And you're omitting the fact that there were 3 girls that had "primers" but Nell was the only one that was raised successfully, IIRC the other 2 developed psychological or sociological problems. Nell was also the only one that wasn't actually raised by the primer, but by more or less one person (Miranda), as main "ractor" through the "primer". Effectively the moral of "The Diamond Age" is that children can not be raised by machines. In other words: according to the Diamond Age this project is doomed...
That's why you should always try to log all inputs and outputs (which includes configuration data, etc.) along with a timestamp. Afterward you can replay the situation in a test environment. If you properly set this up during development phase, this will already pay back during test phase. The developer can analyse the problem offline and proof that the fix actually solves the issue before it is shipped to production. It could even be part of an automatic testing environment.
Please note that in Europe, everybody uses the country code domain of Google like google.de, google.fr, google.nl, etc. (offtopic: www.google.eu does not work). Even better, google will automatically tranfer you to the country code domain when you type www.google.com in the address bar. If you try searching spam on one of those, you will notice that www.spam.com will not come very high.
The problem with these kind of tools is that people tend to rely on them. Concurrent programming is not so much about tools or technology, but about proper design. In fact, _all_ programming is about proper design and much less about tools or technology.
The people in the countries where the riots took place, are generally poorly educated and poorly informed. The people have not learned to think for themselves or have their own opinion. Although they all have television sets, the information is controlled by the government and most people only view soap operas anyway. Information is handed down through an extensive hierarchical social structure, mostly taking place at the mosque. So an imam could easily set up the people against these cartoons and organise demonstrations or even riots.
You mean the 486DX is the 386DX with the 387 built in. The 486SX is the 486DX with the coprocessor disabled, which is basically a 386DX that runs faster. The 386SX is a 16 bit CPU on the outside in stead of the 32 bit 386DX and higher. IIRC a pentium is actually two 486DX's using the same pipeline.
Because if you step on the scale, they can see how much exactly you deviate from the standard.
Besides, the weight is just an example, this is about private information in general (think: salary, religion, political preferences, sexual preferences, diseases that run in your family, etc). The price for giving such information is generally quite high out of fear for being rejected from the social group.
The goal of current SETI projects is not to communicate in the sense that you suggest, but to find out if there's any life out there capable of such communication in the first place. Finding a signal, just proves that there exists intelligent life besides us. So even if such a signal is coming from a system billions of light years away, the finding of it would be extremely meaningful.
If you want to donate your spare cycles only to a project with a high probability of actually finding something, you should go cracking keys with DNet.
True enough, but you'll most likely have to invest a lot of time and effort to have the system improved. People that just want to play the game, will not be willing to spend that time and energy, let alone money.
Also as long as you pay for the game, why would a business make improvements? You hit a business hardest by not using their products. So leaving could be a far more better incentive for the business to improve their game system, than trying to convince them by other methods.
Or maybe, after reading the linked to websites everybody is now creating their own Ruby projects and are frantically hacking away at the keyboard...
Seriously though, here are a few observations: * the extensive feature list is quite impressive * the language has been around for more than 10 years now * there have been linux packages for as long as I can remember
OTOH: * I never encountered an actual application written in Ruby * the latest news item on RubyForge is about a program for sorting (sorry, but it did not impress me very much)
One nice thing about WP is that the file format, AFAIK, hasn't changed since version 6.1. Create a document in WP11, open it in 7, and viola, it opens. Word can't even do backward compatibility, try opening a Word 95 doc in Word XP. It'll open, but you'll most likely have to reformat. Because o the file compatibility, the Wordperfect import filter for Openoffice.org is coming along very nicely.
Of course this is exactly why MS is still selling new versions of Office and why Corel is now out of business. Or did you think it was because WP doesn't have Clippy?
Please keep in mind that there are two entirely separate cases:
1) The copyright to certain System V code, of which supposedly parts have ended up into the linux kernel, and for which they now have a registration so that they can use it in court.
2) The intellectual property of certain Operating System fundamentals in general, and they claim that all flavours of Unix, linux and even MS Windows are at least partly based on these fundamentals.
The first is a simple case: just compare the code, but let's face it, this will not make them much money, compared to what they would make if they won the second case. The problem is that by doing that they will automatically reveal their IP, which will make the second case probably a lot harder.
SCO's going for the IP (you would too), only if they cannot win that, they'll come after linux distributers/users/developers.
Right after they sued the people behind crafty, which is a game where you have to defend your king against the enemy along ancient game rules on an 8x8 square map. Blizzard does not own the genre, they even haven't a game yet, but having that same syllable in the name, it must be evil and therefore destroyed.
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And you're omitting the fact that there were 3 girls that had "primers" but Nell was the only one that was raised successfully, IIRC the other 2 developed psychological or sociological problems. Nell was also the only one that wasn't actually raised by the primer, but by more or less one person (Miranda), as main "ractor" through the "primer". Effectively the moral of "The Diamond Age" is that children can not be raised by machines. In other words: according to the Diamond Age this project is doomed ...
That's why you should always try to log all inputs and outputs (which includes configuration data, etc.) along with a timestamp. Afterward you can replay the situation in a test environment. If you properly set this up during development phase, this will already pay back during test phase. The developer can analyse the problem offline and proof that the fix actually solves the issue before it is shipped to production. It could even be part of an automatic testing environment.
