If you don't want companies to use loopholes in the tax code to legally avoid taxes, don't put loopholes in the tax code. Let's all remember that those loopholes and deductions were all heartily lobbied and bargained for. If you didn't want them passed, why didn't you send funds to your representative in order to vote against them?
This only matters if you're going into academia. Research is not something you put on your resume to get a job, if only because HR will think you're "overqualified" for a position with any real work and will leave quickly.
- highly skilled mentors and teachers
Yes, some people need these, but you will not get them at the university. Professors do not have time for much one-on-one instruction, and while you can show up during their office hours, there is no guarantee that you'll get any help. Hire a tutor if you need tutoring; it's much cheaper than college.
- a real-world community of people studying both the same sort of things as you, and wildly different sorts of things
If there's anything you will have no chance of finding at a university it's the real world. Academia live in their own world and its contents has little to do with reality. For example, in computer science be prepared to learn in depth about computational algorithm analysis, a task that you'll never perform in the real world outside, where most of what you do will consist of figuring out how to moving data around.
- regular social contact with relatively capable and intelligent people of the appropriate sex
Not at your department. Yes, there are more women at college than men, but you will not find them majoring in computer science or engineering. Consequently, the situation is no different than it is anywhere else; if you're a nerd, you won't be getting any dates in college either.
If you have any ambitions beyond that, then take the regular university degree if you can at all manage to do that.
By "ambitions" you must mean going into research somewhere. Some people like that. I would rather code 8-10 hours a day for the rest of my life than spend it begging for grants and dinking around with useless mathematical crap with no real-world significance.
Imagine your brain as a multithreaded program. Each thought runs on its own CPU set. The thalamus acts as the debugger, and can step through one thread at a time. When you are "debugging" a thought, that is your conscious thought. Unsupervised thoughts tend to wander around randomly and seldom produce anything useful. These are your unconscious thoughts. Unconscious thoughts are no less capable than the conscious ones, and as the experiment indicates are perfectly capable of thinking through any problem. The difference is that the outputs are not stored properly because that requires attention. In the experiment the researchers were able to get the background thoughts to write memories into some location where they could later be found. Because you do not consciously tell them to do so, you are not aware of this happening, much like having a memory corruption problem when a thread runs amok while you are debugging another one.
So what you are saying is, someone can buy one harry potter book, and then copy it and sell it?
Exactly. You buy a Harry Potter book for, what, $20. Add some text of your own and resell it as Chris's Goblet Of Fire. You would, of course, owe J.K.Rowling the $20, so you'll have to sell your book for more than that. You would also have to give it a different title because that's protected under trademark law. Otherwise, go for it! I see no problem with this; after all, the author is still paid.
You can also write a harry potter sex book? (This was actually one of the big issues Disney had)
Sure. People have the right to free speech in this country, which includes creating sex fantasies involving your created characters. You have no right to forbid it.
A lot of people won't create the art if they had to do it under those circumstances
On the contrary, a lot more people will create art under these circumstances. There is plenty of bad art out there in books, movies, music, etc. It is often easier to improve a bad book than it is to write a new one from scratch. Removing control over derivative works would allow the people to do just that. Remember, the original author is still paid, so there is even incentive for him to encourage such behavior to increase his revenue.
I think the most useful reform would be to stop granting copyright owners any control over their work except for the purpose of getting paid. The owner should not have the right to restrict distribution or use of his work in any way as long as it was legally purchased. Likewise, he should not have any control over derived works except for getting a cut of their sale equal to the current market value of the work multiplied by the fraction of the original work used in the derivation. So anybody should have the right to write a Harry Potter novel as long as Rowling gets a cut for whatever fraction of the book's value is assigned to characters.
Can any driver developers comment on how this was achieved? I know I haven't been programming OpenGL for very long, but all I see it doing is writing the data to the card and running the shaders on that data. Data transfers should already be going at full speed, so I don't see much possible improvement there. I also can't see how shader compiler improvements could result in doubled performance. Typically, compiler changes speed things up by a few percent and I don't believe that nVidia's compiler was that bad before. So what was sped up exactly? And frankly, aside from compiling the shaders and memcpying data to the card, I'm puzzled what the driver is doing anyway?
