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Do you have a computer? Can it access the web? Is it less than 5 years old? Congratulations, you have a pretty amazing computer that should be able to do most things pretty reasonably.
I mean Jesus, some people make it seem like it's a personal attack when corporations don't pander to all.
It says that local ecosystems are known to go through critical transitions, and that what's make these transitions remarkable is that the tipping point is so hard to identify or predict. They are extrapolating this and saying that a global tipping point may exist as well. That's it.
You are right, it's incredibly vague and there isn't any awesome undeniable evidence. That's the whole point of the paper. "Hey guys, we might be screwing up our shit more than we think, we need to start taking more measurements" is basically the entire gist of the paper.
Native Client isn't for running apps quickly. It's for finally letting Google create a sandbox that they can run their own browser in.
Probably won't happen until HVM support is growing at a certain level.
I really don't get it. I mean, could Zagat have gotten away with this in the pre-internet era? "Hey man, love your restaurant, but each star costs $100."
Hopefully for the next experiment they have them tackle a longer project, and have the programmers tackle short problems in multiple languages to 'rank' them.
Flame and Stuxnet have been rumored to have been US/Israeli sponsored for a while; the confirmation is no real surprise.
What surprises me is how stupid this shit is. I mean seriously? If I knew the US was using crypto warfare leveraging the spreading properties of a virus, I would hope that it would be nearly impossible to tie back to us. I mean that's just fucking common sense.
I mean really, at the end of the day, what did this achieve? I'd say it probably just gave every crypto nerd in China, Japan, India and Russia an infinite budget.
Catching up is a matter of when, not if.
If you can't give a good gist about something in less than a paragraph, you don't know what you're talking about.
All I could think of was how serving lobster to your employees is considered the new comic sans. An interesting world to think about, if I may say so.
then I met my boss. holy shit. he lucid dreamed every day. said it was awesome.
just remember, you have to take notes about your dreams if you want to remember them. do it every morning first thing.
2ndly, start asking yourself if you are dreaming a lot during the day. you won't ask yourself in a dream, because you think it's a normal day.
that's my 2 cents.
I'm sure it's awesome, but friggin come on. There's more to life than algol 2.0.
Why is the speed of the Go compiler so important? Why not just use an incremental compiler? Why the hell would you want to recompile a 100k+ line program when there are known better alternatives?
Just doesn't make sense to me.
very biased reporting.
I think most people should be much more questionable about groklaw. I am big open source and FSF advocate, but I'm not above thinking that groklaw is controlled/funded by a much larger power.
I hope it's just a conspiracy theory. But I do think that anonymity works both ways; it can imply that you want to say the truth unencumbered, but it also can imply astroturfing.
Just because the wind blows this way doesn't mean it always will.