Uhh, I haven't even graduated from DeVry yet with my Comp. Eng. Tech. degree, and I can assure you I'm making more right now than all of those guys that posted their salaries above regarding their EE and Comp. Eng. degrees. Granted, I may be about 3 yrs. older than them when they graduated college, but I'm still doing just as well for myself so far without a BS. Which is why doing part-time DeVry was necessary - to push that salary up to the $75k/yr mark. And no, I don't own my own business or do consulting. I work for a medium-sized, Nasdaq listed company, much like many/.'ers do.
2003-07-08 BROUGHTON, REGINALD C. Senior Vice President 5,000 Automatic Sale at $10.90 - $10.95 per share. (Proceeds of about $55,000) 2003-07-08 BROUGHTON, REGINALD C. Employee 5,000 Planned Sale (Estimated proceeds of $56,450) 2003-06-25 BROUGHTON, REGINALD C. Sr Executive Vice President 5,000 Automatic Sale at $10 per share. (Proceeds of $50,000) 2003-06-20 BROUGHTON, REGINALD C. Senior Vice President 5,000 Sale at $11.08 - $11.1 per share. (Proceeds of about $55,000) 2003-06-20 BROUGHTON, REGINALD C. Employee 5,000 Planned Sale (Estimated proceeds of $53,750)
WTF? Maybe I'm a newbie to stock trading, but why is Mr. Broughton selling so many shares under verious different job titles on the exact same days? Seriously, anyone have an explanation?
Pay reasonable prices and try to buy only things that are made in the USA. Remember that you're going to get what you pay for.
I don't know what you're smoking, but my Honda Civic which was cheaper and only slightly smaller than my wife's Chevy Malibu has been plenty more reliable and useful (it has fold-down back seats, the Malibu doesn't) than the USA-made Malibu. Regional build location of a product has very little to do with it's quality. It all depends on who's making the product, not their nationality.
This confuses me, because I read a news story in late 2001 which matter-of-factly explained that authorities would be contacting recipients of letters which went through a particular post office around the same time as an anthrax envelope. The implication, which I haven't seen any discussion of then or since, is that records are kept of every letter's travels through every post office. Anyone know anything about that?
I don't know about that story regarding contacting people who's mail went alongside of the Anthrax letters, but I know a smidgeon about this new mail routing system. Basically, it's the same thing as the UPS system of scanning every package at each "waypoint" during it's journey. So in essence, the mailman would have a handheld scanner to scan every mail that went to your house as he dropped them off in your mailbox. The major distribution centers would have auto-scanners, etc.
While I understand the privacy concerns, and agree that their should be some really REALLY steep fees for the bulk-mailer type companies that send out junk mail, some industries (the one I work in included) would really benefit from this, because verification of bills, payments, and other important mail arriving or not arriving at certain destinations along the way would improve customer service abilities and customer confidence (or lack thereof) in the USPS system and in those businesses utilizing the new bar code scanning.
I just did a rather in depth analysis about this for my company, and it would be pretty useful to us and our customers (actual customers, not "potential" customers - we don't spam mailboxes) if the USPS actually implemented this thing.
Why in the world would someone pay for a magazine online? Can they take it to the bathroom with them? Can they take it to the beach? The hair salon?
Think about it. The internet is an AWESOME repository for free, highly technical, high quality, highly used information. It is not an entertainment venue. Now using TCP/IP to enable video, audio, and gaming applications is entertainment, and for that people are willing to pay: witness MMORPG's, digital song download services (iTunes), etc. But for reading scientific research papers, "how-to program in C++" guides, etc. the "Internet" (not the "entertainment internet") will always be something people aren't willing to pay for. What savings is it to me if I have to pay for it when I could just go grab a copy from the library to take all over the house and outdoors with me for the few weeks I want to be entertained and/or informed by it?
I find it funny that most retailers online still don't get it about online shopping. I'm not looking for market hype to pump up the product online! I'm looking for dimensions, included architectural design methods, interoperable components, stress tests and accompanying graphs, and all the other vast amounts of information to be had that doesn't fit nicely on the back of the box at the store. And if that's not what the online store is selling, it better be hard-to-find, very unique, very specific stuff they're selling or it's not worth my time and effort to order it from them -> I'd rather just run to the store on my way home and pick up the item(s) myself.
