we now call eurypedes and sophocles GREAT poetry and deep, etc. but it was for entertainment purposes ONLY! although many of the other posts diss the simpsons and philosphy as just being crap and a waste of an education...it is one of the better ways to study pop cultural philosophy as it pertains to us...just as the greeks used their playwrites...how is this any different?
the ABOSOLUTELY best part about the game is that the protovision game server is in it! (remember war games?) i got into it, via the all-famous password JOSHUA...its SO great they actually kept it...and it gave me the list of games, but global thermonuclear war was unavailable in the demo...(MUST get full version!)
as if too many mission critical apps run on windows anyway, OR linux... accounting != mission critical. most mission critical apps run on the military's old mainframes, which they have been meaning to upgrade, but would cost them too much money.
the navy decided to use "off the shelf software", namely windows to control their cruiser. the yorktown fiasco, http://lists.essential.org/1998/am-info/msg03829.h tml, showed why you shouldnt use windows for mission critical apps. you need to go to EVERY machine and manually press the magic button. this caused the ship to be in lingo for more than any military division would EVER accept. so....would YUO use windows for mission critical apps?
although we cannot solve np solutions easily these days, there are many methods of approximation. some np complete problems, such as the travelling salesman problem, are easily modeled by things like the self organizing kohonen neural networks. although it does not technically find the optimal solution it is used quite widely in the real world to find a solution VERY quickly and as a VERY good approximation... i don't know much about too many other np complete problems, so i'm not sure if approximation would suffice. afaik, factoring large primes is np complete....but clearly approximation is NOT good enough.
that memorabelia is sold for such exhorbent prices. how can the media create SO much hype about a SINGLE trilogy that plastic toys from it sell for hundreds of THOUSANDS of dollarz!!!!!
until much AFTER unix. As first hand experience, I was given the C bible and an ipc sun when i was 11. That is what a computer meant to me. I didn't know exactly what the internet was; i didn't know what gui meant. A computer to me was NOT for entertainment, it seemed, but for honest to god work. eventually i realized it could be used for entertainment, and since sun does not generally suffice for such use due to the lack of applications, i was not very entertained.
eventually i went to linux. i did everything in linux. windows was FOREIGN to me, and i was afraid that when i took my first programming class i would not be able to use vc++ because it was so much different than emacs / gdb!! know ofcourse i can use vc++ if i need to, but frankly, i feel VERY uncomfortable using windows, and any unix environment, even twm as opposed to my current enlightenment look (which looks better than windows anyway) is FAR more preferable to windows.
My point IS (it took a while to get here), that differences are hard to change to and from. i think that ppl should stop worrying too much about relearning others from windows to linux. if they want to, they'll learn. they should concentrate on getting the new generation to get a feel of unix, and see its power, elagence, and TRUE ease of use. yuo ppl say that 'yuo can't click, drag and drop'? why should that matter. only a windows user is used to draggedy droppedy BULLSHIT! a person who has never seen a computer before (especially someone elderly) has a much easier time getting used to text based interface rather than using a coordination-required mouse.
my grandma wanted to go to the library to learn how to use the computer to search for books. she went over to the windows machines, and i showed her what she needed to do to search. she had a bunch of trouble clicking the mouse and remembering where to click. on the other hand, after i realized that this wouldnt work, i showed her the old text-based computers. she caught on INSTANTLY, and had absolutely NO trouble.
command based OS's as opposed to graphical ones are much more logically intuitive. moreover, yuo KNOW what yuo are doing instead of just clicking what billy-goat-gates tells you.
even if it forces people to use winXXX, i'll use wine with it. They can't really stop me, unless they somehow MAKE sure it doesnt work w/ wine...and that case someone'll just write a patch; problem solved. i get my muzak!
i dont know....its definitely nice to be able to do apt-get dist-upgrade when i feel like it. compiling from source is nice, but in the long run automation has many more uses. plus, compiling from source works on most distros...redhate is indeed odd in that respect, but debian is cool. just because someone decided to port to win32/cygwin, doesnt make the distribution itself worse--i still love it
--exactly what it means in biology. things that survive from a biological point of view are necessarily good or better. sometimes they are. sometimes they're not. humans survived because they were able to overcome certain hardships created by the world. But i dont exactly admire humans; if you read Ishmael by good old mr. Quinn, he clearly (as do I) dislike human nature, despite the fact that we can't avoid it. humans do the exact same thing that microsoft does: they kill everything around them, and take more than they need.
