At my university, we teach Ada. It is a great language. It was written especially for embedded systems. To Ada, programming a VCR or a car is the same as a computer.
Ada was not written to prevent dumb errors. Ada is strongly typed. This is NOT cumbersome. Using the data type that you mean to use is just GOOD SOFTWARE ENGINEERING. You can always typecast if you want...
Ada is a powerful language. I would like to see it used more.
This isn't offtopic, for the sorts of work being discussed, slack is a great distro. ALSO, it wasn't mentioned. Porting SLACK to S/390 is better than porting redhat.
"Indeed, artificial life (Chapter 6) presents humankind with a serious question deserving a serious answer. Are robots alive? "
No offense to the offer, so far, he has earned my respect... Many respected individuals present this question. I would like to offer one simple answer...
NO! AND THEY NEVER WILL BE.
I am an artificial intelligence/evolution/life enthusiast. I truely enjoy this stuff and developing it as well. No matter how much we argue about it though, a computer program is not a living creature. I can make it simulate one pretty well. I can make it behaive like one, but in the end, it is just a set of algorithms, producing a set of output, the same as a video game or a text filter!
That being said, I also dislike it when people refer to every move generated by a video game as AI. A lot of the bosses in Nintendo games and such just move in a circle and shoot fireballs, nothing intelligent about that...
These plans for the second one look like they just tilt the chair in the direction that the joystick is facing... Can anybody give me some enlightenment about this?
I have always liked the idea of forward searching web browsers. Especially for slower connections. It is arguable that as connections get faster, this will be unnecessary. As connections get faster, html coding just gets crappier, and content gets BIGGER. An intelligent forward searching mechanism would be a good project. Perhaps you could use the mozilla source, and then add this. The idea is to forward retrieve all of the links, sort of like wget, but dynamically. Supposing that you were to do this. The AI could determine which links are meaningful to you based on your browsing style. If you are skipping over porno banners, it obviously wouldn't follow links to porn sites in the search. If you spent a couple seconds looking at a page with many links, it could assume that this is a portal page, and you will be returning to it, and therefore choose to preload all links off of it (useing heuristics determined by your prior surfing of course). It could even make suggestions as to which page to visit next, which would be useful if you were using a search engine.
Yeah, I was thinking that redhat had a similar tool... I just set everything up nice and pretty in my config file, and cycle through with ctrl-alt- + -, like you said, but I have seen X utilities that will let you do this graphically, just like windows/mac.
Redhat already made it so that the base install makes X your primary interface. It's very well integrated. I don't run Redhat, but from what I have seen. Running it is just as easy as windows if you have a basic understanding of Unix, and that is only needed to administer the darn thing. If you have users set up (redhat does this) and everything else, you can point and click until your wear your mouse our and never understand what a command line is.
There's nothing wrong with NASA, there's something wrong with us. NASA always knew that all it would take to end our ventures into space was a big disaster. In the 80's, we planned on having space stations and colonies BY NOW. What happened? The Challenger exploded, and people learned that there is actually danger associated with all of this, and that there would be losses. Ever since then, NASA has had to walk on eggshells to avoid being destroyed altogether. Privatization isn't because NASA doesn't want to venture out, and doesn't have good engineers. Some of the finest programmers that I know work for NASA. The privatization is because they don't want to be liable, because people have lost their inspiration to learn and to become better more intelligent people. You just have to look around today to see proof of that. If more of our nations finest die for this great cause, then NASA will die with them, because people just don't care anymore.
There's nothing wrong with NASA, there's something wrong with us. That's why private companies are trying to fill their shoes, and that's why you'll see a theme park on the moon before you see a meaningful permanent research colony on Mars.
There isn't that much that you can do with HTML. Ok, maybe there is, but the probability that HTML code is really falling under some sort of copyright is pretty slim! I mean, just what did he copy out that is so proprietary? I could see a website being upset that it is being copied, but a few macros that move pictures around a screen? How is anybody else supposed to do it? This isn't assembly language we're talking about here...
I said in the Metallica story that CDs are too expensive. You would figure that since the medium is so cheap, they would be about the same price at tapes used to be. Prices jacked up all over. What the hell do they think they are pulling? Really think everone is going to pay thousands of their salary for a few crappy CD's?
Anybody who has used a CASE system before, can tell you that updating all of your files to the current status is nothing new. CASE has been around (at least in concept) for a very long time.
I've been a long time fan of your music. I've been to 2 of your concerts (GTE Ampitheater and Hampton Colliseum). Heck, I learned to play guitar while I played out of your transcription books.
