Wow, four buzz words that quickly... Anyway, I do see that as the direction it's going. ARS has an article about a FLEXABLE LED-like screen that, if implemented, I believe could be the new wave of the future. Especially, implement that with some sort of satelite internet access, and there's one friggin huge world of possiblities.
This past year was my first at college. Of course, I had taken several years of CS in high school, done the AP stuff, &etc. When I arrived at college, I thought the intro CS course would be below me. I was wrong.
The course was taught in a language new to me called Scheme. Scheme is a variant on LISP. Scheme teaches you to do, really, one thing EXTREMELY well. That is recursion. I never thought too much of recursion, until I tried Scheme. In Scheme, all you can do is things with recursion. A neat project would be to have your class learn scheme, along with yourself. There are many online tutorials available, and Scheme itself is free. Best of luck!
I currently have VMWare up and running on my system. For those who don't know, VMWare stands for Virtual Machine Ware. From what I've gathered about Plex86, it does the same thing as VMWare, which is create a virtual machine that runs like a separate machine. It really is quite interesting software.
The difference I can see, however, is that VMWare is already developed and is already costly. For the student version (which is usually substantially cheaper) it costs $99. And for Joe Student, $99 is a whole lot. However, the technology is already advanced such that under my Linux box I have had Win98 running (for apps that just don't work under Wine). If you get the chance VMWare is avalable for a 30 day demo, which I highly recommend.
Wait just one second here. Hasn't Napster already been through enough. I mean, sure it is getting more media coverage than before, but people are still going to be flocking away from it just because they think it might be against the law.
To put Napster out of business, even if not permanently, would do a serious disservice to the online community's reputation. While the RIAA claims that their clients are being harmed right now, and therefore Napster should be shut down, it is also true that Napster has a right to be providing it services, pending a court verdict. Either way the court decides, action must take place after the verdict, and after the judge has had time to make up his mind.
...but what on God's green earth are you talking about? You go through with half of your essay being the knight in shining truth, dispensing it out with a sword of shining steel, but you then go on to defend why you DO use mp3's AND divx's!?!
Am I missing something here? Seriously, if you are trying to prove your point that mp3's and divx's are the bane of the internet, then surely you wouldn't use them yourself.
In the article, i got that they are making the argument that by posting scripture (as defined as portions of writing that hold speical significance to the reader) the current owner is not showing legitimate interest in the site name. How can that be? To me the two seem to be one and the same.
I can understand how people feel that posting Christian verses is not "legitimate" to them, but to many other people it might have held special significance.
The depth and clarity they are seeking will eventually be attainable. Software and hardware will eventually reach the level of perfection demanded to have quality that truly rocks. The question is, what will it be used for?
Personally, I can't wait for the day where I am totally emmersed in the internet, with the same feeling as at a big screen movie theatre. It isn't that far away.
First off, i don't necessarily agree with Rosen's first claim that sexual harassment is the leading cause of the violation of personal freedom. Sexual harassment, which can go against both sexes, is just another form of plain old harassment, which has been going on for centuries. People have learned to either learned to adapt to it and ignore it, or go off the deep end and sue whoever looks twice at them.
But enough of that. I see the internet as provding more freedom than the real world can. In the internet, through chat rooms and MUDs / MOOs, a person can REcreate themselves to be whatever/whoever they want to be. Most everyone wants to be someone else, a more gregarious character or someone without physical limitations. In the physical realm, this is not possible. The internet provides a place where we can be all that we want to be.
That true freedom also can be a form of privacy. In this other self you create, you can be as private as you like. You need not include all your actual personal identifications. False information flows abundantly on the internet.
The way i see it, this movie is all about if you read X-men as a kid. Many people did, myself included. Many more, however, didn't. Whether you like this movie or not is all about if you read X-men or not. Perfect example: when i saw the movie with my girlfriend, i thought it was the best movie i've seen since the Matrix, she fell asleep for over a hour. If you know the characters and more history than what they show on the screen it is much more interesting, since they really do a good job of sticking to the entire X-plot. On an interesting side note, i think Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) did a fantastic job considering he never read X-men at all.
Thank God for an X-less Unix environment. I mean, who wants the masses to use anything besides windoze? What better way to accomplish this than by destroying their only real way to connect to linux.
Yeah, i like all the nostalgia of the old games. Days when handfuls of quarters equalled hours of gaming delight, but don't knock the new games simply because they're new. Yeah, they have the newest whiz-bang 3d art, but don't let that distract you from the real game. Solid game design and flow are prevailant in 80's style games because that's all they could do. Modern games can tend to seem less controlled, simply because there is more to see/be distracted by.
Yikes. Is this what the world is coming to? Has Microshaft finally convinced the world that resistance IS futile? Let's hope not. This most recient announcement (which doesn't necessarily mean that the product will be available any time soon this decade) proves yet again how microshaft refuses to "innovate" beyond current technology. Indeed, there are already more numerous ways than there are microshaft hackers (I think 5 to be precise). If you don't like ftp-style transfer, there's numerous programs that run off ftp connections that allow file transfer to any computer, making it "your computer." Maybe i'm missing the whole point of this newest attempt at "innovation," but i just don't see how this is anything new at all.
