Restraints in their advertising and promotion maybe...
Turmeric, a spice, basically gave me my life back from crippling arthritis (seriously, I was on social security because I couldn't physically do my software programming job anymore, which is about the physically easiest job there is.)
If 'supplements' were even more controlled, I might never been able to return to work.
Fraud is Fraud, it dosn't matter if it's about nutrition, making money, identidy theft (What pisses me off about identity theft is that the banks allow it to hurt their customers, instead of dealing with it themselves.) or just wasting your time.
We once got a $13,000 water bill. The meter reader recorded '0' when the meter was blocked, under the old system that way a cue to estimate the next bill, under the new system, it assumed the meter had wrapped around...
How about $5000/2 years per employee, per day, per per person illegally investigated.
the more factors you can toss in for damages the better, like per infringment times per person shared with, times per person sharing, times punitive damages...
Macs are(or were) favored by 'design' people, because of their own excellent physical design.
A TV/Movie set designer would choose a Mac as a set-peice, as they look(ed) much cooler than generic OEM PC's.
If a character actually uses the Computer, the UI would be replete with horrible plot-clarifying colors, sounds, and huge animated text that would make any Slashdot user cringe. Ranging from the VFS use in Jurassic Park "This is UNIX, I know this!" to the password entry scene in 'Jumping Jack Flash' with Whoopi Goldberg.
Well, if you were an influential politician, what kind of friends would you have - rich ones or poor ones?
Well, ideally in a democracy/democratic republic, since the poor usually outnumber the rich, I could get elected by having the larger number of poor friends.
Unfortunetly, the poor are influenced by money spent in ways that don't benefit them, such as on advertisments for other politicians. Poor people are kinda stupid that way.
One possible way to fix this is to allow to buying and selling of votes. It would be like the 'economic stimulus' checks being sent out, except on every election year. That way, in order for rich people to gain power, they give money to the people, instead of other rich people. Voters have power (votes), they should be able to trade that for another form of power (money). Not being able to do so is an undo restriction on their freedom.
Each persons vote could be a source of income for them, potentially eliminating voter apathy. You could give each voter a difficult to counterfeit slip of paper simply verifying that they did vote, and they could take it around to the party offices and get paid and stamped/hole punched (so they can't take it to both parties!). The slip would NOT record their actual vote, simply the fact that they participated; that they voted a particular way is on their honor.
To keep everyone from voting one way, then claiming money from the other party, the partys could have an offer where they only pay if they won. So that they are essentially bidding on the districts block of votes, and should have enough money (perhaps in escrow) to pay for a landslide victory.
This would solve all problems with democracy. A campaign promise you can literally take to the bank.
Linked Lists? in order to get to an item, you have to traverse the list until that point. Maybe you could have one thread traverse the list, and dispatch each item to a new thread for processing... but what about counting how many items on the linked list satisfy a condition? maybe round robin assign them to the worker threads, the add up the subtotals...
Seems to me that simple linked list structures may be something to avoid in favor of trees, where you could just send references to branches to threads. Byte streams might have the same issue, for example in decoding variable length characters, you wouldn't want to start in the middle of a character (unicode encoding issues), fixed-width data in an array of a specific length (instead of depending on a terminator) could be easier to break up tasks (such as spell check, send each page to a different thread)
How about pre-emptive multitasking?, if you have hundreds of cores, how often will you need to put a thread on hold, run another thread, then switch back... if you never have to save/restore thread state except when doing unusual tasks like debugging, you could optimize in favor of other operations. You could design threads to stream data like an assembly line, thread A watches for the end/other exceptions, thread B validates the range of values, thread C breaks the data into groups, and passes them along to a collection of other threads. If the chips were optimized to be able to stream data between cores without reaching out to main ram the stream buffers could be rather small, if it's known that the threads involved will never be preempted and each of the tasks has a reasonable upper bound on time. Each core would be looping over a tiny number of instructions, so a large instruction cache wouldn't be needed (per core, but yes for the whole chip package), and since the data is mostly rolling in from one end, and rolling out the other, only the initial input and final output leave the chip.