Jesus told them this parable: âoeNo one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, âThe old is better.â(TM)â - Luke 5:36-39
Old programmers are like old wine; we have no shelf life. As we age, we get better. We also get more expensive. If you pour us into the new wineskin of long hours, low pay, and other kinds of abuse, we burst your bubble and leak out. Put us in the old wineskins, preserve us with reasonable working hours, pay us well, and we'll reward you with the best patches you have ever seen. Keep away the patches coming from new wine, or you'll tear your garment and your hair. After trying us, you'll too say "truly, the old is better", and then continue "however, our shareholders demand higher profits this quarter and prefer 'cheaper'".
You should always call a professional to service your pool to avoid natural disasters. Why, only last week God tried to snake the drains on the sacred Haida hot springs, causing a 7.7 magnitude earthquake and completely draining the pools. Don't let this happen to you! Call Haida Pool Service to get the job done right! Proudly serving limbo and all 9 circles since 6000 BC.
Unless your game uses OpenGL and you have a fully accelerated driver (read: the proprietary Catalyst or nVidia blob), it will not be able to scale fast enough. Most games use SDL and main memory surfaces that are then blitted to the screen. Any scaling is done in software by the CPU and is dreadfully slow. My Core i7 can handle 1680x1050@60, but just barely, with one core pegged to 100%. The cheapest GPU, of course, can handle that easily, but you must run proprietary drivers and use OpenGL. If you don't, resolution scaling is your only option.
Just host the.APPX file on your website, and give the user instructions on sideloading it. It's quite easy, actually, although they do have to enable sideloading first (a single Powershell command).
Not for everybody. According to Microsoft, sideloading is only available on Windows 8 Enterprise, and Windows Server 2012, and only if the computer in question is joined to a domain. While it is standard practice to set up an internal domain at large corporations, a small business or a home user never do that. It's more hassle than it's worth when you only have a dozen machines, each only used by one person. Furthermore, "a single powershell command" is also not a reasonable requirement. Home users do not install powershell.
So no, sideloading is not an option if you want to sell to anybody other than big business. And I'm not interested in selling to big business.
You'll probably make a hell of a lot more money selling through the Windows store than you will selling through your own site
Possible, but unethical. IMO, only an idiot would tie himself to an appstore. Anyone with a brain would buy one app, experience the lockdown and never buy from there again. For example, I have discovered the hard way that Amazon's android app store has DRM requiring the amazon market to be running and logged in at all times. I bought one $1 app. I will not buy another one under any circumstances.
Consequently, if only idiots use the appstore, only idiots will buy your app. While there are indeed a lot of idiots in the world and their grasp on their wallets is as tenuous as their intellect, I would severely question the morality of taking profitable advantage of their handicap.
More like a trojan horse for developers. Microsoft's decision to make WinRT-based apps appstore-only is a total deal breaker. There is no way I am going to write applications that I am not allowed to sell directly to the user. There is no way any user with half a brain would make himself dependent on an application that can only be installed through the appstore. Those are strings, Pinocchio, and if you voluntarily attach them to yourself or your business, you will get exactly what you deserve.
If you measure miles per hour, the horse will win. If you measure miles per hour per calorie, the snail will win. Now, which one would you like to pull your next carriage?
Word 2013 docx is not compatible with Office 2003.
Well, Mr. Billy Gates, perhaps you should update the compatiblity pack to support those. Or are you worried that nobody will use your Metro Office 2013 otherwise? You should be.
You might not be aware of this, but Microsoft provides a compatibility pack for Office 2003 that allows reading and writing.docx and other 2007+ formats. With the pack, we can all keep the last good MS Office interface for as long as we like. Death to the ribbon!
No, you shouldn't. If the item's flaw was not intentionally caused by the seller, your burned down house is not his responsibility. Consider the case of you forgetting a lit candle next to the dishwasher. Unattended candles sometimes tip over and burn down houses; that does not mean that the candle maker is in any way liable for such events. You were at fault when you left the dishwasher unattended.
What you should have done, is check reviews of the product before you bought it. Reputation is the best guarantee for good products. A manufacturer with a good reputation would not want to lose it and would do whatever he can to ensure the quality of his products. Then you can improve your chances of not getting a bad product by buying a trusted brand. And when you do buy a badly made product, it's not the manufacturer who should pay for your mistake - it's you. Your action - your responsibility.
Unintentional damages absolutely do not deserve to be compensated. It is your personal responsibility to verify that the item in question is "safe" to your satisfaction before you buy it. Once you buy it, any actions that cause you injury are your actions, not the actions of the seller. It is not moral to hold the seller accountable for something he did not do.
Furthermore, you do not have a right to protection from all harm, as many of you nanny state advocates preach. You screw up - you pay. One man's "unsafe" is another man's bargain. As long as no false claims to safety were made, there is no breach of contract. Manufacturers have no intrinisic duty to care about your safety - that's solely your job.
