In my opinion the fundamental problem with AOTC is the lack of a grand story line, somethign to sink your teeth into and ruminate on. The first two films could have been apocryphal. The story began in episode 4 and was carried through to the end in 6. These early films provide some background information but have no story on their own. This is why they seem to lack inspiration and leave no lasting impression.
Its seems that we're always goign to war to defend and acquire more control over oil reserves. Why would they send in this first wave of bugs to eat the only thing we're fighting over. Are people really this dumb?
He's not missing the point. I don't want to make my own game. I just want to play the game and have it look pretty. Sure I could film some sock puppets and watch them later, but really I would much prefer just sitting down and watching tv.
Sure we can build a machine that simulates enormously complex systems based on simple relationships and stuff. But what will this tell us other than that we have just built a machine that can simulate complex relationships using simple intital conditions and rules. The problem with these tactics is that the end product cannot be predicted by initial conditions. We cannot know with any certainty at all what the result will be without simulation. We cannot learn anything only try stuff out. If this is the most efficent way to do things human endeavour gets relegated to managing a whole bunch of monte carlo optimizations (or genetic algorithms or whatever). But it certainly isn't Understanding these systems, however inprecisely, however rudimentarily, is what needs to be done. If no estimation at all of final outcomes can be made there is no point in doing any science. Instead we should just try stuff out randomly and write stuff down. But of course there is order in complex systems. Our universe is complex at small levels and predictable at some larger scales. The diffusion processes involved in semiconductor physics are predictable or I wouldn't be writing this and so on. If events seem unpredictable, we aren't looking at them the right way. Something must be said about future events based on initial conditions, something. Maybe not everything, but my guess is better than white noise, isn't yours?
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Contracts signed under deceptive circumstances are not and should not valid. This is why there is a clause in most contract that states 'I have read and understood this contract' or something to this effect.
... trying to integrate elements of Linux into Solaris
I think this is the sort of situation in which Linux and open source in general will shine. Sure a lot of the open source code is crap, but some, lets say lots of it, is very clever and very useful. It comes in pieces, and each of these pieces is the expression of someone who has tackled this sort of problem before (especially in the linux-solaris case). I commend solaris on their humility in this affair, and hope others will follow suit.
I'm not sure I buy this. If your supporting hardware and software for end users part of your mandate is to provide easy to use devices. If your company only sold stuff to peopel who knew windows they would sell abotu half of what they do now and you'd be out of a job.
Damn I hate calling tech support and giving the people on the other end a lesson on whatever it is they are supposed to help me out with. Whose providing the tech support? They caller or the call center!!!!
"...under an "Open Source" license, which is just another name for Communism. They try to hide all of this under a facade of shiny, "lickable" buttons"
Man I love those lickable buttons. Makes everything taste so good
This whole thread sounds like a bunch of people trying their best to justify themselves. Programming is harder than surgery Programming is harder than writing a novel...
Sheesh
Most of the work in programming should come before any coding is done anyways. Design your algorithms, design your module actions and interactions and then fill in the blanks.
For important software (that beign used by say a nuclear reactor safety feature), the coding should be like 10% of the work.
An exponential increase in computing power say 2^a will decrease a problem with complexity of 2^b by some logarithmic ratio (I think, don't have paper, too tired, but if you will, take my word for it).
PArents should already be weary of random people talking to their children over the internet. if there is legislation against solicting a minor for other things, shouldn't there be legislation for this?
"Declining manufacturing costs now make it cheaper to buy a telescope, radio, or computer than to build one yourself."
It has always been cheaper to buy things like radios than to make them. Otherwise people would make them and sell them for less than the market price, and the market price would go down.
Cheaply available components that result from better manufacturing methods etc. allow children and hobbyists to perform more complex experiments and create more elaborate designs than was ever possible before.
If you get yourself a programmable logic developper's kit, you can design, with the same tools as professionals, anything from internet routers to microcomputers to cell phones and just abotu anything your heart desires, including specialized scientific analysis equipement.
try: http://www.latticesemi.com/
They also provide an analog version. wiring a digital and an analog programmable device together gives you the flexibility to design just about any sub-100 Mhz device out there. Heck I'm sure you could procure some old schematics for ancient CPU's and actaully make them yourself.
I am surprised at the IEEE. It was, as I see it, a truly international organization. Sure it has closer ties industry than most professional organizations, but generally the industries it represents are hurt by DMCA pirateering. Most IEEE directors
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/corporate/bod. ht ml
represent hardware companies. These companies benefit from the free distribution of content as they provide the methods for that distribution and profit from them. The other powerful people (Fellows, conference chairs) in the IEEE are academics who general support the distribution of all relevant research material. Why would they do this? The IEEE is the largest professional organization in the world with ties to businesses more powerful than MGM etc on a global scale. You would of thtought that if any reputable organization had the clout and motive (they have both) to stand up to the DMCA it owuld be them. I am sincerly dissapointed.
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You assume too much is an idiom.
I mean, if someone is assuming too much. . .
In my opinion the fundamental problem with AOTC is the lack of a grand story line, somethign to sink your teeth into and ruminate on. The first two films could have been apocryphal. The story began in episode 4 and was carried through to the end in 6. These early films provide some background information but have no story on their own. This is why they seem to lack inspiration and leave no lasting impression.
Man I hope the astronauts don't get space madness!
