Its by Thomas Jefferson, if I recall correctly. It's a great quote. I wounder what would hapen if thy would use that instead of the Pledge of Allegiance for a while....
Moderation request: Please mod this off topick. This was supposed to show up at the "Java 1.4.2 releaseds" discussion. Sorry for that. Tabbed Browsing has it's dangers;-)
Does this mean monitor information is now reported correctly in profiler-dumps and via JPDA? That would be soooo great -- i'm waitng for that for 2 years now. Finding deadlocks using a trial-and-error aproach ist just a pain... Eclipse even has an extra "Threads/Monitors/Deadlocks" view, that just keeps telling me that my VM does not support that feature:(
Does anyone know more?
BTW: don't use the web-installer (window), it's slow. go for the offline version. And you don't need to fill the info form. There is a "continue download" link at the top.
Does this mean monitor information is now reported correctly in profiler-dumps and via JPDA? That would be soooo great -- i'm waitng for that for 2 years now. Finding deadlocks using a trial-and-error aproach ist just a pain... Eclipse even has an extra "Threads/Monitors/Deadlocks" view, that just keeps telling me that my VM does not support that feature:(
Does anyone know more?
BTW: don't use the web-installer (window), it's slow. go for the offline version. And you don't need to fill the info form. There is a "continue download" link at the top.
Would you people please stop that "energy vs. momentum" crap? What in Eris name do you think momentum is? It's energy, people! And we are talking about photons here -- beasts for which it is not even clear if they are particles or waves, and which travel at the speed of light. This is where the fundamental equivalence of mass and energy kicks in (remember, E=m*c^2?). Don't make Old Einstein turn in his grave!
How radiation-pressure is supposed to work is beond me. But it definitely does use the energy of the photons, transferred as momentum, heat, or otherwise.
sheesh
(I am not a physics major. if i'm wrong, i'm ready for the cluebat.)
"Offtopic"? How exactly is this offtopick? It's about spam, isn't it? Maybe he should have mentioned Syphelis, than it would have been about Viruses, too... "Funny" is disputable, but it made *me* smirk... A "Tasteless" or "Rated PG" modifier would be nice, too...
I want to be able to meta-moderate individual posts! Somebody *please* put an and to this emberassing display of ignorance... maybe moderation should not be anonymous after all?
end of rant. thanks for your attention. BTW: *This* post is offtopick. But relevant anyway. Can't you see?
From the apple 2 history homepage: LITTLE BRICKOUT was an abbreviated Applesoft version of Woz's Integer BASIC Breakout game (the reason he designed the Apple II in the first place)
I'm actually not sure which version was the one with the bug thoug. But i'm nearly sure that the game was called Breakout, not Brickout.
Me first computer was an Apple ][ My favorite game was Breakout.
Reading now that Wozniak had written that himself, and that some of the features of the Apple ][ were invented specifically for that game is just... well... soooo c00l!!!
But even better: that Breakout implementation has a bug that AFAIR did not allow the paddle (or the ball??) to move to the very top position (Yes, the game ws played left-to-right), causing situations were you where either cought in an endless loop or would loose your ball. Anybody remember that one?
Being rather anoyed with that bug, I went ahead and fixed it. That was revelation! You could just walk right into a program and change it! how cool! Now, some 15 jears later, i am a pretty decent programmer and just finishing my informatics dipoma... thanks, steve, for that sloppy coding!
P.S.: Breackout ist still my favorite arcade-type game.
(man, i need to change that sig. it's been there forever)
I allways wonder what exactly those AI people (or those opposed to AI) are talking about. What type of "intelligence" do they hope to create? AFAIK, intelligence is defined as "The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge" or "The faculty of thought and reason" (look here).
This does not tell us much, as we still have to find out about "knownledge", "thought" and "reason". Terms such as "learning", "creativity" and "problem solving" also come to mind.
