Science Fiction is great entertainment but the televised version of it has certainly spoiled current generations. People on forums ask how much does it cost to build USS Enterprise and if stargates are real. It's no surprise then that an educational game from NASA that is close to reality seems boring. I guess we should praise the people that produced these shows and movies that made them believable, but in the long run they hurt real science.
The music and smartphone markets are not the main Microsoft markets. Microsoft's game is at home and office desktops, office applications, development environment, database and servers. Microsoft is by far the dominant force in most of these domains.
Actually, you are wrong. It is about the oil. It is about the oil profits, actually: the US pays $300B/year for the oil companies to profit $XXX/year; $XXX might be less than $300B, but it doesn't matter: if those $300B were not spent, the oil companies execs wouldn't have the million dollar bonuses.
The game the Scratch user 124scratch made used graphics ripped off the pacman roms. It is IP theft. Of course, it's questionable if NAMCO should have sent the take down notice, because it's quite silly; this scratch game is not gonna keep NAMCO from profiting from pacman.
What NAMCO should have done is to require 124scratch to put a copyright disclaimer and a link to NAMCO's pacman games' site, encouraging them to try to mimic other NAMCO games.
Thinking small also is interesting. For example, if a tiny fan can produce 0.001 Watts of electricity from air, then you need 1000 fans for 1 W, 1K fans for 1 KW, 1M fans for 1 MW. 1 million small fans can cover a field of 100 x 100 m, assuming a grid of 1000 x 1000 fans and each fan covering 10 cm). A large place like a desert can have many millions of small fans. For example, an area of 100 x 100 km can have 100 million fans, producing 100 MW of power (optimally)!
Microsoft should have done this a long time ago: let the programs think they write to system files/directories, but actually write to copies of system files/directories that don't affect the rest of the system.
This can easily be done at filesystem level, using copy-on-write techniques: a file is shared between all programs until written. Then the filesystem could duplicate the file while it is written in a different actual file with the same name, visible only from the process that writes the file.
I've looked at the source and it shows many good programming traits, like variable and procedure naming that makes sense, separation of concerns (each procedure is short and does only one or two things; and it's procedural), etc. The code is very easy to follow. It shows that good programming is more about the programmer than the programming language.
I think you are overreacting, like most other slashdot posters. Development for Windows is not much different than development for development for Unix. All platforms have their issues. You need the Windows Development Kit from Microsoft, and any version of Visual Studio. You just need to set the appropriate environment variables before launching VS.
Searching for about half an hour in Google would give you all the answers you need. You actually spent more time writing the/. post than if you googled your questions.
Given all the above, and considering the year Qt appeared, C++ is the only choice. Remember that Qt needs to run in platforms that C# or Java does not exist now and back then when the project was started.
Don't employees have the right to surf the internet for a couple of minutes per working day? they are human, you know. Not robots. They can't work each minute for 8 hours a day.
Yes, wasting time is part of the work day. Is it so unethical?
In the same light, why companies don't block talking to colleagues and going to the bathroom? it should be that whoever goes to the bathroom more than two times per day should be fired. And whoever takes launch for more than 10 minutes should also be fired.
Would you like that? I don't think so. We are humans, not robot work slaves.
If an employee is proven not to be productive in the long run, then something must be done about him. But banning each and every bit of time wasting? inhuman!!!
Can you imagine the hell that some bumbling middle-manager would be made to pay if some TSA flunky turned out to be posting on stormfront.org or revolutionmuslim.com during working hours? It would be an utter no-win.
First of all, why not? why should a company be responsible for what its personnel posts? what if the post is positive about the company?
Secondly, why not simply fire the employee who posts negative comments online?
There is a lot more to banning sites than you imagine. The establishment wants the people scared. Do you think that an employee of a company that doesn't allow him to post in "controversial" sites will dare post anything from his home in the same sites? he will be scared to death.
You CAN profit from what you do, but always remember, you DON'T own your creations.
Excuse me, but that's the silliest thing I've heard all day!!! a man's creations are owned by him/her, period. To say anything else, it's retarded. If we don't own our creations, then we would be hardcore communists, and we all know how well communism played out. The freedom you have to post such kind of stupid comments (which were surprisingly modded interesting) came from a society that valued the exact opposite of what you posted.