I did some back-of-an-envelope math a while back... I don't have the numbers handy, but there is enough Uranium dissovled in seawater that less than 1/100th of it would be enough to create enough atomic bombs to do the rough-shaping to turn the Moon into a Cube.
Solar powered robot bulldozers should be sufficent to do the smoothing of the faces. In the future perhaps they could be designed to be self-replicating to continuiously repair meteor damage.
I think that would be a fantastic monument to tell the rest of the galaxy "Humanity was Here" (until the sun burns out of something)
I thought about that previously, but what about energy not lost as heat? Such as through the electromagnetic spectrum, or though physical force/vibrations. I know hard drives can act a bit like a gyroscope, in that a spinning one is harder to manipulate than a stopped one.
I would expect SSD's to be utterly silent, but I don't know how their RF noise compares to hard drives (electro-magnetic motor?)
One way 'Free' software can be profitable. Free software, paid support. That is, the software itself is a 'loss leader' to get people to pay for support. But then those pesky user-communities start supporting each other...
Well, a blue screen isn't an application crash, it's a driver/kernel crash...
just that applications could cause those crashes to occur indirectly (for example, by passing bad pointers to the system)
Which is what the signed drivers for 64 bit Vista are about. (nothing to do with DRM really)
When windows 95 first came out a >LOT of programs (AOL, Simcity...) would take a 32 bit value given by the system, and cut off the top 16 bits, and pass it back, and boom. Blue light special.
So, how many applications out there take a 64 bit value, and truncate it to 32 bits? It'll never be a problem on a machine with less than 4 gigs of RAM, but once you cross that line, you're screwed.
So, small hardware company makes a cheap device (webcam, bluetooth, USB humping dog...) and makes cheap drivers. Maybe they actually test them, on a machine with 2 gigs of RAM... or even on an 8 gig machine, but without anything else running... so they don't see the bug.
Dell sells a deluxe quad core, 16 gig machine to somebody, who then attached the device... crashes will then eventually, randomly occur... it random modules, since random memory is getting overwritten... only when the machine is heavily loaded... who gets the tech support call?, Dell?, Microsoft?, or the little company the user can't even remember since he threw out the packaging...
I prefer the Disneyporn game, where you go to Disney.com and see how many left clicks it takes to reach porn.
Closest I found (a few years ago) was from Disney to ABC, to ABC Sports, to HP (server provider), to Yahoo index, to massage providers, then a few ad links.
Only fair to ensure your PC is free of extra popup software first.
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, complete with disk (5.25), instructions, microscopic space fleet, lint, 'Don't Panic' button, and the Peril Sensitive Sunglasses.
I also had 'Pac Man Fever' on a 45, but I sold it for about 100 times what I bought it for.
Another measure they use it to see if your waist is less than half of your height. If it is, then you are fine. If it is more than half your height, you are too fat.
If and when Microsoft closes those loopholes, any software that abuses them will break.
On the plus side, it's another reason for customers to buy the next version of your software...
Hmmmm, would a ISV make more money overall by deliberatly NOT being forwards compatible? are some intentionally breaking the bounds of the published SDK for this reason?
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Restraints in their advertising and promotion maybe...
Turmeric, a spice, basically gave me my life back from crippling arthritis (seriously, I was on social security because I couldn't physically do my software programming job anymore, which is about the physically easiest job there is.)
If 'supplements' were even more controlled, I might never been able to return to work.
Fraud is Fraud, it dosn't matter if it's about nutrition, making money, identidy theft (What pisses me off about identity theft is that the banks allow it to hurt their customers, instead of dealing with it themselves.) or just wasting your time.
Usually there is a 'severability' clause, stating that if a portion of the contract is found invalid, it dosn't invalidate the rest.