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Wow, four buzz words that quickly... Anyway, I do see that as the direction it's going. ARS has an article about a FLEXABLE LED-like screen that, if implemented, I believe could be the new wave of the future. Especially, implement that with some sort of satelite internet access, and there's one friggin huge world of possiblities.
Daniel
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This past year was my first at college. Of course, I had taken several years of CS in high school, done the AP stuff, &etc. When I arrived at college, I thought the intro CS course would be below me. I was wrong.
The course was taught in a language new to me called Scheme. Scheme is a variant on LISP. Scheme teaches you to do, really, one thing EXTREMELY well. That is recursion. I never thought too much of recursion, until I tried Scheme. In Scheme, all you can do is things with recursion. A neat project would be to have your class learn scheme, along with yourself. There are many online tutorials available, and Scheme itself is free. Best of luck!
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I currently have VMWare up and running on my system. For those who don't know, VMWare stands for Virtual Machine Ware. From what I've gathered about Plex86, it does the same thing as VMWare, which is create a virtual machine that runs like a separate machine. It really is quite interesting software.
The difference I can see, however, is that VMWare is already developed and is already costly. For the student version (which is usually substantially cheaper) it costs $99. And for Joe Student, $99 is a whole lot. However, the technology is already advanced such that under my Linux box I have had Win98 running (for apps that just don't work under Wine). If you get the chance VMWare is avalable for a 30 day demo, which I highly recommend.
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Wait just one second here. Hasn't Napster already been through enough. I mean, sure it is getting more media coverage than before, but people are still going to be flocking away from it just because they think it might be against the law.
To put Napster out of business, even if not permanently, would do a serious disservice to the online community's reputation. While the RIAA claims that their clients are being harmed right now, and therefore Napster should be shut down, it is also true that Napster has a right to be providing it services, pending a court verdict. Either way the court decides, action must take place after the verdict, and after the judge has had time to make up his mind.
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...but what on God's green earth are you talking about? You go through with half of your essay being the knight in shining truth, dispensing it out with a sword of shining steel, but you then go on to defend why you DO use mp3's AND divx's!?!
Am I missing something here? Seriously, if you are trying to prove your point that mp3's and divx's are the bane of the internet, then surely you wouldn't use them yourself.
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In the article, i got that they are making the argument that by posting scripture (as defined as portions of writing that hold speical significance to the reader) the current owner is not showing legitimate interest in the site name. How can that be? To me the two seem to be one and the same.
I can understand how people feel that posting Christian verses is not "legitimate" to them, but to many other people it might have held special significance.
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The depth and clarity they are seeking will eventually be attainable. Software and hardware will eventually reach the level of perfection demanded to have quality that truly rocks. The question is, what will it be used for?
Personally, I can't wait for the day where I am totally emmersed in the internet, with the same feeling as at a big screen movie theatre. It isn't that far away.
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First off, i don't necessarily agree with Rosen's first claim that sexual harassment is the leading cause of the violation of personal freedom. Sexual harassment, which can go against both sexes, is just another form of plain old harassment, which has been going on for centuries. People have learned to either learned to adapt to it and ignore it, or go off the deep end and sue whoever looks twice at them.
But enough of that. I see the internet as provding more freedom than the real world can. In the internet, through chat rooms and MUDs / MOOs, a person can REcreate themselves to be whatever/whoever they want to be. Most everyone wants to be someone else, a more gregarious character or someone without physical limitations. In the physical realm, this is not possible. The internet provides a place where we can be all that we want to be.
That true freedom also can be a form of privacy. In this other self you create, you can be as private as you like. You need not include all your actual personal identifications. False information flows abundantly on the internet.
--
The way i see it, this movie is all about if you read X-men as a kid. Many people did, myself included. Many more, however, didn't.
Whether you like this movie or not is all about if you read X-men or not.
Perfect example: when i saw the movie with my girlfriend, i thought it was the best movie i've seen since the Matrix, she fell asleep for over a hour.
If you know the characters and more history than what they show on the screen it is much more interesting, since they really do a good job of sticking to the entire X-plot. On an interesting side note, i think Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) did a fantastic job considering he never read X-men at all.
Thank God for an X-less Unix environment. I mean, who wants the masses to use anything besides windoze? What better way to accomplish this than by destroying their only real way to connect to linux.
Yeah, i like all the nostalgia of the old games. Days when handfuls of quarters equalled hours of gaming delight, but don't knock the new games simply because they're new. Yeah, they have the newest whiz-bang 3d art, but don't let that distract you from the real game. Solid game design and flow are prevailant in 80's style games because that's all they could do. Modern games can tend to seem less controlled, simply because there is more to see/be distracted by.
Yikes. Is this what the world is coming to? Has Microshaft finally convinced the world that resistance IS futile? Let's hope not. This most recient announcement (which doesn't necessarily mean that the product will be available any time soon this decade) proves yet again how microshaft refuses to "innovate" beyond current technology. Indeed, there are already more numerous ways than there are microshaft hackers (I think 5 to be precise). If you don't like ftp-style transfer, there's numerous programs that run off ftp connections that allow file transfer to any computer, making it "your computer." Maybe i'm missing the whole point of this newest attempt at "innovation," but i just don't see how this is anything new at all.