11 years old, assuming a newborn started the therapy now, is about right for genetically engineered female gymnasts, swimmers, and figure skaters? It may take another couple of years for genetically modified athletes to appear in men's sports.
My biggest problem with this isn't the modification in itself; who wouldn't want to be smarter, better looking, faster, stronger, with perfect eyesight and hearing, and the ability to first post at will? It's just that I doubt there will ever be free will to choose to get genetic modifications. It's hard to carefully weigh the consequences of a genetic therapy when you are 3 months old (or still in utero, for that matter.)
On the other hand, how many 13 y.o. gymnasts really had the free choice about whether to compete or not, anyway...
// C++
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;//introduces namespace std
int main( int argc, char*argv[] )
{
cout << "'" << argv[0] << "'" << endl ;
return 0;
}
name the program 'name.exe' and copy to 'c:' and run from console.
c:\> name
'name'
c:\>c:\name.exe
'c:\name.exe'
It only gives you what you entered...
Here's what K&R had to say about it.
_The C Programming Language_, Kernighan & Ritchie, (c)1978 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., pg. 110-111, "In environments that support C, there is a way to pass command-line arguments or parameters... By convention, argv[0] is the name by which the program was invoked...".
I don't have mod points right now, but has anyone else noticed that if you use a wheel mouse under windows, you do your mod, and then you "wheel down" to click the moderation button. If you don't remember to click away from the mod box, you end up given the poor person a completely different mod than you intended.
Exactly. Not to get into a flame war regarding DLL "hell" or the potential programs with breaking out code, but there are major advantages to this way of doing things.
The code I'm writing is C++ for the processing part and an interpreted RAD environment for the GUI. GUI is quickly and easily modified. Processing is fast. All the interfaces are through a standard C API.
Software patents will happen because there is a good reason for them and the Software patenting system will eventually stabilize and if it does not there are the courts.
What, exactly, is the "good reason" for software patents? Maybe we should have "newspaper patents" next. Charles Krauthammer can patent illegible, right-wing rants and Molly Ivans can patent snide anti-Bush comments;) Book patents? The estate of J.R.R. Tolkien can sue J.K. Rawlings for infringement on their "wizard with white beard patent". Billboard patents. Apple can sue anyone who puts the Dali Lama on a billboard (except in China;).
Software should be protected the same as any other creative work (via copyright) since software IS a creative work. You'll notice that the defender's of software patents always use examples from the physical world -- cars, guns, cogwheels, etc. -- to defend their point of view. It's as if they look at the shrink-wrapped box on the shelves of the computer store and think THAT is what software is. They are wrong. Software is the thoughts, talent, and creativity of it's creator building upon the thoughts, talents, and creativity of a hundred-thousand predecessors.
I not a game programmer, but hasn't masks and alpha-channel kind of stuff be used for sprite-based games since the "beginning"?
I vaguely remember the Amiga had a sprite object (run off of a seperate chip, maybe?) that used a mask. Faint recollections of typing in games from Compute! Magazine...
There must be something a bit more complicated about this patent than simple mask techniques and/or alpha channel.
Good point. There is a lot of automatic stuff that is going on behind the scenes (spiders, bots, etc.). This is particularly important to a company like Google. Goodle ADDS value to the sites they visit by indexing the site and increasing the likelyhood that someone will view it.
I wish PayPal was embedded enough that you could do a voluntary "one-click" donation to sites that you really enjoyed (perhaps $.25) or were very useful to you. (Though I can see scams on this idea as well: viewing pages through frames, for example, where the "donate" button is actually going to the outer frame.)
Can't they spend some time in _better_ than Outlook look and feel design? They probably didn't implement the "auto-run trojan worms and VB viruses" funtionality. That may be covered under a MS software patent, however.
I don't know what model Amiga you had, but if you define decent as "sounding like a robot that forgot what intonation was but could alter its voice half an octave to simulate slight masculine or slight feminine undertones" then I'll agree with you. Don't get me wrong, I really liked my Amiga, but I never got the speech synthesis confused with, say, the sensual voice of Sophie Marceu.
On a related note. This chip + BabelFish + web-enabled cell phone = equals ability to order the really complicated things on the menu at the chinese resteraunt (or, from the other point of view, the ability to order the really complicated things at Mom's American Cusine in downtown Beijing).
Wow, I was going to post my ideas but I agree with your's 100%.
