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is make a space ship of it and start a really, really loud band!
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That's not quite true. If Mitnik sued Markoff, it would be in civil court. The requirements for judgement to the plaintiff in civil court are much more flexible than in criminal court. The phrase 'beyond a reasonable doubt' only applies to criminal court.
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"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -Dijkstra
This can also be applied to programming itself. If you are going to call Computer Science a SCIENCE, it is important to recognize that what we are really learning about is the theories and discovery of how to do things. As far as the implementation goes, the programming, that is the trivial part.
Yeah.. I agree. We should solve the solution like we do with roaches. We should therefore just bomb the entire eBay lot. All of them. With a great big bomb. Or something.
SVGAlib, GGI and AAlib are supported as of SDL version 1.1.
fbcon is supported as of SDL version 1.0.
SDL 1.1 has support for OpenGL, but you can not use the SDL 2D video functions
like SDL_BlitSurface() with a display surface created for OpenGL use.
MGL may be supported, eventually.
If you want to add the backend support for a particular API, take a look at
SDL_sysvideo.h, as it contains the internal functions you need to implement.
Also take a look at the other functional back-ends to see how a working
implementation could be written. I've designed it so adding a back-end
should be relatively straight-forward, it just takes a little time.
Naah, someone at area 51 problably has their gene's and technology patented so they'd be sued if they ever come here!
that's why they haven't dared making any more contact except for crashlanding!:)
I love DS9. It's on syndication at 4AM here.. my TiVo lovingly records it for me and I watch it every morning.
I've watched the entire series about 3 times now.
The best thing about DS9 was that it got better and better as the series went on, thanks to the growing conflicts with the dominion.
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Maybe the VB stuff is just CS rumouring. CIS is a dirty word among us CS majors. Business in general is.
What other languges do they learn? Java? What else? I have no interest in the CIS department, but if I have such incorrect information, let me know what they do teach.
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at least at my school (Southwest Missouri State University). CS (which I am *proudly* a major of) is a programming degree, along with a lot of stress on understanding how computers work (down to circuitry of the processor, etc). CIS is a business degree. The only programming class they are required to have is Visual Basic.
Please don't compare the two.
I also won one on the essay contest. I had my TiVo within a week of winning. I was TOTALLY amazed!
And my life, too, has totally changed since I got a TiVo. I can't imagine a life of feeling I had to be home at 8pm on mondays to watch Ally! And before this, I *never* got to watch the Simpsons, Futurama, or Family Guy. Of course Family Guy seems to have gone off the air.. grrrr..
Vision has always fascinated me. The idea of looking through someone else's eyes likewise. I often, for fun, trick my brain into trying to prove to itself that how I perceive red is the same as other people perceive as the same. It could be that each person has a different calibration - that is, they perceive colors differently.
This idea in general is totally wild to me. The idea that what I perceive as the green of grass might be, to someone else, what I perceive as neon magenta. I realize there are issues with rods, and the brightness of light that a color reflects; but the point is still there. I don't know of any way to determine *perception* of colors.
I just find it perplexing and something fun to think about.
Something that I'm sure most people don't think of, when thinking about the topic of telescopes and of viewing anomolies and objects in space, is what we are actually experiencing.
Sight is a matter of light. What we experience visually through our eyes are physically landing on our eyeballs. The nature of light; photon, particle, wave, etc.. is unimportant. In some fashion or another - light exists. It seems like a simple statement, but upon reflection of the nature of sight, is an amazing thing.
When we peer at galaxies billions of light years away - we are actually experiencing an event that occured billions of years ago and units of distance away. When we see them, in some fashion or another, that event becomes a part of us. Whether it is in a philosophical or physical way, the light becomes part of us. This event collides with our eyes.
I just think it is something amazing.
Ladies and Gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The Mir Spacestation has apparently been taken over - 'Conquerered,' if you will - by a master race of space fungus. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether it will consume the captive Earthmen or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the fungus will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new fungal overlords! I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their secret lairs!
