It should have stayed 14 years anyway, regardless of any other change. If we give the content industry all the crazy protections they want, it should be more like 2 years. Also, in exchange for allowing any of these extreme copy-restriction systems, they should automatically quit working at the end of the copyright term, or the copyright holder should be forced to deposit an unencumbered version with the Library of Congress or something.
I think we also need to introduce the idea of copyright lapse. There are a lot of books, movies, and music recordings that the world is being deprived of because the copyright holders can't or won't release new copies of them.
We're going to need to do things in a decade or two that would require 10 million lines of code (measured by current languages), just as the things we do now would require 10 million lines of code in 1960's languages.
Exactly. Just as libraries were created so that we can turn memory allocation into a single call, and just as some newer languages or libraries turn an http transaction into a single call, we will be able encapsulate more functionality as needed to reduce the LOC count to something reasonable. And we can do this without relying on Jaron's magic "chaos" or "complexity" or "pattern recognition" 90's buzzwords.
Jaron is correct in that, yes, we will reduce program complexity and LOC by describing what we want more broadly. He is incorrect in believing that this requires any machine intelligence "magic".
Why do we need programs with more than 10 million lines of code?
Has anyone ever noticed that every time Jaron writes an essay or does an interview he tries to coin at least one new word? Dude's better suited to the philosophy department.
"It's like... chaos, man. And some funky patterns and shit. Dude, it's all PHENOTROPIC. Yeah..."
1) NWN WAS cross platform from the beginning. I'm not sure where it got hung up, but most of the linux code was in there from the start. Same with the Mac code.
Thus the decisions to use: 1) A sound API 2) A video format 3) A toolset 4) An installer
Which were each thought to be unsupported on Linux until a few weeks ago. Luckily the sound and video turned out to have Linux ports available after the NWN Linux team admitted that the lack of those components was holding up progress. No matter whatever else happens, Linux customers will never be able to use the NWN Toolset to create modules natively, and most likely will have to either install the game on Windows to retrieve the game data files.
I would hazard a guess that what the poster meant by "true results" is that the results are the genuine output of a search engine, without the taint of paid inclusion.
Imagine that at project start, the future availability of Bink and Miles for Linux was "promised" to Bioware. After the collapse of Loki and other developments, Rad Game Tools declines to release said products.
While working feverishly to roll their own solution, Bioware publicly states that this is the reason they are being held back.
Sam Lantiga suddenly shows up out of the blue on the NWN forums to reveal that he had previously ported Miles and submitted the code back to RGT.
The Rabid Linux Zealots flood RGT's mail server...
RGT admits that they do have a working Bink and Miles for Linux.
1. Ask gift giver for delivery information 2. If they don't have it, ask for an email address 3. If they don't have that, ask for a phone number 4. If they don't have that, ask for a name, and use that to look up an email address or telephone number in various databases. 5. email or call the recipient and ask them for delivery information
Throw in enough "methods" and "computer systems" and somehow it becomes patentable I guess.
Well, first off, this thing would supposedly have come into being at the beginning of the Universe, and since it's interaction with normal matter appears to be fairly minimal, looking at where it's been wouldn't be very exciting.
But to get to the meat of the question, you couldn't really get an orbital path for the alleged particle from the data we've got. Remember, we don't know precisely where it entered or exited, not even down to the scale of kilometers. Once you factor in the margins of error and take into account that whatever path it took would be affected by gravity, you would end up having virtually no idea where it came from.
I take it you haven't watched the "making of" things on the EpisodeII DVD yet...
(This is slightly paraphrased, since I'm soing it from memory) Sam Jackson: "We were wondering who we talk to about light saber colors..." Lucas: "The bad guys get red and the good guys get blue or green, that's just the way it is." Jackson: "No purple?" Lucas: "You might get purple..."
You were talking about intentionally hitting freeway onramps at an excessive speed and relying on j00r m4d driving 5ki11z to take the turn without breaking. You were talking about the possibility that in a situation like that you might oversteer, at which point you would have to purposefully fishtail your car in order to end up facing the proper direction, and still have to worry about getting the car under control. You mentioned that you have come closer to the guardrail than you have intended, and you have spun out.
The problem with your thesis that you are a "safe" driver, is that is based entirely on the negative proof that you have never lost control and killed an innocent bystander. The problem with negative proof is that new evidence can always come to light and invalidate the proposition. I hope no one is seriously hurt in that new evidence when it comes.
i'm one of the better drivers on long island
Not that that is saying much...
I applaud you for at least using your turn signals and etc. certainly a driver such as yourself is less of a risk than the soccer mom who upgraded from a Metro to an SUV or the teenager eating a burger and talking on his cell phone while changing CDs. However, there are probably not many accidents that do not have "overconfidence behind the wheel" as a contributing factor.
