Seriously, 'too easy to fool' might not be an accurate description. After all, it has taken trillions of dollars and thousands of lives to pull this joke off. I'm thinking that if you have to kill people and spend trillions of dollars to trick someone, they are pretty damn hard to trick.
You would be wrong. C64 code is far more portable than Java is or likely ever will be. Here is a list of some of the platforms that C64 can be run on use the C64 VMs Vice and Frodo:
* MS-DOS
* MS-Windows
* Acorn
* BeOS
* QNX
* OS/2
* Solaris
* SCO
* Amiga
* Mac OS X
* GP2X
* GP32
* SkyOS
* Minix
* Atari Mint
* HPUX
* RISC
* EPOC
* Zaurus
* Dreamcast
* Windows Mobile
* PalmOS
* MorphOS
* PSP
* Gameboy Advance
* Wii
* Linux
* XBox
* PS2
* Java
* And the list goes on.
All of these run C64 'byte code' exactly the same. It really is write once run anywhere. The fact that there is a C64 VM for Java means that no matter how many platforms Java is ported to, it will never equal the platforms that C64 is ported to. But even dismissing that, the number of platforms that run the C64 VM still dwarfs the number of platforms that Java runs on.
You can see similar lists if you check out Atari 2600 or NES VMs. Heck, ScummVM probably runs on more platforms than Java.
I know that my 1989 Geo Metro got 52mpg, and my 1999 Suzuki Swift got 45mpg. I realize that these are smaller cars than most people want, but given that there was even one car that was getting 52mpg 20 years ago, we should certainly be able to expect at least that level of mileage out of cars noticeably larger today. 20 years of development in a VERY long time.
So I assume you beat your child when he or she does poorly at school?
Better than the other common form of punishment which is to mentally abuse your child. So, from your comments, I assume when your child does poorly at school, you mentally abuse them? If you don't leave marks, it ok, right?
Do I (1) get another job, (2) sue people, or (3) invent some magic spell? Is society going to be able to support people who synthesize knowledge or will we need to rely on the Wikipedia for everything? I'm open to suggestions.
I think it is the "all the other kids are doing it!" argument. It is one of those arguments that you use when you know the other person is correct, but you don't want to admit it.
I used to write insurance rating software for a company called FSC. Our software calculated auto insurance rates for well over a thousand insurance programs for brokers. The parent, while off topic, is correct about men being discriminated against by auto insurance companies. The way it works is that you start with a base rate, and either add a fixed amount, or a multiplication factor to to that base rate for various things. So, while you might get a x.8 factor for driving less than 15k miles a year (the lowest they usually track), but you will get a x 1.3 factor for having a penis.
So, while off topic, he is right about the auto insurance discrimination. Whether he is accurate about actual accidents, I don't know, but in my household, he is correct about that as well.
The government and health industry are declaring huge numbers of people obese who are not, and reassuring a huge number of people who are that they are perfectly healthy. If you don't see a problem with this, you clearly don't see the bigger picture.
It is also not whining to point out that the single most commonly used definition of 'obese' is so inaccurate as to be ridiculous when it is being used in an article about that worthless definition being used to make laws.
Also, your suggestion of going and getting a certificate of health and presenting it to the insurance company is a hack to a bigger social problem at best. Even if you get hydrostatic weighing, which is unavailable in many areas (do to people just using inaccurate BMI calculations to determine body fat), if you are even.01% into overweight, you will have to pay significantly higher premiums than a large percentage of the population who have significantly higher body fat, but fit into the "normal" category on a BMI chart.
More importantly, huge numbers of healthy people are being instructed by "experts" to become unhealthy, while huge numbers of unhealthy people are being told by "experts" that they are doing just fine when they are seriously overweight.
In the end, either you believe the BMI charts are accurate, which would make you dumb, or you are aware that the BMI charts are inaccurate which would make you a troll.
Are you seriously trying to claim that your concern is that people won't buy other authors books if yours is free? I say you are a liar. If that was even the slightest concern, you would be complaining about authors that give books away; you would be complaining about public libraries; and you would be complaining about public schools. All of these give information away that could lead to 'better authors' being affected. So, unless your willing to call Ben Franklin a villian, it is clear that you are lying.
Next, you are a hypocrate. You create a book using other peoples ideas, and then feel that they should belong to you for all time. Yes, you used other peoples ideas. You may have added ideas of your own, but it is physically impossible to communicate in a language without using other people's ideas. And before you start trying to explain that your ideas are bigger and better than the ideas of the millions of people that built up the language by coining terms you used to write your book, as yourself this... Have you ever once sang 'Happy Birthday' without paying a royalty?
