It sounds like a really cool game, but original? It is really just a remake of Populous, isn't it? Granted, the time has come for a remake. Ater the success of Populous there were lots of clones (like Megalomania), but nothing similar has been made for five or six years.
You really should give Kubrick some more credit -- the novel was written during during the writing of the screenplay by both Kubrick and Clarke worked on, and frankly from reading the (quite bad, actually) sequels of 2001 that Clarke wrote, I really don't think he "got it".
2010 in particular (both book and movie) is basically primitive 1950's SF -- aliens (or their representative, Dave Bowman) come down and say "Be nice to each other" just like in "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
Actually, I skimmed his whole article, but missed that line. It is hard to lampoon geek leaders like ESR or RMS because they are pretty good at sounding like parodies of themselves most of the time.
that ESR didn't bring up his favorite subject, guns, in this context. Unlike most geeks ESR has the advantage in that he isn't the mild-mannered inoffensive sort of guy that women mock -- he's a mild mannered sort of guy who has enough firepower to take down most SWAT teams.
A wonderful company is going down and all you can think about is "when are they going to make their software open source?"
If you can't help them, and least show some respect.
It seems the obvious response. Think about it. It is the ultimate form of respect. Someone who says "BeOS should be open sourced" respects Be and doesn't want BeOS to vanish from sight never to be seen again when the company dies. If people disrespected Be they wouldn't give a damn if BeOS vanished. Companies dying and their products disappearing always struck me as the most tragedic of consequences of copyright.
That being said, as others have mentioned, it may be impractical for BeOS to be open-sourced as it relies heavily on code licensed from other companies that are alive and well and may not want to open source their portions.
If cells DID NOT NEED to die, this gene would not exist.
Well, nobody's suggesting that this gene should be eliminated -- just controlled a bit better. The purpose of apoptosis is to kill cells that appear to be abnormal (i.e. mutated cells and tumor cells). But the system is hardly perfect and many perfectly good cells are killed while many tumor cells are allowed to live.
The fact is that natural selection doesn't work that well to improve such a system because generally cancer occurs to old people past child-bearing age and so there is no selective pressure.
Also, try this one.. it will lock-up every Unix system I've come across:
If this crashes the UNIX systems you use, you have horribly incompetent sysadmins. One can (and should) limit the number of processes that any one user can have simultaneously.
But what if the software he chose clearly wasn't acceptable in Windows 2000?
You are reasoning circularly. Obviously, the software was unacceptable because it crashed the system.
All of the software I use with Windows 2000 has been tested with Windows 2000
Most people simply don't have the option of throwing out their software whenever MS makes a little patch. It isn't reasonable to expect this, particularly when many upgrades aren't free in the Windows world.
You wouldn't expect games written in glib0.4 to run in glib2.1 would you?
No, but they certainly don't crash the system -- they complain about missing symbols. And I certainly don't have to buy new copies to run. The few programs that aren't open source have free updates.
I've had more than a few old Linux apps crash not only the ap but the system itself.
You should put up the binaries for others to test and verify, as this is a truly unusual event if true
Uh, dude. I think you've got issues with the software you installed. Not Windows 2K itself.
If the software installed can hang the system that *is* an issue with Windows 2K. Civilized operating systems don't allow user processes to bring down the OS. Buggy Linux software causes core dumps, not system crashes.
but if you look at the cartoons revolving around the time HB made most of his cartoons, the other cartoons REALLY sucked. I mean really. They're terrible.
So, in your opinion, the classic Chuck Jones Warner Brothers cartoons (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc.) were terrible? *Those* were HB's competition in the early days.
For people who actually do work with their machine, rebooting simply isn't an option -- I have simulations running that can take weeks to complete. Making them run slow for a while is okay -- killing them by rebooting is *not* okay.
Math is a useful *tool* for science, but science and math are in fact entirely different. Math is *true*
All science, sooner or later, is *false*. That's because theorems can be proven, but hypotheses can only be disproven
And I, being a bioinformatician, am one of the sorts of people the article is talking about! I did my doctorate in a microbiology department (doing bioinformatics really) and did a postdoctoral stint in a computer science department, so I can compare the two fields.
