I second Leonard Mlodinow's "The Drunkard's Walk". This book relies almost entirely on very simple concepts which high school students should grasp easily, but yet it presents several thought-provoking conclusions, that are often counter-intuitive. Especially useful material for future physicists.
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The essay/introduction does draw parallels between Burning Man and open source software, but large portions of the essay were devoted to descriptions of what happens at Burning Man with only tenuous connections made to open-source software.
I thought the parallels drawn between the open source movement and the feudal concept of knighthood were far more insightful and appropriate.
I learned emacs in school, but by far the most helpful thing was the PDF reference card I printed up and carried with me.
You can get the emacs card at http://refcards.com/
If Gator doesn't want to be considered a spyware company maybe they should change their logo. It's a picture of an alligator peering over the edge of a wall as if it was spying!
How does the RIAA intend to gather evidence to prove that someone is actually illegally sharing copyrighted material? Will they actually seize computers in raids? Or will it be sufficient to simply record names of shared files?
It seems to me that some independent third party would have to actually download the purportedly infringing files in more or less their entirety to prove that the copyright was infringed upon. That seems like a lot of effort. What are the IPs of these detective downloaders???
When you get down to heart of the matter, all computers use just one kind of language: the processor's binary instruction set. So you could make an argument that all (Von Neuman architecture) computers are just interpreters for a particular instruction set.
Operating systems and programming languages just provide abstractions which make the programmer's job easier. Making a division between operating system and programming language is an engineering decision on where you want to position your layers of abstraction to achieve a good balance between ease of use and speed.
It is all just a matter of where you decide to put your abstractions.
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I second Leonard Mlodinow's "The Drunkard's Walk". This book relies almost entirely on very simple concepts which high school students should grasp easily, but yet it presents several thought-provoking conclusions, that are often counter-intuitive. Especially useful material for future physicists.
I thought the parallels drawn between the open source movement and the feudal concept of knighthood were far more insightful and appropriate.
I learned emacs in school, but by far the most helpful thing was the PDF reference card I printed up and carried with me. You can get the emacs card at http://refcards.com/
If Gator doesn't want to be considered a spyware company maybe they should change their logo.
It's a picture of an alligator peering over the edge of a wall as if it was spying!
Sweet! I can't wait to play Choplifter over the Internet!
How does the RIAA intend to gather evidence to prove that someone is actually illegally sharing copyrighted material? Will they actually seize computers in raids? Or will it be sufficient to simply record names of shared files?
It seems to me that some independent third party would have to actually download the purportedly infringing files in more or less their entirety to prove that the copyright was infringed upon. That seems like a lot of effort. What are the IPs of these detective downloaders???
If Sun thinks the JBoss group copied code, then why don't they prosecute them under copyright law?
When you get down to heart of the matter, all computers use just one kind of language: the processor's binary instruction set. So you could make an argument that all (Von Neuman architecture) computers are just interpreters for a particular instruction set. Operating systems and programming languages just provide abstractions which make the programmer's job easier. Making a division between operating system and programming language is an engineering decision on where you want to position your layers of abstraction to achieve a good balance between ease of use and speed. It is all just a matter of where you decide to put your abstractions.