Uh, yeah, that's true. The "integration" argument against MS is completely stupid and should not have been pursued. Integration is decidedly and demonstrably BETTER for the consumer - witness Mac OS X, KDE, etc. All of these have various aspects of "integrated" applications, of course when KDE integrates the file manager and web browser, then it's INNOVATION!
Microsoft should have been brought up on anticompetitive licensing and marketing deals with OEMs. This prevented OEMs from getting an alternative product to market. What would the industry look like if Dell and Gateway had been distributing Linux for 5 years already? I think that is a much more winnable charge than this fuzzy muddy "hey judge, uh, they are like combining software and stuff".
(not that I don't think that great power demands great responsibility and that the government has the right to ask for open protocols and formats from the software that is used on the vast majority of computers, if anything at least for national and economic security - to my knowledge this didn't happen, they just kept flogging the stupid browser debate...on the other hand, it doesn't seem like the government really cared much about punishing MS)
Ok, so does anybody have a suggestion for a book or list of "classic" puzzles like this that might be fun to solve with computers/programming (doesn't matter if they have already been solved), that don't require more than basic high school math. I'm basically looking for something fun to do when I'm bored, but that will also keep my programming and problem solving skills up.
The other day I wrote a complete (and I think optimal) word-search puzzle solver (final solution relied on standard iteration interface with different iteration strategies for each 45 degree rotation of the grid), and that was quite a fun few days as I rotated matrices and thought about things in different dimensions. In all, not a gigantic accomplishment, but enough to amuse, and better than playing mind-numbing shootemups.
Can you explain what tkcRom is? Is it just a ROM updater GUI or something? Is it just a TheKompanyy-branded ROM build? The kompany site is obscure about this.
Second Life is already there. All of the content is user-created. There is a scripting language that can be used to create complex behavoir. Houses, trams, amusement park rides, airplanes, sentry guns, alien ships, ghosts, even a recreation of the destruction of the world trade center towers.
I believe it was a slur long before then, implying that the aforementioned mother obtained boots from a soldier who visited her brothel. Of course it loses meaning in the modern age, when plenty of mothers legitimately wear combat boots.
I thought owning a geocities web page and having an HTML Writers Guild badge made you an official web developer. If that has changed, let me know, because I want in on this lucrative career of the future.
If this is written in Java, and perhaps even if not, get involved with the JA-SIG - Java Architectures Special Interest Group. It's a collaboration of universities using Java, that work together to implement various things. One of the major projects is the uPortal, an enterprise portal, which is a great success. Lots of important universities are deeply involved in JASIG and will pay attention.
Yeah, but it doesn't say WHICH state you have to reverse to. For instance, any operation could simply shut down the system entirely. That would effectively "reverse" the state to before it was turned on.:)
In my layman's understanding, I don't think it really matters WHAT state you reverse to as long as it has lower entropy, and hopefully, is a state which you want to be in some time in the future. E.g. if my program recomputed a lot of values, it would be nice to be constantly "reverting" to those precomputed values. For that matter, it would be nice to "revert" instruction cache also.
I don't know about this. I have a beagle, and damn is he dumb. I throw food his way and he spends 10 minutes sniffing for it, and I finally have to show him it is just two feet away.
Not many people are aware that our nation's high explosive, biological, and chemical weapons are at RISK, and could fall into the hands of terrorists! To combat this, the pentagon has designed a new "detonation device" that upon signal from the correct handset will explode all these munitions simultaneously, so that they don't FALL INTO THE WRONG HANDS. HA HA Suck on that terrorists! I are now free to feel safer.
It's all about trust metric. Patches from somebody would not be accepted unless they are already trusted. They cannot become trusted except by a lot of hard work to submit quality patches to gain that trust. You would have to be pretty corruptable to throw away your entire career because nobody will trust you any more.
I'll bet there more (simply judge by the number of registered slashdotters) users using Linux in a desktop, or "casual" server under a desk, who would be very interested in a more frequently updated distro, than those really interested in the high-end scalability stuff (even though the latter group ends up profiting red hat much more). But, yeah, time will tell.
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Uh, yeah, that's true. The "integration" argument against MS is completely stupid and should not have been pursued. Integration is decidedly and demonstrably BETTER for the consumer - witness Mac OS X, KDE, etc. All of these have various aspects of "integrated" applications, of course when KDE integrates the file manager and web browser, then it's INNOVATION!
Microsoft should have been brought up on anticompetitive licensing and marketing deals with OEMs. This prevented OEMs from getting an alternative product to market. What would the industry look like if Dell and Gateway had been distributing Linux for 5 years already? I think that is a much more winnable charge than this fuzzy muddy "hey judge, uh, they are like combining software and stuff".