What's the deal? CD's are $20 a pop! I love your music. I like a lot of music. If you count my CD collection, it would appear that I've invested hundreds into your band JUST IN CD's. That doesn't count concert tickets and shirts! How much of that did you guys actually get to keep?
If you count all of the CD's that people have bought me and stuff, I have thousands of dollars in CD's, and this isn't even a good collection!
Heck, the fraternity I used to be in couldn't afford to keep a good collection!
Prices of CD's are outrageous. Yeah, stealing is bad, but you're really not LOSING any money, you're getting more exposure.
Why not embrace the MP3 technology and distribute in MP3 form? How much of a cut does everyone else involved take? The record companies/stores/so on.
You could deliver as MP3, for whatever you are making per CD now, and offer MUCH more reasonable prices, and still make a profit.
Also not flamebait, I was saying that VA Linux doesn't hit me as a group trying to screw its users over. Quite frankly, you should read the comments before moderating.
OK. I might have had the location wrong, but still this is to prove a point, it is not offtopic! You're saying, don't buy software from UCITA states. I can't help that my legislature decided to screw us over, but it doesn't mean that a software company in my state is trying to too.
Mitnick is one of those EVIL "ELITE HACKERS!" He should be PUNISHED for his crimes, no matter how minor or inconsequential because, after all, he is different! We politicians used to give him wedgies in school! We should do them now in real life, by making him grovel to us. We should really screw up his life! He needs to know who's boss! All of those damned geeks need to know that we'll beat them down with our "justice" any day. /sarchasm
Here is something a bit less extreme that one might consider. A lot of agencies outsource or steal ideas from other places these days. savethelaptop.zzweb.com Enjoy!
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I like Ada.
At my university, we teach Ada. It is a great language. It was written especially for embedded systems. To Ada, programming a VCR or a car is the same as a computer.
Ada was not written to prevent dumb errors. Ada is strongly typed. This is NOT cumbersome. Using the data type that you mean to use is just GOOD SOFTWARE ENGINEERING. You can always typecast if you want...
Ada is a powerful language. I would like to see it used more.
Good lord, most brick and mortar stores with prices like that would go out of business. I saw a skirt for $380! Web shorts were like $40!
What crowd are they aiming at? The extremely affluent who like to pay more than they should for relatively inexpensive fasions?
This isn't offtopic, for the sorts of work being discussed, slack is a great distro. ALSO, it wasn't mentioned. Porting SLACK to S/390 is better than porting redhat.
"Indeed, artificial life (Chapter 6) presents humankind with a serious question deserving a serious answer. Are robots alive? "
No offense to the offer, so far, he has earned my respect... Many respected individuals present this question. I would like to offer one simple answer...
NO!
AND THEY NEVER WILL BE.
I am an artificial intelligence/evolution/life enthusiast. I truely enjoy this stuff and developing it as well. No matter how much we argue about it though, a computer program is not a living creature. I can make it simulate one pretty well. I can make it behaive like one, but in the end, it is just a set of algorithms, producing a set of output, the same as a video game or a text filter!
That being said, I also dislike it when people refer to every move generated by a video game as AI. A lot of the bosses in Nintendo games and such just move in a circle and shoot fireballs, nothing intelligent about that...
I'm gonna miss having video cards that sing to me when they start up...
These plans for the second one look like they just tilt the chair in the direction that the joystick is facing... Can anybody give me some enlightenment about this?
I have always liked the idea of forward searching web browsers. Especially for slower connections. It is arguable that as connections get faster, this will be unnecessary. As connections get faster, html coding just gets crappier, and content gets BIGGER. An intelligent forward searching mechanism would be a good project. Perhaps you could use the mozilla source, and then add this. The idea is to forward retrieve all of the links, sort of like wget, but dynamically. Supposing that you were to do this. The AI could determine which links are meaningful to you based on your browsing style. If you are skipping over porno banners, it obviously wouldn't follow links to porn sites in the search. If you spent a couple seconds looking at a page with many links, it could assume that this is a portal page, and you will be returning to it, and therefore choose to preload all links off of it (useing heuristics determined by your prior surfing of course). It could even make suggestions as to which page to visit next, which would be useful if you were using a search engine.
I thought that there was already a complete genome.
Yeah, I was thinking that redhat had a similar tool... I just set everything up nice and pretty in my config file, and cycle through with ctrl-alt- + -, like you said, but I have seen X utilities that will let you do this graphically, just like windows/mac.
