A good time to introduce programming is likely between ages 7 and 12, as a way to introduce abstract reasoning as their minds develop. Alan Kay had a lot of success with that age group, but he's kind of an ass toward educators (with some justification) and here we are in 2014 and little Billy and Susie can't evaluate (+ 2 2).
Ur/Web is an interesting language with a type system designed to reject vulnerable web programs as ill-typed. The compiler itself is written in a safe language — Standard ML, and there is a proof of language correctness included.
Balancing that, of course: "Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein."
And the right to form a family is fundamental. Ethics is complicated.
Sort of ambivalent on the whole thing personally, but I think he refused to recant because he makes a point of not discussing his political views in public. When he made the donation, the record was between him and the state, and was only later made an open record. It seems consistent with his previous actions to refuse to discuss it. Of course, that's an approach that ended up costing him greatly. Maybe it was worth it to him. Maybe it will be the nudge that makes him introspect and change his views if he hasn't already.
There's a bit of a logical problem with assuming guilt from a refusal to make a statement, despite the human tendency to do so.
I'd like to add to this question, since I missed my chance last time and I'm a huge B5 fan (it was on PTEN when I was a kid, and we didn't have cable so it was UHF channels for me... and then I missed season 5 entirely which led to rewatching it a couple of years ago... and hooking plenty of other people since then).
Would it be possible to have the portions that were not composited retransfered in HD, progressive scan video? And maybe the CGI portions upscaled and transferred as full frames at the original frame rate instead of being converted to interlaced/24fps video? Running a version of the filter at the previous link does result in a noticeable quality improvement, and it would be great if officially released versions didn't have to be ripped/filtered to restore the quality.
Availibility in DRM-free formats (Bluray and GNU/Linux aren't really friends, and it sucks having to break the law to watch video you paid for) would be awesome too.
Of course, I hear that the rights situation with the whole PTEN explosion is likely what is preventing any of this from being possible...
There's a Device Driver Environment that emulates parts of Linux as calls to other servers and Mach. Slides 22-25 have a bit of info on the port from running inside Mach to userspace.
The worst part is that systemd existed about ten years ago: GNU Daemon Managing Daemon, written in Scheme. It has recently been resurrected as the init system of GNU's Guix distribution... instead of ini-files (which have gotten out of control already in systemd and have transformed into an absurd little programming language with awful syntax and undefinable semantics) you extend it using Scheme modules which can be loaded without recompiling the entire daemon. New functionality is implemented as classes, methods, and plain old functions (better than shell pseudo-functions and "well just add a new ini key in C").
I'm not sure why we're reverting to an init system written in a barely-typed static language that doesn't have garbage collection (I really like it when a process I can never kill has any chance of leaking memory), can segfault with nothing more than a small typo, requires new releases to add even minor new features, and has an upstream that is... difficult (I mean come on, rejecting patches to support not-Linux? Even when an offer to maintain the other system comes with the patch?),... especially since Debian has (except for the whole GFDL is non-free spat) been pretty closely aligned with GNU.
Build more nuclear fission plants, throw more than a few pennies at fusion research. Problem solved.
Still, when CFLs cost about $2 for a four pack... I only have a few incadescent bulbs left (weird vanity bulbs in the bathroom, a pair of three way bulbs in some floor lamps because 3-way CFLs suck and seem to die faster than incadescents do anyway, at least for me).
The mobile and beta sites are actually built upon a REST API. Supposedly documentation was going to be released to the public, eventually. Personally, I wish more things supported AtomPub...
Did you ever find a split screen Doom variant? I've been interested in setting this up for ages, but it'd be a huge pain afaict... I'm at the point where I'm thinking the only option is going to be xmonad or similar set to run four instances, each with their own file namespaces to override the config to use a different controller for each copy. But that's kind of... hackish, and a lot of work I don't want to do just to play a game with other folks on the ol' 50" tube.
Oh man... in my computer science class in high school ('99-'01) we had a bunch of old 486es (dang typing class got PIIIs for some reason, we got Turbopascal and TurboC++ on Windows 3.11) with a Netware server. No security, and we had a substitute teacher from the NSA since the "real" CS teacher quit (really great, since he decided to teach us things like algorithimic analysis... gave me a great head start). We managed to get a copy of Doom onto the Netware server and... finished your work? He looked the other way and let us frag the hell out of each other. I bet students nowadays would be a heap of trouble for rooting the file server and filling it with games, heh.
Or you can always grab a System 7.5 image and set up Basilisk II (amusingly enough, you can pretend to be a Quadra with a 1920x1080 graphics card... the experience is pretty surreal).
