he idea that you probably won't be coding linked lists and creating filesystems for a living
Umm, why would one want to do that? It's already been done. Those are super general purpose solutions to problems. Of course, instead of subclassing CLinkedList to do the work, good CS people should be able to analyze the problem and see how a more efficient data structure can be used. That's the whole point of learning linked lists. Not to duplicate the idea but to use it specialized forms of it to suit purposes.
If you enjoy doing that kind of stuff (making linked lists), then you should go to graduate school where you will do them until you start doing research on a field. If you want to go to industry then you should have a good idea of where you want to fit in the industry.
Modern processors have multiple units that do the same thing. Like multiple adders, multipliers etc so that unrelated operations can happen in parallel.
But you have to avoid the hazards of doing something like that.
Wow. None of the Sept. 11 and Globalism even though the movie is about a foreign country and deals with war of sorts. That's an incredible behaviour change caused by the incessant slashdot readers jeering JonKatz's every word posted.
Or maybe it's the antithesis of every idea JonKatz has been blabbering about. So, he's taking an easy way out by just calling it light movie by totally ignoring any of the contradictions it could cause to JonKatz's long developing theories.
First of all, it's about the small guy fighting a big relentless giant and it's bottom line is that all of magic and wizardy couldn't beat good ol' idea of good ideas (as opposed to evil ones) like freedom (and it's associated death). If I'm note careful, I might be implying something really bad.
At the time that the Muslim world was leading art and science, it was much freer and open than other nations of the world. As west became more open and allowed more freedoms, and the Muslim nations did the opposite, the balance began to change and has been that way to this day.
I agree but I want to make another hypothesis. Every civilization has risen and fallen in human history. The begining of plentiful and free society brings riches but I think it's societial dynamics that slowly but surely the society starts seperating into social classes. (caste, kings and pheasants, rich and poor etc. etc).
Upon forming social classes, the privilaged classes exerts opression in order to preserve their 'way of life' or what they have. That way, with opression and freedom going, the society all crumbles away.
My hypothesis would then mean that the Western freedom is nothing special and in the future probably has opression by the ones in power which will evenually lead to the end of western civil.
Why is the WTO and economic factors repression? Why wouldn't they want to keep it away from people? It would screw up their economic planning if they did that.
Well, if you consider Genghis Kahn to be the significant rebels!!
I was thinking more along the lines of religious repression along the lines of Tibet (we all know how that goes), Falun Gong and maybe some human right abuses that the govt. is clamined to have done.
But I don't know how much of that is Western media passing it thru an exagerration filter to display Chinese as repressed and the leaders as immoral and so on.
Well, I've been proven right (so why am I not running Media Lab or flying around the world giving speeches?). China and other countries (Singapore, etc.) have in fact put in national proxies and are blocking thousands of sites, tracking people's usage, and putting people in jail.
Those firewalls are only symbolic. They block CNN, BBC. You were right that it would be attempted but it's not really possible. Anyways, what do the Chinese have to repress more than any other country?
I didn't know they were tracking people's usage. I though that was more done by companies in the US with spyware.
The article goes on to say "While bootstrapping their economy with the fruits of Western labor and ingenuity, they gain the tools to prune democracy on the vine."
Communism and freedom aren't related. Communism is an economic model and there is no freedom/no freedom in there.
Second, if you accept capitalism as the invisible hand which balances everything to the optimal, the transfer of technology to China is just the forces of capitalism working to right the an economic imbalance.
It's very easy to make an issue out of a popular irrational hate. If the arguements go like "snouts deep in the feedbag, they haven't quite noticed the bacon being trimmed off their ass", one should be suspicious.
This is in strict contrast to CNN where people can't view anonymously, advertising and marketing isn't really feasible and all the information presented is reliable and true.
And you're appluading CNN in bringing awareness about as you put it "a teen who's spending a lot of time online and ordering more stuff than you think he could afford" as IRC.
Unfortunately, though, most music as of yet from the Net has been derivative. Unfortunately, too, making statements out of thin air does not make it true.
