Statutory damages are not municipal fines. The logic behind them is totally different. If I break your window, I don't have to pay the cost of the window "Adjusted for the probability of getting caught breaking your window", I just have to fix the damn thing.
That is too bad, but irrelevant. Federal funds are spent for "coverage of abortion in cases of rape, incest, and life endangerment" only. All other cases are irrelevant to the argument. What you are talking about is explicitly "Keeping funds from people who need it for medical treatment, or because they were victims of abuse", which is deplorable.
What was done was an exhaustive proof: all possible topological layouts were tested. It required a variety of tests on about 2,000 types of maps, which would have taken lifetimes to be done by hand.
Granted, a large body of work was done to lead to this proof, including a 500 page proof showing there were only about 2,000 relevant types of maps.
There are problems where the number crunching is entirely prohibitive to humankind, and solving the problem leads to significant forwarding of science and/or math.
Neither of you said "A deterministic function cannot possibly generate a random number sequence"? Heh.
But, seriously, what was the intended period of the PRNG? Mersenne Twister is considered an excellent general use PRNG (not for cryptography), but if you ask for more than 2^19937 - 1 random numbers from it without reseeding it will repeat.
Civilization ends, cities lie in ruins. Famine decimates the populations. There are no power sources. Shit, I can't do maths!
But seriously, it is ridiculous to posit that using a calculator permanently prevents you from doing basic math. The fact is, anyone doing math does basic math in their head all the time, even when they have a calculator somewhere. I don't dig my calculator out of my backpack unless I have a mass of rote work to do or some strange function I want to explore. As lazy as I might be, any loss in speed could be recovered within a week or two of not using a calculator.
Agreed completely, 'cept it's more like trickle-up (or no trickle at all), since infrastructure helps everyone living here, we all benefit instantly and continuously. If only we could throw $800 billion towards light rail and universal fiber, maybe a trillion towards improving health care and a trillion towards education that we spent on wars in foreign countries. Imagine how much better off we could be right now. Sigh.
Clearly I'm not up to date, thank you for the link.
Anyhow, there must still be a way for the application to be updated. Either there is some communication whereby Windows verifies patches, or it amounts to some security-through-obscurity whereby the application needs to unlock the DLL and relock it or similar.
Not how it works. There isn't some global registry of DLL files. There are DLLs in the system path (which one might think of as installed as they are globally available to all apps), and DLLs in other, application paths. There would have to be some cooperation between the software provider and the OS for this system to exist.
I think that was meant to be funny, rather than pure insight (the make-work comment), but I'll point it out anyways: breaking windows to make work for the window repairman just hurts everyone. Real "make-work" stimulus is infrastructure repair, because it has a lasting benefit to everyone.
Exactly why I live in a cave in the Himalayas. No skinheads in my abode, no way. Just the village girl who leaves rice outside the door (she can't come in though, don't know if she is trustworthy).
I think OP was talking about library functions which make system calls (context switch from usermode to kernelmode). Although I wouldn't be surprised if he was talking about context switches from pineapplemode to bananamode, given how much everything else he says makes sense.
Anyways, how does having a "monolithic, doitall architecture" mean that "many functions do not need to force a context switch"? Somehow having a more 'monolithic' API means less of the function calls lead to system calls? That is ridiculous, especially considering that Windows has significantly more of the operating system in the kernel (the GUI subsystem), meaning all kinds of basic functions for handling GUI applications force a context switch where none would be needed in Linux.
Most of all, OP is speaking nonsense about why Wine+Win32 Firefox is faster. As if there is less intrinsic overhead due to the API design of Win32 using Wine means FireFox+Wine should be faster. That is idiotic when you realize that Wine's Win32 implementations ultimately have to perform the same context switches to achieve the same results.
Traffic will only flow to other trackers automatically if torrent files have multiple trackers listed, which isn't all too common. A vast proportion of TPB users are random college kid types with little tech knowledge, and would not know how to find alternative trackers.
Additionally, there are dozens of small private/invite trackers which would not be affected as they have limited membership. Generally, these researchers have their heads up their asses.
He has some point. Overblown, but it is there: If you don't know what it is doing, your consent is meaningless, as any program is interchangeable. Consenting to unknown code running on your computer is consenting to ANY code running on your computer.
Bullshit. Rather, I like your second sentence: "Bush is just trying to scare us so he can raid the treasury!" they all said.
The fact of the matter is there was whining from the far left, left, middle, right and far right. There was general discontent amongst American citizens as well. But no one had any better ideas, so it went ahead.
We are without a doubt in a catastrophic period for our economy.
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No no, you misunderstood. He said nazies.
It would be awesome to have shoes made out of hollowed Nazis though.
I'm talking about tort law. If someone damaged your property and refused to pay for it, you would take them to court.
The situation I discussed is exactly like what the RIAA is doing.
Statutory damages are not municipal fines. The logic behind them is totally different. If I break your window, I don't have to pay the cost of the window "Adjusted for the probability of getting caught breaking your window", I just have to fix the damn thing.
And, what do you know? People from those town halls were getting jobs and having getting housing thanks to Obama! Sounds like well placed faith to me!
