If you have no children and are not a child yourself then why would you then contribute to education? Apparently you get no real benefit from it. Yet for society as whole it is beneficial.
"As a whole" doesn't mean 100% but "more than 50%".
BSD is a good license if you want to push for a standard. That's because you don't get the type of "viral license" phobia reactions which eg LGPL can get in people. And since everyone uses the same codebase you are sure that they are compatible.
Naturally this demands that the involved players have mutual benefit of maintaining the code as a standard. (Otherwise you'll end up with a lot of extentions as with HTML.)
Like the AC said, there are times when you actually need to know how the list is constructed. That is, if you want to get around O(n) accesses in your code.
And the point with having an OSS API implementation is because when a API works like it should then there's no problem. The problem only occur when you run into a bug. You can then read the API source and see if there is a problem there. It's a lot easier than trying to reverse engineer the API to find a possible bug and a workaround.
But that was becuase the code was in the binary compiler. And if you compiled the compiler source with the binary compiler then it would insert the back door code automatically.
So it was basically a virus, and that behaviour was intended by the original author. That's generally not the situation with API's. (And you generally use a API to compile an API...)
Actually I think it was. "Give a man a fire and he will be warm for a night; set him on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life." (With apologies to PTerry for mangling the quote.)
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Seriously though, making a computer "withstand harsh conditions like dust and extreme temperatures, and a kiosk that can be remotely administered" sounds like a industrial computer with SSH installed.
Embedding it in a concrete wall is certainly pretty smart, but I don't think it a very "non-obvious" idea.
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1. have better games:
2. are a better lifestyle fit:
Well, consoles have better games in some genres. Like Fighting for instance. Compare them in RTS or Adventure and the situation is reversed. And this ties in with point 2 because games that consoles excel on (Fighter, arcade style racing etc.) are generally better as a "fun for many" game and thus is good in front of a big screen TV.
3. are easier for vendors to support
True. But with the latest libraries for the PC market it's becoming easier. (Although you have to test the game on a lot of setups to be sure.) Consoles are generally coded more "to the metal" which makes it harder to code on them.
Well in case you haven't heard of them yet I'd also recommend (In no particular order): 'Serial Experiments Lain', Trigun, FLCL and Inu-Yasha. Those are all fairly action oriented. For cute stuff it's hard to beat 'Love Hina', although I guess 'Ah! My Goddess' is there as well. (Though the serie is a bit too cute for my taste, the movie was more, reasonable.;-)
You are correct that population doesn't decide everything in war, but it is an important factor to consider.
It worked real well for the Russians in WW1.
Yes you can combat a technically superior enemy with dedicated people and larger numbers. (See Vietnam.) But it's not enough. (See any other war the US has been in since after that.)
You can try that in well equipped (don't say it;-) arcades. Well, not the gloves, but VR helmets. Unfortunately when I tried it the computers were pretty shoddy. I actually got a bit motion sick from it. (Which I have never gotten from games before, not even Descent.)
Naturally that had something to do with the general procedure being you turn your head, and 2 seconds later the "world" was going in that direction. (IOW horrible lag.) But it was rather neat.
I think it would be better if you had aiming with your head and controlled the tank's heading with a joystick.
No. The car companies would put the people selling firmware modifications out of business. Most likly by saying "Ooooh, we used an 'encryption' called pig latin to protect the data. Now you go to jail for breaking DMCA."
And the reason this doesn't happen much today is because of what the original article points out. Most of the car industry has not yet grasped what can (and will) be done to cars in the future. (And to some degree, today.)
A few weeks back there was a story about Wave Motion power plants. There were links there to other experiments with power generation from wave/tidal foreces.
To each his own, but if you hate Emacs so much why not use another Lisp interpreter? (I assume that's why you used it in a Lisp course.) It's not like there are too few out there.
And seriously, learn 10 basic commands and you can use Emacs just like any other editor. There are numerous "cheat cheets" which will help you with this if you don't want to sit through the tutorial. (Which begins as you start the program as I recall.)
