See, I don't care if they're ultra-thin, durable, and flexible. I don't want to make a book, I want a poster-sized computer display!
The few square feet that monitors provide are just too restricting, and the eyestrain is nasty. If I could have a huge, paper-like display, that would be sweet!
Sorry, but if you want to condemn something as immoral you'll have to come with a more compelling argument than "past the limit of ok". You'll need rigorous and defensible criteria to bifuricate the universe of potential actions into "ok" and "not ok".
Bull. If he wants you to condemn it as immoral he needs good reasons. If he wants to believe it himself, he doesn't need anything. If I wanted to believe that all white cars are fundamentally unsafe, I'm free to do that, too.
If it's so wrong for people to try to force their views on you (ie, homosexuality is immoral), what's so wrong with someone politely asking that you not force your views on them? Give the guy some slack.
I don't know that it would fix AC's issue, but personally, I would like to see more done with the phase tree algorithm used in Tux2.
Write order seems to be less of an issue there.
Cable connections will definitely have a problem with it because you're paying for the *connection*, not for the bandwidth.
DSL, otoh, you're paying for the bandwidht (right?) so what's the problem? Why should the DSL company care *who* uses the bandwidth as long as it's being payed for?
The trouble is, no one would offer that. Why cut them off (and then people call in complaining about the service not working, getting all irate, etc.) when you can just keep the bits flowing and charge them more?
There is still a problem with considering the file type as immutable. Some data can be interpreted as a text file, a C source file, a perl script, etc. There are times when the VERY SAME DATA can be interpreted in different ways, and it's not just a matter of accuracy.
Take a comma delimited list of numbers for example. It could be interpreted as spreadsheet data. It could be interpreted as a raw list of pixel shades or elevations for a terrain. It might actually be a strangely encoded file of some other type, but all of these interpretations of the data can be useful and to say that this is just a matter of accuracy is misleading at best.
This may only happen in very strange cases, but it's not strictly immutable.
If you were to record the state of the atoms that make up my brain, you'd have nothing. If you were to use that information to create a duplicate of my brain, well you'd have created a duplicate intelligence, but it wouldn't be my intelligence. As well, my brain is not sentient unless it exists in the real world; a "brain emulator" running on a PC would be no more sentient than Photoshop, for the same reasons I mentioned before.
How do you know you are running in the real world? Maybe you are that brain in the brain emulator and we are all artificial stimulus. If this is true, do you still qualify as an intelligence? If the brain is properly "emulated," its behavior is no different.
Yeah, it depends.
If the intelligence is stored in a volatile memory, turning it off would be murder. If it's non-volatile, well that's more like forcing it into "nap time".
If you wanna get perfectly ethical, just give it ACPI and have it decide when it wants to sleep.
... how is that "better" than C/C++? Ok, sure C++ compilers are such a bitch to write that small systems often won't have them, but how many systems have a JRT and no C++ compiler?
- Secure
Firstly, in a proper OS, language level security isn't needed. Secondly, that lack of security in C and C++ makes them more powerful.
- Plattform independent
No, Java only runs on the Java platform, which happens to be emulated on many other platforms.
If we compiled C or C++ for the Java environment, it'd be platform independent as well, and you could have all those security things, too.
- Prospering in all directions
You mean that Java is an unfinished, changing languages, rather than a fixed and stable language? This is a good thing? And btw, you don't have to use every feature a language has to offer.
- Skalable in Speed
Now that's interesting. Have a link about automatic use of extra processors?
Uh... Intel CPUs are not the only possible target for C/C++ compilers!
- Software Design
These issues are all related to the programmer.
Personally, I like pointers. Yeah, you have to be careful with them, but wreckless programming is probably a bad idea anyway. There is no rule that says you have to use the STL. The other things you've listed can be beneficial as well. Black boxes aren't always a good thing.
- Complexity
Java is not immune. Java is not a magic bullet. Wait until many Java spplications are at version 4.0 and get back to me. C++ gives programmers the freedom to write clean or messy.
not has to write a suitable String class
Well, you don't have to write your own string class. Nothing's to stop you from using the string class that comes with your libraries (like, say CString), and nothing's to stop you from using C-style string functions.
Writing your own string class is a good way to really get to understand how strings are stored and manipulated by the computer. Without this understanding, one might be lead to wonder why an XML document would be so much larger than a plain binary version.
C++ is more flexible than Java because is locked in to the Java Environment, the Java Libraries, etc. Of course, this power comes at the cost of complexity.
The 3 inch CDs will fit in your breast pocket, if you have one. They'll fit in your wallet, they'll fit in a normal sized envelope and go through the mail.