This service looks like another pathetic attempt to sell content on the Internet, which failed miserably and continues to fail. It's even easier to filter out ads on the internet than to filter them out flipping through a copy of the magazine on the shelf. I can't run a bayesian filter on the ads in the magazines on the rack at the store or on my home mailbox filled with Publisher's Clearing House junkmail, but I can on my email inbox. I can use everything BUT IE to filter out ads on Internet web pages.
There is no time dimension: time is our perception of change. Our most accurate clocks are based on the rate of decay of an atom, or the rate of spin of an electron. A wind-up clock simply runs at a speed that we have determined will keep a reasonable account of time relative to other clocks. Time does not really exist - but it is useful for us to think of "time".
What does exist is change caused by the operation of our universe. Those outside our system could measure the number of cycles our universe has run for. It's a simple quantity.
Not necessarily. In an infinitesimal state, there are not "cycles" with which to measure anything, it's measureless by definition. So technically, if God exists and is an infinitesimal God, technically our whole universe, who we are, etc. all "rolls up" to Him in the sense that everything about the universe we know and can "measure" is ultimately just a subset of that infinite state -> God.
Yes, I believe in God and admit that I'm a Christian, but I find this research on time to be quite interesting, and matches up to my beliefs quite perfectly I think. (My beliefs about science and God, that is) I suppose I felt like spouting off this subject because it's so interesting. I'm no physics guru, but this research on time seems intuitive, provable, and quite in line with the rest of physics research done to date.
No one has the kind of time to continually reboot the server that keeps getting DDoS'd 'cause it's running a MESSAGE BOARD for the domain name: darlmcbridesucks.com!!
Uhh... Let's not refer to them as "problems" but rather "opportunities."
The main() function targets all vendors without attempting to verify if the overhead of calling sue() is justified, nor attempting to execute lawsuits in an optimal order.
Again, let's consider this an opportunity, as we are assuming this opportunity will be transparent to the end-user (our benefactor and supreme leader, Microsoft).
No attempt is made to limit the resources consumed (threads spawned) during the counterSue() signal handler; as such, a large number of long-lasting countersuits (again, none of which can be proven to terminate due to the Halting Problem) may use up sufficient resources to prevent the lawsuit loop in main() from initiating new suits, or indeed crash the application program.
long int infinity = 32768; for (i=0,i<=inifinity,++i){ Sue(); GetCountersued(); CountersueCountersuer(); } Profit!
I leave it to you to work out all the bugs for SCO and upload the source via CVS to the following ftp server: ftp://ftp.scogroup.com/evilbits/code/profitengine/
Netflix, along with CleanFlix and the like are stupid distribution methods though. We've got digital media, we're GETTING to full broadband (very slowly, but surely) so why not use it? Why waste the gas, time, and annoyances of going to Blockbuster to physically rent a copy of the latest DVD, when I *could* just download a paid for copy of it? Don't even make it copy-protected. The RIAA and MPAA have their lapdogs scouring the net for illegally copied DVD's anyways, why not just nail every person that does that kind of file-trading illegally, but at the same time provide fully copied DVD's via a digital medium? Cut out the middleman (Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, etc)!!
Why the RIAA and MPAA would waste $1.50 on shipping each of those DVD's, CD's, etc. to BestBuy when they could simply be shooting them to me via the internet for $1.00 less (netting them an extra $0.50 per unit) is beyond my comprehension!
Sure, the "brick-and-mortar" stores will always be needed for when we need to go "browsing" for something to buy, but the Internet was supposed to revolutionize the way we do business and all, not simply add to the old ways. Maybe lawmakers will get thrown out of office enough times for supporting such mega-organizations like the RIAA and MPAA that things will change, but I doubt it.
As I am generally adverse to Microsoft and every ultra-bloated software package that comes out of the unholy lair in Redmond, WA, I had to find myself a semi-useful, similar alternative to VC++ for my C++ programming class this semester. What I found is Dev-C++ from Bloodshed Software. From their website regarding Dev-C++'s features:
Bloodshed Dev-C++ is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the C/C++ programming language. It uses Mingw port of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) as it's compiler. Dev-C++ can also be used in combination with Cygwin or any other GCC based compiler.