The discussion about the wisdom of crouds is incomplete if the social, economic, technological, educational and political factors and circumstances are not discussed.
Furthermore, the view that crowds cannot ever be right is the first step to tyranny. We all have seen the past where the actions of few people led to world wars, genocides and holocausts.
No, the brain simply applies pattern matching in order to find the best reaction for current event.
If a ball is thrown at me, the brain will search for an appropriate reaction, which is most of the time the action of raising the hand and catching the ball.
If a dirty ball is thrown at me, my brain will react by trying to avoid the ball.
If a bullet is fired at me, my brain will not react because it would not have the time to do so.
The brain does not do arithmetic, it only does pattern matching. That's what most people don't get and that's the obstacle to understanding and realizing AI.
If you ask how can humans can then do math in their brain, the answer is simple: they can't, but a pattern matching system can be trained to do math by learning all the relevant patterns.
If you further ask how humans can do logical inference in their brain, the answer is again simple: they can't, and that's the reason people believe in illogical things. Their answers are the result of pattern matching, just like Google returning the wrong results.
So you really think that the US is in Afghanistan in order to capture and punish Bin Laden? And you think that the vast deposits of minerals in Afghanistan has nothing to do with the US presence there?
Good. I have a bridge to sell you. It goes for $9.99, and it is in Sydney.
(as long as there are gullible people like you out there, the world's governments will fuck us over and over multiple times).
Your post is pointless because you ignore two facts:
1) you have no right to be on foreign soil, no matter how hard is the situation there for the locals.
2) there is a whole set of interests of the industrial, energy and military conglomerate behind the war that has nothing to do with bringing democracy to those people.
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If not, then the captcha should only be visible when the mouse cursor is over it.
The key to a successful captcha is to make it accessible only by a user sitting in front of the screen.
In the 60s, people never asked if the USS Enterprise can be built for real, and the science education level was the same or worse than today.
Science Fiction is great entertainment but the televised version of it has certainly spoiled current generations. People on forums ask how much does it cost to build USS Enterprise and if stargates are real. It's no surprise then that an educational game from NASA that is close to reality seems boring. I guess we should praise the people that produced these shows and movies that made them believable, but in the long run they hurt real science.
The music and smartphone markets are not the main Microsoft markets. Microsoft's game is at home and office desktops, office applications, development environment, database and servers. Microsoft is by far the dominant force in most of these domains.
Actually, you are wrong. It is about the oil. It is about the oil profits, actually: the US pays $300B/year for the oil companies to profit $XXX/year; $XXX might be less than $300B, but it doesn't matter: if those $300B were not spent, the oil companies execs wouldn't have the million dollar bonuses.
The game the Scratch user 124scratch made used graphics ripped off the pacman roms. It is IP theft. Of course, it's questionable if NAMCO should have sent the take down notice, because it's quite silly; this scratch game is not gonna keep NAMCO from profiting from pacman.
What NAMCO should have done is to require 124scratch to put a copyright disclaimer and a link to NAMCO's pacman games' site, encouraging them to try to mimic other NAMCO games.
Thinking small also is interesting. For example, if a tiny fan can produce 0.001 Watts of electricity from air, then you need 1000 fans for 1 W, 1K fans for 1 KW, 1M fans for 1 MW. 1 million small fans can cover a field of 100 x 100 m, assuming a grid of 1000 x 1000 fans and each fan covering 10 cm). A large place like a desert can have many millions of small fans. For example, an area of 100 x 100 km can have 100 million fans, producing 100 MW of power (optimally)!
The reply is a big YES.
Microsoft should have done this a long time ago: let the programs think they write to system files/directories, but actually write to copies of system files/directories that don't affect the rest of the system.
This can easily be done at filesystem level, using copy-on-write techniques: a file is shared between all programs until written. Then the filesystem could duplicate the file while it is written in a different actual file with the same name, visible only from the process that writes the file.
I've looked at the source and it shows many good programming traits, like variable and procedure naming that makes sense, separation of concerns (each procedure is short and does only one or two things; and it's procedural), etc. The code is very easy to follow. It shows that good programming is more about the programmer than the programming language.
I mean this one.
He would be an excellent Doctor!!!
