How can you argue against socialism when your sig has a quote from George Orwell, one of history's strongest and most famous advocates of socialism? A man that had such courage in his convictions that he fought on the side of the socialists in the Spanish Civil War?
>Cool article, all the same though. I'd love to see more of this sort of thing on Slashdot, like back in the old days.
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A bit technical, says CmdrTaco. Wow! I understood every word. Perhaps those lectures are starting to filter in at last. Or general Slashdot osmosis.
It amazes me how much assembly still gets written. Except for a few obscure applications we should have the technology to be able to abstract the assembly out by now.
I think that the man you're thinking of is Roger Penrose (at least, he wrote a book called The Emperor's New Mind discussing all this and he made a case for consciousness at the quantam level). The thing is, we're no nearer understanding consciousness than Socrates was. There's still the fundamental problem of how we experience things. If you can simulate the brain in a computer, you can go through the algorithms with a pen and paper - but how can things being written down on a bit of paper be consciousness? Even with a quantum computer, you could have several people going through the code simultaneously.
Actually, Pratchett wrote the vast majority of the book. Even Gaiman admits it - he was contracted to write more Sandman and couldn't spare the time to write. It's a good book, but IMHO, I don't think it's as funny as most of Pratchett's stuff or as interesting as most of Gaiman's.
But how do you know? I sent Etoys an email complaining and promising never to shop there again, but I never got a reply. I'd love to see if anyone's getting into trouble over their handling of the etoy thing.
I have to admit, there's some practices that Amazon engage in which I entirely support. They actively encourage deep linking (unlike a few companies we've been debating) and they've really embraced the idea of getting people to help them sell books in return for a share in the cash. And they give out some groovy free gifts (my post-it notes are even now proudly displayed on my desk:)
On the other hand, they spam, and they sue over damn stupid patents. What a schizophrenic company.
Certainly can't argue about that. Why don't we ever have official, Slashdot-endorsed boycotts that we can all get behind? We always talk about it, but noone ever does anything *official*. There ought to be a proper/. petition, so we can send them about a gazillion emails showing them who's not going to be buying their books over Christmas.
Anything better for you? Apparently, you can survive on nothing but Guiness and milk. That's about 40 pints of Guiness and 2 of milk/day. It has its attractions...
He didn't admit it to it. I think it was a self-ironic piss-take thing, that only junkies want no censorship. He'd have been doing well if he managed to crack the page while he was on all that shit.
I'm not sure *plagued* is the right word - at least in this case. temp = (a.concatenate(b.concatenate(c.concanate))); is a lot more cumbersome than temp = a+b+c; . I think that there are areas where Java could be more consistent, but using + for concatenation is just intuitive.
Yeah, things do keep getting better for linux. Unfortunately, I have to use Slowlaris in university. When you're using your IDE's, think of me using vi:(
It depends on how fast it needs to be. It is a big problem, but have you used it recently? It often performs nearly as well as C in benchmarks.
True, but what you lose in memory, you gain in program elegance. The "everything's a class, inherited form Object" is a really nice way of doing things, IMHO. In the grand scheme of things, there isn't that much overhead in each small program. Why would you want all these simple apps for anyway?
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Hotjava works fine for me. It's faster than Netscape anyway. There's a *lot* of Java progs in development. They're only just coming out.
I bet the M$ employee who decided to stick the flight sim in programmed it specially. It was probably something he had knocked up at university and was looking for something to do with it.
I think its YOU that doesn't know much about Java.
The compiler doesn't care about case, except for the keywords. instanceOf is a method call because Java doesn't reserve it as a keyword; similarly, instanceof isn't a method call because Java *does* reserve it.
The guidelines say that keywords should be all in lower case. I'm not disputing that; I just think that they're wrong. As instanceof is the only two-word keyword (except for goto, I suppose), its an anomaly. Non-intuitive and confusing to the beginner.
Anyway, according to current naming conventions, it should surely be isinstanceof. Or isInstanceOf.
No, I agree. You are never sure that a program won't need to updated.
Anyway, compare it to other professions -- eg, carpentry. You don't just knock nails into the bits that don't show. Well, good carpenters don't, anyway. If nothing else, it's a matter of pride.
If it follows the conventions(?), they're arse. I remember trying to use instanceof for the first time. I thought it was a keyword, but instanceOf didn't compile. Neither did other variations. Then I thought, hmm, maybe it's a method in Object. How about.instanceOf() ? Etcetera.
Actually, why not implement it as a method? Or allow instanceof and instanceOf? Or have a warning in the compiler? Any ideas?
Just being a pedant, I think we're more closely related to bonobos than chimps.
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There is a basis for "Lin-nucks" - linux was based on minix, pronounced "lin-nix". Of course, that's just my interpretation of how "lin-nucks" is pronounced...
Communism, socialism, he was fairly left-wing. Try reading Homage to Catalonia (an autobiographical account of his experiences in Spain) for an insight into his views. The Manic Street Preachers song, If You Tolerate This, was inspired by it, incidentally.
I don't believe there's much difference between communism and socialism, BTW. Their aims are basically the same, based on Marxist philosophy. Of course, communism is also associated with certain regimes now, and seems to signify a lot of unrelated things, especially to Americans (hope that didn't sound patronising).
I'm not quite sure what the last few words of your post meant.