Not sure if you meant the the contract as a whole, would be non-binding, or just the unlawful clauses.
We once got a $13,000 water bill. The meter reader recorded '0' when the meter was blocked, under the old system that way a cue to estimate the next bill, under the new system, it assumed the meter had wrapped around...
How about $5000/2 years per employee, per day, per per person illegally investigated.
the more factors you can toss in for damages the better, like per infringment times per person shared with, times per person sharing, times punitive damages...
Macs are(or were) favored by 'design' people, because of their own excellent physical design.
A TV/Movie set designer would choose a Mac as a set-peice, as they look(ed) much cooler than generic OEM PC's.
If a character actually uses the Computer, the UI would be replete with horrible plot-clarifying colors, sounds, and huge animated text that would make any Slashdot user cringe. Ranging from the VFS use in Jurassic Park "This is UNIX, I know this!" to the password entry scene in 'Jumping Jack Flash' with Whoopi Goldberg.
Actally, Vista was more like 98se to ME.
But with the improvments to patching methods, Vista SP1 is much better than any patched version of ME.
Walton as in Wal*Mart, yes?
How many square meters of the earth surface is roofs over Wal*Marts?
Well, ideally in a democracy/democratic republic, since the poor usually outnumber the rich, I could get elected by having the larger number of poor friends. Unfortunetly, the poor are influenced by money spent in ways that don't benefit them, such as on advertisments for other politicians. Poor people are kinda stupid that way.
One possible way to fix this is to allow to buying and selling of votes. It would be like the 'economic stimulus' checks being sent out, except on every election year. That way, in order for rich people to gain power, they give money to the people, instead of other rich people. Voters have power (votes), they should be able to trade that for another form of power (money). Not being able to do so is an undo restriction on their freedom.
Each persons vote could be a source of income for them, potentially eliminating voter apathy. You could give each voter a difficult to counterfeit slip of paper simply verifying that they did vote, and they could take it around to the party offices and get paid and stamped/hole punched (so they can't take it to both parties!). The slip would NOT record their actual vote, simply the fact that they participated; that they voted a particular way is on their honor.
To keep everyone from voting one way, then claiming money from the other party, the partys could have an offer where they only pay if they won. So that they are essentially bidding on the districts block of votes, and should have enough money (perhaps in escrow) to pay for a landslide victory.
This would solve all problems with democracy. A campaign promise you can literally take to the bank.
Sea Monkeys?
Because if you compress it enough, it might become a liquid...
Punishing someone who is actually innocent has the same deterence factor on the general public as punishing the guilty.
It's the principle by which terrorism works.
Linked Lists? in order to get to an item, you have to traverse the list until that point. Maybe you could have one thread traverse the list, and dispatch each item to a new thread for processing... but what about counting how many items on the linked list satisfy a condition? maybe round robin assign them to the worker threads, the add up the subtotals...
Seems to me that simple linked list structures may be something to avoid in favor of trees, where you could just send references to branches to threads. Byte streams might have the same issue, for example in decoding variable length characters, you wouldn't want to start in the middle of a character (unicode encoding issues), fixed-width data in an array of a specific length (instead of depending on a terminator) could be easier to break up tasks (such as spell check, send each page to a different thread)
How about pre-emptive multitasking?, if you have hundreds of cores, how often will you need to put a thread on hold, run another thread, then switch back... if you never have to save/restore thread state except when doing unusual tasks like debugging, you could optimize in favor of other operations. You could design threads to stream data like an assembly line, thread A watches for the end/other exceptions, thread B validates the range of values, thread C breaks the data into groups, and passes them along to a collection of other threads. If the chips were optimized to be able to stream data between cores without reaching out to main ram the stream buffers could be rather small, if it's known that the threads involved will never be preempted and each of the tasks has a reasonable upper bound on time. Each core would be looping over a tiny number of instructions, so a large instruction cache wouldn't be needed (per core, but yes for the whole chip package), and since the data is mostly rolling in from one end, and rolling out the other, only the initial input and final output leave the chip.