Redhat already made it so that the base install makes X your primary interface. It's very well integrated. I don't run Redhat, but from what I have seen. Running it is just as easy as windows if you have a basic understanding of Unix, and that is only needed to administer the darn thing. If you have users set up (redhat does this) and everything else, you can point and click until your wear your mouse our and never understand what a command line is.
There's nothing wrong with NASA, there's something wrong with us. NASA always knew that all it would take to end our ventures into space was a big disaster. In the 80's, we planned on having space stations and colonies BY NOW. What happened? The Challenger exploded, and people learned that there is actually danger associated with all of this, and that there would be losses. Ever since then, NASA has had to walk on eggshells to avoid being destroyed altogether. Privatization isn't because NASA doesn't want to venture out, and doesn't have good engineers. Some of the finest programmers that I know work for NASA. The privatization is because they don't want to be liable, because people have lost their inspiration to learn and to become better more intelligent people. You just have to look around today to see proof of that. If more of our nations finest die for this great cause, then NASA will die with them, because people just don't care anymore.
There's nothing wrong with NASA, there's something wrong with us. That's why private companies are trying to fill their shoes, and that's why you'll see a theme park on the moon before you see a meaningful permanent research colony on Mars.
There isn't that much that you can do with HTML. Ok, maybe there is, but the probability that HTML code is really falling under some sort of copyright is pretty slim! I mean, just what did he copy out that is so proprietary? I could see a website being upset that it is being copied, but a few macros that move pictures around a screen? How is anybody else supposed to do it? This isn't assembly language we're talking about here...
It's sort of like Microsoft playing the schoolyard bully and picking a fight with the Linux community...
Or maybe like a stool pigeon crying to the teacher?
No, more like a mobster.
I said in the Metallica story that CDs are too expensive. You would figure that since the medium is so cheap, they would be about the same price at tapes used to be. Prices jacked up all over. What the hell do they think they are pulling? Really think everone is going to pay thousands of their salary for a few crappy CD's?
They got the definition of Kharma wrong in the article. Oh well... You get kharma by whoring for it.
Lame Ain't your father's MP3 Encoder
Uhh, if he wants to overclock a 700, he would get better perfomance than if he wanted to overclock a 650...
Anybody who has used a CASE system before, can tell you that updating all of your files to the current status is nothing new. CASE has been around (at least in concept) for a very long time.
Even Microsoft can, since they use one...
This is just fuel for the trolls you know guys. You coulda said matter or something ;-)
I've been a long time fan of your music. I've been to 2 of your concerts (GTE Ampitheater and Hampton Colliseum). Heck, I learned to play guitar while I played out of your transcription books.
What's the deal? CD's are $20 a pop! I love your music. I like a lot of music. If you count my CD collection, it would appear that I've invested hundreds into your band JUST IN CD's. That doesn't count concert tickets and shirts! How much of that did you guys actually get to keep?
If you count all of the CD's that people have bought me and stuff, I have thousands of dollars in CD's, and this isn't even a good collection!
Heck, the fraternity I used to be in couldn't afford to keep a good collection!
Prices of CD's are outrageous. Yeah, stealing is bad, but you're really not LOSING any money, you're getting more exposure.
Why not embrace the MP3 technology and distribute in MP3 form? How much of a cut does everyone else involved take? The record companies/stores/so on.
You could deliver as MP3, for whatever you are making per CD now, and offer MUCH more reasonable prices, and still make a profit.
Also not flamebait, I was saying that VA Linux doesn't hit me as a group trying to screw its users over. Quite frankly, you should read the comments before moderating.
OK. I might have had the location wrong, but still this is to prove a point, it is not offtopic! You're saying, don't buy software from UCITA states. I can't help that my legislature decided to screw us over, but it doesn't mean that a software company in my state is trying to too.
Just because my state's legislature has sold out to Microsoft doesn't mean that our software companies have.
Mitnick is one of those EVIL "ELITE HACKERS!" He should be PUNISHED for his crimes, no matter how minor or inconsequential because, after all, he is different! We politicians used to give him wedgies in school! We should do them now in real life, by making him grovel to us. We should really screw up his life! He needs to know who's boss! All of those damned geeks need to know that we'll beat them down with our "justice" any day.
/sarchasm
..|.,
Here is something a bit less extreme that one might consider. A lot of agencies outsource or steal ideas from other places these days.
savethelaptop.zzweb.com
Enjoy!