Among other things the author seems to believe that a game could fill multiple Blu-Ray discs with "IF/THEN statements", which are the main component of "sequential programming," which is "all object oriented."
This is the worst story I've seen in quite a while
Ubuntu's six-month release plan is tremendously successful... It seems Microsoft is realizing the flaws in its own development model and is trying to fix it. This is good; it means better software for everyone.
Gee what a great point. Except that it's already over six months past Vista came out, and Microsoft is quoted in the article saying "7" would be under development for three years
We need more blanket wiretaps, data mining, and american citizens and legal residents 'disappeared' into military prisons. We've clearly exhausted every imaginable constitutional & non-invasive security measure
Steps, I would assume: 1) get BD player for Windows XP 2) put XP in a Xen domU 3) pull out some debug/raw output of CPU instructions 4) reconstruct algorithm/VM from there
Step 2 maybe not even necessary? Not trying to say this will be easy, but it hardly seems like 10 years of determined, collective effort
Amusingly though, both Git and Mercurial were "inspired" by Monotone, but were created as separate projects because the developers wanted to go in different directions
Apple puts this metadata in all the iTMS songs. Unless you're actually planning to break the law by sharing the songs, I don't see what the problem is. In fact this issue seems like a good way to distinguish between those who are against DRM because it restricts their rights to legally use their music, and those who actually just want to pirate music but use rights-based DRM arguments as an cover
Apple isn't keeping tabs on anyone, and it would be trivial to remove this data from your songs. But the question remains why anyone feels violated by this
Right here. You're correct regarding Wii's decline, but it's a decline from the massive surge of news about how Wii won the console war. And it's still far ahead of the other two, with Sony predictably languishing in third place
Sure, but that still leaves you required to demonstrate the mechanism of "choice", which we could then (possibly?) search for. You can't simply observe behavior patterns that correspond to a distribution curve and call it choice - that could easily still be a deterministic behavior, just complex & multilayered determinism
The elephant in the room is: how can choice occur? It's positing a cause->effect relationship between a conceptual person and the physical actions he takes. That your *mind* - not simply neurons in your brain - can somehow reach out and touch the material world; that's free will. And there's absolutely no evidence it exists
I'd argue the fundamental problem is the lack of any real definition of what "free will" is. Free will can't simply mean that different individuals follow different patterns - that would be expected through variations in neural wiring as a result of genetics. Free will to me means something approaching a "soul" - a non-materialist inner part of me that can make "decisions" about how I will act. In other words "I" - under a definition of "I" that involves more than just patterns of neural activity - can make choices based on beliefs and reasoning, and then act on those beliefs
As far as I can tell this would require some sort of new scientific discoveries to even be possible. Nothing we currently know about the universe supports the concept of a coherent mental entity capable of making decisions that affect the physical world; in fact everything seems to imply the opposite, that the physical world would determine the structure and behavior of our mind, and that consciousness and the perception of free will is some sort of emergent effect from all the (entirely deterministic) processes going on inside our brains
Not a very pleasant view of existence, but so far I've seen nothing to counter it. Free will becomes simply an illusion, and it's no wonder that a study of an insects' flight patterns would do nothing to prove it real. There's not even a coherent concept that can be proved or disproved, just a name for a thing people believe they experience and want to believe is true
It did come off very strangely, but after some checking, Wikipedia and IMDB David Iglesias actually was in the Navy Reserve, and was in fact the basis of the Tom Cruise character in the movie. Odd connection, but that's the reason for the clips
Yup. And as an ex-PHP coder, I spend about 1% of my time lamenting the performance hit from switching to Ruby. The other 99% of the time is spent glad I'm not using that nightmare of a language any more
The ambiguity and way the Windows "lies" to the use by hiding the actual nature of the way programs run is ridiculous. A complete junk UI compared to OS X
Coming from a background of PHP and some C++, I could never "get" OO-programming - it just seemed over-complicated and pointless. With Ruby it started clicking almost instantly. The way that *everything* in Ruby is an object really forces the paradigm on you, and the ease of creating and extending objects really greases the way into using objects and thinking about your program in object-oriented terms
My guess is: no one. Ruby is simply a great, enjoyable language. Have you actually used it yourself? I'm YA PHP->Ruby/Rails convert. Looking back to PHP code now makes me feel ill
"His views are completely at odds with the mainstream scientific opinion," said Colin Wilson, a planetary physicist at England's Oxford University.
"And they contradict the extensive evidence presented in the most recent IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] report."....
Perhaps the biggest stumbling block in Abdussamatov's theory is his dismissal of the greenhouse effect, in which atmospheric gases such as carbon dioxide help keep heat trapped near the planet's surface.
He claims that carbon dioxide has only a small influence on Earth's climate and virtually no influence on Mars.
But "without the greenhouse effect there would be very little, if any, life on Earth, since our planet would pretty much be a big ball of ice," said Evan, of the University of Wisconsin.
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Among other things the author seems to believe that a game could fill multiple Blu-Ray discs with "IF/THEN statements", which are the main component of "sequential programming," which is "all object oriented."
This is the worst story I've seen in quite a while
Ubuntu's six-month release plan is tremendously successful... It seems Microsoft is realizing the flaws in its own development model and is trying to fix it. This is good; it means better software for everyone.
