When I started with computers many years ago I was hoping that in the future the machine will do many of my tasks and let me have extra free time.
Today I see a lot of interest in programs that consume time rather than give us time. I don't believe that spending ten hours a day in front of a pc screen is an achivement.
Free software has in many cases been sucessful in the server side, software that does not necessarily need a human to be plugged into the computer to make it productive.
I dream of a day when computers will no longer have interfaces at all but just go along with their work.
Now excuse me I have to go back and study this half melted chip we found together with a robotic arm in a steel factory. I think it has enough information in it to allow us to make an autonomous computer...
Even then, what are the chances that I can write a better sorting algorithm than one included in a standard library that was written by some who studied sorting algorithms? Close to zero.
Sounds like you fell asleep well before the third volume of taocp.
Aesthetical at the end of the day means beautiful. When someone non technical looks at the box they see its shape and nothing more. When a geek looks at it he also sees with the eyes of the mind the tech aspects of it.
Similarly with food you have visual aspect, smell and taste but in the long run you have calories. If you just pay attention the the former and not the latter you are in for a big fat surprise.
Perhaps Joel's problem is that he doesn't see how exciting computer science can be.
I think far too many people belive that the ultimate use for a computer is to be a glorified typewriter. The possibilities offered by computers are enormous and we are barely starting to explore their potential.
OSX was a success because the core of the operating system was already there and Apple could concentrate on the user experience. I wonder if putting a good front end to TeX could achieve a similar effect.
This is not just limited to wikipedia. I had very similar problems raising a bug against Tomcat.
I really don't know what a solution to this would be. You could dig your heels in and keep repeating your arguments but this would put you on the same level as the stubborn guy on the other side.
In my case I just patched Tomcat for myself and moved on. I guess if the bug is important to others it will get raised again.
And you suggest that the current Iraqi situation is an improvement on those how precisely?
I can not say anything about Iraq as my only information about their present comes from tv and radio.
My complaint was about the misuse of the word (Eastern) Europe. We lie to ourselves saying that Europe is only the successfull part of it and conveniently forget about the rest.
Poland, which according to similar reasoning not long ago was not in Europe, just showed more common sense than most. And they have a long history of opposing communism too, so we have more reasons to thank them.
I am not sure which country you are referring to, I was thinking along the lines of Poland, Chechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary etc.
I was referring to Romania
But of course things could have been more violent than that. The main point was that they would have never gotten so violent as whats going on now and furthermore the entire affair would have been an internal Iraqi issue as opposed to being Crusaders vs Jihadists.
You've never heard of the war in Jugoslavia? Nothing about Bosnia, Kosovo and the others?
If you wanted justice and equality, you should have tried to mend and repair that old Communist bus
This is like saying you're going to improve hell by installing an air conditioning device.
The only example we have of egalitarian societies are monasteries. Somehow the top enemies of communism manage to live the promises of communism. Everyone else is just busy trying to be the richest one in the cemetery.
In time, with patience and some work perheaps a peaceful, bloodless, transition to less totalitarian form of government ala Eastern Europe.
It was as violent and as bloody as it goes. New cemeteries we made to bury the dead. The sound of machine gun fire was in the streets for days. And now fifteen years later the old comunists are still ruling as the new rich.
I know that GPL means that a program using my GPL source must provide its own source as well. The Apache licence does not require one to provide the source. I vaguely remember Perl has an artistic licence.
Honestly, how many developers read what's in a licence? When I use code for work I make sure it's under ASL. When I develop my own in my spare time I use GPL.
But let your licence be, 'GPL, GPL' or 'ASL, ASL'; and anything beyond these is of evil.
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Our number system is based on the number of fingers we have. If we could modify that number by genetic engineering maybe we could work around this calendar issue.
Just imagine trying to achieve First Post typing with 12 fingers.
It's surprising that Intel didn't sell Itaniums at lower prices to try to build market share.
I think the Itanium decidedly needed a Celeron version. At some point in time I wanted to buy one and assemble a small web server. I abandoned my plan the moment I saw the price.
Keeping it out of the reach of programmers ment less software for it. And a processor without software is quite useless.
If you mention Flash and WebSphere and only complain about Flash you obviously have not used WebSphere. Or better said, you have not been forced to use WebSphere as I could not find any examples of people voluntarily using it.
WebSphere reminded me of the IBM dominated computer world before Microsoft took over. All of a sudden Microsoft did not look that bad anymore.
Could anybody explain why the previous implementation was limited to 2GB per file system? 2GB sounds like a limitation of the 32 bit address space. With the new 64 bit processors is this still an issue?
This is an infinite chain of events in a finite system.
We tried that in correcting modem signal and it does not work. Somehow everything needs some time to propagate so you can't match the two ends of the circle.
Or closer to your example you will be there in the same place but not at the same time.