While I think that working in a computer science department gave me an interesting perspective on problem solving, the fact is that computer science really doesn't deal with making actual programs that do things, but with more esoteric things like proving problems to be NP-hard. The sorts of applied knowledge that is useful to other fields isn't really central to the aims of computer science as such. This isn't a slam on computer science -- you can make a similar claim between the basic science of microbiology and the applied knowledge useful for treating infections.
While I may be biased (because I am an example of the sort of person I'm suggesting), I'd suggest looking for people who have studied your scientific field and also know how to program. That way you can make sure they understand the problem being solved.
Franklin may have printed slave ads in his papers (I have not read that, but it could be true -- despite his idealism he certainly managed to make quite a lot of money in his life), but he most certainly did not own slaves. Even if you claim his attitude towards slavery changed over the years, Franklin was a Yankee businessman not a Southern planter -- what exactly would he do with slaves, which were in any case illegal in many places where he lived? Any concrete citations on this?
Also, the idea that slaves encourages laziness is an old *Puritan* idea, not likely to be held by a deist like Ben.
BTW, Franklin died at the age of 84, not 90. However, he was about 20-30 years older than the rest of the founding fathers, so you do have a point there.
The vast majority of his ideas can be put down to him being a memeber of the landed gentry in america, with considerable assets (many slaves) and the time and ability to be scholarly.
I think you are confusing Franklin with Thomas Jefferson. Franklin never owned any slaves, and in fact was the president of the Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. It is widely believed that this cost him the chance to ever be nominated for the President of the United States as it of course made him extremely unpopular in the South
Using Java as a server side scripting language it all very interesting, but it rather goes against the whole reason of Java -- to provide platform independent *applications*. Yes, Java has improved, as have the skills of Java programmers. So where are the Java applications? In both the closed and open source worlds, big projects like office suites are still being done in C++.
Look, I use Java applications *today* (for example, the Sanger Centre's recent genome browser Artemis)
Some rather interesting observations:
1) Artemis, although a pure Java application, has separate Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX versions. Great platform independence there.
2) It is slow, and unstable. You might say, well that's the fault of the authors -- except -- when it dies, it dies with errors coming from Java's own interface classes, suggesting that Java, and not the application itself is at fault.
I'm well aware that Corel Java Office is an old project. The painful fact is that no new projects of similar scope exist. Nobody is porting huge applications to Java anymore.
I'm open minded here --if shown an example of a speedy, stable, large Java application that actually exists and is not vapor, I could change my mind. However, at present I can't help thinking that Java fans, like religious people, want me to believe in something without proof.
Is that whole "Java is Slow" myth still floating around so prominantly?
To be a myth, something has to be untrue. Java *is* slow, unstable as all hell, and not nearly as platform independant as claimed. This is not some vendetta of mine against Sun or Java -- just simple observation from using Java applications -- the very few that actually were released, that is -- most Java projects, like Corel Java Office, simply ended in failure.
There are many ways to make a graphical application run on many platforms -- Tk, for example, is much more responsive and stable in my experience than Java, but it just doesn't have the hype surrounding it that Java has, so it tends to get overlooked.
This game sounds a lot like the original Wizardry for the Apple ][, which hooked me for about six months when I was in high school (early '80s I guess). A dungeon crawl with 90-degree corners and sprites overlaid on the "3-D" view. I still think pretty graphics are secondary to balanced gameplay and a deep world.
Well, DM was real time, but you can certainly trace an evolutionary history -- Wizardry to Bard's Tale to DM.
Actually, though, my uncle worked for the PLATO project of Control Data, which was a timesharing service with black and white vector terminals in the late '70s, and I remember a game called "Shadowland" or something similar that again was a "3D" dungeon crawl, and that predated Wizardry.
The thing is, in physics, no matter how many equations you use, ultimately, it's the physical world that decides if you are right: either particle X acts as you predict, or it does not. This empirical foundation is what makes science scientific.
Math and Computer Science need not touch the physical world at all -- computer scientists can (and do) prove the correctness of algorithms that can only run on non-existant quantum computers.
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If you check copyright law, government isn't bound by it. NSA is a government organisation
So, your theory is that government offices just buy zillions of copies of MS Office to support the economy? The idea that Bill could press charges for piracy is irrelevant?
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It sounds like a really cool game, but original? It is really just a remake of Populous, isn't it? Granted, the time has come for a remake. Ater the success of Populous there were lots of clones (like Megalomania), but nothing similar has been made for five or six years.
