Already read: I robot Ender's Game Foundation Trilogy Foundation's Edge
Right now it's being used as an MP3 portable player.
Donwside: It's expensive.
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No, I like the idea, and I'm willing to work in that.
It's that I don't think it is a trivial task, having worked in that a couple of years and seeing that as my future too. You put a lot neurons, apply electricity a la Frankenstein and voila!.
But read my.sig and see what I believe will be the path to do it.
It is my understanding that given enough neurons is not enough to make the system complex enough for becoming self-aware.
I even see that what is your fear, for it can happen in your point of view, will be the frustation of countless people in the future, finding that a large number of neurons and random complexity is not enough to make a concious mind, limiting severely this technique in the future (for robots for example).
However that system could even drive our cars in a day to day basis. (Not being concious is not a bug, is a feature!)
Anyway it doesn't matter. In the future you and I will be dead, and some other people that doesn't feel disturbed by that research will do the work.
Until I used Opera mouse gestures, the hacker way to do everything was the keyboard for that was the fastest way.
However, what Opera manages to do in an awesome way, is making the mouse more useful and faster than in any other software I used (except for games).
I've used the FF extensions, and while they allow me to use the mouse, there are but a few gestures only, and they don't have that feel of "faster than the keyboard" that Opera mouse gestures have.
In short, Opera leads with innovations and great implementation, to the details, while FF tries to copy them but fails.
I'm reading the Foundations novels in a PDA and can read them at any time, and it's very fun, I would have read them in paper but this is much easier to carry, no heavy bags and stuff. And I can read in the boring part of a class and no one notices it, etc...
I have already read "I robot", "the end of eternity" and a few others.
So I do think ebooks extends to novels and the like. It's just that you need young eyes to like it.
I believe that we evolved both culturally and genetically to be able to get clothings (leather at first) and THEN we evolved genetically to not to have fur.
That's logical to me. What other reason could you imagine to not to have fur?
And that furless also created the concept of being naked, but that's other topic.
Turtle geometry is not a book about programming paradigms, but it leverages LOGO to levels where no one would have imagined. Way beyond programming for children and sometimes into topics only teached in college.
Logo is a much more powerful programming language than most people can get. And it's because is very related to lisp. The limits I found 13 years ago when I learned LOGO, where in almost all the books about it, not in the language itself.
There is nothing wrong with OOP, but there is nothing magical about it either. And I'm a C++ fan.
Upgrading from 98 to 2K/XP is like going from MacOS 9.x to OSX. There are big changes going under the hoods. In fact, the changes were bigger in the Mac side.
The differences between 2K and XP are almost entirely in the UI. There are no real big changes going under the hoods, only fisher-price interface "improvements".
I learned Java first, and then C++ with wxWindows (now wxWigdets).
The change was so welcome that now I use C++ with wxWin almost exclusively, even if somethimes I have to use Java (because someone pays me to use it).
It has not only GUI classes but several data structures and system functions that make very easy to leverage the operating system API without actually going down and using it. Try to make a nice screensaver in Java.
There is something I miss from Java, because I have to implement similar things in C++ and is serialization. That's where the difference between C++ and Java lies to me. ODBC is also better in Java, but there are ODBC libraries for C++.
I find almost everything else better in C++. But remember, do not use features of the language that you do not fully understand. Just because C++ has templates, it doesn't mean you have to use them just to feel like you're using C++. The same with multiple inheritance, in fact, never use it.
And compared to Java, good C++ is fast as hell. The right tool for the right job, bla, bla, bla, etc...
Well, AWT is poor UI design and the Java library has so much inconsistencies (array vs. vector) that it counts as slipshod coding.
And yes, the language counts, you simply can't write a program that uses less than 10 MB of memory in Java (the virtual machine uses that), against 10kb in another language.
Of course you could give the parent poster a 2GHz computer with 512MB of RAM and Java is a good choice for some software.
Anyway any decent C++ library (wxWidgets or QT) or better, Objective-C in OSX puts Java in the right perspective: it sucks for any proyect with a complex GUI (any desktop project). But it works on the server.
With the scenes in that movie, I really saw that a Goku movie could be done. Really, the scenes go from mr bean humor, to captain subasa football to dragon ball Z football and it's totally freaking fun.
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How many users use "echo *" on a daily basis ??
I think that using "ls" is right and fair.
I do read novels on the phone.
Already read:
I robot
Ender's Game
Foundation Trilogy
Foundation's Edge
Right now it's being used as an MP3 portable player.
Donwside: It's expensive.
No, I like the idea, and I'm willing to work in that.
.sig and see what I believe will be the path to do it.
It's that I don't think it is a trivial task, having worked in that a couple of years and seeing that as my future too. You put a lot neurons, apply electricity a la Frankenstein and voila!.
But read my
It is my understanding that given enough neurons is not enough to make the system complex enough for becoming self-aware.
I even see that what is your fear, for it can happen in your point of view, will be the frustation of countless people in the future, finding that a large number of neurons and random complexity is not enough to make a concious mind, limiting severely this technique in the future (for robots for example).
However that system could even drive our cars in a day to day basis. (Not being concious is not a bug, is a feature!)