Every effect has a cause. Every cause is at its turn the effect of another cause. This chain is either infinite of has an end. I consider inifinite to be absurd (don't think infinite back in time but infinite existing right now). This of course raises the question: what is the end of the causal chain?
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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these
God has given us a very pleasant way of creating new life, how could you all ignore that?
Oh wait, this is Slashdot.
Towards the end of the video there is a blue screen in the XBox demo.
Today I see a lot of interest in programs that consume time rather than give us time. I don't believe that spending ten hours a day in front of a pc screen is an achivement.
Free software has in many cases been sucessful in the server side, software that does not necessarily need a human to be plugged into the computer to make it productive.
I dream of a day when computers will no longer have interfaces at all but just go along with their work.
Now excuse me I have to go back and study this half melted chip we found together with a robotic arm in a steel factory. I think it has enough information in it to allow us to make an autonomous computer ...
Sounds like you fell asleep well before the third volume of taocp.
Torrent here
Aesthetical at the end of the day means beautiful. When someone non technical looks at the box they see its shape and nothing more. When a geek looks at it he also sees with the eyes of the mind the tech aspects of it.
Similarly with food you have visual aspect, smell and taste but in the long run you have calories. If you just pay attention the the former and not the latter you are in for a big fat surprise.
I think far too many people belive that the ultimate use for a computer is to be a glorified typewriter. The possibilities offered by computers are enormous and we are barely starting to explore their potential.
OSX was a success because the core of the operating system was already there and Apple could concentrate on the user experience. I wonder if putting a good front end to TeX could achieve a similar effect.
I really don't know what a solution to this would be. You could dig your heels in and keep repeating your arguments but this would put you on the same level as the stubborn guy on the other side.
In my case I just patched Tomcat for myself and moved on. I guess if the bug is important to others it will get raised again.
So it does not run under Linux either. Here goes my only reason to migrate from FreeBSD.
Where are those mod points when you need them?
Mod parrent up +Funny.
I can not say anything about Iraq as my only information about their present comes from tv and radio.
My complaint was about the misuse of the word (Eastern) Europe. We lie to ourselves saying that Europe is only the successfull part of it and conveniently forget about the rest.
Merry Christmas!Poland, which according to similar reasoning not long ago was not in Europe, just showed more common sense than most. And they have a long history of opposing communism too, so we have more reasons to thank them.
I was referring to Romania
But of course things could have been more violent than that. The main point was that they would have never gotten so violent as whats going on now and furthermore the entire affair would have been an internal Iraqi issue as opposed to being Crusaders vs Jihadists.You've never heard of the war in Jugoslavia? Nothing about Bosnia, Kosovo and the others?
If you wanted justice and equality, you should have tried to mend and repair that old Communist busThis is like saying you're going to improve hell by installing an air conditioning device.
The only example we have of egalitarian societies are monasteries. Somehow the top enemies of communism manage to live the promises of communism. Everyone else is just busy trying to be the richest one in the cemetery.
It was as violent and as bloody as it goes. New cemeteries we made to bury the dead. The sound of machine gun fire was in the streets for days. And now fifteen years later the old comunists are still ruling as the new rich.
Honestly, how many developers read what's in a licence? When I use code for work I make sure it's under ASL. When I develop my own in my spare time I use GPL.
But let your licence be, 'GPL, GPL' or 'ASL, ASL'; and anything beyond these is of evil.
Just imagine trying to achieve First Post typing with 12 fingers.
I think the Itanium decidedly needed a Celeron version. At some point in time I wanted to buy one and assemble a small web server. I abandoned my plan the moment I saw the price.
Keeping it out of the reach of programmers ment less software for it. And a processor without software is quite useless.
I don't know much about American laws but I would expect you to have the right to install whatever you want in your homes.
FYI The Chicago Tribune owns LA Times.
If you mention Flash and WebSphere and only complain about Flash you obviously have not used WebSphere. Or better said, you have not been forced to use WebSphere as I could not find any examples of people voluntarily using it.
WebSphere reminded me of the IBM dominated computer world before Microsoft took over. All of a sudden Microsoft did not look that bad anymore.Could anybody explain why the previous implementation was limited to 2GB per file system? 2GB sounds like a limitation of the 32 bit address space. With the new 64 bit processors is this still an issue?
This is an infinite chain of events in a finite system.
We tried that in correcting modem signal and it does not work. Somehow everything needs some time to propagate so you can't match the two ends of the circle.Or closer to your example you will be there in the same place but not at the same time.
seeing as you cannot grasp the possibilities of infinite
Infinite is a brilliant abstraction that helps us a lot with calculus.In real life everything is finite.
Every effect has a cause. Every cause is at its turn the effect of another cause. This chain is either infinite of has an end. I consider inifinite to be absurd (don't think infinite back in time but infinite existing right now). This of course raises the question: what is the end of the causal chain?