There was one thing that Bill Gates did not foresee: the advent of a FREE os...something that he could not counter. the human race (analogous to M$) has killed everything, and eventually there will come a species that can not be killed off (in my opinion this will be the sentiet AI that I, err...i mean people will create). However, until there comes along something analogous to linux, humans will continue to dominate.
finally someone pointed out it is NOT a virus. plus, the fbi needs to do what it needs to do; programs of this kind have existed for a very long time, but only now have they come up with some generalized form: however, it is STILL individualized as mentioned in the parent to this post. SHOULD the fbi be writing this stuff? SURE! if its the only way that they can catch some criminal, or whatever, im willing to sacrifice my security( although in this case there is nothing to sacrifice... )
there is a fine line between privacy rights and good government tracking. the problem arises when a criminal goes into hiding, and the only way to reach him is to compromise his privacy, and sometimes inadvertantly compromising someone else's privacy too. again, this program is NOT meant to spread: it is meant to gather info. the gov't has been gathering info for a LONG time!!...
i mean, would yuo all rather have to register every object yuo own or rent: like in europe: if i rent a house, i need to register; do yuo want the law to be that not carrying an ID is a criminal offense. i think americans are spoiled on privacy, because we dont know the practical limits of what we want. the fbi is NOT trying to tighten up, it is ust trying to get by with its duties and not break any rules...
well, first of all, this is not exactly new. there has been fake alpha blending for a while, and the real stuff isnt exactly that revolutionary either. second, i dont know about the author, but in my opinion its UUUUUUGGGGLLYYY!!! on top of that, what is good about it? yuo know what the windows under the current one look like? i cant say that is exactly a functional improvement. when a window is hidden under others, seeing it because of the transparency of the one on top doesnt help me get to it. plus, how do you tell which one is on top if there are 2 windows pretty much entirely on top of each other!
hehe, looks like the us is quite a ways behind russia in hiding data from the citizens. russia has been hiding government for who knows how long. people do not have access to any civil information, and there is only one possible result: halt of progress. people who tried to make advances in russia could not get the information needed (ie. a bridge builder not being able to build a bridge cause he couldnt get data on the sizes of ships). i truly hope that idiots in dc dont do this: we would lose our global technology advantage!
imho the main problem is that games are not developed for linux, and without linux in mind. some of course are good and brilliant exceptions for this, but that doesnt change the point. a better question i think, is how is linux NOT a gaming platform? stable, good memory management, support for LOTS of hardware? what else do you want... companies just need to start developing games for linux from the start!
imho the main problem is that games are not developed for linux, and without linux in mind. some of course are good and brilliant exceptions for this, but that doesnt change the point. a better question i think, is how is linux NOT a gaming platform? stable, good memory management, support for LOTS of hardware? what else do you want... companies just need to start developing games for linux from the start!
just about every language i know of that copies strings, does not check the length for yuo, and the language is therefore unsafe. c is as safe as the code yuo write in it. in terms of pointer arithmetic: yes there is a potential for mistakes, but it will just segfault if that is the case. void * and the such is what makes C so powerful. the security should lie in the code yuo write and HOW yuo write it, not the language yuo use. every language has flaws and gross insecurities. all they are suggesting is a type checking system.
there is also a problem with that though, too! if i do anything unkosher or different than what cyclone expects of me, then it wont even compile. i WANT to be able to shoot myself in the foot when i want to: it adds enormous yet unharnessed power to those who do not know how to harness it. but to those that DO....yuo get the point.
well, looking at it that way, neither is a liquid crystal display. i think the idea they were trying to get at is that if yuo wire it up such that the light emission of the sheet can be varied (hence the "turns electrical energy into light" phrase in the article). the problem is never how to make it a display, but rather what to do with the surface that is supposed to emit light. before it was CRT, now LCD, next: lightup sheets?
