...is the very height of foolishness. Even if your design is essentially sound, what if you've attached a valve the wrong way? Or forgotten to actually install the control for some key component? A remote-controlled test launch is the best way to find out about the little trick that Murphy plans to use on you. So why not do it?
"Cyc has goals, long- and short-range, It has an awareness of itself."
That's nice. Is he going to support this, or are we to take it on the principle of "if the businessman says it's true, it must be so"? How the heck can he know the system has an awareness of itself it we don't really know what that is?
What the heck is your sense of yourself? Can you define it? "I think, therefor I am" doesn't cut it, people. How does your sense of yourself, of I work? What properties does it have? If you know, please tell me, because I don't, and I've never seen anyone else say, "Yes, we know how sentience works now". Until we know how it works, we can't program it. And if you say "artificial evolution", I'm going to reach through the fiber-optic lines and kick you, because Cyc doesn't work like that. It was hand-coded, and that means programming it with sentience would have to be deliberate, and we don't know how to do that.
I'm sorry, I just really get annoyed with mainstream journalists who yell "Wow! It can think!", and similar nonsense. I need some more coffee.
Why do they need to manage e-business solutions? You'd think that hell would be a nonprofit for tax purpose. They might need something to help them organize housing, torture, etc. for each client, but regular DOS spreadsheets could do that quite nicely. Especially when you consider that they probably have a relatively small number of people assigned to each demon for housing and torture. In other words, the master list would only have to say who is assigned to which demon. That demon, in turn, would have no difficulty keeping charge of his 30 or so clients. Yes, I know that's a lot of demons, but I think it's reasonable. After all, before computers they would have needed a sizeable staff just to keep new arrivivals up to date in hard-copy lists...
As a programming exercise, this in entertaining. But not only is freenet slow, it's unreliable. Even when playing a game over email, you at least know where on the internet the email server is. With freenet, you don't have that luxury. Did you notice the bit in this article about having to set HTL high and be patient in order to make sure you wouldn't get a false error message? Freenet is nice, but not as a gaming platform.
My high school encourages some pretty bad habits. (Using material from the internet and crediting it to dead-tree books, code "sharing" in quotes, etc.
Also, is the GPL really a good habit to get into? I agree it can be useful, but if I were a prof I'd prefer that students look at the program they're doing and use the liscence that best suits their purpose. The GPL is fine for simpler progs, but I'd want students to get more familiar with commercial liscensing when they start doing commercial-type software, such as databases. The students are there to pick up job skills - picking the right license for the job like any other tool is a useful skill. GPLing everything in sight teaches you nothing.
...then I might find it useful to refer to your program to see how it's done. If my teacher permits, I might even want to integrate your program's aggregate-type handeling functions into my prog. One man's trash is another man's treasure. Come to think of it, could you email me that card-player? I really don't know aggregate types.
If a college says "You cannot GPL your work", it follows that since using any GPL-derived code would require you to use the GPL in your own work, you cannot use GPL-derived code. If there is no GPL allowed, then any action which results in your work being GPL'ed would probably be forbidden. Besides, "deriving" from hello.c is not going to impress your prof.
If you want to GPL a college assignment, just do it. Release your tarball or whatever to several web sites, your home page, etc., and include a copy of the GPL with the sucker. If your college objects - too late, the source is already out on the internet, and you can always plead ignorance. Even if that doesn't work, I doubt a college will go to great lengths to hassle you over a simple assignment - or even a complex one. They have better things to do, such as spending your money.
Of course, you can always just release your software on the Internet anonymously, and just say "who, me?" if anyone asks if you wrote the program they just grabbed off an FTP site.
None of this was intended as a troll, but I just wanted to point out that there's no reason to sweat the finer meanings of rules when they can be avoided altogether with such ease.
The other reason Atlas Shrugged appeals to teens (and this is why I read it) is that the female lead is hornier than the entire population of Slashdot combined.
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But the plot stank, and was a cruddy form of propaganda for objectivism. I never impugned the philosophy.
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Is he amoral then? Or is he simply passive? I seek clarification.
Even though we're all probably too old to read these books, I still say we should buy them. The series never sold very well, but it turns the potential geek onto technology like nothing else. I speak from experience on that one.
I guess what I'm saying is that I think we really should try to support quality kids' books like this one. And there's also sentimental value.
The Mad Scientists series was (so far as I know) just a pair of novels with a total of twelve stories describing the adventures of a group of preteen/young teen nerds, called the Mad Scientists' Club. The stories were generally technology-driven - that is, Henry might built a hot air balloon or a high-end haunted house, and the story would progress from there. I loved these books - so much so, in fact, that my copy of The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club has been read to tatters. I highly recommend either book in the series for the younger reader - it's what gave me my love of technology.
Laugh at this if you will, but my imaginary friends when I was young were all members of the Mad Scientist Club.
Imagine putting seti@home on one of these lantern computers, along with a wireless modem and Iridium hookup. You wouldn't even need a display, just crank in order to get a few of those oh-so-crucial work units out for Team Whatever. You could distribute these computers in third-world countries, and have massive computing power from millions of people just cranking these things a few minutes at a time.
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...is the very height of foolishness. Even if your design is essentially sound, what if you've attached a valve the wrong way? Or forgotten to actually install the control for some key component? A remote-controlled test launch is the best way to find out about the little trick that Murphy plans to use on you. So why not do it?
...we will have created the world's first fish programmers. Do fish dream of electric eels?
Imagine surfing a pron site with a cluster of these.
I didn't like having fifty karma anyway.
""No one ever told HAL that killing is worse than lying. But we've told Cyc."