Making music on the porch, making music for a real crowd - you are contradicting yourself!!!
This article on online music has these lines "In the industrial age, copies often were more valuable than the original. (Who wanted the ''original'' prototype refrigerator that the one in your kitchen was based on?) Most people wanted a perfect working clone. The more common the clone, the more desirable, since it would then come with a brand name respected by others and a network of service and repair outlets." it's better not read.
The article is patheticly written. Freeness and copyness properties of music!!!
Utter nonsense. "The computer plays whatever you type in perfectly, which is not what you want." Every instrument I know does that. The instrument always plays perfectly how it's supposed to play. There are things like MIDI which record timing to the 100ths of a second and reproduce what you just played.
Since your experience with computers is with Concertware only, I assume it's where you input scores and the computer plays it back to you. Then, the computer is not an instrument but a player.
Good point there, as the article says But the history of patent protection suggests that that is not the only means by which the rich nations have raised the drawbridge after entering the castle.
But, the problem is that this is not just a between nations thing. The same dynamics works inside nations. The rich will want to protect what they have using laws. Patents are great if you just invented something that will make you lots of money for a long time and you would want it to be valid for a long time. But, it may not be as great for the whole society because it kills the motivation for innovation. So, the whole idea is that excessive intellectual property laws will be harmful for everyone as a whole but only beneficial to a small group.
Publishing today is characterized by powerful corporate entities acting in concert, to the detriment of essentially powerless authors
For content authors it's a really scary hearing something like that. Major companies in the publishing (literature or music) industry are all together on it and as the article says it's choose your own poison.
/.errs are probably going to go on about the net publishing and micropayment revenue structure but I don't think there are decent companies out there who actually are doing this stuff (and suceseding).
It hardly makes sense to say that authors and musicians do what they do because of passion. A lot of the process in creating is skill that has to be developed and refined and if it's going to compete with the author's time for other things that make the author's living.
I just see bad things in the future. The large number of musicians and authors are probably going to disappear once the best that could happen isn't that great.
This really great. In the last few years, a lot of course materials have been put online by professors (and not made you have to log in with you university account to access it, unlike some mean universities!!!)
MIT already has a course materials on the WWW page where they have links to the web-pages created by professors for their classes. And, a lot of them aren't just a class syllabus and problems numbers from the book, but exams, solutions, HW solutions and sometimes even class notes. It's neat browsing through those.
I guess this is just an extension of the idea so that all web-interface is the same for all classes. I just hope it doesn't end like other university web-site where 90% of the web-pages generated for classes are 90% the same and just contains the syllabus. Very frustrating browsing through 100 class links and they're all the same.
He didn't fill the air with a lot of subversive political talk. He simply continued to beam into the sky movies and music and cooking shows and tastefully exposed Persian female flesh
I hope "cooking shows and tastefully exposed Persian female flesh" isn't one show.
Leaves a bad aftertaste in the mouth after reading that.
Requirements A) The name of the service B) The channel of the program (AM/FM stations use station id) C) The type of program (Archived/Looped/Live) D) Date of Transmission E) Time of Transmission F) Time zone of origination of Transmission G) Numeric designation of the place of the sound recording within the program H) Duration of transmission (to nearest second) I) Sound Recording Title J) The ISRC code of the recording K) The release year of the album per copyright notice and in the case of compilation albums, the release year of the album and copyright date of the track L) Featured recording artist M) Retail album title N) The recording Label O) The UPC code of the retail album P) The catalog number Q) The copyright owner information R) The musical genre of the channel or program (station format)
Jeez. That's going to need new databases for radio stations. At least I don't have to call in to ask what song they were just playing. I'll even get the UPC code and the album name and copyright owner information right there.
And a listener's log listing: 1) The name of the service or entity 2) The channel or program 3) the date and time that the user logged in (the user's timezone) 4) the date and time that the user logged out (the user's timezone) 5) The time zone where the signal was received (user) 6) Unique User identifier 7) The country in which the user received the transmissions
I'm sure they put on the unique user identifier in there just in case someone actually implemented all the others to comply.