i guess this will drive the directfb people nuts. they are complaining about how X is slow, (when the problem is actually xfree), and upon hearing this they shall say: we dont need another slowdown..."we need to specialize, not generalize!"
i agree... i think the reason is becuase, these days, people are not the ones designing and actually testing new chip architectures-- computers are. the p3 could have been used (although more likely a supercomputer) to design and test the p4, etc. also, no one engineer actually knows all the others parts of chip except the one he is designing. the alu designers @ intel probably couldnt design an fpu nearly as good as the fpu designers, simply because the computer chip is no longer the specialization of an engineer-- a specific, more detailed part is; so, when such articles begin to compare whole chips, and start to go into details, yuo quickly lose track, and easily get lost in the details. from this comes: if a scientist cant explain what he is doing to a 10 year old and have him understand in 100 words, he is no good. same here. most people dont know that much about computer architecture, so shorter explanations would do more good.
that yuo are not NOT interested in CS and tech stuff, just that yuo havent found a way to apply yourself. It seems that yuo used to be entertained and it was interesting for yuo to code stuff: the question is: what did yuo like to code??? i am assuming that yuo didnt just sit around and implementing what was in some textbook, as yuo do now... find something in the field, such as AI or grafX or whatever; graduate, then spend some time resting from school, as it appears that yuo are burned out, then start a project in whatever yuo are interested in (or go to grad school), and make yuor OWN company, so there will be no deadlines ppl will give yuo, no bosses to deal with etc. most ppl have problems with being in the field because they are unmotivated, and dont want to excel. but then again, every field is like that: if yuo are just the average joe, then boredom sets in pretty quickly....
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we now call eurypedes and sophocles GREAT poetry and deep, etc. but it was for entertainment purposes ONLY! although many of the other posts diss the simpsons and philosphy as just being crap and a waste of an education...it is one of the better ways to study pop cultural philosophy as it pertains to us...just as the greeks used their playwrites...how is this any different?
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the ABOSOLUTELY best part about the game is that the protovision game server is in it! (remember war games?) i got into it, via the all-famous password JOSHUA...its SO great they actually kept it...and it gave me the list of games, but global thermonuclear war was unavailable in the demo...(MUST get full version!)
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as if too many mission critical apps run on windows anyway, OR linux... accounting != mission critical. most mission critical apps run on the military's old mainframes, which they have been meaning to upgrade, but would cost them too much money.
h tml, showed why you shouldnt use windows for mission critical apps. you need to go to EVERY machine and manually press the magic button. this caused the ship to be in lingo for more than any military division would EVER accept. so....would YUO use windows for mission critical apps?
the navy decided to use "off the shelf software", namely windows to control their cruiser. the yorktown fiasco, http://lists.essential.org/1998/am-info/msg03829.
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although we cannot solve np solutions easily these days, there are many methods of approximation. some np complete problems, such as the travelling salesman problem, are easily modeled by things like the self organizing kohonen neural networks. although it does not technically find the optimal solution it is used quite widely in the real world to find a solution VERY quickly and as a VERY good approximation... i don't know much about too many other np complete problems, so i'm not sure if approximation would suffice. afaik, factoring large primes is np complete....but clearly approximation is NOT good enough.
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i wonder how much it will cost to run the thing?
just pour laundry detergent into the thing and it turns it into borax? sounds rather interesting;
it says that is not dangerous and nonflammable, etc. but hydrogen is one of the byproducts?? that sounds rather misleading.
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that is NOT 11500 cubic feet...
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that memorabelia is sold for such exhorbent prices. how can the media create SO much hype about a SINGLE trilogy that plastic toys from it sell for hundreds of THOUSANDS of dollarz!!!!!
