Most of the environmentalist bunk over the past few decades is exactly that: bunk. It generally hasn't been well thought out. -Why- do we care if the left-handed spotted ocelot is wiped out? There is no reason we should care. We're on the top of the food chain. We have no natural predators (except tigers, but we've pretty much taken care of THAT, and again, why do we care, except that they're pretty?).
...the last two words, in fact.
we want to keep nature alive because without it, we might as well all live in gray cinder block buildings under flourescent lights.
in western society, humans are just a couple generations removed from living with nature instead of next to it. but we still like it, we go to great lengths to be around it, to look at it, to play in it, to escape from our normal lives and get back to it. we devote huge expanses of valuable real estate to it.
it's not the extinction of indiviudal species that 's the issue, it's the principle; some people get really angry when they see other people seeking short term profit at the expense of the nature we all enjoy.
the quote sayeth: Computer source code, thought unintelligible to many is the preferred method of communication among computer programmers.
again, nonsense. where i work, English is the preferred method of communication. source code, while (yes, i admit) more analagous to blueprints than bridges, is not "the preferred" method of communicating among programmers.
source code is not the preferred method of communication among programmers. for example, i prefer to communicate with other programmers with English, written or spoken.
Java is supposed to overtake Visual Basic and Visual C++ next year.
Says who? Sun?
Since MS couldn't lure people to their Java-alike called C#, they are now trying for another Java-alike called J#.
bullshit. C# hasn't even been released yet. you can get a beta of Visual Studio.Net, but MS hasn't released the final version yet. let me restate that - the shit isn't even available in stores yet. none but the brave few who've installed the VS.NET beta have even seen C#. it certainly hasn't failed, and from what i've heard, it might just be a damn fine language.
"Wow, maybe we're doing something really stupid. Let's stop doing that before 6,000 more civilians get murdered."
Then what?...
so, we're defending our right to do something really stupid? rather than stopping it, we're telling the world "now that you've done this, we're really not gonna stop doing that stupid something, and because you asked, here's some more stupid shit. fuck you world!"
eye for an eye went out with the old testament. it's time for the US to grow up.
You then end up with an extremely unbalanced work load as the ones who care the most do the most and produce the better product. Then they usually have to go around and fix up the people's work who really didn't care as much. All in all, it rarely leads to a produtive group and doesn't teach you much about the work force.
unfortunately, i think this teaches you a hell of a lot about the works force. those people who were happy with C's don't just disappear when you graduate - they take their degrees and go on to work, just like you.
...can usually tell you who did what and when. We had to use some kind of source code control system for all of our team projects. i don't know if the professor actually went through the check-in histories, but the thought that he could was a nice incentive.
The tragic events of Tuesday are the first time the American people have dealt with military agression on their mainland territory since around 1856. Do not tell grieving people that they are 'tired' of terrorism.
i think we're tired of it in general. even if it doesn't happen to us, we can see it happening everywhere else.
i was watching CBC last night and they were playing up a "canadaian connection" (mostly about the guy trying to get from BC to WA in 12/99 and about the airline hijacking a year or so ago) - but none of the US networks that i saw even mentioned canada.
/. was down 1/2 the morning and it's been in flake-mode ever since - you know where links always go back to the front page, logins are lost, etc.. no big deal, there was probably a lot of traffic.
the only places i was getting news from were www.codeproject.com (aussie winodws programming site) and www.washingtonpost.com.
"Bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire and Islamic militant, believed to be in exile in Afghanistan, was blamed for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in which 224 people died.
An Arab journalist with access to bin Laden told Reuters in London that the renegade Saudi three weeks ago had warned of an "unprecedented attack" on U.S. interests.
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There was a thing just like this for Amigas in the late 80's that used a crippled version of C for the bots. You could use "radar", shoot things, move, etc.. a lot of fun - and a good way to learn C.
And, before that, i actually wrote my own version of a programmable bot game for C64, using a homemade 'machine' language. no slick graphics here - you watched the memory space (each bit in the arena's memory space lit up as a single pixel on the 340x280 screen).
All of this based on a Scientific American article about a phenomenon called "Core Wars".
but, do you mean that software shouldn't be patentable at all, or that the PTOs need standards for judging software patents similar to those used for hardware?
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Compuserve used the LZW compression scheme in their GIF format, not knowning (or caring?) that Unisys had a patent on the scheme.