Its seems that we're always goign to war to defend and acquire more control over oil reserves. Why would they send in this first wave of bugs to eat the only thing we're fighting over. Are people really this dumb?
He's not missing the point. I don't want to make my own game. I just want to play the game and have it look pretty. Sure I could film some sock puppets and watch them later, but really I would much prefer just sitting down and watching tv.
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Sure we can build a machine that simulates enormously complex systems based on simple relationships and stuff. But what will this tell us other than that we have just built a machine that can simulate complex relationships using simple intital conditions and rules. The problem with these tactics is that the end product cannot be predicted by initial conditions. We cannot know with any certainty at all what the result will be without simulation. We cannot learn anything only try stuff out.
If this is the most efficent way to do things human endeavour gets relegated to managing a whole bunch of monte carlo optimizations (or genetic algorithms or whatever). But it certainly isn't Understanding these systems, however inprecisely, however rudimentarily, is what needs to be done. If no estimation at all of final outcomes can be made there is no point in doing any science. Instead we should just try stuff out randomly and write stuff down. But of course there is order in complex systems. Our universe is complex at small levels and predictable at some larger scales. The diffusion processes involved in semiconductor physics are predictable or I wouldn't be writing this and so on. If events seem unpredictable, we aren't looking at them the right way. Something must be said about future events based on initial conditions, something. Maybe not everything, but my guess is better than white noise, isn't yours?
Christian governements? How about non-denominational gorvernements. Let's assure freedom for everyone, not just the christians.
Airing pessimistic and anti-linux or pro-DMCA
comments can incur severe fines. These fines include, but are not limited to, a loss of karma and subsequent reduction in one's personal right to participate in the democratic activity known as moderation.
Contracts signed under deceptive circumstances are not and should not valid. This is why there is a clause in most contract that states 'I have read and understood this contract' or something to this effect.
... trying to integrate elements of Linux into Solaris
I think this is the sort of situation in which Linux and open source in general will shine. Sure a lot of the open source code is crap, but some, lets say lots of it, is very clever and very useful. It comes in pieces, and each of these pieces is the expression of someone who has tackled this sort of problem before (especially in the linux-solaris case). I commend solaris on their humility in this affair, and hope others will follow suit.
"No one is paying you to do these things because no one forces you to do them. "
No one is paying me to go to work either. Yet I find it unavoidable and coincident with the rest of the things I want to do.
I suppose voice works best in the optimize-time-on-the-couch sort of way.
What are we going to do with our hands if everything we work on is hands free....
Now all those serial killers in the movies who are making suits out of women's skin can just press a button.
I'm not sure I buy this. If your supporting hardware and software for end users part of your mandate is to provide easy to use devices. If your company only sold stuff to peopel who knew windows they would sell abotu half of what they do now and you'd be out of a job.
Damn I hate calling tech support and giving the people on the other end a lesson on whatever it is they are supposed to help me out with. Whose providing the tech support? They caller or the call center!!!!
Nevada: First in...First Out
Can we get off the subject of the RIAA for five minutes? Let's talk about science, girls or global warming.
"...under an "Open Source" license, which is just another name for Communism. They try to hide all of this under a facade of shiny, "lickable" buttons"
Man I love those lickable buttons. Makes everything taste so good
This whole thread sounds like a bunch of people trying their best to justify themselves.
Programming is harder than surgery
Programming is harder than writing a novel...
Sheesh
Most of the work in programming should come before any coding is done anyways. Design your algorithms, design your module actions and interactions and then fill in the blanks.
For important software (that beign used by say a nuclear reactor safety feature), the coding should be like 10% of the work.
It depends on the nature of the problem:
An exponential increase in computing power say 2^a
will decrease a problem with complexity of 2^b by some logarithmic ratio (I think, don't have paper, too tired, but if you will, take my word for it).
PArents should already be weary of random people talking to their children over the internet. if there is legislation against solicting a minor for other things, shouldn't there be legislation for this?
"Declining manufacturing costs now make it cheaper to buy a telescope, radio, or computer than to build one yourself."
It has always been cheaper to buy things like radios than to make them. Otherwise people would make them and sell them for less than the market price, and the market price would go down.
Cheaply available components that result from better manufacturing methods etc. allow children and hobbyists to perform more complex experiments and create more elaborate designs than was ever possible before.
If you get yourself a programmable logic developper's kit, you can design, with the same tools as professionals, anything from internet routers to microcomputers to cell phones and just abotu anything your heart desires, including specialized scientific analysis equipement.
try: http://www.latticesemi.com/
They also provide an analog version. wiring a digital and an analog programmable device together gives you the flexibility to design just about any sub-100 Mhz device out there. Heck I'm sure you could procure some old schematics for ancient CPU's and actaully make them yourself.
I am surprised at the IEEE. It was, as I see it, a truly international organization. Sure it has closer ties industry than most professional organizations, but generally the industries it represents are hurt by DMCA pirateering. Most IEEE directors
. ht ml
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/corporate/bod
represent hardware companies. These companies benefit from the free distribution of content as they provide the methods for that distribution and profit from them. The other powerful people (Fellows, conference chairs) in the IEEE are academics who general support the distribution of all relevant research material. Why would they do this? The IEEE is the largest professional organization in the world with ties to businesses more powerful than MGM etc on a global scale. You would of thtought that if any reputable organization had the clout and motive (they have both) to stand up to the DMCA it owuld be them. I am sincerly dissapointed.