Posts by Destroy All Monsters

But you can't patent that

It's a spec, so USPTO will exceptionally say "no".

You need some magic applicative dust ... "method to enrage superego CEOs of fruit-logo bearing companies"

Are you people still talking shag power?

What, are you 12 years old?

Yeah well

I'm not sure whether the air gap is enclosed or not...

The sad thing is...

...you cannot fault him for the public's rather dismaying taste in bilge.

Quite so.

There is a gigantic penguin in this room. It may be hard to spot behind all the salesdroids at first...

You are off mass shell

"A building is a building is a building. Once the fabric is there in place, and assuming its been built properly (and there isnt the odd earthquake), its there and has a fundamental value, it is fundamentally the same thing for years"

No.

The price of labor and the price of goods nothing to do with how much material, what type of material or how much time went into it. Start with the basics:

http://mises.org/daily/2255 - "The Source of Prices"

THE AUDACITY OF ART!

Yep, that was *not* smart however you look at it.

Thar arts master didn't have a side dish in ethics and legalities.

"An even more minority view is that consciousness is a quantum effect."

Unfortunately this assumption is useless.

"Quantum effects" is just code for "some magic happens that gives you additional power; I will leave for the reader to imagine what that could be". In other words: low-level religious feel-good crap packed in modern jargon [yes, I'm looking at you, Penrose!]

Even honest-to-god quantum computers would not help you solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time. In fact, the problems in BQP [bounded error quantum polynomial time] do not seem to be of any interest for daily jobs. Do do not need fast factorization for getting milk jugs out of the fridge.

Uhm

I think arteries clog due to inflammation by certain sugars and veggie oils.

Leave out the chips, then go wild on the full fat!

But I'm not sure the beer will help.

On the other hand...

...if they did the true testing-and-assurance song and dance a lot of the stuff wouldn't be there in the first place and overlay programming on a 256K machine might well be latest feature to hit the stores.

Mass consumption electronics is what it is. Deal with the risk.

And for anything serious, you have "maintenance contracts".

Stop clarifying what some confused dude at MS says

"Expose functionality in the OS that maps to what HTML-5 needs"

It's called an API. Look it up sometimes.

D'oh!

You want statics in an interface?

Maybe you are unsure about what you want to do.

Well, duh!

You, sir, are of the highest intelligence because you happen to have, with the unusual sharpness of a Moriarty-like mind, recognized, in a flash as it were, what capitalism is all about.

Except for the "all but irrelevant", "things that nobody wants" and "simply don't perform" parts.

Have a cookie. It's a bit mouldy.

Right

Grogan. Glass lift.

Enough said.

Ouch

Reading that was is slightly less worse than would be doing a whole night stakeout of the local FBI office with the Lone Gunmen nerdclub. From a non-airconditioned container.

You seem confused....

Apparently in some worlds, "regulation" (which is what we are seeing here) on goods sold to a captive buyer pool (which is what we have here) makes things better and "fairer"

That's like a US dude claiming that's he so free while he's being escorted to a Gitmo Flight.

How's the regulation to mandatorily have > 40% females on companies' boards coming btw.? Ministers of female affairs all over the EU seem pretty happy about having that.

A downvote?

The parochialism of certain people is pathetic.

"Incompetent and unaware of it" comes to mind.

Well...

Really what do you expect? These people are trained to see government-fuelled bubble after bubble after bubble. So is the hoi polloi actually. The expectation of having "high returns, constantly" is by now in-built. It may lead to destruction of actual income generators to the profit of weird mutant fish like Facebook, estimated at 100 billion, but that's the toxic environment for you.

It's like the "Color out of space", fueled by Central Banks.

"Almost at the same time the mortality among the livestock commenced. Poultry turned greyish and died very quickly, their meat being found dry and noisome upon cutting. Hogs grew inordinately fat, then suddenly began to undergo loathsome changes which no one could explain. Their meat was of course useless, and Nahum was at his wit’s end."

But he had access to Platonic Truth [tm]

That must be worth something, right?

In fact, it's not really different from what happens when a politician goes on air, except in the latter case it's supposed to be common knowledge that you get Serious Signal Enhancement.

That's easy

It's someone who games 27 hour per day 7/7 and writes articles about it.

No, it's an exponential asymptotically going to 100.

I thought everybody knew _that_

That's the goal

The Surgeon General recommends Three Felonies Per Day. For everyone.

It's always hilarious when the "if you do X, you have nothing to fear from this law" is trotted out YET AGAIN.