I'm a big fan of Lisp... The ability to declare as much or as little as you want about your data types is very nice... And it has the greatest macros of any language I've ever used... Once you get used to the Lisp macro functionality, you will cry when the most you can do is a #define in C...
When programming in Fortran or C its important to remember Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficient complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp"
Maybe I am missing something, but how is it bye bye GPL if altered redistribution is established as legal? Isnt the GPL all about allowing altered distribution (with the caveat that you must also include source)?
So, you are saying that if i buy a painting I can't add a dab of paint to it?
I think that if I were to purchase a painting for my living room and felt there wasnt quite enough blue in it, I should be able to get out my blue paintbrush and add some...
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
Godwin's Law: [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
They chose the Dreamcast for its small size, availability of an Ethernet adapter, and affordability -- the console was discontinued last year, and now sells used for under $100 on eBay. Loaded with custom Linux-based software and covertly plugged into a spare network port under a desk or above a ceiling, the harmless-looking toy becomes the enemy within, probing the company firewall for a way out to Internet.
Hmmm... I would think that the odds of dying from living off peanut butter sandwiches for a month would be much higher than 1 in a million... the reason being that according to this site about 1.1% of the population is allergic to peanuts and/or other tree nuts... I for one am very allergic to peanuts and would probably die within a couple days if not hours if the only thing I ate was peanut butter sandwiches...
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Slashdot is the only place where one can find responsible journalism...
Interesting idea, but it seems doubtful that anyone would go through the trouble given how easy it is to find NES and other console system ROMS online, and how relatively small the files are... you can have hundreds on your harddrive and they take up very, very little space and take very little time to download...
I wouldn't wait around to check out a copy of Super Mario Bros. when I could just as easily find a web site that I could download it from and keep it...
Ahh, the TI-99/4a... What a great system... I had one of those and had countless hours playing car wars, hunt the wumpus and of course parsec...
MESS will emulate the TI-99/4A, and you can find ROMS here
I think basically if they can prove that something that is covered in the patent has in fact been around before they "invented" it that the patent becomes null and void...
It would be interesting to know whether the subjects in the test knew how many rounds there were going to be in the games... If i recall from axelrod, in a finite game the best strategy is to defect at the end...
I would have rather seen an ending in the movie like in the book...
In the book, Anderton does do what the Precogs said he would... Had more of a Greek Tragedy, the Oracle said it would happen, everyone does everything they can to avoid it, and it happens because of everything they did to avoid it...
For archiving my favorite shows or at least some of them, I just download the AVI's or MPG's from Direct Connect... Its much easier that way... Let somebody else do the hard work... I got the The Osbournes, Scrubs and Sopranos Season 3 this way...
I would think that Babylon 5 episodes are probably easy to come by on Direct Connect or Gnutella...
Search the web for lists of banned books or other thought provoking books and pick up a few choice titles...
I'd suggest a copy of "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg and 'Player Piano' by Vonnegut...
Another good book that i would recommend is called "Sex on Campus" by Leland Elliott and Cynthia Brantley which covers most of the questions I think college students would have about the subject, plus, its a hell of a conversation piece... you wouldnt believe how many people that came into my dorm room, browsed my book collection and picked it up and began reading it.
Interested parties should read this article... Ken Thompson created one of the coolest back doors ever... Compile the compiler to introduce code that creates a login backdoor every time login is compiled, and code so that everytime the compiler itself is compiled, the hack goes into the binary... after one compile, the hack isnt in the source...
"Reflections on Trusting Trust"
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I'm a big fan of Lisp... The ability to declare as much or as little as you want about your data types is very nice... And it has the greatest macros of any language I've ever used... Once you get used to the Lisp macro functionality, you will cry when the most you can do is a #define in C...
When programming in Fortran or C its important to remember Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficient complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp"
Maybe I am missing something, but how is it bye bye GPL if altered redistribution is established as legal? Isnt the GPL all about allowing altered distribution (with the caveat that you must also include source)?
So, you are saying that if i buy a painting I can't add a dab of paint to it?
I think that if I were to purchase a painting for my living room and felt there wasnt quite enough blue in it, I should be able to get out my blue paintbrush and add some...
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
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Godwin's Law: [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
Most dystopic are probably Player Piano, Galapagos and Cat's Cradle...
Player Piano is the most similar to novels such as Brave New World and 1984... The others have a different feel to them...
Anybody who has as much money as he does, and can't find anything better to do with it, doesnt deserve it...
I could find a lot of ways on the ground to burn through millions of dollars... and they would be a lot more fun than this...
Maybe this will make Analog TV's cheap and obsolete so I can get a big one to play video games and movies on...
Hmmm... I would think that the odds of dying from living off peanut butter sandwiches for a month would be much higher than 1 in a million... the reason being that according to this site about 1.1% of the population is allergic to peanuts and/or other tree nuts... I for one am very allergic to peanuts and would probably die within a couple days if not hours if the only thing I ate was peanut butter sandwiches...
Slashdot is the only place where one can find responsible journalism...
Interesting idea, but it seems doubtful that anyone would go through the trouble given how easy it is to find NES and other console system ROMS online, and how relatively small the files are... you can have hundreds on your harddrive and they take up very, very little space and take very little time to download...
I wouldn't wait around to check out a copy of Super Mario Bros. when I could just as easily find a web site that I could download it from and keep it...
If you could do one thing in your live differently what would it be?
Of course this is a somewhat generic and personal question, but people can have very interesting answers to this question...
Ahh, the TI-99/4a... What a great system... I had one of those and had countless hours playing car wars, hunt the wumpus and of course parsec... MESS will emulate the TI-99/4A, and you can find ROMS here
Let's give up on this pesky science and technology stuff, and all become Amish...
No research == nothing to publish
I think basically if they can prove that something that is covered in the patent has in fact been around before they "invented" it that the patent becomes null and void...
It would be interesting to know whether the subjects in the test knew how many rounds there were going to be in the games... If i recall from axelrod, in a finite game the best strategy is to defect at the end...
I like your sig line, but you might try adding deity/deities... you might be excluding some polythiests...
I would have rather seen an ending in the movie like in the book...
In the book, Anderton does do what the Precogs said he would... Had more of a Greek Tragedy, the Oracle said it would happen, everyone does everything they can to avoid it, and it happens because of everything they did to avoid it...
Usually called a ``Newton's Cradle'' I believe
The real question is will normal health/life insurance cover someone who has such habbits... and if not, does anyone sell insurance to such people?
X-boxen
jargon file:boxen
For archiving my favorite shows or at least some of them, I just download the AVI's or MPG's from Direct Connect... Its much easier that way... Let somebody else do the hard work... I got the The Osbournes, Scrubs and Sopranos Season 3 this way...
I would think that Babylon 5 episodes are probably easy to come by on Direct Connect or Gnutella...
Search the web for lists of banned books or other thought provoking books and pick up a few choice titles...
I'd suggest a copy of "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg and 'Player Piano' by Vonnegut...
Another good book that i would recommend is called "Sex on Campus" by Leland Elliott and Cynthia Brantley which covers most of the questions I think college students would have about the subject, plus, its a hell of a conversation piece... you wouldnt believe how many people that came into my dorm room, browsed my book collection and picked it up and began reading it.
Nothing is more subversive than knowledge
Interested parties should read this article... Ken Thompson created one of the coolest back doors ever... Compile the compiler to introduce code that creates a login backdoor every time login is compiled, and code so that everytime the compiler itself is compiled, the hack goes into the binary... after one compile, the hack isnt in the source... "Reflections on Trusting Trust"