If he'd googled for it , he probably would have found that DNA himself once said its not the base 13 answer... it's just a nice number he thought of one afternoon or something
Hmm.. r u sure?
was Java invented or developed?
was X86 assembly invented? if so - would the first ever code in that language been developed or invented, maybe "invedeloped"?
I agree that software creation has much to do with regorous developing, but on the other hand, that first idea which brings forth a *new* software (call it innovation, algorithm, math or whatever) *is* invention.
True, music is said to be "written", but ask any composer and he will tell you that in the start there was an idea, a harmony, somewhere in his mind. The act of writing music as developing software is only the act of taking this idea from theory into practice.
If the idea is new - it is very likely we are talking about an "invention".
This is, by far, the most helpful, inteligent and thought out reply I got on/. !
Regretebly, I am not into biology, never was, I have a bachelor degree in CS and I might switch area of interest sometime, but your post really made my day.
Laxitive,
Thanks for replying - that was really informative,
What is the connection between CS and bioinformatics? I fear going in that direction since it has to do with biology (or does it?)
Would you recommend going down that path? sounds like you are very pleased with it
The fact that Israel is in Asia doesn't mean a thing...
Israel has all major companies R&D centers: IBM, Intel, M$.
Israelies are contributing to linux distributions, open source projects etc. (why else would a birocratic office like the treasury be interested in linux?? someone there thought it was a good idea to pitch the offer)
Israelies invented ICQ, PHP, the UAV, A couple of smart bombs and some other "low tech" toys you might have heared of (currently they have a missile vs. missile resembling the patriot, a lazer-targeting system designed to target low orbit missiles)
Don't refer to Israel as third world country. Please.
I'll go out on a lim here and say that if all of the internet will slowly become quantom-secure and ip addresses will stop being centrally provided (think about it... a blob of addresses no one central organization provides.. everybody have a dynamic IP and DNSs publicize only those who wants to be publicized...) P2P sharing will stop being a risk to the sharer/sharee.
Goodbye all copyright.
wait. I don't want to flame or troll - but wait a sec...
Having a centralized hub from which all are certified means that the central junction can log each and every email sent or received (not just the body, as being done now, but also the *true* source of the email).
So? What happened to the freedom of speech?
I think that the real solution will involve some sort of "grouping" of hundred of thousands of people all over the world who trust each other and all have the same signature... that way no one could ever be traced on the one hand and anonymous posts will remain anonymous while the global signature will testify the validity of the sender (mass emailers, spammers and the such will just never be accepted to any of these groups).
It would be like "a guild of emailers".
What I was saying is that programming, unlike building bridges, is not an exact science but a science in the making, much like chemistry was in the 18" century.
Seeing that, no amount of "good methodology" and "removing of lint" can create a solid (as in bridge) program.
Yes, there are design patterns , extreme programming, chief architects with baseball bats ( and +4 HP?.. too much NWN lately ) - but neither one can actually get the singular programmer to create the perfect program. it just does not exist (yet).
I, too, work for a very big company (C++) and I must say that no matter how much detailed design you'll do, you'll end up changing it, changing it in such a way that reusability of that code will not be possible (as far as reusability is concerned, I wouldn't get my hopes too high - STL is the highest level I've seen to work, and it has it's own problems - ever tried to use STL objects in a multithreaded environment ?)
So, I was referring to the "philosophical level" and you were referring to the "real world" one - both are right , but we cannot possibly make the comparison (yet, someday the alchemist and the chemist will meet, I am sure).
btw, what project do you work on? is it Open Source? and what does the idiom "setting me up a strawman" means exactly?
Although you have this unreasonable user id and I might sound as a troll I just have to reply to this;
There is no "way" of writing "proper" code. There is no path leading to good code. Only hinches and guess work.
You know why?
Because computer programming is not a science. Its not a set of building blocks from which you can construct one uniform way of doing stuff. it's not electronics, it's not house building. it's the alchemist job. Turning junk into gold.
You, in some level, claim to have some sort of a key or a solution, you are the code alchemist. a guru pertaining to have the answer.
There is no answer and there wan't be in the near future. As with gold made out of junk - chemist today knows how to do it, it costs about 100 times the gold produces, but there is a way.
Someday, probably after we will be gone for good someone will find the way, giving a tool with which good programs will be born but this way is far far away in the future and all we can do now is decide which of the alchemists we want to be - the one giving false hope or the one actually coding.