-Kent Brockman
If you note on the Most Challenged Books list, The Giver by Lois Lowry has been challenged more times than the Anarchist Cookbook. The Giver is one of the best books I have ever read.
If you have not read The Giver, the reason it is banned (as best I can figure out) is because it has mild implications that the civilization it is about either represents America or a socialism, and that either America could have faults, or socialism could have pros. All depending on how you look at it.
This just disgusts me. Where are these fascists' priorities?
If the IOC scandals of the preceding years to this Olympics had not soured your mouth before now, this very well may.
I am a huge fan of a game called Legend of the Five Rings (L5R). It's of the same type as Magic: The Gathering (a CCG). On the back of the L5R cards, there are five rings, interjoined. The IOC presented Wizards of the Coast with an ultimatum threatening law suit if they did not change the backs.
Now, thanks to the IOC, the game is being almost killed. When the new edition comes out, everyone will be forced to either use card protectors with black backs, or strictly play with old or new cards.
The reason? Those five rings on the back look too much like the Olympic rings. Yes, those rings which were once, according to nostalgia, supposed to signify unity and peace, even in time of war. The IOC told Wizards that they had those rings copyrighted. Therefore, a wonderful game will probably die.
The IOC is a board of beurocratic asses that have no respect for what the Olympics once stood for.
I know that this may not be the best algorithm for finding primes. That was not the point of the trials. The point was to compare identical algorithms between Python and C.
[c code for prime number finder]
#include
main()
{
int endp = 10000;
int totl = 0;
int i,j;
for ( i=2; iendp; i++ )
for ( j=2; j=i ; j++ )
{
if (j==i)
totl++;
if (i%j==0)
break;
}
printf("%d prime numbers between 1 and %d\n", totl, endp);
}
[python code for prime number finder]
#!/usr/local/bin/python
endp = 10000;
totl = 0
for i in range(2,endp):
for j in range(2,i):
if i%j == 0:
break
else:
totl = totl + 1
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That's not quite true. If Mitnik sued Markoff, it would be in civil court. The requirements for judgement to the plaintiff in civil court are much more flexible than in criminal court. The phrase 'beyond a reasonable doubt' only applies to criminal court.
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"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -Dijkstra
This can also be applied to programming itself. If you are going to call Computer Science a SCIENCE, it is important to recognize that what we are really learning about is the theories and discovery of how to do things. As far as the implementation goes, the programming, that is the trivial part.
Where do you go to school? I gave a presentation on KNOPPIX at school a few weeks ago. Just find it funny, is all..
That takes a load off of my mind... So THAT'S why my computer blew up!
Yeah.. I agree. We should solve the solution like we do with roaches. We should therefore just bomb the entire eBay lot. All of them. With a great big bomb. Or something.
whew.. that's one heavy freakin headset
But yet.. strangely, not why they are doing it.
Note the second line, it uses DirectX therefore it takes use of as much hardware acceleration as DirectX does.
From the loki Linux FAQ:
Naah, someone at area 51 problably has their gene's and technology patented so they'd be sued if they ever come here! that's why they haven't dared making any more contact except for crashlanding! :)
I love DS9. It's on syndication at 4AM here.. my TiVo lovingly records it for me and I watch it every morning.
I've watched the entire series about 3 times now.
The best thing about DS9 was that it got better and better as the series went on, thanks to the growing conflicts with the dominion.
Maybe the VB stuff is just CS rumouring. CIS is a dirty word among us CS majors. Business in general is.
What other languges do they learn? Java? What else? I have no interest in the CIS department, but if I have such incorrect information, let me know what they do teach.
at least at my school (Southwest Missouri State University). CS (which I am *proudly* a major of) is a programming degree, along with a lot of stress on understanding how computers work (down to circuitry of the processor, etc). CIS is a business degree. The only programming class they are required to have is Visual Basic.
Please don't compare the two.