So... Does a Database contain Knowledge? How about a "Knowledgebase"? Is a "learning" (i.e. adapting) spam filter "intelligent"? Does the ability to solve specific problems (multiplication, etc) already constitute intelligence, or is some ability to cope with "unforeseen" situation required?
My point is this: Most arguments about AI being feasable are just misunderstandings, rooted in different interpretations of terms. "Artificial Inteligence" has long ceased to exite me. I think the real (technical and philosophical) challange is Artifical Consciousness. And in that area, no significant advances have been made since... well... since... the emacs doc?
Also in the "Short History of Time", Hawkings presents the idea of the universe being "closed in every dimension". It can be imagined as the surface of a (at least) 4-Dimensional Sphere or Torus. That is, all dimensions (Space, Time, and what else there may be) are "unbounded" (i.e. circular), but not unlimited.
I found the that idea very interresting. However, in that context, Howings states that, at that tought, the last resort of God ("before" the Big Bang) had vanished in his mind. hen reading that, i imidiately though "dude, you are *looking* at Him!"...
Regarding the perception of time, or it's "imaginary" nature, an idea from another (highly recomended!) book comes to mind:
in "The Emporers new Thought", Roger Penrose (a mathematician who has, among other thingws, done some important research together with Hawkings, esp. regarding black holes, etc) expressed the notion that out (neurological/psychological) perception of time ist based on the "direction" of the increase in entropy, not vice versa: Entropy is not defined as increasing of time, but time ist defined as the dimension/direction in which entropy increases!
For those that are interested: The Informatics Department at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, has a (small) Computer museum with stuff from that era -- not photographs, but actual working devices. The site ist here (german only).
Could you write an operating system in LOGO? A compiler? Again, my suggested answer is no.
well, i'm still downloading it... but of what I remember from school: let's see... you have conditionals, you can add and subtract, you have (non-primitive) recursion... yes, LOGO is "Turing-Powerful" -- meaning you can do with it anything that is "computable" (that's the definition of computable, google for "church's hypothesis" for more info). So you can write an OS, a compiler, or whatever you like. You new LOGO-OS would still be based on the LOGO RTE, but that's beside the point... or is it?
Oh, and yes, I agree with you in this: LOGO (at least the version i got to know at school) SUCKS BIG TIME! I already had some experience with (Turbo-)Pascal at that point, and i just felt frustratingly hemmed in by that silly exuse of a PL. But that may be, as was stated before, just because of the way it was tought. Or it was one of those "striped down versions" or such. Or maybe just my imature lack of apreciation for functional languages...
So the baron of lies is not known in the US? The guy that rode a cannonball? How sad... But that can be helped..
By the way: the complete name is Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr Baron von Münchhausen (1720-1797). That's Münchhausen, with an umlaut and two 'h'... oh, well, never mind... who cares about spelling anyway;) But if you want to google this, it meight help...
The Article you linked to is titled "Antique Fire Grenade Bottles". It also States "Most were made after 1870 and until about 1910"... hmmm... how come Americans consider everything "Antique" that was mad before... say... 1950?
personally, when I her that term, I think of the old greeks and such...
Hmmm... I don't know about you, but for me it works just fine, even in the cache and in the categories.
Maybe this has something to do with me accessing google from Germany (i used google.com though, not google.de) ? But somehow I don't really think so...
What's up ? Did Google revert their (gram: its? her?) decision ? Was this story a merchandising trick all along ?
afaik, the plural appears even in hebrew version of the Bible (which is as original as it gets, isn't it ?)
btw: Maybe someone could give me a little bible-lesson ? Where in the Bible does it say that the antichrist has a Mark on his head ? I thought, the one with the "T" on his forehead was Kain... What does that stand for, anyway ?
Yup, it's Wassily Kandinsky, according to Everything2... I wonder if Hemos ever checked the Everything2-Link he provided... "Kadinski" turns out to be a Coffe Shop in Amsterdam...