Features are:
- Support GCC-based compilers - Integrated debugging (using GDB) - Project Manager - Customizable syntax highlighting editor - Class Browser - Code Completion - Function listing - Profiling support - Quickly create Windows, console, static libraries and DLLs - Support of templates for creating your own project types - Makefile creation - Edit and compile Resource files - Tool Manager - Print support - Find and replace facilities - CVS support
Source code : Delphi 6 Source code of Dev-C++ is available for free under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
I've used it for two simple labs so far, and while it may not be as "full-featured" as VC++, it's also simple to set up and use without a fuss, AND it still looks and feels to this novice programmer, just like VC++. (minus the horror of "Microsoft" bloat as far as I can tell) In fact, using WinXP at the school computer labs with VC++ 6.0 has given me compile errors and random memory overflow problems (they have new computers, it's not bad hardware) whereas Dev-C++ has not given me any problems building, compiling, and executing my programs. (Yes, I had random errors with VC++ that were NOT related to my program as I restarted the school computer and it compiled just fine with 0 changes in my code - go figure)
"(there is only one person that I know of that has actual shit inplanted in his body)"
Then you don't know any artificial heart recipients, knee reconstructive surgery patients, or artificial limb recipients, do you? The funny thing is, you're probably thinking about that one crazy scientist guy who had a transmitter and some diodes and other junk injected into his arm (I think?) a while back as a "cyborg."
Look everyone, sure there are plenty of "enhancements" that many of us have that are not biological in nature that are permanently (or not so permanently) attached to our bodies, but that doesn't make us cybernetic or cyborgs or super-humans. It makes us consumers of tools to help us out. I've got three tools to be exact that help me out: one metal screw in one knee and two screws in the other after my ACL reconstructive surgeries. The best we can hope for is some really kickin' tools that enhance our lives, but to think we can engineer an entirely new "race" of machines is silly. AI is the next big thing, but as a tool, not as a sentient "life-form."
ROFL! You've all been trolled! LOL! Yes, my wife is in law school, but the opinions above are my own. Of course I'm not going to get the intracicies of the law, I've not gone to law school!
Sorry, but I just couldn't resist going off about copyright stuff yesterday, and since I got a bunch of people to discuss, despite my trolling, I guess I accomplished my goal of creating a war. LOL!
Although IANAL, my wife is currently at school (a top tier school with a cyber-law class she just took this spring) and you sir, are most decidedly WRONG!
There is no case precedence for calling peer-to-peer digital file sharing "illegal" as all of the big-name newspapers (owned by the media companies of course) are calling it these days. There is such a thing as fair use, and fair use does allow sharing of legally purchased music, movies, etc., which most if not all of the mp3's and divx's online are, copies of the originally purchased movie, music, etc. The destruction of Napster did not create any such precedence to say sharing files between me and you is illegal, merely that they can't be offered up for free from a central server, i.e. Napster, because that is OVERSTRETCHING the provisions of the fair use clause in copyright laws. There is a huge difference between overstretching the provisions of a law and outright illegality.
You have been duped into believing just what the big media companies want you to believe to increase their profits.
While Thunderbird does have a few quirks to work out, it is pretty sharp, and I can tell you that it really rocks as a mail client! I like it's look & feel better than the standard mozilla mail client in fact. I've set it up to work with Fastmail fairly easily, and it does a great job of syncing up to my IMAP account. Better than Mozilla Mail from what I remember.
I'm also writing this on Mozilla Firebird which is a sleek and fast browser for Windows and Linux. I really don't use IE anymore except to access some corporate reporting type websites at work and to access all those lame webpages on the web that are designed for IE lusers instead of the entire web.
As soon as the Mozilla team builds a better OS/UI for Linux or Windows, I'll be switching my gaming computer over completely!
Glad you asked! Easter Isle is an example of ruining a habitat - the people that settled on that island destroyed all the trees due to overpopulation and poor resource allocation desicions and consequently *nearly* destroyed themselves entirely (they were running out of food and took to cannibalism until Westerners "found" the island once again and brought supplies to the "natives"). As for the sacrificial stuff, think 'Jim Jones'.
If we have all these robots running around doing all the low-paying jobs so much more efficiently and effectively, why aren't they working in the farms, in the meatpacking plants, etc?