I did some back-of-an-envelope math a while back... I don't have the numbers handy, but there is enough Uranium dissovled in seawater that less than 1/100th of it would be enough to create enough atomic bombs to do the rough-shaping to turn the Moon into a Cube.
Solar powered robot bulldozers should be sufficent to do the smoothing of the faces. In the future perhaps they could be designed to be self-replicating to continuiously repair meteor damage.
I think that would be a fantastic monument to tell the rest of the galaxy "Humanity was Here" (until the sun burns out of something)
I thought about that previously, but what about energy not lost as heat? Such as through the electromagnetic spectrum, or though physical force/vibrations. I know hard drives can act a bit like a gyroscope, in that a spinning one is harder to manipulate than a stopped one.
I would expect SSD's to be utterly silent, but I don't know how their RF noise compares to hard drives (electro-magnetic motor?)
I really want to see Mr. and Mrs. Pacman getting it on while Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde watch...
One way 'Free' software can be profitable. Free software, paid support. That is, the software itself is a 'loss leader' to get people to pay for support. But then those pesky user-communities start supporting each other...
Well, a blue screen isn't an application crash, it's a driver/kernel crash...
just that applications could cause those crashes to occur indirectly (for example, by passing bad pointers to the system)
Which is what the signed drivers for 64 bit Vista are about. (nothing to do with DRM really)
When windows 95 first came out a >LOT of programs (AOL, Simcity...) would take a 32 bit value given by the system, and cut off the top 16 bits, and pass it back, and boom. Blue light special.
So, how many applications out there take a 64 bit value, and truncate it to 32 bits? It'll never be a problem on a machine with less than 4 gigs of RAM, but once you cross that line, you're screwed.
So, small hardware company makes a cheap device (webcam, bluetooth, USB humping dog...) and makes cheap drivers. Maybe they actually test them, on a machine with 2 gigs of RAM... or even on an 8 gig machine, but without anything else running... so they don't see the bug.
Dell sells a deluxe quad core, 16 gig machine to somebody, who then attached the device... crashes will then eventually, randomly occur... it random modules, since random memory is getting overwritten... only when the machine is heavily loaded... who gets the tech support call?, Dell?, Microsoft?, or the little company the user can't even remember since he threw out the packaging...
I prefer the Disneyporn game, where you go to Disney.com and see how many left clicks it takes to reach porn.
Closest I found (a few years ago) was from Disney to ABC, to ABC Sports, to HP (server provider), to Yahoo index, to massage providers, then a few ad links.
Only fair to ensure your PC is free of extra popup software first.
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, complete with disk (5.25), instructions, microscopic space fleet, lint, 'Don't Panic' button, and the Peril Sensitive Sunglasses.
I also had 'Pac Man Fever' on a 45, but I sold it for about 100 times what I bought it for.
Another measure they use it to see if your waist is less than half of your height. If it is, then you are fine. If it is more than half your height, you are too fat.
Seems like I need to get 2 feet taller then.
They might sell it to a couple students, but then those student would give it to their friends for free.
For the first several months of having a Hotmail account, I appeared to only get feminine hygene ads... rather useless being male.
... ... Better than "overseas" job creation. ... to how the Bush white house oversees "job creation":
rely on humans to sort millions of emails
If and when Microsoft closes those loopholes, any software that abuses them will break.
On the plus side, it's another reason for customers to buy the next version of your software...
Hmmmm, would a ISV make more money overall by deliberatly NOT being forwards compatible? are some intentionally breaking the bounds of the published SDK for this reason?
When I play a game too much, I sometimes dream in the context of the game world.
The game I've mostly played to much of is Nethack, which causes some VERY odd dreams.
Maybe Boll could make a Nethack movie?
YASM?