Printers and drum memory, great!!:-) Did you ever hear about the program called "drive music"? We used that on Amiga computers to play tunes on floppy drives.;-)
... that it was Christopher Strachey who wrote the music programs? That's the guy who invented CPL and he was also involved with BCPL, the ancestor of C. He wrote the book "BCPL - The Language and Its Compiler" together with Martin Richards. That book was my introduction into compiler design!:-)
You're right, there's so many things wrong with WINE, I doubt I could even name them all in my lifetime. WINE ought to be forked!
Some of the things truly appear as if they have been coded by people who never used Windows once in their lifetime. And some things look as if they've been coded by 3-year-olds. (now we know where all the monkeys from the local zoo went)
There's a lot of important stuff missing.
IMNSHO: I won't name names, but someone high up in the project's hierarchy is a major douchebag. WINE will never get anywhere if it's not forked.
that thing weights 70 kilos more or less Car bomb? You could easily hide it in a car, like inside/below the back seat. Or anything really that weighs more or less a metric ton. Who would bother to weigh a thing like that to see if it has excess weight? A concrete pillar, prefab concrete parts, construction machinery, etc.
Do you think that since we can't recreate every moment of Julius Ceasar's life that we should disregard the outline of his life that we do have? No, but don't walk around saying you know the absolute truth about Julius Caesar, as you do with the "evolution".
It's one thing to say "yes, it might have been like that" and quite another saying "it entirely was like that and you're a moron if you don't believe it".
Because true scientists involved with the theory of evolution know how little they know.
That's the problem with science fanatics that they pick a couple of things from their elected pool of knowledge and postulate it as the absolute truth.
To say it with well defined binary logic: 1 = fact, 0 = theory. 1 = have data, 0 = no data. Theories are available for billions of years of perceived history of the perceived universe, but facts are available for only the tiniest parts of it.
I think journalists are also to blame for scientific zeal, like the Discovery channel that unabashedly proclaims things like "when the dinosaurs were destroyed by the giant meteorite". Don't you realize how much nonsense that is? Not only is that claiming another theory as being the truth, but all we have to "prove" that is a layer of ash found in about the same depth at various select places of the world and a couple of meteorite craters. But the reality might have looked entirely different.
That whole notion is completely and utterly ridiculous. Well, to me at least. Go on, and believe the world is a disk, I don't care. In ten years or so, they'll have another grand theory of evolution, supported by corroborating evidence that'll say the exact opposite of what they're saying today.
If I find sufficient data, I can extrapolate the rest(I know this, because I have done it before). Especially if my goal is to try and understand the program, and not to try and recreate it in a functional state. No, you can't, because if there's one "jmp" instruction missing, you could misinterpret the whole program, saying it would do X when in fact in would do Y.
Did you know that "FTW" ("for the win") is a direct translation of "Sieg Heil"? No, "Sieg Heil" literally means "Victory, Luck, Health" as in wishing someone victory and good luck and health. The German word "Sieg" literally means "victory", and "Heil" (which is difficult to translate) means "healing, good luck, health" (LEO translates it with salvation, which is almost correct in some circumstances; "Seelenheil" (which is often translated with "salvation of the soul") literally means something like "good fortune for the soul"). During the Nazi times, someone coined the phrase "Heilt Hitler" (heal Hitler!) and got in trouble for it, because that one had connotations that Hitler was insane.;-)
BTW, and thanks for Blender!! I've just seen that you're the Linux platform manager for Blender. It's a really great program, I'm trying to learn it every once in a while!:-)
p.s.: That's one of the curious things about./, that only a few hours after a story is on the front page, the flow of responses already dies down. You can almost predict when a story will not be read anymore. It's very strange. I don't make an effort to post very often, so you don't have to fear too many inaccuracies!;-) BTW, since you have been a member much longer than I am (from your user number), what's the demography of./ users? Are they mostly college students?
Well, let's see if that's possible! And no, you certainly didn't hurt my feelings. The tumbleweeds are already running through that story, more or less, I doubt we'll get any more audience tomorrow for proper mud-slinging!;-)
Well, my post was corrected by msparshatt already, yours came almost 21 hours later. I certainly did not willfully post incorrect information. At the time I wrote it, I was 100% convinced I was right, otherwise I would not have posted it. Perhaps you should abstain from posting when you're drunk. And stop insulting people, it's not a sign of good manners (not that I had any).;-)
BTW, also check out the "man" and "info" pages. You can do that by writing "man program" or "info program" from the command line or by using man page browsers like XMan or DevHelp (if properly configured). Some OSes like OpenBSD always include the man pages, while Ubuntu apparently doesn't in some cases and put them in separate packages. Sometimes documentation is hidden somewhere in the file system as HTML pages, even. Many open-source packages are documented well; if not in the source code, then at least in the man pages or similar documentation.
