I wasn't disagreeing at all. As a matter of fact I also happen to think that this kind of animal and barbaric instinct is counterproductive, I just wanted to point that out.
"Human nature says transgressors must be punished."
Actually that behaviour has been shown to exist among most animals that live in "societies". This isn't human nature at all.
Somehow I think they only created this project to fuck with future generations' brains. Picture this: nuclear war, everybody forgets about the clock. Year 9434: archaeologists discover the clock, somehow make it work and then all the idiots start wondering why the clock only goes up to 10 000 and make up doomsday scenarios.
So not only can the pirates watch movies for free, but they also reduce the chances a multi-billion dollars CGI piece of crap will be released in the future ? Sounds like a win-win to me.
How else are we supposed to play Angry birds while simultaneously listening to music downloading apps and filming in HD ? I can't wait to have to charge my phone every 4 hours !
It also means that with web applications that are adapted to touch screens, Honeycomb and ChromeOS might compete on the same field (to some extent). I'm not sure about Google's strategy here.
I agree wholeheartly, especially after having seen MSc students in my University battle for hours with tears in their eyes because they couldn't implement the "amazing" system they just designed. Granted my uni is far from being as good as CMU (I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually one of the worst of the country) but I still find this kind of situation quite saddening.
Every computer scientist should have some experience with computer programming.
Outside of that, I personally think an introductory course should reduce itself down to basic algorithms, the various programming paradigms should not be taught.
Couldn't agree more - in my first year of Uni we didn't actually code anything for the whole first year (and it was for a very technical-oriented degree), we spent it all using plain old algorithms until we could get them right. The debugging was quite painful though...
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I wasn't disagreeing at all. As a matter of fact I also happen to think that this kind of animal and barbaric instinct is counterproductive, I just wanted to point that out.
"Human nature says transgressors must be punished." Actually that behaviour has been shown to exist among most animals that live in "societies". This isn't human nature at all.
Somehow I think they only created this project to fuck with future generations' brains. Picture this: nuclear war, everybody forgets about the clock. Year 9434: archaeologists discover the clock, somehow make it work and then all the idiots start wondering why the clock only goes up to 10 000 and make up doomsday scenarios.
So not only can the pirates watch movies for free, but they also reduce the chances a multi-billion dollars CGI piece of crap will be released in the future ? Sounds like a win-win to me.
Unless they somehow discover youtube and thus decide to destroy us all. I know I wouldn't blame them !
How else are we supposed to play Angry birds while simultaneously listening to music downloading apps and filming in HD ? I can't wait to have to charge my phone every 4 hours !
It also means that with web applications that are adapted to touch screens, Honeycomb and ChromeOS might compete on the same field (to some extent). I'm not sure about Google's strategy here.
As Abe Othman and Ariel Procaccia said: "AI is whatever gets published at AAAI/IJCAI". Best definition of AI yet.
I agree wholeheartly, especially after having seen MSc students in my University battle for hours with tears in their eyes because they couldn't implement the "amazing" system they just designed. Granted my uni is far from being as good as CMU (I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually one of the worst of the country) but I still find this kind of situation quite saddening. Every computer scientist should have some experience with computer programming.
Outside of that, I personally think an introductory course should reduce itself down to basic algorithms, the various programming paradigms should not be taught.
Couldn't agree more - in my first year of Uni we didn't actually code anything for the whole first year (and it was for a very technical-oriented degree), we spent it all using plain old algorithms until we could get them right. The debugging was quite painful though...
Actually, with the addition of CSS3, HTML5 has been proven to be Turing-complete