't. You need binary only graphics drivers, or radio blobs, all sorts of crap. Hardware manufactures aren't giving away the keys to the kingdom either.
Throw Darwin into the mix, and you've basically got the same thing as android is concerned from the kernel perspective. Both have some open code that build a decent base, but both have serious, required components that are closed tight.
Userland is different, sort of. iOS, completely closed. Android, somewhat open, sorta, if you want something different than pretty much every phone actually sold, since you know, pretty much everyone has closed source UI mods and other things to make their phone actually have something their competitors don't.
Every company that makes money using Linux as a base does so because it has proprietary software and services on top that you'll never see the source too.
Does the pseudo OSS nature of android make it easier to work with? I've seen no actual proof that its true, just people spewing on about how its OSS so it must be useful because its open.
I suspect you have no concept of whats required to make android work beyond the OSS source tree, nor do you have any idea what goes into most Android devices sold. Do you even own one?
Sadly, only a very tiny portion of the market gives a shit about emulators. We might, 'they' don't. 'They' accounts for about 99.99% of the sales.
Heres another novel idea ... backwards and forwards compatibility.
You know, like making an effort to have it?
Anything that runs on 1.6 should run on 2.2, if it doesn't, you fucked up.
Something for 2.2 should run on 1.6 assuming it doesn't need any new features, if it doesn't, you fucked up.
Version 5 and version 1 not being compatibile is a little different, and no, releasing versions 1 through 8 in the same year isn't an acceptable way to 'get around that problem.
You need a good 2 years in each direction, 1 is an absolute minimum, even with phones.
So I'm making a safe guess here that he's never actually used either one of them.
Windows also runs in all those places that run Linux, and it also dominates on the desktop.
Not really sure how you call that an argument for it having 'won' and its certainly not 'dominating' smart phones yet. Your perspective is completely warped by fanboy.
What? You really can't? You mean EVERY SINGLE ONE of what you want to call a Distributed RCS actually depends on something centralized to make it useful to anyone?
Seriously, you guys need to get over the 'dstributed' bullshit and start realizing that anarchy and decentralization is not actually the solution to ever problem on the planet.
There has to be some point for software to go to start looking for 'distributed' copies.
So many people rant about which RCS to use, and 99% of you don't even know how to fully exploit even the most basic of RCS systems to their advantages.
No, groping them would be unacceptable.
However, its also unacceptable for the kid to be running rampant in the mall.
The TSA agent was doing a job she was assigned to do. She was doing it in public and she clearly wasn't trying to molest the child.
Touching someone does not mean you're fucking molesting them for fucks sake. I suppose you think changing a little girls diaper and having to clear her vagina afterwords is molestation as well? Do you think everyone in the world has been molested because someone had to diaper them and touch their genitals to clean them?
Learn the difference. Just touching someone doesn't make it fucking sexual, just because you get a raging hardon when some woman brushes up against you, doesn't mean it was intended to be sexual.
Do you think the TSA's screening is just so they can play with peoples saggy balls and tits, just so once in a blue moon they can fondle some kid or young adult?
The whole thing would have been a non-issue had the child not thrown a fucking temper tantrum cause she had to let go of her teddy bear for it to go through the xray machine. THAT IS WHY THE PARENTS NEED TO CONTROL THIER LITTLE BITCH OF A KID.
Can't you just join reality instead of dreaming about what you want to do to some sheep somewhere?
No, what they are doing isn't useful.
Yes, its ridiculous that we're being subjected to this kind of bullshit.
Yes, the fucking reporter should teach his fucking kid to behave and that throwing temper tantrums will get you a swift response. I promise you, my daughter would not behave like that in when she was that age.
The only thing truely evil about this particular video is the kids behavior. The TSA crap is bullshit, but theres nothing damning about the TSA here, its just a video of a kid throwing a temper tantrum because someone took her teddy bear away for 15 seconds.
We've seen that terrorists are more than willing to kill themselves and others in the name of God, I fail to see why anyone would think they wouldn't kill a child all the same? If God is going to treat you to 72 virgins for giving your live, he certainly would reward the child that was blown up in his name ...
The problem with everyone getting excited and pissed off about this because its a child is that people don't realize that 'the enemy' doesn't give a fuck about life, its highly unlikely they would care about a child if they think giving their own is acceptable.
They think they will be rewarded for what they are doing ... think about that.
Either way, the TSA is one big joke.
I agree, no proof, so the headline is bunk.
However, I'm inclined to believe MS cheated. History is known to repeat itself, the track record of MS in this case is going to make any intelligent person wonder about this particular incident.