I'd add two more: 1. a standard OS loader mechanism must be documented for that OEMs and users can install mutiple OSs without interference (I think a version of this is already in the agreement), and 2. pricing for Windows and MS Apps must follow a documented pricing scheme for all vendors and OEMs; let's end the behind-the-scenes dealing that helps cement MS's monopoly. e.g. "Hi, OEM, if you don't install Linux we'll sell XP at 10% less than your competitor."
The enforcement mechanism for your points (file formats, api, and protocols) needs to be the threat of release of the relevant source code if MS doesn't comply. Plus, of course, fines (the government is going to need to recupe their expenses eventually).
and maybe some Anti-Virus software (non-MS, of course) A quick, off-topic, question. Why is it that the one piece of software that seems to be a valid part of the "middle-ware" isn't being bundled by Microsoft. Would you ship you new human clones without an immune system?
Microsoft is uniquely positioned to know where the vulnerablities of their software is located and anything that gets (quietly) caught by the virus software helps limit the PR damage from VB viruses.
How much did Norton have to pay to keep MS off their turf?
Both Honda and Toyota have hydrogen-electric cars (that you can buy if you have a lot of money) I think..
Both Honda and Toyota have gas-electric hybrid cars where a gas engine runs a generator to power the car. Maybe, they have a hydrogen-electric car in the works as well, but I don't think they have anything for sale...
Unlike another AC who bitches about the news not being new enough which is not new news. Of course, since this is slashdot it would be a shame if this old new news superseeded some GNU news that was new.
I wouldn't be suprised if this argument boils down to; "I wish I could use the mouse as fast as the I can perform the three or four keyboard shortcuts that I have hard wired into my brain." (for me it's probably ctrl-c(ut), ctrl-v(paste), and ctrl-b(old)). Everything else requires a little bit of thinking time. And as the article suggests, cut and paste are two tastes where you probably have one hand on the mouse already for selecting the area to copy so you are getting the benefits of two-handed working anyway.
There is no doubt that a GUI can be designed poorly enough that the keyboard shortcut will be faster than the mouse interface (particularly with a one-button mouse;) but I tend to agree with the article FOR MOST KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS in MANY PROGRAMS. YMMV.
His results state that people take 2 seconds to find any given key combination
I may be misreading, but I infered that the study described average times.
Two final points, even if the mouse is theoretically faster; 1. the amnesia effect of the shortcut is a blessing not a curse -- I don't need to be bothered to find the mouse when I can congratulate myself on the small victory of remembering what ctrl-shift-alt-'d' stands for, and 2. for me, at least, it hurts my wrists less to type than to use the mouse all day long.
Bravo! This is probably the best solution I've seen. (Not that I don't think more should come out of the anti-competiveness case)
1. It doesn't require lawyers. It's a simple directive: the government won't be held hostage to proprietary file formats.
2. It applies to all software companies.
3. It helps Open Source / Free software.
4. It ends the failed "security through obscurity" mindset that many comercial companies still employ.
It must, however, be bundled with a law that insists that the creation of an alternate programs to read the format is not in conflict with copyright, patent, or DCMA laws. It doesn't do any good to make Word 2k.doc files public; if a competitor gets sued for writing a program to read it.
not for nothing, but is this for either
1. a reality based web-tv show
2. some bizarre web porn thing
3. some actual legitamite venture
4. security issue ?
You need to ask this the week after the anti-terrorism bill made it through the Sentate?
You ARE being watched (but don't worry as long as you don't do anything wrong.)
Unfortuntely, I think they'll end up hitting the markets are are slowly moving over to Linux already. Schools that can't afford to buy new liscenses every year (but the administrators are too clueless to stop sending documents in Word 2002 or whatever), goverments offices (particularly state/providense, county, and local governments), charities that are refurbishing old machines.
Basically, if it works its going to migrate to the markets that have no money and no technical expertise (if they had the expertise they'd probably be moving to lunix anyway). Maybe we'll see an article next year about Brazil or Argentina moving their government computers over to Lindows. Which is unfortunate, since they could be moving to Linux instead.
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11 years old, assuming a newborn started the therapy now, is about right for genetically engineered female gymnasts, swimmers, and figure skaters? It may take another couple of years for genetically modified athletes to appear in men's sports.
My biggest problem with this isn't the modification in itself; who wouldn't want to be smarter, better looking, faster, stronger, with perfect eyesight and hearing, and the ability to first post at will? It's just that I doubt there will ever be free will to choose to get genetic modifications. It's hard to carefully weigh the consequences of a genetic therapy when you are 3 months old (or still in utero, for that matter.)
