But aren't you talking about something like 1 layer circuit boards with traces a mask designer could draw with a crayon? Those tend to stand up to more abuse.
I have to add that with your id as 'trailerparkcassanova' that I can't not imagine seeing you serenade a crowd of pigs around your mobile home with your guitar...
None had an industrial spin. I guess it's 'gauche' to talk about using science to make ourselves more successful in industry.
1) What will you do to help make American students interested in math & science again?
2) What will you do to help entrepeneurs wanting to start companies that apply science? Our economy has become such that only hugely profitable 'googles' are worth starting anymore.
3) Do you recognize that we're becoming a nation that does little but sell, market and consume products designed and built by others? How long do you think this can continue?
4) Why are we simultaneously becoming politically similar to China, in locking people into state dependence, and economically unlike China by creating a climate where designing and building things is a losing battle given taxes, entitlements, regulations and a useless, pampered, lawsuit-hungry, unqualified workforce coming out of politically-correct, declining, anti-science, anti-God and anti-industry schools?
But it was not an a**hole test. Everyone's got an a**hole, and so using advanced technology to detect whether or not you had an a**hole would be inconclusive.
The idea was that that they look for subtle physiological changes that you can't fake or suppress. That's why they ask questions about killing animals - in the BR world, nukes wiped out all but a few animals. Hens became as rare as hen's teeth. Of course a**holes were not in short supply.
'Course, if you're the type that'd be first in line for some freshly shot bald eagle, you might present some trouble for the VK.
Would you buy a green dog? No? Then why would you want a green slave?
Tatoo? In a world where you can grow eyes, I'm sure they can grow new skin pretty easily too.
Someone said, why not just do the 'let me see how much you can bench' or 'can you grab this boiling egg?' test. Yeah right. Let's burn real people to find the fake.
The one thing they can't fake is the uniquely human ability to care. And that's exactly what they test for in the movie.
In every computer language, after all the pretty abstraction is over, at some point, bytes need to be copied to/from hardware. The problem with Java is, they try and hide that ugliness. That's not a bad thing, and it doesn't doom other languages that try it (Perl, VB, etc.)
The killer is, Java tries to hide this ugliness *regardless of platform*. And in the process, it bleaches out the goodness of the target system and inevitably screws up something. Hence, you have to go through hoops (albeit easy ones) just to do a 'right click'. In Windows, if you have a menu pulled down, you can click the title bar and it closes the menu for you. Not so with Java (at least with Swing when I was last programming in it).
So, for any app that has to interface with non-universal software or hardware, Java creates pain. You have to write a wrapper to access the registry. You have to fight UI flaws and performance. Trying to make your server app launch as a service kind of works, but the implementation has holes you can never plug, and so on.
So, yes, Java creates this beautiful, perfect OO world that's a joy to program in. But it does so at the expense of dealing with the reality of the needs and capabilities of the platform.
Supposedly, Episodes I-III were delayed until the technology existed to do the creature animations. I remember hearing Jurassic Park was in some ways a test of that technology.
Ok, so what's the next frontier? My guess is, 100% digital actors. That is, you could actually have the original Han Solo (or even Alec Guiness!) in a 2010 movie using a digital composite of his 1977 footage. I guess Spiderman II already did more of this than most viewers realized even for close up shots.
I'm taking a wild stab here, but I think the ability to pull this off is arriving quicker than GL expected, and he wants to use Epidsodes 7-9 to be the breakthrough movie, just as Episodes 4-6 were for model/motion photography and 1-3 were for organic CGI.
Like every other consumer product, the American companies will have some cool innovations but eventually they will lose track of their product with sloppiness and misunderstanding of the consumer because they are driven by short term profits and sources of high growth at the expense of slow-but-sure day-to-day quality. Then the Japanese electronics companies will make an easy to use, cute, reliable product and walk away with the market.
When I first played W3D, my impression was: hey, what happened to all the cool things you could do in Apple II/Atari 800 "Castle Wolfenstein/Beyond CW" - e.g., wearing a stolen uniform and impersonating a guard, sneaking up on a soldier and stabbing him to get to the fuse box because shooting him would set off the alarm, figuring out the passcode for a floor, etc.
But, the graphics were cool, and I had fun anyway. I figured that all those cool 8-bit cerebral features that made the original Wolfenstein game so much fun would come back someday.
I'm still waiting. Maybe I'm too much of a puzzle kind of guy. But Doom & Quake always seem so action heavy without the puzzle & fun stuff compared to, say Duke Nuken 3D, Jedi Knight, Thief and/or Half Life. When I read repeated comments that this visual masterpiece gets old after a few levels I realize that it id is still in the same mode as they were with W3D.
