Do you have any experience with programs written in a foreign language? I wrote this "free webmail" system in perl, and I want to open source it, but most of the code is in spanish (I mean the variable names, comments, etc), and I can't find a proper place to post the code. There are users, but it's difficult to find developers.
Do you have any experience with this? is it difficult for english speaking developers to read code on a different language?
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Re:MAPS use is voluntary, what's the beef?
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It is voluntary, but you don't know every single one of the hosts on MAPS' list, do you? What happends if a host gets added to that list by mistake, or because of some political reason, or something?
I don't use it, not because I like spam (I don't like spam), but because it seems that they have a little 'court' there, where they sentence the hosts.. I don't have time to review every host, and I feel they deserve it.
The method used to retrieve the costumer's data and authorization can be:
- The user reads and understands the fine print, and authorizes the use of his/her credit card for everithing else.
- The company using ZKS partners up with a second company, and gets all the data of that company's costumers.
- The company using ZKS buys the costumer data from a second compnaly, or from any other third pary (see patent #313373 for more info on this)
Or any other similar method (by similar I mean "exactly the same", or "completely different", or anything in between)
On another note, this is my patent submission:
Millennium patent:
An advertising method by wich advertising companies claim that the product or service they are selling is the "last" or "first" to be offered on a unit of time, distance, or any other measurable concept, divisible by 5*10^N or 10^N, or any other expression (for example, a millenium). This method increases the value of the product or service, whatever it is.
It's really cool that a little disk stores 17gb and I can hold it in my hand. Just to hold a DVD in my hand is cool. So I won't stop buying them.
Personally, I don't like all holywood crap, I own 2 DVDs (Aeon Flux and Amadeus). But the other day I rented Pulp Fiction on DVD, and I didn't have time to watch it, so I copied the files to my HD..:-)
I watched all dbz dubbed to spanish (pretty good dub.. at least they don't change most of the dialogues), and now they started repeating the Bo series. I just can't watch it all over again. The first episodes are funny, but then it becomes a long and boring fight.
BTW: Toriyama, the guy who wrote DBZ, was a comedy writer. Everithing he wrote before and after dbz are comedies (very funny guy). Even dragonball (abour 150 episodes before DBZ, with goku as a kid) was mostly a comedy. The usual fights were 1 or 2 episodes long..
Every time I discuss with people the possibility of "artificial life", they bring up the reproduction thing. "computers can't reproduce".
As I see it, the 'computer' needs to have an apropiate ecosystem to support it, and to provide it with the elements to reproduce. The base of that ecosystem would be a 'producer'.
So the idea of a manufacturing machine working by itself sounds pretty cool. Who cares what created it?
Biological evolution has a 'pre-concieved design'. The difference is that it's much more flexible and versatile. It's called "atoms".
Also, biological evolution has thousands of billons of years, while this is the product of no more than 60 years (I'm counting since the first computer) of reserch.
Personally, I'm not scared by this.. I look forward to 'live' computers..
I admin a couple of servers with about 100 sites each, on 1 IP. The FTP access is not 'name based' but 'user based'. Each user can FTP into the server using any of the names (and any of the IPs), but it will only have access to its own site. That way, it doesn't matter what domain name is using, the access is defined by the username.
If thats inevitably, then how come I don't have my own monopoly?:-)
My point (from the first post) is that you can't just say "I'm free so I'll make all books desappear", because that would destroy capitalism itself (besides the fact that it would violate some basic people's rights). There are some rules, that come from that freedom.
Capitalism is the concentration of the control of a nation's economic reasources into the hands of a few owners.
That's the pesimist way to look at it. Acording to dictionary.com:
An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a
free market.
Once there's no free market (ie. a monopoly), the whole capitalism falls apart, turns into something else (I'm not an economist, of course).
Unfortunately, these reasons don't translate well into the language of capitalism.
Actually they do. Capitalism depends highly on a good education. If people don't have education, the economy will turn into a big monopoly. That's one of the problems with 'emerging' 3rg world countries (I live on one of them). They have resources, and people are free, but they can't do anything about it, because of the lack of education.
I think this pople are digging their own 'long term graves'.
Consider a software liscence. You 'buy' that. Do you own it? [0]
I'm no expert.. but doesn't that depend on the lisence? If it's GPL, I think you own it (with the restrictions of the lisence, but you own it). I wonder what does the lisence between ICANN/nsi says (didn't read the article)
I remember a cartoon about a cat that would project a "miau" sound on things, and the dog would get confused, and a lot 'cartoon things' would happend to him. Really funny.
We humans walt at about 3 feet/second. When we use some transportation system, we may go up to 100miles/hour. F1 cars go at about 250 miles/hours, and rockets have to go at 7km/second to get out of the gravitation field (I think. I'm no rocket scientist).
Now, lets imagine a place in the universe where there is a _LOT_ of energy. On that place, we find 'life', but because of all the energy, all that life travels faster. So they 'walk' at 10.000km/s, and lets say they can go as fast as 150.000km/s using their fastest method of transportation.
There will be a lot of problems to comminicate or interact, or even 'observe' this life, not because they go fast, or they don't communicate the same way as we do. The problems are more basic: because of Einstein's laws, their entire concept of time, space and matter will be completely different to ours, in ways we can't even begin to understand.
Of course, I'm not saying it can be exactly like that, maybe that is impossible, but my point is that we can't just assume that life will be based on carbon, and will have the same brains, and the same communication methods, etc, etc. That might not be true.
