As we can see from this thread, pr0n is yet again the central driving force of technology. No doubt Sony will release a brain scanner at some point, but everyone will go for the one with all the pr0n on it.
Assembler on "risc"? One of the reasons for not using risc is to make assembly programming easier, because you don't have to do every little thing yourself.
The ARM Risc is a joy to program. 15 general purpose registers that could be used with any instruction, conditional instructions, I could go on all night. This caters perfectly to the needs of assembly. The only thing that x86 caters for is the need for compatibility with the 8086.
Correct. They also missed out one of the main reasons for the demise of assembler though - the rise and rise of x86 compatible CPUs with their shit-awful instruction set and 4 registers. Assembler on 68k, powerpc, risc, cell, hell, anything but intel is still very doable.
Patents are there to keep someone from STEALING someone else's idea
Stealing, ie, plagiarising. Rather than having the same idea.
If people are independently developing the same idea over and over and over and nobody is stealing anything from anybody, then patents are worthless.
They are worthless. If people are independently making different software, which may incorporate the same ideas, such as, say, receiving input from a mouseclick and passing it through a gui, then they all need to do that to innovate different ideas.
This arguing that creators of software or engineering or other have to jump through extra hoops just so they don't step where someone else may have stepped once before is stupid.
It's the hoops that are stupid.
That adds NO value to the economy and NO value to economics in general.
Citation needed! Hasn't done Europe's economy any harm, has it?
The whole point is to create a level playing field
What, where everyone can just write the software, regardless of how many lawyers they have? Patents do the opposite of creating a level playing field. They fence off entire sections of the playing field and say "you can't go there".
where someone who invents something truly revolutionary can make money off it
Define revolutionary. And what about people who make truly revolutionary things and release them as open source?
Rest of comment I probably agree with. It's the patents that are the problem though. I "invented" 3D LOD objects at university to discover that Shiny Software have a patent on them. I was half way through implementing a version control system for content management systems, when Interwoven announced that they'd just won a patent on an essential part of it. It's not fair that I should be blocked from implementing my own ideas, and it's fucking arrogant to assume that the other 6 billion people on earth aren't capable of having the same idea as you.
exactly. There are no pros and cons to the subject. Climate change shouldn't be taught as a political subject, it should be taught as a scientific one. If you want to debate the politics of it, then do that in an appropriate lesson.
Teaching climate change is about "we measured this, therefore we predict this, but we can't be certain because of that, and it's complicated because of these, and we intend to learn more by studying this, and we believe that we may be able to prevent some of our predictions by encouraging this". It's like teaching an opposing view to the uncertainty principal. It's a theory, and you can't learn it without learning about why it's "a bit mad". If by "opposing view" you mean "i just don't believe it, because I don't have proof", then that's politics.
Find me a country with more than a million people which doesn't have riots, racists, people dying in freak weather, and people trying to change the system, and I'll be impressed with that argument. France isn't paradise, it's just different and unique. If you don't like it, don't go there.
Destroying choice by driving smaller companies that can't compete out of the market doesn't benefit the customer at all.
People hear about France's stupid laws all the time. Then you actually GO there and find out that these laws are clinging on to all sorts of things that the French are rightly proud of.
The food is excellent, and kept at a high standard by the government (appelation controllee), the architecture is beautiful, the way of life is relaxing, the roads are clean and well maintained. School children get fed properly. The museums are magnificent.
Yes, they pay tax through the nose. Then again, if they don't like it, they can cross the border to any other country in the EU and miss out on all of the above. I wouldn't live there, because I get homesick after a few days there, but that doesn't stop me going there to soak it up and enjoy it regularly.
It was the redesigned and cheaper to make C64C which had the worst keyboard - they were spring-loaded with waaaay too much travel, and if you banged them too hard, they would come off and fly across the room.
I spent far too many of my younger years crawling around under the bed looking for my F3 key.
The telescope DID improve American and non-American lives in a big positive way by getting us closer to understanding the universe we live in - something that most people would like to understand.
"big positive way" doesn't necessarily equate to giving people handouts or curing diabetes. If all we ever spent our money on was egalitarianism, our lives would be so boring we wouldn't see the point. I'm very happy that money has been spent on hubble, and its findings never cease to excite me.
incidentally, the iriver H10 didn't support ogg. After claiming a microsoft "plays for sure!" license, they had to drop ogg support to get it. Then a microsoft lawyer versed in the antitrust judgement realised that this was contrarary to the ruling. The judgement wasn't entirely in vain. Later iriver models support ogg, due to the antitrust ruling. There is hope, and some thing did come good out of that ruling:-) I'm more scared of apple these days.
and xclef. i have one of both. i had an iriver, and I lost it. the xclef x500 was cheaper, so I bought it. Then I found my iriver. £20 if anyone wants it:-D
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As we can see from this thread, pr0n is yet again the central driving force of technology. No doubt Sony will release a brain scanner at some point, but everyone will go for the one with all the pr0n on it.
There's something missing from that link.
It said "click here to skip, or wait 6..5..4..3 seconds". Fair enough. er. shouldn't there be an advert?
Or some wag has just decided to waste my time for the hell of it.
Surely someone's checked his pulse to make sure. He might just be stoned.
Assembler on "risc"? One of the reasons for not using risc is to make assembly programming easier, because you don't have to do every little thing yourself.
The ARM Risc is a joy to program. 15 general purpose registers that could be used with any instruction, conditional instructions, I could go on all night. This caters perfectly to the needs of assembly. The only thing that x86 caters for is the need for compatibility with the 8086.
