I know I'm not the only one to be excited about this. right?
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You say that, but consider the current cartoons that could define the next generation that are airing today.
Family Guy, hilarious as it is, is often very edgey and borderline acceptable.
Infact it's interesting to me what is acceptable one day and not teh next. Family guy for example was canned, now it's back. 2 years ago you could not watch Ultimate Fighting (you the hardcore cage fighting) on television because it was banned. Then it was allowed on pay per view. And now this weekend, for the first time it is on regular (US) cable tv (http://www.spiketv.com./
What next?
As a temporary solution couldn't the online poker rooms implement a system that asks the user to input say a 5 digit character code every 10, 20 hands or whatever. That way the bot won't be able to enter the code and is subequently forced to fold/check all hands until it can. This ensures the player is human. Of course it does ensure the human is not cheating in some other way but it is a start.
In fact I've found that the best strategy is to just turn off the monitor altogether and think about the problems for a while. Your most useful tools in the IOI are the pencil and pad of paper they give you.
Or you could you use an IDE that actually takes into account to full development life cycle process and lets you design and implement your solutions seamlessly from the start. Alas, most IDEs I know are fair too 'sophisticated' to ever offer such simplicity, except for "this one. Oh how my programming life is so much more efficient and productive. No really, it is.:)
It's funny because the links you sent are regular ftp links and refer to files available for download. Click on the link in IE or Netscape and you can download the file. Click on it in Safari and you get a screen full of crap - what kind of shitty browser can't even deal with a ftp url? Seriously, is it any wonder nothing works in Safari, on account of it being so lame? That's what just annoys me about Macs sometimes, too much incompatibility with other software.
75 per hour does not mean you will SEE 75 per hour. A lot of it depends on where you live and on the surrounding light pollution. For example where I live we could see almost no meteors but when we drove up into the mountains where the light pollution is less (and where we are closer to the meteors;)) we could see loads. I guess if you haven't got any mountains nearby and live in real busy place you're pretty much stuffed.
Of all the RPGs I have played there is one outstanding feature that sticks in my mind and which all good RPGs MUST have, IMHO, to be enjoyable: atmosphere.
Obviously factors such as story, reasonable graphics, etc are all important but that is the case for any of type of game. What matters is how these elements interact with each other to product the overall atmosphere of teh game. ake the Bladerunner rpg for example and Nintendo's Zelda series - both are really immersive games due to the continuity and great sense of escapism produced by the games' ambience.
Eiffel has been around for about 17 years, so a lot of people who used it a long time ago and haven't used it since moan about old problems with the language THAT SIMPLY DON'T APPLY MORE. Here is an up to date list of cool things about Eiffel:
- Compilation is not so slow anymore.
- It a full.NET language. Eiffel Software have made a Visual Studio plug-in, and EiffelStudio (previously EiffelBench, or EBench) can also be used to make.NET or non-.NET applications.
- EiffelStudio is the IDE for creating Eiffel applications was COMPLETELY REWRITTEN a couple of years ago, so previous uses of EiffelBench won't recognise it anymore. The new studio is better in every respect and has the best class browsing facilities you will find in any IDE ANYWHERE (I'm not kidding).
- EiffelStudio was written using Eiffel Software's Vision2 library - a 100% platform independent library meaning it is identical on Windows and *nix platforms. You can use Vision2 to make your own cross-platform interfaces with real ease.
- The.NET implementation of Eiffel adds some programming mechanisms that are NOT available in Java, C#, C++. Namely these are multiple inheritance of classes, genericity (true generics), design by contract (pre- and post- conditions/assertation to improve software reliabilty and greatly ease the debugging process).
- Eiffel Software provide a FREE version of EiffelStudio and Envision! (the.NET plug-in) from there web site.
There's loads more to this language, but aint got time to talk about it, so just check it out yourself.
As an Eiffel user I agree with your comments on Bertrand's OOSC book - what the actual Eiffel language represents is the real-life IMPLEMENTATION of all the concepts and design methodology as detailed in the book. Therefore, if you think the book is of much value then you are seriously missing out on the benefits it extols by not using the only language and IDE which really puts those ideas into practice. Sure, the methods and ideas are applicable to all O-O languages but the point is that these languages were not designed around these ideas and so inherently require many work-arounds to achieve the same or similar quality of systems. Naturally such 'work-arounds' tend also to break the rules of the methodology in the first place, so you can easily end up back at square one despite the best initial intentions.
