Why is speeding illegal then? If you are not impacting anyone else on the road (until you actually impact with them...) while speeding down the road you haven't actually acted upon their car. You may not intend to hurt anyone with your speeding, so it could be said that speeding (all the while knowing that what you are doing could seriously hurt/kill people) is like knowing how to make a bomb?
Really? I find self checkouts (the one where you scan all your items instead of a clerk) to be incredibly awesome and time-saving. Maybe it's because of people like yourself who are afraid(?) of them.
Mass production turns out such plastic forms in mili-seconds, not hours.
That doesn't matter in the "Maker Bot House" because they don't need a hundred thousand of that device. They only need one. If you were selling the things you make, then sure. Quantity comes into play. But if you just need one or two cups to replace the ones that were broken, the speed is not as much of a factor.
Cubert overclocks Bender to improve his performance in an online game. Walt, Larry, and Igner are defeated online by an enhanced Bender and complain to Mom, who has both Cubert and Professor Farnsworth arrested for overclocking Bender (a violation of Bender's license agreement). She also sends an army of robots to capture Bender so he can be reset to his original settings.
You're talking about a business. A Restaurant, a Social media website (Facebook keep you from joining LinkedIn?), a storefront website (Amazon keep you from shopping at other sites?), search engine... it doesn't matter. You are trying to argue that Google is somehow preventing you from creating a new Search page. I am telling you that the only barrier to you creating a search page is your own ambition.
So, if I open a restaurant down the street and nobody visits my new restaurant it's McDonalds fault because they are the biggest restaurant chain in the world and somehow (simply because of their size?) they are preventing people from visiting your door?
Of course they log you as a customer... have you ever used your credit card number to buy food? You got logged in their accounts receivable. It may not be your email address, but they can get in contact with you via that number. It may be a layer of abstraction, but technically so is a SPAM filter.
Your chance of breaking into the web search business is hardly zero. You can create a crawler, provide a web interface and allow people to search your indexes for as much as you'd like to charge (hopefully you include hosting fees and data warehousing in those figures...) If you want to charge $0 for it, the only barrier to you getting in the search business isn't Google. It's finding funds to power your servers. Google isn't preventing you from doing any of that. Heck, I can go home right now and "break into the web search business" by coding up a crawler, and setting up an old computer for a web server for the cost of my time.
This idea is like the one below (if I understand) where all buildings in a city would connect to a central switching building? You wouldn't need 50 fiber lines to each building in that case because the ISP could just change the patch cable for your line to their network. I guess it's an option to have "neighborhood sub nodes" like apartment complexes do currently where phone/cable companies handle connections in a central box. You'd basically have a patch panel with all the houses in an area and the ISP could send someone out to connect your address to their network.
I guess the main problem I see is that large cities would pretty much require multiple "subnodes" of IDFs for different neighborhoods or sections of town that would connect to several "exit points" (like a large WAN.) If you ran fiber from every building in a city, the incoming bundle would be immense and unwieldy. I'm not an expert in large WANs, but I assume it would be like you and a neighbor connecting to the same switch with a backbone to other neighborhood switches that links you to the "Internet" (in quotes because you'd all be part of the Internet at that point) through the mesh of neighborhood nodes. The big limitation I see is addressing which would have to be handled by the "gateways" out of a city net.
Ideally, Municipal Internet would be a fiber connection to each taxpaying customer where the main trunk is then connected to a major node of the Internet, or the Municipality was a major node that other neighboring Municipals would connect to forming multiple redundant links to neighboring Municipals. You really couldn't do Municipal Internet with competition because there's no real good way to connect to the Municipal line, then connect through that to an ISP of your choosing. If you did Municipal Internet, you'd have to provide free, unlimited, and unrestricted Internet to each taxpaying home, business and apartment complex. Where/how they choose to split their connection would be up to them (the apartment could limit connections based on rent, the business could firewall their customers/employees to certain sites, etc.)
How is that different from... class Ship extends Container {
public function getArrivalTime() {...} } Do you really need to comment that that method of Ship Container returns the calculated arrival time?
So if a program you wrote needs to be changed to Fahrenheit or Kelvin someone has to change all your variable names or create additional variables that are populated with the converted values?
/* We should be making code more readable so we don't need comments unless code is already readable. */ while(code can be made more readable within practical constraints) {/* make code more readable */
make code more readable } if(code is readable enough to not require comments) {/* do it! */
great! } else {/* write a comment */
write a comment }
I just got bored of trying to fix my karma because some asses went raging and modded down all my comments, resulting in me posting at -1. Easier to just make new account.
What if that someone started logging when you came and left, what kind of things you bring in your front door and called the police if they saw you carry a "suspicious" brown bag into your home?
"Method and system for taking a crap on a computer."
1. Eat food (see our related patent application for "Method and system for eating food";
2. Wait. (period of time depends on food eaten and any contamination such as salmonella, see our related patents and our "brown paper" on "Montezuma's Revenge")
I usually wear my seatbelt, but when I don't, I'm intelligent enough to know I don't have it one without a stupid fucking alarm going off every 15 seconds making sure I'm aware.
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I have to ask what you use to post with because all your quotation marks show as "â(TM)" and "â".
If they are supposed to be a secret, why do they print the number right on the front of a plastic card?
Why is speeding illegal then? If you are not impacting anyone else on the road (until you actually impact with them...) while speeding down the road you haven't actually acted upon their car. You may not intend to hurt anyone with your speeding, so it could be said that speeding (all the while knowing that what you are doing could seriously hurt/kill people) is like knowing how to make a bomb?
