King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella sent the expedition in hopes of finding a new route, more profitable route to China. Columbus did not explore out of some noble spirit of exploration. He went to make money.
Well...programmers usually care what languages they know when it comes to writing their resume. So while in one sense, you are current, in the career advancement sense, I'd go by what they want on Monster.com: (Java, Javascript, C, C++, Python, Perl, PHP.) True, any good programmer could pick any of those up in a few months (except maybe C++) but HR drones don't know that.
When I went to school, we were taught all these methodologies. (Though in my case I'm so old that OO programming was too new to be well taught.) I'd hope your average programmer would know them all before getting that first job. Sadly, I get the feeling I am mistaken.
But in general, I'd say, for instance, to use Javascript rather than Lisp as a functional language...not because it is better...not hardly...but because it is very marketable. (And sadly, most people with Javascript on their resumes have no clue it is anything but a Java clone.)
My son is 5 1/2. I don't believe he has seen live TV since he was six months old. Between DVDs and Tivo, it is pretty easy to completely control what he watches.
It wasn't profanity that prompted us to do this. It was the violent promos for the local and national news. But we didn't need the government to solve that for us.
Well, that was the original idea. The idea is that in order to pass the Turing test, you had to create something that actually understood things. This is why a chatbot will never pass it.
Children essentially can't see at birth. It's a few weeks before they can focus on anything. Whether that is because they are learning to do so or because they hardwiring takes over is an open question.
Yeah, it's almost like a law of nature that capacity doubles every year or so. We should give it a name. A name for a law about how we get more space for data. I know: "Mores Law"!
I've used those episode lists. At this point in time, it's the best place to go find out what happened in a particular episode you are trying to remember.
Yeah, Wikipedia was dead to me the day I went looking for information and discovered that someone had deleted the page because it wasn't important enough.
Very few people have to worry about Nintendo or Sony getting units back to you. In my experience, having been a PC gamer since before the IBM PC, you lose far more time not being able to play the game you want to play because of broken crap on the PC than most consoles. I switched to a console a year ago and have not once been unable to play the game I wanted to play because of driver issues or hardware issues or DRM issues or any of the other crap I've had to put up with as a PC gamer.
Yes, when I had to get a new CD drive because Diable II's DRM decided not to recognize the existing one, it only took a few minutes to put one in. Plus the time to drive to the store. And the $50 for the game. Yeah, that's a bonus.
There's a huge difference between few children and no children. The England of the book was despairing because the people new that with no children at all, there was no future and that those alive were just marking time until the eventual death of civilization. Very different for Japan, where there's every reason to expect that Japan will be a major world player for the next 100 years, 200 years, who knows how long? With 135 million people crammed in a country the size of the Japanese mainland, a drop in the population over time may actually improve matters for the people living there and the country as a whole.
Anyway, the point is that "Children of Men" wasn't about low birth rate. It is about being forced to confront your civilization having no future, and your life having no meaning.
Yes. Because we already know how to help protect 99.4% of humanity that is not infected. It's called a "condom". It's not perfect, obviously, but it has greatly reduced the spread of HIV in most western countries.
Besides, a complete cure doesn't just help that 0.6%...it also helps that 99.4% to the extent that they are at risk of getting the disease.
If you are selling the binaries, you have a massive vested interest in hiding the source. Hell, even if you give the binaries away, you have a vested interest in hiding the source to keep it from your competitors.
If there were no software copyrights, meaning that all software was essentially under a BSD license, forking a project would *not* necessarily cause it to die. For instance, someone could easily take Linux and base a proprietary OS on it. We know this, because this has happened with BSD-licensed OSes.
Abolishing copyright would mean that someone could take Stallman's software, modify it to their heart's content, and then sell the results without distributing the source. I suspect he'd not be too keen on that. One thing you need to think about is that just because you can't be legally barred from having the source does not mean that you'll be able to get it. Do you really think Apple will start distributing the OSX source to you just because you want to put it on a toaster?
The problem isn't software patents. The problem is that it seems like the vast majority of patents, software or otherwise, are granted for things that shouldn't be patentable, either because there is prior art, because the thing being patented is obvious or the claim is far too broad.
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Uh...yeah...hence my annoyance that people put it on their resumes without having a clue that it isn't a Java clone.
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King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella sent the expedition in hopes of finding a new route, more profitable route to China. Columbus did not explore out of some noble spirit of exploration. He went to make money.
