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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 02:27 AM EST |
Even in 1982/83 when Sinclair launched the 48K Spectrum in the UK, it was
advertised as '48K RAM (32K usable)'.
This was due to 16K being reserved for the screen memory (16384b, if I remember
correctly).
Anything written to this location would be writing to the screen (TV in those
days) as a bit map of the value. I used to spend hours messing with assembler
loading arbitrary code (prime number generators etc.) and then watch the screen
as the program ran. It was amazing watching all the bits of data being moved
around at breakneck speed.
So Microsoft have no excuse here at all (deliberately misleading is my guess).
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 07:14 AM EST |
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/cloudera-and-apache/all/
And PJ has this one pretty much summed up. The GPL makes everyone have equal
power over the code. BSD/MIT/Apache-style lisences let it be stolen (hey, two
can play games with meanings) easily. That's the whole point of them.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: davenewman on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 08:25 AM EST |
In the comment to Designing
access to justice PJ said that,
so far as I know, no computer is
capable of weighing all
the elements to the degree a human brain
can.
In fact, over a decade ago, John Zeleznikow at Monash
University built a neural network trained on the Victoria
family court
judgements on how to split assets after a
divorce. It was extremely accurate in
predicting such
decisions. It took into account all the subtleties of when
the
judges paid more attention to need, and, when both
parties were well off, how
much they contributed to the
marriage.
But because few lawyers
understand probabilities, he had
to built in code to generate logical arguments
for the
outcomes. It wasn't necessary, just a concession to a
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 01:01 PM EST |
Article link.
I still opt for the same I've always opted for - and quite
frankly, Microsoft has no say in the matter.
I opt for: I'll pass on MS
Office. Thanks for the offer though!
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 02:19 PM EST |
The beauty of the internet was that it was limitless, so people
should be able to put
anything on the web, he said.
...
‘‘There’s
someone out there who next week is going to produce something you could never
imagine.
And that’s not about technology, that’s humanity.’’
stuff.co.nz
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Authored by: albert on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 02:28 PM EST |
Link
Subtitle: From sublime to ridiculous. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: kawabago on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 05:05 PM EST |
How many different companies can patent slide-to-unlock
before it ceases to be original? So far Apple and Micron that
I know of but there must be others. If we collect all the
slide to unlock patents and line them up side by side for the
Patent Office, maybe they can explain how all of them can be
original inventions and not obvious?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 05:54 PM EST |
techdirtThe Tribunal basically ignores all that and says that,
under the law, an
accusation is as good as guilt unless you provide evidence of
innocence -- and then says she failed
to do so. Think about that for a second.
You need to prove a negative here -- which seems close to
impossible, but
that's what the law apparently requires.
Ah, no. The defendant
admitted one charge of downloading, and admitted to incompetence in
controlling
the uTorrent client, being a partial admission of the second charge. The
defendant denied
downloading the song in the third charge, but note that all
three charges were for "communicating
the work to the public", i.e. uploading.
Funny techdirt didn't pick that up while the
NZ Herald did. Another thing techdirt seems to have missed is
this defendant was not
hammered with $60,000 per track as happens in
another jurisdiction I won't name.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 08:03 PM EST |
The reality disconnect is becoming more and more apparent.
I'm not a fan of reality TV, but Microsoft...? Now that's entertainment![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 31 2013 @ 04:15 AM EST |
Firefox blocking everything except latest Adobe Flash?
Why do I expect Oracle Java wil get it's latest unblocked by default if Oracle
make a big enough "donation" to the Mozilla Foundation?
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