I hate this fact that "java programmer" is considered by some people a different job than "C++ programmer". A good programmer should be able to learn a language in a month and become proficient in three months at most. Functional languages apart, all languages are more or less the same. It doesn't matter if your hammer has a red handle or a green one, as long as you know how to hammer.
Yep, fir example I work on medical diagnostic software and the amount of data you need to manage and render on screen smoothly is so huge that C++ is the most reasonable and common choice (even if not the only possible one). There are lots of fields where C++ is still king. And that's a shame, because it's a crock of a language.
Simulation is not duplication, and intelligence is not consciousness.
Even if those aliens somehow managed to simulate an entire universe, and even if that program was able to simulate intelligence, there's no reason to believe that any of those simulated beings are conscious.
This. You could simulate how a stomach works on atomic level, but you can't say that your simulation is digesting anything. A simulation is not a duplication.
Old GNU project manuals are VERY good. Bash and libc have incredibly detailed and clear manuals (in the form of info files, also available as pre-formatted PDF books). I think no one now writes documentation like that.
I'm using this tool http://www.ploodood.net/ I made some time ago to generate most of my passwords (o pass phrases). It spits out some words that looks like real words but are not. Stuff like "picurned lible shimen" or "inglequeggett". It's fun too:P
Sadly all (or almost all) 2560*1440 monitors are 27". That's too big for my tastes; I find I have to move my head (and my neck) to look around the screen, and that is NOT good.
This has always been one of my favorite algorithms. Saw it the first time many years ago on The Practice of Programming, by Kernighan and Pike. Always makes me laugh. You can use it to generate phrases or even psuedo-words that "sound like" any given real language. I use it to generate passwords that are easy to remember but cannot be found in any dictionary, of "fantasy names" for games. Have fun and plose some stilture on your cince! http://www.ploodood.net/
Title says it all. You have to remember your password, so you probably won't use a password like "afi9blm#20niv8__q4i".
Pseudo-words - i.e. words that you can read but are in no dictionary - are probably slightly better, but I wouldn't rely on passwords at all in the first place.
BTW if somwone is interested, this tool CAN generate readable pseudo-words like "foliticalling", "uppet" or "furvicially".
After reading this horror story I arrived to the conclusion that SSDs are not for me. I wonder if it's still true.
Super Talent 32 GB SSD, failed after 137 days OCZ Vertex 1 250 GB SSD, failed after 512 days G.Skill 64 GB SSD, failed after 251 days G.Skill 64 GB SSD, failed after 276 days Crucial 64 GB SSD, failed after 350 days OCZ Agility 60 GB SSD, failed after 72 days Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, failed after 15 days Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, failed after 206 days
Quite surprising their mobile department is quite open. They published many driver source code and also they published an alpha and beta version of android ICS for some models. I guess the mobile department is still more Ericsson than Sony:-/
Even if it's somehow outdated (and no longer in print), every single program we write today is highly influenced by "Structured Programming" by Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, C. A. R. Hoare and Ole-Johan Dahl. Before this book, programs used to be a mess of spaghetti code and the familiar constructs like if-then-else or while loops did not exist.
Simply because different phone models only differ in their software. Android is a big PITA for all the marketing guys, because it makes all phones the same.
Well, they are remaking the same exact game since Knight of the Old Republic. Take a look at KOTOR, Jade Empire, Mass Effect. Always the same mechanics, always the same basic plot. While they are very good at it, they are not very "creative".
No, actually pretty everyone in the world is better than native english speakers at spelling, because they learn English mostly by reading it, instead of learning it by listening and speaking it...
This is pretty old stuff, see http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/69211/siggraph05_0265_final.pdf for example (but I'm sure I've read older articles on similar techniques).
At one point there was even a gimp plugin that worked decently well. Here: http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer/removal
It should be said that their SDK and their documentation are *very good*, especially the documentation, and especially if you compare them to what windows or linux have to offer...
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I hate this fact that "java programmer" is considered by some people a different job than "C++ programmer". A good programmer should be able to learn a language in a month and become proficient in three months at most. Functional languages apart, all languages are more or less the same. It doesn't matter if your hammer has a red handle or a green one, as long as you know how to hammer.
Yep, fir example I work on medical diagnostic software and the amount of data you need to manage and render on screen smoothly is so huge that C++ is the most reasonable and common choice (even if not the only possible one). There are lots of fields where C++ is still king. And that's a shame, because it's a crock of a language.
