I wish people would stop relying on non standard and bloated PC features like 80 column displays. A hard carriage return every 40 characters means that your post be will viewable without reflowing on an Atari 800XL.
It looks like VNC on the client, and some proprietary code on their server so that rather than have VNC listen, it connects to their server which acts as a matchmaker. The advantage being that it can get through firewalls, since most of them don't block outgoing connections on port 443.
French programmers could just develop their software under assumed pen-names and publish their free software on servers overseas outside of the French government's jurisdiction.
You don't need to go overseas, most of Paris's suburbs are 'outside the French government's jurisdiction'.
I find it hard to pick sides there. France=bad obviously, but that means Greenpeace must have been the good guys. No wait. Greenpeace, evil murderous fanatics, but that means the French must have been riASIASOOSOOSK@#$$. Core dumped.
Identity theft is a growing problem on the internets. Bud Scoliosis of Hound's Breath Missouri lost his life savings to a cheap huckster in Shanghai. Abe Scrotum of Alabama was amazed when his pickup truck was reposessed without warning one sunny Sunday morning. He had missed the payments, because all his bank accounts had been emptied by evil internet criminals.
But a solution is at hand. Send us your Social Security number, name, passport, bank account details and any passwords, credit cards etc and we'll keep them safe for you. You can even destroy any records you have, for added safety.
But hurry! If you reply within 24 hours you get Identity Protection PLATINUM Cover FREE for 12 MONTHS!!!! After that, it will go back to the regular price of $199 per month!
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As far as I know they are the same now. In Dicken's time, UK copyright only applied in the UK. Even worse, the pirate editions were often 'improved' by some hack editor to appeal to the proles. You get the same situation now, where Hilary Clinton's autobiography was ripped off by a Chinese publisher.
They stole it, translated it and significantly altered sections of it. Actually, in the Dickens case he seems to be almost as concerned by the alterations as the stolen income.
Maybe Ayn Rand was on to something after all - this reminds me of The Fountainhead, where the architect's vision is stolen by big businessmen and then corrupted to please the base tastes of the mob. Of course, in the Chinese edition of The Fountainhead, the architect is a happy drone designing tiny parts of Stalinist wedding cake buildings in the People's Ministry of Architecture, learning his trade through a series of 'self criticism' sessions.
It's odd to see a left winger like Dickens campaigning for copyright, essentially against big business which lobbied to keep the right to make unauthorised copies of his work.
Makes you realise why copyright was invented in the first place in fact.
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Under one possible "pro-choice" rationalization, fetuses are guilty of trespassing in mother's womb, for which the punishment is execution. The special rights that U.S. government currently grants to fetuses in the third trimester are analogous to squatter's rights.
This sort of comment is the main reason I still read this site.
Actually, the Republican attitude to killing people isn't that hard to understand. Foetuses, stem cells and so on are just potential people, but they are innocent. Criminals, terrorists and so on aren't innocent. Killing innocent people = bad, guilty ones are ok.
Can't say I agree with the whole 'life begins at conception hence foetuses are people' theory, but if you do their attitude makes complete sense.
Actually, I'm not a Randian. I saw The Fountainhead, and I thought it was simplistic and preachy.
But it's not a _bad_ ideology per se - Objectivism seems to be a sort of mangled version of Adam Smith's enlightened self interest. And a belief in small government. And a load of obnoxious stuff about how the mob don't appreciate anything, and that big government panders to them, and hinders 'great men' in doing so, which is more Thomas Carlyle than Adam Smith.
But it annoys me when people confuse them with the Neo Cons, or any current Republicans. Neo cons explicitly don't believe in small government anymore. I read Irving Kristol's book on it - he said that Neo Cons, unlike Cons can see that big government can be useful, e.g. to invade Iraq or fix society. Or think of Dick Cheney saying that "Ronald Reagan showed that deficits don't matter", or any of the Neo Cons on cultural stuff.
And I think at least on this, Ayn Rand would side with the Cons rather than the NeoCons. So she'd be on the right side, but for the wrong reasons.
It's traditional to argue with ideas you disagree with, rather than putting a silly label on them and suggesting they be hidden from view.
Having said that here are some other useful labels to ridicule ideas that you probably dislike
RepubliKKKan - 'cos we all know that the party of Abraham Lincoln is the KKK in disguise. NeoCon - A Jewish traitor, plotting to subvert US foreign policy as part of the International Jewish Conspiracy. BusHitler, BullsHitler - Clearly a somewhat shallow, accident prone president advised by the evil Neo Cons = Evil genius Nazi dictator, noted anti semite.
It's easy to build a C++ system with what looks like nice clean code. And it works fine when you run it in your debug environment, usually as an emulation in Windows. Then you build for target and it fails 1% of the time because of some subtlety like exceptions being thrown in a constructor in a wierd error case or something. And here you have no JTAG and hence no debugging, so the only thing you have is printfs to the serial port. Which alter the timing enough to hide the bug.
Of course, big C systems can die in hard to debug ways too, but at least then it's a real problem, like interrupts being disabled too long or something, rather than some harmless looking error handling code someone wrote without thinking.