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until much AFTER unix. As first hand experience, I was given the C bible and an ipc sun when i was 11. That is what a computer meant to me. I didn't know exactly what the internet was; i didn't know what gui meant. A computer to me was NOT for entertainment, it seemed, but for honest to god work. eventually i realized it could be used for entertainment, and since sun does not generally suffice for such use due to the lack of applications, i was not very entertained.
eventually i went to linux. i did everything in linux. windows was FOREIGN to me, and i was afraid that when i took my first programming class i would not be able to use vc++ because it was so much different than emacs / gdb!! know ofcourse i can use vc++ if i need to, but frankly, i feel VERY uncomfortable using windows, and any unix environment, even twm as opposed to my current enlightenment look (which looks better than windows anyway) is FAR more preferable to windows.
My point IS (it took a while to get here), that differences are hard to change to and from. i think that ppl should stop worrying too much about relearning others from windows to linux. if they want to, they'll learn. they should concentrate on getting the new generation to get a feel of unix, and see its power, elagence, and TRUE ease of use. yuo ppl say that 'yuo can't click, drag and drop'? why should that matter. only a windows user is used to draggedy droppedy BULLSHIT! a person who has never seen a computer before (especially someone elderly) has a much easier time getting used to text based interface rather than using a coordination-required mouse.
my grandma wanted to go to the library to learn how to use the computer to search for books. she went over to the windows machines, and i showed her what she needed to do to search. she had a bunch of trouble clicking the mouse and remembering where to click. on the other hand, after i realized that this wouldnt work, i showed her the old text-based computers. she caught on INSTANTLY, and had absolutely NO trouble.
command based OS's as opposed to graphical ones are much more logically intuitive. moreover, yuo KNOW what yuo are doing instead of just clicking what billy-goat-gates tells you.
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even if it forces people to use winXXX, i'll use wine with it. They can't really stop me, unless they somehow MAKE sure it doesnt work w/ wine...and that case someone'll just write a patch; problem solved. i get my muzak!
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i dont know....its definitely nice to be able to do apt-get dist-upgrade when i feel like it. compiling from source is nice, but in the long run automation has many more uses. plus, compiling from source works on most distros...redhate is indeed odd in that respect, but debian is cool. just because someone decided to port to win32/cygwin, doesnt make the distribution itself worse--i still love it
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what does survival mean in software???
--exactly what it means in biology. things that survive from a biological point of view are necessarily good or better. sometimes they are. sometimes they're not. humans survived because they were able to overcome certain hardships created by the world. But i dont exactly admire humans; if you read Ishmael by good old mr. Quinn, he clearly (as do I) dislike human nature, despite the fact that we can't avoid it. humans do the exact same thing that microsoft does: they kill everything around them, and take more than they need.
There was one thing that Bill Gates did not foresee: the advent of a FREE os...something that he could not counter. the human race (analogous to M$) has killed everything, and eventually there will come a species that can not be killed off (in my opinion this will be the sentiet AI that I, err...i mean people will create). However, until there comes along something analogous to linux, humans will continue to dominate.
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finally someone pointed out it is NOT a virus. plus, the fbi needs to do what it needs to do; programs of this kind have existed for a very long time, but only now have they come up with some generalized form: however, it is STILL individualized as mentioned in the parent to this post. SHOULD the fbi be writing this stuff? SURE! if its the only way that they can catch some criminal, or whatever, im willing to sacrifice my security( although in this case there is nothing to sacrifice... )
there is a fine line between privacy rights and good government tracking. the problem arises when a criminal goes into hiding, and the only way to reach him is to compromise his privacy, and sometimes inadvertantly compromising someone else's privacy too. again, this program is NOT meant to spread: it is meant to gather info. the gov't has been gathering info for a LONG time!!...
i mean, would yuo all rather have to register every object yuo own or rent: like in europe: if i rent a house, i need to register; do yuo want the law to be that not carrying an ID is a criminal offense. i think americans are spoiled on privacy, because we dont know the practical limits of what we want. the fbi is NOT trying to tighten up, it is ust trying to get by with its duties and not break any rules...
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GOD! i cant even write a simple comment. what i MEANT to say was, "they are NOT final because they are rigft, they are right because they are final."
indeed; however, they are final because they are rigft, they are right because they are final.