Well...programmers usually care what languages they know when it comes to writing their resume. So while in one sense, you are current, in the career advancement sense, I'd go by what they want on Monster.com: (Java, Javascript, C, C++, Python, Perl, PHP.) True, any good programmer could pick any of those up in a few months (except maybe C++) but HR drones don't know that.
When I went to school, we were taught all these methodologies. (Though in my case I'm so old that OO programming was too new to be well taught.) I'd hope your average programmer would know them all before getting that first job. Sadly, I get the feeling I am mistaken.
But in general, I'd say, for instance, to use Javascript rather than Lisp as a functional language...not because it is better...not hardly...but because it is very marketable. (And sadly, most people with Javascript on their resumes have no clue it is anything but a Java clone.)
My son is 5 1/2. I don't believe he has seen live TV since he was six months old. Between DVDs and Tivo, it is pretty easy to completely control what he watches.
It wasn't profanity that prompted us to do this. It was the violent promos for the local and national news. But we didn't need the government to solve that for us.
Well, that was the original idea. The idea is that in order to pass the Turing test, you had to create something that actually understood things. This is why a chatbot will never pass it.
Children essentially can't see at birth. It's a few weeks before they can focus on anything. Whether that is because they are learning to do so or because they hardwiring takes over is an open question.
To phish successfully, you have to fool one human in a thousand. To pass the Turing test, you have to be able to fool all humans.
The very first question gives it away both because it regurgitates the question and because most people wouldn't need to think about that question.
Yeah, it's almost like a law of nature that capacity doubles every year or so. We should give it a name. A name for a law about how we get more space for data. I know: "Mores Law"!
I've used those episode lists. At this point in time, it's the best place to go find out what happened in a particular episode you are trying to remember.
Yeah, Wikipedia was dead to me the day I went looking for information and discovered that someone had deleted the page because it wasn't important enough.
Yes, when I had to get a new CD drive because Diable II's DRM decided not to recognize the existing one, it only took a few minutes to put one in. Plus the time to drive to the store. And the $50 for the game. Yeah, that's a bonus.
Some do. Both Civilization 4 and Galactic Civilizations work great on my midrange laptop with integrated graphics.
It is unfortunate that the original radio series isn't as widely spread. The books are great, but the radio series is even better.
And I have no idea what all that encrypted traffic to the Tor routers is.
Children of Men wasn't about the logic of the situation. It was about the psychology of how most people would react.
There's a huge difference between few children and no children. The England of the book was despairing because the people new that with no children at all, there was no future and that those alive were just marking time until the eventual death of civilization. Very different for Japan, where there's every reason to expect that Japan will be a major world player for the next 100 years, 200 years, who knows how long? With 135 million people crammed in a country the size of the Japanese mainland, a drop in the population over time may actually improve matters for the people living there and the country as a whole.
Anyway, the point is that "Children of Men" wasn't about low birth rate. It is about being forced to confront your civilization having no future, and your life having no meaning.
Yes. Because we already know how to help protect 99.4% of humanity that is not infected. It's called a "condom". It's not perfect, obviously, but it has greatly reduced the spread of HIV in most western countries.
Besides, a complete cure doesn't just help that 0.6%...it also helps that 99.4% to the extent that they are at risk of getting the disease.
If you are selling the binaries, you have a massive vested interest in hiding the source. Hell, even if you give the binaries away, you have a vested interest in hiding the source to keep it from your competitors.
The Moroccan government could have easily figured it out with a wiretap.
If there were no software copyrights, meaning that all software was essentially under a BSD license, forking a project would *not* necessarily cause it to die. For instance, someone could easily take Linux and base a proprietary OS on it. We know this, because this has happened with BSD-licensed OSes.
Abolishing copyright would mean that someone could take Stallman's software, modify it to their heart's content, and then sell the results without distributing the source. I suspect he'd not be too keen on that. One thing you need to think about is that just because you can't be legally barred from having the source does not mean that you'll be able to get it. Do you really think Apple will start distributing the OSX source to you just because you want to put it on a toaster?
The problem isn't software patents. The problem is that it seems like the vast majority of patents, software or otherwise, are granted for things that shouldn't be patentable, either because there is prior art, because the thing being patented is obvious or the claim is far too broad.
I presume you sit closer to your laptop than to your TV...
Laptops with Blu-Ray have been available for a year now. What's with the "could be"? It should be pretty damn easy to test.