Perhaps you should blame your bitterness on the CS faculty instead of an editor loved by ~50% of UNIX people and a language prefered by many AI researches.
While the points you make a valid I don't think that's what they ment. I think they wanted to get in touch with developers who knows the Debian install process. I.e., the people who will make the installer.
Of the professors I know that study AI and similar fields most are into game AI. Be it 'Wumpus playing bots' or Chess AI's but they are still in there. Some may prefer the added challenge of robotic AI, but then they use the robot to either drive around and pester visitors or to play robotic soccer.
If you pursue a 'fun' idea you will have a much better time as you try it out. And it is much more friendly to demonstrate to other people that something boring.
Furthermore, it's my personal opinion that people that are too serious to play are generally very dull to be around and don't contribute much. Particularly not in a field such as AI which is still a very 'immature' (I.e. new and undiscovered.) field.
But neither the frame not the glass is altered. You use alcohol or some other solvent to remove the standard (white) paint and then apply your colour of choice.
Filtering error messages on machines/monitoring equipment. You often get one error and then 10000 more that are just other things breaking down because of the first error. MFM (multilevel flow models) is one way to filter these messages and sort them in "original" and "resulting" errors.
Useful in industries, nuclear power plants and monitoring patients at hospitals. (For a few examples.)
You could argue that this isn't "AI". OTOH nothing we know how to do is really "AI".;-)
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If you have no children and are not a child yourself then why would you then contribute to education? Apparently you get no real benefit from it. Yet for society as whole it is beneficial.
"As a whole" doesn't mean 100% but "more than 50%".
YHBT.
YHL.
HAND.
(And this time it seems like it actually is a troll, not like when DNA died and a post similar to this one appeared.)
BSD is a good license if you want to push for a standard. That's because you don't get the type of "viral license" phobia reactions which eg LGPL can get in people. And since everyone uses the same codebase you are sure that they are compatible.
Naturally this demands that the involved players have mutual benefit of maintaining the code as a standard.
(Otherwise you'll end up with a lot of extentions as with HTML.)
Like the AC said, there are times when you actually need to know how the list is constructed. That is, if you want to get around O(n) accesses in your code.
And the point with having an OSS API implementation is because when a API works like it should then there's no problem. The problem only occur when you run into a bug. You can then read the API source and see if there is a problem there. It's a lot easier than trying to reverse engineer the API to find a possible bug and a workaround.
But that was becuase the code was in the binary compiler. And if you compiled the compiler source with the binary compiler then it would insert the back door code automatically.
So it was basically a virus, and that behaviour was intended by the original author. That's generally not the situation with API's. (And you generally use a API to compile an API...)
Actually I think it was. "Give a man a fire and he will be warm for a night; set him on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life." (With apologies to PTerry for mangling the quote.)
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Seriously though, making a computer "withstand harsh conditions like dust and extreme temperatures, and a kiosk that can be remotely administered" sounds like a industrial computer with SSH installed.
Embedding it in a concrete wall is certainly pretty smart, but I don't think it a very "non-obvious" idea.
Well, consoles have better games in some genres. Like Fighting for instance. Compare them in RTS or Adventure and the situation is reversed. And this ties in with point 2 because games that consoles excel on (Fighter, arcade style racing etc.) are generally better as a "fun for many" game and thus is good in front of a big screen TV.
True. But with the latest libraries for the PC market it's becoming easier. (Although you have to test the game on a lot of setups to be sure.) Consoles are generally coded more "to the metal" which makes it harder to code on them.
Then again, you're probably trolling.
IIRC TmpFS use virtual memory to store the FS. So you will not have to dedicate a large chunk of RAM to the game. You just use what you want.
It's more flexible then a normal RAM disk as well. (Which is available on Linux too naturally, if you want it.)