You are honestly trying to use the fact that auto insurance companies sexually discriminate against men as a reason to insult people who point out that BMI is stupid? Either you are a troll, or not bright enough to be involved in the discussion.
Great. Let me know when you have convinced the insurance companies not to massively increase my insurance rates over this. Until then you are just trolling.
Maybe this would be sane if this was not an example of an "obese" man.
Now, I'm no Mr. Olympia, but when I stand relaxed, you can see my stomach muscles, yet I am almost universally considered well into the obese category. In fact, by by almost all weight charts, I would literally have to start amputating body parts to get to what they claim my 'ideal weight' is.
Now, if we could just get people around here to understand that cats are one of these highly visible superpredators that eradicate local wildlife. (And shit in your yard.)
Now that you mention it, especially in their plain clothes cars and the personal, off-duty cars. Don't forget to put them in the cars of their children and spouses while you are at it.
Exactly. Windows has always had backward compatibility problems, and virtualization is obviously the future. By emulating the old environments, they can clean out the old cruft while keeping a better level of compatibility than they could ever hope for with their various 'compatibility modes'.
I live 10 blocks from the Santa Rosa Jr. College. Thus, I have met, known, and still know many people who have attended this college. Your statement is definitely not accurate. More common is that people are there because it means that mom and dad will keep supporting them. Whether that is letting them continue living at home, or even renting them their own apartment and giving them a healthy allowance, or it is just that "going to college" is "what your supposed to do".
It's nice that you are wealthy. I do all right myself, and enjoy the benefits it gives me, but don't kid yourself. There are plenty of places right here in the good old USA that kids are WAY better off sitting in front of a computer than playing outside and taking long walks through their neighborhood.
Before anyone complains about the parent post, The biology and astronomy that that he is referring to is grade and high school level biology and astronomy. Yes, we all know that there have been plenty of advancements in biology and astronomy in the last half century, but those advances are not taught in our public schools because they are mostly beyond the scope of a public education.
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You kid, but many 'comic book shops' end up focusing more on games and collectibles than comic books.
Seriously, 'too easy to fool' might not be an accurate description. After all, it has taken trillions of dollars and thousands of lives to pull this joke off. I'm thinking that if you have to kill people and spend trillions of dollars to trick someone, they are pretty damn hard to trick.
You would be wrong. C64 code is far more portable than Java is or likely ever will be. Here is a list of some of the platforms that C64 can be run on use the C64 VMs Vice and Frodo:
* MS-DOS
* MS-Windows
* Acorn
* BeOS
* QNX
* OS/2
* Solaris
* SCO
* Amiga
* Mac OS X
* GP2X
* GP32
* SkyOS
* Minix
* Atari Mint
* HPUX
* RISC
* EPOC
* Zaurus
* Dreamcast
* Windows Mobile
* PalmOS
* MorphOS
* PSP
* Gameboy Advance
* Wii
* Linux
* XBox
* PS2
* Java
* And the list goes on.
All of these run C64 'byte code' exactly the same. It really is write once run anywhere. The fact that there is a C64 VM for Java means that no matter how many platforms Java is ported to, it will never equal the platforms that C64 is ported to. But even dismissing that, the number of platforms that run the C64 VM still dwarfs the number of platforms that Java runs on.
You can see similar lists if you check out Atari 2600 or NES VMs. Heck, ScummVM probably runs on more platforms than Java.
I know that my 1989 Geo Metro got 52mpg, and my 1999 Suzuki Swift got 45mpg. I realize that these are smaller cars than most people want, but given that there was even one car that was getting 52mpg 20 years ago, we should certainly be able to expect at least that level of mileage out of cars noticeably larger today. 20 years of development in a VERY long time.
There can definitely be bugs in the design stage. They just are not the ones that can be fixed by changing one or two lines of code.
So I assume you beat your child when he or she does poorly at school?
Better than the other common form of punishment which is to mentally abuse your child. So, from your comments, I assume when your child does poorly at school, you mentally abuse them? If you don't leave marks, it ok, right?
Hey! It's a new millennium! Don't judge!
Well then, I guess you have defined which category you belong in then. Thanks.
Do I (1) get another job, (2) sue people, or (3) invent some magic spell? Is society going to be able to support people who synthesize knowledge or will we need to rely on the Wikipedia for everything? I'm open to suggestions.
I think it is the "all the other kids are doing it!" argument. It is one of those arguments that you use when you know the other person is correct, but you don't want to admit it.
