Hmmm. I am skeptical of this decision to support free software. With all of the software piracy in Taiwan, I would think everyone there just assumes Microsoft products are free software.
It really offends me when people like RMS seem to work to defeat companies like Caldera and SuSE, who have done a great deal for the Linux community, by taking away their revenue stream. By providing me with a Linux distribution, they provide me a valuable service. Yes, I can roll my own if I want to, but the time and effort that a packaged distribution saves me is worth some money to me!
No one is arguing that with you. You can have the convenience of a packaged distribution, with CDs and manuals and everything, without per-seat licensing. Hello, Mandrake, RedHat. You don't see RMS trying to defeat them, do you?
As long as UnitedLinux complies with the licences of its component parts, neither I nor RMS have any right to bitch about how much the distribution costs.
No one is bitching about the cost. Hell, RedHat charges $200 for its professional edition, and $800 for advanced server (one-year of automatic upgrades included, I think). Its the license. Read before you post.
For an example having queen amadala show in return to say that she was never gone but hiding out and once the emporer is defeated we need to go do this.
Isn't it obvious to all that Amadala will die in the third movie; that her death will be what finally completes Anakin's turn to the Dark Side.
Anakin finds mother who he loved dead. Kills a village in rage. Anakin falls in love and marries. Anakin loses wife....
Got it. I always forget how specific a patent has to be, and how limited they end up being as a result. Its the one positive out there on patents, IMHO.
The article says this product could be used in afforestation efforts/ desert growing. I say, "Screw that!" I want to use this product because I am a really lazy gardener.
Imagine, I can plant a tree without worrying about any kind of watering scheme. By the time the water gel-pack wears out, the tree has set up a self-sustaining root system.
Wow. If that is the case, we could have a good old fashioned international patent fight on our hands. The Chinese Intellectual Property Office gave a patent to theShenyang Senlu Solid Water Company, and I would imagine DriWater (or someone else here) has one, too.
If Myst made you jump, what do games like Resident Evil do? Make you hide in your closet?
Actually, no. I jumped in Myst because of the tension created by the music, the isolation, and my imagination. A good story can do that, like reading a good suspense novel.
Games like Resident Evil bore me to tears. Kind of like watching a very bad action movie. Sure, the director wants you to get excited, but you are obsessing about the plot holes and the fact that the editor didn't get the sound to sync with the last explosion. Ooh, Jean-Clod just killed another baddie. Neat.
While the original Myst was a single-player game, Miller said people tended to congregate in groups and play, and so the online version will be one of a class of "massively multiplayer" games that permit group exploration and complex interaction.
I don't know if I am alone on this, but I really don't like the idea of a multi-player Myst. Part ot the mystique (no pun intended) of the game was the isolation, walking around alone on an island trying to piece a story together that might have taken place decades ago. I used to get spooked playing that game, sitting alone at night with the speaker volume up, wondering if at the next turn something would poke its head out.
If while playing the game I see a bunch of other netizens playing with me, the experience will feel less like being on a deserted island and more like being at a cheap amusement park.
man, those little kids are gonna be so screwed up it's not funny. U poor linux losers are gonna have them type in at a bash shell just to play reader rabbit. And what cool games does Linux? SENDMAIL? APACHE? Find the buffer overfollow? And don't mention that POS tuxracer.
Kids shouldn't be playing computer games anyway. This "Linux in the Classroom" business is a conspiricy to get kids playing outside again.
swear. if some of u would just get some sweet pussy, u could see how much that dirty hippie OS of your sucks.
Are you kidding? How do you think I get laid, anyway? Chicks dig Linux!
Don't try comparing Newton and Wolfram. Newton had a vast circle of friends in the scientific and political community. He held posts at two universities. Everyone knew what he was working on, so in that sense there was plenty of review. And although he was severely criticised for some of his ideas, he stayed in the community, kept pushing his ideas (orally), and was eventually vindicated.
Wolfram is a recluse, and probably a cracked nut. He has no need for the scientific community, and they apparantly have no need for him (though his software is pretty damn cool). His ideas haven't been shunned like Newton's Optics were; he simply feels no need to share them. He is closer to Howard Hughes than Isaac Newton.