Well, given that the roots of evolutionary thought appear before Christianity existed, I would have to say that that is nonsense. Aside from that, while I am not aware that the Catholic church has formally embraced evolution, it certainly has made it clear that evolution is largely acceptable to it's followers. It is largely the Protestant churches(especially those which embraced biblical literalism) that are threatened by evolution. Well, then read up a little about the Roman Catholic Church and Freemasonry.
Western science would have never evolved without the freemasons, because the Roman Catholic Church was oppressing all research into non-religious matters. Scientists were routinely executed as heretics in those days.
That nowadays Roman Catholics accept evolution is only because it doesn't really contradict creation (God could still have created everything, including the evolution).
That various evolutional theories existed before Charles Darwin's "Theory of Evolution" is great, but that doesn't change the impact of Darwin's theory on Western science.
Yes, I suppose if we ignored everything we've learned about natural history, we could imagine all sorts of origins for ourselves. If we actually limit ourselves to verifiable fact, however, then evolution is apparent. The Theory of Evolution is not verifiable, otherwise it wouldn't be called a Theory. Don't confuse theories with facts.
I suggest you study transitional fossils a little bit. It might clear up some of your misconceptions. And yet, your article talks about Theories, and more Theories, and not once about facts. Look, if you find a fossil that suggests a transition from one perceived evolutionary stage to another, then you're making an assumption about what happened inbetween those evolutionary stages.
You see, I'm a professional software developer. I believe only in logic and verifiable truth. And the Theory of Evolution just don't have enough meat for me. It's like finding individual bytes of a computer program and trying to reproduce a full, working program. Even if you find so many bytes, filling all the gaps is nothing but guesswork.
When I was in my teen age, I was occasionally contacted by games companies to write games for them. But I declined every time, because I didn't want to get paid a lollipop and an ice cream for many hours of work. Stupid me! My games could've entered the annals of history!;-)
Some of the guys I've known back then (and also some years later) have made a living on games programming; but they founded their own games companies.
It all depends on the structure of the company, and on the personality of its top dogs. I've been in the software industry for 17 years, and the work environment varied in every company. Watching out for signs in job interviews is essential. But when you need a job very urgently, you don't usually pay attention to that.
I've read TFA, but apparently skipped the section which said "The user feeds the program a PPM image". But that's no reason for you to act like you haven't completed kindergarden yet.
p.p.s.: If the US should ever get involved in a nuclear war, Microsoft sites would probably be among the prime targets. Open-sourcing Windows before that happens is the only way to preserve the platform.
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Like AmigaOS, for instance.
Bill, is that you?
Printers and drum memory, great!! :-) Did you ever hear about the program called "drive music"? We used that on Amiga computers to play tunes on floppy drives. ;-)
... that it was Christopher Strachey who wrote the music programs? That's the guy who invented CPL and he was also involved with BCPL, the ancestor of C. He wrote the book "BCPL - The Language and Its Compiler" together with Martin Richards. That book was my introduction into compiler design! :-)
Man, that took you a while to write!
You're right, there's so many things wrong with WINE, I doubt I could even name them all in my lifetime. WINE ought to be forked!
Some of the things truly appear as if they have been coded by people who never used Windows once in their lifetime. And some things look as if they've been coded by 3-year-olds. (now we know where all the monkeys from the local zoo went)
There's a lot of important stuff missing.
IMNSHO: I won't name names, but someone high up in the project's hierarchy is a major douchebag. WINE will never get anywhere if it's not forked.
What about red mercury bombs? Many years ago there were strong rumors that the USSR had developed them for the creation of mini-nukes.
It's one thing to say "yes, it might have been like that" and quite another saying "it entirely was like that and you're a moron if you don't believe it".
Because true scientists involved with the theory of evolution know how little they know.
That's the problem with science fanatics that they pick a couple of things from their elected pool of knowledge and postulate it as the absolute truth.
To say it with well defined binary logic: 1 = fact, 0 = theory. 1 = have data, 0 = no data. Theories are available for billions of years of perceived history of the perceived universe, but facts are available for only the tiniest parts of it.
