My friend,
I would take a greenspan anyday in place of a Saddam, Hitler, Lenin, stalin and the likes.
You basically admitted that no system is perfect. I would stick with my corrupt democratic freemarket since I can at least enjoy some prosperity and know that mistakes from the likes of greenspan existed because no one choose to "knowledgeably" refute him.
Having a free market does not guarantee you make the best choices, but the beauty of free markets is that people will have choice and the can change them, and over the long run, the best choices will prevail.
since biometric security relies on information that is unique to an individual, couldn't such moves undermine biometric security efforts? what if all this information falls into the wrong hands?
The point I was trying to make in my original post is that if consoles are going to merge with PCs, then they don't bring any additional value above what the PC offers to either the developers or users, therefore, it would be more cost effective for developers to simply develop for PCs directly, but this clearly is not the case.
agreed.. thats why I don't see consoles merging anytime soon if ever. The value the consoles bring is the standardized development process which reduces costs for game developers to the point where it would be worth paying the licensing fees.
Standardized specifications will not work and have never worked, as console manufacturers would want to differentiate themselves from other manufacturers and we would go back to the proliferation of specs. Anyone remember J2me?
just develop for the PC.. no licensing fees
the very existence of consoles suggest that there is value in the platform. Otherwise, all games would be PC based and it wouldn't be very difficult to build an open console platform that is based on PC components.
FP is just another tool in a programmer's tool box. If you tend to think imperatively, and want total control over data structures and access time, then either an imperative language will be a more appropriate tool for your problem.
Or you fall into the description of the article where it is hard to break out of the imperative thinking process to be able to effectively use FP languages. There just might be another way to solve your problem without using doubly linked lists.
indeed.. but thats what I called them for a lack of a better term. I can't remember what the proper term is for a variable in a functional language.
If you read joe Armstrong's book on programming erlang, I believe he uses the term "variable" since it is what most programmers are used to.
indeed.. thats why functional languages are useful. The claim made in the article is that this is merely and exaggeration:
Getting good at functional programming is hard, harder than moving from iterative Pascal or Basic or C coding to object-oriented development. It's an exaggeration but a useful one: When you move to FP, all your algorithms break
If you can get passed the idea that you only have immutable variables, you can do pretty much anything you usually do in other sequential languages. The algorithms are identical at an abstract level.
If however your algorithms are more concrete and you tend to think about variables when developing them, you are in for a hard time.
With functional programming languages make a rather restrictive assumption, and that is all variables are immutable.
This is why functional programs are more suited for concurrency, and this is why your sequential algorithms will fail to work.
I get your point.. but the thing about software, is that it can be imitated and modified to seem different.
Regardless, If each line was copied by a member in the community...who do you sue? and how do you collect?
If I have 2 terminals open next to each other, and personally type GPL source code line by line making changes as I see fit (mostly renaming variables), can I redistribute my copy using a different license?
correlation from self reported child surveys is as close to reality as you can get.
In other news, a recent study showed a similar correlation between kiddies with mad FPS skillZ and high scores in Likert Scale surveys, and spawn campers confine themselves to the use of deductive logic.
Smart people are smart, they will know how to reward themselves in a free market system they don't need society to reward them. Lets not make it harder for them by holding them back, or making others seem smarter. Besides, it will be difficult for society to recognize them since evaluating smart people must be done by "smarter" people.
Famous athletes are just a handful, and not everyone will be able to be a famous athlete (or a smart person), so I wouldn't worry about the allure of fame drying up the smart pool. It's also very unlikely that the smart crowd will be driven by the rewards associated with being an famous athelete.
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you talk like greenspan
My friend,
I would take a greenspan anyday in place of a Saddam, Hitler, Lenin, stalin and the likes.
You basically admitted that no system is perfect. I would stick with my corrupt democratic freemarket since I can at least enjoy some prosperity and know that mistakes from the likes of greenspan existed because no one choose to "knowledgeably" refute him.
