I have always favored Java's architecture. It is a very organized and powerful solution. By combining Java with MySQL, one can implement the View/Model/Controller design pattern in a web site. The Java applet and web documents will function as the View whereas MySQL implements the Model and the Controller will be the interface code for MySQL. Using Java in this way will lead to solid code akin to Apple.
Cocoa Programming is a very detailed book about the Cocoa environment. It gives you a very in-depth look into Apple's technology and even pulls you into the design philosophies behind Cocoa and Mac OS X. An excellent read.
I wish that Apple would look into signing contracts with smaller labels so that they can increase the variety of music offered. Most of what I listen to come from obscure bands and I think that the music industry will benifit greatly if more people are aware of the variety of content available. If there was a distributor with the variety offered by Audiogalaxy, I would definitely spend money on it.
You had to work as slavs in feudal work camps while pestilence, war, famine, and death encroaches everywhere and the populace is blind to the teachings of a corrupt chruch. I wonder if Microsoft has any similar ideas on restricting us.
My, um, friends are under the age of 21 and they are involved in situations of extreme or painful death, consensual torture and murder, sex, cancer, and incest daily. I haven't observed any signs of maladjustments in my friends as of yet. I don't see how a book dealing with these subjects would cause any more harm than being painfully killed, being in a BDSM scene, and making incestuous snuff porn of cancer patients can be. I truely resent age divisions.
The problem with using preexisting nanotechnology is that we had absolutely no say in its function and design. It is a bit of a mess just figuring out what enzymes do; much less running experiments on their structures, mechanisms, and (gulp) their original design process. It would be nice to be able to peice together catalytic pathways on a whim but we have very limited experience doing that. Perhaps when we have quantum computers and rapid nucleotide assemblers we can perform evolution in a test tube to design our own proteinaeous nanomachines. So far, we have to take (very small) bits and pieces from nature and use them as best we can.
It would be interesting to grow cells on an electronic substrate. There are already some major efforts to do this to study the functioning of certain human cell types. It would be equally interesting to grow bacterial colony on a chip, locate them, and use it as a fish tank. Also, some light can be shed on the movement of single celled organism by doing this.
I have a better idea! Why don't we use unassigned nerve cells to do our wiring? They tend to be more friendly to nervous tissue, they can have the same genetic material as the rest of your brain (with adult stem cells), they are already used to create circuits, and we know a lot more about the behavior of nerve cells in forming functional circuits, as opposed to using bacteria or some other non-animal cell source. I personally trust my own cells more than a foreign organism in EVERY circumstance.
Bacterial cells are around 1-5 micron in length. This means that we can not employ our current state of miniturization with living elements that we currently enjoy. Interesting concept though. I guess there can be some uses for growing our circuits in flasks.
The Orgasmatron. This, and a replacement for addictive drugs, are the most important functions of cybernetics. And fortunately, they are pretty easy to implement, as opposed to mind transfers or the like.
I thought that carbon nanotubes have extremely high tensile strength (50-60 times that of high end steel). If you were to launch something at a shaft of nanotubes, I bet that you would see the structure flex back and rebound sending your projectile in the opposite direction at a slightly lower speed. In fact, I would fly the plane myself just to see something like that happen:)
From the space elevator link: extend 62,000 miles up into space
Wow! 62000 miles is long. Consider the fact that the radius of earth is about 6371.01 km (3981 miles), I seriously wonder the necessity for a shaft almost 8 times the diameter of the earth hanging off into space. I know it's a typo on their part but they really shouldn't let something like this to appear twice in one page.
Slashdot Mirror
is already some source code available. :)
Why don't people just ask their friends to encrypt incomming email? That is one of the simplist way to eliminate spam, and it works too.
Design Patterns.
Flight training: $25,000
Home made 737 Simulator: $10,000
First Class plane tickets: $5000
Box cutters: $1.99
Striking back against the great Satan: priceless
There are some things you can't buy, but for everything else, there's Mastercard: the card used to fund terrorism all over the world.
has everything you want to know about math. Scienceworld has some cursory scientific information as well.
They open sourced the game logic code, not the graphics rendering engine. Keep in mind that Epic is selling licenses to the Unreal engine for $350000.
Do you mean the Look and Feel case that Apple lost?