Thinking about it, i think I've been there a while ago... Pretty cool place (if it's the one i'm thinking of), recomended !
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Its by Thomas Jefferson, if I recall correctly. It's a great quote. I wounder what would hapen if thy would use that instead of the Pledge of Allegiance for a while....
(ARRRG! damn the 2 minute rule)
I think the most interresting change ist this:
These previously unimplemented JVMDI functions have been implemented:
jvmdiError GetOwnedMonitorInfo(jthread thread, JVMDI_owned_monitor_info *infoPtr)
jvmdiError GetCurrentContendedMonitor(jthread thread, jobject *monitorPtr)
Does this mean monitor information is now reported correctly in profiler-dumps and via JPDA? That would be soooo great -- i'm waitng for that for 2 years now. Finding deadlocks using a trial-and-error aproach ist just a pain... Eclipse even has an extra "Threads/Monitors/Deadlocks" view, that just keeps telling me that my VM does not support that feature:(
Does anyone know more?
BTW: don't use the web-installer (window), it's slow. go for the offline version. And you don't need to fill the info form. There is a "continue download" link at the top.
Does this mean monitor information is now reported correctly in profiler-dumps and via JPDA? That would be soooo great -- i'm waitng for that for 2 years now. Finding deadlocks using a trial-and-error aproach ist just a pain... Eclipse even has an extra "Threads/Monitors/Deadlocks" view, that just keeps telling me that my VM does not support that feature:(
Does anyone know more?
BTW: don't use the web-installer (window), it's slow. go for the offline version. And you don't need to fill the info form. There is a "continue download" link at the top.
Would you people please stop that "energy vs. momentum" crap? What in Eris name do you think momentum is? It's energy, people! And we are talking about photons here -- beasts for which it is not even clear if they are particles or waves, and which travel at the speed of light. This is where the fundamental equivalence of mass and energy kicks in (remember, E=m*c^2?). Don't make Old Einstein turn in his grave!
How radiation-pressure is supposed to work is beond me. But it definitely does use the energy of the photons, transferred as momentum, heat, or otherwise.
sheesh
(I am not a physics major. if i'm wrong, i'm ready for the cluebat.)
"Offtopic"? How exactly is this offtopick? It's about spam, isn't it? Maybe he should have mentioned Syphelis, than it would have been about Viruses, too... "Funny" is disputable, but it made *me* smirk... A "Tasteless" or "Rated PG" modifier would be nice, too...
I want to be able to meta-moderate individual posts!
Somebody *please* put an and to this emberassing display of ignorance... maybe moderation should not be anonymous after all?
end of rant. thanks for your attention. BTW: *This* post is offtopick. But relevant anyway. Can't you see?
You'r right, but you'r wrong:
From the apple 2 history homepage: LITTLE BRICKOUT was an abbreviated Applesoft version of Woz's Integer BASIC Breakout game (the reason he designed the Apple II in the first place)
I'm actually not sure which version was the one with the bug thoug. But i'm nearly sure that the game was called Breakout, not Brickout.
Me first computer was an Apple ][
My favorite game was Breakout.
Reading now that Wozniak had written that himself, and that some of the features of the Apple ][ were invented specifically for that game is just... well... soooo c00l!!!
But even better: that Breakout implementation has a bug that AFAIR did not allow the paddle (or the ball??) to move to the very top position (Yes, the game ws played left-to-right), causing situations were you where either cought in an endless loop or would loose your ball. Anybody remember that one?
Being rather anoyed with that bug, I went ahead and fixed it. That was revelation! You could just walk right into a program and change it! how cool!
Now, some 15 jears later, i am a pretty decent programmer and just finishing my informatics dipoma... thanks, steve, for that sloppy coding!
P.S.: Breackout ist still my favorite arcade-type game.
(man, i need to change that sig. it's been there forever)
Go here for more info.
This does not tell us much, as we still have to find out about "knownledge", "thought" and "reason". Terms such as "learning", "creativity" and "problem solving" also come to mind.
