Isn't this just straight-up vertical integration? Shouldn't this be treated as a potentially illegal anticompetitive maneuver? I've read about how movie companies were forced to divest their theaters, isn't this the same thing?
Those specie currency lunatics sound like flat-earthers. They just can't get over the fact that "real life" is more complicated than their simple minds allow for.
I'm getting the impression that the patent system should be put down at all costs, including armed bloody rebellion. This crap is supposed to benefit society at large, and it doesn't.
...property is owned by rich people, who don't have to save electricity like a peon. It's the same reason that the airlines and trucks can contribute a majority of pollution yet you are encouraged to buy a 60 mpg econobox.
The term "semantics" seems to be misused to indicate some notion external to the machine's system in an attempt to ascribe special abilities to the human intellect, sort of like how the "soul" is used to connect humanity to the divine. Semantics are expressed simply as a system of conversion between one system and another. How this becomes mystified in relation to computers is that the second system is the natural world, about which computers have little knowledge, lacking natural senses and innate evaluative systems. I argue that semantics are no more inaccessible to computers than compilation, which translates one symbolic notation to its semantically equivalent machine code. You can design more sophisticated symbolic translation systems, such as the one involved with proofs of correctness, and clearly you can automate them. The big problem of such (and of AI in general) is that the problem space is so vast that deterministic methods cannot traverse them in a reasonable amount of time. Humans develop a heuristic method of culling improbable or useless states. I predict that we will eventually have something developed likewise for computers...it's in fact inevitable, since it is entirely possible to emulate the human mind synapse by synapse. The trick in such an emulative approach is that the human mind is both terribly fallible, and it takes years to reach a productive level of discipline. OK, now I'm just babbling...
Uh, mod -1 Redundant? I hardly think that a high-class joint even in Thailand has women shooting ping pong balls out of her nether orifices. On a similar note, high class clubs in Mexico don't feature women pleasuring donkeys, either. That doesn't mean such things don't occur in their respective locales. I was in the Navy, and I know these things.
If Microsoft stopped acting like dicks and put their nose to the grindstone, they could crush OSS easily. As it is, they create their own enemies. Linux/BSD basically exists for four reasons: 1) fringe people and hobbyists (the same type of fine albeit irrelevant folk who keep CP/M alive), 2) it's free/open, 3) it is better in some ways for some things, and 4) it is Not Microsoft. Microsoft could knock out reasons 3 and 4 if they wanted, but they are too busy pissing off people with their predatory practices and lazy product. They are their own worst enemy.
BS. BellSouth doesn't provide jack, except a pipe. It would be like calling the post office a content provider. If BS (BellSouth) is an information provider, then I can sue them for sending me trojans, viruses, and fraudulent email. Hmm, maybe this is a good thing...
Refreshingly naive...you fail to realize that the government trumps capitalist mechanisms, and that the government is run by and for people who only care about the consolidation of wealth and power. You may protest that we can "vote the bums out", but recent history would imply otherwise. DRM is here to stay, just like domestic spying, unwarranted searches, and torture.
I figure it will take another Great Depression to cause a shakeup. The good news? It's coming.
I notice that several of his donations are in countries that do business with Microsoft. In particular, his India AIDS donation looks suspiciously like a bribe to keep Linux out of government.
Yeah I'm surprised nobody mentioned this inanity earlier. It would be cheaper (and faster) to ditch your current RAM DIMMs, upgrade to some fat >1G chips, and set up a RAM drive. This is why I hate the industry, anyone with a clue is just dead weight, we need fresh talent to reinvent the wheel over and over.
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Hurd may not be ready, but I hear FreeDOS is ready to pick up the slack.
Isn't this just straight-up vertical integration? Shouldn't this be treated as a potentially illegal anticompetitive maneuver? I've read about how movie companies were forced to divest their theaters, isn't this the same thing?
Yes, but how can you be sure your oven doesn't get a Trojan? Hmm, Mr. OCD? Better checksum your firmware again!
He was. You don't have to argue about the definition of "not" or "am". He flat out lied like a dog. Bush is doing it now. It's that simple.
The difference between the Intel issues and the AMD issues is that the Intel issues are bugs, but the AMD issues are emergent features.