Personally, I am waiting for R++. I heard it's gonna have templates, operator overloading, the lot!!!
But those games where very simple when compared to today's games. Today's games are 10000 times bigger.
I think you are overreacting, like most other slashdot posters. Development for Windows is not much different than development for development for Unix. All platforms have their issues. You need the Windows Development Kit from Microsoft, and any version of Visual Studio. You just need to set the appropriate environment variables before launching VS.
Searching for about half an hour in Google would give you all the answers you need. You actually spent more time writing the /. post than if you googled your questions.
which is built on C++ (their greatest flaw)
But there is no other language that combines:
Given all the above, and considering the year Qt appeared, C++ is the only choice. Remember that Qt needs to run in platforms that C# or Java does not exist now and back then when the project was started.
Don't employees have the right to surf the internet for a couple of minutes per working day? they are human, you know. Not robots. They can't work each minute for 8 hours a day.
Yes, wasting time is part of the work day. Is it so unethical?
In the same light, why companies don't block talking to colleagues and going to the bathroom? it should be that whoever goes to the bathroom more than two times per day should be fired. And whoever takes launch for more than 10 minutes should also be fired.
Would you like that? I don't think so. We are humans, not robot work slaves.
If an employee is proven not to be productive in the long run, then something must be done about him. But banning each and every bit of time wasting? inhuman!!!
Can you imagine the hell that some bumbling middle-manager would be made to pay if some TSA flunky turned out to be posting on stormfront.org or revolutionmuslim.com during working hours? It would be an utter no-win.
First of all, why not? why should a company be responsible for what its personnel posts? what if the post is positive about the company?
Secondly, why not simply fire the employee who posts negative comments online?
There is a lot more to banning sites than you imagine. The establishment wants the people scared. Do you think that an employee of a company that doesn't allow him to post in "controversial" sites will dare post anything from his home in the same sites? he will be scared to death.
So an employee must have the same views as his/her employer? gee, I didn't know that.
You CAN profit from what you do, but always remember, you DON'T own your creations.
Excuse me, but that's the silliest thing I've heard all day!!! a man's creations are owned by him/her, period. To say anything else, it's retarded. If we don't own our creations, then we would be hardcore communists, and we all know how well communism played out. The freedom you have to post such kind of stupid comments (which were surprisingly modded interesting) came from a society that valued the exact opposite of what you posted.
The discussion about the wisdom of crouds is incomplete if the social, economic, technological, educational and political factors and circumstances are not discussed.
Furthermore, the view that crowds cannot ever be right is the first step to tyranny. We all have seen the past where the actions of few people led to world wars, genocides and holocausts.
No, the brain simply applies pattern matching in order to find the best reaction for current event.
If a ball is thrown at me, the brain will search for an appropriate reaction, which is most of the time the action of raising the hand and catching the ball.
If a dirty ball is thrown at me, my brain will react by trying to avoid the ball.
If a bullet is fired at me, my brain will not react because it would not have the time to do so.
It's all pattern matching.
The brain does not do arithmetic, it only does pattern matching. That's what most people don't get and that's the obstacle to understanding and realizing AI.
If you ask how can humans can then do math in their brain, the answer is simple: they can't, but a pattern matching system can be trained to do math by learning all the relevant patterns.
If you further ask how humans can do logical inference in their brain, the answer is again simple: they can't, and that's the reason people believe in illogical things. Their answers are the result of pattern matching, just like Google returning the wrong results.
So you really think that the US is in Afghanistan in order to capture and punish Bin Laden? And you think that the vast deposits of minerals in Afghanistan has nothing to do with the US presence there?
Good. I have a bridge to sell you. It goes for $9.99, and it is in Sydney.
(as long as there are gullible people like you out there, the world's governments will fuck us over and over multiple times).
In HTML5, the browser returns the latitude and longitude of the user to Javascript. Shouldn't the browser also return the planet, local star etc?
How will ISS visitors browse?
Your post is pointless because you ignore two facts:
1) you have no right to be on foreign soil, no matter how hard is the situation there for the locals.
2) there is a whole set of interests of the industrial, energy and military conglomerate behind the war that has nothing to do with bringing democracy to those people.
Jean Luc Picard speaks French and English as his native language! now that settles who is the better captain: the one who is bilingual!!!!