Really? I find self checkouts (the one where you scan all your items instead of a clerk) to be incredibly awesome and time-saving. Maybe it's because of people like yourself who are afraid(?) of them.
I agree, but I wanted to point out:
Mass production turns out such plastic forms in mili-seconds, not hours.
That doesn't matter in the "Maker Bot House" because they don't need a hundred thousand of that device. They only need one. If you were selling the things you make, then sure. Quantity comes into play. But if you just need one or two cups to replace the ones that were broken, the speed is not as much of a factor.
This Futurama episode comes to mind now when I'm reminded of the ridiculousness of EULAs today:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overclockwise
Cubert overclocks Bender to improve his performance in an online game. Walt, Larry, and Igner are defeated online by an enhanced Bender and complain to Mom, who has both Cubert and Professor Farnsworth arrested for overclocking Bender (a violation of Bender's license agreement). She also sends an army of robots to capture Bender so he can be reset to his original settings.
Yeah ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proactor_pattern
You're talking about a business. A Restaurant, a Social media website (Facebook keep you from joining LinkedIn?), a storefront website (Amazon keep you from shopping at other sites?), search engine... it doesn't matter. You are trying to argue that Google is somehow preventing you from creating a new Search page. I am telling you that the only barrier to you creating a search page is your own ambition.
So, if I open a restaurant down the street and nobody visits my new restaurant it's McDonalds fault because they are the biggest restaurant chain in the world and somehow (simply because of their size?) they are preventing people from visiting your door?
Of course they log you as a customer... have you ever used your credit card number to buy food? You got logged in their accounts receivable. It may not be your email address, but they can get in contact with you via that number. It may be a layer of abstraction, but technically so is a SPAM filter.
Your chance of breaking into the web search business is hardly zero. You can create a crawler, provide a web interface and allow people to search your indexes for as much as you'd like to charge (hopefully you include hosting fees and data warehousing in those figures...) If you want to charge $0 for it, the only barrier to you getting in the search business isn't Google. It's finding funds to power your servers. Google isn't preventing you from doing any of that. Heck, I can go home right now and "break into the web search business" by coding up a crawler, and setting up an old computer for a web server for the cost of my time.
This idea is like the one below (if I understand) where all buildings in a city would connect to a central switching building? You wouldn't need 50 fiber lines to each building in that case because the ISP could just change the patch cable for your line to their network. I guess it's an option to have "neighborhood sub nodes" like apartment complexes do currently where phone/cable companies handle connections in a central box. You'd basically have a patch panel with all the houses in an area and the ISP could send someone out to connect your address to their network.
I guess the main problem I see is that large cities would pretty much require multiple "subnodes" of IDFs for different neighborhoods or sections of town that would connect to several "exit points" (like a large WAN.) If you ran fiber from every building in a city, the incoming bundle would be immense and unwieldy. I'm not an expert in large WANs, but I assume it would be like you and a neighbor connecting to the same switch with a backbone to other neighborhood switches that links you to the "Internet" (in quotes because you'd all be part of the Internet at that point) through the mesh of neighborhood nodes. The big limitation I see is addressing which would have to be handled by the "gateways" out of a city net.
Ideally, Municipal Internet would be a fiber connection to each taxpaying customer where the main trunk is then connected to a major node of the Internet, or the Municipality was a major node that other neighboring Municipals would connect to forming multiple redundant links to neighboring Municipals. You really couldn't do Municipal Internet with competition because there's no real good way to connect to the Municipal line, then connect through that to an ISP of your choosing. If you did Municipal Internet, you'd have to provide free, unlimited, and unrestricted Internet to each taxpaying home, business and apartment complex. Where/how they choose to split their connection would be up to them (the apartment could limit connections based on rent, the business could firewall their customers/employees to certain sites, etc.)
The C3P0 "sex bot" scene (After Luke buys the droids and is cleaning them) was rather disturbing, but I couldn't help but laugh my head off.
//Calculate arrival time for ship
How is that different from...
class Ship extends Container {
public function getArrivalTime() {...}
}
Do you really need to comment that that method of Ship Container returns the calculated arrival time?
So if a program you wrote needs to be changed to Fahrenheit or Kelvin someone has to change all your variable names or create additional variables that are populated with the converted values?
Seems like a bad practice.
/* We should be making code more readable so we don't need comments unless code is already readable. */ /* make code more readable */ /* do it! */ /* write a comment */
while(code can be made more readable within practical constraints) {
make code more readable
}
if(code is readable enough to not require comments) {
great!
} else {
write a comment
}
I just got bored of trying to fix my karma because some asses went raging and modded down all my comments, resulting in me posting at -1. Easier to just make new account.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2551548&cid=38214208
I'm 99% positive this is the same person.
Or the "Display Density: Compact" option under the gear in the upper right to reduce the white-space right on the page...
A Turning Machine (sometimes referred to as a lathe) is used to make a things round, sometimes with decorative designs.
I would not consider it a general purpose computation machine. ;)
What if that someone started logging when you came and left, what kind of things you bring in your front door and called the police if they saw you carry a "suspicious" brown bag into your home?
"Method and system for taking a crap on a computer."
1. Eat food (see our related patent application for "Method and system for eating food";
2. Wait. (period of time depends on food eaten and any contamination such as salmonella, see our related patents and our "brown paper" on "Montezuma's Revenge")
3. Do what comes naturally on a computer.
Excellent, I shall file this immediately.
Deciding to believe we don't exist, or covering up that we exist so their populace won't be scared of us...
I usually wear my seatbelt, but when I don't, I'm intelligent enough to know I don't have it one without a stupid fucking alarm going off every 15 seconds making sure I'm aware.
... says dead_user.
(Sorry, I found it amusing.)