The real problem Eiffel has it that people won't give it a go. It may, or may not, be the best O-O language avaible today but that doesn't really matter if nobody will use it.
nanopaints, that is like pretty amazing, I think. It is like Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age coming to fruition. Think of all the non-military application too, like even homeless areas could look good thanks to the self-repair process.
i can't think of an instance and I don't see one coming about
The whole point of value is that it is subjective. What one person would pay a lot of money for another would happily throw away without a thought. Clearly then these virtual economies are presenting value, albeit in digital form, to some people and there is nothing to indicate that this phenomenom will not continue to grow.
Value and quality are interesting topics for programming geeks and engineers alike, but the best book I have ever read on the subject is Robert Pursig's 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance', which should be made compulsory reading for any first-year computer graduate (IMHO).
There is also a new house robot just released in Japan for around the same sort of price. Whilst it doesn't vacuum the floor it does walk around, leave messages for other house guests, bring you things and show your e-mail on TV whenever you tell it to.
I forget the name but it was on Tech TV I think, and was a cute little thing.
I was thinking about this just the other day actually, since I noticed that most new movies now come onto DVD much sooner than used to. Hell, some DVDs are on the shelves almost as quick as a month after the film was at the cinema (take Insomnia, WindTalkers as recent examples).
The fact is though that there is a much to made to in DVDs (if not more), so it is not like they're going to stop making movies. Also, I disagree with the comment that the home theatre experience is as good as the cinema. I still go to the movies because it is still better (for now), by quite a long way.
Perhaps they could do a scheme whereby if you watch the movie at the cinema you get a discount on the DVD purchase.
So if your particulat genome sequence reveals a tendency to contract a particular disease I guess the main thing your going to be worried about is if it curable in the event that you DO actually get it, right (or of any long-tern after effects)?
This could be inteesting for some reasons:
1) If you know you have a high chance of catching an uncurable disease perhaps we will end up with hugh scores of people all devoting their lives to curing that disease. Medical teams of potentially diseased doctors looking for the cure to a disease they don't yet have...weird.
2) By sequencing more and more genes a huge amount of data can be gathered revealing those diseases which are becoming more common and greater research put into those areas.
Just a few thoughts:-)
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I know I'm not the only one to be excited about this. right?
You say that, but consider the current cartoons that could define the next generation that are airing today. Family Guy, hilarious as it is, is often very edgey and borderline acceptable. Infact it's interesting to me what is acceptable one day and not teh next. Family guy for example was canned, now it's back. 2 years ago you could not watch Ultimate Fighting (you the hardcore cage fighting) on television because it was banned. Then it was allowed on pay per view. And now this weekend, for the first time it is on regular (US) cable tv (http://www.spiketv.com./ What next?
As a temporary solution couldn't the online poker rooms implement a system that asks the user to input say a 5 digit character code every 10, 20 hands or whatever. That way the bot won't be able to enter the code and is subequently forced to fold/check all hands until it can. This ensures the player is human. Of course it does ensure the human is not cheating in some other way but it is a start.
In fact I've found that the best strategy is to just turn off the monitor altogether and think about the problems for a while. Your most useful tools in the IOI are the pencil and pad of paper they give you. Or you could you use an IDE that actually takes into account to full development life cycle process and lets you design and implement your solutions seamlessly from the start. Alas, most IDEs I know are fair too 'sophisticated' to ever offer such simplicity, except for "this one. Oh how my programming life is so much more efficient and productive. No really, it is. :)
Again the fine is so low in comparison to gain to make it almost negligable and totally ineffective.
It's funny because the links you sent are regular ftp links and refer to files available for download. Click on the link in IE or Netscape and you can download the file. Click on it in Safari and you get a screen full of crap - what kind of shitty browser can't even deal with a ftp url? Seriously, is it any wonder nothing works in Safari, on account of it being so lame? That's what just annoys me about Macs sometimes, too much incompatibility with other software.
75 per hour does not mean you will SEE 75 per hour. A lot of it depends on where you live and on the surrounding light pollution. For example where I live we could see almost no meteors but when we drove up into the mountains where the light pollution is less (and where we are closer to the meteors ;)) we could see loads.
I guess if you haven't got any mountains nearby and live in real busy place you're pretty much stuffed.
Of all the RPGs I have played there is one outstanding feature that sticks in my mind and which all good RPGs MUST have, IMHO, to be enjoyable: atmosphere.
Obviously factors such as story, reasonable graphics, etc are all important but that is the case for any of type of game. What matters is how these elements interact with each other to product the overall atmosphere of teh game. ake the Bladerunner rpg for example and Nintendo's Zelda series - both are really immersive games due to the continuity and great sense of escapism produced by the games' ambience.
