Alonso Church's estate might seem to have a better claim. Not only does lambda calculus predate TMs by a couple of years, but it's at least equally related to most programming languages. Brainfuck and a few other esoteric languages are exceptions, and possibly FORTRAN; but LISP is clearly derived from lamdba calculus rather than TMs, and there's definite influence on ALGOL.
Formally, a language can be defined as the strings generated by a formal grammar.
It can be, but the meaning of a word depends on the context. The "Java language" is not the same thing as the language of strings generated by its grammar. In fact, that grammar doesn't even capture the entire syntax of Java; whereas the term "Java language" also covers the semantics, and it's at the very least reasonable to argue that it covers everything specified in the Java Language Specification (which not only includes syntax and semantics but also some details of the API).
More to the point, it's more difficult than not hashing for trivial gain. There's no way the protocol described in the summary could work with salt, so anyone who had any motivation could spend 10 minutes writing a script to build rainbow tables for various combinations of names @gmail, hotmail, etc. and reverse the hash.
The curator is Chris M, who used to be the Sun exec trying to push Java in the gaming world, and IIRC collects arcade games. So it wasn't a typical art critic who did the initial selection.
His shortlist was then put up for public vote to select one game each in a Cartesian product of four vaguely-defined genres and a number of platforms, so some gamers were involved in the selection.
Of course, the problem with involving gamers is that there's an inherent bias towards better known games, so more interesting but lesser known ones didn't make the final cut.
In my list of interview questions for people who claim to be Java experts is "How do you guarantee a Garbage Collection in Java?"
The real question is what you gain by forcing GC. With generational GC you still don't guarantee that the object whose finaliser you wanted to be called would be collected. Methinks you'd be better off learning how to use PhantomReferences properly.
In the documentary Exit Through the Giftshop, British artist Banksy talks about the time he made spoof bank notes and handed them out at a festival. However, he then saw people successfully buying beer with them, realised that he had made a mistake, and doesn't know what to do with the ones he still has.
Since no-one else is going to defend Microsoft, I will point out in mitigation that their marketing strategy was deliberately flawed. Even when the UK was in the grip of panic about mad cow disease, they stuck to the slogan "Beef up your brain".
I recall the two players being blue and orange, the planets being grey, and the collision detecting being checked at the end of every timestamp, so a bullet could make a hole in the middle of a planet, and if you fired more on the same path you'd get a series of disjoint holes. That was one element I chose not to replicate.
I did it three years ago as an entry for the Java4k Game Contest: Gravitational Fourks. And my inspiration was a game I played on the Acorn Archimedes in the early 90s.
What's with Muslims tossing shoes? Did they get that from the French?
No, it predates the existence of France considerably. Shoes have been a powerful symbol in the Middle East for at least 3000 years, as attested by the account of Ruth in the Tenakh / Old Testament.
You were lucky. My passport got creased through carrying it in my pocket for 4 months and wet when a tropical rainstorm soaked through my jeans. In Houston a customs agent told me that I ought to respect myself more (!). In Heathrow a border official told me that he'd let me through "this time..."
On behalf of my fellow Brits I would like to apologise, and assure you that henceforth we shan't abbreviate the full term, perambulator. Let's face it: pushing an overloaded baby carriage (including baby, nappy bags, bottles, snacks, toys, etc.) is a long way from being the "leisurely walk" for which the word "stroller" would be appropriate.
I think there are quite a few people in your so-called land of the free who don't know the difference, given that they keep sending your military off to be policemen.
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That's not an attempt to get past blocking. It's a necessity to get the HTML parser.
Not so elusive...
Alonso Church's estate might seem to have a better claim. Not only does lambda calculus predate TMs by a couple of years, but it's at least equally related to most programming languages. Brainfuck and a few other esoteric languages are exceptions, and possibly FORTRAN; but LISP is clearly derived from lamdba calculus rather than TMs, and there's definite influence on ALGOL.
Formally, a language can be defined as the strings generated by a formal grammar.