Having a free market does not guarantee you make the best choices, but the beauty of free markets is that people will have choice and the can change them, and over the long run, the best choices will prevail.
since biometric security relies on information that is unique to an individual, couldn't such moves undermine biometric security efforts? what if all this information falls into the wrong hands?
the year of the linu .... um ...
wimax?
it's as dead as the linux desktop.
sun might have made a mistake by purchasing mysql, couldn't they have benefited from it without paying $1B?
I think USB-Vista comes before that
The point I was trying to make in my original post is that if consoles are going to merge with PCs, then they don't bring any additional value above what the PC offers to either the developers or users, therefore, it would be more cost effective for developers to simply develop for PCs directly, but this clearly is not the case.
agreed .. thats why I don't see consoles merging anytime soon if ever. The value the consoles bring is the standardized development process which reduces costs for game developers to the point where it would be worth paying the licensing fees.
Standardized specifications will not work and have never worked, as console manufacturers would want to differentiate themselves from other manufacturers and we would go back to the proliferation of specs. Anyone remember J2me?
just develop for the PC .. no licensing fees
the very existence of consoles suggest that there is value in the platform. Otherwise, all games would be PC based and it wouldn't be very difficult to build an open console platform that is based on PC components.
Before anyone makes a move .. I would like to mention that these are released under the terms of the GPL V3.0
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FP is just another tool in a programmer's tool box. If you tend to think imperatively, and want total control over data structures and access time, then either an imperative language will be a more appropriate tool for your problem.
Or you fall into the description of the article where it is hard to break out of the imperative thinking process to be able to effectively use FP languages. There just might be another way to solve your problem without using doubly linked lists.
indeed .. but thats what I called them for a lack of a better term. I can't remember what the proper term is for a variable in a functional language.
If you read joe Armstrong's book on programming erlang, I believe he uses the term "variable" since it is what most programmers are used to.
Getting good at functional programming is hard, harder than moving from iterative Pascal or Basic or C coding to object-oriented development. It's an exaggeration but a useful one: When you move to FP, all your algorithms break
If you can get passed the idea that you only have immutable variables, you can do pretty much anything you usually do in other sequential languages. The algorithms are identical at an abstract level.
If however your algorithms are more concrete and you tend to think about variables when developing them, you are in for a hard time.
With functional programming languages make a rather restrictive assumption, and that is all variables are immutable.
This is why functional programs are more suited for concurrency, and this is why your sequential algorithms will fail to work.
so where do we send our bank account information this time to get 10,000,000$? They tell me that the 3rd one is a charm.
to point out that im the anonymous coward from last post?
Would a whole community get away with plagiarism is basically my question.
I get your point .. but the thing about software, is that it can be imitated and modified to seem different.
Regardless, If each line was copied by a member in the community ...who do you sue? and how do you collect?
If I have 2 terminals open next to each other, and personally type GPL source code line by line making changes as I see fit (mostly renaming variables), can I redistribute my copy using a different license?
correlation from self reported child surveys is as close to reality as you can get. In other news, a recent study showed a similar correlation between kiddies with mad FPS skillZ and high scores in Likert Scale surveys, and spawn campers confine themselves to the use of deductive logic.
I think its a great match
Marketing gets the product noticed, it doesn't ensure that people will come back and buy the 2nd generation of a product.
What makes you sure it isn't the same in quran? maybe you should try reading it in Arabic? isn't there a chance something gets lost in translation?
Smart people are smart, they will know how to reward themselves in a free market system they don't need society to reward them. Lets not make it harder for them by holding them back, or making others seem smarter. Besides, it will be difficult for society to recognize them since evaluating smart people must be done by "smarter" people.
Famous athletes are just a handful, and not everyone will be able to be a famous athlete (or a smart person), so I wouldn't worry about the allure of fame drying up the smart pool. It's also very unlikely that the smart crowd will be driven by the rewards associated with being an famous athelete.