And it's worse in a complicated embedded system where you have big chunks of third party binary code, no MMU to keep the heap defragmented and hard real time constraints.
Hmm, I expected a penisreference at about this point in the 'conversation'. A bit predictable don't you think?
Still, I'm impressed that you missed temptation to go for an easy spelling,grammar flayme though. Instead of that you posted a joke pseudocode typo flame. And you bash MS in the same post. Awesome.
If you work at it, you may be able to pass a Turing test some day.
What's needed is a class library which speeds the creation of Type Managers. It should have a Document base class which applications could extend to contain document info, and a View base class which would abstract the user interface. Both would have base methods for all the common stuff, and you'd extend them with the specifics of what you're trying to do. There'd be Views derived classes based on common widgets, like dialogs and lists.
Additionally, there'd be a way for software components to register as viewers of file types in some global database, so that they could integrate with the default shell and display previews. They should also be able to open the type manager or print, perhaps integrating into shell's context menus.
Yup, welcome to Windows 95 with a bunch of MFC applications, COM components and the registry.
The Itanium ecosystem is as unhealthy as ever with HP totally dominating
sales. HP moved 4,789 of the 5,665 boxes shipped in the second quarter,
earning $250m in revenue. That total is roughly equivalent to the RISC
server business done by IBM or Sun in one week.
Ouch. I thought it would at least manage to sell as many chips as POWER or SPARC, but it's an order of magnitude worse. The sad thing is that the people marketing it managed to kill off Alpha and Mips before this happened - both Compaq and SGI are too far along that process to revive them when Itanium finally dies. Looks like the whole world will end up on x86-64 after all.
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People that write articles like that will be first up against the wall when the machines take over.
You're better off saying there's no danger upto point that robot M1A1s start mowing people down, and then pulling a quick Baltar.
Besides, everyone knows that AI is impossible.
I wish people would stop relying on non
standard and bloated PC features like
80 column displays. A hard carriage
return every 40 characters means that
your post be will viewable without
reflowing on an Atari 800XL.
It looks like VNC on the client, and some proprietary code on their server so that rather than have VNC listen, it connects to their server which acts as a matchmaker. The advantage being that it can get through firewalls, since most of them don't block outgoing connections on port 443.
https://www.copilot.com/tech/
Why would you need a tuner? All Steve's keynote videos can be downloaded from the net.
That's because Bill Gates is an evil, evil man.
French programmers could just develop their software under assumed pen-names and publish their free software on servers overseas outside of the French government's jurisdiction.
You don't need to go overseas, most of Paris's suburbs are 'outside the French government's jurisdiction'.
I find it hard to pick sides there. France=bad obviously, but that means Greenpeace must have been the good guys. No wait. Greenpeace, evil murderous fanatics, but that means the French must have been riASIASOOSOOSK@#$$. Core dumped.
So if I criticised Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia, that would be culturalist?
Worried about identity theft?
Identity theft is a growing problem on the internets. Bud Scoliosis of Hound's Breath Missouri lost his life savings to a cheap huckster in Shanghai. Abe Scrotum of Alabama was amazed when his pickup truck was reposessed without warning one sunny Sunday morning. He had missed the payments, because all his bank accounts had been emptied by evil internet criminals.
But a solution is at hand. Send us your Social Security number, name, passport, bank account details and any passwords, credit cards etc and we'll keep them safe for you. You can even destroy any records you have, for added safety.
But hurry! If you reply within 24 hours you get Identity Protection PLATINUM Cover FREE for 12 MONTHS!!!! After that, it will go back to the regular price of $199 per month!
Save over THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS, and get a FREE GUN RACK or CARRIAGE CLOCK, only if you apply now. Operators are standing by. Call 01186-PEACE-OF-MIND.
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It's only pathetic if you talk to the toasters and they ignore you.
"What's that? Kill them all you say? By your command...."
As far as I know they are the same now. In Dicken's time, UK copyright only applied in the UK. Even worse, the pirate editions were often 'improved' by some hack editor to appeal to the proles. You get the same situation now, where Hilary Clinton's autobiography was ripped off by a Chinese publisher.
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http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/2003/9/28_5.htm
They stole it, translated it and significantly altered sections of it. Actually, in the Dickens case he seems to be almost as concerned by the alterations as the stolen income.
Maybe Ayn Rand was on to something after all - this reminds me of The Fountainhead, where the architect's vision is stolen by big businessmen and then corrupted to please the base tastes of the mob. Of course, in the Chinese edition of The Fountainhead, the architect is a happy drone designing tiny parts of Stalinist wedding cake buildings in the People's Ministry of Architecture, learning his trade through a series of 'self criticism' sessions.
It's odd to see a left winger like Dickens campaigning for copyright, essentially against big business which lobbied to keep the right to make unauthorised copies of his work.
Makes you realise why copyright was invented in the first place in fact.
Under one possible "pro-choice" rationalization, fetuses are guilty of trespassing in mother's womb, for which the punishment is execution. The special rights that U.S. government currently grants to fetuses in the third trimester are analogous to squatter's rights.