Anyway it doesn't matter. In the future you and I will be dead, and some other people that doesn't feel disturbed by that research will do the work.
We hackers tend to like fast methods of input.
Until I used Opera mouse gestures, the hacker way to do everything was the keyboard for that was the fastest way.
However, what Opera manages to do in an awesome way, is making the mouse more useful and faster than in any other software I used (except for games).
I've used the FF extensions, and while they allow me to use the mouse, there are but a few gestures only, and they don't have that feel of "faster than the keyboard" that Opera mouse gestures have.
In short, Opera leads with innovations and great implementation, to the details, while FF tries to copy them but fails.
However FF is opensource. YMMV.
I'm reading the Foundations novels in a PDA and can read them at any time, and it's very fun, I would have read them in paper but this is much easier to carry, no heavy bags and stuff. And I can read in the boring part of a class and no one notices it, etc...
I have already read "I robot", "the end of eternity" and a few others.
So I do think ebooks extends to novels and the like. It's just that you need young eyes to like it.
The only thing it doesn't do from your list is play dvds.
I have one and am so happy with it.
Symbian OS is something you have to try.
I walk around with my mobile-phone cord permanently wedget in my ear, actually both ears.
I'm just listening mp3s on the go.
And it is not even the latest version.
That's for me the best browser ever.
I believe that we evolved both culturally and genetically to be able to get clothings (leather at first) and THEN we evolved genetically to not to have fur.
That's logical to me. What other reason could you imagine to not to have fur?
And that furless also created the concept of being naked, but that's other topic.
At least that page doesn't show the errors you and others describe. Mouse wheel, arrows and scrollbar are all there.
However I don't think the cool e-mail interface would work.
Turtle geometry is not a book about programming paradigms, but it leverages LOGO to levels where no one would have imagined. Way beyond programming for children and sometimes into topics only teached in college.
Logo is a much more powerful programming language than most people can get. And it's because is very related to lisp. The limits I found 13 years ago when I learned LOGO, where in almost all the books about it, not in the language itself.
There is nothing wrong with OOP, but there is nothing magical about it either. And I'm a C++ fan.
with wxWidgets than in Java.
I've used java and wxWidgets, and C++ just rocks with the right libraries around.
Java has some nice points, like serialization, but in overall, C++ wins, if you know what to use.
Well, I respect your experience about XP, even if I can say the same about my 2k install.
Then let me rephase my complaints:
I really would like that XP GUI never, ever happened. And the name too, XP should be only eXtreme Programming.
And who modded you as insightful?
Upgrading from 98 to 2K/XP is like going from MacOS 9.x to OSX. There are big changes going under the hoods. In fact, the changes were bigger in the Mac side.
The differences between 2K and XP are almost entirely in the UI. There are no real big changes going under the hoods, only fisher-price interface "improvements".
I really would like that XP never happened.
I learned Java first, and then C++ with wxWindows (now wxWigdets).
The change was so welcome that now I use C++ with wxWin almost exclusively, even if somethimes I have to use Java (because someone pays me to use it).
It has not only GUI classes but several data structures and system functions that make very easy to leverage the operating system API without actually going down and using it. Try to make a nice screensaver in Java.
There is something I miss from Java, because I have to implement similar things in C++ and is serialization. That's where the difference between C++ and Java lies to me. ODBC is also better in Java, but there are ODBC libraries for C++.
I find almost everything else better in C++. But remember, do not use features of the language that you do not fully understand. Just because C++ has templates, it doesn't mean you have to use them just to feel like you're using C++. The same with multiple inheritance, in fact, never use it.
And compared to Java, good C++ is fast as hell. The right tool for the right job, bla, bla, bla, etc...
Well, AWT is poor UI design and the Java library has so much inconsistencies (array vs. vector) that it counts as slipshod coding.
And yes, the language counts, you simply can't write a program that uses less than 10 MB of memory in Java (the virtual machine uses that), against 10kb in another language.
Of course you could give the parent poster a 2GHz computer with 512MB of RAM and Java is a good choice for some software.
Anyway any decent C++ library (wxWidgets or QT) or better, Objective-C in OSX puts Java in the right perspective: it sucks for any proyect with a complex GUI (any desktop project). But it works on the server.
And, Win 95 is not 3.1 with less speed and stability, it actually ran faster in some machines, in the 486s in my school actually.
So you have two wrong facts, the NT and the Win95 intros, everything else is sooo true.
Although it's not used by pixar.
I would say the same about C++ and wxWindows.
As soon as I learned it, I did throw Java out the window.
Compared to Java, C++ is fast as hell!!
Or "Analysis Services" and that's where you have to work.
No, plain SQL databases are not the place to look for niches.
Hey do you want to outsource to Colombia ???
I'm willing to work for you!!
With the scenes in that movie, I really saw that a Goku movie could be done. Really, the scenes go from mr bean humor, to captain subasa football to dragon ball Z football and it's totally freaking fun.
That's the problem I always had with X.
In pascal, when I was young. And I bet some slashdotters could have done it in much less time.
I believe that simple games that give graphical feedback of WTF is happening are much better for children that any text game.
BTW, programming the sound took another 3 days.