I would rather have my ENTIRE music collection at my fingertips, rather than some selected chunk of it. I can do that with a 40 GB player, but not a 4 GB player. And that, as they say, is that.
All the recording and playback equipment are made by big corporations. I hope you can keep your old VHS camcorder and VCR in operable condition for the next few decades...
Argument to antiquity is bullshit. The fact is that Taiwan is a democratic and independent country, as much as any may claim to be. Any attempt to validate China's claim is even more ethically corrupt than validating Hitler's claims to various bits of Europe (Austria, the Sudetenland, Alsace-Lorraine, Prussia, or whatever else lebensraum requires). Do NOT pretend that China is anything but an evil country with evil designs, lest ye be the Devil's apologist. We should have fought the annexation of Hong Kong as well--it would have been destroyed, but the point would be made. Legal principles and paper don't mean jack when moral principles are at stake, and don't you forget it.
I read some book of his that I guess came out after Xenocide. It sucked, sort of like 1980's Robert Heinlein. Self-indulgent and plotless, it was.
As for Serenity/Firefly--look, Ma, it's a space Western! Talk about your one trick ponies. And guess what, they have a tortured Messiah figure cum prophet. And a preacher! Gosh diggety darn, it's a space jamboree! YEEEHAAAWWWWWWW!!!!
Smarter semantic analysis would obviate the need for broadcasting this information over the Internet, allowing the host computer to digest news articles free from human interference. Link this to an automated voting system, and we've solved the problem of democracy--stupid and uninformed voters. Diebold's ground-breaking work on decoupling fallible human voters from the political process is just a small taste of the bold new future that awaits us.
The Dutch are also proud that they weathered the tulip speculation bubble burst of 1637 and even today manage to grow a few flowers for the benefit of the few tourists who aren't looking for marijuana or prostitutes.
I used to play (in fact I'd hacked the dox check of) an old game called Empire circa 1989. The original Civilization's core gameplay appears to be copied directly from Empire. When Civ came out, I said to myself, "This is Empire done up right." Is it true that Civ is basically just a pimped up version of Empire?
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Good to see after sucking the marrow from society's bone some people can sock enough away to live on a cook's wage.
Just another large conglomerate tightening up their balance sheets by firing employees they'll hire back over the next year at a fraction of the salary, perhaps by hiring them from "temp" companies.
I can't see how any/.er would feel sympathy for one of the RIAA's biggest supporters. Remember, this is also the same Sony that thinks you should be locked into proprietary formats (ATRAC, Memory Stick, MD, Beta, whatever).
I personally can't think of a single Sony item I own, either. They can fire all their employees and sink their Board of Directors in the Marianas Trench and I wouldn't care. In fact, they can sink all their "artists" over at the music division and make the world a better place.
Isn't this usually followed by "Have it done in 15 minutes; Ensign Crusher, go assist." ? And doesn't somebody count down the last 20 seconds, and they get it done with 2 seconds to spare? And isn't it always NOT THE GREEN WIRE!!!!!! Oops, sorry, wrong genre.
Stacks were done with something like:
POP x = *(p++)
PUSH *(--p) = x since stacks grew downward. With this method, p == 0 means empty stack, which is nice.
The only reason ++x might be faster than x++ is that no "temp" register is needed to store the unincremented original value. The two forms are NOT semantically equivalent, unless you are ignoring the return value. Any half-smart compiler would not allocate a temp register for an unused value.
After all, the card contains magnetically encoded data. By reading the card, you are breaking the encoding to acquire proprietary business data. You are thus committing a felony. By owning the reader, you are in possession of an instrument of felony, like carrying around a crowbar or a crack pipe. You, sir, by implying that there is no crime committed, are aiding and abetting criminal activities, itself a crime. Please report to your nearest Department of Love education center for processing.
Employees indulging in spontaneous honesty is never good for business. They should fire him and have a court slap an injunction on him that forbids him from talking about the injunction.
Just look what happened when it was pointed out that the Emperor had no clothes. It destroyed an entire textile industry, embarrassed the nation, and undermined confidence in hucksters *ahem* businessmen with innovative revenue models. We can't undermine the economy in these fragile times! WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA????
You can always just take your favorite symmetric key encryption algorithm and XOR successive blocks to produce a hash. This may have weaknesses for particular algorithms (IANAC).
