Copyright as an idea is not necessarily bad. Copyright with reasonable terms is probably very good. Copyright with terms that mean that I still cannot use works produced before my grandparents were born are very bad. Copyright that's continually getting extended to the point where the public domain will effectively never grow under any circumstances. That's fucking nuts, regardless of any supposed "economic benefit".
I mean, specifically, what can you do on something that fast that you couldn't do on one 1,000 (or 1,000,000) times slower? What kind of tasks need that much processing power? For example, you normally hear about them being used for things like weather simulation. Well, what is it about weather simulation that requires so much work?
Theoretically there's nothing you can't do on a supercomputer that you couldn't do with an ordinary desktop computer (except possibly for memory constraints), but for that matter you could also do everything by hand. The thing is, when your problem space is very large (i.e. calculating all interactions between X number of objects, where X is some huge number, or solving something like the Traveling Salesman Problem), you are limited in your options of what you can do to get results faster. If you're lucky, you can find some speedup of your problem (I.E. going to a better level of O-complexity [O(2^N)->O(n^2) would be a huge speedup, but doesn't happen often]), or tossing more resources at it. Yes, it'll still be slow, but if it takes you a year to do on a supercomputer, that's quite a bit better than spending 1000 years waiting on a regular computer.
You make it sound like BP is some innocent weakling just minding their own business. They spilled a shit ton of oil and put a lot of people out of business and could lead to massive economic problems, and it will only get worse if those affected have to wait 5,10, or 15 years for some pittance of a settlement (like what happened with Exxon Valdez). Put in that sort of context, it's perfectly reasonable to want a some assurances that those folks will get paid in a timely and fair fashion.
Money. It costs lots of money to have safety. The Navy doesn't need to make money, so it does things right. The oil companies want to make money, so they cut corners and play with the actuarial tables until the occasional spill just becomes the cost of doing business. Of course, since they've lobbied to have damages from oil spills capped to a pittance and they've controlled the people in charge of inspecting what safety they had, there was very little reason to be extra safe. That seems like the kind of thing worth changing.
The US Air Force has over 2000 total fighters (F-15C, F-15E, F-16, F-22) and 162 total bombers (B-52H, B-1B, B-2). All told it has over 5500 aircraft. The US Navy has another 3700 aircraft. China has 1500 aircraft(give or take). This isn't even getting into the rest of NATO probably lending the US a hand if the Chinese ever do openly declare war (unlikely any time in the near future, but as a hypothetical).
Or the sacking of Baghdad, destroying the greatest library of the Islamic world (which contributed a fair bit towards why the Middle East fell into technological and social stagnancy).
He cares in the sense that if little Johnny shows little Suzy a picture of not so little Betty getting double penetrated by huge Billy and gigantic Joey, he might lose his job, or at least get a verbal reaming from his bosses when Suzy's parents sue to protect their precious little gem.
10a. Said pharmacy should not be able to charge obscene rates for drugs/medical supplies (as more than a standard deviation away from the average market rate). No charging extra due to a captive audience (there's no excuse for $100 ice packs or aspirin at $20 a pill).
No, no, the pronouns all refer to Gardner. Then again, if read rather literally, the AG is asking god to spare Gardner's life from 4 bullets. If all the guns misfired, would Gardner have been let go?
But its based on copyright, and copyright is a good thing-- Copyright is what gives the GPL its power.
For the umpteenth time, the GPL only exists as a hack of the copyright system to workaround its stupidity. If we didn't have copyright, we wouldn't need GPL in the first place. Don't try to love the abusive spouse that gives you some sweets now and then when your other option is moving to Candyland.
Earth is an oblate spheroid revolving around the Sun.
The above statement is a fact. It doesn't matter what anyone believed at any point in time, it didn't change anything about what was real. It didn't matter that at one point the powers that be would jail folks for saying that. It didn't matter that at one point people thought that Sun was a flaming chariot in the sky. It didn't matter that at one point there wasn't anyone around to believe anything. The Earth still went on being round and moving around and around the Sun for billions of years before us and will keep doing so even if we die out. That fact does not depend upon anyone's belief (and was quite contrary to many beliefs).
What about.onion sites? They're anonymous at both ends and easily reachable through a TOR enabled browser without any additional setup. It's not particularly fast, but that's what you get when you want security/anonymity.
Yeah. I think he might have been almost nostalgic for the days when $10,000,000 turned into only $1,000,000, rather than the current 100,000,000,000 turning into 100,000 (plus or minus the CxOs golden parachutes).
Heck, why not do something like a Scantron sheet (maybe with some pictures if we want to get fancy)? Mark the box of the candidate you want and there you go. It's easily readable by both computers and people and is probably familiar to anyone who's ever taken an SAT.
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Yeah, and then they tried to point the finger at the Aussies and some guy named Foster. I feel sorry for the bloke.
Copyright as an idea is not necessarily bad. Copyright with reasonable terms is probably very good. Copyright with terms that mean that I still cannot use works produced before my grandparents were born are very bad. Copyright that's continually getting extended to the point where the public domain will effectively never grow under any circumstances. That's fucking nuts, regardless of any supposed "economic benefit".
I mean, specifically, what can you do on something that fast that you couldn't do on one 1,000 (or 1,000,000) times slower? What kind of tasks need that much processing power? For example, you normally hear about them being used for things like weather simulation. Well, what is it about weather simulation that requires so much work?