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Now, now, we don't have "angry" in physics. The offical term for that condition is "excited".
If you don't want companies to use loopholes in the tax code to legally avoid taxes, don't put loopholes in the tax code. Let's all remember that those loopholes and deductions were all heartily lobbied and bargained for. If you didn't want them passed, why didn't you send funds to your representative in order to vote against them?
> patents have been obtained
I guess it won't revolutionize anything after all; or at least not for another 20 years.
This only matters if you're going into academia. Research is not something you put on your resume to get a job, if only because HR will think you're "overqualified" for a position with any real work and will leave quickly.
Yes, some people need these, but you will not get them at the university. Professors do not have time for much one-on-one instruction, and while you can show up during their office hours, there is no guarantee that you'll get any help. Hire a tutor if you need tutoring; it's much cheaper than college.
If there's anything you will have no chance of finding at a university it's the real world. Academia live in their own world and its contents has little to do with reality. For example, in computer science be prepared to learn in depth about computational algorithm analysis, a task that you'll never perform in the real world outside, where most of what you do will consist of figuring out how to moving data around.
Not at your department. Yes, there are more women at college than men, but you will not find them majoring in computer science or engineering. Consequently, the situation is no different than it is anywhere else; if you're a nerd, you won't be getting any dates in college either.
By "ambitions" you must mean going into research somewhere. Some people like that. I would rather code 8-10 hours a day for the rest of my life than spend it begging for grants and dinking around with useless mathematical crap with no real-world significance.
Imagine your brain as a multithreaded program. Each thought runs on its own CPU set. The thalamus acts as the debugger, and can step through one thread at a time. When you are "debugging" a thought, that is your conscious thought. Unsupervised thoughts tend to wander around randomly and seldom produce anything useful. These are your unconscious thoughts. Unconscious thoughts are no less capable than the conscious ones, and as the experiment indicates are perfectly capable of thinking through any problem. The difference is that the outputs are not stored properly because that requires attention. In the experiment the researchers were able to get the background thoughts to write memories into some location where they could later be found. Because you do not consciously tell them to do so, you are not aware of this happening, much like having a memory corruption problem when a thread runs amok while you are debugging another one.
Exactly. You buy a Harry Potter book for, what, $20. Add some text of your own and resell it as Chris's Goblet Of Fire. You would, of course, owe J.K.Rowling the $20, so you'll have to sell your book for more than that. You would also have to give it a different title because that's protected under trademark law. Otherwise, go for it! I see no problem with this; after all, the author is still paid.
Sure. People have the right to free speech in this country, which includes creating sex fantasies involving your created characters. You have no right to forbid it.
On the contrary, a lot more people will create art under these circumstances. There is plenty of bad art out there in books, movies, music, etc. It is often easier to improve a bad book than it is to write a new one from scratch. Removing control over derivative works would allow the people to do just that. Remember, the original author is still paid, so there is even incentive for him to encourage such behavior to increase his revenue.
I think the most useful reform would be to stop granting copyright owners any control over their work except for the purpose of getting paid. The owner should not have the right to restrict distribution or use of his work in any way as long as it was legally purchased. Likewise, he should not have any control over derived works except for getting a cut of their sale equal to the current market value of the work multiplied by the fraction of the original work used in the derivation. So anybody should have the right to write a Harry Potter novel as long as Rowling gets a cut for whatever fraction of the book's value is assigned to characters.
Clearly, Toshiba does not want anybody to use their products any more.
Unfortunately, to use hyper-v you have to use Windows 8, which is not painless.
To you, and all the other complainers about "unix", all I have to say is: get off my lawn!
And so you prove my point by failing to notice the bug. Lay off the drugs, man!
This is your code:
This is your code on drugs:
Any questions?
Can any driver developers comment on how this was achieved? I know I haven't been programming OpenGL for very long, but all I see it doing is writing the data to the card and running the shaders on that data. Data transfers should already be going at full speed, so I don't see much possible improvement there. I also can't see how shader compiler improvements could result in doubled performance. Typically, compiler changes speed things up by a few percent and I don't believe that nVidia's compiler was that bad before. So what was sped up exactly? And frankly, aside from compiling the shaders and memcpying data to the card, I'm puzzled what the driver is doing anyway?