Correct. They also missed out one of the main reasons for the demise of assembler though - the rise and rise of x86 compatible CPUs with their shit-awful instruction set and 4 registers. Assembler on 68k, powerpc, risc, cell, hell, anything but intel is still very doable.
Patents are there to keep someone from STEALING someone else's idea
Stealing, ie, plagiarising. Rather than having the same idea.
If people are independently developing the same idea over and over and over and nobody is stealing anything from anybody, then patents are worthless.
They are worthless. If people are independently making different software, which may incorporate the same ideas, such as, say, receiving input from a mouseclick and passing it through a gui, then they all need to do that to innovate different ideas.
This arguing that creators of software or engineering or other have to jump through extra hoops just so they don't step where someone else may have stepped once before is stupid.
It's the hoops that are stupid.
That adds NO value to the economy and NO value to economics in general.
Citation needed! Hasn't done Europe's economy any harm, has it?
The whole point is to create a level playing field
What, where everyone can just write the software, regardless of how many lawyers they have? Patents do the opposite of creating a level playing field. They fence off entire sections of the playing field and say "you can't go there".
where someone who invents something truly revolutionary can make money off it
Define revolutionary. And what about people who make truly revolutionary things and release them as open source?
Rest of comment I probably agree with. It's the patents that are the problem though. I "invented" 3D LOD objects at university to discover that Shiny Software have a patent on them. I was half way through implementing a version control system for content management systems, when Interwoven announced that they'd just won a patent on an essential part of it. It's not fair that I should be blocked from implementing my own ideas, and it's fucking arrogant to assume that the other 6 billion people on earth aren't capable of having the same idea as you.
what opposing view
exactly. There are no pros and cons to the subject. Climate change shouldn't be taught as a political subject, it should be taught as a scientific one. If you want to debate the politics of it, then do that in an appropriate lesson.
Teaching climate change is about "we measured this, therefore we predict this, but we can't be certain because of that, and it's complicated because of these, and we intend to learn more by studying this, and we believe that we may be able to prevent some of our predictions by encouraging this". It's like teaching an opposing view to the uncertainty principal. It's a theory, and you can't learn it without learning about why it's "a bit mad". If by "opposing view" you mean "i just don't believe it, because I don't have proof", then that's politics.
Hi, I've invented a new way of downloading pron^H^H^H^H^H^Hcopying files across a network. If you have uber bandwidth, please contact me urgently!
"Carbon Nanotubes Can Exist Safely Inside the Body, Help Treat Cancer"
/pedant
Surely you mean "Carbon Nanotubes Can Exist Safely Inside the Body AND Help Treat Cancer"?
Unless, "help treat cancer" is a seperate sentence in the form of a request (well, if there's anything I can do, I'll help..)
Or.. "hey guess what, i'm not wearing any underpants!"
Your girlfriend has been lying to you. You can't make children by doing head.
I thought the primary cause of earth tremors was hoards of stampeding apple fans heading down to the apple shop to see the latest ipod/iphone/macbook.
Find me a country with more than a million people which doesn't have riots, racists, people dying in freak weather, and people trying to change the system, and I'll be impressed with that argument. France isn't paradise, it's just different and unique. If you don't like it, don't go there.
Destroying choice by driving smaller companies that can't compete out of the market doesn't benefit the customer at all.
People hear about France's stupid laws all the time. Then you actually GO there and find out that these laws are clinging on to all sorts of things that the French are rightly proud of.
The food is excellent, and kept at a high standard by the government (appelation controllee), the architecture is beautiful, the way of life is relaxing, the roads are clean and well maintained. School children get fed properly. The museums are magnificent.
Yes, they pay tax through the nose. Then again, if they don't like it, they can cross the border to any other country in the EU and miss out on all of the above. I wouldn't live there, because I get homesick after a few days there, but that doesn't stop me going there to soak it up and enjoy it regularly.
His story will make you cry
His music will make you sing
His triumph will make you cheer
The mail on sunday will make you VOMIT UNCONTROLLABLY.
You know, one really has to be an idiot to pay one's utility bills using a stolen bank account.
Either that, or very, very clever.
I don't know why Ford doesn't sell the Mondeo in the US.
They do. It's just that "mondeo" probably sounded a bit too European for the vegetable maters.
This is what we call an oxymoron
Whereas Steve Ballmer is what we call a fuckingmoron.
It was the redesigned and cheaper to make C64C which had the worst keyboard - they were spring-loaded with waaaay too much travel, and if you banged them too hard, they would come off and fly across the room.
I spent far too many of my younger years crawling around under the bed looking for my F3 key.
I don't know, but I doubt the author of this article isn't out much :-)
"Sir, the datacentre's gone down!".
"ok, please clarify exactly what you mean by that.."
Perhaps not, but he always goes through the same difficult routine when he tries to order it:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw
The telescope DID improve American and non-American lives in a big positive way by getting us closer to understanding the universe we live in - something that most people would like to understand.
"big positive way" doesn't necessarily equate to giving people handouts or curing diabetes. If all we ever spent our money on was egalitarianism, our lives would be so boring we wouldn't see the point. I'm very happy that money has been spent on hubble, and its findings never cease to excite me.
incidentally, the iriver H10 didn't support ogg. After claiming a microsoft "plays for sure!" license, they had to drop ogg support to get it. Then a microsoft lawyer versed in the antitrust judgement realised that this was contrarary to the ruling. The judgement wasn't entirely in vain. Later iriver models support ogg, due to the antitrust ruling. There is hope, and some thing did come good out of that ruling :-) I'm more scared of apple these days.
and xclef. i have one of both. i had an iriver, and I lost it. the xclef x500 was cheaper, so I bought it. Then I found my iriver. £20 if anyone wants it :-D