I used to write insurance rating software for a company called FSC. Our software calculated auto insurance rates for well over a thousand insurance programs for brokers. The parent, while off topic, is correct about men being discriminated against by auto insurance companies. The way it works is that you start with a base rate, and either add a fixed amount, or a multiplication factor to to that base rate for various things. So, while you might get a x .8 factor for driving less than 15k miles a year (the lowest they usually track), but you will get a x 1.3 factor for having a penis.
So, while off topic, he is right about the auto insurance discrimination. Whether he is accurate about actual accidents, I don't know, but in my household, he is correct about that as well.
YOU just don't get it do you?
.01% into overweight, you will have to pay significantly higher premiums than a large percentage of the population who have significantly higher body fat, but fit into the "normal" category on a BMI chart.
The government and health industry are declaring huge numbers of people obese who are not, and reassuring a huge number of people who are that they are perfectly healthy. If you don't see a problem with this, you clearly don't see the bigger picture.
It is also not whining to point out that the single most commonly used definition of 'obese' is so inaccurate as to be ridiculous when it is being used in an article about that worthless definition being used to make laws.
Also, your suggestion of going and getting a certificate of health and presenting it to the insurance company is a hack to a bigger social problem at best. Even if you get hydrostatic weighing, which is unavailable in many areas (do to people just using inaccurate BMI calculations to determine body fat), if you are even
More importantly, huge numbers of healthy people are being instructed by "experts" to become unhealthy, while huge numbers of unhealthy people are being told by "experts" that they are doing just fine when they are seriously overweight.
In the end, either you believe the BMI charts are accurate, which would make you dumb, or you are aware that the BMI charts are inaccurate which would make you a troll.
Are you seriously trying to claim that your concern is that people won't buy other authors books if yours is free? I say you are a liar. If that was even the slightest concern, you would be complaining about authors that give books away; you would be complaining about public libraries; and you would be complaining about public schools. All of these give information away that could lead to 'better authors' being affected. So, unless your willing to call Ben Franklin a villian, it is clear that you are lying.
Next, you are a hypocrate. You create a book using other peoples ideas, and then feel that they should belong to you for all time. Yes, you used other peoples ideas. You may have added ideas of your own, but it is physically impossible to communicate in a language without using other people's ideas. And before you start trying to explain that your ideas are bigger and better than the ideas of the millions of people that built up the language by coining terms you used to write your book, as yourself this... Have you ever once sang 'Happy Birthday' without paying a royalty?
You are honestly trying to use the fact that auto insurance companies sexually discriminate against men as a reason to insult people who point out that BMI is stupid? Either you are a troll, or not bright enough to be involved in the discussion.
Great. Let me know when you have convinced the insurance companies not to massively increase my insurance rates over this. Until then you are just trolling.
Maybe this would be sane if this was not an example of an "obese" man.
Now, I'm no Mr. Olympia, but when I stand relaxed, you can see my stomach muscles, yet I am almost universally considered well into the obese category. In fact, by by almost all weight charts, I would literally have to start amputating body parts to get to what they claim my 'ideal weight' is.
Now, if we could just get people around here to understand that cats are one of these highly visible superpredators that eradicate local wildlife. (And shit in your yard.)
Now that you mention it, especially in their plain clothes cars and the personal, off-duty cars. Don't forget to put them in the cars of their children and spouses while you are at it.
What, not enough walking in it for you?
Or better yet, putting GPS on police cars.
Exactly. Windows has always had backward compatibility problems, and virtualization is obviously the future. By emulating the old environments, they can clean out the old cruft while keeping a better level of compatibility than they could ever hope for with their various 'compatibility modes'.
You are there because you want to learn,
I live 10 blocks from the Santa Rosa Jr. College. Thus, I have met, known, and still know many people who have attended this college. Your statement is definitely not accurate. More common is that people are there because it means that mom and dad will keep supporting them. Whether that is letting them continue living at home, or even renting them their own apartment and giving them a healthy allowance, or it is just that "going to college" is "what your supposed to do".
It's nice that you are wealthy. I do all right myself, and enjoy the benefits it gives me, but don't kid yourself. There are plenty of places right here in the good old USA that kids are WAY better off sitting in front of a computer than playing outside and taking long walks through their neighborhood.
The dollar or two is just so that can "adamantly" say that the laptops are not "free".
Before anyone complains about the parent post, The biology and astronomy that that he is referring to is grade and high school level biology and astronomy. Yes, we all know that there have been plenty of advancements in biology and astronomy in the last half century, but those advances are not taught in our public schools because they are mostly beyond the scope of a public education.