So Huffman compression has been an industry standard for 50 years has it?
@Article{huffman-1952,
author = {David A. Huffman},
title = {A method for the construction of minimum-redundancy codes},
journal = "Proceedings of the IRE",
year = {1952},
volume = {40},
pages = {1098--1101},
}
That's pretty bloody quick uptake on the part of the industry, then.
Wrong. Totally wrong. I might go so far as to say egregiously wrong. Schools are not for training, they are for teaching. Train somebody in a skill, he knows that skill. Teach somebody how to acquire skills, he potentially knows many skills.
I don't know where the idea came from that a school should only teach things useful for a particular job. And why does it only seem to apply to computing? Did my parents complain when I was reading Shakespeare in English class, on the grounds that Elizabethan English is no use for a job where everybody talks pseudo-English PHB-speak? They did not. Did they complain about my learning history, or physics? They did not. So why should the computing department be relegated to some sort of secretary factory?
Frankly, bollocks to MS Office. We're talking about SCHOOLS, dammit, not training centres for mindless click-and-drool secretaries. Give them a good solid grounding, get them into good habits, teach (remember that word?) them to use computers, and you'll be giving them a far better chance at surviving in the modern world than having them memorise the quirks of one office suite.
Sorry, but that attitude tends to get on my tits. Do you want to be a nation of secretaries indentured to the Evil Empire for ever, or do you want your kids to come out of school having learnt (look it up) something? Time to choose.
Ultima Underworld was out a month before Wolfensteinstein 3D.
Not only that, but it featured dynamic lighting (with dithering), decals on the walls, 3D objects, a plot (which the Doom types still don't have in 2001), sloped, variable-height floors... none of which id even managed to get into DooM. Oo yeh, ahead of its time...
He was arrested in a foreign country for doing something in his own country which is perfectly legal there. Excuse ME? If that happened to an American citizen in another country there would be a sodding international incident. HELLO? Earth calling FBI? Other sovereign nations, get the concept here? Hairy arse burgers, not only are they passing laws which blatantly violate their own constitution but they're now trying to apply them to other countries' citizens. Furrfu.
So let me just get you perfectly straight on this. If I go to Denmark after April this year, and I buy a CD-R, I have to pay extra because I'm assumed to be a pirate? I've effectively been found guilty of piracy and fined before I even get the damn thing home? God, you lot must be starting to think you live in the UK! (Course, we scrapped "innocent until proven guilty" some time ago).
The thrust of most of his arguments seemed to run "In OOP you might (emphasis mine) do $THING in $DUMB_WAY_NO_SANE_OO_PROGRAMMER_WOULD_CONTEMPLATE. Procedurally you would do $THING in $SENSIBLE_PROCEDURAL_WAY. Therefore OOP is crap." Then at the end, of course, it's "People who favour OOP only do so because they can't hack procedural programming." Pot? Kettle?
Then there's the constant assumption that the only thing you would ever want to do with a program is access a relational database. The lack of citations, understanding of how OOP actually works, any semblance of actual logic? And don't get me started on the stupid comparison with Communism. Slashdot, YHBT. HAND.
They called him a pioneer of the Open Source movement. You know how much he hates that. They're in for a tough few days of having Free Software explained to them...
Wasn't the scientist being caught in the aging machine and skeletonised in Blake's 7? I remember very distinctly having the crap scared out of me by that one at a tender age.
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The English title of the story is "And the Rock Cried Out" (And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place is a Gospel song as well as a Babylon 5 episode).
So Huffman compression has been an industry standard for 50 years has it?
@Article{huffman-1952,
author = {David A. Huffman},
title = {A method for the construction of minimum-redundancy codes},
journal = "Proceedings of the IRE",
year = {1952},
volume = {40},
pages = {1098--1101},
}
That's pretty bloody quick uptake on the part of the industry, then.
Surely the closest equivalent would be "Windows startx in schools"?
Wrong. Totally wrong. I might go so far as to say egregiously wrong. Schools are not for training, they are for teaching. Train somebody in a skill, he knows that skill. Teach somebody how to acquire skills, he potentially knows many skills.
I don't know where the idea came from that a school should only teach things useful for a particular job. And why does it only seem to apply to computing? Did my parents complain when I was reading Shakespeare in English class, on the grounds that Elizabethan English is no use for a job where everybody talks pseudo-English PHB-speak? They did not. Did they complain about my learning history, or physics? They did not. So why should the computing department be relegated to some sort of secretary factory?
Sorry, but that attitude tends to get on my tits. Do you want to be a nation of secretaries indentured to the Evil Empire for ever, or do you want your kids to come out of school having learnt (look it up) something? Time to choose.
We of the Greater London Linux Users' Group already do.
Not only that, but it featured dynamic lighting (with dithering), decals on the walls, 3D objects, a plot (which the Doom types still don't have in 2001), sloped, variable-height floors ... none of which id even managed to get into DooM. Oo yeh, ahead of its time ...
He was arrested in a foreign country for doing something in his own country which is perfectly legal there. Excuse ME? If that happened to an American citizen in another country there would be a sodding international incident. HELLO? Earth calling FBI? Other sovereign nations, get the concept here? Hairy arse burgers, not only are they passing laws which blatantly violate their own constitution but they're now trying to apply them to other countries' citizens. Furrfu.
> 'necessity is the mother of invention'
Nah, that was Frank Zappa.
Isn't that what about 50% of Heinlein's stories are about?
That was only cos the Girls cocked it up, though. Never trust a Girl ...
Eventually, if they get their way, the only people allowed to say anything would be philosophers ...
So let me just get you perfectly straight on this. If I go to Denmark after April this year, and I buy a CD-R, I have to pay extra because I'm assumed to be a pirate? I've effectively been found guilty of piracy and fined before I even get the damn thing home? God, you lot must be starting to think you live in the UK! (Course, we scrapped "innocent until proven guilty" some time ago).
Then there's the constant assumption that the only thing you would ever want to do with a program is access a relational database. The lack of citations, understanding of how OOP actually works, any semblance of actual logic? And don't get me started on the stupid comparison with Communism. Slashdot, YHBT. HAND.
There's a Linux-based games console on its way ... http://www.indrema.com/.
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Stupid bastards.
They called him a pioneer of the Open Source movement. You know how much he hates that. They're in for a tough few days of having Free Software explained to them ...
Tee hee! In the source for sysvinit, in dowall.c, your username must be "tyler" in lowercase and you must #define AEROSMITH when compiling. Cool!
Rats, that was me. Post anonymously got checked somehow.
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The Trilogy in Four Parts is available in one book, at least in the UK. I have the hardback edition sat on my bookshelf at home.
Wasn't the scientist being caught in the aging machine and skeletonised in Blake's 7? I remember very distinctly having the crap scared out of me by that one at a tender age.
I wouldn't bet on it. Remember we're talking about the kind of people who phone tech support and assert that they are running Windows 97...
Am I the only one who regularly re-plays the intro to System Shock just to hear the bit where Shodan goes "I re-examined my priorities ..."?
Didn't think so.