Furthermore, with increases in efficiencies, the cost of the labor needed to produce the same goods goes down, so in effect, you would still achieve market equilibrium, and optimally you'd have food costing mere pennies for an entire day's worth of food because a few robots can produce 10 times the amount of goods in one day over what a bunch of immigrants working on the farm could do in 2 weeks.
So sure, the poor would still be poor, but it would cost them less to feed themselves anyways. And Mr. Brain completely contradicts himself in the article. He sets up this scenario where he envisions himself on this soapbox telling the world how robots are about to take over much like someone stating that planes going faster than the speed of sound would dominate in 50 years back in the 1900's. Well guess what? It does only take hours to go cross country now in a jet, but that hasn't eliminated the travel industry AT ALL!!! In fact, it has INCREASED the travel and tourism industries hundreds of times over, not the other way around. I certainly do not share such a pessimistic outlook on life as Mr. Brain does.
No, what you're describing (and what Marshall Brain describes in his article) is simply a major shift from people working jobs building things to people working jobs monitoring automated things. Not a single machine created by humanity has ever been capable of completely repairing itself, maintaining itself, or giving itself an upgrade. Nor will that ever happen. You may however argue: "But AI will do it! AI will determine what it needs, when it needs it, and do it all better, faster, and cheaper than a human! Nano-tech, neural networks, the Internet!" That's crazy. If you think that way, you're living in a dream world, Neo. We can indeed create machines that are faster, more precise, and stronger than we could ever be... i.e. the printing press, the automobile, the aeroplane, the rocketship... however we can never create something more intelligent than ourselves. To me, that's a philosophical debate, (whether we can *create* intelligence, or whether it's simply part of our higher instinct/divine gift/evolution/whatever-you-want-to-call-it) and one I don't want to get into. I'll merely state that as the belief I have.
I think our visions of what AI *could* become are our modern day Tower of Babel, and will never truly come to the full realization of what we all wish and hope for (machines that will do it all for us, allowing us to sit back and relax without a care in the world). Instead, "AI" will allow us more time to accelerate our understanding and exploration of further technologies and spaces (underwater, outer-space, sub-atomic, etc.) by eliminating the human error in measurements and repetitive tasks.
Ah, but where monks used to copy and re-copy portions of the Bible for months at a time for single passages, the printing press reduced that time to weeks for the entire book, and replaced minor errors here and there with perfect duplication of the text. The monks however, having nothing better to do did not sit around and waste away as you suggest the Wendy's employees will. Ultimately, to feed one's self, one needs to do some amount of work, even if that means standing in the soup line every day. Since generally 99.99% of humanity does not enjoy such meager conditions, people move "onwards and upwards" as they say, seeking better employment and more take-home pay.
Ultimately, all I'm saying is that technological innovation will ALWAYS generate new jobs, even if those new jobs never existed prior to the technological innovation. Print operators and computer programmers never existed prior to the printing press and the computer, but there sure are an awful lot of us out there in 'printing/computing' land today! Witness also the booms in employment and betterment of the world's economies during those 'break-through' technological innovations.
Just because the technology is there does not mean people will want to use it.
More importantly, no matter how much technology we have, we'll always find ways to keep ourselves more occupied with other matters through the USE of the technologies we create. The Matrix is certainly a very fun, very cool movie, but the distopian future of self-aware machines displacing humanity just isn't reality. Yes, I would rather have a robot properly preparing my cheap Wendy's cheeseburger over waiting 5 minutes for some high school kid to get done spitting on it, rubbing it on the floor, and then carelessly handing it to me through the drive-through window. However, when that kid gets displaced by some robot, I'm sure he'll find some other means to buy himself that rice-burner.
Look at history people. The only time a civilization or humanity has been "displaced" has been because the people self-destructed, not because of their inventions, mechanical creations, or otherwise. Now ruining a natural habitat, or creating "gods" to sacrifice themselves to, yes, that has a negative impact, but those aren't technological innovations.
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Uhh, I haven't even graduated from DeVry yet with my Comp. Eng. Tech. degree, and I can assure you I'm making more right now than all of those guys that posted their salaries above regarding their EE and Comp. Eng. degrees. Granted, I may be about 3 yrs. older than them when they graduated college, but I'm still doing just as well for myself so far without a BS. Which is why doing part-time DeVry was necessary - to push that salary up to the $75k/yr mark. And no, I don't own my own business or do consulting. I work for a medium-sized, Nasdaq listed company, much like many /.'ers do.