So... Does a Database contain Knowledge? How about a "Knowledgebase"? Is a "learning" (i.e. adapting) spam filter "intelligent"? Does the ability to solve specific problems (multiplication, etc) already constitute intelligence, or is some ability to cope with "unforeseen" situation required?
My point is this: Most arguments about AI being feasable are just misunderstandings, rooted in different interpretations of terms. "Artificial Inteligence" has long ceased to exite me. I think the real (technical and philosophical) challange is Artifical Consciousness. And in that area, no significant advances have been made since... well... since... the emacs doc?
EOR (end of rant)
Also in the "Short History of Time", Hawkings presents the idea of the universe being "closed in every dimension". It can be imagined as the surface of a (at least) 4-Dimensional Sphere or Torus. That is, all dimensions (Space, Time, and what else there may be) are "unbounded" (i.e. circular), but not unlimited.
I found the that idea very interresting. However, in that context, Howings states that, at that tought, the last resort of God ("before" the Big Bang) had vanished in his mind. hen reading that, i imidiately though "dude, you are *looking* at Him!"...
Regarding the perception of time, or it's "imaginary" nature, an idea from another (highly recomended!) book comes to mind:
in "The Emporers new Thought", Roger Penrose (a mathematician who has, among other thingws, done some important research together with Hawkings, esp. regarding black holes, etc) expressed the notion that out (neurological/psychological) perception of time ist based on the "direction" of the increase in entropy, not vice versa: Entropy is not defined as increasing of time, but time ist defined as the dimension/direction in which entropy increases!
It's insightfull.
Its quite interresting (and funny), actually.
Could you write an operating system in LOGO? A compiler? Again, my suggested answer is no.
well, i'm still downloading it... but of what I remember from school: let's see... you have conditionals, you can add and subtract, you have (non-primitive) recursion... yes, LOGO is "Turing-Powerful" -- meaning you can do with it anything that is "computable" (that's the definition of computable, google for "church's hypothesis" for more info). So you can write an OS, a compiler, or whatever you like. You new LOGO-OS would still be based on the LOGO RTE, but that's beside the point... or is it?
Oh, and yes, I agree with you in this: LOGO (at least the version i got to know at school) SUCKS BIG TIME! I already had some experience with (Turbo-)Pascal at that point, and i just felt frustratingly hemmed in by that silly exuse of a PL. But that may be, as was stated before, just because of the way it was tought. Or it was one of those "striped down versions" or such. Or maybe just my imature lack of apreciation for functional languages...
EOR (end of rant)
Hey! Moderators! Wake up! Try the link! Rate it "Funny"!
No. The Problem is that the Slashback would have been dismissed as a Troll already!
So the baron of lies is not known in the US? The guy that rode a cannonball? How sad... But that can be helped..
By the way: the complete name is Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr Baron von Münchhausen (1720-1797). That's Münchhausen, with an umlaut and two 'h'... oh, well, never mind... who cares about spelling anyway;) But if you want to google this, it meight help...
Off Topic, i know... to hell with carma...
personally, when I her that term, I think of the old greeks and such...
end of rant.
Hmmm... I don't know about you, but for me it works just fine, even in the cache and in the categories.
Maybe this has something to do with me accessing google from Germany (i used google.com though, not google.de) ? But somehow I don't really think so...
What's up ? Did Google revert their (gram: its? her?) decision ? Was this story a merchandising trick all along ?
You know this, right? If not, have a look...
afaik, the plural appears even in hebrew version of the Bible (which is as original as it gets, isn't it ?)
btw: Maybe someone could give me a little bible-lesson ? Where in the Bible does it say that the antichrist has a Mark on his head ? I thought, the one with the "T" on his forehead was Kain... What does that stand for, anyway ?
Thinking about it, i think I've been there a while ago... Pretty cool place (if it's the one i'm thinking of), recomended !