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well, first of all, this is not exactly new. there has been fake alpha blending for a while, and the real stuff isnt exactly that revolutionary either. second, i dont know about the author, but in my opinion its UUUUUUGGGGLLYYY!!! on top of that, what is good about it? yuo know what the windows under the current one look like? i cant say that is exactly a functional improvement. when a window is hidden under others, seeing it because of the transparency of the one on top doesnt help me get to it. plus, how do you tell which one is on top if there are 2 windows pretty much entirely on top of each other!
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hmmm...its called the directory structure with unix links...if that's what yuo mean i use that ALL the time.
hehe, looks like the us is quite a ways behind russia in hiding data from the citizens. russia has been hiding government for who knows how long. people do not have access to any civil information, and there is only one possible result: halt of progress. people who tried to make advances in russia could not get the information needed (ie. a bridge builder not being able to build a bridge cause he couldnt get data on the sizes of ships). i truly hope that idiots in dc dont do this: we would lose our global technology advantage!
imho the main problem is that games are not developed for linux, and without linux in mind. some of course are good and brilliant exceptions for this, but that doesnt change the point. a better question i think, is how is linux NOT a gaming platform? stable, good memory management, support for LOTS of hardware? what else do you want... companies just need to start developing games for linux from the start!
my bad, wrong thread!...ARGH
imho the main problem is that games are not developed for linux, and without linux in mind. some of course are good and brilliant exceptions for this, but that doesnt change the point. a better question i think, is how is linux NOT a gaming platform? stable, good memory management, support for LOTS of hardware? what else do you want... companies just need to start developing games for linux from the start!
just about every language i know of that copies strings, does not check the length for yuo, and the language is therefore unsafe. c is as safe as the code yuo write in it. in terms of pointer arithmetic: yes there is a potential for mistakes, but it will just segfault if that is the case. void * and the such is what makes C so powerful. the security should lie in the code yuo write and HOW yuo write it, not the language yuo use. every language has flaws and gross insecurities. all they are suggesting is a type checking system.
there is also a problem with that though, too! if i do anything unkosher or different than what cyclone expects of me, then it wont even compile. i WANT to be able to shoot myself in the foot when i want to: it adds enormous yet unharnessed power to those who do not know how to harness it. but to those that DO....yuo get the point.
well, looking at it that way, neither is a liquid crystal display. i think the idea they were trying to get at is that if yuo wire it up such that the light emission of the sheet can be varied (hence the "turns electrical energy into light" phrase in the article). the problem is never how to make it a display, but rather what to do with the surface that is supposed to emit light. before it was CRT, now LCD, next: lightup sheets?
i guess this will drive the directfb people nuts. they are complaining about how X is slow, (when the problem is actually xfree), and upon hearing this they shall say: we dont need another slowdown..."we need to specialize, not generalize!"
i agree... i think the reason is becuase, these days, people are not the ones designing and actually testing new chip architectures-- computers are. the p3 could have been used (although more likely a supercomputer) to design and test the p4, etc. also, no one engineer actually knows all the others parts of chip except the one he is designing. the alu designers @ intel probably couldnt design an fpu nearly as good as the fpu designers, simply because the computer chip is no longer the specialization of an engineer-- a specific, more detailed part is; so, when such articles begin to compare whole chips, and start to go into details, yuo quickly lose track, and easily get lost in the details. from this comes: if a scientist cant explain what he is doing to a 10 year old and have him understand in 100 words, he is no good. same here. most people dont know that much about computer architecture, so shorter explanations would do more good.
that yuo are not NOT interested in CS and tech stuff, just that yuo havent found a way to apply yourself. It seems that yuo used to be entertained and it was interesting for yuo to code stuff: the question is: what did yuo like to code??? i am assuming that yuo didnt just sit around and implementing what was in some textbook, as yuo do now... find something in the field, such as AI or grafX or whatever; graduate, then spend some time resting from school, as it appears that yuo are burned out, then start a project in whatever yuo are interested in (or go to grad school), and make yuor OWN company, so there will be no deadlines ppl will give yuo, no bosses to deal with etc. most ppl have problems with being in the field because they are unmotivated, and dont want to excel. but then again, every field is like that: if yuo are just the average joe, then boredom sets in pretty quickly....