Perhaps, but long periods of deep, uninterupted thought can be extremely productive. Many great scientists of the past have worked this way, and anyone who has ever looked up from a computer monitor and been surprised at seeing dawn breaking can relate to the quality and volume of work that result from working by oneself free of distraction.
True, but a decade is a very long time. I am not sure the community wants to look at a decade of solitary work. Plus, this book sounds more expositary, rather than the actual research results. I don't think he has ever published his research results.
Newton didn't publish, but he did communicate his work to colleagues and friends.
Wiles worked in isolation, but people knew what he was working on. When he thought he had finished, he submitted to peer review, and guess what? An error was found. Less than a year later, and with the aid of colleagues, the error was fixed.
You yourself say that Heisenbergs best work was his PhD work. Hmmm. Work done as a student. Under the review of professors.
New and exciting work usually is unpopular and met with skepticism, but that is part of the process. It is what separates the good, novel work form the lunatic work. If you don't submit your work to peer review, how will it be determined when that work is valid? And how will you avoid wasting countless hours on work with errors? After all, isn't it true that "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow"?
Wolfram hasn't submitted to peer review. And now that he has forsaken this key aspect of the scientific process for many years, no one wants to play catch up to find out if his work is worth anything. And I don't blame them.
In high school I worked at a Kentucky Fried Chicken. There, in the backroom, it was a common myth among the cooks that the Colonel had already developed featherless chickens for his restaurants. After all, none of us had ever seen a feather on the birds we cooked.
Perhaps in a few years it will no longer be a myth.
Actually, *Mr.* Wolfram is a knob, has a hard time keeping his more talented employees (most of whom quit due to regular verbal abuse by Stevie), and is more properly labelled a paranoid whose delusions of grandeur force him to be very secretive about his private details
I agree. I was just trying to be polite. He could have been a very productive citizen of the math/scienctific community. Instead, he chose isolation, perhaps falsely believing that a community of inferiors could offer him nothing. Now, after years of isolation and not having anyone to bounce his ideas off of, he releases his "opus". Is it cooincidence that he believes "that algorithms based on the DO loop can succeed in this endeavor where mathematics has failed", when his only successful contribution to the world has been his scientific programming package?
These men did not isolate themselves from their colleagues in the manner and length that Wolfram has.
Newton went away for a year due to the plague, I believe. And yes, that was when he began Principia. But he spent most of his creative years at Cambridge, where he would have been under constant peer review (not that he had any peers).
Wiles maintained connections with his mathematical colleagues, and used the work of others to arrive at his proof of the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture.
I don't know why you mention Heisenberg. He did his best work at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen with Neils Bohr and company
...goes into a decade of seclusion to discover the secrets of the universe
I worry about that. Science isn't practiced very well in a vaccuum. One feature of the scientific act of discovery that makes it so effective is that the scientists involved are constantly examining each others musings, to keep any one of them from going off the deep end. Genius and madness go hand in hand, after all, and nothing can drive you nuts quite like being alone with your own thoughts. Especially if those thoughts are exceptional.
I just hope this book doen't show that dear Dr. Wolfram has lost it.
Right, but what about the microbes living in the spaceship that the astronauts carried in? The ones on their muddy little space shoes, on their pet rocks they brought in, etc. If astronauts go there, they will be there for a while; plenty of time to get some stuff in the creases of that ship. With any luck, if there is a harmful bacteria, it will kill them before they return.
What is the likelihood of bacterial life on Mars infecting the earth if we ever get around to visiting Mars in person?
After carefully weighing all the factors (likelihood of microbial life on Mars, likelihood of said life having a detrimental effect on earth life, likelihood of bacterial vector surviving the trip back to earth, etc.), I have concluded that the answer to this question is...
2.06%
We can end this conversation now; I am never wrong:-)
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John Carmack has decided to go with OpenGL 2.0 over Cg for the backend of Doom 3.0, citing vendor neutrality.
You can read about it at The Reg or straight from John
Hmmm. I am skeptical of this decision to support free software. With all of the software piracy in Taiwan, I would think everyone there just assumes Microsoft products are free software.