(not that I don't think that great power demands great responsibility and that the government has the right to ask for open protocols and formats from the software that is used on the vast majority of computers, if anything at least for national and economic security - to my knowledge this didn't happen, they just kept flogging the stupid browser debate...on the other hand, it doesn't seem like the government really cared much about punishing MS)
Ok, so does anybody have a suggestion for a book or list of "classic" puzzles like this that might be fun to solve with computers/programming (doesn't matter if they have already been solved), that don't require more than basic high school math. I'm basically looking for something fun to do when I'm bored, but that will also keep my programming and problem solving skills up.
The other day I wrote a complete (and I think optimal) word-search puzzle solver (final solution relied on standard iteration interface with different iteration strategies for each 45 degree rotation of the grid), and that was quite a fun few days as I rotated matrices and thought about things in different dimensions. In all, not a gigantic accomplishment, but enough to amuse, and better than playing mind-numbing shootemups.
Can you explain what tkcRom is? Is it just a ROM updater GUI or something? Is it just a TheKompanyy-branded ROM build? The kompany site is obscure about this.
Man, if you haven't tested your blood for ACIDITY you better get on the CORAL CALCIUM fast buddy...
Second Life is already there. All of the content is user-created. There is a scripting language that can be used to create complex behavoir. Houses, trams, amusement park rides, airplanes, sentry guns, alien ships, ghosts, even a recreation of the destruction of the world trade center towers.
Check out the archives of the "embedded journalist".
...welcome our new "grey goo" overlords.
NOT
Gee, if I don't already have 5 contacts I can't register and be part of the network? Great. Thanks. That will help me find friends. Jerks.
I believe it was a slur long before then, implying that the aforementioned mother obtained boots from a soldier who visited her brothel. Of course it loses meaning in the modern age, when plenty of mothers legitimately wear combat boots.
IS ALIVE!
Sheesh, what exactly are the qualification to be an "OS reviewer", these days???
Sheesh, what exactly are the qualification to be an "OS user", these days???
If your review involves contacting technical support (even if it is an IRC channel) you have LOST immediately. Insert coin to continue.
I thought owning a geocities web page and having an HTML Writers Guild badge made you an official web developer. If that has changed, let me know, because I want in on this lucrative career of the future.
If this is written in Java, and perhaps even if not, get involved with the JA-SIG - Java Architectures Special Interest Group. It's a collaboration of universities using Java, that work together to implement various things. One of the major projects is the uPortal, an enterprise portal, which is a great success. Lots of important universities are deeply involved in JASIG and will pay attention.
Yeah, but it doesn't say WHICH state you have to reverse to. For instance, any operation could simply shut down the system entirely. That would effectively "reverse" the state to before it was turned on. :)
In my layman's understanding, I don't think it really matters WHAT state you reverse to as long as it has lower entropy, and hopefully, is a state which you want to be in some time in the future. E.g. if my program recomputed a lot of values, it would be nice to be constantly "reverting" to those precomputed values. For that matter, it would be nice to "revert" instruction cache also.
He obviously didn't get the memo.
If your girlfriend is in vet school these sort of things stop surprising you...
The thing that makes the criticism legitimate is not that they are Microsoft marketing people, but that they are Microsoft marketing people.
Everybody is free to whale gratuitously on all forms of marketers in my book.
bite my shiny metal ass
I don't know about this. I have a beagle, and damn is he dumb. I throw food his way and he spends 10 minutes sniffing for it, and I finally have to show him it is just two feet away.
I'm sure he studied that definition and that is exactly why the president pronounces it that way.
Howard Dean is savvy enough to have Lawrence Lessig on his 'net advisory council.
'Nuff Said.
Not many people are aware that our nation's high explosive, biological, and chemical weapons are at RISK, and could fall into the hands of terrorists! To combat this, the pentagon has designed a new "detonation device" that upon signal from the correct handset will explode all these munitions simultaneously, so that they don't FALL INTO THE WRONG HANDS. HA HA Suck on that terrorists! I are now free to feel safer.
Wow, this is such a great A:LKWNE:LZXC ?!$#!)FSAJDFlNFEDSL:J:
Oh sorry, I got a call.
It's all about trust metric. Patches from somebody would not be accepted unless they are already trusted. They cannot become trusted except by a lot of hard work to submit quality patches to gain that trust. You would have to be pretty corruptable to throw away your entire career because nobody will trust you any more.
I'll bet there more (simply judge by the number of registered slashdotters) users using Linux in a desktop, or "casual" server under a desk, who would be very interested in a more frequently updated distro, than those really interested in the high-end scalability stuff (even though the latter group ends up profiting red hat much more). But, yeah, time will tell.