They're going to recycle the plastic into the island: http://www.recycledisland.com/materialization.html. BTW it has been done before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Island
If they turn it all into fibreglass/plastic boats
Been done, you still can get the T-shirt, if you want.
A little browsing on Sourceforge and Savannah should have led you to http://sourceforge.net/people/ and http://savannah.gnu.org/people/
Actually the game was "designed to run on Windows operating systems only", so forget about a version for Mac, linux, or anything else for that matter.
That's nothing, in 1998 former dutch president Kok did the very same thing on a Windows PC during a dutch national TV broadcast ...
Please note that in Europe, everybody uses the country code domain of Google like google.de, google.fr, google.nl, etc. (offtopic: www.google.eu does not work). Even better, google will automatically tranfer you to the country code domain when you type www.google.com in the address bar. If you try searching spam on one of those, you will notice that www.spam.com will not come very high.
Or we just found where he took the fan from ...
These most notable results from the 2006 survey are more informative than the yahoo blurb.
Based on that I created the following ranking:
How about this FrontPage Apache patch and they're probably referring to this quick thanks to the Samba team.
The problem with these kind of tools is that people tend to rely on them. Concurrent programming is not so much about tools or technology, but about proper design. In fact, _all_ programming is about proper design and much less about tools or technology.
The people in the countries where the riots took place, are generally poorly educated and poorly informed. The people have not learned to think for themselves or have their own opinion. Although they all have television sets, the information is controlled by the government and most people only view soap operas anyway. Information is handed down through an extensive hierarchical social structure, mostly taking place at the mosque. So an imam could easily set up the people against these cartoons and organise demonstrations or even riots.
Maybe you're looking at the wrong homepage: http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/
OTOH the department store will not force me to buy another bottle of Cognac with a new set of glasses.
You mean the 486DX is the 386DX with the 387 built in. The 486SX is the 486DX with the coprocessor disabled, which is basically a 386DX that runs faster. The 386SX is a 16 bit CPU on the outside in stead of the 32 bit 386DX and higher. IIRC a pentium is actually two 486DX's using the same pipeline.
One reason: it does properly not support documents that consists of several files without cripling most functionality.
What will the base system Microsoft target contain, in terms of memory?
Bill Gates himself answered this question years ago.
Because if you step on the scale, they can see how much exactly you deviate from the standard.
Besides, the weight is just an example, this is about private information in general (think: salary, religion, political preferences, sexual preferences, diseases that run in your family, etc). The price for giving such information is generally quite high out of fear for being rejected from the social group.
The goal of current SETI projects is not to communicate in the sense that you suggest, but to find out if there's any life out there capable of such communication in the first place. Finding a signal, just proves that there exists intelligent life besides us. So even if such a signal is coming from a system billions of light years away, the finding of it would be extremely meaningful.
If you want to donate your spare cycles only to a project with a high probability of actually finding something, you should go cracking keys with DNet.
True enough, but you'll most likely have to invest a lot of time and effort to have the system improved. People that just want to play the game, will not be willing to spend that time and energy, let alone money.
Also as long as you pay for the game, why would a business make improvements? You hit a business hardest by not using their products. So leaving could be a far more better incentive for the business to improve their game system, than trying to convince them by other methods.
Or maybe, after reading the linked to websites everybody is now creating their own Ruby projects and are frantically hacking away at the keyboard ...
Seriously though, here are a few observations:
* the extensive feature list is quite impressive
* the language has been around for more than 10 years now
* there have been linux packages for as long as I can remember
OTOH:
* I never encountered an actual application written in Ruby
* the latest news item on RubyForge is about a program for sorting (sorry, but it did not impress me very much)
Oh well, it's probably big in Japan.
One nice thing about WP is that the file format, AFAIK, hasn't changed since version 6.1. Create a document in WP11, open it in 7, and viola, it opens. Word can't even do backward compatibility, try opening a Word 95 doc in Word XP. It'll open, but you'll most likely have to reformat. Because o the file compatibility, the Wordperfect import filter for Openoffice.org is coming along very nicely.
Of course this is exactly why MS is still selling new versions of Office and why Corel is now out of business. Or did you think it was because WP doesn't have Clippy?
Please keep in mind that there are two entirely separate cases:
1) The copyright to certain System V code, of which supposedly parts have ended up into the linux kernel, and for which they now have a registration so that they can use it in court.
2) The intellectual property of certain Operating System fundamentals in general, and they claim that all flavours of Unix, linux and even MS Windows are at least partly based on these fundamentals.
The first is a simple case: just compare the code, but let's face it, this will not make them much money, compared to what they would make if they won the second case. The problem is that by doing that they will automatically reveal their IP, which will make the second case probably a lot harder.
SCO's going for the IP (you would too), only if they cannot win that, they'll come after linux distributers/users/developers.
Right after they sued the people behind crafty, which is a game where you have to defend your king against the enemy along ancient game rules on an 8x8 square map. Blizzard does not own the genre, they even haven't a game yet, but having that same syllable in the name, it must be evil and therefore destroyed.