Hopefully there might be a cycle or two left over for the Windows XXXP 2010 updates.
So the pr0n spyware will come as part of a 'service pack' from now on? Oh, greeeaaaat...
2003-07-08 BROUGHTON, REGINALD C.
Senior Vice President 5,000 Automatic Sale at $10.90 - $10.95 per share.
(Proceeds of about $55,000)
2003-07-08 BROUGHTON, REGINALD C.
Employee 5,000 Planned Sale
(Estimated proceeds of $56,450)
2003-06-25 BROUGHTON, REGINALD C.
Sr Executive Vice President 5,000 Automatic Sale at $10 per share.
(Proceeds of $50,000)
2003-06-20 BROUGHTON, REGINALD C.
Senior Vice President 5,000 Sale at $11.08 - $11.1 per share.
(Proceeds of about $55,000)
2003-06-20 BROUGHTON, REGINALD C.
Employee 5,000 Planned Sale
(Estimated proceeds of $53,750)
WTF? Maybe I'm a newbie to stock trading, but why is Mr. Broughton selling so many shares under verious different job titles on the exact same days? Seriously, anyone have an explanation?
WhittleBit server whittled down to nothing in 150.030 seconds.
Pay reasonable prices and try to buy only things that are made in the USA. Remember that you're going to get what you pay for.
I don't know what you're smoking, but my Honda Civic which was cheaper and only slightly smaller than my wife's Chevy Malibu has been plenty more reliable and useful (it has fold-down back seats, the Malibu doesn't) than the USA-made Malibu. Regional build location of a product has very little to do with it's quality. It all depends on who's making the product, not their nationality.
This confuses me, because I read a news story in late 2001 which matter-of-factly explained that authorities would be contacting recipients of letters which went through a particular post office around the same time as an anthrax envelope. The implication, which I haven't seen any discussion of then or since, is that records are kept of every letter's travels through every post office. Anyone know anything about that?
I don't know about that story regarding contacting people who's mail went alongside of the Anthrax letters, but I know a smidgeon about this new mail routing system. Basically, it's the same thing as the UPS system of scanning every package at each "waypoint" during it's journey. So in essence, the mailman would have a handheld scanner to scan every mail that went to your house as he dropped them off in your mailbox. The major distribution centers would have auto-scanners, etc.
While I understand the privacy concerns, and agree that their should be some really REALLY steep fees for the bulk-mailer type companies that send out junk mail, some industries (the one I work in included) would really benefit from this, because verification of bills, payments, and other important mail arriving or not arriving at certain destinations along the way would improve customer service abilities and customer confidence (or lack thereof) in the USPS system and in those businesses utilizing the new bar code scanning.
I just did a rather in depth analysis about this for my company, and it would be pretty useful to us and our customers (actual customers, not "potential" customers - we don't spam mailboxes) if the USPS actually implemented this thing.
Why in the world would someone pay for a magazine online? Can they take it to the bathroom with them? Can they take it to the beach? The hair salon?
Think about it. The internet is an AWESOME repository for free, highly technical, high quality, highly used information. It is not an entertainment venue. Now using TCP/IP to enable video, audio, and gaming applications is entertainment, and for that people are willing to pay: witness MMORPG's, digital song download services (iTunes), etc. But for reading scientific research papers, "how-to program in C++" guides, etc. the "Internet" (not the "entertainment internet") will always be something people aren't willing to pay for. What savings is it to me if I have to pay for it when I could just go grab a copy from the library to take all over the house and outdoors with me for the few weeks I want to be entertained and/or informed by it?
I find it funny that most retailers online still don't get it about online shopping. I'm not looking for market hype to pump up the product online! I'm looking for dimensions, included architectural design methods, interoperable components, stress tests and accompanying graphs, and all the other vast amounts of information to be had that doesn't fit nicely on the back of the box at the store. And if that's not what the online store is selling, it better be hard-to-find, very unique, very specific stuff they're selling or it's not worth my time and effort to order it from them -> I'd rather just run to the store on my way home and pick up the item(s) myself.