Might be a great way to back up data. Instead of burning them onto CDs, data could be backed up on VHS like tapes if they offer gigs and gigs of data.
The magnetic tape medium would them have come full circle, then!
I don't see the point. The theorems for encryption (Fermat's little and others) can be understood by anyone who know basic algebra (not even abstract algebra).
So, someone can download those super-long interger libraries and write a couple pages of code to come up with x bits of encryption software. The random number generator is the hardest part but it can be made fairly random by human.
So any organized group could hire a programmer for 1 week and get it written for them. So why not allow encryption export?
In the future people will laugh back at the tremendous waste of time and money for trying to break Shannon's law as much as we laugh back at the people who tried to break the law of conservation of energy (eg. engines that did more work than the energy inputted).
I think maybe there is some sort of entropy in some multi-dimensional space for certain kinds of data that gives us enough redundancy to compress 1:100. Of course, the data cannot be random (otherwise no more frequent patterns or redundancy) and would only theoretically be compressile to our new measure of entropy. But, what kind of data? Even Shannon's law allows for 1:100 given the right kind of data.
I've been programming since I was 12 (I'm currently 24) and have read hundreds of CS books.
Depends on what kind of books that you have been reading. When you get a degree in CS, you'll probably only read 9-10 books in 4 years. Networking, compilers, data structures algorithms, Architechture, Operating Systems, Theory of Computation and maybe some graphics, UNIX books, Database, Software engineering etc. BTW, C and C++ programming classes are freshmen classes and if you have just read what is needed by the industry, then you can get your degree in 2-3 years.
But you're absolutely right. After you go through school, you can develop further. But, don't look getting a degree so contemptuously. You could go to a low tier university and get a degree in 1 year but what is the point of that? If your goal is to improve yourself with the degree, look towards 2-3 years or more at a good reputable school.
We compare these worm-writers to terrorists now. After 50 years, when Micrsoft is no longer the biggest company, we will probably compare them to freedom fighters who freed the world from Microsoft's rule.:)
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That's exactly the point. It doesn't sound like a name a corporation would use or a standard body would name.
he idea that you probably won't be coding linked lists and creating filesystems for a living
Umm, why would one want to do that? It's already been done. Those are super general purpose solutions to problems. Of course, instead of subclassing CLinkedList to do the work, good CS people should be able to analyze the problem and see how a more efficient data structure can be used. That's the whole point of learning linked lists. Not to duplicate the idea but to use it specialized forms of it to suit purposes.
If you enjoy doing that kind of stuff (making linked lists), then you should go to graduate school where you will do them until you start doing research on a field. If you want to go to industry then you should have a good idea of where you want to fit in the industry.
Probagation delays.
Modern processors have multiple units that do the same thing. Like multiple adders, multipliers etc so that unrelated operations can happen in parallel.
But you have to avoid the hazards of doing something like that.
Wow. None of the Sept. 11 and Globalism even though the movie is about a foreign country and deals with war of sorts. That's an incredible behaviour change caused by the incessant slashdot readers jeering JonKatz's every word posted.
Or maybe it's the antithesis of every idea JonKatz has been blabbering about. So, he's taking an easy way out by just calling it light movie by totally ignoring any of the contradictions it could cause to JonKatz's long developing theories.
First of all, it's about the small guy fighting a big relentless giant and it's bottom line is that all of magic and wizardy couldn't beat good ol' idea of good ideas (as opposed to evil ones) like freedom (and it's associated death). If I'm note careful, I might be implying something really bad.
At the time that the Muslim world was leading art and science, it was much freer and open than other nations of the world. As west became more open and allowed more freedoms, and the Muslim nations did the opposite, the balance began to change and has been that way to this day.
I agree but I want to make another hypothesis. Every civilization has risen and fallen in human history. The begining of plentiful and free society brings riches but I think it's societial dynamics that slowly but surely the society starts seperating into social classes. (caste, kings and pheasants, rich and poor etc. etc).