But the graphics are cool and I'll probably have fun anyway.
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Remember 4DOS? They had this great feature: if you typed a directory all by itself on a command line, it would jump to that directory. It saved you typing all that cd nonsense. When you think about it, this makes sense as there is never (at least that I can think of) any other case where just typing a directory does anything else. I mean, why type...
[user@server somedir]$ cd/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/
...when you could type...
[user@server somedir]$/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/
It always surprised me that no one implemented this in bash, and finally I got around to doing it myself. It's a very simply change to only one file. My patch is to 2.05b - will have to do the 3.0 patch soon.
The one 'hole' is that command completion is a bit weird for the first element of a directory...if you have a directory that starts with 'ls', and you type ls <TAB> it will complete with 'ls'. Still, I find it to be very useful.
I dunno...in my memories ESB seems like a great movie, but whenever I actually *watch* it I feel differently. The Hoth and asteroid scenes are great, but a lot of the rest seems to drag on when I actually watch it.
I think that if the Ewoks weren't such an easy target for hatred, people would love RoTJ. I loved the intercutting of the Ewok battle/space battle/emporer battle as much as anything in the trilogy.
To me, *nix mastery involves learning a bunch of little tricks. There is no 'grand unified front end' that will do it all. Over time, you'll memorize the ones you use all the time. But some you'll figure out but forget if you don't write them down somewhere (e.g., how to do a 'find' with regular expressions and execute a command on each result). I keep mine in a wiki, a bit haphazzard, but always ready on the web and easy to edit, which means you'll use it.
Oh yeah, learn regular expressions. The O'Reilly book is great. The time investment *will* pay off.
Bottom line, like it or not...industry and profits support most science. Companies follow the money - this is their reason to exist - and if they can't make money designing and making things in the USA, they'll let someone else create it and sell/market it here. You don't need that many PhD's to design logos and worry about shelf space at WalMart.
Industry in the USA has changed in such a way to discourage the future Fords and Edisons in this country.
Through entitlement and victim worship, the unions and courts have made industry in the USA a lake of molasses and mines.
This pressure has trended Corporate America's towards fixation on easy, low risk, short-term profits to stimulate Wall Street. Forget slow and steady, long term, high investment, high quality product lines (e.g. Toyota cars, Sony TVs). It's a heck of a lot easier to slap a pretty logo on some carefully engineered Chinese wine refrigerator than to do design and build it yourself.
So, want to see science thrive? Then re-create the environment in which it thrived in the past.
Ok, after messing with the probably intentionally vague security settings, I have discovered that it is impossible to disable Active Scripting and yet leave JavaScript enabled. Same deal with ActiveX and Plugins (Flash being one of them).
Since most sites use at least some amount of Javascript and Flash (e.g. gmail), you're left with these choices...
* Turn off all scripting * Take your chances with Microsoft's flaws * Deal with the annoying 'prompt' for just about every page * Manually configure the pages you want as trusted sites
This is just another example of where people need to stop and think about their worship of Hollywood. Dryfuss and his ilk are *insisting* that the American people need to have the most vulgar of words pumped into their homes whether the officials they elected want it or not. Are we really to believe that the artistic glory of this program will be somehow tarnished by the omission of this trash? And yet we're also supposed to listen to their political opinions as defenders of the common man and representatives of goodness. Pathetic hypocrites.
The JIT compiler more or less is doing just what you describe. From what I understand, it re-uses sections of bytecode that have been translated to opcode so that the JVM is minimally involved in code it has figured out is important and happens a lot.
C/C++ is, really, standard shorthand for opcodes and binary files. The Java language is also a shorthand for bytecodes, but those bytecodes are helpless without a virtual machine.
The text rendering technology impressed me. The new APIs did not.
When will Microsoft learn...developers don't want great big heaps of their grand designs. There's just too much of an investment to learn their way of doing things, there are too many cages around the good bits, and everything breaks when you go off the beaten path.
Example: few 'real' apps use MFC - and certainly none of Microsoft's. They expose 'Fisher Price' versions of their tools which they hand code in good old SDK.
I mean, does anyone *really* use DCOM? I guess COM has held on bascially because there isn't that much that is 'Microsoft' about it and it basically works. But what happened to ATL? DDE? ActiveX? In fact, the only useful Microsoft software tends to be the stuff they acquire (Visio, SQL Server)
Now I have not used one iota of Avalon, but I remain unconvinced it will be anything other than their typical developer traps with a bit of 'hello world' cute app as bait.