I just give that example because we actually _can_ begin to understand it, but real ETI might be different..
That's ridiculous. You can't just lose a war because of the languaje.. You just change the language.. Military orders in english are very different to the normal 'every day' english.. I assume the same things happend with japanese militars.
The main difference between computer and 'real' languages is the vocabulary.. It wouldn't be difficult to learn the basics of a japanese perl.. You could actually write big programs using just the basic key words of the languaje. The difficult part would be to learn all the little functions and objects and modules, all in japanese (specially if all cpan was in japanese; I don't see any translations of cpan right now)
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Do you have any experience with this? is it difficult for english speaking developers to read code on a different language?
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I don't use it, not because I like spam (I don't like spam), but because it seems that they have a little 'court' there, where they sentence the hosts.. I don't have time to review every host, and I feel they deserve it.
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The method used to retrieve the costumer's data and authorization can be:
- The user reads and understands the fine print, and authorizes the use of his/her credit card for everithing else.
- The company using ZKS partners up with a second company, and gets all the data of that company's costumers.
- The company using ZKS buys the costumer data from a second compnaly, or from any other third pary (see patent #313373 for more info on this)
Or any other similar method (by similar I mean "exactly the same", or "completely different", or anything in between)
On another note, this is my patent submission:
Millennium patent:
An advertising method by wich advertising companies claim that the product or service they are selling is the "last" or "first" to be offered on a unit of time, distance, or any other measurable concept, divisible by 5*10^N or 10^N, or any other expression (for example, a millenium). This method increases the value of the product or service, whatever it is.
Prior art: see my singnature.
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It'd be cool to create a new country on a little island with a name like that, just to start selling domains..
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Personally, I don't like all holywood crap, I own 2 DVDs (Aeon Flux and Amadeus). But the other day I rented Pulp Fiction on DVD, and I didn't have time to watch it, so I copied the files to my HD.. :-)
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Ok, I'll go file for the patent now. Bye!
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I watched all dbz dubbed to spanish (pretty good dub.. at least they don't change most of the dialogues), and now they started repeating the Bo series. I just can't watch it all over again. The first episodes are funny, but then it becomes a long and boring fight.
BTW: Toriyama, the guy who wrote DBZ, was a comedy writer. Everithing he wrote before and after dbz are comedies (very funny guy). Even dragonball (abour 150 episodes before DBZ, with goku as a kid) was mostly a comedy. The usual fights were 1 or 2 episodes long..
GT should start in a couple of months tho..
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That's what I'd call a paradox (unless you have some kind of 'x-ray-cdrom-reading vision' or something).
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As I see it, the 'computer' needs to have an apropiate ecosystem to support it, and to provide it with the elements to reproduce. The base of that ecosystem would be a 'producer'.
So the idea of a manufacturing machine working by itself sounds pretty cool. Who cares what created it?
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Also, biological evolution has thousands of billons of years, while this is the product of no more than 60 years (I'm counting since the first computer) of reserch.
Personally, I'm not scared by this.. I look forward to 'live' computers..
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I admin a couple of servers with about 100 sites each, on 1 IP. The FTP access is not 'name based' but 'user based'. Each user can FTP into the server using any of the names (and any of the IPs), but it will only have access to its own site. That way, it doesn't matter what domain name is using, the access is defined by the username.
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http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=savehome&extid_ani me=1&maxstories=30
It will exclude the anime topic, so you don't have to see any more anime articles.
(It'll also probably screw up the slashboxes, and some other options, but you deserve it)
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My point (from the first post) is that you can't just say "I'm free so I'll make all books desappear", because that would destroy capitalism itself (besides the fact that it would violate some basic people's rights). There are some rules, that come from that freedom.
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That's the pesimist way to look at it. Acording to dictionary.com:
Once there's no free market (ie. a monopoly), the whole capitalism falls apart, turns into something else (I'm not an economist, of course).
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Actually they do. Capitalism depends highly on a good education. If people don't have education, the economy will turn into a big monopoly. That's one of the problems with 'emerging' 3rg world countries (I live on one of them). They have resources, and people are free, but they can't do anything about it, because of the lack of education.
I think this pople are digging their own 'long term graves'.
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I'm no expert.. but doesn't that depend on the lisence? If it's GPL, I think you own it (with the restrictions of the lisence, but you own it). I wonder what does the lisence between ICANN/nsi says (didn't read the article)
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I'll look for this on my Acme catalog.
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We humans walt at about 3 feet/second. When we use some transportation system, we may go up to 100miles/hour. F1 cars go at about 250 miles/hours, and rockets have to go at 7km/second to get out of the gravitation field (I think. I'm no rocket scientist).
Now, lets imagine a place in the universe where there is a _LOT_ of energy. On that place, we find 'life', but because of all the energy, all that life travels faster. So they 'walk' at 10.000km/s, and lets say they can go as fast as 150.000km/s using their fastest method of transportation.
There will be a lot of problems to comminicate or interact, or even 'observe' this life, not because they go fast, or they don't communicate the same way as we do. The problems are more basic: because of Einstein's laws, their entire concept of time, space and matter will be completely different to ours, in ways we can't even begin to understand.
Of course, I'm not saying it can be exactly like that, maybe that is impossible, but my point is that we can't just assume that life will be based on carbon, and will have the same brains, and the same communication methods, etc, etc. That might not be true.
I just give that example because we actually _can_ begin to understand it, but real ETI might be different..
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That Churchill guy is nuts.
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