Those specie currency lunatics sound like flat-earthers. They just can't get over the fact that "real life" is more complicated than their simple minds allow for.
Hold out for the Platinum Collector's Edition. It comes with a cloth map and a secret guidebook.
I'm getting the impression that the patent system should be put down at all costs, including armed bloody rebellion. This crap is supposed to benefit society at large, and it doesn't.
...property is owned by rich people, who don't have to save electricity like a peon. It's the same reason that the airlines and trucks can contribute a majority of pollution yet you are encouraged to buy a 60 mpg econobox.
The term "semantics" seems to be misused to indicate some notion external to the machine's system in an attempt to ascribe special abilities to the human intellect, sort of like how the "soul" is used to connect humanity to the divine. Semantics are expressed simply as a system of conversion between one system and another. How this becomes mystified in relation to computers is that the second system is the natural world, about which computers have little knowledge, lacking natural senses and innate evaluative systems. I argue that semantics are no more inaccessible to computers than compilation, which translates one symbolic notation to its semantically equivalent machine code. You can design more sophisticated symbolic translation systems, such as the one involved with proofs of correctness, and clearly you can automate them. The big problem of such (and of AI in general) is that the problem space is so vast that deterministic methods cannot traverse them in a reasonable amount of time. Humans develop a heuristic method of culling improbable or useless states. I predict that we will eventually have something developed likewise for computers...it's in fact inevitable, since it is entirely possible to emulate the human mind synapse by synapse. The trick in such an emulative approach is that the human mind is both terribly fallible, and it takes years to reach a productive level of discipline. OK, now I'm just babbling...
The scary thing is the quote is entirely plausible. We SHOULD be able to dismiss such things offhand as satire or the like, but not these days.
Don't forget http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/c7/ and http://www.transmeta.com/efficeon/index.html. Or maybe you would be better off forgetting them, I don't know.
Uh, mod -1 Redundant? I hardly think that a high-class joint even in Thailand has women shooting ping pong balls out of her nether orifices. On a similar note, high class clubs in Mexico don't feature women pleasuring donkeys, either. That doesn't mean such things don't occur in their respective locales. I was in the Navy, and I know these things.
If Microsoft stopped acting like dicks and put their nose to the grindstone, they could crush OSS easily. As it is, they create their own enemies. Linux/BSD basically exists for four reasons: 1) fringe people and hobbyists (the same type of fine albeit irrelevant folk who keep CP/M alive), 2) it's free/open, 3) it is better in some ways for some things, and 4) it is Not Microsoft. Microsoft could knock out reasons 3 and 4 if they wanted, but they are too busy pissing off people with their predatory practices and lazy product. They are their own worst enemy.
I think he meant "shareholders".
BS. BellSouth doesn't provide jack, except a pipe. It would be like calling the post office a content provider. If BS (BellSouth) is an information provider, then I can sue them for sending me trojans, viruses, and fraudulent email. Hmm, maybe this is a good thing...
Refreshingly naive...you fail to realize that the government trumps capitalist mechanisms, and that the government is run by and for people who only care about the consolidation of wealth and power. You may protest that we can "vote the bums out", but recent history would imply otherwise. DRM is here to stay, just like domestic spying, unwarranted searches, and torture.
I figure it will take another Great Depression to cause a shakeup. The good news? It's coming.
Petey the Spelling Hound, however, concurs.
Poggles the Calculus Clown begs do differ!
where at least I know I'm free.
I notice that several of his donations are in countries that do business with Microsoft. In particular, his India AIDS donation looks suspiciously like a bribe to keep Linux out of government.
Hey, I've got XP Pro x64 edition! And with Vista, whole new horizons of choice emerge...
Yeah I'm surprised nobody mentioned this inanity earlier. It would be cheaper (and faster) to ditch your current RAM DIMMs, upgrade to some fat >1G chips, and set up a RAM drive. This is why I hate the industry, anyone with a clue is just dead weight, we need fresh talent to reinvent the wheel over and over.
The time machine is indeed right around the corner...tell me, do you know where all your socks are? Those time voyagers are such pranksters.
Don't forget the Bluetooth. You need some XML and LAMPS stacks in there while you're at it.