By the time I graduated 10 years ago, we had to (among other things):
- write a real time multi-tasking OS with a non trivial application for a Motorola 68K processor in C/asm
- write a compiler for a given language (their own unique language)
- write a real time multi-process application to control a PBX in C
- write a real time application to control a physical robot
You make me sad, I never got assigned to do any of these cool projects. Do programs like this still exist?
It's not filtering _results_ it's filtering suggested search terms. Just cause ServersCheck Cracks Me Up doesn't show up in the drop down box of suggestions doesn't mean you can't type that in, hit enter and get results. You can still type porn into google suggest and get all the results you want, it just won't show up in the drop-down. What kills me is that the "evil suing company" understands this, more than half the people on slashdot.
"We don't have any problems with the fact that in Google you can find illegal copies of our software," Van Laere said. "There are people who will never buy the product at the end of the day.
"But people that are looking for your company's name in good faith are then being suggested by Google to go and look for a crack. That is a complete different ballgame," Van Laere said.
These guys are asking for a filter on the Suggest feature (where google provides a drop-down list of related search terms), like is already done for some pornography related terminology. They are not asking for google to filter out the word "crack" from search results, just like you can still go to google and type in "hot naked donkey porn" and get results. This is not about google linking to those pages. Here, try it out: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en.
I know many people that didn't own an original Xbox till they found out how easy it was to hack it, then ran out to get one.
The fraction of people who actually did this is tiny tiny tiny. All the other people bought an Xbox to play video games and possibly to watch movies. Now I know that a whole bunch of people are going to reply saying "I run XBMC" and "I have all my emulators on it" but that crowd is vastly over-represented on slashdot.
It could also be fun to add the main character from Bionic Commando. His grappling hook could latch onto the various platforms and would make for an interesting twist on things.
I hope the interesting change refers to having that character and not the grappling hook part. (-cough-Link-cough-Samus-cough-)
5) Form tribal society 6) Advanced technologically to a city based civilization 7) Interact with other civilizations on your homeworld 8) Advance to space faring race 9) Colonize and terraform other worlds 10) Search for and find other intelligent life in the universe 11) interact with these civilizations (trade, combat, etc.)
don't program Java, but I concede with your point. I just don't agree that 'the way things ultimately work' has much to do with maths. Sure, it helps if you know your hexadecimals if you're programming C or any other language that give you control over memory allocation, but, to stay with C, in my experience, the most difficult part of C is references, pointers and strings, especially in combination. This has little to do with math and a lot with logic. And here the circle closes again, as you consider logic to be part of math and I don't.
Waa? Ok _maybe_ logic isn't part of math (I doubt that though). But what about functions? Set theory? Are these things not part of mathematics? What about graphs? What's a filesystem but a DAG (Assuming no (soft/hard)links)?
Also check out some of the theoretical basis for a computer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine
I'm pretty sure sitting in _one_ place for eight hours had something to do with it. His health of course is/was a contributing factor, but you're just not supposed to sit like that for eight hours straight.
Without an account in the admin group, you need to know the root user's password in OSX. Just like you need to know the Administrator's password in Vista.
There is no root user by default. You need to know the password of an account in the admin group.
At least C has strong type checking, after all in higher level languages like Python the variable geteuid wouldn't have even had to exist for the 1st expression to be valid.
Untrue:
n% python Python 2.4.1 (#1, Feb 20 2006, 18:17:43) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5247)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> if geteuid == 0: ... print "Hello\n" ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? NameError: name 'geteuid' is not defined
If geteuid had been a function, the result would be the same as C. In every dynamic language I know (python, perl, ruby), the result is effectively the same as the code above. (With perl you have to make sure use strict; and or use warnings; is turned on. No worse than gcc -Wall). Sorry about the last post, I should have learned to use the preview button.
At least C has strong type checking, after all in higher level languages like Python the variable geteuid wouldn't have even had to exist for the 1st expression to be valid.
Untrue:
n% python
Python 2.4.1 (#1, Feb 20 2006, 18:17:43)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5247)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> if geteuid == 0:... print "Hello\n"...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'geteuid' is not defined
If geteuid had been a function, the result would be the same as C. In every dynamic language I know (python, perl, ruby), the result is effectively the same as the code above. (With perl you have to make sure use strict; and or use warnings; is turned on. No worse than gcc -Wall).