You really should give Kubrick some more credit -- the novel was written during during the writing of the screenplay by both Kubrick and Clarke worked on, and frankly from reading the (quite bad, actually) sequels of 2001 that Clarke wrote, I really don't think he "got it".
2010 in particular (both book and movie) is basically primitive 1950's SF -- aliens (or their representative, Dave Bowman) come down and say "Be nice to each other" just like in "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
Actually, I skimmed his whole article, but missed that line. It is hard to lampoon geek leaders like ESR or RMS because they are pretty good at sounding like parodies of themselves most of the time.
that ESR didn't bring up his favorite subject, guns, in this context. Unlike most geeks ESR has the advantage in that he isn't the mild-mannered inoffensive sort of guy that women mock -- he's a mild mannered sort of guy who has enough firepower to take down most SWAT teams.
A wonderful company is going down and all you can think about is "when are they going to make their software open source?"
If you can't help them, and least show some respect.
It seems the obvious response. Think about it. It is the ultimate form of respect. Someone who says "BeOS should be open sourced" respects Be and doesn't want BeOS to vanish from sight never to be seen again when the company dies. If people disrespected Be they wouldn't give a damn if BeOS vanished. Companies dying and their products disappearing always struck me as the most tragedic of consequences of copyright.
That being said, as others have mentioned, it may be impractical for BeOS to be open-sourced as it relies heavily on code licensed from other companies that are alive and well and may not want to open source their portions.
Without the gene programmed cell death cannot occur and growth cannot proceed beyond the embronic stage
Cell death for development is important but it isn't the primary function of apoptosis or AIF in general.
If cells DID NOT NEED to die, this gene would not exist.
Well, nobody's suggesting that this gene should be eliminated -- just controlled a bit better. The purpose of apoptosis is to kill cells that appear to be abnormal (i.e. mutated cells and tumor cells). But the system is hardly perfect and many perfectly good cells are killed while many tumor cells are allowed to live.
The fact is that natural selection doesn't work that well to improve such a system because generally cancer occurs to old people past child-bearing age and so there is no selective pressure.
Also, try this one.. it will lock-up every Unix system I've come across:
If this crashes the UNIX systems you use, you have horribly incompetent sysadmins. One can (and should) limit the number of processes that any one user can have simultaneously.
But what if the software he chose clearly wasn't acceptable in Windows 2000?
You are reasoning circularly. Obviously, the software was unacceptable because it crashed the system.
All of the software I use with Windows 2000 has been tested with Windows 2000
Most people simply don't have the option of throwing out their software whenever MS makes a little patch. It isn't reasonable to expect this, particularly when many upgrades aren't free in the Windows world.
You wouldn't expect games written in glib0.4 to run in glib2.1 would you?
No, but they certainly don't crash the system -- they complain about missing symbols. And I certainly don't have to buy new copies to run. The few programs that aren't open source have free updates.
I've had more than a few old Linux apps crash not only the ap but the system itself.
You should put up the binaries for others to test and verify, as this is a truly unusual event if true
Uh, dude. I think you've got issues with the software you installed. Not Windows 2K itself.
If the software installed can hang the system that *is* an issue with Windows 2K. Civilized operating systems don't allow user processes to bring down the OS. Buggy Linux software causes core dumps, not system crashes.
but if you look at the cartoons revolving around the time HB made most of his cartoons, the other cartoons REALLY sucked. I mean really. They're terrible.
So, in your opinion, the classic Chuck Jones Warner Brothers cartoons (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc.) were terrible? *Those* were HB's competition in the early days.
For people who actually do work with their machine, rebooting simply isn't an option -- I have simulations running that can take weeks to complete. Making them run slow for a while is okay -- killing them by rebooting is *not* okay.
Math is a useful *tool* for science, but science and math are in fact entirely different. Math is *true*
All science, sooner or later, is *false*. That's because theorems can be proven, but hypotheses can only be disproven
And I, being a bioinformatician, am one of the sorts of people the article is talking about! I did my doctorate in a microbiology department (doing bioinformatics really) and did a postdoctoral stint in a computer science department, so I can compare the two fields.
While I think that working in a computer science department gave me an interesting perspective on problem solving, the fact is that computer science really doesn't deal with making actual programs that do things, but with more esoteric things like proving problems to be NP-hard. The sorts of applied knowledge that is useful to other fields isn't really central to the aims of computer science as such. This isn't a slam on computer science -- you can make a similar claim between the basic science of microbiology and the applied knowledge useful for treating infections.
