You could bring a (not very good) analogy into the world of programming - do we teach C++ or asm to kids these days? No we teach them probably BASIC or LOGO or somthing like that. Is this because we want to hide the truth, or because we are lazy/underfunded teachers? I would say no, it's because the simple languages are good at getting a basic understanding going, and they fulfill the requirements of kids at that age. If they are interested they can take it further, and we'll teach them The Truth (tm) at some later date.
I don't think it's a good analogy at all. You imply that C++ and assembler are somehow more "Truthful" than LOGO and BASIC. However, these languages are every bit as "Truthful" in the expression of procedural computation. The difference between C++ and asm and LOGO and BASIC are, at a fundamental level, merely syntactic.
BTW: The real tradgedy is when people are unable to get to that higher level, because of economic, social, govermental or whatever other reasons
Not at all. If you've done a proper job of teaching FUNDAMENTALS to the kids, the knowledge you've given them will be useful in any context. Learning C++ is just a matter of learning a new syntax.
Any teaching method that leaves kids at any point in a 'half-taught' stage, where a 'higher level' of instruction is required before anything they know is useful, is fundamentally flawed. Teaching must be a process of building new layers on top of a stable base of fundamentals, where you can stop at any point and still have some useful skills.
They of course would say that you have to be careful of the textbooks that claim that any theory is proven unless it actually is. Just because the average humanist scientist believes in evolution doesn't mean it should be taught as fact, but rather as a plausible theory.
So, what we really need to be teaching our kids are the fundamentals of the scientific method; including the application of Occam's Razor. (Whether Occam's Razor lends more credence to evolution or creation is left as an exercise to the reader.)
This may say more about the high-end wintel graphics workstation market than about SGI in particular. 'Consumer' 3D accelerators are available now that can give a Celeron-based PC comparable performance to 'Mid range' (SGI Visual workstation, Intergraph, etc.) systems sold _today_ for a order of magnitude more money. Could it be that there simply no longer exists a middle ground between the real high end dedicated graphics development systems, and the lowly PC?
I nominate any and all games ever made for the Atari 2600. Developing _any_ game under the insanely tight contraints this sytem placed on a programmer is impressive -- developing the amazingly fun games I played as a kid is downright incredible.
Some 2600 'features':
No VSync. Every 2600 game had to count lines and keep an exact constant framerate _manually_.
A total of 4KB ROM and 128 bytes of RAM to work with.
Also see this interview. Best quote: "The early games [...] were 2K games and the old programmers looked down on us kids for using 4K because only a wimp would need 4K:)"
id may not be Open Source in terms of giving all their source code away, but they give a lot of *knowledge* back to the community that keeps them swimming in dollar bills:) Plus, they give all their source code away.:)
id has released the source to Wolf3D and Doom, and would have already released the source to Quake, had they not promised licensees of the engine that they would not do so until their products shipped. So, when Daikatana ships, um, any day now, we can expect to see Quake source as well.
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Yearday is a lot less ambiguous, and makes processing of time series much easier than pesky months and days. Today is yd 323, which is, ironically, odd.
If you're going to throw away the month information, why not throw away the year information, and use a 'day' offset from some arbitrary date? Then you just have a nice integer to work with.
On a side note: Obscure variable names is nothing new. Take a look at old fortran code written for a system with a 8 character limit.
8! Luxury! Earlier forms of BASIC had a 2 character limit. Actually, (and this is perhaps the best obfuscation facility I've ever seen) on the old Commodore 8-bit machines, you could make variable names as long as you liked. But only the first two characters were significant.
Napster's services are only as complex as ICQ's. It keeps track of everyone that's logged in, and the list of MP3s they are sharing. The "I'm online and sharing these files" message is sent only once per session, after which an occasional ping can establish lifetime. (It doesn't seem to do this very often, shares are very often dead by the time you try to read from them.)
The searches are much simpler than any those on any conventional web search engine, and on a database serveral orders of magnitude smaller.
The scalability of the chat mechanism is already a known and solved problem - it uses IRC.
As for advertising, expect it to kick in the moment Napster is officially released.
Eh? Explain this one to me. It cant be legal if you're giving it to someone else. If I rip every single CD I own into legal MP3's it does not matter how legal mine are if someone from napster is downloading them.