I also won one on the essay contest. I had my TiVo within a week of winning. I was TOTALLY amazed!
And my life, too, has totally changed since I got a TiVo. I can't imagine a life of feeling I had to be home at 8pm on mondays to watch Ally! And before this, I *never* got to watch the Simpsons, Futurama, or Family Guy. Of course Family Guy seems to have gone off the air.. grrrr..
trichromats seeing
as the mouse boxed in from light
tetrachromats laugh
Vision has always fascinated me. The idea of looking through someone else's eyes likewise. I often, for fun, trick my brain into trying to prove to itself that how I perceive red is the same as other people perceive as the same. It could be that each person has a different calibration - that is, they perceive colors differently.
This idea in general is totally wild to me. The idea that what I perceive as the green of grass might be, to someone else, what I perceive as neon magenta. I realize there are issues with rods, and the brightness of light that a color reflects; but the point is still there. I don't know of any way to determine *perception* of colors.
I just find it perplexing and something fun to think about.
Something that I'm sure most people don't think of, when thinking about the topic of telescopes and of viewing anomolies and objects in space, is what we are actually experiencing.
Sight is a matter of light. What we experience visually through our eyes are physically landing on our eyeballs. The nature of light; photon, particle, wave, etc.. is unimportant. In some fashion or another - light exists. It seems like a simple statement, but upon reflection of the nature of sight, is an amazing thing.
When we peer at galaxies billions of light years away - we are actually experiencing an event that occured billions of years ago and units of distance away. When we see them, in some fashion or another, that event becomes a part of us. Whether it is in a philosophical or physical way, the light becomes part of us. This event collides with our eyes.
I just think it is something amazing.
Ladies and Gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The Mir Spacestation has apparently been taken over - 'Conquerered,' if you will - by a master race of space fungus. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether it will consume the captive Earthmen or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the fungus will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new fungal overlords! I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their secret lairs!
-Kent Brockman
If you note on the Most Challenged Books list, The Giver by Lois Lowry has been challenged more times than the Anarchist Cookbook. The Giver is one of the best books I have ever read.
If you have not read The Giver, the reason it is banned (as best I can figure out) is because it has mild implications that the civilization it is about either represents America or a socialism, and that either America could have faults, or socialism could have pros. All depending on how you look at it.
This just disgusts me. Where are these fascists' priorities?
If the IOC scandals of the preceding years to this Olympics had not soured your mouth before now, this very well may.
I am a huge fan of a game called Legend of the Five Rings (L5R). It's of the same type as Magic: The Gathering (a CCG). On the back of the L5R cards, there are five rings, interjoined. The IOC presented Wizards of the Coast with an ultimatum threatening law suit if they did not change the backs.
Now, thanks to the IOC, the game is being almost killed. When the new edition comes out, everyone will be forced to either use card protectors with black backs, or strictly play with old or new cards.
The reason? Those five rings on the back look too much like the Olympic rings. Yes, those rings which were once, according to nostalgia, supposed to signify unity and peace, even in time of war. The IOC told Wizards that they had those rings copyrighted. Therefore, a wonderful game will probably die.
The IOC is a board of beurocratic asses that have no respect for what the Olympics once stood for.
But you have to file your courtcase under the pseudonym of Juan Valdez.
I know that this may not be the best algorithm for finding primes. That was not the point of the trials. The point was to compare identical algorithms between Python and C.
[c code for prime number finder]
#include
main()
{
int endp = 10000;
int totl = 0;
int i,j;
for ( i=2; iendp; i++ )
for ( j=2; j=i ; j++ )
{
if (j==i)
totl++;
if (i%j==0)
break;
}
printf("%d prime numbers between 1 and %d\n", totl, endp);
}
[python code for prime number finder]
#!/usr/local/bin/python
endp = 10000;
totl = 0
for i in range(2,endp):
for j in range(2,i):
if i%j == 0:
break
else:
totl = totl + 1
print totl, 'prime numbers between 1 and', endp