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How can you argue against socialism when your sig has a quote from George Orwell, one of history's strongest and most famous advocates of socialism? A man that had such courage in his convictions that he fought on the side of the socialists in the Spanish Civil War?
>Cool article, all the same though. I'd love to see more of this sort of thing on Slashdot, like back in the old days.
I second that! Nice article.
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A bit technical, says CmdrTaco. Wow! I understood every word. Perhaps those lectures are starting to filter in at last. Or general Slashdot osmosis.
It amazes me how much assembly still gets written. Except for a few obscure applications we should have the technology to be able to abstract the assembly out by now.
I think that the man you're thinking of is Roger Penrose (at least, he wrote a book called The Emperor's New Mind discussing all this and he made a case for consciousness at the quantam level). The thing is, we're no nearer understanding consciousness than Socrates was. There's still the fundamental problem of how we experience things. If you can simulate the brain in a computer, you can go through the algorithms with a pen and paper - but how can things being written down on a bit of paper be consciousness? Even with a quantum computer, you could have several people going through the code simultaneously.
Yes, but aren't most of us boycotting Amazon?
Actually, Pratchett wrote the vast majority of the book. Even Gaiman admits it - he was contracted to write more Sandman and couldn't spare the time to write. It's a good book, but IMHO, I don't think it's as funny as most of Pratchett's stuff or as interesting as most of Gaiman's.
But how do you know? I sent Etoys an email complaining and promising never to shop there again, but I never got a reply. I'd love to see if anyone's getting into trouble over their handling of the etoy thing.
I have to admit, there's some practices that Amazon engage in which I entirely support. They actively encourage deep linking (unlike a few companies we've been debating) and they've really embraced the idea of getting people to help them sell books in return for a share in the cash. And they give out some groovy free gifts (my post-it notes are even now proudly displayed on my desk :)
On the other hand, they spam, and they sue over damn stupid patents. What a schizophrenic company.
Come on Slashdotters, boycott them!
Certainly can't argue about that. Why don't we ever have official, Slashdot-endorsed boycotts that we can all get behind? We always talk about it, but noone ever does anything *official*. There ought to be a proper /. petition, so we can send them about a gazillion emails showing them who's not going to be buying their books over Christmas.
Anything better for you? Apparently, you can survive on nothing but Guiness and milk. That's about 40 pints of Guiness and 2 of milk /day. It has its attractions...
He didn't admit it to it. I think it was a self-ironic piss-take thing, that only junkies want no censorship. He'd have been doing well if he managed to crack the page while he was on all that shit.
I'm not sure *plagued* is the right word - at least in this case. temp = (a.concatenate(b.concatenate(c.concanate))); is a lot more cumbersome than temp = a+b+c; . I think that there are areas where Java could be more consistent, but using + for concatenation is just intuitive.
Yeah, things do keep getting better for linux. Unfortunately, I have to use Slowlaris in university. When you're using your IDE's, think of me using vi :(
What about "The page has been slashdotted!"
As if we hadn't just found that out...
Oh yeah, and just replying to the real first post so everyone'll read your comment *coughs*.
I bet the M$ employee who decided to stick the flight sim in programmed it specially. It was probably something he had knocked up at university and was looking for something to do with it.
What about goto? Sorry, just being pedantic.
I think its YOU that doesn't know much about Java.
The compiler doesn't care about case, except for the keywords. instanceOf is a method call because Java doesn't reserve it as a keyword; similarly, instanceof isn't a method call because Java *does* reserve it.
The guidelines say that keywords should be all in lower case. I'm not disputing that; I just think that they're wrong. As instanceof is the only two-word keyword (except for goto, I suppose), its an anomaly. Non-intuitive and confusing to the beginner.
Anyway, according to current naming conventions, it should surely be isinstanceof. Or isInstanceOf.
To hell with not pissing God off! Lets start spamming him. As soon as he gets a taste of it, all of those spammers will get thunderbolted.
God: You've been hit with a snowball!
Richey
I can't believe someone moderated that to insightful after all those comments about it up there!
Seeing as we're going by digits, surely all those 9's means it's full of non-prime nos?
No, I agree. You are never sure that a program won't need to updated.
Anyway, compare it to other professions -- eg, carpentry. You don't just knock nails into the bits that don't show. Well, good carpenters don't, anyway. If nothing else, it's a matter of pride.
If it follows the conventions(?), they're arse. I remember trying to use instanceof for the first time. I thought it was a keyword, but instanceOf didn't compile. Neither did other variations. Then I thought, hmm, maybe it's a method in Object. How about .instanceOf() ? Etcetera.
Actually, why not implement it as a method? Or allow instanceof and instanceOf? Or have a warning in the compiler? Any ideas?
Just being a pedant, I think we're more closely related to bonobos than chimps.
There is a basis for "Lin-nucks" - linux was based on minix, pronounced "lin-nix". Of course, that's just my interpretation of how "lin-nucks" is pronounced...
Communism, socialism, he was fairly left-wing. Try reading Homage to Catalonia (an autobiographical account of his experiences in Spain) for an insight into his views. The Manic Street Preachers song, If You Tolerate This, was inspired by it, incidentally.
I don't believe there's much difference between communism and socialism, BTW. Their aims are basically the same, based on Marxist philosophy. Of course, communism is also associated with certain regimes now, and seems to signify a lot of unrelated things, especially to Americans (hope that didn't sound patronising).
I'm not quite sure what the last few words of your post meant.