Old programmers are like old wine; we have no shelf life. As we age, we get better. We also get more expensive. If you pour us into the new wineskin of long hours, low pay, and other kinds of abuse, we burst your bubble and leak out. Put us in the old wineskins, preserve us with reasonable working hours, pay us well, and we'll reward you with the best patches you have ever seen. Keep away the patches coming from new wine, or you'll tear your garment and your hair. After trying us, you'll too say "truly, the old is better", and then continue "however, our shareholders demand higher profits this quarter and prefer 'cheaper'".
You should always call a professional to service your pool to avoid natural disasters. Why, only last week God tried to snake the drains on the sacred Haida hot springs, causing a 7.7 magnitude earthquake and completely draining the pools. Don't let this happen to you! Call Haida Pool Service to get the job done right! Proudly serving limbo and all 9 circles since 6000 BC.
The euro crisis must be deep indeed if government projects have to rely on barter.
Unless your game uses OpenGL and you have a fully accelerated driver (read: the proprietary Catalyst or nVidia blob), it will not be able to scale fast enough. Most games use SDL and main memory surfaces that are then blitted to the screen. Any scaling is done in software by the CPU and is dreadfully slow. My Core i7 can handle 1680x1050@60, but just barely, with one core pegged to 100%. The cheapest GPU, of course, can handle that easily, but you must run proprietary drivers and use OpenGL. If you don't, resolution scaling is your only option.
Not for everybody. According to Microsoft, sideloading is only available on Windows 8 Enterprise, and Windows Server 2012, and only if the computer in question is joined to a domain. While it is standard practice to set up an internal domain at large corporations, a small business or a home user never do that. It's more hassle than it's worth when you only have a dozen machines, each only used by one person. Furthermore, "a single powershell command" is also not a reasonable requirement. Home users do not install powershell.
So no, sideloading is not an option if you want to sell to anybody other than big business. And I'm not interested in selling to big business.
Possible, but unethical. IMO, only an idiot would tie himself to an appstore. Anyone with a brain would buy one app, experience the lockdown and never buy from there again. For example, I have discovered the hard way that Amazon's android app store has DRM requiring the amazon market to be running and logged in at all times. I bought one $1 app. I will not buy another one under any circumstances.
Consequently, if only idiots use the appstore, only idiots will buy your app. While there are indeed a lot of idiots in the world and their grasp on their wallets is as tenuous as their intellect, I would severely question the morality of taking profitable advantage of their handicap.
More like a trojan horse for developers. Microsoft's decision to make WinRT-based apps appstore-only is a total deal breaker. There is no way I am going to write applications that I am not allowed to sell directly to the user. There is no way any user with half a brain would make himself dependent on an application that can only be installed through the appstore. Those are strings, Pinocchio, and if you voluntarily attach them to yourself or your business, you will get exactly what you deserve.
If you measure miles per hour, the horse will win. If you measure miles per hour per calorie, the snail will win. Now, which one would you like to pull your next carriage?
Well, Mr. Billy Gates, perhaps you should update the compatiblity pack to support those. Or are you worried that nobody will use your Metro Office 2013 otherwise? You should be.
You might not be aware of this, but Microsoft provides a compatibility pack for Office 2003 that allows reading and writing .docx and other 2007+ formats. With the pack, we can all keep the last good MS Office interface for as long as we like. Death to the ribbon!
The usual way to do so is called "gossip".
No, you shouldn't. If the item's flaw was not intentionally caused by the seller, your burned down house is not his responsibility. Consider the case of you forgetting a lit candle next to the dishwasher. Unattended candles sometimes tip over and burn down houses; that does not mean that the candle maker is in any way liable for such events. You were at fault when you left the dishwasher unattended.
What you should have done, is check reviews of the product before you bought it. Reputation is the best guarantee for good products. A manufacturer with a good reputation would not want to lose it and would do whatever he can to ensure the quality of his products. Then you can improve your chances of not getting a bad product by buying a trusted brand. And when you do buy a badly made product, it's not the manufacturer who should pay for your mistake - it's you. Your action - your responsibility.
Unintentional damages absolutely do not deserve to be compensated. It is your personal responsibility to verify that the item in question is "safe" to your satisfaction before you buy it. Once you buy it, any actions that cause you injury are your actions, not the actions of the seller. It is not moral to hold the seller accountable for something he did not do.
Furthermore, you do not have a right to protection from all harm, as many of you nanny state advocates preach. You screw up - you pay. One man's "unsafe" is another man's bargain. As long as no false claims to safety were made, there is no breach of contract. Manufacturers have no intrinisic duty to care about your safety - that's solely your job.