I have always favored Java's architecture. It is a very organized and powerful solution. By combining Java with MySQL, one can implement the View/Model/Controller design pattern in a web site. The Java applet and web documents will function as the View whereas MySQL implements the Model and the Controller will be the interface code for MySQL. Using Java in this way will lead to solid code akin to Apple.
from the 2+2=5 dept
,
Step 1: -1/1 = 1/-1
Step 2: Taking the square root of both sides:
Step 3: Simplifying:
Step 4: In other words, i/1 = 1/i.
Step 5: Therefore, i / 2 = 1 / (2i),
Step 6: i/2 + 3/(2i) = 1/(2i) + 3/(2i),
Step 7: i (i/2 + 3/(2i) ) = i ( 1/(2i) + 3/(2i) ),
Step 8:
Step 9: (-1)/2 + 3/2 = 1/2 + 3/2,
Step 10: and this shows that 1=2.
therefore 2+2=1+1=3; QED
Thanks for the proof
Cocoa Programming is a very detailed book about the Cocoa environment. It gives you a very in-depth look into Apple's technology and even pulls you into the design philosophies behind Cocoa and Mac OS X. An excellent read.
celebrates 3650 days of saving your ass
Shouldn't it be 3652 days since there were two leap years between 1993 and 2003?
I wish that Apple would look into signing contracts with smaller labels so that they can increase the variety of music offered. Most of what I listen to come from obscure bands and I think that the music industry will benifit greatly if more people are aware of the variety of content available. If there was a distributor with the variety offered by Audiogalaxy, I would definitely spend money on it.
I've always wondered, why is /. immune to the /. effect anyway?
You had to work as slavs in feudal work camps while pestilence, war, famine, and death encroaches everywhere and the populace is blind to the teachings of a corrupt chruch. I wonder if Microsoft has any similar ideas on restricting us.
My, um, friends are under the age of 21 and they are involved in situations of extreme or painful death, consensual torture and murder, sex, cancer, and incest daily. I haven't observed any signs of maladjustments in my friends as of yet. I don't see how a book dealing with these subjects would cause any more harm than being painfully killed, being in a BDSM scene, and making incestuous snuff porn of cancer patients can be. I truely resent age divisions.
Maybe it's here?
The problem with using preexisting nanotechnology is that we had absolutely no say in its function and design. It is a bit of a mess just figuring out what enzymes do; much less running experiments on their structures, mechanisms, and (gulp) their original design process. It would be nice to be able to peice together catalytic pathways on a whim but we have very limited experience doing that. Perhaps when we have quantum computers and rapid nucleotide assemblers we can perform evolution in a test tube to design our own proteinaeous nanomachines. So far, we have to take (very small) bits and pieces from nature and use them as best we can.
It would be interesting to grow cells on an electronic substrate. There are already some major efforts to do this to study the functioning of certain human cell types. It would be equally interesting to grow bacterial colony on a chip, locate them, and use it as a fish tank. Also, some light can be shed on the movement of single celled organism by doing this.
I have a better idea! Why don't we use unassigned nerve cells to do our wiring? They tend to be more friendly to nervous tissue, they can have the same genetic material as the rest of your brain (with adult stem cells), they are already used to create circuits, and we know a lot more about the behavior of nerve cells in forming functional circuits, as opposed to using bacteria or some other non-animal cell source. I personally trust my own cells more than a foreign organism in EVERY circumstance.
Bacterial cells are around 1-5 micron in length. This means that we can not employ our current state of miniturization with living elements that we currently enjoy. Interesting concept though. I guess there can be some uses for growing our circuits in flasks.
If Lessig would fare better here than during the Eldred vs. Ashcroft debacle.
The Orgasmatron. This, and a replacement for addictive drugs, are the most important functions of cybernetics. And fortunately, they are pretty easy to implement, as opposed to mind transfers or the like.
I thought that carbon nanotubes have extremely high tensile strength (50-60 times that of high end steel). If you were to launch something at a shaft of nanotubes, I bet that you would see the structure flex back and rebound sending your projectile in the opposite direction at a slightly lower speed. In fact, I would fly the plane myself just to see something like that happen :)
extend 62,000 miles up into space
Wow! 62000 miles is long. Consider the fact that the radius of earth is about 6371.01 km (3981 miles), I seriously wonder the necessity for a shaft almost 8 times the diameter of the earth hanging off into space. I know it's a typo on their part but they really shouldn't let something like this to appear twice in one page.
Too bad that Naval ships are large floating Faraday cages because otherwise it might actually work.