I believe you are right. However much of the advance in computer hardware was due the crazy upgrade cycle that computer games as doom, quake, half life and so on created in their time.
Apple's closed hardware would have been too slow moving, so their new products don't cannibalize their old products. And the games big bang would never happen.
Shortly after learning C++ I learned wxWidgets (it was named wxWindows then). To make a long history short, I only missed serialization from Java, almost everything else felt better in C++/wx than in Java, especially GUI stuff.
And one of the reasons for it is that wx doesn't use C++ templates at all. No bloated code. It's even simpler to use than Java.
Well the other thing that I miss from Java is JDBC. wxODBC is just ugly (looks like MFC code).
Yours are the words of someone who have never user wxWidgets.
It's simple to code portable C++ with it, in fact is much easier and nicer to code using C++ with wxWidgets than using Java for anything user interface related.
I believe a embeddable lisp with a wxWindows library would be "the" killer platform.
It would have DBs, GUI, threads, and of all the object oriented C descendants, C++ the wxWindows version (because it feels like that) is the one I like the most (much much more than Java).
There was a project like that a couple of years ago, but it seems to have vanished...:/
You seem to have a lot of ancient formats, but you have to see the future too.
In other words, there is no desktop search engine that has support for indexing microsoft reader (*.lit) files, or Aportis doc (*.prc, *.pdb) files and all the ebook formats out there.
That's more important than ancient database file formats.
People have never accepted death at the end of their lives.
Egiptian religion had a second life in a paradise world and it was far more important than actual life for lots of believers.
Christian religion adapted that idea and then rich people spend fortunes buying their afterlife salvation.
If people can believe bullshit and spend their lives towards fulfilling that bullshit, then spending money in cloning a cat is a much more logical end.
You sound like the "Ohh no the young people is nuts!! they don't obey their parents!! this modern times sucks!!" found in an ancient table some thousand B.C.
It's not that humans and rat's have a similar brain, or similar hands or only that they are mammals.
They are a lot of other mammals far less useful than rats. That's because rats and humans have a similar immnune system, one that has to resist to several kinds of infections.
And transplant related issues are very much immune system issues, because when a transplant fails, it's often because the immnune system rejects it.
That's the reason they use rats for this and chimps for brain related stuff. Being just a mammal is not useful enough.
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I believe you are right. However much of the advance in computer hardware was due the crazy upgrade cycle that computer games as doom, quake, half life and so on created in their time.
Apple's closed hardware would have been too slow moving, so their new products don't cannibalize their old products. And the games big bang would never happen.
She wrote extensively about memory modification and memory loss
http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/
It's not really logical, but a fear of radiofrecuencies damaging our brains can be the answer.
Just read about how zealots fight evolution and put those zealots into marketing...
Ohh wait, they already are !!
Fogcreek citydesk???
It seems so easy to use to me that I recomend it over almost anything.
However you need windows to use it
Or it's really corporate policy in MS to make sites stop working in Opera, even in the research projects like yours?
Worms was FUN !!!
That's the most important thing in a game
I said it once... and say it again.
Why copy a bad API when there are better alternatives?
wxWidgets is to C++ like gas is to cars.
I write this as it is my personal experience:
I first learned Java and then C++.
Shortly after learning C++ I learned wxWidgets (it was named wxWindows then). To make a long history short, I only missed serialization from Java, almost everything else felt better in C++/wx than in Java, especially GUI stuff.
And one of the reasons for it is that wx doesn't use C++ templates at all. No bloated code. It's even simpler to use than Java.
Well the other thing that I miss from Java is JDBC. wxODBC is just ugly (looks like MFC code).
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It really satisfies that requirement.
And it was written before the term cyberspace even existed !!!
Anyway, I believe that a good matematician that knows how to program can run circles around anyone that just knows how to program.
Just see the greatest names in the past, almost all mathematicians: Turing, McArthy, Knuth...
Even this guy was a mathematician first.
Yours are the words of someone who have never user wxWidgets.
It's simple to code portable C++ with it, in fact is much easier and nicer to code using C++ with wxWidgets than using Java for anything user interface related.
For the rest, it's about the same.
I believe a embeddable lisp with a wxWindows library would be "the" killer platform.
:/
It would have DBs, GUI, threads, and of all the object oriented C descendants, C++ the wxWindows version (because it feels like that) is the one I like the most (much much more than Java).
There was a project like that a couple of years ago, but it seems to have vanished...
Science is not about impressing you or other people, religion is.
This is cool because it is a nice and useful applicacion of known science, not because you can see it in eMpTee-Vee and drool.
I assume you don't know about Opera.
Most Firefox criticisms are surely unfair if compared with IE.
But compared to Opera, Firefox feels really unpolished to me.
Huh ???
I don't have an Apple computer.
Yahoo! Desktop Search requires Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+
You seem to have a lot of ancient formats, but you have to see the future too.
In other words, there is no desktop search engine that has support for indexing microsoft reader (*.lit) files, or Aportis doc (*.prc, *.pdb) files and all the ebook formats out there.
That's more important than ancient database file formats.
People have never accepted death at the end of their lives.
Egiptian religion had a second life in a paradise world and it was far more important than actual life for lots of believers.
Christian religion adapted that idea and then rich people spend fortunes buying their afterlife salvation.
If people can believe bullshit and spend their lives towards fulfilling that bullshit, then spending money in cloning a cat is a much more logical end.
You sound like the "Ohh no the young people is nuts!! they don't obey their parents!! this modern times sucks!!" found in an ancient table some thousand B.C.
That's because the concept of soul and your countless millenia of ponderance add a lot of cruft and bullshit to it.
First and all is the idea of the soul living after the body dies.
And then all the bullshit about saving it, going to heaven or whatever the religion says.
That the soul is the sentient part, well why not call that part just "mind" ?
C++ !!!!!!!
You don't have to use templates or even objects in every C++ program.
Just writing this:is C++. You have FREEDOM in C++ to use the paradigm you wish. If you don't want to use objects you don't have to go back to C.
It's not that humans and rat's have a similar brain, or similar hands or only that they are mammals.
They are a lot of other mammals far less useful than rats. That's because rats and humans have a similar immnune system, one that has to resist to several kinds of infections.
And transplant related issues are very much immune system issues, because when a transplant fails, it's often because the immnune system rejects it.
That's the reason they use rats for this and chimps for brain related stuff. Being just a mammal is not useful enough.
But I'm not talking about the Interface, but the NAME.
Your complaints are somewhat right, except you are talking about something else than I do.
Then its a reason to speak even louder, as 10.000 times is of course not enough.
The point is not to say "interesting" stuff, the point is to CHANGE something, as boring as it may be.
It reads fast and nice in Colombia
Well, then you should know that Larry Wall was a winner of the IOCCC in 1987.
I fu$%&ed a Gentoo instalation by typing a wrong rm something in the chroot part, when reading the instructions.
/, sometimes a simple command can do heavy damage.
Not every rm something is rm -rf
And I wasn't aware of the echo * stuff.