So Cyc will open the pod bay doors after all, then?
Will Cyc have a cat named spot? And an evil brother? And "encounters" with Tasha Yar?
"Cyc has goals, long- and short-range, It has an awareness of itself."
That's nice. Is he going to support this, or are we to take it on the principle of "if the businessman says it's true, it must be so"? How the heck can he know the system has an awareness of itself it we don't really know what that is?
What the heck is your sense of yourself? Can you define it? "I think, therefor I am" doesn't cut it, people. How does your sense of yourself, of I work? What properties does it have? If you know, please tell me, because I don't, and I've never seen anyone else say, "Yes, we know how sentience works now". Until we know how it works, we can't program it. And if you say "artificial evolution", I'm going to reach through the fiber-optic lines and kick you, because Cyc doesn't work like that. It was hand-coded, and that means programming it with sentience would have to be deliberate, and we don't know how to do that.
I'm sorry, I just really get annoyed with mainstream journalists who yell "Wow! It can think!", and similar nonsense. I need some more coffee.
You can't expect congressmen to understand big words like "not". It's unreasonable. Those passages should have been written simply "No do this".
Why do they need to manage e-business solutions? You'd think that hell would be a nonprofit for tax purpose. They might need something to help them organize housing, torture, etc. for each client, but regular DOS spreadsheets could do that quite nicely. Especially when you consider that they probably have a relatively small number of people assigned to each demon for housing and torture. In other words, the master list would only have to say who is assigned to which demon. That demon, in turn, would have no difficulty keeping charge of his 30 or so clients. Yes, I know that's a lot of demons, but I think it's reasonable. After all, before computers they would have needed a sizeable staff just to keep new arrivivals up to date in hard-copy lists...
...but I didn't mean five regular monkeys. I meant George W. Bush-quality monkeys. I think you'll agree that's valid.
.sig, I actually mentioned my own 50 karma at a college interview. The interviewer was not impressed.
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As a programming exercise, this in entertaining. But not only is freenet slow, it's unreliable. Even when playing a game over email, you at least know where on the internet the email server is. With freenet, you don't have that luxury. Did you notice the bit in this article about having to set HTL high and be patient in order to make sure you wouldn't get a false error message? Freenet is nice, but not as a gaming platform.
Do the action figures say "nee" or "run away, run away!"
Has hell frozen over? Or are they just supercooling their red hat boxen down there?
...as long as it's the GPL.
My high school encourages some pretty bad habits. (Using material from the internet and crediting it to dead-tree books, code "sharing" in quotes, etc.
Also, is the GPL really a good habit to get into? I agree it can be useful, but if I were a prof I'd prefer that students look at the program they're doing and use the liscence that best suits their purpose. The GPL is fine for simpler progs, but I'd want students to get more familiar with commercial liscensing when they start doing commercial-type software, such as databases. The students are there to pick up job skills - picking the right license for the job like any other tool is a useful skill. GPLing everything in sight teaches you nothing.
...then I might find it useful to refer to your program to see how it's done. If my teacher permits, I might even want to integrate your program's aggregate-type handeling functions into my prog. One man's trash is another man's treasure. Come to think of it, could you email me that card-player? I really don't know aggregate types.
If a college says "You cannot GPL your work", it follows that since using any GPL-derived code would require you to use the GPL in your own work, you cannot use GPL-derived code. If there is no GPL allowed, then any action which results in your work being GPL'ed would probably be forbidden. Besides, "deriving" from hello.c is not going to impress your prof.
If you want to GPL a college assignment, just do it. Release your tarball or whatever to several web sites, your home page, etc., and include a copy of the GPL with the sucker. If your college objects - too late, the source is already out on the internet, and you can always plead ignorance. Even if that doesn't work, I doubt a college will go to great lengths to hassle you over a simple assignment - or even a complex one. They have better things to do, such as spending your money.
Of course, you can always just release your software on the Internet anonymously, and just say "who, me?" if anyone asks if you wrote the program they just grabbed off an FTP site.
None of this was intended as a troll, but I just wanted to point out that there's no reason to sweat the finer meanings of rules when they can be avoided altogether with such ease.
Do you know who said it? Just curious.
The other reason Atlas Shrugged appeals to teens (and this is why I read it) is that the female lead is hornier than the entire population of Slashdot combined.
But the plot stank, and was a cruddy form of propaganda for objectivism. I never impugned the philosophy.
Is he amoral then? Or is he simply passive? I seek clarification.
Even though we're all probably too old to read these books, I still say we should buy them. The series never sold very well, but it turns the potential geek onto technology like nothing else. I speak from experience on that one.
I guess what I'm saying is that I think we really should try to support quality kids' books like this one. And there's also sentimental value.
No, I am not a Mad Scientist pimp.
The Mad Scientists series was (so far as I know) just a pair of novels with a total of twelve stories describing the adventures of a group of preteen/young teen nerds, called the Mad Scientists' Club. The stories were generally technology-driven - that is, Henry might built a hot air balloon or a high-end haunted house, and the story would progress from there. I loved these books - so much so, in fact, that my copy of The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club has been read to tatters. I highly recommend either book in the series for the younger reader - it's what gave me my love of technology.
Laugh at this if you will, but my imaginary friends when I was young were all members of the Mad Scientist Club.
Imagine putting seti@home on one of these lantern computers, along with a wireless modem and Iridium hookup. You wouldn't even need a display, just crank in order to get a few of those oh-so-crucial work units out for Team Whatever. You could distribute these computers in third-world countries, and have massive computing power from millions of people just cranking these things a few minutes at a time.
No, I am not being serious.