Please just try to remember that the common roadways are established for utility, not for thrillseeking. If you want to get your blood pumping behind teh wheel, may I suggest closed-track racing or something similar?
The thing is, if you're on the road (unless you own your own private, closed road) you're not alone, and you don't have any right to take unnecesary risk at all.
There is no joy like that of losing losing your handle on that "controlled" fishtail and careening into three lanes of highway traffic. Nothing at all like the smell of burning gasoline as it crisps the skin off 70% of some stranger's body.
You may feel that you know what you're doing, but so has every idiot that killed innocent people with no input on his decision to take a risk for the sake of fun.
Odditty: Since they're not "really" travelling at Xc, but rather 0.Xc inside a pseudo-wormhole, doesn't it seem likely that they could dispense iwth the "inertial compensators" and just rely simply on the folding of space?
Actually, without engaging the Warp drive, Star Trek ships are capable of accelerating to large fractions of c in exceedingly short times. Without her magical "inertial dampeners", the Enterprise could reduce her crew to messy smears under impulse power alone.
1) Edit mirrored web page to include new entry. 2) Move older items to "archive pages" 3) Connect to FTP server 4) Upload new version of main page and modified archive pages. Upload new archive pages and set their permissions. 5) Upload images.
Into this:
1) Edit post 2) click "upload image" or similar button and browse to image 3) Click "Submit"
Blogger and pals also automatically create links to an entry that will work whether your post is on the main page or has moved to an archive page. Some provide a simple way to allow readers to comment.
I could edit source code using pico, but an IDE makes the task a lot easier, comprende?
We should make it clear that the Target one is prettier than the one you linked. It's slimmer and the one I saw was "fashionably colored". Still to big to really be useful for anything but DVD. I'd worry about thermal issues also, in a case that tight.
Of course, neither of these makes CD-R/W like the Sony product this article's about.
BSD all the way baybee. There is no logical reason why using government-generated code should obligate one to make one's own code freely available, because we have already paid for it through taxation. Which brings up a possibility... maybe it should be dual-licensed: BSDish for US citizens and corporations, and GPLish for others.
Hablo un poquito Espanol, mas de la idioma por restaurantes que algo.
I can usually tease the general gist out of a short article in German, though I am not capable of generating an comprehensible sentence or understanding much of it when spoken.
My post was actually in response to the./ editorial policy of not correcting spelling and or grammar, which is largely due to the fact that the./ editors, who are to my knowledge all native speakers of American English, are, each of them, illiterate to one degree or another.
Why you problem! English not langage all speak in native moroon? Edit no posting to start make change and all be uncertain what say submit person and even speaking american people so what! Language fluid thing is to be undertood matters all, and who to say you are what is' the corrected way to write one thing or some other one thing:
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It should have stayed 14 years anyway, regardless of any other change. If we give the content industry all the crazy protections they want, it should be more like 2 years. Also, in exchange for allowing any of these extreme copy-restriction systems, they should automatically quit working at the end of the copyright term, or the copyright holder should be forced to deposit an unencumbered version with the Library of Congress or something.
I think we also need to introduce the idea of copyright lapse. There are a lot of books, movies, and music recordings that the world is being deprived of because the copyright holders can't or won't release new copies of them.
Exactly. Just as libraries were created so that we can turn memory allocation into a single call, and just as some newer languages or libraries turn an http transaction into a single call, we will be able encapsulate more functionality as needed to reduce the LOC count to something reasonable. And we can do this without relying on Jaron's magic "chaos" or "complexity" or "pattern recognition" 90's buzzwords.
Jaron is correct in that, yes, we will reduce program complexity and LOC by describing what we want more broadly. He is incorrect in believing that this requires any machine intelligence "magic".
Why do we need programs with more than 10 million lines of code?
Has anyone ever noticed that every time Jaron writes an essay or does an interview he tries to coin at least one new word? Dude's better suited to the philosophy department.
"It's like... chaos, man. And some funky patterns and shit. Dude, it's all PHENOTROPIC. Yeah..."
Thus the decisions to use:
1) A sound API
2) A video format
3) A toolset
4) An installer
Which were each thought to be unsupported on Linux until a few weeks ago. Luckily the sound and video turned out to have Linux ports available after the NWN Linux team admitted that the lack of those components was holding up progress. No matter whatever else happens, Linux customers will never be able to use the NWN Toolset to create modules natively, and most likely will have to either install the game on Windows to retrieve the game data files.
I would hazard a guess that what the poster meant by "true results" is that the results are the genuine output of a search engine, without the taint of paid inclusion.
Imagine that at project start, the future availability of Bink and Miles for Linux was "promised" to Bioware. After the collapse of Loki and other developments, Rad Game Tools declines to release said products.
While working feverishly to roll their own solution, Bioware publicly states that this is the reason they are being held back.
Sam Lantiga suddenly shows up out of the blue on the NWN forums to reveal that he had previously ported Miles and submitted the code back to RGT.