This is almost never the case with abortion.
That is too bad, but irrelevant. Federal funds are spent for "coverage of abortion in cases of rape, incest, and life endangerment" only. All other cases are irrelevant to the argument. What you are talking about is explicitly "Keeping funds from people who need it for medical treatment, or because they were victims of abuse", which is deplorable.
What was done was an exhaustive proof: all possible topological layouts were tested. It required a variety of tests on about 2,000 types of maps, which would have taken lifetimes to be done by hand.
Granted, a large body of work was done to lead to this proof, including a 500 page proof showing there were only about 2,000 relevant types of maps.
There are problems where the number crunching is entirely prohibitive to humankind, and solving the problem leads to significant forwarding of science and/or math.
Neither of you said "A deterministic function cannot possibly generate a random number sequence"? Heh.
But, seriously, what was the intended period of the PRNG? Mersenne Twister is considered an excellent general use PRNG (not for cryptography), but if you ask for more than 2^19937 - 1 random numbers from it without reseeding it will repeat.
it's about teaching logical thought
Well, you can stop right there. We might as well be putting our resources into sports!
Civilization ends, cities lie in ruins. Famine decimates the populations. There are no power sources. Shit, I can't do maths!
But seriously, it is ridiculous to posit that using a calculator permanently prevents you from doing basic math. The fact is, anyone doing math does basic math in their head all the time, even when they have a calculator somewhere. I don't dig my calculator out of my backpack unless I have a mass of rote work to do or some strange function I want to explore. As lazy as I might be, any loss in speed could be recovered within a week or two of not using a calculator.
Yes it does, IF, most especially, you have never learned to do basic math in the first place.
I first learned to use a computer at 7. No wonder I keep fucking up the arithmetic on my multi-variable calculus problems!
Agreed completely, 'cept it's more like trickle-up (or no trickle at all), since infrastructure helps everyone living here, we all benefit instantly and continuously. If only we could throw $800 billion towards light rail and universal fiber, maybe a trillion towards improving health care and a trillion towards education that we spent on wars in foreign countries. Imagine how much better off we could be right now. Sigh.
Clearly I'm not up to date, thank you for the link.
Anyhow, there must still be a way for the application to be updated. Either there is some communication whereby Windows verifies patches, or it amounts to some security-through-obscurity whereby the application needs to unlock the DLL and relock it or similar.
I'm waiting for Windows O'bama!
installed DLL files
Not how it works. There isn't some global registry of DLL files. There are DLLs in the system path (which one might think of as installed as they are globally available to all apps), and DLLs in other, application paths. There would have to be some cooperation between the software provider and the OS for this system to exist.
I think that was meant to be funny, rather than pure insight (the make-work comment), but I'll point it out anyways: breaking windows to make work for the window repairman just hurts everyone. Real "make-work" stimulus is infrastructure repair, because it has a lasting benefit to everyone.
Exactly why I live in a cave in the Himalayas. No skinheads in my abode, no way. Just the village girl who leaves rice outside the door (she can't come in though, don't know if she is trustworthy).
I think OP was talking about library functions which make system calls (context switch from usermode to kernelmode). Although I wouldn't be surprised if he was talking about context switches from pineapplemode to bananamode, given how much everything else he says makes sense.
Context Switch also refers to switching between user and kernel modes via system calls or interrupts. OP is still a raving lunatic though.
Erm... glibc?
Anyways, how does having a "monolithic, doitall architecture" mean that "many functions do not need to force a context switch"? Somehow having a more 'monolithic' API means less of the function calls lead to system calls? That is ridiculous, especially considering that Windows has significantly more of the operating system in the kernel (the GUI subsystem), meaning all kinds of basic functions for handling GUI applications force a context switch where none would be needed in Linux.
Most of all, OP is speaking nonsense about why Wine+Win32 Firefox is faster. As if there is less intrinsic overhead due to the API design of Win32 using Wine means FireFox+Wine should be faster. That is idiotic when you realize that Wine's Win32 implementations ultimately have to perform the same context switches to achieve the same results.
I prefer women with no jobs, 2 kids, and hard drug dependencies.
Happy valentines day (early) slashdot!
Traffic will only flow to other trackers automatically if torrent files have multiple trackers listed, which isn't all too common. A vast proportion of TPB users are random college kid types with little tech knowledge, and would not know how to find alternative trackers.
Additionally, there are dozens of small private/invite trackers which would not be affected as they have limited membership. Generally, these researchers have their heads up their asses.
Demonoid ftw.
s/BT/The Pirate Bay
He has some point. Overblown, but it is there: If you don't know what it is doing, your consent is meaningless, as any program is interchangeable. Consenting to unknown code running on your computer is consenting to ANY code running on your computer.
Bullshit. Rather, I like your second sentence: "Bush is just trying to scare us so he can raid the treasury!" they all said.
The fact of the matter is there was whining from the far left, left, middle, right and far right. There was general discontent amongst American citizens as well. But no one had any better ideas, so it went ahead.
We are without a doubt in a catastrophic period for our economy.
Please erect your straw men elsewhere.
P.S. Obligatory, "It's a tarp!"
The Gettysburg Address, DUH!