Gee what a great point. Except that it's already over six months past Vista came out, and Microsoft is quoted in the article saying "7" would be under development for three years
We need more blanket wiretaps, data mining, and american citizens and legal residents 'disappeared' into military prisons. We've clearly exhausted every imaginable constitutional & non-invasive security measure
Steps, I would assume:
1) get BD player for Windows XP
2) put XP in a Xen domU
3) pull out some debug/raw output of CPU instructions
4) reconstruct algorithm/VM from there
Step 2 maybe not even necessary? Not trying to say this will be easy, but it hardly seems like 10 years of determined, collective effort
Yea...shared box got upgraded fro php4->5 and shit happens. One day it'll all be ruby and I'll be happy
It's funny that everyone is asking where the Apple patch is. How about: where's the Linux patch?
Except now they have a lobbying firm and presumably no trouble meeting with legislators. Is that not a serious problem with our system?
Amusingly though, both Git and Mercurial were "inspired" by Monotone, but were created as separate projects because the developers wanted to go in different directions
Apple puts this metadata in all the iTMS songs. Unless you're actually planning to break the law by sharing the songs, I don't see what the problem is. In fact this issue seems like a good way to distinguish between those who are against DRM because it restricts their rights to legally use their music, and those who actually just want to pirate music but use rights-based DRM arguments as an cover
Apple isn't keeping tabs on anyone, and it would be trivial to remove this data from your songs. But the question remains why anyone feels violated by this
Great, so 2 + 2 being "parallel" helps us write code for an 8-core system how?
I own it, O'Reilly
How do you get paid for posting this stuff as an AC? Doesn't Sony's marketing department require some sort of proof?
Right here. You're correct regarding Wii's decline, but it's a decline from the massive surge of news about how Wii won the console war. And it's still far ahead of the other two, with Sony predictably languishing in third place
Sure, but that still leaves you required to demonstrate the mechanism of "choice", which we could then (possibly?) search for. You can't simply observe behavior patterns that correspond to a distribution curve and call it choice - that could easily still be a deterministic behavior, just complex & multilayered determinism
The elephant in the room is: how can choice occur? It's positing a cause->effect relationship between a conceptual person and the physical actions he takes. That your *mind* - not simply neurons in your brain - can somehow reach out and touch the material world; that's free will. And there's absolutely no evidence it exists
I'd argue the fundamental problem is the lack of any real definition of what "free will" is. Free will can't simply mean that different individuals follow different patterns - that would be expected through variations in neural wiring as a result of genetics. Free will to me means something approaching a "soul" - a non-materialist inner part of me that can make "decisions" about how I will act. In other words "I" - under a definition of "I" that involves more than just patterns of neural activity - can make choices based on beliefs and reasoning, and then act on those beliefs
As far as I can tell this would require some sort of new scientific discoveries to even be possible. Nothing we currently know about the universe supports the concept of a coherent mental entity capable of making decisions that affect the physical world; in fact everything seems to imply the opposite, that the physical world would determine the structure and behavior of our mind, and that consciousness and the perception of free will is some sort of emergent effect from all the (entirely deterministic) processes going on inside our brains
Not a very pleasant view of existence, but so far I've seen nothing to counter it. Free will becomes simply an illusion, and it's no wonder that a study of an insects' flight patterns would do nothing to prove it real. There's not even a coherent concept that can be proved or disproved, just a name for a thing people believe they experience and want to believe is true
It did come off very strangely, but after some checking, Wikipedia and IMDB David Iglesias actually was in the Navy Reserve, and was in fact the basis of the Tom Cruise character in the movie. Odd connection, but that's the reason for the clips
You created type II neuropsin in chimp brains! Damn you! God damn you all to hell!
Yup. And as an ex-PHP coder, I spend about 1% of my time lamenting the performance hit from switching to Ruby. The other 99% of the time is spent glad I'm not using that nightmare of a language any more
You get DRM-free audio encoded in a non-proprietary format, what do you think?
That spelling was nowhere near feyn, man
The ambiguity and way the Windows "lies" to the use by hiding the actual nature of the way programs run is ridiculous. A complete junk UI compared to OS X
Coming from a background of PHP and some C++, I could never "get" OO-programming - it just seemed over-complicated and pointless. With Ruby it started clicking almost instantly. The way that *everything* in Ruby is an object really forces the paradigm on you, and the ease of creating and extending objects really greases the way into using objects and thinking about your program in object-oriented terms
My guess is: no one. Ruby is simply a great, enjoyable language. Have you actually used it yourself? I'm YA PHP->Ruby/Rails convert. Looking back to PHP code now makes me feel ill
crackpot:
"His views are completely at odds with the mainstream scientific opinion," said Colin Wilson, a planetary physicist at England's Oxford University.
"And they contradict the extensive evidence presented in the most recent IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] report."....
Perhaps the biggest stumbling block in Abdussamatov's theory is his dismissal of the greenhouse effect, in which atmospheric gases such as carbon dioxide help keep heat trapped near the planet's surface.
He claims that carbon dioxide has only a small influence on Earth's climate and virtually no influence on Mars.
But "without the greenhouse effect there would be very little, if any, life on Earth, since our planet would pretty much be a big ball of ice," said Evan, of the University of Wisconsin.
So kind of like Symbol vs. String in Ruby, except less well named and implemented?