I hope this wasn't too bad.
I'll give myself +5 insightful for this one:-)
First of all, I think this idea is very cool. Having some sort of one stop shop from which to do everything (kind of wizards for the desktop, isn't it) is a great idea.
Now lets examine the idea more closely...
You want some way in which the system:
1. knows everything there is to know about the programs installed on it.
2. each of the programs has to export at least: a name, a function it serves, and what options it provides, according to some predefined XML (standard, can be manipulated, unicode , blah)
3. each of the different implementations should be supported
4. the programs should support the functionality the claim in some XML-RPC, SOAP or other way
So... a this turns out to be a bit complicated, isn't it ?
but hey... maybe there is a way.. who knows?
Currently it seems that the RIAA goes after US people only, the DMCA does not apply in europe and the middle east (anyway, it didn't till not long ago)...
But , seeing the history of cooperation between the US and european countries the RIAA might very well get their hands on users from other countries...
In short, I would love to hear from anyone the "countries outside of the US are not involved in this"... but I fear no one will be up for the challenge...
Slashdot Mirror
On the other hand, you can start collecting money for MythTV and when the other side will check its options it will decide to go sue somebody else...
don't forget, the free PVR software is (and will be) used by a very large croud
If he'd googled for it , he probably would have found that DNA himself once said its not the base 13 answer... it's just a nice number he thought of one afternoon or something
Hmm.. r u sure? was Java invented or developed?
was X86 assembly invented? if so - would the first ever code in that language been developed or invented, maybe "invedeloped"?
I agree that software creation has much to do with regorous developing, but on the other hand, that first idea which brings forth a *new* software (call it innovation, algorithm, math or whatever) *is* invention.
True, music is said to be "written", but ask any composer and he will tell you that in the start there was an idea, a harmony, somewhere in his mind. The act of writing music as developing software is only the act of taking this idea from theory into practice.
If the idea is new - it is very likely we are talking about an "invention".
Just my 0.02 $
Yeah, I agree ( no.. really... I do )
Wow!
/. !
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
This is, by far, the most helpful, inteligent and thought out reply I got on
Regretebly, I am not into biology, never was, I have a bachelor degree in CS and I might switch area of interest sometime, but your post really made my day.
Laxitive, Thanks for replying - that was really informative, What is the connection between CS and bioinformatics? I fear going in that direction since it has to do with biology (or does it?) Would you recommend going down that path? sounds like you are very pleased with it
Laxitive, Have you spent 5 years learning about compilers and stuff? I recall another thing you posted a while ago about VMs...
If anyone knows of any open source/non-commercial programs capable of producing character animation, I'd love to know about them!
cal3d?
Marsala,
Did you try Quark? It's an editor designed for Id games and the likes (quake series as well as half life and others)
You didn't mention it here so I thought it either because you don't know about it (try it out) or you had bad expirience with it.
Thanks
So if he succeeds with all his DRM plans, does he get crowned?
... No, we get screwed ...
The fact that Israel is in Asia doesn't mean a
thing...
Israel has all major companies R&D centers: IBM, Intel, M$.
Israelies are contributing to linux distributions, open source projects etc. (why else would a birocratic office like the treasury be interested in linux?? someone there thought it was a good idea to pitch the offer)
Israelies invented ICQ, PHP, the UAV, A couple of smart bombs and some other "low tech" toys you might have heared of (currently they have a missile vs. missile resembling the patriot, a lazer-targeting system designed to target low orbit missiles)
Don't refer to Israel as third world country. Please.
I for one welcome our single sorround sound speaker overlords...
In soviet russia the speaker sorrounds YOU!
And the ever so popular...
I wonder if SCO's version is going to be called "SCOround" ?
</silly_jokes>
(sorry all, I just had to do it, it takes the pain off
Simply overwhelm the server with false keys very much like an alphabet attack ... No need, simply turn on a flash light ...
I'll go out on a lim here and say that if all of the internet will slowly become quantom-secure and ip addresses will stop being centrally provided (think about it... a blob of addresses no one central organization provides.. everybody have a dynamic IP and DNSs publicize only those who wants to be publicized...) P2P sharing will stop being a risk to the sharer/sharee.
Goodbye all copyright.
wait. I don't want to flame or troll - but wait a sec...