If the files you're sharing are in the public domain, it's 100% legal to share them with the world. Are you saying it's illegal for me to record and share my rendition of "Mr. Tambourine Man" with the world?
(Sic)Low Power Consumption due to manage 10MB MP3 buffer by using DRAM and Long Battery lasting at least 6-8 hours Upon this reason HDD has no need to operate continuously. So it can save power consumption.
10MB instead of 30, but that's ~10 minutes worth anyway. The drive will spend the vast majority of the time powered down.
(Sic)Low Power Consumption due to manage 10MB MP3 buffer by using DRAM and Long Battery lasting at least 6-8 hours Upon this reason HDD has no need to operate continuously. So it can save power consumption.
10MB instead of 30, but that's ~10 minutes worth anyway. The drive will spend the vast majority of the time powered down.
I didn't see it that way at all. Keen was the franchise that got id off the ground, and porting it to the GBC could be a fun sentimental project for the 'original team'. I imagine that level design was what Tom and John did the first time.
Programming Pearls? The Art of Computer Programming? The Mythical Man-Month?
In his.plan last year, he noted that he read The Mythical Man-Month. (On the plane. Y'know, some light reading he picked up at the airport.) He was impressed by how well the ideas have held up over the long time since the book was written.
Congratulations! Now every teenage hacker type who works on a kernel patch or device driver is a "system analyst"!
You oughtta put that on your resumé...
I would.
There are many people out there who have 'Systems Analyst' on their business cards that don't have the skills to contribute to a kernel patch or device driver.
This is cool. Now, let's see a 10 Disc DVD changer version for the car. That way you'd get around 4 months of continuous, unrepeated music. (It sucks when you start to hear the same music after less than a month of continuous listening...)
So, a webmaster could easily circumvent any legal action from Unisys simply by taking all of their images, opening them with a 'licensed' free or commercial image editor and saving them with that program.
For $110 you can get a 2.4 ghz video/stereo audio transmitter/receiver kit and all you need there is RCA input on the transmitter from your soundcard, which is easy.
From the pictures on the site, it looks like this is exactly what the 'MP3 Anywhere' is. For $88.
BTW - ever bite down on one of those hooks of yours? You know, just to know what it's like? I bet you don't have the guts to do what you think is no big deal.
Yes, biting down on a sharp hook is probably very uncomfortable to a fish.
But it's the repeated clubbing on the head you have to administer to make the things stop flopping about in the boat that must really hurt.
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Perfect, now we can concentrate on helping those rare teenagers that suffer from unstable self-esteem.
To which end of the bullying do you suppose they are referring?
I don't think it's a good analogy at all. You imply that C++ and assembler are somehow more "Truthful" than LOGO and BASIC. However, these languages are every bit as "Truthful" in the expression of procedural computation. The difference between C++ and asm and LOGO and BASIC are, at a fundamental level, merely syntactic.
BTW: The real tradgedy is when people are unable to get to that higher level, because of economic, social, govermental or whatever other reasons
Not at all. If you've done a proper job of teaching FUNDAMENTALS to the kids, the knowledge you've given them will be useful in any context. Learning C++ is just a matter of learning a new syntax.
Any teaching method that leaves kids at any point in a 'half-taught' stage, where a 'higher level' of instruction is required before anything they know is useful, is fundamentally flawed. Teaching must be a process of building new layers on top of a stable base of fundamentals, where you can stop at any point and still have some useful skills.
So, what we really need to be teaching our kids are the fundamentals of the scientific method; including the application of Occam's Razor. (Whether Occam's Razor lends more credence to evolution or creation is left as an exercise to the reader.)
This may say more about the high-end wintel graphics workstation market than about SGI in particular. 'Consumer' 3D accelerators are available now that can give a Celeron-based PC comparable performance to 'Mid range' (SGI Visual workstation, Intergraph, etc.) systems sold _today_ for a order of magnitude more money. Could it be that there simply no longer exists a middle ground between the real high end dedicated graphics development systems, and the lowly PC?
Some 2600 'features':
Read this Case History from 1983 in IEEE SPectrum for some more insight into 2600 development.