On the other hand, how many 13 y.o. gymnasts really had the free choice about whether to compete or not, anyway...
Here's a simmple C++ test, Win2k, fat32.
//introduces namespace std
// C++
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main( int argc, char*argv[] )
{
cout << "'" << argv[0] << "'" << endl ;
return 0;
}
name the program 'name.exe' and copy to 'c:' and run from console.
c:\> name
'name'
c:\>c:\name.exe
'c:\name.exe'
It only gives you what you entered...
Here's what K&R had to say about it.
_The C Programming Language_, Kernighan & Ritchie, (c)1978 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., pg. 110-111, "In environments that support C, there is a way to pass command-line arguments or parameters... By convention, argv[0] is the name by which the program was invoked...".
I don't have mod points right now, but has anyone else noticed that if you use a wheel mouse under windows, you do your mod, and then you "wheel down" to click the moderation button. If you don't remember to click away from the mod box, you end up given the poor person a completely different mod than you intended.
Maybe this is only an Opera issue?
Exactly. Not to get into a flame war regarding DLL "hell" or the potential programs with breaking out code, but there are major advantages to this way of doing things.
The code I'm writing is C++ for the processing part and an interpreted RAD environment for the GUI. GUI is quickly and easily modified. Processing is fast. All the interfaces are through a standard C API.
It works for me.
What, exactly, is the "good reason" for software patents? Maybe we should have "newspaper patents" next. Charles Krauthammer can patent illegible, right-wing rants and Molly Ivans can patent snide anti-Bush comments ;) Book patents? The estate of J.R.R. Tolkien can sue J.K. Rawlings for infringement on their "wizard with white beard patent". Billboard patents. Apple can sue anyone who puts the Dali Lama on a billboard (except in China ;).
Software should be protected the same as any other creative work (via copyright) since software IS a creative work. You'll notice that the defender's of software patents always use examples from the physical world -- cars, guns, cogwheels, etc. -- to defend their point of view. It's as if they look at the shrink-wrapped box on the shelves of the computer store and think THAT is what software is. They are wrong. Software is the thoughts, talent, and creativity of it's creator building upon the thoughts, talents, and creativity of a hundred-thousand predecessors.
I not a game programmer, but hasn't masks and alpha-channel kind of stuff be used for sprite-based games since the "beginning"?
I vaguely remember the Amiga had a sprite object (run off of a seperate chip, maybe?) that used a mask. Faint recollections of typing in games from Compute! Magazine...
There must be something a bit more complicated about this patent than simple mask techniques and/or alpha channel.
There was a bug in the original question. It should have been: print out "Ho Ho Ho ".
Good point. There is a lot of automatic stuff that is going on behind the scenes (spiders, bots, etc.). This is particularly important to a company like Google. Goodle ADDS value to the sites they visit by indexing the site and increasing the likelyhood that someone will view it.
I wish PayPal was embedded enough that you could do a voluntary "one-click" donation to sites that you really enjoyed (perhaps $.25) or were very useful to you. (Though I can see scams on this idea as well: viewing pages through frames, for example, where the "donate" button is actually going to the outer frame.)
Rephrased again, more recently, "religion is the excuse to crash airliners into skyscrapers, shoot doctors, and murder your neighbors."
Can't they spend some time in _better_ than Outlook look and feel design?
They probably didn't implement the "auto-run trojan worms and VB viruses" funtionality. That may be covered under a MS software patent, however.
I don't know what model Amiga you had, but if you define decent as "sounding like a robot that forgot what intonation was but could alter its voice half an octave to simulate slight masculine or slight feminine undertones" then I'll agree with you. Don't get me wrong, I really liked my Amiga, but I never got the speech synthesis confused with, say, the sensual voice of Sophie Marceu.
On a related note. This chip + BabelFish + web-enabled cell phone = equals ability to order the really complicated things on the menu at the chinese resteraunt (or, from the other point of view, the ability to order the really complicated things at Mom's American Cusine in downtown Beijing).
Actually, on a more serious note, is there anyone working on an open source speech synthesis project?
My Amiga was talking to me 15 years ago.
Actually, my Timex Sinclair 1000 was talking to me 20 years ago, but I think that was the acid...
Wow, I was going to post my ideas but I agree with your's 100%.
