They're not Oscars. In special circumstances an Oscar will be awarded for technical achievement but generally you get a small plaque or a certificate. Admittedly my certificate does have a picture of an Oscar on it but it most definitely isn't actually one.
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...then the onus is on the manufacturer to prove that the chipping was the cause of any defect in the event that they want to withdraw the warranty. At least according to here. On the other hand I'm not 100% convinced that's a correct interpretation of this law.
Of course. Everyone knows that only Americans know how to build reliable space vehicles and only Americans deserve to get contracts for software engineering and everyone else in the world is just plain dumb.
I'm thinking of von Neumann who I'll grant didn't probably didn't know that a really simple CA could be universal. Berlekamp, Conway and Guy proved the Game of Life was universal for computation before 1982.
...that the universality of cellular automata has been known from at least as far back as when Wolfram was a toddler. People fully understood the implications of this at the time: i.e. if you believe the universe is mechanistic and can be simulated on a computer then a cellular automaton can do it too. About 0.000000x10^-42% of this observation is due to Wolfram.
I've already read as far as the physics chapter. I found very few insights. It's the same old wild speculation I can remember talking about while a student getting stoned in the eighties. People have speculated that the universe is a CA for ages. Some people have even given interesting arguments (like Susskind and 't Hooft's work on the 'Holographic Hypothesis') but Wolfram just waffles.
He essentially claims that anything that ever was and will be can be explained through cellular automata
Aahhh. You've undergone a religious conversion experience. The indicator that someone has had one of these is that statements so wide as to be empty actually hold meaning for you.
I tried developing using Xcode 1.1 on my 550MHz (512KB RAM) PowerBook. I can type faster than the editor can process my keystrokes. I'm not exaggerating. And I don't mean slightly faster. I mean 2-3 times faster. What's smart about that?
Having to look at a display is an active process that I may fail to do if I'm busy with something else. I want to hear analog data.
Sorry, I'm just reminiscing about the old days when I had a micro with some of the address lines insufficiently isolated from the speaker so I could actually hear how busy the CPU was. Just a low level hum but enough to signal when your code was caught in a loop and far more informative that a CPU meter because in a crude way you could actually hear the structure of the kinds of loops being executed. Maybe I should write something like this myself but I'm not sure how to poll the state of the PC register, say, under any modern OS. Each process could have a sound channel - proportional in volume to the CPU time it's using - and I'd be instantly alerted any time something weird was going on.
According to this Reuters article plain old vanilla cell phones are fading away in the US....I beg to differ
Just because you don't do something it doesn't mean that there isn't a general trend in society to do it. For some reason believing you can argue like this is a very popular fallacy.
Yup. MOSLO is good for that. How many games can you find written in BASIC with a timer calibration loop that bombs out with a divide by zero on startup?
I just wish they could add (optional) VMWare/DOSEmu-like virtualization instead of emulating every single component of the system...
For those of us running OSX this is the only way to go as every single component is missing from my hardware! But yes, the thing that really sold me was the ease of use. I've spent many a merry hour trying to configure Bochs's config files only to have it find another obscure reason not to run. dosbox appears to be truly zero config!
One fun thing is that I have the saved state of several DOS games on a small USB drive. I can then play those games on a W2K machine at work. Save them and the continue them at home on OSX. The drive even contains both of the executables to I can just plug this thing into any PC or Mac and carry on playing. No need to know the hardware of the underlying machine and set up a config file for it.
PS On my own 1.2GHz Athlon my games run way too fast. (Eg. Populous is way outta control!)
My spaghetti code can solve problems that history majors couldn't even contemplate but if someone else can rework my code to make it readable and functional then that's even more excellent.
I spent 4 years of college learning how to communicate and process information
Yup. I spent 4 years studying mathematics as an undergraduate, studiously avoiding anything to do with computers. (Well, I started on a numerical analysis course but quickly dropped out.) That way I was equipped with a useful skill (math) and could just pick up the programming on the job. The other way would have been much harder - studying programming and then expect to learn mathematics in my spare time.
I heartily recommend not studying computer science!
You have a career in X and want to switch to Y. Currently Y is your hobby. At this point it's often a good idea to reveal what your hobby is.
For example many years ago I was working in computational chemistry. In my spare time at home I tinkered with computer graphics. Now I have a career in digital visual effects.
So you're saying thousands of an inch are good units because people have made equipment to cut in units of thousands of an inch. Well I really can't fault that logic at all, not one bit.
