I would never want to you use anything but a keyboard or a brain implant for programming. Trying to do all kinds of funny characters and indentation with a pen would get very messy. Have you ever tried to write valid code on your Palm?
Uhh...does anyone else find this as frightening as I do? Just think of the ramifications of evolving computers...think, oh, I don't know, the Matrix or something...
When a true AI is finally developed sombody is going to be smart enough to deeply ingrain Asimov's 3 laws of robotis (or something similar) into them.
A Robot/AI must no hurt a human in any way
A Robot/AI must obey all orders from humans as long as it doesn't conflict with the first law
A Robot/AI must protect itself as long as this doesn't conflict with laws 1 and 2
If you read into the system requirements you see that you can't Sync with a Linux machine, you need Windows. This makes it just another extension of Microsofts empire with some different behind the scences stuff.
If you've been paying attention to the Freenet scene you'll see that it's impossible to search it. Everything is handled as a key value where you can input keys and find pages. This makes it hard to censor and almost impossible to trace where the server of the page you're looking at is but it also means that there arn't any search engines. All that needs to happen is for authors to give their pages nice keys and everything should work fine. This is a lot like how META Keywords should be working on the Internet today.
im going to write my congressman now and tell him to mandate this and to outlaw guns/unpopular and anti-government speech.
How can you even think of comparing guns to copy protection? When was the last time you read about a high schooler killing his classmates because he was allowed to take his non-copy protection with him to school? These are so unrelated I'm surprised you can even think of them at the same time.
Now that you're on the subject of being a true geek have you ever thought to look at the Geek Code? It's a neat little program to rate your standing as a geek. If you'd actually look at it you'd realize that true geeks want freedom, they support things that let them do what they want. (anarchism would be the extrememe of this) Giving into large companies who are trying to block your freedom is anti-geek if anything.
Yes there have been more school shootings thn in the distant past were nobody could get their hands on a gun.
But think about this: There can't have been more than 100 people who have died in school shootings in the history of the united states, yet you complain about this and don't even take into consideration children dieing in other countries because of wars. Many more people are dieing than you even think about.
This is too true. I know many people (teaches, etc.) who get sometimes won't even try to open and grade a file if it doesn't work flawlessly the first time. This is rather annoying because you can get counted off for work you did but your teacher was too dumb to open. Once nobody can tell the difference between an AbiWord doc and a Word doc then the converting of the clueless masses can truely begin.
If I've heard right then Mac OS X will be running on a BSD kernel. That could mean that you have a lot of fanatical mac users out there wating for their Chili.
I would reccoment doing it in C or C++ because they're both fast and much easier to maintain than assembly. (which will always be faster) Some other languages would be easier to program in but if you just looking for speed go with C/C++.
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I would never want to you use anything but a keyboard or a brain implant for programming. Trying to do all kinds of funny characters and indentation with a pen would get very messy. Have you ever tried to write valid code on your Palm?
Other people have posted that some versions of Netscape do work. I thought I'd inform everyone that my copy of Opera 5 for Linux does not work.
When a true AI is finally developed sombody is going to be smart enough to deeply ingrain Asimov's 3 laws of robotis (or something similar) into them.
That just about solves our problems doesn't it?
How can you even think of comparing guns to copy protection? When was the last time you read about a high schooler killing his classmates because he was allowed to take his non-copy protection with him to school? These are so unrelated I'm surprised you can even think of them at the same time.
Now that you're on the subject of being a true geek have you ever thought to look at the Geek Code? It's a neat little program to rate your standing as a geek. If you'd actually look at it you'd realize that true geeks want freedom, they support things that let them do what they want. (anarchism would be the extrememe of this) Giving into large companies who are trying to block your freedom is anti-geek if anything.
Yes there have been more school shootings thn in the distant past were nobody could get their hands on a gun. But think about this: There can't have been more than 100 people who have died in school shootings in the history of the united states, yet you complain about this and don't even take into consideration children dieing in other countries because of wars. Many more people are dieing than you even think about.
This is too true. I know many people (teaches, etc.) who get sometimes won't even try to open and grade a file if it doesn't work flawlessly the first time. This is rather annoying because you can get counted off for work you did but your teacher was too dumb to open. Once nobody can tell the difference between an AbiWord doc and a Word doc then the converting of the clueless masses can truely begin.
If I've heard right then Mac OS X will be running on a BSD kernel. That could mean that you have a lot of fanatical mac users out there wating for their Chili.
I would reccoment doing it in C or C++ because they're both fast and much easier to maintain than assembly. (which will always be faster) Some other languages would be easier to program in but if you just looking for speed go with C/C++.