I got the impression that the slime mold was telling the legged robot not only which way to move but how to move its legs. i.e., if you give a slime mold legs it will figure out how to use them to do what slime molds like to do (hide in the dark).
If you want to read a vision of hope sometime take a look at Bartle's Designing Virtual Worlds. He provides deep insight into why people get so obsessed with role playing games - what they get out of it, and why they keep coming back. If you buy into his theories the designer of a role playing game is more a therapist than an entertainer. Of course, most people who play "role playing games" these days don't actually do any role playing as such. They just run around and kill stuff. So there ya go.
I've worked for a lot of different companies. I've worked for small companies and I've worked for large companies. I've worked for owner operators and I've worked for multinational corporations (and currently do). When it comes to training I've seen a marked difference in approach taken by all these companies, when it comes to support staff. The guys who keep the servers running and maintain the network are always being sent on training courses and being taught new skills. Not once, in all the companies I have worked for, have I seen a programmer receive training at his or her job. I've seen some "mentoring" in one or two of the medium sized companies I've worked for but I've never seen any honest to god training. Now I know it happens somewhere. Occasionally you'll get a consultant onsite to tell the programmers how to use the revision control system or how to approach software development from a unit testing or model based design perspective. But in every company I've ever worked in it has been assumed that programmers just pick this stuff up without the need for any formal training. Sometimes one programmer will make a stink about other programmers not knowing anything about their favourite element of software design and you'll see a manager recruit that programmer to put on a "seminar" to teach the other programmers how to do things his way. Compare this to unskilled labour.. where a person will be hired off the street with no knowledge of how to do the job and receive intensive training, be it by consultants or on the job training like an apprenticeship, before they are expected to do anything productive. Can you imagine an apprenticeship for programmers? The fact that the vast majority of companies in our industry often demand that a "junior software engineer" have a 3 to 4 year degree in software engineering before they will even be considered for the position I think shows how terrible we are at training.
Of course you're right, but something like 90% of people don't think clearly enough to understand that. You get all sorts of answers for that question.
Who care? Why, there's this whole movement of people who care. I believe it's called the Free Software Movement and more recently it was latched onto by the Open Source Movement. I can't recall the name of the operating system they made.. it's got a slash in it.. umm, GNU/Linux? Yeah, that's it. What were we talking about again? Oh yeah.
If drivers work fine under linux, whether with ndiswrapper or not, where's the cause to complain? The ndiswrapper guys go on fine tuning their software, the device manufacturers can go make a single binary, everybody's happy.
Because as far as the user is concerned ndiswrapper is a fine solution. Presumably there is a speed or stability difference, so perhaps the scoring system needs to be tweaked to highlight that difference.
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I got the impression that the slime mold was telling the legged robot not only which way to move but how to move its legs. i.e., if you give a slime mold legs it will figure out how to use them to do what slime molds like to do (hide in the dark).
Part of the reason is because in the culture of Japan girls are considered inferior in many ways.
;)
And to think, I always considered young Japanese girls to be superior in so many important ways
fdisk = fdisk and format = mke2fs and a fax machine is just a phone with a waffle iron on the side.
They make it perfectly clear what they are doing and ask you before doing it.. how is that evil?
By that logic fdisk and format are evil programs because they delete stuff.
If you want to read a vision of hope sometime take a look at Bartle's Designing Virtual Worlds. He provides deep insight into why people get so obsessed with role playing games - what they get out of it, and why they keep coming back. If you buy into his theories the designer of a role playing game is more a therapist than an entertainer. Of course, most people who play "role playing games" these days don't actually do any role playing as such. They just run around and kill stuff. So there ya go.
What's x2?
Yeah, not exactly the vision of space I was going for and I guarentee you will not be able to EVA and you will never see zero gravity.
Maybe one day I'll be able to play a space sim where you can actually walk around on your ship, do EVAs in zero G, hijack other ships, etc.
Wow, really? What's your indian name? I bet its "Man who gives up without a fight".
Wow, that almost sounds like role playing in WoW. Don't be freakin' crazy.
Open Source != Non-Commercial. The two concepts are orthogonal. This was all covered in 1998.
patent != copyright, go to the bottom of the class.
What kind of fucked up country doesn't have basic wrongful dismissal laws.
Yes, as it always has been. :)
I've worked for a lot of different companies. I've worked for small companies and I've worked for large companies. I've worked for owner operators and I've worked for multinational corporations (and currently do). When it comes to training I've seen a marked difference in approach taken by all these companies, when it comes to support staff. The guys who keep the servers running and maintain the network are always being sent on training courses and being taught new skills. Not once, in all the companies I have worked for, have I seen a programmer receive training at his or her job. I've seen some "mentoring" in one or two of the medium sized companies I've worked for but I've never seen any honest to god training. Now I know it happens somewhere. Occasionally you'll get a consultant onsite to tell the programmers how to use the revision control system or how to approach software development from a unit testing or model based design perspective. But in every company I've ever worked in it has been assumed that programmers just pick this stuff up without the need for any formal training. Sometimes one programmer will make a stink about other programmers not knowing anything about their favourite element of software design and you'll see a manager recruit that programmer to put on a "seminar" to teach the other programmers how to do things his way. Compare this to unskilled labour.. where a person will be hired off the street with no knowledge of how to do the job and receive intensive training, be it by consultants or on the job training like an apprenticeship, before they are expected to do anything productive. Can you imagine an apprenticeship for programmers? The fact that the vast majority of companies in our industry often demand that a "junior software engineer" have a 3 to 4 year degree in software engineering before they will even be considered for the position I think shows how terrible we are at training.
Pony.
shut your hole.
If I have to explain to you why having source code for a driver is a good thing perhaps you really shouldn't be using Linux in the first place.
Someone who cares about freedom, wow.
Try to think outside the box, I know it's hard.
Of course you're right, but something like 90% of people don't think clearly enough to understand that. You get all sorts of answers for that question.
Who care? Why, there's this whole movement of people who care. I believe it's called the Free Software Movement and more recently it was latched onto by the Open Source Movement. I can't recall the name of the operating system they made.. it's got a slash in it.. umm, GNU/Linux? Yeah, that's it. What were we talking about again? Oh yeah.
If drivers work fine under linux, whether with ndiswrapper or not, where's the cause to complain? The ndiswrapper guys go on fine tuning their software, the device manufacturers can go make a single binary, everybody's happy.
What am I missing?
Freedom.
Well if you want to declare your satelite to be not owned by you, go right ahead. I'd love to see some space salvage operations.
Because as far as the user is concerned ndiswrapper is a fine solution. Presumably there is a speed or stability difference, so perhaps the scoring system needs to be tweaked to highlight that difference.