Eiffel has been around for about 17 years, so a lot of people who used it a long time ago and haven't used it since moan about old problems with the language THAT SIMPLY DON'T APPLY MORE. Here is an up to date list of cool things about Eiffel:
.NET language. Eiffel Software have made a Visual Studio plug-in, and EiffelStudio (previously EiffelBench, or EBench) can also be used to make .NET or non-.NET applications.
.NET implementation of Eiffel adds some programming mechanisms that are NOT available in Java, C#, C++. Namely these are multiple inheritance of classes, genericity (true generics), design by contract (pre- and post- conditions/assertation to improve software reliabilty and greatly ease the debugging process).
.NET plug-in) from there web site.
- Compilation is not so slow anymore.
- It a full
- EiffelStudio is the IDE for creating Eiffel applications was COMPLETELY REWRITTEN a couple of years ago, so previous uses of EiffelBench won't recognise it anymore. The new studio is better in every respect and has the best class browsing facilities you will find in any IDE ANYWHERE (I'm not kidding).
- EiffelStudio was written using Eiffel Software's Vision2 library - a 100% platform independent library meaning it is identical on Windows and *nix platforms. You can use Vision2 to make your own cross-platform interfaces with real ease.
- The
- Eiffel Software provide a FREE version of EiffelStudio and Envision! (the
There's loads more to this language, but aint got time to talk about it, so just check it out yourself.
As an Eiffel user I agree with your comments on Bertrand's OOSC book - what the actual Eiffel language represents is the real-life IMPLEMENTATION of all the concepts and design methodology as detailed in the book. Therefore, if you think the book is of much value then you are seriously missing out on the benefits it extols by not using the only language and IDE which really puts those ideas into practice. Sure, the methods and ideas are applicable to all O-O languages but the point is that these languages were not designed around these ideas and so inherently require many work-arounds to achieve the same or similar quality of systems. Naturally such 'work-arounds' tend also to break the rules of the methodology in the first place, so you can easily end up back at square one despite the best initial intentions.
The real problem Eiffel has it that people won't give it a go. It may, or may not, be the best O-O language avaible today but that doesn't really matter if nobody will use it.
because billwyman.com is the official Bill Wyman fansite, so where is the other Bill Wyman's site that is causing so much fuss?
nanopaints, that is like pretty amazing, I think. It is like Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age coming to fruition. Think of all the non-military application too, like even homeless areas could look good thanks to the self-repair process.
i can't think of an instance and I don't see one coming about
The whole point of value is that it is subjective. What one person would pay a lot of money for another would happily throw away without a thought. Clearly then these virtual economies are presenting value, albeit in digital form, to some people and there is nothing to indicate that this phenomenom will not continue to grow.
Value and quality are interesting topics for programming geeks and engineers alike, but the best book I have ever read on the subject is Robert Pursig's 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance', which should be made compulsory reading for any first-year computer graduate (IMHO).
There is also a new house robot just released in Japan for around the same sort of price. Whilst it doesn't vacuum the floor it does walk around, leave messages for other house guests, bring you things and show your e-mail on TV whenever you tell it to.
I forget the name but it was on Tech TV I think, and was a cute little thing.
Imagine the implications for Dorito's.
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That's probably what it does, only in a script, hence the fact it has admins everywhere scratching their heads and others spending $700!
..Microsoft could go in their place.
I was thinking about this just the other day actually, since I noticed that most new movies now come onto DVD much sooner than used to. Hell, some DVDs are on the shelves almost as quick as a month after the film was at the cinema (take Insomnia, WindTalkers as recent examples).
The fact is though that there is a much to made to in DVDs (if not more), so it is not like they're going to stop making movies. Also, I disagree with the comment that the home theatre experience is as good as the cinema. I still go to the movies because it is still better (for now), by quite a long way.
Perhaps they could do a scheme whereby if you watch the movie at the cinema you get a discount on the DVD purchase.
You joke, but this could happen to you if you take your laptop to somewhere like Saudi Arabia :)
So if your particulat genome sequence reveals a tendency to contract a particular disease I guess the main thing your going to be worried about is if it curable in the event that you DO actually get it, right (or of any long-tern after effects)? This could be inteesting for some reasons: 1) If you know you have a high chance of catching an uncurable disease perhaps we will end up with hugh scores of people all devoting their lives to curing that disease. Medical teams of potentially diseased doctors looking for the cure to a disease they don't yet have...weird. 2) By sequencing more and more genes a huge amount of data can be gathered revealing those diseases which are becoming more common and greater research put into those areas. Just a few thoughts :-)
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got me :-)
I do not who Bob Saget is, but accroding to this he is God, so I'll take that as a compliment ;)
until the super-massive black hole eats up our galaxy, and do you think M$ will survive?