Well in case you haven't heard of them yet I'd also recommend (In no particular order): 'Serial Experiments Lain', Trigun, FLCL and Inu-Yasha. Those are all fairly action oriented. For cute stuff it's hard to beat 'Love Hina', although I guess 'Ah! My Goddess' is there as well. (Though the serie is a bit too cute for my taste, the movie was more, reasonable. ;-)
Yes, and just like a lot of people in the states they have no grasp of irony. ;-)
FLCL then? It's one of my favourites.
It's 6 episodes long yet it manages to twist around so much that you hardly know what's happening. And the music is great.
Oh how nice of you to give away stuff which takes up until ep 6 or so to find out in the series. (Of 13.)
For god's sake, if you're going to blatently post spoilers then put SPOILERS in the title or beginning of the post. (Or preferably both.)
Actually I seem to recall that you can make Java bytecode executable under Linux. It requires some kernel patching though.
Got the link.
You are correct that population doesn't decide everything in war, but it is an important factor to consider.
It worked real well for the Russians in WW1.
Yes you can combat a technically superior enemy with dedicated people and larger numbers. (See Vietnam.) But it's not enough. (See any other war the US has been in since after that.)
Here's a trick that will help you spell it correctly in no time.
Take a pad with small pieces of paper, similar to post-it's but without the glue.
Write "MISSILE" on them in big (somewhat friendly) letters.
Each time you spell it "missle" you staple one of these to a body part of your own choice.
You'll be spelling it correctly before you know it.
Oh yeah, and don't wear white shirts to work while you are on this 'program'.
You can try that in well equipped (don't say it ;-) arcades. Well, not the gloves, but VR helmets. Unfortunately when I tried it the computers were pretty shoddy. I actually got a bit motion sick from it. (Which I have never gotten from games before, not even Descent.)
Naturally that had something to do with the general procedure being you turn your head, and 2 seconds later the "world" was going in that direction. (IOW horrible lag.) But it was rather neat.
I think it would be better if you had aiming with your head and controlled the tank's heading with a joystick.
No. The car companies would put the people selling firmware modifications out of business. Most likly by saying "Ooooh, we used an 'encryption' called pig latin to protect the data. Now you go to jail for breaking DMCA."
And the reason this doesn't happen much today is because of what the original article points out. Most of the car industry has not yet grasped what can (and will) be done to cars in the future. (And to some degree, today.)
A few weeks back there was a story about Wave Motion power plants. There were links there to other experiments with power generation from wave/tidal foreces.
To each his own, but if you hate Emacs so much why not use another Lisp interpreter? (I assume that's why you used it in a Lisp course.) It's not like there are too few out there.
And seriously, learn 10 basic commands and you can use Emacs just like any other editor. There are numerous "cheat cheets" which will help you with this if you don't want to sit through the tutorial. (Which begins as you start the program as I recall.)
Perhaps you should blame your bitterness on the CS faculty instead of an editor loved by ~50% of UNIX people and a language prefered by many AI researches.
While the points you make a valid I don't think that's what they ment. I think they wanted to get in touch with developers who knows the Debian install process. I.e., the people who will make the installer.
Why shouldn't they be?
Of the professors I know that study AI and similar fields most are into game AI. Be it 'Wumpus playing bots' or Chess AI's but they are still in there. Some may prefer the added challenge of robotic AI, but then they use the robot to either drive around and pester visitors or to play robotic soccer.
If you pursue a 'fun' idea you will have a much better time as you try it out. And it is much more friendly to demonstrate to other people that something boring.
Furthermore, it's my personal opinion that people that are too serious to play are generally very dull to be around and don't contribute much. Particularly not in a field such as AI which is still a very 'immature' (I.e. new and undiscovered.) field.
But neither the frame not the glass is altered. You use alcohol or some other solvent to remove the standard (white) paint and then apply your colour of choice.
Filtering error messages on machines/monitoring equipment. You often get one error and then 10000 more that are just other things breaking down because of the first error. MFM (multilevel flow models) is one way to filter these messages and sort them in "original" and "resulting" errors.
;-)
Useful in industries, nuclear power plants and monitoring patients at hospitals. (For a few examples.)
You could argue that this isn't "AI". OTOH nothing we know how to do is really "AI".