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Comment Re:...... so? (Score 2) 154

Also, there are many well-documented cases of situations of the type where a dog has a limp when the owner is around, getting all sorts of special treatment, but they if no one is in the has and the dog is observed through a window it does not limp.

I love my dog, but I also accept the fact that 100,000 years of evolution has turned him from a noble animal into a manipulative little parasite!

Comment The 3 things that hurt it. (Score 1) 505

1. Drivers (Music and Video mostly)
2. Drivers (Music and Video mostly)
3. Drivers (Music and Video mostly)

And this quote

"Linus, despite being a low-level kernel guy, set the tone for our community years ago when he dismissed binary compatibility for device drivers. The kernel people might have some valid reasons for it, and might have forced the industry to play by their rules, but the Desktop people did not have the power that the kernel people did. But we did keep the attitude."

Comment Universal Turing Machines (Score 2) 24

There is a reason there are 50 different definitions of computable function - they are not hard to come by. As a professional mathematician/theoretical computer scientist I find it totally unsurprising to find one in the Penrose tiles. If it is useful for something, that's different. But you build almost any sufficiently rich mathematical structure and you can interpret a subset of them as Turing machines.

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