Also see this interview. Best quote: "The early games [...] were 2K games and the old programmers looked down on us kids for using 4K because only a wimp would need 4K :)"
id has released the source to Wolf3D and Doom, and would have already released the source to Quake, had they not promised licensees of the engine that they would not do so until their products shipped. So, when Daikatana ships, um, any day now, we can expect to see Quake source as well.
If you're going to throw away the month information, why not throw away the year information, and use a 'day' offset from some arbitrary date? Then you just have a nice integer to work with.
8! Luxury! Earlier forms of BASIC had a 2 character limit. Actually, (and this is perhaps the best obfuscation facility I've ever seen) on the old Commodore 8-bit machines, you could make variable names as long as you liked. But only the first two characters were significant.
10 outputone$ = "foo"
20 outputtwo$ = "bar"
30 print outputone$
>run
bar
I wouldn't even give you that. Green-circle-on-yellow-background says 'traffic light' to me. With embossed shadows or not.
The searches are much simpler than any those on any conventional web search engine, and on a database serveral orders of magnitude smaller.
The scalability of the chat mechanism is already a known and solved problem - it uses IRC.
As for advertising, expect it to kick in the moment Napster is officially released.
If the files you're sharing are in the public domain, it's 100% legal to share them with the world. Are you saying it's illegal for me to record and share my rendition of "Mr. Tambourine Man" with the world?
Questionable, maybe. But not illegal.
2) alannis morsette (spelling)
3) alan thickie (spelling)
4) The Sci-Fi movies "CUBE" and "ESCAPE VELOCITY"
If you're going to call other people dumb, make sure you can spell more than 25% of your sentences correctly.
You missed the critical word: "...allow the printed contents of whole libraries to be transmitted in a single second."
This thing will actually move the books!
(Sic) Low Power Consumption due to manage 10MB MP3 buffer by using DRAM and Long Battery lasting at least 6-8 hours
Upon this reason HDD has no need to operate continuously. So it can save power consumption.
10MB instead of 30, but that's ~10 minutes worth anyway. The drive will spend the vast majority of the time powered down.
(Sic) Low Power Consumption due to manage 10MB MP3 buffer by using DRAM and Long Battery lasting at least 6-8 hours
Upon this reason HDD has no need to operate continuously. So it can save power consumption.
10MB instead of 30, but that's ~10 minutes worth anyway. The drive will spend the vast majority of the time powered down.
I didn't see it that way at all. Keen was the franchise that got id off the ground, and porting it to the GBC could be a fun sentimental project for the 'original team'. I imagine that level design was what Tom and John did the first time.
Programming Pearls? The Art of Computer Programming? The Mythical Man-Month?
In his .plan last year, he noted that he read The Mythical Man-Month. (On the plane. Y'know, some light reading he picked up at the airport.) He was impressed by how well the ideas have held up over the long time since the book was written.
Religion without Jesus is like beer without alcohol: it may taste good, but in the end you don't get a buzz.
Interesting analogy. At the risk of extrapolating it too far, look at the converse effects of drinking 100% pure alcohol:
You oughtta put that on your resumé...
I would.
There are many people out there who have 'Systems Analyst' on their business cards that don't have the skills to contribute to a kernel patch or device driver.
This is cool. Now, let's see a 10 Disc DVD changer version for the car. That way you'd get around 4 months of continuous, unrepeated music. (It sucks when you start to hear the same music after less than a month of continuous listening...)
The first thing I thought when I read he was 85 was This is just a crazy old guy.
That old man's just a crazy old wizard!
So, a webmaster could easily circumvent any legal action from Unisys simply by taking all of their images, opening them with a 'licensed' free or commercial image editor and saving them with that program.
For $110 you can get a 2.4 ghz video/stereo audio transmitter/receiver kit and all you need there is RCA input on the transmitter from your soundcard, which is easy.
From the pictures on the site, it looks like this is exactly what the 'MP3 Anywhere' is. For $88.
BTW - ever bite down on one of those hooks of yours? You know, just to know what it's like? I bet you don't have the guts to do what you think is no big deal.
Yes, biting down on a sharp hook is probably very uncomfortable to a fish.
But it's the repeated clubbing on the head you have to administer to make the things stop flopping about in the boat that must really hurt.