... because the guy who created the Olympic Games also wanted to win a medal. Of course he won the gold medal. The same year they also gave out medals for photography or painting.
All this happened around the year 1900.
There's lot of stuff hidden in the old history books...
If you read on the german article, the winner also gets to fly to Moscow in November. Then visit the Mission control room from where the robot is to be used.
I've never been to a russian mission control room, but it's probably an interesting experience;-)
I am a student in a European university where the student houses are connected to the university's telephone network (free internal phone, but without ethernet;-). We are currently looking for cheap way to hook us up to the local network(+internet).
One solution would be to set up a local DSL provider on the campus network (the phone lines are private, so we could easily connect equipment to it).
I was looking for information a few days ago, but without real success. There were some routers on the Cisco website, but that's about it.
Does the Slashdot community have experience on setting up this kind of network ? Of course we are looking for the cheapest solution possible with a high bandwith.
That's only true if you write command-line apps, but then what's the point of using OSX ?
True, but nothing stops you from adding the adequate libraries into your application in case they are missing... The important thing is having a stable UNIX base to build upon
I couldn't agree with you more. I just got myself a G4 and have been running the release candidate for a few days
On the other hand, there are still a lot of things missing such as all the nice GNU tools. The terminal still lacks the nice UNIX feel of linux distributions. (should be available in a few weeks I suppose).
As a former mac user and nowadays a *nix geek (linux/solaris), I think there is one important aspect that is being neglected.
Compatibility.
Macintosh has always wanted to go their own way and they are finally joining the UNIX community. I am really looking forward to go back to a macintosh having Xfree86 as my default xserver and a terminal (bought an old G4 a few days ago). I can mount everything from my linux server using NFS. Once all the GNUtools are ported to MacOSX, it will be an excellent OS.
Even though the average mac user probably cares nothing about UNIX, I am very happy that the applications that I develop for *nix will also run under mac. (anything is better than windows...)
Using Linux from a windows interface is a real pain in the ass apart from the fact that windows is horrible.
By the way... It is intresting to see that there is almost 700 comments already...
Functional languages, just as any other language has its advantages and backsides.
I recently took a class in Lisp/prolog programming. At first view, functional lanuages doesn't offer any remarcable features, but once you get in to it, it very powerful. It may not be the fastest and easiest of languages, but you can do some intelligent stuff with it. Lisp enables you to recognize forms and objects in a remarcable way. Imagine writing a program that recognizes shapes of a photograph. it would take lots of code in C. Lisp does this much more efficiently (less code).
Also functional languages are great for modelising. Mathematica is a a great example. People started thinking of how to make a computer understand mathematics using functional languages and then wrote it in C for it to be fast.
Having said all this good about Lisp/prolog, I still don't know if I will ever use it again, but they remain an interesting alternative to other languages.
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... because the guy who created the Olympic Games also wanted to win a medal. Of course he won the gold medal. The same year they also gave out medals for photography or painting.
...
All this happened around the year 1900.
There's lot of stuff hidden in the old history books
If you read on the german article, the winner also gets to fly to Moscow in November. Then visit the
;-)
Mission control room from where the robot is to be used.
I've never been to a russian mission control room, but it's probably an interesting experience
How to set up a "do-it-yourself" DSL provider ?
;-). We are currently looking for cheap way to hook us up to the local network(+internet).
I am a student in a European university where the student houses are connected to the university's telephone network (free internal phone, but without ethernet
One solution would be to set up a local DSL provider on the campus network (the phone lines are private, so we could easily connect equipment to it).
I was looking for information a few days ago, but without real success. There were some routers on the Cisco website, but that's about it.
Does the Slashdot community have experience on setting up this kind of network ? Of course we are looking for the cheapest solution possible with a high bandwith.
That's only true if you write command-line apps, but then what's the point of using OSX ?
... The important thing is having a stable UNIX base to build upon
True, but nothing stops you from adding the adequate libraries into your application in case they are missing
I couldn't agree with you more. I just got myself a G4 and have been running the release candidate for a few days
On the other hand, there are still a lot of things missing such as all the nice GNU tools. The terminal still lacks the nice UNIX feel of linux distributions. (should be available in a few weeks I suppose).
Well. Linux is not exactly free either ...
Generally, one needs to buy a linux distribution. (the simplest redhat is 30$ on their website)
I download everything I want at my university, which makes it free to me, but in a third world country, this shouldn't be the case.
As a former mac user and nowadays a *nix geek (linux/solaris), I think there is one important aspect that is being neglected.
...
Compatibility.
Macintosh has always wanted to go their own way and they are finally joining the UNIX community. I am really looking forward to go back to a macintosh having Xfree86 as my default xserver and a terminal (bought an old G4 a few days ago). I can mount everything from my linux server using NFS. Once all the GNUtools are ported to MacOSX, it will be an excellent OS.
Even though the average mac user probably cares nothing about UNIX, I am very happy that the applications that I develop for *nix will also run under mac. (anything is better than windows...) Using Linux from a windows interface is a real pain in the ass apart from the fact that windows is horrible.
By the way... It is intresting to see that there is almost 700 comments already
You just need to download the AIM applet of the AOL site and decompile the java classes. They haven't even used a confuscator on the code ;-)
:http://toc.oscar.aol.com/tic.html
If someone wrote a server to go with it, you could set up your local AIM network (I intend to do that, but haven't the time right now)
The applet can be found at
Functional languages, just as any other language has its advantages and backsides.
I recently took a class in Lisp/prolog programming. At first view, functional lanuages doesn't offer any remarcable features, but once you get in to it, it very powerful. It may not be the fastest and easiest of languages, but you can do some intelligent stuff with it. Lisp enables you to recognize forms and objects in a remarcable way. Imagine writing a program that recognizes shapes of a photograph. it would take lots of code in C. Lisp does this much more efficiently (less code).
Also functional languages are great for modelising. Mathematica is a a great example. People started thinking of how to make a computer understand mathematics using functional languages and then wrote it in C for it to be fast.
Having said all this good about Lisp/prolog, I still don't know if I will ever use it again, but they remain an interesting alternative to other languages.