I'm busy working on some robotics projects at home. So I go off to Ace hardware this weekend to get some measuring equipment as I need to do stuff acurately. Now I'm writing code that uses these real world measurements and most of the library calls for I/O of numbers (e.g. scanf, printf) support only the use of decimal to represent floating point numbers. So clearly it makes sense to use metric for measurements as I'm so lame I can't remember what a number like 3 7/32 looks like in decimal. Goddamnit! Do you think I could find any metric equipemnt anywhere in Ace? Maybe one steel ruler. And it was just a ruler. Stuff like levels, set squares and protractors all have rules on them marked in inches. It's pathetic. It's like waking up and suddenly finding myself in a medieval city measuring out my drinks in gills.
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They're not Oscars. In special circumstances an Oscar will be awarded for technical achievement but generally you get a small plaque or a certificate. Admittedly my certificate does have a picture of an Oscar on it but it most definitely isn't actually one.
...then the onus is on the manufacturer to prove that the chipping was the cause of any defect in the event that they want to withdraw the warranty. At least according to here. On the other hand I'm not 100% convinced that's a correct interpretation of this law.
Let's not be picky. Even a 300 baud serial vagina isn't to be sniffed at.
I'm thinking of von Neumann who I'll grant didn't probably didn't know that a really simple CA could be universal. Berlekamp, Conway and Guy proved the Game of Life was universal for computation before 1982.
...that the universality of cellular automata has been known from at least as far back as when Wolfram was a toddler. People fully understood the implications of this at the time: i.e. if you believe the universe is mechanistic and can be simulated on a computer then a cellular automaton can do it too. About 0.000000x10^-42% of this observation is due to Wolfram.
I tried developing using Xcode 1.1 on my 550MHz (512KB RAM) PowerBook. I can type faster than the editor can process my keystrokes. I'm not exaggerating. And I don't mean slightly faster. I mean 2-3 times faster. What's smart about that?
Would you like to give an example of one of Wolfram's insights please? Just talking in generalities won't do.
Sorry, I'm just reminiscing about the old days when I had a micro with some of the address lines insufficiently isolated from the speaker so I could actually hear how busy the CPU was. Just a low level hum but enough to signal when your code was caught in a loop and far more informative that a CPU meter because in a crude way you could actually hear the structure of the kinds of loops being executed. Maybe I should write something like this myself but I'm not sure how to poll the state of the PC register, say, under any modern OS. Each process could have a sound channel - proportional in volume to the CPU time it's using - and I'd be instantly alerted any time something weird was going on.
Cool! You recognized the movie I was thinking about!
Yup. MOSLO is good for that. How many games can you find written in BASIC with a timer calibration loop that bombs out with a divide by zero on startup?
One fun thing is that I have the saved state of several DOS games on a small USB drive. I can then play those games on a W2K machine at work. Save them and the continue them at home on OSX. The drive even contains both of the executables to I can just plug this thing into any PC or Mac and carry on playing. No need to know the hardware of the underlying machine and set up a config file for it.
PS On my own 1.2GHz Athlon my games run way too fast. (Eg. Populous is way outta control!)
But if it's retro DOS games you're after check out dosbox which runs pretty fast and runs on many platforms.
I am the author of that Haiku.
My spaghetti code can solve problems that history majors couldn't even contemplate but if someone else can rework my code to make it readable and functional then that's even more excellent.
I heartily recommend not studying computer science!
For example many years ago I was working in computational chemistry. In my spare time at home I tinkered with computer graphics. Now I have a career in digital visual effects.
So you're saying thousands of an inch are good units because people have made equipment to cut in units of thousands of an inch. Well I really can't fault that logic at all, not one bit.
I'm busy working on some robotics projects at home. So I go off to Ace hardware this weekend to get some measuring equipment as I need to do stuff acurately. Now I'm writing code that uses these real world measurements and most of the library calls for I/O of numbers (e.g. scanf, printf) support only the use of decimal to represent floating point numbers. So clearly it makes sense to use metric for measurements as I'm so lame I can't remember what a number like 3 7/32 looks like in decimal. Goddamnit! Do you think I could find any metric equipemnt anywhere in Ace? Maybe one steel ruler. And it was just a ruler. Stuff like levels, set squares and protractors all have rules on them marked in inches. It's pathetic. It's like waking up and suddenly finding myself in a medieval city measuring out my drinks in gills.
Deep means deep. I think he must mean long.