This sort of comment is the main reason I still read this site.
Actually, the Republican attitude to killing people isn't that hard to understand. Foetuses, stem cells and so on are just potential people, but they are innocent. Criminals, terrorists and so on aren't innocent. Killing innocent people = bad, guilty ones are ok.
Can't say I agree with the whole 'life begins at conception hence foetuses are people' theory, but if you do their attitude makes complete sense.
Actually, I'm not a Randian. I saw The Fountainhead, and I thought it was simplistic and preachy.
But it's not a _bad_ ideology per se - Objectivism seems to be a sort of mangled version of Adam Smith's enlightened self interest. And a belief in small government. And a load of obnoxious stuff about how the mob don't appreciate anything, and that big government panders to them, and hinders 'great men' in doing so, which is more Thomas Carlyle than Adam Smith.
But it annoys me when people confuse them with the Neo Cons, or any current Republicans. Neo cons explicitly don't believe in small government anymore. I read Irving Kristol's book on it - he said that Neo Cons, unlike Cons can see that big government can be useful, e.g. to invade Iraq or fix society. Or think of Dick Cheney saying that "Ronald Reagan showed that deficits don't matter", or any of the Neo Cons on cultural stuff.
And I think at least on this, Ayn Rand would side with the Cons rather than the NeoCons. So she'd be on the right side, but for the wrong reasons.
You're certainly living up to your sig.
It's traditional to argue with ideas you disagree with, rather than putting a silly label on them and suggesting they be hidden from view.
Having said that here are some other useful labels to ridicule ideas that you probably dislike
RepubliKKKan - 'cos we all know that the party of Abraham Lincoln is the KKK in disguise.
NeoCon - A Jewish traitor, plotting to subvert US foreign policy as part of the International Jewish Conspiracy.
BusHitler, BullsHitler - Clearly a somewhat shallow, accident prone president advised by the evil Neo Cons = Evil genius Nazi dictator, noted anti semite.
Charles Dickens campaigned for international copyright in the US.
http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/work_copy.shtml
That person is a troll. In today's society we make them a politician. In all reality they should be run out of town.
or KILLED.
TANSTAAFL dude.
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It's easy to build a C++ system with what looks like nice clean code. And it works fine when you run it in your debug environment, usually as an emulation in Windows. Then you build for target and it fails 1% of the time because of some subtlety like exceptions being thrown in a constructor in a wierd error case or something. And here you have no JTAG and hence no debugging, so the only thing you have is printfs to the serial port. Which alter the timing enough to hide the bug.
Of course, big C systems can die in hard to debug ways too, but at least then it's a real problem, like interrupts being disabled too long or something, rather than some harmless looking error handling code someone wrote without thinking.
And a lot of C++ isms can produce really subtle bugs:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/04
And it's worse in a complicated embedded system where you have big chunks of third party binary code, no MMU to keep the heap defragmented and hard real time constraints.
Hmm, I expected a penis reference at about this point in the 'conversation'. A bit predictable don't you think?
Still, I'm impressed that you missed temptation to go for an easy spelling,grammar flayme though. Instead of that you posted a joke pseudocode typo flame. And you bash MS in the same post. Awesome.
If you work at it, you may be able to pass a Turing test some day.
i work at nuke plant. the redunant sfaty and code reviews take car of any errors in teh code.
char *comment;
switch ( Microsofts_views_on_64_bit )
{
case UNSUPPORTED_FOR_CLIENT:
case UNSUPPORTED_FOR_SERVER:
comment="are behind the times";
break;
case REQUIRED_FOR_CLIENT:
case REQUIRED_FOR_SERVER:
comment="produce bloatware";
default:
comment = "sucks";
}
printf ( "LOL M$ %s", comment );
What's needed is a class library which speeds the creation of Type Managers. It should have a Document base class which applications could extend to contain document info, and a View base class which would abstract the user interface. Both would have base methods for all the common stuff, and you'd extend them with the specifics of what you're trying to do. There'd be Views derived classes based on common widgets, like dialogs and lists.
Additionally, there'd be a way for software components to register as viewers of file types in some global database, so that they could integrate with the default shell and display previews. They should also be able to open the type manager or print, perhaps integrating into shell's context menus.
Yup, welcome to Windows 95 with a bunch of MFC applications, COM components and the registry.
Yup, it's an interesting architecture, but the sales are unbelievably bad
t anium_sales_q2/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/30/opteron_i
The Itanium ecosystem is as unhealthy as ever with HP totally dominating
sales. HP moved 4,789 of the 5,665 boxes shipped in the second quarter,
earning $250m in revenue. That total is roughly equivalent to the RISC
server business done by IBM or Sun in one week.
Ouch. I thought it would at least manage to sell as many chips as POWER or SPARC, but it's an order of magnitude worse. The sad thing is that the people marketing it managed to kill off Alpha and Mips before this happened - both Compaq and SGI are too far along that process to revive them when Itanium finally dies. Looks like the whole world will end up on x86-64 after all.