This service looks like another pathetic attempt to sell content on the Internet, which failed miserably and continues to fail. It's even easier to filter out ads on the internet than to filter them out flipping through a copy of the magazine on the shelf. I can't run a bayesian filter on the ads in the magazines on the rack at the store or on my home mailbox filled with Publisher's Clearing House junkmail, but I can on my email inbox. I can use everything BUT IE to filter out ads on Internet web pages.
There is no time dimension: time is our perception of change. Our most accurate clocks are based on the rate of decay of an atom, or the rate of spin of an electron. A wind-up clock simply runs at a speed that we have determined will keep a reasonable account of time relative to other clocks. Time does not really exist - but it is useful for us to think of "time".
What does exist is change caused by the operation of our universe. Those outside our system could measure the number of cycles our universe has run for. It's a simple quantity.
Not necessarily. In an infinitesimal state, there are not "cycles" with which to measure anything, it's measureless by definition. So technically, if God exists and is an infinitesimal God, technically our whole universe, who we are, etc. all "rolls up" to Him in the sense that everything about the universe we know and can "measure" is ultimately just a subset of that infinite state -> God.
Yes, I believe in God and admit that I'm a Christian, but I find this research on time to be quite interesting, and matches up to my beliefs quite perfectly I think. (My beliefs about science and God, that is) I suppose I felt like spouting off this subject because it's so interesting. I'm no physics guru, but this research on time seems intuitive, provable, and quite in line with the rest of physics research done to date.
No one has the kind of time to continually reboot the server that keeps getting DDoS'd 'cause it's running a MESSAGE BOARD for the domain name: darlmcbridesucks.com!!
This business plan has several problems:
Uhh... Let's not refer to them as "problems" but rather "opportunities."
The main() function targets all vendors without attempting to verify if the overhead of calling sue() is justified, nor attempting to execute lawsuits in an optimal order.
Again, let's consider this an opportunity, as we are assuming this opportunity will be transparent to the end-user (our benefactor and supreme leader, Microsoft).
No attempt is made to limit the resources consumed (threads spawned) during the counterSue() signal handler; as such, a large number of long-lasting countersuits (again, none of which can be proven to terminate due to the Halting Problem) may use up sufficient resources to prevent the lawsuit loop in main() from initiating new suits, or indeed crash the application program.
Reboot the Matrix, simple as that!
long int infinity = 32768;
/
for (i=0,i<=inifinity,++i){
Sue();
GetCountersued();
CountersueCountersuer();
}
Profit!
I leave it to you to work out all the bugs for SCO and upload the source via CVS to the following ftp server: ftp://ftp.scogroup.com/evilbits/code/profitengine
Thanks!
To be honest, that's the one and only time I've ever intentionally lost my cool and trolled. Sorry.
Netflix, along with CleanFlix and the like are stupid distribution methods though. We've got digital media, we're GETTING to full broadband (very slowly, but surely) so why not use it? Why waste the gas, time, and annoyances of going to Blockbuster to physically rent a copy of the latest DVD, when I *could* just download a paid for copy of it? Don't even make it copy-protected. The RIAA and MPAA have their lapdogs scouring the net for illegally copied DVD's anyways, why not just nail every person that does that kind of file-trading illegally, but at the same time provide fully copied DVD's via a digital medium? Cut out the middleman (Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, etc)!!
Why the RIAA and MPAA would waste $1.50 on shipping each of those DVD's, CD's, etc. to BestBuy when they could simply be shooting them to me via the internet for $1.00 less (netting them an extra $0.50 per unit) is beyond my comprehension!
Sure, the "brick-and-mortar" stores will always be needed for when we need to go "browsing" for something to buy, but the Internet was supposed to revolutionize the way we do business and all, not simply add to the old ways. Maybe lawmakers will get thrown out of office enough times for supporting such mega-organizations like the RIAA and MPAA that things will change, but I doubt it.
As I am generally adverse to Microsoft and every ultra-bloated software package that comes out of the unholy lair in Redmond, WA, I had to find myself a semi-useful, similar alternative to VC++ for my C++ programming class this semester. What I found is Dev-C++ from Bloodshed Software. From their website regarding Dev-C++'s features:
:
Bloodshed Dev-C++ is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the C/C++ programming language. It uses Mingw port of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) as it's compiler. Dev-C++ can also be used in combination with Cygwin or any other GCC based compiler.
