Patents provide the basis for innovation. Without them, most will resort to using other people's ideas and inventions. Patents ensure the creators of inventions are rewarded for their effort. IBM prides itself with them number of patents they receive each year. Is this why IBM is still a dominant force in the world? You betcha'
C++ allows templates which allow generic variables. Java lacks this feature, which is very much needed.
Smalltalk does not need generics because everything is generic! So what if Smalltalk is dynamically typed? It may be SLOW, but dynamic typing allows cool stuff like interpratation and clock constucts.
Another thing that I found annoying is the authors' exuberance for Smalltalk and Java and their downplaying the power of C++.
The only power of C++ is that it runs faster since you compile directly to the native OS byte code. Other than that, it's just an imperative language with OO built on top of it.
For AI, or knowledge representation, more reflective languages like Smalltalk fare much better. AI is not rexeps, therefore why would the author use Perl? Java and many dialects of Smalltalk have builtin classes for networking, making the distrubuted part a cinch.
There should be a lawing forbidding the articles found on Geocities to be posted on Slashdot. Seriously folks, we are just generating hits, giving Geocities all the more power to continue what thet are doing.
Before the Squeak team moved to Walt Disney, Squeak was a research project at Apple. In fact, all Squeak development is still done on Macs. I guess Squeak may be moving back to were it originally started.
Java, what a joke. They keep adding libraries upon libraries in order to make it popular. If speed is not an issue, Smalltalk is a much better language. In fact, everything Java has was stolen from Smalltalk.
Perhaps I missed the news flash, but when did Slashdot become a Linux page? Most of the articles I am interested in are not related to Linux. Its called "News for nerds, stuff that matters", and there is more news than just Linux.
The Linux version is available soon, but the NT version is not? How is this supposed to be running multiple-OSes. Plus, how many users have extra space around their desktop? I have a 17" monitor and no extra space. Besides, 2 OSes is not that enticing. I also have BeOS crammed onto my computer.
There has been a *working* connection between GaTech and UNC for some time. Don't no much about it since I am not part of the Systems group, but it is definetly there.
Squeak is an interesting programming environment. The Morphic environment is a object prototype based programming enviroment. Kids can program Morph objects to do various things, both by using VB-type controls and via code.
Alan Kay, one of the creators, and one of the greatest minds in CS, created Squeak with kids in mind.
Plus, Squeak runs on almost any OS known to man: Unix, Win32, MacOS (PPC, 68K), DOS, Itsy, WinCE, etc...
When I first installed Linux three years ago, Slackware was definetly to prominent distro. When RedHat introduced the RPM facility, people migrated over to it because it was easier. One someone comes with something better, people will switch. Why? Because switching from distro to distro is easier than switching from Windows to Linux and vice-versa. There is nothing to tie someone down.
Exactly. BeOS is proprietary, so what? I don't need an OS to be Open Source, just functioning. BeOS is the sweetest OS out there, too bad the hardware support is minimal. I will be definetly switch to Be when it supports my hardware (Leadtek 2300, SBLive). Be is trying to change radically its UI instead of taking the route Windows and Linux did: steal from Apple (which in turn stole from PARC)
Back before./ had a normal login feature, I posted serveral pro-MS/anti-Linux notes and got flamed when doing so. After I started posting with by nick, people stopped flaming.
Unfortunatly I find that most Slashdotters are 15-yeard olds that think they are cool because they run Linux.
Before you flame me about this read the first paragraph at: http://www.acm.org/cacm/AUG96/antimac.htm
"The most advanced computers are still much simpler than the human brain,..., Kurzweil predicts, with computers achieving the memory capacity and computing speed of the human brain by approximately the year 2020."
Speed and size are not the only relevant factors in intelligence. What computers lack is the ability to learn. How can it analyze the feedback from its own actions and determine if the outcome was sucessful? Although many researchers are tackling this problem (neural nets, HMMs), any real learning is still far away. Currently, computers are told by us humans what is right and what is wrong. If we are able to provide computers with all the correct repsonse to all the possible outcomes in the world, then they will be truely smart. Look for example at Deep Blue. How exactly did it beat Kasparov? By using brute force to identify all next possible moves. The outcomes of these moves were poredetermined weights established by chess Grandmasters. Intelligence my ass....
"To attract subjects, a web page purporting to be hosted by a miniature computer was posted on the web and the address submitted to Slashdot, a known hacker web site."
This is bull. I submitted the story to/., not some FBI Task Force. I first learned about the web server from a mailing list discussing Future Computing Environments (I forgot who posted it).
I always use http://www.acses.com to search online bookstores. It is a book search engine which tells you the price of a book with shipping included.
If you are looking for computer books look at http://www.bookpool.com. They are not indexed by acses.com, but they usually the cheapest and often out-of-stock.
Other new bookstores that seem promising: http://www.shopping.com http://www.buybooks.com (buycomp.com rocks!)
Never use amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. They often lie about their selection (sure we have that in stock! oops, please wait 5 weeks)
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Patents provide the basis for innovation. Without them, most will resort to using other people's ideas and inventions. Patents ensure the creators of inventions are rewarded for their effort. IBM prides itself with them number of patents they receive each year. Is this why IBM is still a dominant force in the world? You betcha'
--Ivan, weenie NT4 user, Jon Katz hater: bite me!
You can't do that. You will be taxed heavily for securities that you hold for a small amount of time.
--Ivan, weenie NT4 user, Jon Katz hater: bite me!
C++ allows templates which allow generic variables. Java lacks this feature, which is very much needed.
Smalltalk does not need generics because everything is generic! So what if Smalltalk is dynamically typed? It may be SLOW, but dynamic typing allows cool stuff like interpratation and clock constucts.
--Ivan, weenie NT4 user, Jon Katz hater: bite me!
