The net was working before Al Gore. What he did was the high-level politics necessary to open it up to the ordinary man in the street, creating a very different beast upon the same protocols. That very different beast is the modern internet.
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Yeah.. I've been reviving some old code, too. 1978 old. It was greate while I was busy with it, then I got to a part of the spec I didn't care much about (because I thought the design was wrong) and it became a drag. I also spent some time on an unfinished novel, threw together an absolutely trivial 3D video game, tinkered witl the lumiera documentation. All in spare time, and it's great!
Hacking is a joy unto itself; the ostensible goal is only an object, something to hack. Hacking isn't random, it's purposeful. But if the enjoyment doesn't come from the hacking, but from the ostensible goal, well, the enjoyment is fleeting.
I heard on the CBC just now that it was a journalist in Australia who had a few years ago reported on this kind of corruption. He started getting emails, and eventually the package with the hard drive.
Hurricane Electric has been doing ths stuff for years, Check them out, Even my ISP (Teksavvy) has been using them to provide IPv6 to its clients. Not sure what they are using now.
Maybe a user-space file system that's a front for a database that indexes the files in an underlying file system? If it can assimilate metadata and user-defined tags as well, great.
I'm really looking for a system that indexes my own files the way Google does the web.
Will Ubuntu dual-boot with Android on the Transformer (I have a TF101). Or will its user-space coexists with Androids on a shared kernel? Endless questions about interoperability ensue.
It was a contest to produce game art in one month, and to write free/libre games the second month. You might like to browse the entries, pick a few and try to compille and play them. But you might have bad luck and find a few that are actually engrossing.
Or you could improve them, because they're all CC'd and/or GPL'd.
I have a small GPL'd OCAML program that gives you a small island to wander around on and find eight things. You get a map. It's still easy to get lost. No monsters, nothing to fight, and it doesn't even stop you when you've found everything. Diverting for a few minutes, but not addictive. http://topoi.pooq.com/hendrik/dv/free/fun/wander/wander-lpc.tar.gz
EM is pretty well exlained by quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics has gone a lot further than worrying about wave/particle duality. The details are rather mathematical (usually involving infinite-dimensional state spaces) and have the effect that under some situations things behave like particles, under others like waves. "Particles" and "Waves" are useful words because of the way we think about things in the everyday world; they fit our perception and psychology rather than the actual physics.
And as for Quantum mechanics and gravity being interexplainable or not, Ravelli has found a way to quantize the general relativistic gravitational field equations (the hard part was to formulate them independent of the concepts of space and time). Calculating the results is still ridiculously hard, but his work does seem to indicate that the quantum eigenstates for gravity are quanta space (at something like a googol of them being in the sugar I put in my tea).
we will have a coherent explanation for all observable physical phenomena
Contrary to popular belief we have no explaination for gravity, spacetime
Well, we at least have a few clues about spacetime and gravity. Carlo Rovelli's book Quantum Gravity argues that the gravitational field isn't something that happens in spacetime; instead, it is spacetime. Now whether you want to consider that as a clue for an explanation of gravity orr a clue for an explanation of spacetime is entirely up to you/
I think the argument that the author is trying to make is that the scope of new work is more tightly focussed than before. There have been relatively few new 'fundamental' discoveries in physics, compared to refinements and increasing precision.
That was last said about 200 years ago. Anybody know by whom?
ISWIM, by Landin. I suspect it was vapourware, but it inspired all the (nearly) functional languages with sensible syntax that have showed up since.
ISWIM is an acronym for If you See What I Mean. I don't know why he left out the 'Y'. It was presented in his paper 'The Next 700 Programming Languages.
If you tack proper static type checking onto a reverse polish language (I won't call it Forth. because with this it becomes a completely different beast), you get a surprisingly implementable and useful tool. Not that I don't prefer OCAML, though.
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The net was working before Al Gore. What he did was the high-level politics necessary to open it up to the ordinary man in the street, creating a very different beast upon the same protocols. That very different beast is the modern internet.
Chi?
Yeah.. I've been reviving some old code, too. 1978 old. It was greate while I was busy with it, then I got to a part of the spec I didn't care much about (because I thought the design was wrong) and it became a drag. I also spent some time on an unfinished novel, threw together an absolutely trivial 3D video game, tinkered witl the lumiera documentation. All in spare time, and it's great!