Features are
- Support GCC-based compilers
- Integrated debugging (using GDB)
- Project Manager
- Customizable syntax highlighting editor
- Class Browser
- Code Completion
- Function listing
- Profiling support
- Quickly create Windows, console, static libraries and DLLs
- Support of templates for creating your own project types
- Makefile creation
- Edit and compile Resource files
- Tool Manager
- Print support
- Find and replace facilities
- CVS support
Source code : Delphi 6 Source code of Dev-C++ is available for free under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
I've used it for two simple labs so far, and while it may not be as "full-featured" as VC++, it's also simple to set up and use without a fuss, AND it still looks and feels to this novice programmer, just like VC++. (minus the horror of "Microsoft" bloat as far as I can tell) In fact, using WinXP at the school computer labs with VC++ 6.0 has given me compile errors and random memory overflow problems (they have new computers, it's not bad hardware) whereas Dev-C++ has not given me any problems building, compiling, and executing my programs. (Yes, I had random errors with VC++ that were NOT related to my program as I restarted the school computer and it compiled just fine with 0 changes in my code - go figure)
"(there is only one person that I know of that has actual shit inplanted in his body)"
Then you don't know any artificial heart recipients, knee reconstructive surgery patients, or artificial limb recipients, do you? The funny thing is, you're probably thinking about that one crazy scientist guy who had a transmitter and some diodes and other junk injected into his arm (I think?) a while back as a "cyborg."
Look everyone, sure there are plenty of "enhancements" that many of us have that are not biological in nature that are permanently (or not so permanently) attached to our bodies, but that doesn't make us cybernetic or cyborgs or super-humans. It makes us consumers of tools to help us out. I've got three tools to be exact that help me out: one metal screw in one knee and two screws in the other after my ACL reconstructive surgeries. The best we can hope for is some really kickin' tools that enhance our lives, but to think we can engineer an entirely new "race" of machines is silly. AI is the next big thing, but as a tool, not as a sentient "life-form."
Intelligence != life.
ROFL! You've all been trolled! LOL! Yes, my wife is in law school, but the opinions above are my own. Of course I'm not going to get the intracicies of the law, I've not gone to law school!
Sorry, but I just couldn't resist going off about copyright stuff yesterday, and since I got a bunch of people to discuss, despite my trolling, I guess I accomplished my goal of creating a war. LOL!
uhhh... Bzzzzztt!! WRONG!
Although IANAL, my wife is currently at school (a top tier school with a cyber-law class she just took this spring) and you sir, are most decidedly WRONG!
There is no case precedence for calling peer-to-peer digital file sharing "illegal" as all of the big-name newspapers (owned by the media companies of course) are calling it these days. There is such a thing as fair use, and fair use does allow sharing of legally purchased music, movies, etc., which most if not all of the mp3's and divx's online are, copies of the originally purchased movie, music, etc. The destruction of Napster did not create any such precedence to say sharing files between me and you is illegal, merely that they can't be offered up for free from a central server, i.e. Napster, because that is OVERSTRETCHING the provisions of the fair use clause in copyright laws. There is a huge difference between overstretching the provisions of a law and outright illegality.
You have been duped into believing just what the big media companies want you to believe to increase their profits.
No, it'll just give you hairy eyeballs. Haven't you ever wondered about that unmarried unibrow guy in the office from time to time?
While Thunderbird does have a few quirks to work out, it is pretty sharp, and I can tell you that it really rocks as a mail client! I like it's look & feel better than the standard mozilla mail client in fact. I've set it up to work with Fastmail fairly easily, and it does a great job of syncing up to my IMAP account. Better than Mozilla Mail from what I remember.
I'm also writing this on Mozilla Firebird which is a sleek and fast browser for Windows and Linux. I really don't use IE anymore except to access some corporate reporting type websites at work and to access all those lame webpages on the web that are designed for IE lusers instead of the entire web.
As soon as the Mozilla team builds a better OS/UI for Linux or Windows, I'll be switching my gaming computer over completely!
RIAA Now Targets Pirates' Parents
Hasn't the statute of limitations run out on those scurvy sailors of the seven seas by NOW?
Glad you asked! Easter Isle is an example of ruining a habitat - the people that settled on that island destroyed all the trees due to overpopulation and poor resource allocation desicions and consequently *nearly* destroyed themselves entirely (they were running out of food and took to cannibalism until Westerners "found" the island once again and brought supplies to the "natives"). As for the sacrificial stuff, think 'Jim Jones'.