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Most of the environmentalist bunk over the past few decades is exactly that: bunk. It generally hasn't been well thought out. -Why- do we care if the left-handed spotted ocelot is wiped out? There is no reason we should care. We're on the top of the food chain. We have no natural predators (except tigers, but we've pretty much taken care of THAT, and again, why do we care, except that they're pretty?).
we want to keep nature alive because without it, we might as well all live in gray cinder block buildings under flourescent lights.
in western society, humans are just a couple generations removed from living with nature instead of next to it. but we still like it, we go to great lengths to be around it, to look at it, to play in it, to escape from our normal lives and get back to it. we devote huge expanses of valuable real estate to it.
it's not the extinction of indiviudal species that 's the issue, it's the principle; some people get really angry when they see other people seeking short term profit at the expense of the nature we all enjoy.
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where'd you get that idea?
/. readers are programmers and IT people who come here to kill time at work.
i've always thought most
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again, nonsense. where i work, English is the preferred method of communication. source code, while (yes, i admit) more analagous to blueprints than bridges, is not "the preferred" method of communicating among programmers.
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that's like saying bridges are the preferred method of communication among civil engineers. code is for compilers, text is for people.
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Says who? Sun?
Since MS couldn't lure people to their Java-alike called C#, they are now trying for another Java-alike called J#.
bullshit. C# hasn't even been released yet. you can get a beta of Visual Studio .Net, but MS hasn't released the final version yet. let me restate that - the shit isn't even available in stores yet. none but the brave few who've installed the VS.NET beta have even seen C#. it certainly hasn't failed, and from what i've heard, it might just be a damn fine language.
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well, at least your opinion is based on a fair evaluation.
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so, we're defending our right to do something really stupid? rather than stopping it, we're telling the world "now that you've done this, we're really not gonna stop doing that stupid something, and because you asked, here's some more stupid shit. fuck you world!"
eye for an eye went out with the old testament. it's time for the US to grow up.
unfortunately, i think this teaches you a hell of a lot about the works force. those people who were happy with C's don't just disappear when you graduate - they take their degrees and go on to work, just like you.
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...can usually tell you who did what and when. We had to use some kind of source code control system for all of our team projects. i don't know if the professor actually went through the check-in histories, but the thought that he could was a nice incentive.
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and, they only tested against three programs. anyone with a few hours on their hands can whip up an app to do this kind of data hiding - i did.
BFD.
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just for the record, it actually doesn't work with my brand new Dell system. (win2k pro)
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yeah, no shit. they'd probably be DDOSed and email bombed off the net.
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i think we're tired of it in general. even if it doesn't happen to us, we can see it happening everywhere else.
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you can find simple parsers on most source sharing sites (www.codeguru.com, www.codeproject.com, etc).
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i was watching CBC last night and they were playing up a "canadaian connection" (mostly about the guy trying to get from BC to WA in 12/99 and about the airline hijacking a year or so ago) - but none of the US networks that i saw even mentioned canada.
-c
/. was down 1/2 the morning and it's been in flake-mode ever since - you know where links always go back to the front page, logins are lost, etc.. no big deal, there was probably a lot of traffic.
the only places i was getting news from were www.codeproject.com (aussie winodws programming site) and www.washingtonpost.com.
-c
at the very least, we should find the orginzation responsible and skin each member.
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"Bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire and Islamic militant, believed to be in exile in Afghanistan, was blamed for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in which 224 people died.
An Arab journalist with access to bin Laden told Reuters in London that the renegade Saudi three weeks ago had warned of an "unprecedented attack" on U.S. interests. "
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There was a thing just like this for Amigas in the late 80's that used a crippled version of C for the bots. You could use "radar", shoot things, move, etc.. a lot of fun - and a good way to learn C.
And, before that, i actually wrote my own version of a programmable bot game for C64, using a homemade 'machine' language. no slick graphics here - you watched the memory space (each bit in the arena's memory space lit up as a single pixel on the 340x280 screen).
All of this based on a Scientific American article about a phenomenon called "Core Wars".
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the editor of the beast
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that's all it takes to break the DMCA - simply telling someone else how to defeat a copy protection scheme.
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interesting.
but, do you mean that software shouldn't be patentable at all, or that the PTOs need standards for judging software patents similar to those used for hardware?
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