It really offends me when people like RMS seem to work to defeat companies like Caldera and SuSE, who have done a great deal for the Linux community, by taking away their revenue stream. By providing me with a Linux distribution, they provide me a valuable service. Yes, I can roll my own if I want to, but the time and effort that a packaged distribution saves me is worth some money to me!
No one is arguing that with you. You can have the convenience of a packaged distribution, with CDs and manuals and everything, without per-seat licensing. Hello, Mandrake, RedHat. You don't see RMS trying to defeat them, do you?
As long as UnitedLinux complies with the licences of its component parts, neither I nor RMS have any right to bitch about how much the distribution costs.
No one is bitching about the cost. Hell, RedHat charges $200 for its professional edition, and $800 for advanced server (one-year of automatic upgrades included, I think). Its the license. Read before you post.
For an example having queen amadala show in return to say that she was never gone but hiding out and once the emporer is defeated we need to go do this.
Isn't it obvious to all that Amadala will die in the third movie; that her death will be what finally completes Anakin's turn to the Dark Side.
Anakin finds mother who he loved dead. Kills a village in rage. Anakin falls in love and marries. Anakin loses wife....
Got it. I always forget how specific a patent has to be, and how limited they end up being as a result. Its the one positive out there on patents, IMHO.
The article says this product could be used in afforestation efforts/ desert growing. I say, "Screw that!" I want to use this product because I am a really lazy gardener.
Imagine, I can plant a tree without worrying about any kind of watering scheme. By the time the water gel-pack wears out, the tree has set up a self-sustaining root system.
Wow. If that is the case, we could have a good old fashioned international patent fight on our hands. The Chinese Intellectual Property Office gave a patent to theShenyang Senlu Solid Water Company, and I would imagine DriWater (or someone else here) has one, too.
If Myst made you jump, what do games like Resident Evil do? Make you hide in your closet?
Actually, no. I jumped in Myst because of the tension created by the music, the isolation, and my imagination. A good story can do that, like reading a good suspense novel.
Games like Resident Evil bore me to tears. Kind of like watching a very bad action movie. Sure, the director wants you to get excited, but you are obsessing about the plot holes and the fact that the editor didn't get the sound to sync with the last explosion. Ooh, Jean-Clod just killed another baddie. Neat.
While the original Myst was a single-player game, Miller said people tended to congregate in groups and play, and so the online version will be one of a class of "massively multiplayer" games that permit group exploration and complex interaction.
I don't know if I am alone on this, but I really don't like the idea of a multi-player Myst. Part ot the mystique (no pun intended) of the game was the isolation, walking around alone on an island trying to piece a story together that might have taken place decades ago. I used to get spooked playing that game, sitting alone at night with the speaker volume up, wondering if at the next turn something would poke its head out.
If while playing the game I see a bunch of other netizens playing with me, the experience will feel less like being on a deserted island and more like being at a cheap amusement park.
But I could have it all wrong.
man, those little kids are gonna be so screwed up it's not funny. U poor linux losers are gonna have them type in at a bash shell just to play reader rabbit. And what cool games does Linux? SENDMAIL? APACHE? Find the buffer overfollow? And don't mention that POS tuxracer.
Kids shouldn't be playing computer games anyway. This "Linux in the Classroom" business is a conspiricy to get kids playing outside again.
swear. if some of u would just get some sweet pussy, u could see how much that dirty hippie OS of your sucks.
Are you kidding? How do you think I get laid, anyway? Chicks dig Linux!
Don't try comparing Newton and Wolfram. Newton had a vast circle of friends in the scientific and political community. He held posts at two universities. Everyone knew what he was working on, so in that sense there was plenty of review. And although he was severely criticised for some of his ideas, he stayed in the community, kept pushing his ideas (orally), and was eventually vindicated.
Wolfram is a recluse, and probably a cracked nut. He has no need for the scientific community, and they apparantly have no need for him (though his software is pretty damn cool). His ideas haven't been shunned like Newton's Optics were; he simply feels no need to share them. He is closer to Howard Hughes than Isaac Newton.
Perhaps, but long periods of deep, uninterupted thought can be extremely productive. Many great scientists of the past have worked this way, and anyone who has ever looked up from a computer monitor and been surprised at seeing dawn breaking can relate to the quality and volume of work that result from working by oneself free of distraction.
