a) The patent office needs to employ some experienced, unbiased software engineers who understand the word "obvious".
b) They need to break the link between "profit" and "number of patents accepted".
c) They need to make it much easier to invalidate a patent due to prior art and obviousness (this isn't necessarily a good thing but it's needed because of all the "a" and "b" they've done in the past).
I, for one, was totally stunned by that. WTF were they thinking? If the rest of Botcoin is as security-minded as this then it's sunk before it even goes anywhere.
Yeah... and I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that WebGL can do computing in a browser and they just launched a new DirectCompute offensive a few days ago.
This is why GPUs have such insane memory configurations..... wonderful, but also expensive.
Have you seen what sub-$100 graphics cards can do these days?
This sort of integration could save enough money at the manufacturing end to make that level of graphics almost free to the end user, especially in laptops. It's a huge win.
So... you don't think economies of scale would make blu-ray players cheaper than building a whole new disk player and new disk pressing plants to go with it...?
I've been developing professionally (disclaimer: in C++;-) ) for 10 years now, I've put up with people saying exactly this for 10 years, and for 10 years it hasn't been generally true at all.
Me too, and I really can't remember the last time I worried about memory management or had a memory leak in C++. It's just all automatic when you do it properly.
The problem with GC is that they told people to use it for things other than RAM. For files, network connections, etc. GC is a very bad idea. You need those resources freed in a timely manner, not when some mindless robot thinks it might be worth doing.
In Java there's no way to automate this process (no equivalent to C++ stack unwinding) so every time you use a non-RAM resource you have to type out a load of try... finally blocks by hand.
Oh, yeah, GC is sooooo much more easy/convenient. Not.
On the other hand, we have historical precedents for what happens when drugs like cocaine (or worse heroine) are legalized. That was not a good idea.
It may not be a good idea but is it a worse idea than: a) Spending billions on enforcement which only stops 1% of the drugs reaching the streets. b) Watching billions of dollars go overseas to be stacked in huge mansions in Columbia. c) Making mafia bosses very rich/powerful. d) Funding gang warfare. e) Funding all the police/medical care which goes hand in hand with (d) f) Having to build mega prisons because you're locking up so many people for victimless crimes.
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Correlation is not causation. They also listen to less rap music.
On the upside, $10M a day is going mostly to our military industrial complex, which pumps some money into the economy.
Um, no, that's what's known "Broken Window" economics.
Don't forget how they use the NSA to spy on foreign rivals during contract bidding (eg. Airbus vs. Boeing).
Dunno....but that looks like a really fun project to work on. Anybody know where you can buy those for $14?
So why are 80-90% of the casualties in Iraq civilians? Remind us again...
a) The patent office needs to employ some experienced, unbiased software engineers who understand the word "obvious".
b) They need to break the link between "profit" and "number of patents accepted".
c) They need to make it much easier to invalidate a patent due to prior art and obviousness (this isn't necessarily a good thing but it's needed because of all the "a" and "b" they've done in the past).
Shall we remind them the 'monkeys' are winning...?
I'd say that getting rid of the Acrobat plugin is far more interesting.
I, for one, was totally stunned by that. WTF were they thinking? If the rest of Botcoin is as security-minded as this then it's sunk before it even goes anywhere.
Yeah ... and I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that WebGL can do computing in a browser and they just launched a new DirectCompute offensive a few days ago.
With all the money we spent on new yachts and mansions for bankers we could have bought the entire RIAA and turned it into a not-for-profit.
Win-win.
If we'd had our priorities straight.
I drew a Venn diagram and the intersection between "riot mentality" and "gives a crap about anything other than sports and beer" was very small.
Unfortunately.
The US doesn't give two shits about jurisdiction, they care about sticking it to the kid.
"US" == "MAFIAA" ?
Prosecution for annoying the people who pay for US Senator's lunches. Haven't you been paying attention?
This is why GPUs have such insane memory configurations. .... wonderful, but also expensive.
Have you seen what sub-$100 graphics cards can do these days?
This sort of integration could save enough money at the manufacturing end to make that level of graphics almost free to the end user, especially in laptops. It's a huge win.
So... you don't think economies of scale would make blu-ray players cheaper than building a whole new disk player and new disk pressing plants to go with it...?
Nintendo has always enjoyed being the only people who can duplicate media for their consoles. They've been doing it since the NES days.
It lets them set prices they feel comfortable with.
How hard is it to write "AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism)" in a summary?
Have you used Electric Fence or Valgrind?
Or a smart pointer...
I've been developing professionally (disclaimer: in C++ ;-) ) for 10 years now, I've put up with people saying exactly this for 10 years, and for 10 years it hasn't been generally true at all.
Me too, and I really can't remember the last time I worried about memory management or had a memory leak in C++. It's just all automatic when you do it properly.
The problem with GC is that they told people to use it for things other than RAM. For files, network connections, etc. GC is a very bad idea. You need those resources freed in a timely manner, not when some mindless robot thinks it might be worth doing.
In Java there's no way to automate this process (no equivalent to C++ stack unwinding) so every time you use a non-RAM resource you have to type out a load of try ... finally blocks by hand.
Oh, yeah, GC is sooooo much more easy/convenient. Not.
Oh yes. Why shouldn't a GC language where the GC has to search through lists regularly....
Especially when you start swapping to disk. Oh yeah, search the whole heap space every two seconds why don't you...?
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PS: If they know all about it, wouldn't it be better to keep quiet and tweak the code to send out false information...?
On the other hand, we have historical precedents for what happens when drugs like cocaine (or worse heroine) are legalized. That was not a good idea.
It may not be a good idea but is it a worse idea than:
a) Spending billions on enforcement which only stops 1% of the drugs reaching the streets.
b) Watching billions of dollars go overseas to be stacked in huge mansions in Columbia.
c) Making mafia bosses very rich/powerful.
d) Funding gang warfare.
e) Funding all the police/medical care which goes hand in hand with (d)
f) Having to build mega prisons because you're locking up so many people for victimless crimes.
"Brakes", the word is "brakes"...
How can anybody even think it might be illegal...? I don't get it.