You misinterpret.
Hacking is a joy unto itself; the ostensible goal is only an object, something to hack. Hacking isn't random, it's purposeful. But if the enjoyment doesn't come from the hacking, but from the ostensible goal, well, the enjoyment is fleeting.
-- hendrik
Here the intended result, of course, is an "income stream".
You're focussing on the result, rather than the activity.
A no-no in most spritual guides inspired by Hindu philosophy or Buddhism.
-- hendrik
I heard on the CBC just now that it was a journalist in Australia who had a few years ago reported on this kind of corruption. He started getting emails, and eventually the package with the hard drive.
I tell openOffice to use .fodt format. It's uncompressed.
I suspect even in Guatemala there's people dumping their CRTs for flat screens.
sleeping? together?
Hurricane Electric has been doing ths stuff for years, Check them out, Even my ISP (Teksavvy) has been using them to provide IPv6 to its clients. Not sure what they are using now.
Maybe a user-space file system that's a front for a database that indexes the files in an underlying file system? If it can assimilate metadata and user-defined tags as well, great.
I'm really looking for a system that indexes my own files the way Google does the web.
Just what does an ERP system actually do? I understand that you can use it for planning enterprise resources, but what does that actually entail?
Will Ubuntu dual-boot with Android on the Transformer (I have a TF101). Or will its user-space coexists with Androids on a shared kernel? Endless questions about interoperability ensue.
Last summer there was the Liberated Pixel Cup challenge, http://lpc.opengameart.org/
It was a contest to produce game art in one month, and to write free/libre games the second month. You might like to browse the entries, pick a few and try to compille and play them. But you might have bad luck and find a few that are actually engrossing.
Or you could improve them, because they're all CC'd and/or GPL'd.
I have a small GPL'd OCAML program that gives you a small island to wander around on and find eight things. You get a map. It's still easy to get lost. No monsters, nothing to fight, and it doesn't even stop you when you've found everything. Diverting for a few minutes, but not addictive. http://topoi.pooq.com/hendrik/dv/free/fun/wander/wander-lpc.tar.gz
-- hendrik
Rovelli seems to have gotten past the renormalizability issues of GR.
I admit I've only got through part of his Quantum Gravity book so far, though.
EM is pretty well exlained by quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics has gone a lot further than worrying about wave/particle duality. The details are rather mathematical (usually involving infinite-dimensional state spaces) and have the effect that under some situations things behave like particles, under others like waves. "Particles" and "Waves" are useful words because of the way we think about things in the everyday world; they fit our perception and psychology rather than the actual physics.
And as for Quantum mechanics and gravity being interexplainable or not, Ravelli has found a way to quantize the general relativistic gravitational field equations (the hard part was to formulate them independent of the concepts of space and time). Calculating the results is still ridiculously hard, but his work does seem to indicate that the quantum eigenstates for gravity are quanta space (at something like a googol of them being in the sugar I put in my tea).
we will have a coherent explanation for all observable physical phenomena
Contrary to popular belief we have no explaination for gravity, spacetime
Well, we at least have a few clues about spacetime and gravity. Carlo Rovelli's book Quantum Gravity argues that the gravitational field isn't something that happens in spacetime; instead, it is spacetime. Now whether you want to consider that as a clue for an explanation of gravity orr a clue for an explanation of spacetime is entirely up to you/
I think the argument that the author is trying to make is that the scope of new work is more tightly focussed than before. There have been relatively few new 'fundamental' discoveries in physics, compared to refinements and increasing precision.
That was last said about 200 years ago.
Anybody know by whom?
Any chance that this expiry applies to mpeg4 as well?
the Conservative government.
ISWIM, by Landin. I suspect it was vapourware, but it inspired all the (nearly) functional languages with sensible syntax that have showed up since.
ISWIM is an acronym for If you See What I Mean. I don't know why he left out the 'Y'. It was presented in his paper 'The Next 700 Programming Languages.
-- hendrik
in LGoP how *do* you get out of the locked-in startup area? :-)
If you tack proper static type checking onto a reverse polish language (I won't call it Forth. because with this it becomes a completely different beast), you get a surprisingly implementable and useful tool. Not that I don't prefer OCAML, though.