Theoretically there's nothing you can't do on a supercomputer that you couldn't do with an ordinary desktop computer (except possibly for memory constraints), but for that matter you could also do everything by hand. The thing is, when your problem space is very large (i.e. calculating all interactions between X number of objects, where X is some huge number, or solving something like the Traveling Salesman Problem), you are limited in your options of what you can do to get results faster. If you're lucky, you can find some speedup of your problem (I.E. going to a better level of O-complexity [O(2^N)->O(n^2) would be a huge speedup, but doesn't happen often]), or tossing more resources at it. Yes, it'll still be slow, but if it takes you a year to do on a supercomputer, that's quite a bit better than spending 1000 years waiting on a regular computer.
FLOPS is not an SI unit.
You make it sound like BP is some innocent weakling just minding their own business. They spilled a shit ton of oil and put a lot of people out of business and could lead to massive economic problems, and it will only get worse if those affected have to wait 5,10, or 15 years for some pittance of a settlement (like what happened with Exxon Valdez). Put in that sort of context, it's perfectly reasonable to want a some assurances that those folks will get paid in a timely and fair fashion.
Money. It costs lots of money to have safety. The Navy doesn't need to make money, so it does things right. The oil companies want to make money, so they cut corners and play with the actuarial tables until the occasional spill just becomes the cost of doing business. Of course, since they've lobbied to have damages from oil spills capped to a pittance and they've controlled the people in charge of inspecting what safety they had, there was very little reason to be extra safe. That seems like the kind of thing worth changing.
The US Air Force has over 2000 total fighters (F-15C, F-15E, F-16, F-22) and 162 total bombers (B-52H, B-1B, B-2). All told it has over 5500 aircraft. The US Navy has another 3700 aircraft. China has 1500 aircraft(give or take). This isn't even getting into the rest of NATO probably lending the US a hand if the Chinese ever do openly declare war (unlikely any time in the near future, but as a hypothetical).
It's more like complaining about a subway because the riders piss on the trains.
Or the sacking of Baghdad, destroying the greatest library of the Islamic world (which contributed a fair bit towards why the Middle East fell into technological and social stagnancy).
He cares in the sense that if little Johnny shows little Suzy a picture of not so little Betty getting double penetrated by huge Billy and gigantic Joey, he might lose his job, or at least get a verbal reaming from his bosses when Suzy's parents sue to protect their precious little gem.
It seems most criminals and senior executives have at least one thing in common...
I thought the latter was almost always a subset of the former.
10a. Said pharmacy should not be able to charge obscene rates for drugs/medical supplies (as more than a standard deviation away from the average market rate). No charging extra due to a captive audience (there's no excuse for $100 ice packs or aspirin at $20 a pill).
No, no, the pronouns all refer to Gardner. Then again, if read rather literally, the AG is asking god to spare Gardner's life from 4 bullets. If all the guns misfired, would Gardner have been let go?
You can write "Hello World!" in Visual Basic, but can you write a geology, history, economy, and military simulator that can keep track of hundreds of individuals giving them each unique personalities, skills, and health levels (down to which parts of their body are injured)?
I'd suggest going over 9000.
But its based on copyright, and copyright is a good thing-- Copyright is what gives the GPL its power.
For the umpteenth time, the GPL only exists as a hack of the copyright system to workaround its stupidity. If we didn't have copyright, we wouldn't need GPL in the first place. Don't try to love the abusive spouse that gives you some sweets now and then when your other option is moving to Candyland.
I still prefer Gene Ray for my source of crackpot theories.
Earth is an oblate spheroid revolving around the Sun.
The above statement is a fact. It doesn't matter what anyone believed at any point in time, it didn't change anything about what was real. It didn't matter that at one point the powers that be would jail folks for saying that. It didn't matter that at one point people thought that Sun was a flaming chariot in the sky. It didn't matter that at one point there wasn't anyone around to believe anything. The Earth still went on being round and moving around and around the Sun for billions of years before us and will keep doing so even if we die out. That fact does not depend upon anyone's belief (and was quite contrary to many beliefs).
Here's a picture from the internet (not to scale, but you get the point): http://www.rise.org.au/info/Res/sun/image037.jpg
No one supports censorship of their own ideals. Far too many support censorship of all other ideals.
What about .onion sites? They're anonymous at both ends and easily reachable through a TOR enabled browser without any additional setup. It's not particularly fast, but that's what you get when you want security/anonymity.
Yeah. I think he might have been almost nostalgic for the days when $10,000,000 turned into only $1,000,000, rather than the current 100,000,000,000 turning into 100,000 (plus or minus the CxOs golden parachutes).
It looks like this might be...
...one cold blooded killer.
*puts on sunglasses*
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Keywords "blow up", "school", and "FBI" detected. Deploying FBI.
Art is great because it can give you up, let you down, run around and desert you. It can also make you cry, say goodbye and tell a lie and hurt you.
Ponder this as you view the art of Youtube.
Heck, why not do something like a Scantron sheet (maybe with some pictures if we want to get fancy)? Mark the box of the candidate you want and there you go. It's easily readable by both computers and people and is probably familiar to anyone who's ever taken an SAT.