Oh, I just thought of one more thing...
If we have all these robots running around doing all the low-paying jobs so much more efficiently and effectively, why aren't they working in the farms, in the meatpacking plants, etc?
Furthermore, with increases in efficiencies, the cost of the labor needed to produce the same goods goes down, so in effect, you would still achieve market equilibrium, and optimally you'd have food costing mere pennies for an entire day's worth of food because a few robots can produce 10 times the amount of goods in one day over what a bunch of immigrants working on the farm could do in 2 weeks.
So sure, the poor would still be poor, but it would cost them less to feed themselves anyways. And Mr. Brain completely contradicts himself in the article. He sets up this scenario where he envisions himself on this soapbox telling the world how robots are about to take over much like someone stating that planes going faster than the speed of sound would dominate in 50 years back in the 1900's. Well guess what? It does only take hours to go cross country now in a jet, but that hasn't eliminated the travel industry AT ALL!!! In fact, it has INCREASED the travel and tourism industries hundreds of times over, not the other way around. I certainly do not share such a pessimistic outlook on life as Mr. Brain does.
No, what you're describing (and what Marshall Brain describes in his article) is simply a major shift from people working jobs building things to people working jobs monitoring automated things. Not a single machine created by humanity has ever been capable of completely repairing itself, maintaining itself, or giving itself an upgrade. Nor will that ever happen. You may however argue: "But AI will do it! AI will determine what it needs, when it needs it, and do it all better, faster, and cheaper than a human! Nano-tech, neural networks, the Internet!" That's crazy. If you think that way, you're living in a dream world, Neo. We can indeed create machines that are faster, more precise, and stronger than we could ever be... i.e. the printing press, the automobile, the aeroplane, the rocketship... however we can never create something more intelligent than ourselves. To me, that's a philosophical debate, (whether we can *create* intelligence, or whether it's simply part of our higher instinct/divine gift/evolution/whatever-you-want-to-call-it) and one I don't want to get into. I'll merely state that as the belief I have.
I think our visions of what AI *could* become are our modern day Tower of Babel, and will never truly come to the full realization of what we all wish and hope for (machines that will do it all for us, allowing us to sit back and relax without a care in the world). Instead, "AI" will allow us more time to accelerate our understanding and exploration of further technologies and spaces (underwater, outer-space, sub-atomic, etc.) by eliminating the human error in measurements and repetitive tasks.
Ah, but where monks used to copy and re-copy portions of the Bible for months at a time for single passages, the printing press reduced that time to weeks for the entire book, and replaced minor errors here and there with perfect duplication of the text. The monks however, having nothing better to do did not sit around and waste away as you suggest the Wendy's employees will. Ultimately, to feed one's self, one needs to do some amount of work, even if that means standing in the soup line every day. Since generally 99.99% of humanity does not enjoy such meager conditions, people move "onwards and upwards" as they say, seeking better employment and more take-home pay.
Ultimately, all I'm saying is that technological innovation will ALWAYS generate new jobs, even if those new jobs never existed prior to the technological innovation. Print operators and computer programmers never existed prior to the printing press and the computer, but there sure are an awful lot of us out there in 'printing/computing' land today! Witness also the booms in employment and betterment of the world's economies during those 'break-through' technological innovations.
Just because the technology is there does not mean people will want to use it.
More importantly, no matter how much technology we have, we'll always find ways to keep ourselves more occupied with other matters through the USE of the technologies we create. The Matrix is certainly a very fun, very cool movie, but the distopian future of self-aware machines displacing humanity just isn't reality. Yes, I would rather have a robot properly preparing my cheap Wendy's cheeseburger over waiting 5 minutes for some high school kid to get done spitting on it, rubbing it on the floor, and then carelessly handing it to me through the drive-through window. However, when that kid gets displaced by some robot, I'm sure he'll find some other means to buy himself that rice-burner.
Look at history people. The only time a civilization or humanity has been "displaced" has been because the people self-destructed, not because of their inventions, mechanical creations, or otherwise. Now ruining a natural habitat, or creating "gods" to sacrifice themselves to, yes, that has a negative impact, but those aren't technological innovations.