Upon forming social classes, the privilaged classes exerts opression in order to preserve their 'way of life' or what they have. That way, with opression and freedom going, the society all crumbles away.
My hypothesis would then mean that the Western freedom is nothing special and in the future probably has opression by the ones in power which will evenually lead to the end of western civil.
Any counter-theories?
Why is the WTO and economic factors repression? Why wouldn't they want to keep it away from people? It would screw up their economic planning if they did that.
Well, if you consider Genghis Kahn to be the significant rebels!!
I was thinking more along the lines of religious repression along the lines of Tibet (we all know how that goes), Falun Gong and maybe some human right abuses that the govt. is clamined to have done.
But I don't know how much of that is Western media passing it thru an exagerration filter to display Chinese as repressed and the leaders as immoral and so on.
Those firewalls are only symbolic. They block CNN, BBC. You were right that it would be attempted but it's not really possible. Anyways, what do the Chinese have to repress more than any other country?
I didn't know they were tracking people's usage. I though that was more done by companies in the US with spyware.
Communism and freedom aren't related. Communism is an economic model and there is no freedom/no freedom in there.
Second, if you accept capitalism as the invisible hand which balances everything to the optimal, the transfer of technology to China is just the forces of capitalism working to right the an economic imbalance.
It's very easy to make an issue out of a popular irrational hate. If the arguements go like "snouts deep in the feedbag, they haven't quite noticed the bacon being trimmed off their ass", one should be suspicious.
This is in strict contrast to CNN where people can't view anonymously, advertising and marketing isn't really feasible and all the information presented is reliable and true.
And you're appluading CNN in bringing awareness about as you put it "a teen who's spending a lot of time online and ordering more stuff than you think he could afford" as IRC.
Because there is a cost involved.
If what you gain is more than what you lose, it ain't worth it.
Part of the reason people are "vegans" are that meat is not "healthy" and it has a high fats and such.
Then, if we'd just genetically engineer it so that it doesn't have those fats then, I'd probably be just like tofu.
Unfortunately, though, most music as of yet from the Net has been derivative. Unfortunately, too, making statements out of thin air does not make it true.
Making music on the porch, making music for a real crowd - you are contradicting yourself!!!
Utter nonsense.
This article on online music has these lines "In the industrial age, copies often were more valuable than the original. (Who wanted the ''original'' prototype refrigerator that the one in your kitchen was based on?) Most people wanted a perfect working clone. The more common the clone, the more desirable, since it would then come with a brand name respected by others and a network of service and repair outlets." it's better not read.
The article is patheticly written. Freeness and copyness properties of music!!!
Utter nonsense. "The computer plays whatever you type in perfectly, which is not what you want." Every instrument I know does that. The instrument always plays perfectly how it's supposed to play. There are things like MIDI which record timing to the 100ths of a second and reproduce what you just played.
Since your experience with computers is with Concertware only, I assume it's where you input scores and the computer plays it back to you. Then, the computer is not an instrument but a player.
Important distinction.
Good point there, as the article says But the history of patent protection suggests that that is not the only means by which the rich nations have raised the drawbridge after entering the castle.
But, the problem is that this is not just a between nations thing. The same dynamics works inside nations. The rich will want to protect what they have using laws. Patents are great if you just invented something that will make you lots of money for a long time and you would want it to be valid for a long time. But, it may not be as great for the whole society because it kills the motivation for innovation. So, the whole idea is that excessive intellectual property laws will be harmful for everyone as a whole but only beneficial to a small group.
For content authors it's a really scary hearing something like that. Major companies in the publishing (literature or music) industry are all together on it and as the article says it's choose your own poison.
/.errs are probably going to go on about the net publishing and micropayment revenue structure but I don't think there are decent companies out there who actually are doing this stuff (and suceseding).
It hardly makes sense to say that authors and musicians do what they do because of passion. A lot of the process in creating is skill that has to be developed and refined and if it's going to compete with the author's time for other things that make the author's living.
I just see bad things in the future. The large number of musicians and authors are probably going to disappear once the best that could happen isn't that great.