True, but a decade is a very long time. I am not sure the community wants to look at a decade of solitary work. Plus, this book sounds more expositary, rather than the actual research results. I don't think he has ever published his research results.
Newton didn't publish, but he did communicate his work to colleagues and friends.
Wiles worked in isolation, but people knew what he was working on. When he thought he had finished, he submitted to peer review, and guess what? An error was found. Less than a year later, and with the aid of colleagues, the error was fixed.
You yourself say that Heisenbergs best work was his PhD work. Hmmm. Work done as a student. Under the review of professors.
New and exciting work usually is unpopular and met with skepticism, but that is part of the process. It is what separates the good, novel work form the lunatic work. If you don't submit your work to peer review, how will it be determined when that work is valid? And how will you avoid wasting countless hours on work with errors? After all, isn't it true that "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow"?
Wolfram hasn't submitted to peer review. And now that he has forsaken this key aspect of the scientific process for many years, no one wants to play catch up to find out if his work is worth anything. And I don't blame them.
Oh, man! Being human food just ain't what it used to be.
I wonder if the featherless fowl will be susceptible to skin cancer? Maybe those feathers were serving as an important barrier.
In high school I worked at a Kentucky Fried Chicken. There, in the backroom, it was a common myth among the cooks that the Colonel had already developed featherless chickens for his restaurants. After all, none of us had ever seen a feather on the birds we cooked.
Perhaps in a few years it will no longer be a myth.
Actually, *Mr.* Wolfram is a knob, has a hard time keeping his more talented employees (most of whom quit due to regular verbal abuse by Stevie), and is more properly labelled a paranoid whose delusions of grandeur force him to be very secretive about his private details
I agree. I was just trying to be polite. He could have been a very productive citizen of the math/scienctific community. Instead, he chose isolation, perhaps falsely believing that a community of inferiors could offer him nothing. Now, after years of isolation and not having anyone to bounce his ideas off of, he releases his "opus". Is it cooincidence that he believes "that algorithms based on the DO loop can succeed in this endeavor where mathematics has failed", when his only successful contribution to the world has been his scientific programming package?
These men did not isolate themselves from their colleagues in the manner and length that Wolfram has.
Newton went away for a year due to the plague, I believe. And yes, that was when he began Principia. But he spent most of his creative years at Cambridge, where he would have been under constant peer review (not that he had any peers).
Wiles maintained connections with his mathematical colleagues, and used the work of others to arrive at his proof of the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture.
I don't know why you mention Heisenberg. He did his best work at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen with Neils Bohr and company
I'd be willing to change the constitution to get this guy...Wouldn't you? (-:
...goes into a decade of seclusion to discover the secrets of the universe
I worry about that. Science isn't practiced very well in a vaccuum. One feature of the scientific act of discovery that makes it so effective is that the scientists involved are constantly examining each others musings, to keep any one of them from going off the deep end. Genius and madness go hand in hand, after all, and nothing can drive you nuts quite like being alone with your own thoughts. Especially if those thoughts are exceptional.
I just hope this book doen't show that dear Dr. Wolfram has lost it.
Doh!
I always forget to carry my sevens...
Right, but what about the microbes living in the spaceship that the astronauts carried in? The ones on their muddy little space shoes, on their pet rocks they brought in, etc. If astronauts go there, they will be there for a while; plenty of time to get some stuff in the creases of that ship. With any luck, if there is a harmful bacteria, it will kill them before they return.
What is the likelihood of bacterial life on Mars infecting the earth if we ever get around to visiting Mars in person?
:-)
After carefully weighing all the factors (likelihood of microbial life on Mars, likelihood of said life having a detrimental effect on earth life, likelihood of bacterial vector surviving the trip back to earth, etc.), I have concluded that the answer to this question is...
2.06%
We can end this conversation now; I am never wrong
No problem. Don't forget the gatorade.html broken links, though. BTW that gatorade.html page is a riot.
On your second question, you have a lot of links that look like this:instead of this:So I keep getting sent to http://p3.html, which does not exist.