A hashing algorithm, as we all know, is just a many-to-one function (not reversible in general). f(x)=0 is such a hash function. It exhibits disappointing collision characteristics, though. f(x)=x avoids this complication, although it is reversible. Uh oh, now Microsoft's gonna steal and patent my elite hashing algorithms.
Microsoft no doubt writes off such "donations" as a tax-deductible marketing expense. I work at a nonprofit, and we got 50 licenses for Office and WinXP Pro each for something like $20. The staff would rather use MS Office than OpenOffice, I guarantee you. They couldn't care less about the OS.
...a freakin' patent on rubber bands, baloney sandwiches, or a circular rotary conveyance apparatus (aka "wheel"). I heard a rumor that the PO rejected a patent recently but this is unsubstantiated as yet.
The Patent Office is doing this intentionally. You may blame a labor shortage, but the last time I checked the PO was making like $100 million a year net income, by far enough to hire more people. No, their apparent foolishness is the result of intention. They are attempting to lock all IP in the hands of American moneyed interests, prior to the Great Collapse. This is simply a loot grab, just like Enron or Iraq. Thanks to various treaties, our stupid patents must be honored by other countries (mostly European). Think about it!
Entire cart checkouts, you say? In reality, the checkout monkey will have to dig through all your crap to verify that the RFID worked, and half of the items won't be tagged right, or have failed RFIDs, or be blocked by your big can o' coffee. Then you get to wait until the manager shows up to approve the variance, and then the computer, scanner, or any other component fails (as it must), and soon the checkout line lies fallow along with the "self checkout" lines which I seldom see operating nowadays.
Technology is not your friend, people. Luckily, the impending economic collapse of the US a la Argentina in any given decade will spell the end of this silliness. We'll all be sewing clothes for the Chinese and too busy/poor to actually purchase anything.
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He should have said, "most of us who watch tentacle rape porn from Japan".
I'll have you know, I really WAS in the US Naval Reserve, Lubbock, TX. OMFG, my life is such a joke.
Then imagine a cogent response next time.
I would rather have my ENTIRE music collection at my fingertips, rather than some selected chunk of it. I can do that with a 40 GB player, but not a 4 GB player. And that, as they say, is that.
All the recording and playback equipment are made by big corporations. I hope you can keep your old VHS camcorder and VCR in operable condition for the next few decades...
Argument to antiquity is bullshit. The fact is that Taiwan is a democratic and independent country, as much as any may claim to be. Any attempt to validate China's claim is even more ethically corrupt than validating Hitler's claims to various bits of Europe (Austria, the Sudetenland, Alsace-Lorraine, Prussia, or whatever else lebensraum requires). Do NOT pretend that China is anything but an evil country with evil designs, lest ye be the Devil's apologist. We should have fought the annexation of Hong Kong as well--it would have been destroyed, but the point would be made. Legal principles and paper don't mean jack when moral principles are at stake, and don't you forget it.
I read some book of his that I guess came out after Xenocide. It sucked, sort of like 1980's Robert Heinlein. Self-indulgent and plotless, it was.
As for Serenity/Firefly--look, Ma, it's a space Western! Talk about your one trick ponies. And guess what, they have a tortured Messiah figure cum prophet. And a preacher! Gosh diggety darn, it's a space jamboree! YEEEHAAAWWWWWWW!!!!
Smarter semantic analysis would obviate the need for broadcasting this information over the Internet, allowing the host computer to digest news articles free from human interference. Link this to an automated voting system, and we've solved the problem of democracy--stupid and uninformed voters. Diebold's ground-breaking work on decoupling fallible human voters from the political process is just a small taste of the bold new future that awaits us.
The Dutch are also proud that they weathered the tulip speculation bubble burst of 1637 and even today manage to grow a few flowers for the benefit of the few tourists who aren't looking for marijuana or prostitutes.
I used to play (in fact I'd hacked the dox check of) an old game called Empire circa 1989. The original Civilization's core gameplay appears to be copied directly from Empire. When Civ came out, I said to myself, "This is Empire done up right." Is it true that Civ is basically just a pimped up version of Empire?
Good to see after sucking the marrow from society's bone some people can sock enough away to live on a cook's wage.