MIT already has a course materials on the WWW page where they have links to the web-pages created by professors for their classes. And, a lot of them aren't just a class syllabus and problems numbers from the book, but exams, solutions, HW solutions and sometimes even class notes. It's neat browsing through those.
I guess this is just an extension of the idea so that all web-interface is the same for all classes. I just hope it doesn't end like other university web-site where 90% of the web-pages generated for classes are 90% the same and just contains the syllabus. Very frustrating browsing through 100 class links and they're all the same.
He didn't fill the air with a lot of subversive political talk. He simply continued to beam into the sky movies and music and cooking shows and tastefully exposed Persian female flesh
I hope "cooking shows and tastefully exposed Persian female flesh" isn't one show.
Leaves a bad aftertaste in the mouth after reading that.
Requirements
A) The name of the service
B) The channel of the program (AM/FM stations use station id)
C) The type of program (Archived/Looped/Live)
D) Date of Transmission
E) Time of Transmission
F) Time zone of origination of Transmission
G) Numeric designation of the place of the sound recording within the program
H) Duration of transmission (to nearest second)
I) Sound Recording Title
J) The ISRC code of the recording
K) The release year of the album per copyright notice and in the case of compilation albums, the release year of the album and copyright date of the track
L) Featured recording artist
M) Retail album title
N) The recording Label
O) The UPC code of the retail album
P) The catalog number
Q) The copyright owner information
R) The musical genre of the channel or program (station format)
Jeez. That's going to need new databases for radio stations.
At least I don't have to call in to ask what song they were just playing. I'll even get the UPC code and the album name and copyright owner information right there.
And a listener's log listing:
1) The name of the service or entity
2) The channel or program
3) the date and time that the user logged in (the user's timezone)
4) the date and time that the user logged out (the user's timezone)
5) The time zone where the signal was received (user)
6) Unique User identifier
7) The country in which the user received the transmissions
I'm sure they put on the unique user identifier in there just in case someone actually implemented all the others to comply.
I don't think the Beatles would agree with that. They didn't tour after their first 4 LPs. They just made studio records.
Might be a great way to back up data. Instead of burning them onto CDs, data could be backed up on VHS like tapes if they offer gigs and gigs of data. The magnetic tape medium would them have come full circle, then!
I don't see the point. The theorems for encryption (Fermat's little and others) can be understood by anyone who know basic algebra (not even abstract algebra). So, someone can download those super-long interger libraries and write a couple pages of code to come up with x bits of encryption software. The random number generator is the hardest part but it can be made fairly random by human. So any organized group could hire a programmer for 1 week and get it written for them. So why not allow encryption export?
In the future people will laugh back at the tremendous waste of time and money for trying to break Shannon's law as much as we laugh back at the people who tried to break the law of conservation of energy (eg. engines that did more work than the energy inputted).
I think maybe there is some sort of entropy in some multi-dimensional space for certain kinds of data that gives us enough redundancy to compress 1:100. Of course, the data cannot be random (otherwise no more frequent patterns or redundancy) and would only theoretically be compressile to our new measure of entropy. But, what kind of data? Even Shannon's law allows for 1:100 given the right kind of data.
I've been programming since I was 12 (I'm currently 24) and have read hundreds of CS books. Depends on what kind of books that you have been reading. When you get a degree in CS, you'll probably only read 9-10 books in 4 years. Networking, compilers, data structures algorithms, Architechture, Operating Systems, Theory of Computation and maybe some graphics, UNIX books, Database, Software engineering etc. BTW, C and C++ programming classes are freshmen classes and if you have just read what is needed by the industry, then you can get your degree in 2-3 years. But you're absolutely right. After you go through school, you can develop further. But, don't look getting a degree so contemptuously. You could go to a low tier university and get a degree in 1 year but what is the point of that? If your goal is to improve yourself with the degree, look towards 2-3 years or more at a good reputable school.
We compare these worm-writers to terrorists now. After 50 years, when Micrsoft is no longer the biggest company, we will probably compare them to freedom fighters who freed the world from Microsoft's rule. :)