[[Galileo would have been deeply honored (or so I believe), so I respect what the Church is doing here.]]
Bah, the Church is very good for redeeming itself for centuries old 'errors', but when it comes to issue that are present now (say homosexuality for example), they show that they are nearly as backwards as they were before..
So what the Church is really trying to do is called 'saving face' nothing else, so it doesn't deserve much respect..
>Tell me please exactly HOW digital downloads are going to happen.
Agreed, for a long time, digital download will be limited to a small percentage of the population due to bandwith issue, even when this is solved (could take a *long* time) many will still prefer a physical item.
But a next generation format such as flash could overtake Blu-Ray: it's very likely than in a few years 50GB of flash 'cards' will be available for a very small price.. Of course, it's not sure at all that content provider would allow it: the replacement with flash could already be done for audio CD, but it's not happening..
>Abolition of Software Patents is just plainly nonsense.
[sarcasm] Of course as the fact there software patents do not exist in Europe show that a society couldn't live without software patents: clearly there is no software producer in Europe [/sarcasm]
Granted there are probably more software producer in the USA than in Europe, but this was already the case before SW patents were thought as valid by the courts, AFAIK no study has shown in increase in SW developments thanks to patent.
So killing the whole browser responsiveness just because *some* website *may* have some windows which communicate with each other is alright in your book???
If a website does this (stupid) thing, then put all its windows/tab in the same thread, so that when the users complain about the slowness you can say that it is the website who is badly done (which is true) as for the other 99.99% websites which don't do this, use one thread per tab/window (or a pool of thread).
Is-there some reason why this can't be done that way?
Currently I'm using Opera instead of FF _precisely_because_of_this_issue_, and I won't even consider going back to FF until this point is fixed..
>Passing the Turing test? (Fatally flawed because it's not double blind, btw.)
Uh? A 'double blind' experiment is when both the patient and the doctor doesn't know which pill are the effective one. For the Turing test, the interviewer can be alone discussing with the maybe-computer, and if there is really the need to have someone else monitoring the discussion, there is *no reason* why this guy should know whether it's a computer or a human at the other end.
So double blind Turing tests are possible, please stop spewing falsities or explain your reasoning.
As for the rest: -"artificial emotions" do we have happy or sad neurons? No, so are our emotions artificial? No of course, so there's no reason why computers couldn't have emotions.. -"making computers be the best computers", the best is also the one who is able to do *anything*, so strong AI is interesting, even if it'll take many more years than Minsky crackpot predictions..
>for the same price that I can provide the first copy of those works to anyone, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone from anything?
Because if N is the number of user and C the development cost, C/N != 0 even for large N.. So you still have to find a way for the author to recover the development cost: much less people wants/are able to work for charity.
>Though, to be nitpicky: Use of the web never required Internet Explorer.
To be nitpicky on your nitpickyness: there are quite a few website which doesn't work well in anything but Internet Explorer. Even though I prefer Opera, I have to keep an IE open because I'm registered to one of those website (didn't have really the choice).
>The fork will then be GPL2/GPL3, which is somewhat problematic, in that in the future we will never be able to write KDE apps in GPL4, should such be released (and I presume that Microsoft's attacks on FOSS will necessitate a GPL4 eventually, just as Microsoft's deal with Novell necessitated certain clauses in the GPL3)
[sarcasm]Of course KDE will NEED to switch to GPLv4: just look at all these Linux kernel hackers which were so worried about the Tivoisation or Microsoft's deal that they made the switch from GPLv2 to GPLv3 in a heartbeat![sarcasm/]
>This "corrupt government" nonsense really gets to me. The US government is quite possibly one of the least corrupt governments on the planet
Well this depends on your definition of 'corrupt' but starting a war under false pretext is being very corrupted in my book (corrupted by Oil's greed).
>Any organization selling "Feel Good" and supernatural crap is a cult.
So you agree that catholicism is a cult then? They used to sell 'indulgence', I don't know how to translate this word in English, but you could be forbidden for a sin you had made and go to the paradise by buying those things..
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Thanks for the post, the "answers" given on the blog are so uninteresting that it clearly show that this book isn't worth my time and money..
I wonder how this post could be modded 'interesting'??