Only problem is, you can't get 3 inch CD cases...
(I bought a spindle of 50 of these things a while ago, so I've got lots of incentive to think of good things about them;)
Anything you can do with switch statement you can do with if...elses.
And in some cases, if your values are packed closely enough, you can use an array of funcion pointers. (Or better yet, just a simple jump table, but I don't know how that'd work in C. What's the type of a label?)
If anyone does any improvements to switch, it needs ranges more than strings. I mean really:
case 7:
case 8:
case 9:
case 10:
case 11:
-- or something like: --
case (7,11):
Ok, firstly, a GUI for Apache would supplement the text-based config file, not replace it. So you'd still be able to ignore the config tool and do your own thing.
Secondly, who says such a tool would have to mirror whatever Microsoft has? Is an intuitive interface impossible? Is there no way to make security concerns completely obvious?
Ken Silverman's build engine (used in duke nukem 3d) was fairly easy to create maps for. You draw the room outlines in a 2d, overhead view, then go into a 3d view (almost as if you're in the game) and give the room height & textures.
IIRC, the keyboard commands are a bit cryptic, but once you get used to that (or print them out) it's pretty easy to use.
100,000 people?
You're talking about a fifth of the people that might read your post.
You're gonna need a helluva lot more persuasion to get one out of five people to write a typewritten letter and donate $100.
(...and do you really think that many people have working manual typewriters? That's funny!)
"...we emailed them in July asking that we be allowed to release in August, since no objections had be made from TOEI Japan that we knew of. We were then sent another Cease and Desist order by way of Funimation."
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Ok, when it comes to wacky case mods like this, if you have to ask why then the story ain't for you.
Just move right along and you won't end up looking stupid.
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Same here. I did use IE to download mozilla, though.
Still, while I think it's to the point where there's no reason to switch to IE, there really is no compelling reason to switch from IE.
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See, I don't care if they're ultra-thin, durable, and flexible. I don't want to make a book, I want a poster-sized computer display!
The few square feet that monitors provide are just too restricting, and the eyestrain is nasty. If I could have a huge, paper-like display, that would be sweet!
The young hacker types would just crack the encoding.
The older, less computer literate would either return the disc or sue.
Which is better?
If you haven't been there, you aren't qualified to make that sort of diagnosis.
...and doctors can't diagnose diseases they themselves have never had?
Sorry, but if you want to condemn something as immoral you'll have to come with a more compelling argument than "past the limit of ok". You'll need rigorous and defensible criteria to bifuricate the universe of potential actions into "ok" and "not ok".
Bull. If he wants you to condemn it as immoral he needs good reasons. If he wants to believe it himself, he doesn't need anything. If I wanted to believe that all white cars are fundamentally unsafe, I'm free to do that, too.
If it's so wrong for people to try to force their views on you (ie, homosexuality is immoral), what's so wrong with someone politely asking that you not force your views on them? Give the guy some slack.
*requires* accountability.
If the authors posts it someplace with his/her name attached, there is ONE person to point the blame at. Remove that person, done.
If this is posted anonymously and many people have it/redistribute it/etc, there are MANY people to point the blame at.
I don't know that it would fix AC's issue, but personally, I would like to see more done with the phase tree algorithm used in Tux2.
Write order seems to be less of an issue there.
nice delta-v, but very low acceleration
Wait, I'm missing something here. What's the difference between acceleration and delta v?
I seem to remember that acceleration = change in velocity. What gives?
Cable connections will definitely have a problem with it because you're paying for the *connection*, not for the bandwidth.
DSL, otoh, you're paying for the bandwidht (right?) so what's the problem? Why should the DSL company care *who* uses the bandwidth as long as it's being payed for?
The trouble is, no one would offer that. Why cut them off (and then people call in complaining about the service not working, getting all irate, etc.) when you can just keep the bits flowing and charge them more?
There is still a problem with considering the file type as immutable. Some data can be interpreted as a text file, a C source file, a perl script, etc. There are times when the VERY SAME DATA can be interpreted in different ways, and it's not just a matter of accuracy.
Take a comma delimited list of numbers for example. It could be interpreted as spreadsheet data. It could be interpreted as a raw list of pixel shades or elevations for a terrain. It might actually be a strangely encoded file of some other type, but all of these interpretations of the data can be useful and to say that this is just a matter of accuracy is misleading at best.
This may only happen in very strange cases, but it's not strictly immutable.
If you were to record the state of the atoms that make up my brain, you'd have nothing. If you were to use that information to create a duplicate of my brain, well you'd have created a duplicate intelligence, but it wouldn't be my intelligence. As well, my brain is not sentient unless it exists in the real world; a "brain emulator" running on a PC would be no more sentient than Photoshop, for the same reasons I mentioned before.