Simulation is not duplication, and intelligence is not consciousness.
Even if those aliens somehow managed to simulate an entire universe, and even if that program was able to simulate intelligence, there's no reason to believe that any of those simulated beings are conscious.
This. You could simulate how a stomach works on atomic level, but you can't say that your simulation is digesting anything. A simulation is not a duplication.
Old GNU project manuals are VERY good. Bash and libc have incredibly detailed and clear manuals (in the form of info files, also available as pre-formatted PDF books). I think no one now writes documentation like that.
I'm using this tool http://www.ploodood.net/ I made some time ago to generate most of my passwords (o pass phrases). It spits out some words that looks like real words but are not. Stuff like "picurned lible shimen" or "inglequeggett". It's fun too :P
Self-interest is a consequence of every kind of evolution, simply because a non self-interested being tends to die (i.e. stop working) very soon.
Sadly all (or almost all) 2560*1440 monitors are 27". That's too big for my tastes; I find I have to move my head (and my neck) to look around the screen, and that is NOT good.
24" would be MUCH better.
Don't you talk with viruses when you catch a cold? I do, they're nice guys!
Same here. When I was a kid, I wanted to be like Egon.
Not novel indeed, I saw this more than twenty years ago on The Practice of Computer programming by Kernighan and Pike. Still funny, though.
This has always been one of my favorite algorithms. Saw it the first time many years ago on The Practice of Programming, by Kernighan and Pike. Always makes me laugh. You can use it to generate phrases or even psuedo-words that "sound like" any given real language. I use it to generate passwords that are easy to remember but cannot be found in any dictionary, of "fantasy names" for games. Have fun and plose some stilture on your cince! http://www.ploodood.net/
Title says it all. You have to remember your password, so you probably won't use a password like "afi9blm#20niv8__q4i".
Pseudo-words - i.e. words that you can read but are in no dictionary - are probably slightly better, but I wouldn't rely on passwords at all in the first place.
BTW if somwone is interested, this tool CAN generate readable pseudo-words like "foliticalling", "uppet" or "furvicially".
Subject says it all.
After reading this horror story I arrived to the conclusion that SSDs are not for me. I wonder if it's still true.
Super Talent 32 GB SSD, failed after 137 days
OCZ Vertex 1 250 GB SSD, failed after 512 days
G.Skill 64 GB SSD, failed after 251 days
G.Skill 64 GB SSD, failed after 276 days
Crucial 64 GB SSD, failed after 350 days
OCZ Agility 60 GB SSD, failed after 72 days
Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, failed after 15 days
Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, failed after 206 days
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html
The only reason it's "simple" is that one of its parts is a full computing device.
I'd have preferred a "hardware" implementation...
Well' I'm still waiting for tabs in the title bar on linux/gtk :-/
They reach 1.0 and they don't bother to post even a single screenshot? Now, that's Meego successor for sure :-/
Quite surprising their mobile department is quite open. They published many driver source code and also they published an alpha and beta version of android ICS for some models. I guess the mobile department is still more Ericsson than Sony :-/
Even if it's somehow outdated (and no longer in print), every single program we write today is highly influenced by "Structured Programming" by Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, C. A. R. Hoare and Ole-Johan Dahl. Before this book, programs used to be a mess of spaghetti code and the familiar constructs like if-then-else or while loops did not exist.
"Qt will continue to be the development framework for Symbian and Nokia will use Symbian for further devices"
Yes, but they also say this:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/02/nokiawebcast-4.pdf-page-30-of-38.jpg
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/02/nokiawebcast-4.pdf-page-32-of-38.jpg
Simply because different phone models only differ in their software. Android is a big PITA for all the marketing guys, because it makes all phones the same.
Well, they are remaking the same exact game since Knight of the Old Republic. Take a look at KOTOR, Jade Empire, Mass Effect. Always the same mechanics, always the same basic plot. While they are very good at it, they are not very "creative".
No, actually pretty everyone in the world is better than native english speakers at spelling, because they learn English mostly by reading it, instead of learning it by listening and speaking it...
This is pretty old stuff, see http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/69211/siggraph05_0265_final.pdf for example (but I'm sure I've read older articles on similar techniques).
At one point there was even a gimp plugin that worked decently well. Here: http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer/removal
It should be said that their SDK and their documentation are *very good*, especially the documentation, and especially if you compare them to what windows or linux have to offer...