When the raytracing guys talk about scaling, it was increasing the number of FPGA present on the chip (possible because the memory bandwith is low) not scaling it's frequency.
That said I don't believe much in raytracing for games in the short/medium term: - software only ray tracers are still too slow - dedicated HW solutions have the huge problem that they cannot render existing games - apparently it's hard making GPU do ray tracing efficiently - plus it's likely that the resolution of games is going to increase to HD resolution in a few years which will delay again raytracing (O(n) in resolution compared to O(log n) for rasterisation). - game companies are very conservative.
While I use KDE and like it, I doubt very much that the sentence [[KDE 4.0 is based on the Qt4 toolkit, which brings significant enhancements in the way memory is used. "So it ends up making KDE less resource intensive than KDE 3, which is quite an improvement,"]] is true: Qt4 use double buffering to provide smoother scrolling so I doubt that it's using less memory that KDE3..
I remember a blog (linked by/.) which tried to measure the memory consumption of KDE but the author failed to measure accurately the memory used (which is quite hard).
So does anyone have realistic numbers on the memory used by KDE3 and KDE4?
That's why Ruby is nice, it's as readable as Python but it has regex included (of course if you use overcomplicated regex in your code the readability will suffer, but that's not a language issue).
Apparently building a game with AI and Free Software are incompatible for the time being: I don't know any Free SW games which has an AI say equivalent to the quality of Half-Life (the first) for example.
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[[Galileo would have been deeply honored (or so I believe), so I respect what the Church is doing here.]]
Bah, the Church is very good for redeeming itself for centuries old 'errors', but when it comes to issue that are present now (say homosexuality for example), they show that they are nearly as backwards as they were before..
So what the Church is really trying to do is called 'saving face' nothing else, so it doesn't deserve much respect..
>Tell me please exactly HOW digital downloads are going to happen.
Agreed, for a long time, digital download will be limited to a small percentage of the population due to bandwith issue, even when this is solved (could take a *long* time) many will still prefer a physical item.
But a next generation format such as flash could overtake Blu-Ray: it's very likely than in a few years 50GB of flash 'cards' will be available for a very small price..
Of course, it's not sure at all that content provider would allow it: the replacement with flash could already be done for audio CD, but it's not happening..
>Abolition of Software Patents is just plainly nonsense.
[sarcasm] Of course as the fact there software patents do not exist in Europe show that a society couldn't live without software patents: clearly there is no software producer in Europe [/sarcasm]
Granted there are probably more software producer in the USA than in Europe, but this was already the case before SW patents were thought as valid by the courts, AFAIK no study has shown in increase in SW developments thanks to patent.
Have you really read the artiche/paper?
There is a *really good reason* which is given in the article: defence against anti-satellite weapons.
Much like 'Internet': a decentralised system is much more robust than a centralised one..
So killing the whole browser responsiveness just because *some* website *may* have some windows which communicate with each other is alright in your book???
If a website does this (stupid) thing, then put all its windows/tab in the same thread, so that when the users complain about the slowness you can say that it is the website who is badly done (which is true) as for the other 99.99% websites which don't do this, use one thread per tab/window (or a pool of thread).
Is-there some reason why this can't be done that way?
Currently I'm using Opera instead of FF _precisely_because_of_this_issue_, and I won't even consider going back to FF until this point is fixed..
Thanks: it's much more readable than the PDF linked in the article..
>Modern x86 is a hybrid of CISC and RISC
Maybe you should learn to read acronyms: IS in CISC and RISC is 'instruction set', which instruction set?
The 'external one' seen by the compiler.
So x86 are CISC plain and simply.
>Passing the Turing test? (Fatally flawed because it's not double blind, btw.)
Uh? A 'double blind' experiment is when both the patient and the doctor doesn't know which pill are the effective one. For the Turing test, the interviewer can be alone discussing with the maybe-computer, and if there is really the need to have someone else monitoring the discussion, there is *no reason* why this guy should know whether it's a computer or a human at the other end.
So double blind Turing tests are possible, please stop spewing falsities or explain your reasoning.
As for the rest:
-"artificial emotions" do we have happy or sad neurons? No, so are our emotions artificial?