I'll admit, clicking it after a prolonged period of not clicking on that menu does take a moment, I wouldn't say "a few seconds" though. (G4 1GHz mini + 512MB ram). I'm not sure I'd even say a full second. It's certainly not "teh Snappy"
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By the time I graduated 10 years ago, we had to (among other things):
- write a real time multi-tasking OS with a non trivial application for a Motorola 68K processor in C/asm
- write a compiler for a given language (their own unique language)
- write a real time multi-process application to control a PBX in C
- write a real time application to control a physical robot
You make me sad, I never got assigned to do any of these cool projects. Do programs like this still exist?
I believe (I have no sources to cite for this) that his original host environment was MINIX?
Once you cross over to the point about how "cool" it is, I pretty sure you're already mathturbating. I just like to stroke it a little harder.
It figures I would pick an example that didn't actually have results.
These guys are asking for a filter on the Suggest feature (where google provides a drop-down list of related search terms), like is already done for some pornography related terminology. They are not asking for google to filter out the word "crack" from search results, just like you can still go to google and type in "hot naked donkey porn" and get results. This is not about google linking to those pages. Here, try it out: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en.
e^(pi*i) + 1 = 0 is better cause then you get zero and one in there.
Gimmie an email to send it to.
A URL is no more an access control device than a street address is an access control device.
I know many people that didn't own an original Xbox till they found out how easy it was to hack it, then ran out to get one.
The fraction of people who actually did this is tiny tiny tiny. All the other people bought an Xbox to play video games and possibly to watch movies. Now I know that a whole bunch of people are going to reply saying "I run XBMC" and "I have all my emulators on it" but that crowd is vastly over-represented on slashdot.
Then it's been a sad world for a very long time.
It could also be fun to add the main character from Bionic Commando. His grappling hook could latch onto the various platforms and would make for an interesting twist on things.
I hope the interesting change refers to having that character and not the grappling hook part. (-cough-Link-cough-Samus-cough-)You missed
5) Form tribal society
6) Advanced technologically to a city based civilization
7) Interact with other civilizations on your homeworld
8) Advance to space faring race
9) Colonize and terraform other worlds
10) Search for and find other intelligent life in the universe
11) interact with these civilizations (trade, combat, etc.)
don't program Java, but I concede with your point. I just don't agree that 'the way things ultimately work' has much to do with maths. Sure, it helps if you know your hexadecimals if you're programming C or any other language that give you control over memory allocation, but, to stay with C, in my experience, the most difficult part of C is references, pointers and strings, especially in combination. This has little to do with math and a lot with logic. And here the circle closes again, as you consider logic to be part of math and I don't.
Waa? Ok _maybe_ logic isn't part of math (I doubt that though). But what about functions? Set theory? Are these things not part of mathematics? What about graphs? What's a filesystem but a DAG (Assuming no (soft/hard)links)? Also check out some of the theoretical basis for a computer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine
I'm pretty sure sitting in _one_ place for eight hours had something to do with it. His health of course is/was a contributing factor, but you're just not supposed to sit like that for eight hours straight.
You don't become of afraid of the code, you become afraid of the fact that you know what it means. HTH.
GAs based on hardware eh? Interesting thought.
Yeah closing the damn thing up took freaking forever.
Without an account in the admin group, you need to know the root user's password in OSX. Just like you need to know the Administrator's password in Vista.
There is no root user by default. You need to know the password of an account in the admin group.
He was probably the one saying "hey, cool it's working!"
At least C has strong type checking, after all in higher level languages like Python the variable geteuid wouldn't have even had to exist for the 1st expression to be valid.
Untrue:
If geteuid had been a function, the result would be the same as C. In every dynamic language I know (python, perl, ruby), the result is effectively the same as the code above. (With perl you have to make sure use strict; and or use warnings; is turned on. No worse than gcc -Wall). Sorry about the last post, I should have learned to use the preview button.At least C has strong type checking, after all in higher level languages like Python the variable geteuid wouldn't have even had to exist for the 1st expression to be valid.
Untrue: n% python Python 2.4.1 (#1, Feb 20 2006, 18:17:43) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5247)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> if geteuid == 0: ... print "Hello\n" ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'geteuid' is not defined
If geteuid had been a function, the result would be the same as C. In every dynamic language I know (python, perl, ruby), the result is effectively the same as the code above. (With perl you have to make sure use strict; and or use warnings; is turned on. No worse than gcc -Wall).
This makes no sense. You can't miss a closing parentheses and have it compile. The semantics of the code if it did compile wouldn't even make sense.
I didn't RTFA but I imagine it was an issue of missing a pair of parentheses (probably to indicate precedence).
I'll admit, clicking it after a prolonged period of not clicking on that menu does take a moment, I wouldn't say "a few seconds" though. (G4 1GHz mini + 512MB ram). I'm not sure I'd even say a full second. It's certainly not "teh Snappy"