Having a centralized hub from which all are certified means that the central junction can log each and every email sent or received (not just the body, as being done now, but also the *true* source of the email).
So? What happened to the freedom of speech?
I think that the real solution will involve some sort of "grouping" of hundred of thousands of people all over the world who trust each other and all have the same signature... that way no one could ever be traced on the one hand and anonymous posts will remain anonymous while the global signature will testify the validity of the sender (mass emailers, spammers and the such will just never be accepted to any of these groups).
It would be like "a guild of emailers".
Any sense in the above? share.
Hi, Thanks for replying.
I am not that informed about DVB - are there any cards which receive DVB? is it in use at all?
I don't know enough about this, but this looks like a great place to ask :-)
Will this support PAL (or whatever standard used at europe.. ) ?
Thanks.
Hi, thanks for the reply,
:-)
Sadly, you missed my point entirely
What I was saying is that programming, unlike building bridges, is not an exact science but a science in the making, much like chemistry was in the 18" century.
Seeing that, no amount of "good methodology" and "removing of lint" can create a solid (as in bridge) program.
Yes, there are design patterns , extreme programming, chief architects with baseball bats ( and +4 HP?.. too much NWN lately ) - but neither one can actually get the singular programmer to create the perfect program. it just does not exist (yet).
I, too, work for a very big company (C++) and I must say that no matter how much detailed design you'll do, you'll end up changing it, changing it in such a way that reusability of that code will not be possible (as far as reusability is concerned, I wouldn't get my hopes too high - STL is the highest level I've seen to work, and it has it's own problems - ever tried to use STL objects in a multithreaded environment ?)
So, I was referring to the "philosophical level" and you were referring to the "real world" one - both are right , but we cannot possibly make the comparison (yet, someday the alchemist and the chemist will meet, I am sure).
btw, what project do you work on? is it Open Source? and what does the idiom "setting me up a strawman" means exactly?
Although you have this unreasonable user id and I might sound as a troll I just have to reply to this;
:-)
There is no "way" of writing "proper" code. There is no path leading to good code. Only hinches and guess work.
You know why?
Because computer programming is not a science. Its not a set of building blocks from which you can construct one uniform way of doing stuff. it's not electronics, it's not house building. it's the alchemist job. Turning junk into gold.
You, in some level, claim to have some sort of a key or a solution, you are the code alchemist. a guru pertaining to have the answer.
There is no answer and there wan't be in the near future. As with gold made out of junk - chemist today knows how to do it, it costs about 100 times the gold produces, but there is a way.
Someday, probably after we will be gone for good someone will find the way, giving a tool with which good programs will be born but this way is far far away in the future and all we can do now is decide which of the alchemists we want to be - the one giving false hope or the one actually coding.
I hope this wasn't too bad.
I'll give myself +5 insightful for this one
... SCO managers dumped their shares ?
btw, does this means that non SMP machines are in the clear???
First of all, I think this idea is very cool. Having some sort of one stop shop from which to do everything (kind of wizards for the desktop, isn't it) is a great idea.
:
Now lets examine the idea more closely...
You want some way in which the system
1. knows everything there is to know about the programs installed on it.
2. each of the programs has to export at least: a name, a function it serves, and what options it provides, according to some predefined XML (standard, can be manipulated, unicode , blah)
3. each of the different implementations should be supported
4. the programs should support the functionality the claim in some XML-RPC, SOAP or other way
So... a this turns out to be a bit complicated, isn't it ?
but hey... maybe there is a way.. who knows?
Try here:
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/
But use it at your own risk.
I wondered the same thing...
Currently it seems that the RIAA goes after US people only, the DMCA does not apply in europe and the middle east (anyway, it didn't till not long ago)...
But , seeing the history of cooperation between the US and european countries the RIAA might very well get their hands on users from other countries...
In short, I would love to hear from anyone the "countries outside of the US are not involved in this"... but I fear no one will be up for the challenge...
I heard a radio interview with the baloon's developer
... wait a bit and you will hear an interview with the baloon him(it?)self :-)
That's a nice comeback, but false.
/.ers know english, at least good enough to read.
When I saw the message (12PM EST) it was 8PM here, and about the language -
Europe is about +3GMT, middle east (israel) is +2, EST is -5GMT, do the calculations and you'll see this is not such far fetched as you think it is...