No of course, so there's no reason why computers couldn't have emotions..
-"making computers be the best computers", the best is also the one who is able to do *anything*, so strong AI is interesting, even if it'll take many more years than Minsky crackpot predictions..
> to recreate the most important bits of knowledge -- public sanitation and mosquito control are two big ones -- as part of an educational program
I would add sex education to the list..
>for the same price that I can provide the first copy of those works to anyone, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone from anything?
Because if N is the number of user and C the development cost, C/N != 0 even for large N..
So you still have to find a way for the author to recover the development cost: much less people wants/are able to work for charity.
>Though, to be nitpicky: Use of the web never required Internet Explorer.
To be nitpicky on your nitpickyness: there are quite a few website which doesn't work well in anything but Internet Explorer.
Even though I prefer Opera, I have to keep an IE open because I'm registered to one of those website (didn't have really the choice).
>If I see mass protests of bombings of Jews, I will believe Islam has been saved.
Well if one compares the death toll of jews and of palestinian, jews should also do mass protest against the killing of palestinians..
Mod the parent up!
He's spot on: I wanted to write the same thing..
>The fork will then be GPL2/GPL3, which is somewhat problematic, in that in the future we will never be able to write KDE apps in GPL4, should such be released (and I presume that Microsoft's attacks on FOSS will necessitate a GPL4 eventually, just as Microsoft's deal with Novell necessitated certain clauses in the GPL3)
[sarcasm]Of course KDE will NEED to switch to GPLv4: just look at all these Linux kernel hackers which were so worried about the Tivoisation or Microsoft's deal that they made the switch from GPLv2 to GPLv3 in a heartbeat![sarcasm/]
>This "corrupt government" nonsense really gets to me. The US government is quite possibly one of the least corrupt governments on the planet
Well this depends on your definition of 'corrupt' but starting a war under false pretext is being very corrupted in my book (corrupted by Oil's greed).
I'm not an American but why not simply remove the tax deductible status?
Yes, sorry I misread your post, I apologize.
>Any organization selling "Feel Good" and supernatural crap is a cult.
So you agree that catholicism is a cult then?
They used to sell 'indulgence', I don't know how to translate this word in English, but you could be forbidden for a sin you had made and go to the paradise by buying those things..
Thanks for the post, the "answers" given on the blog are so uninteresting that it clearly show that this book isn't worth my time and money..
True but Ruby 1.9 is a 'developer release' ie not planned for general consumption..
I wonder how this post could be modded 'interesting'??
When the raytracing guys talk about scaling, it was increasing the number of FPGA present on the chip (possible because the memory bandwith is low) not scaling it's frequency.
That said I don't believe much in raytracing for games in the short/medium term:
- software only ray tracers are still too slow
- dedicated HW solutions have the huge problem that they cannot render existing games
- apparently it's hard making GPU do ray tracing efficiently
- plus it's likely that the resolution of games is going to increase to HD resolution in a few years which will delay again raytracing (O(n) in resolution compared to O(log n) for rasterisation).
- game companies are very conservative.
>>c) printf can fail, you're not catching that.
>And what do you expect to do with a failure? printf() something to the console?
Just to be annoying: you can exit with a value different from 0, indicating that there was an error.
But in the real world, this is rarely done, should it be?
I don't know..
While I use KDE and like it, I doubt very much that the sentence [[KDE 4.0 is based on the Qt4 toolkit, which brings significant enhancements in the way memory is used. "So it ends up making KDE less resource intensive than KDE 3, which is quite an improvement,"]] is true: Qt4 use double buffering to provide smoother scrolling so I doubt that it's using less memory that KDE3..
/.) which tried to measure the memory consumption of KDE but the author failed to measure accurately the memory used (which is quite hard).
I remember a blog (linked by
So does anyone have realistic numbers on the memory used by KDE3 and KDE4?
> pick the tool for the job.
That's why Ruby is nice, it's as readable as Python but it has regex included (of course if you use overcomplicated regex in your code the readability will suffer, but that's not a language issue).
Apparently building a game with AI and Free Software are incompatible for the time being: I don't know any Free SW games which has an AI say equivalent to the quality of Half-Life (the first) for example.