While I may be biased (because I am an example of the sort of person I'm suggesting), I'd suggest looking for people who have studied your scientific field and also know how to program. That way you can make sure they understand the problem being solved.
Why else do you think the three generators were a cube, a sphere and a pyramid?
Yes, and there was a Pirate Hawkins character in U5 and U6 that was pretty obviously another EA (Trip Hawkins) slam.
Franklin may have printed slave ads in his papers (I have not read that, but it could be true -- despite his idealism he certainly managed to make quite a lot of money in his life), but he most certainly did not own slaves. Even if you claim his attitude towards slavery changed over the years, Franklin was a Yankee businessman not a Southern planter -- what exactly would he do with slaves, which were in any case illegal in many places where he lived? Any concrete citations on this?
Also, the idea that slaves encourages laziness is an old *Puritan* idea, not likely to be held by a deist like Ben.
BTW, Franklin died at the age of 84, not 90. However, he was about 20-30 years older than the rest of the founding fathers, so you do have a point there.
The vast majority of his ideas can be put down to him being a memeber of the landed gentry in america, with considerable assets (many slaves) and the time and ability to be scholarly.
I think you are confusing Franklin with Thomas Jefferson. Franklin never owned any slaves, and in fact was the president of the Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. It is widely believed that this cost him the chance to ever be nominated for the President of the United States as it of course made him extremely unpopular in the South
At least one version of the story can be found in Martin Gardner's "Aha! Gotcha!" (ISBN: 0716713616), 1982.
Although for this particular story, you pretty much covered it. I've always liked that one though, impossible though it is.
Using Java as a server side scripting language it all very interesting, but it rather goes against the whole reason of Java -- to provide platform independent *applications*. Yes, Java has improved, as have the skills of Java programmers. So where are the Java applications? In both the closed and open source worlds, big projects like office suites are still being done in C++.
Look, I use Java applications *today* (for example, the Sanger Centre's recent genome browser Artemis)
Some rather interesting observations:
1) Artemis, although a pure Java application, has separate Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX versions. Great platform independence there.
2) It is slow, and unstable. You might say, well that's the fault of the authors -- except -- when it dies, it dies with errors coming from Java's own interface classes, suggesting that Java, and not the application itself is at fault.
I'm well aware that Corel Java Office is an old project. The painful fact is that no new projects of similar scope exist. Nobody is porting huge applications to Java anymore.
I'm open minded here --if shown an example of a speedy, stable, large Java application that actually exists and is not vapor, I could change my mind. However, at present I can't help thinking that Java fans, like religious people, want me to believe in something without proof.
Is that whole "Java is Slow" myth still floating around so prominantly?
To be a myth, something has to be untrue. Java *is* slow, unstable as all hell, and not nearly as platform independant as claimed. This is not some vendetta of mine against Sun or Java -- just simple observation from using Java applications -- the very few that actually were released, that is -- most Java projects, like Corel Java Office, simply ended in failure.
There are many ways to make a graphical application run on many platforms -- Tk, for example, is much more responsive and stable in my experience than Java, but it just doesn't have the hype surrounding it that Java has, so it tends to get overlooked.
This game sounds a lot like the original Wizardry for the Apple ][, which hooked me for about six months when I was in high school (early '80s I guess). A dungeon crawl with 90-degree corners and sprites overlaid on the "3-D" view. I still think pretty graphics are secondary to balanced gameplay and a deep world.
Well, DM was real time, but you can certainly trace an evolutionary history -- Wizardry to Bard's Tale to DM.
Actually, though, my uncle worked for the PLATO project of Control Data, which was a timesharing service with black and white vector terminals in the late '70s, and I remember a game called "Shadowland" or something similar that again was a "3D" dungeon crawl, and that predated Wizardry.
The thing is, in physics, no matter how many equations you use, ultimately, it's the physical world that decides if you are right: either particle X acts as you predict, or it does not. This empirical foundation is what makes science scientific.
Math and Computer Science need not touch the physical world at all -- computer scientists can (and do) prove the correctness of algorithms that can only run on non-existant quantum computers.
If you check copyright law, government isn't bound by it. NSA is a government organisation
So, your theory is that government offices just buy zillions of copies of MS Office to support the economy? The idea that Bill could press charges for piracy is irrelevant?