I won't call them cheaters, but I will say that I suspect it. It could be a stupid bug, I totally understand HOW it could happen if I were writing the code. I tend to think of MS as having more resources than I and probably should have caught this sort of thing during testing, but larger things do slip through the cracks.
I'm not the kind of person who works on GCC, but I've done a little bit of compiler type work for my own 'languages' stuffed into apps I've written.
Personally, I can totally see how that kind of a performance hit would happen, handling a function entirely differently when it returns a value versus when it doesn't return a value.
If it never returns a value, and never touches non-local vars (or objects), its easy to just nop the whole thing, when values get returned then you have to wonder what the caller is doing with the data, though you could just turn the function into a static returned value if it still touches no external vars, which would as fast as not calling it for practical purposes.
I think Microsoft should have people that would have written tests to catch this sort of thing, so I'm not ruling out the possibility of cheating by any means, but I can understand exactly how this got missed.
The ORIGINAL crazy taxi was ported to the Dreamcast, then to other things.
The ORIGINAL Crazy Taxi was an arcade game, the Dreamcast port came second.
Have you ever actually heard someone who wasn't a teenage horny boy on the Internet that said 'sexy' instead of 'scuzzy'?
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It happens all the time, its what happens people are fanatical, not really sure why this is news, even on slashdot. Giving them attention just furthers their behavior.
I wonder why both Microsoft's and Intel's C compilers produce so much better code output than GCC if the playing field is so great.
GCC compiles slower and the executable code is slower in most cases.
If you want fast, you don't generally use GCC.
Wonder when you'll realize that 'four desktops' on a 'phone' is retarded.
Its not target at the general market because no normal intelligent person would try to do the things you think makes the N900 rock on a phone, they'd use a full size device.
Stop thinking the way to win the phone/tablet wars is to make a fully functional desktop computer out of them and realize that they have a place beside the desktop, not in place of the desktop.
Why the fuck would I want to work on a 2-3" or 10" screen when I have a laptop that bearly consumes any more space than a tablet and is actually a real machine with a real OS that doesn't have to run cut down versions of apps.
WebOS and BlackberryOS are only worth mentioning because of the companies they USED to be. They are so far behind its like a 200 lap race, where the race is over and HP and RIM are still trying to roll over the first lap.
Android had a chance, but its openness is killing it, too much fragmentation for normal end users so its going to be unlikely it'll take over anything anytime soon unless something changes. Sure, people buy android devices, but very few people own one for any length of time and continue to say 'I'll buy another' once you exclude the geeks who buy it just cause its Linux.
Apple still wins, sadely, as I'm sick of them. I'd love to see Android not suck, but I certainly won't be devoting any development time too it, I can make several times more for several times less work by sticking with iOS for the time being.
If anyone wants to beat out Apple, they're going to have to start paying attention to why people like iOS, and contrary to what everyone seems to think, its not just that its got apps or a fucking home screen with buttons on it. Making all these other OSes LOOK like iOS with its eye candy isn't why people buy A SECOND or REPLACEMENT iOS device, its because the device worked well, easy to use, not a freaking hassle, updates are plugin and click okay and not constrained by the carrier and for the most part work on all devices except several year old models. The same can not be said about anyone else.
People aren't going to buy the others the first time without the eye candy, but the eye candy certainly isn't keeping anyone around for the second purchase, especially after they use the devices for any length of time and they realize the eye candy feels crappy and unresponsive.
Tablet computing IS a fad right now, 90% of the people with iPads won't be using them (or anything else) in 2 years. That doesn't mean the other 10% won't continue to use pads (from apple or anyone else) in the future, but the general population isn't going to use pads all the time. A phone is pretty close to a pad, can accomplish the same stuff and is far smaller, when that doesn't cut it a pad is bearly a step up unless its a specific function (doctors using a pad to view medical data/imaging for instance) but really for any sort of real work, you want a real computer with real input devices.
Tablets won't go away, but this fad of everyone buying one will once the 'new' and 'trendy' wears off.
So we know that Nokia's version of MeeGo is going to have an absolutely shitty UI ... Useful info.
Really? Forced? They hold a gun to your head and say 'sign into facebook right now and add me as a friend or I'll kill you'? I mean, that would be forcing you to do it.
You choosing to play the attention whoring game that is facebook and saying you're are 'forced' is just a cop out.
If your friends and family can't be bothered to contact you directly, they aren't your friends, they are just people you know.
You'll find GMail and its integrated inbox a lot more useful when you stop trying to use a web based client for IM and email. Web based is useful when you're away from your properly configured computers, but to use it every day shows you really aren't that heavy of a user.