REALLY old discussion.. Similar comments could be read in game magazines when the Amiga was the hottest thing around (late 1980s). People new to gaming tend to prefer realism while long time gamers consider playability more important. Personally I still remember paradroid on the 64 and the amount of time I spend with it. Realism? Not really. Absorbing gameplay? Definitely.
In real-world programming, libraries and frameworks are very important. But in programming contests the emphasis is usually on algorithms, and only some basis IO (read problem, write solution) is needed from a library.
In a typical contest, the challenge might be something like 'apply divide-and-conquer to this problem'. If the challenge is well designed, no library of framework will help much.
We should dilute the homeopathy=herbalism comments by billions and billions of the comments like the one above! Then the health of this discussion will improve... Oh wait... that would actualy prove homeopathy works. What was I thinking? Must have had homeopathic coffee this morning.
I remember my dad owning a 900 in the 80s and quite liked the car. It was the apple among cars, the car for 'the different ones'. This image was of course destroyed by GM marketroids.
Rebuilding the original brand image is going to be very though. Try too hard and it will not look sincere. Or keep things as they are and go bust. This requires a combination of innovative technology and careful brand positioning. And perhaps a little Jobsian magic. (cant believe I wrote that as a linux junkie)
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Wrong! The USA claims their laws are applicable if the data passes trough a US based network
REALLY old discussion.. Similar comments could be read in game magazines when the Amiga was the hottest thing around (late 1980s). People new to gaming tend to prefer realism while long time gamers consider playability more important. Personally I still remember paradroid on the 64 and the amount of time I spend with it. Realism? Not really. Absorbing gameplay? Definitely.
In real-world programming, libraries and frameworks are very important. But in programming contests the emphasis is usually on algorithms, and only some basis IO (read problem, write solution) is needed from a library. In a typical contest, the challenge might be something like 'apply divide-and-conquer to this problem'. If the challenge is well designed, no library of framework will help much.
We should dilute the homeopathy=herbalism comments by billions and billions of the comments like the one above! Then the health of this discussion will improve... Oh wait... that would actualy prove homeopathy works. What was I thinking? Must have had homeopathic coffee this morning.
I remember my dad owning a 900 in the 80s and quite liked the car. It was the apple among cars, the car for 'the different ones'. This image was of course destroyed by GM marketroids. Rebuilding the original brand image is going to be very though. Try too hard and it will not look sincere. Or keep things as they are and go bust. This requires a combination of innovative technology and careful brand positioning. And perhaps a little Jobsian magic. (cant believe I wrote that as a linux junkie)
How about detection of satanic messages in music. They are everywhere as this http://blogs.igalia.com/berto/2008/01/22/satanic-messages-in-the-computer-era/ person nows. And imagine the target audience. Concerned parents are so much easier than bureaucrats to convince. Hope this idea is still unpatented.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_conjecture it was solved around 2002