I'd add two more: 1. a standard OS loader mechanism must be documented for that OEMs and users can install mutiple OSs without interference (I think a version of this is already in the agreement), and 2. pricing for Windows and MS Apps must follow a documented pricing scheme for all vendors and OEMs; let's end the behind-the-scenes dealing that helps cement MS's monopoly. e.g. "Hi, OEM, if you don't install Linux we'll sell XP at 10% less than your competitor."
The enforcement mechanism for your points (file formats, api, and protocols) needs to be the threat of release of the relevant source code if MS doesn't comply. Plus, of course, fines (the government is going to need to recupe their expenses eventually).
and maybe some Anti-Virus software (non-MS, of course)
A quick, off-topic, question. Why is it that the one piece of software that seems to be a valid part of the "middle-ware" isn't being bundled by Microsoft. Would you ship you new human clones without an immune system?
Microsoft is uniquely positioned to know where the vulnerablities of their software is located and anything that gets (quietly) caught by the virus software helps limit the PR damage from VB viruses.
How much did Norton have to pay to keep MS off their turf?
Both Honda and Toyota have hydrogen-electric cars (that you can buy if you have a lot of money) I think..
Both Honda and Toyota have gas-electric hybrid cars where a gas engine runs a generator to power the car. Maybe, they have a hydrogen-electric car in the works as well, but I don't think they have anything for sale...
I've always refered the direct approach: MODERATORS - Mod me up as insiteful you fucking morons...
It was new to me...
Unlike another AC who bitches about the news not being new enough which is not new news. Of course, since this is slashdot it would be a shame if this old new news superseeded some GNU news that was new.
I wouldn't be suprised if this argument boils down to; "I wish I could use the mouse as fast as the I can perform the three or four keyboard shortcuts that I have hard wired into my brain." (for me it's probably ctrl-c(ut), ctrl-v(paste), and ctrl-b(old)). Everything else requires a little bit of thinking time. And as the article suggests, cut and paste are two tastes where you probably have one hand on the mouse already for selecting the area to copy so you are getting the benefits of two-handed working anyway.
There is no doubt that a GUI can be designed poorly enough that the keyboard shortcut will be faster than the mouse interface (particularly with a one-button mouse ;) but I tend to agree with the article FOR MOST KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS in MANY PROGRAMS. YMMV.
His results state that people take 2 seconds to find any given key combination
I may be misreading, but I infered that the study described average times.
Two final points, even if the mouse is theoretically faster; 1. the amnesia effect of the shortcut is a blessing not a curse -- I don't need to be bothered to find the mouse when I can congratulate myself on the small victory of remembering what ctrl-shift-alt-'d' stands for, and 2. for me, at least, it hurts my wrists less to type than to use the mouse all day long.
I don't know. I'm more cynical than most, but when something good happens it seems like an opportunity to celebrate rather than bitch.
We can go back to bashing Fritz and the other representitives from Disney in another article.
A vote for Nader was a vote for Bush. This is your fault.
Bravo! This is probably the best solution I've seen. (Not that I don't think more should come out of the anti-competiveness case)
1. It doesn't require lawyers. It's a simple directive: the government won't be held hostage to proprietary file formats.
2. It applies to all software companies.
3. It helps Open Source / Free software.
4. It ends the failed "security through obscurity" mindset that many comercial companies still employ.
It must, however, be bundled with a law that insists that the creation of an alternate programs to read the format is not in conflict with copyright, patent, or DCMA laws. It doesn't do any good to make Word 2k.doc files public; if a competitor gets sued for writing a program to read it.
not for nothing, but is this for either
1. a reality based web-tv show
2. some bizarre web porn thing
3. some actual legitamite venture
4. security issue ?
You need to ask this the week after the anti-terrorism bill made it through the Sentate?
You ARE being watched (but don't worry as long as you don't do anything wrong.)
They'll just rename it the "USA is Brave and Proud and the Flag it Purty Act of 2001". It will pass in a week.
Unfortuntely, I think they'll end up hitting the markets are are slowly moving over to Linux already. Schools that can't afford to buy new liscenses every year (but the administrators are too clueless to stop sending documents in Word 2002 or whatever), goverments offices (particularly state/providense, county, and local governments), charities that are refurbishing old machines.
Basically, if it works its going to migrate to the markets that have no money and no technical expertise (if they had the expertise they'd probably be moving to lunix anyway). Maybe we'll see an article next year about Brazil or Argentina moving their government computers over to Lindows. Which is unfortunate, since they could be moving to Linux instead.