However, most people aren't computer nerds.
Oh wait, I live in the Capitalist States of Amerika, where profit is a God-given right if you are already rich. My bad.
Just another large conglomerate tightening up their balance sheets by firing employees they'll hire back over the next year at a fraction of the salary, perhaps by hiring them from "temp" companies.
/.er would feel sympathy for one of the RIAA's biggest supporters. Remember, this is also the same Sony that thinks you should be locked into proprietary formats (ATRAC, Memory Stick, MD, Beta, whatever).
I can't see how any
I personally can't think of a single Sony item I own, either. They can fire all their employees and sink their Board of Directors in the Marianas Trench and I wouldn't care. In fact, they can sink all their "artists" over at the music division and make the world a better place.
Isn't this usually followed by "Have it done in 15 minutes; Ensign Crusher, go assist." ? And doesn't somebody count down the last 20 seconds, and they get it done with 2 seconds to spare? And isn't it always NOT THE GREEN WIRE!!!!!! Oops, sorry, wrong genre.
Stacks were done with something like:
POP x = *(p++)
PUSH *(--p) = x
since stacks grew downward. With this method, p == 0 means empty stack, which is nice.
The only reason ++x might be faster than x++ is that no "temp" register is needed to store the unincremented original value. The two forms are NOT semantically equivalent, unless you are ignoring the return value. Any half-smart compiler would not allocate a temp register for an unused value.
And that's all, folks.
After all, the card contains magnetically encoded data. By reading the card, you are breaking the encoding to acquire proprietary business data. You are thus committing a felony. By owning the reader, you are in possession of an instrument of felony, like carrying around a crowbar or a crack pipe. You, sir, by implying that there is no crime committed, are aiding and abetting criminal activities, itself a crime. Please report to your nearest Department of Love education center for processing.
Employees indulging in spontaneous honesty is never good for business. They should fire him and have a court slap an injunction on him that forbids him from talking about the injunction.
Just look what happened when it was pointed out that the Emperor had no clothes. It destroyed an entire textile industry, embarrassed the nation, and undermined confidence in hucksters *ahem* businessmen with innovative revenue models. We can't undermine the economy in these fragile times! WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA????
You can always just take your favorite symmetric key encryption algorithm and XOR successive blocks to produce a hash. This may have weaknesses for particular algorithms (IANAC).
A hashing algorithm, as we all know, is just a many-to-one function (not reversible in general). f(x)=0 is such a hash function. It exhibits disappointing collision characteristics, though. f(x)=x avoids this complication, although it is reversible. Uh oh, now Microsoft's gonna steal and patent my elite hashing algorithms.
Microsoft no doubt writes off such "donations" as a tax-deductible marketing expense. I work at a nonprofit, and we got 50 licenses for Office and WinXP Pro each for something like $20. The staff would rather use MS Office than OpenOffice, I guarantee you. They couldn't care less about the OS.
...a freakin' patent on rubber bands, baloney sandwiches, or a circular rotary conveyance apparatus (aka "wheel"). I heard a rumor that the PO rejected a patent recently but this is unsubstantiated as yet.
The Patent Office is doing this intentionally. You may blame a labor shortage, but the last time I checked the PO was making like $100 million a year net income, by far enough to hire more people. No, their apparent foolishness is the result of intention. They are attempting to lock all IP in the hands of American moneyed interests, prior to the Great Collapse. This is simply a loot grab, just like Enron or Iraq. Thanks to various treaties, our stupid patents must be honored by other countries (mostly European). Think about it!
Entire cart checkouts, you say? In reality, the checkout monkey will have to dig through all your crap to verify that the RFID worked, and half of the items won't be tagged right, or have failed RFIDs, or be blocked by your big can o' coffee. Then you get to wait until the manager shows up to approve the variance, and then the computer, scanner, or any other component fails (as it must), and soon the checkout line lies fallow along with the "self checkout" lines which I seldom see operating nowadays.
Technology is not your friend, people. Luckily, the impending economic collapse of the US a la Argentina in any given decade will spell the end of this silliness. We'll all be sewing clothes for the Chinese and too busy/poor to actually purchase anything.
Google, too, but only in certain idioms.
Look, it's a Western in space!
Not enough evil midget geniuses, though.