Another thing that I found annoying is the authors' exuberance for Smalltalk and Java and their downplaying the power of C++.
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The only power of C++ is that it runs faster since you compile directly to the native OS byte code. Other than that, it's just an imperative language with OO built on top of it.
For AI, or knowledge representation, more reflective languages like Smalltalk fare much better. AI is not rexeps, therefore why would the author use Perl? Java and many dialects of Smalltalk have builtin classes for networking, making the distrubuted part a cinch.
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--Ivan, weenie NT4 user, Jon Katz hater: bite me!
Humor just escapes some escapes some people...
--Ivan, weenie NT4 user, Jon Katz hater: bite me!
Wow, how m4ny chinz did that h4ck3r h4v3?
--Ivan, weenie NT4 user, Jon Katz hater: bite me!
but thank God they did not put in any subliminal messages!
--Ivan, weenie NT4 user, Jon Katz hater: bite me!
There should be a lawing forbidding the articles found on Geocities to be posted on Slashdot. Seriously folks, we are just generating hits, giving Geocities all the more power to continue what thet are doing.
Ah, I feel better. Back to coding...
--Ivan, weenie NT4 user, Jon Katz hater: bite me!
Before the Squeak team moved to Walt Disney, Squeak was a research project at Apple. In fact, all Squeak development is still done on Macs. I guess Squeak may be moving back to were it originally started.
Java, what a joke. They keep adding libraries upon libraries in order to make it popular. If speed is not an issue, Smalltalk is a much better language. In fact, everything Java has was stolen from Smalltalk.
Perhaps I missed the news flash, but when did Slashdot become a Linux page? Most of the articles I am interested in are not related to Linux. Its called "News for nerds, stuff that matters", and there is more news than just Linux.
Read my sig, 'nuf said
The Linux version is available soon, but the NT version is not? How is this supposed to be running multiple-OSes. Plus, how many users have extra space around their desktop? I have a 17" monitor and no extra space. Besides, 2 OSes is not that enticing. I also have BeOS crammed onto my computer.
There has been a *working* connection between GaTech and UNC for some time. Don't no much about it since I am not part of the Systems group, but it is definetly there.
Check out: www.internet2.org
The company's stock is not for sale. Damn, get me in on the IPO.
Squeak is an interesting programming environment.
The Morphic environment is a object prototype based programming enviroment. Kids can program Morph objects to do various things, both by using VB-type controls and via code.
Alan Kay, one of the creators, and one of the greatest minds in CS, created Squeak with kids in mind.
Plus, Squeak runs on almost any OS known to man: Unix, Win32, MacOS (PPC, 68K), DOS, Itsy, WinCE, etc...
http://squeak.cs.uiuc.edu
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak.1
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/SqueakDoc.1
Actual Demonstration of Advanced Engraving Process That's just too funny...
When I first installed Linux three years ago, Slackware was definetly to prominent distro. When RedHat introduced the RPM facility, people migrated over to it because it was easier. One someone comes with something better, people will switch. Why? Because switching from distro to distro is easier than switching from Windows to Linux and vice-versa. There is nothing to tie someone down.
:)
BTW, isn't Linux all about the kernal anyways?
For me, I am happy with NT, SuSE and soon BeOS!
Exactly. BeOS is proprietary, so what? I don't need an OS to be Open Source, just functioning. BeOS is the sweetest OS out there, too bad the hardware support is minimal. I will be definetly switch to Be when it supports my hardware (Leadtek 2300, SBLive). Be is trying to change radically its UI instead of taking the route Windows and Linux did: steal from Apple (which in turn stole from PARC)
"Correct me if I am wrong but isn't that what your childhood was like? "
Exactly. My mind has the ability to learn. I am able to infer what is right/wrong now based upon what I learnt as I child.
Back before ./ had a normal login feature, I posted serveral pro-MS/anti-Linux notes and got flamed when doing so. After I started posting with by nick, people stopped flaming.
Unfortunatly I find that most Slashdotters are 15-yeard olds that think they are cool because they run Linux.
Before you flame me about this read the first paragraph at:
http://www.acm.org/cacm/AUG96/antimac.htm
Speed and size are not the only relevant factors in intelligence. What computers lack is the ability to learn. How can it analyze the feedback from its own actions and determine if the outcome was sucessful? Although many researchers are tackling this problem (neural nets, HMMs), any real learning is still far away. Currently, computers are told by us humans what is right and what is wrong. If we are able to provide computers with all the correct repsonse to all the possible outcomes in the world, then they will be truely smart. Look for example at Deep Blue. How exactly did it beat Kasparov? By using brute force to identify all next possible moves. The outcomes of these moves were poredetermined weights established by chess Grandmasters. Intelligence my ass....
"To attract subjects, a web page purporting to be hosted by a miniature computer was posted on the web and the address submitted to Slashdot, a known hacker web site."
/., not some FBI Task Force. I first learned about the web server from a mailing list discussing Future Computing Environments (I forgot who posted it).
This is bull. I submitted the story to
Cool, CmdrTaco posted my story. Early today I was visitor #78. After /. it is now up to 1255 and still going strong.
Sorry to the Standford guys since I posted the story to Slashdot.
...when it runs perfectly fine on my computer.
Of course I don't run that crappy Windows 9X, spending an additional $50 for NT was worth it.
I always use http://www.acses.com to search online bookstores. It is a book search engine which tells you the price of a book with shipping included.
If you are looking for computer books look at http://www.bookpool.com. They are not indexed by acses.com, but they usually the cheapest and often out-of-stock.
Other new bookstores that seem promising:
http://www.shopping.com
http://www.buybooks.com (buycomp.com rocks!)
Never use amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. They often lie about their selection (sure we have that in stock! oops, please wait 5 weeks)