I think journalists are also to blame for scientific zeal, like the Discovery channel that unabashedly proclaims things like "when the dinosaurs were destroyed by the giant meteorite". Don't you realize how much nonsense that is? Not only is that claiming another theory as being the truth, but all we have to "prove" that is a layer of ash found in about the same depth at various select places of the world and a couple of meteorite craters. But the reality might have looked entirely different.
That whole notion is completely and utterly ridiculous. Well, to me at least. Go on, and believe the world is a disk, I don't care. In ten years or so, they'll have another grand theory of evolution, supported by corroborating evidence that'll say the exact opposite of what they're saying today. If I find sufficient data, I can extrapolate the rest(I know this, because I have done it before). Especially if my goal is to try and understand the program, and not to try and recreate it in a functional state. No, you can't, because if there's one "jmp" instruction missing, you could misinterpret the whole program, saying it would do X when in fact in would do Y.
Thank you! :-)
BTW, and thanks for Blender!! I've just seen that you're the Linux platform manager for Blender. It's a really great program, I'm trying to learn it every once in a while! :-)
Yeah, and thank you! :-)
Taken! :-)
p.s.: That's one of the curious things about ./, that only a few hours after a story is on the front page, the flow of responses already dies down. You can almost predict when a story will not be read anymore. It's very strange. I don't make an effort to post very often, so you don't have to fear too many inaccuracies! ;-) BTW, since you have been a member much longer than I am (from your user number), what's the demography of ./ users? Are they mostly college students?
Well, let's see if that's possible! And no, you certainly didn't hurt my feelings. The tumbleweeds are already running through that story, more or less, I doubt we'll get any more audience tomorrow for proper mud-slinging! ;-)
Well, my post was corrected by msparshatt already, yours came almost 21 hours later. I certainly did not willfully post incorrect information. At the time I wrote it, I was 100% convinced I was right, otherwise I would not have posted it. Perhaps you should abstain from posting when you're drunk. And stop insulting people, it's not a sign of good manners (not that I had any). ;-)
BTW, also check out the "man" and "info" pages. You can do that by writing "man program" or "info program" from the command line or by using man page browsers like XMan or DevHelp (if properly configured). Some OSes like OpenBSD always include the man pages, while Ubuntu apparently doesn't in some cases and put them in separate packages. Sometimes documentation is hidden somewhere in the file system as HTML pages, even. Many open-source packages are documented well; if not in the source code, then at least in the man pages or similar documentation.
Western science would have never evolved without the freemasons, because the Roman Catholic Church was oppressing all research into non-religious matters. Scientists were routinely executed as heretics in those days.
That nowadays Roman Catholics accept evolution is only because it doesn't really contradict creation (God could still have created everything, including the evolution).
That various evolutional theories existed before Charles Darwin's "Theory of Evolution" is great, but that doesn't change the impact of Darwin's theory on Western science. Yes, I suppose if we ignored everything we've learned about natural history, we could imagine all sorts of origins for ourselves. If we actually limit ourselves to verifiable fact, however, then evolution is apparent. The Theory of Evolution is not verifiable, otherwise it wouldn't be called a Theory. Don't confuse theories with facts. I suggest you study transitional fossils a little bit. It might clear up some of your misconceptions. And yet, your article talks about Theories, and more Theories, and not once about facts. Look, if you find a fossil that suggests a transition from one perceived evolutionary stage to another, then you're making an assumption about what happened inbetween those evolutionary stages.
You see, I'm a professional software developer. I believe only in logic and verifiable truth. And the Theory of Evolution just don't have enough meat for me. It's like finding individual bytes of a computer program and trying to reproduce a full, working program. Even if you find so many bytes, filling all the gaps is nothing but guesswork.
When I was in my teen age, I was occasionally contacted by games companies to write games for them. But I declined every time, because I didn't want to get paid a lollipop and an ice cream for many hours of work. Stupid me! My games could've entered the annals of history! ;-)
Some of the guys I've known back then (and also some years later) have made a living on games programming; but they founded their own games companies.
It all depends on the structure of the company, and on the personality of its top dogs. I've been in the software industry for 17 years, and the work environment varied in every company. Watching out for signs in job interviews is essential. But when you need a job very urgently, you don't usually pay attention to that.
"There ... I have this project for you ... I'm convinced you can't do it!" ;-)
I've read TFA, but apparently skipped the section which said "The user feeds the program a PPM image". But that's no reason for you to act like you haven't completed kindergarden yet.
p.p.s.: If the US should ever get involved in a nuclear war, Microsoft sites would probably be among the prime targets. Open-sourcing Windows before that happens is the only way to preserve the platform.