Meanwhile, Linux hacks change the world with Perl scripts. Go figure.
You need good people teaching good things to good people to get good results. We barely pay the teachers, and so we scare away lots of good people from teaching. Our curriculums are weak and far away from reality. We raise our kids without a parent at home using the TV/computer as a surrogate and feed them non-stop hyperactivity chow, and so they are more or less unteachable.
Computers won't fix this situation. Maybe if we fixed the other 3 problems, they would make a good situation better.
Wow, what an effort and a change in strategy. Microsoft made its mint by being proprietary, but sort-of compatible with their old products while embracing and extending other people's killer apps.
Now, with every other OS based on a *nix core, not only does Microsoft continue to ignore this trend but they try to 'go it alone' and isolate themselves through locking down their interfaces with patents and tough to engineer interfaces. Sounds like the Great Wall of China, and that set back China a century or two when they were ahead of the world by about that much.
I think this strategy might have worked 5 years ago before OS X and Linux - particularly now that Linux has hit critical mass on the server. It's probably too late now to try and get users to walk from Linux just for a few killer features in Longhorn.
The last time the US felt it was slipping was during the space race. All of a sudden it became important to have more scientists and engineers, and the schools reacted.
Well, after 20 years of refocusing on socialism, environmentalism and multiculturalism, perhaps this is what the US needs to swing things back. I guess the problem is that the teacher base is now so liberally entrenched with pseudo-science, anti-industry people making $30k a year that even public outcry may not be enough to make a difference to affect the NEA's status-quo.
I'm not saying the US doesn't have a problem, *BUT* counting the number of published papers is not the best indicator.
I remember scanning countless papers back in college and finding the majority to be lacking in useful information.
My belief is, papers are college student's tickets out of school and their status symbol (e.g., I've published 15 papers...hire me). The worst thing that can happen is that your paper is found to contain errors or is a repeat of another paper. The way to mitigate that risk is to make the papers very hard to understand or apply. Hence, you end up with a lot of impressive-looking but useless papers.
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But aren't you talking about something like 1 layer circuit boards with traces a mask designer could draw with a crayon? Those tend to stand up to more abuse.
I have to add that with your id as 'trailerparkcassanova' that I can't not imagine seeing you serenade a crowd of pigs around your mobile home with your guitar...
None had an industrial spin. I guess it's 'gauche' to talk about using science to make ourselves more successful in industry.
1) What will you do to help make American students interested in math & science again?
2) What will you do to help entrepeneurs wanting to start companies that apply science? Our economy has become such that only hugely profitable 'googles' are worth starting anymore.
3) Do you recognize that we're becoming a nation that does little but sell, market and consume products designed and built by others? How long do you think this can continue?
4) Why are we simultaneously becoming politically similar to China, in locking people into state dependence, and economically unlike China by creating a climate where designing and building things is a losing battle given taxes, entitlements, regulations and a useless, pampered, lawsuit-hungry, unqualified workforce coming out of politically-correct, declining, anti-science, anti-God and anti-industry schools?
At first I was discouraged because I thought the billboard was looking for primes in pi, not e.
here's my solution
Yeah, that is a problem.
But it was not an a**hole test. Everyone's got an a**hole, and so using advanced technology to detect whether or not you had an a**hole would be inconclusive.
The idea was that that they look for subtle physiological changes that you can't fake or suppress. That's why they ask questions about killing animals - in the BR world, nukes wiped out all but a few animals. Hens became as rare as hen's teeth. Of course a**holes were not in short supply.
'Course, if you're the type that'd be first in line for some freshly shot bald eagle, you might present some trouble for the VK.
Would you buy a green dog? No? Then why would you want a green slave?
Tatoo? In a world where you can grow eyes, I'm sure they can grow new skin pretty easily too.
Someone said, why not just do the 'let me see how much you can bench' or 'can you grab this boiling egg?' test. Yeah right. Let's burn real people to find the fake.
The one thing they can't fake is the uniquely human ability to care. And that's exactly what they test for in the movie.
I care way too much about Blade Runner.
In every computer language, after all the pretty abstraction is over, at some point, bytes need to be copied to/from hardware. The problem with Java is, they try and hide that ugliness. That's not a bad thing, and it doesn't doom other languages that try it (Perl, VB, etc.)
The killer is, Java tries to hide this ugliness *regardless of platform*. And in the process, it bleaches out the goodness of the target system and inevitably screws up something. Hence, you have to go through hoops (albeit easy ones) just to do a 'right click'. In Windows, if you have a menu pulled down, you can click the title bar and it closes the menu for you. Not so with Java (at least with Swing when I was last programming in it).