How do you know you are running in the real world? Maybe you are that brain in the brain emulator and we are all artificial stimulus. If this is true, do you still qualify as an intelligence? If the brain is properly "emulated," its behavior is no different.
Yeah, it depends.
If the intelligence is stored in a volatile memory, turning it off would be murder. If it's non-volatile, well that's more like forcing it into "nap time".
If you wanna get perfectly ethical, just give it ACPI and have it decide when it wants to sleep.
- Skalable in Size
- Secure
Firstly, in a proper OS, language level security isn't needed. Secondly, that lack of security in C and C++ makes them more powerful.
- Plattform independent
No, Java only runs on the Java platform, which happens to be emulated on many other platforms. If we compiled C or C++ for the Java environment, it'd be platform independent as well, and you could have all those security things, too.
- Prospering in all directions
You mean that Java is an unfinished, changing languages, rather than a fixed and stable language? This is a good thing? And btw, you don't have to use every feature a language has to offer.
- Skalable in Speed
Now that's interesting. Have a link about automatic use of extra processors? Uh... Intel CPUs are not the only possible target for C/C++ compilers!
- Software Design
These issues are all related to the programmer. Personally, I like pointers. Yeah, you have to be careful with them, but wreckless programming is probably a bad idea anyway. There is no rule that says you have to use the STL. The other things you've listed can be beneficial as well. Black boxes aren't always a good thing.
- Complexity
Java is not immune. Java is not a magic bullet. Wait until many Java spplications are at version 4.0 and get back to me. C++ gives programmers the freedom to write clean or messy.
not has to write a suitable String class
Well, you don't have to write your own string class. Nothing's to stop you from using the string class that comes with your libraries (like, say CString), and nothing's to stop you from using C-style string functions. Writing your own string class is a good way to really get to understand how strings are stored and manipulated by the computer. Without this understanding, one might be lead to wonder why an XML document would be so much larger than a plain binary version.
C++ is more flexible than Java because is locked in to the Java Environment, the Java Libraries, etc. Of course, this power comes at the cost of complexity.
The 3 inch CDs will fit in your breast pocket, if you have one. They'll fit in your wallet, they'll fit in a normal sized envelope and go through the mail.
Only problem is, you can't get 3 inch CD cases...
(I bought a spindle of 50 of these things a while ago, so I've got lots of incentive to think of good things about them ;)
Anything you can do with switch statement you can do with if...elses.
And in some cases, if your values are packed closely enough, you can use an array of funcion pointers. (Or better yet, just a simple jump table, but I don't know how that'd work in C. What's the type of a label?)
If anyone does any improvements to switch, it needs ranges more than strings. I mean really:
case 7: case 8: case 9: case 10: case 11: -- or something like: -- case (7,11):Did Tom Cruise run over his dog or something?
weird.
Ok, firstly, a GUI for Apache would supplement the text-based config file, not replace it. So you'd still be able to ignore the config tool and do your own thing.
Secondly, who says such a tool would have to mirror whatever Microsoft has? Is an intuitive interface impossible? Is there no way to make security concerns completely obvious?
Why not use something older? Something like the Z80 family of processors? They've been making those for AGES! The Z380 even has 32-bit addressing.
Ken Silverman's build engine (used in duke nukem 3d) was fairly easy to create maps for. You draw the room outlines in a 2d, overhead view, then go into a 3d view (almost as if you're in the game) and give the room height & textures.
IIRC, the keyboard commands are a bit cryptic, but once you get used to that (or print them out) it's pretty easy to use.
100,000 people?
You're talking about a fifth of the people that might read your post.
You're gonna need a helluva lot more persuasion to get one out of five people to write a typewritten letter and donate $100.
(...and do you really think that many people have working manual typewriters? That's funny!)
"...we emailed them in July asking that we be allowed to release in August, since no objections had be made from TOEI Japan that we knew of. We were then sent another Cease and Desist order by way of Funimation."
What? A simple "no" wouldn't have done?
See the paragraph above "Violation of Acceptable Use Policy" at http://www.home.com/support/aup/ if you don't believe me.
Don't be so arrogant. The @Home "Subscriber Agreement" (effective 9/15/99) includes the clause you linked to, however in section 7 of the "Getting Started Guide", "@Home's Acceptable Use Policy, it says:
Ok, when it comes to wacky case mods like this, if you have to ask why then the story ain't for you. Just move right along and you won't end up looking stupid.
Same here. I did use IE to download mozilla, though.
Still, while I think it's to the point where there's no reason to switch to IE, there really is no compelling reason to switch from IE.