The Rabid Linux Zealots flood RGT's mail server...
RGT admits that they do have a working Bink and Miles for Linux.
grassy knoll... area 51...
Does sam wear a shirt with an "S" on it under his regular clothes? He should.
1. Ask gift giver for delivery information
2. If they don't have it, ask for an email address
3. If they don't have that, ask for a phone number
4. If they don't have that, ask for a name, and use that to look up an email address or telephone number in various databases.
5. email or call the recipient and ask them for delivery information
Throw in enough "methods" and "computer systems" and somehow it becomes patentable I guess.
It isn't the "universe" it's the tale.
Well, first off, this thing would supposedly have come into being at the beginning of the Universe, and since it's interaction with normal matter appears to be fairly minimal, looking at where it's been wouldn't be very exciting.
But to get to the meat of the question, you couldn't really get an orbital path for the alleged particle from the data we've got. Remember, we don't know precisely where it entered or exited, not even down to the scale of kilometers. Once you factor in the margins of error and take into account that whatever path it took would be affected by gravity, you would end up having virtually no idea where it came from.
I take it you haven't watched the "making of" things on the EpisodeII DVD yet...
(This is slightly paraphrased, since I'm soing it from memory)
Sam Jackson: "We were wondering who we talk to about light saber colors..."
Lucas: "The bad guys get red and the good guys get blue or green, that's just the way it is."
Jackson: "No purple?"
Lucas: "You might get purple..."
The problem with your thesis that you are a "safe" driver, is that is based entirely on the negative proof that you have never lost control and killed an innocent bystander. The problem with negative proof is that new evidence can always come to light and invalidate the proposition. I hope no one is seriously hurt in that new evidence when it comes.
Not that that is saying much...
I applaud you for at least using your turn signals and etc. certainly a driver such as yourself is less of a risk than the soccer mom who upgraded from a Metro to an SUV or the teenager eating a burger and talking on his cell phone while changing CDs. However, there are probably not many accidents that do not have "overconfidence behind the wheel" as a contributing factor.
Please just try to remember that the common roadways are established for utility, not for thrillseeking. If you want to get your blood pumping behind teh wheel, may I suggest closed-track racing or something similar?
The thing is, if you're on the road (unless you own your own private, closed road) you're not alone, and you don't have any right to take unnecesary risk at all.
There is no joy like that of losing losing your handle on that "controlled" fishtail and careening into three lanes of highway traffic. Nothing at all like the smell of burning gasoline as it crisps the skin off 70% of some stranger's body.
You may feel that you know what you're doing, but so has every idiot that killed innocent people with no input on his decision to take a risk for the sake of fun.
Actually, without engaging the Warp drive, Star Trek ships are capable of accelerating to large fractions of c in exceedingly short times. Without her magical "inertial dampeners", the Enterprise could reduce her crew to messy smears under impulse power alone.
When the female friend in HS pulled me outside to "show [me] something", all I got was sex.
Dammit!
Blogger-style apps take this:
1) Edit mirrored web page to include new entry.
2) Move older items to "archive pages"
3) Connect to FTP server
4) Upload new version of main page and modified archive pages. Upload new archive pages and set their permissions.
5) Upload images.
Into this:
1) Edit post
2) click "upload image" or similar button and browse to image
3) Click "Submit"
Blogger and pals also automatically create links to an entry that will work whether your post is on the main page or has moved to an archive page. Some provide a simple way to allow readers to comment.
I could edit source code using pico, but an IDE makes the task a lot easier, comprende?
We should make it clear that the Target one is prettier than the one you linked. It's slimmer and the one I saw was "fashionably colored". Still to big to really be useful for anything but DVD. I'd worry about thermal issues also, in a case that tight.
Of course, neither of these makes CD-R/W like the Sony product this article's about.
BSD all the way baybee. There is no logical reason why using government-generated code should obligate one to make one's own code freely available, because we have already paid for it through taxation. Which brings up a possibility... maybe it should be dual-licensed: BSDish for US citizens and corporations, and GPLish for others.
Take that, Canada! mwahahaha...
Hablo un poquito Espanol, mas de la idioma por restaurantes que algo.
I can usually tease the general gist out of a short article in German, though I am not capable of generating an comprehensible sentence or understanding much of it when spoken.
No, I just made it up.
My post was actually in response to the ./ editorial policy of not correcting spelling and or grammar, which is largely due to the fact that the ./ editors, who are to my knowledge all native speakers of American English, are, each of them, illiterate to one degree or another.
Why you problem! English not langage all speak in native moroon? Edit no posting to start make change and all be uncertain what say submit person and even speaking american people so what! Language fluid thing is to be undertood matters all, and who to say you are what is' the corrected way to write one thing or some other one thing:
Now they can say "I may not be a rocket scientist, but I do think like one..."
That's not using, that's copying without a license to do so.