So, for any app that has to interface with non-universal software or hardware, Java creates pain. You have to write a wrapper to access the registry. You have to fight UI flaws and performance. Trying to make your server app launch as a service kind of works, but the implementation has holes you can never plug, and so on.
So, yes, Java creates this beautiful, perfect OO world that's a joy to program in. But it does so at the expense of dealing with the reality of the needs and capabilities of the platform.
Supposedly, Episodes I-III were delayed until the technology existed to do the creature animations. I remember hearing Jurassic Park was in some ways a test of that technology.
Ok, so what's the next frontier? My guess is, 100% digital actors. That is, you could actually have the original Han Solo (or even Alec Guiness!) in a 2010 movie using a digital composite of his 1977 footage. I guess Spiderman II already did more of this than most viewers realized even for close up shots.
I'm taking a wild stab here, but I think the ability to pull this off is arriving quicker than GL expected, and he wants to use Epidsodes 7-9 to be the breakthrough movie, just as Episodes 4-6 were for model/motion photography and 1-3 were for organic CGI.
You're not the only one that heard this...it's a pretty well-known rumor
Liberals think they're voting for people that will fix people's lives.
Conservatives think they're voting for people that will stop fixing people's lives.
The truth is, no one has fixed anything, and no one is going to stop trying to fix things.
We often get crap that looks like this: "1+ is 1MP0$$18!E" instead of "It is IMPOSSIBLE"
If it happens often, I can't believe the OCR software doesn't have some way of flagging unlikely usages of '$' with suggested autocorrection.
Like every other consumer product, the American companies will have some cool innovations but eventually they will lose track of their product with sloppiness and misunderstanding of the consumer because they are driven by short term profits and sources of high growth at the expense of slow-but-sure day-to-day quality. Then the Japanese electronics companies will make an easy to use, cute, reliable product and walk away with the market.
Disclaimer: Haven't gotten Doom 3 yet
When I first played W3D, my impression was: hey, what happened to all the cool things you could do in Apple II/Atari 800 "Castle Wolfenstein/Beyond CW" - e.g., wearing a stolen uniform and impersonating a guard, sneaking up on a soldier and stabbing him to get to the fuse box because shooting him would set off the alarm, figuring out the passcode for a floor, etc.
But, the graphics were cool, and I had fun anyway. I figured that all those cool 8-bit cerebral features that made the original Wolfenstein game so much fun would come back someday.
I'm still waiting. Maybe I'm too much of a puzzle kind of guy. But Doom & Quake always seem so action heavy without the puzzle & fun stuff compared to, say Duke Nuken 3D, Jedi Knight, Thief and/or Half Life. When I read repeated comments that this visual masterpiece gets old after a few levels I realize that it id is still in the same mode as they were with W3D.
But the graphics are cool and I'll probably have fun anyway.
http://mattwalsh.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/BashDire
The one 'hole' is that command completion is a bit weird for the first element of a directory...if you have a directory that starts with 'ls', and you type ls <TAB> it will complete with 'ls'. Still, I find it to be very useful.
I dunno...in my memories ESB seems like a great movie, but whenever I actually *watch* it I feel differently. The Hoth and asteroid scenes are great, but a lot of the rest seems to drag on when I actually watch it.
I think that if the Ewoks weren't such an easy target for hatred, people would love RoTJ. I loved the intercutting of the Ewok battle/space battle/emporer battle as much as anything in the trilogy.
Heck, no I want an Atari *400* keyboard! Coke-proof and finger strengthening.
To me, *nix mastery involves learning a bunch of little tricks. There is no 'grand unified front end' that will do it all. Over time, you'll memorize the ones you use all the time. But some you'll figure out but forget if you don't write them down somewhere (e.g., how to do a 'find' with regular expressions and execute a command on each result). I keep mine in a wiki, a bit haphazzard, but always ready on the web and easy to edit, which means you'll use it.
Oh yeah, learn regular expressions. The O'Reilly book is great. The time investment *will* pay off.
Bottom line, like it or not...industry and profits support most science. Companies follow the money - this is their reason to exist - and if they can't make money designing and making things in the USA, they'll let someone else create it and sell/market it here. You don't need that many PhD's to design logos and worry about shelf space at WalMart.
Industry in the USA has changed in such a way to discourage the future Fords and Edisons in this country.
Through entitlement and victim worship, the unions and courts have made industry in the USA a lake of molasses and mines.