It can be, but the meaning of a word depends on the context. The "Java language" is not the same thing as the language of strings generated by its grammar. In fact, that grammar doesn't even capture the entire syntax of Java; whereas the term "Java language" also covers the semantics, and it's at the very least reasonable to argue that it covers everything specified in the Java Language Specification (which not only includes syntax and semantics but also some details of the API).
More to the point, it's more difficult than not hashing for trivial gain. There's no way the protocol described in the summary could work with salt, so anyone who had any motivation could spend 10 minutes writing a script to build rainbow tables for various combinations of names @gmail, hotmail, etc. and reverse the hash.
The curator is Chris M, who used to be the Sun exec trying to push Java in the gaming world, and IIRC collects arcade games. So it wasn't a typical art critic who did the initial selection.
His shortlist was then put up for public vote to select one game each in a Cartesian product of four vaguely-defined genres and a number of platforms, so some gamers were involved in the selection.
Of course, the problem with involving gamers is that there's an inherent bias towards better known games, so more interesting but lesser known ones didn't make the final cut.
Where the heck is the Apple ][ category
The categories were selected based on number of units sold. That's why there's no Amiga category either.
In my list of interview questions for people who claim to be Java experts is "How do you guarantee a Garbage Collection in Java?"
The real question is what you gain by forcing GC. With generational GC you still don't guarantee that the object whose finaliser you wanted to be called would be collected. Methinks you'd be better off learning how to use PhantomReferences properly.
In the documentary Exit Through the Giftshop, British artist Banksy talks about the time he made spoof bank notes and handed them out at a festival. However, he then saw people successfully buying beer with them, realised that he had made a mistake, and doesn't know what to do with the ones he still has.
Since no-one else is going to defend Microsoft, I will point out in mitigation that their marketing strategy was deliberately flawed. Even when the UK was in the grip of panic about mad cow disease, they stuck to the slogan "Beef up your brain".
That sounds like US Internet traffic rather than Internet traffic as a whole. Netflix don't operate in most of the world, whereas YouTube does.
I recall the two players being blue and orange, the planets being grey, and the collision detecting being checked at the end of every timestamp, so a bullet could make a hole in the middle of a planet, and if you fired more on the same path you'd get a series of disjoint holes. That was one element I chose not to replicate.
Well, there's a limit to how much polish anyone can pack into 4 kilobytes.
I did it three years ago as an entry for the Java4k Game Contest: Gravitational Fourks. And my inspiration was a game I played on the Acorn Archimedes in the early 90s.
What's with Muslims tossing shoes? Did they get that from the French?
No, it predates the existence of France considerably. Shoes have been a powerful symbol in the Middle East for at least 3000 years, as attested by the account of Ruth in the Tenakh / Old Testament.
So Henry VIII was the only rational governor in the history of the world?
You were lucky. My passport got creased through carrying it in my pocket for 4 months and wet when a tropical rainstorm soaked through my jeans. In Houston a customs agent told me that I ought to respect myself more (!). In Heathrow a border official told me that he'd let me through "this time..."
I think they may need to work on that a bit. I just tested three samples of my writing, all in a similar style, and got three different authors.
Thank you. With just one sentence you provided what was missing from the "summary": the new development in a saga whose history we all already know.
On behalf of my fellow Brits I would like to apologise, and assure you that henceforth we shan't abbreviate the full term, perambulator. Let's face it: pushing an overloaded baby carriage (including baby, nappy bags, bottles, snacks, toys, etc.) is a long way from being the "leisurely walk" for which the word "stroller" would be appropriate.
Your real name doesn't happen to be Josephus, by any chance?
The possibility of being able to capture this data is especially probable since Denver International offers free WiFi and it is an unencrypted network
is quite clearly about encryption to the nearest router.
No, he's quoting the last line of the abuse practitioner.
Ah, but torrent sites now are pushing magnet links instead, which are pretty much what you're talking about.
I think there are quite a few people in your so-called land of the free who don't know the difference, given that they keep sending your military off to be policemen.