This pressure has trended Corporate America's towards fixation on easy, low risk, short-term profits to stimulate Wall Street. Forget slow and steady, long term, high investment, high quality product lines (e.g. Toyota cars, Sony TVs). It's a heck of a lot easier to slap a pretty logo on some carefully engineered Chinese wine refrigerator than to do design and build it yourself.
So, want to see science thrive? Then re-create the environment in which it thrived in the past.
Ok, after messing with the probably intentionally vague security settings, I have discovered that it is impossible to disable Active Scripting and yet leave JavaScript enabled. Same deal with ActiveX and Plugins (Flash being one of them).
...but I guess that's a bit too much to ask for.
Since most sites use at least some amount of Javascript and Flash (e.g. gmail), you're left with these choices...
* Turn off all scripting
* Take your chances with Microsoft's flaws
* Deal with the annoying 'prompt' for just about every page
* Manually configure the pages you want as trusted sites
Boy, I wish there was a selection that said...
"Disable all Microsoft(R) Web Technologies"
This is just another example of where people need to stop and think about their worship of Hollywood. Dryfuss and his ilk are *insisting* that the American people need to have the most vulgar of words pumped into their homes whether the officials they elected want it or not. Are we really to believe that the artistic glory of this program will be somehow tarnished by the omission of this trash? And yet we're also supposed to listen to their political opinions as defenders of the common man and representatives of goodness. Pathetic hypocrites.
The JIT compiler more or less is doing just what you describe. From what I understand, it re-uses sections of bytecode that have been translated to opcode so that the JVM is minimally involved in code it has figured out is important and happens a lot.
C/C++ is, really, standard shorthand for opcodes and binary files. The Java language is also a shorthand for bytecodes, but those bytecodes are helpless without a virtual machine.
The text rendering technology impressed me. The new APIs did not.
When will Microsoft learn...developers don't want great big heaps of their grand designs. There's just too much of an investment to learn their way of doing things, there are too many cages around the good bits, and everything breaks when you go off the beaten path.
Example: few 'real' apps use MFC - and certainly none of Microsoft's. They expose 'Fisher Price' versions of their tools which they hand code in good old SDK.
I mean, does anyone *really* use DCOM? I guess COM has held on bascially because there isn't that much that is 'Microsoft' about it and it basically works. But what happened to ATL? DDE? ActiveX? In fact, the only useful Microsoft software tends to be the stuff they acquire (Visio, SQL Server)
Now I have not used one iota of Avalon, but I remain unconvinced it will be anything other than their typical developer traps with a bit of 'hello world' cute app as bait.
Meanwhile, Linux hacks change the world with Perl scripts. Go figure.
You need good people teaching good things to good people to get good results. We barely pay the teachers, and so we scare away lots of good people from teaching. Our curriculums are weak and far away from reality. We raise our kids without a parent at home using the TV/computer as a surrogate and feed them non-stop hyperactivity chow, and so they are more or less unteachable.
Computers won't fix this situation. Maybe if we fixed the other 3 problems, they would make a good situation better.
Wow, what an effort and a change in strategy. Microsoft made its mint by being proprietary, but sort-of compatible with their old products while embracing and extending other people's killer apps.
Now, with every other OS based on a *nix core, not only does Microsoft continue to ignore this trend but they try to 'go it alone' and isolate themselves through locking down their interfaces with patents and tough to engineer interfaces. Sounds like the Great Wall of China, and that set back China a century or two when they were ahead of the world by about that much.
I think this strategy might have worked 5 years ago before OS X and Linux - particularly now that Linux has hit critical mass on the server. It's probably too late now to try and get users to walk from Linux just for a few killer features in Longhorn.
The last time the US felt it was slipping was during the space race. All of a sudden it became important to have more scientists and engineers, and the schools reacted.
Well, after 20 years of refocusing on socialism, environmentalism and multiculturalism, perhaps this is what the US needs to swing things back. I guess the problem is that the teacher base is now so liberally entrenched with pseudo-science, anti-industry people making $30k a year that even public outcry may not be enough to make a difference to affect the NEA's status-quo.
I'm not saying the US doesn't have a problem, *BUT* counting the number of published papers is not the best indicator.
I remember scanning countless papers back in college and finding the majority to be lacking in useful information.
My belief is, papers are college student's tickets out of school and their status symbol (e.g., I've published 15 papers...hire me). The worst thing that can happen is that your paper is found to contain errors or is a repeat of another paper. The way to mitigate that risk is to make the papers very hard to understand or apply. Hence, you end up with a lot of impressive-looking but useless papers.