I really, really don't get the anti-Carmack crap... when everyone loves Gabe Newell. Which one of those two has released all of their game engines under the GPL again? Which one is pushing a DRMed platform again? Thanks to Carmack's openness, you can play Doom today with full dynamic lighting... and can even load MD3 models into the game if you feel like. Quake III is still a fun multiplayer game (I recently got the spearmint ioquake3 port running on my teevee machine... cue four player split screen death match mayhem albeit with controllers so it's not quite perfect, but when everyone is equally handicapped by their input devices...). The Darkplaces port of Quake is beautiful on modern hardware (I'm not really a gamer thanks to having a pitiful computer until around 2005, so maybe my opinions are off base, but I think Darkplaces Quake has a better feel to it than these hyper-realistic shooters that everyone plays nowadays).
You need legal standing to do that, and that means they have to get your name right when they take it down... otherwise, you have to prove you are actually the creator before filing the counter notice. And, since an individual doesn't have a legal team, it's effectively been made impossible. The legal system is a joke at this point...
Interesting... we used Reaper on my last tour actually. It replaced three guitar cabs, an ipod drummer, and a light controller with a laptop and a couple of hardware dsps and midi pedal boards... the Free Software nerd in me would have rather used Ardour and Guitarix and Hydrogen and a ton of custom programming, but it seemed like the evil proprietary solution worked better. Now that I know the authors behind that eeeeeeevil, I guess I know why it worked so well. Except for copying regions with automation around... (but Ardour3 is similarly obnoxious, so who can judge)
They did released Milkdrop under the BSD license a few years ago, there's a clone for OpenGL. XBMC uses it, and it can even load Milkdrop 1.x presets (totally just grabbed a huge set of those and am living like it's 2001 right now). I'm unaware of anything that can emulate AVS presets unfortunately.
Audacious can load Winamp 2.x and XMMS skins too. I'm still using it after a few years of flirting with other media players (ok, I may have given up and used xbmc on the teevee machine, but that's because it has a nice party mode and milkdrop!).
You've never used Common Lisp, eh? One of the great parts of the language is that you can just grab 20 or 30 year old code off of the Net and have it Just Work (tm).
Of course, that might be because Common Lisp was 40 years ahead of its time.
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Also, Lennart Poettering has noted he doesn't care about support anything !Linux, even if someone else maintains the code.
A good time to introduce programming is likely between ages 7 and 12, as a way to introduce abstract reasoning as their minds develop. Alan Kay had a lot of success with that age group, but he's kind of an ass toward educators (with some justification) and here we are in 2014 and little Billy and Susie can't evaluate (+ 2 2).
If MIT had to give up some of their IPv4 addresses, maybe we'd get IPv6 openafs this century ;)
It is actually possible for the language to prevent certain classes of vulnerabilities. See Ur/Web. That's not what Perl is doing, but...
Ur/Web is an interesting language with a type system designed to reject vulnerable web programs as ill-typed. The compiler itself is written in a safe language — Standard ML, and there is a proof of language correctness included.
Balancing that, of course: "Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein."
And the right to form a family is fundamental. Ethics is complicated.
Sort of ambivalent on the whole thing personally, but I think he refused to recant because he makes a point of not discussing his political views in public. When he made the donation, the record was between him and the state, and was only later made an open record. It seems consistent with his previous actions to refuse to discuss it. Of course, that's an approach that ended up costing him greatly. Maybe it was worth it to him. Maybe it will be the nudge that makes him introspect and change his views if he hasn't already.
There's a bit of a logical problem with assuming guilt from a refusal to make a statement, despite the human tendency to do so.
Isn't it? " (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, ..."
I'd like to add to this question, since I missed my chance last time and I'm a huge B5 fan (it was on PTEN when I was a kid, and we didn't have cable so it was UHF channels for me... and then I missed season 5 entirely which led to rewatching it a couple of years ago... and hooking plenty of other people since then).
Would it be possible to have the portions that were not composited retransfered in HD, progressive scan video? And maybe the CGI portions upscaled and transferred as full frames at the original frame rate instead of being converted to interlaced/24fps video? Running a version of the filter at the previous link does result in a noticeable quality improvement, and it would be great if officially released versions didn't have to be ripped/filtered to restore the quality.
Availibility in DRM-free formats (Bluray and GNU/Linux aren't really friends, and it sucks having to break the law to watch video you paid for) would be awesome too.
Of course, I hear that the rights situation with the whole PTEN explosion is likely what is preventing any of this from being possible...
Now, prove the formal correctness of Linux.
There's a Device Driver Environment that emulates parts of Linux as calls to other servers and Mach. Slides 22-25 have a bit of info on the port from running inside Mach to userspace.
The worst part is that systemd existed about ten years ago: GNU Daemon Managing Daemon, written in Scheme. It has recently been resurrected as the init system of GNU's Guix distribution... instead of ini-files (which have gotten out of control already in systemd and have transformed into an absurd little programming language with awful syntax and undefinable semantics) you extend it using Scheme modules which can be loaded without recompiling the entire daemon. New functionality is implemented as classes, methods, and plain old functions (better than shell pseudo-functions and "well just add a new ini key in C").
I'm not sure why we're reverting to an init system written in a barely-typed static language that doesn't have garbage collection (I really like it when a process I can never kill has any chance of leaking memory), can segfault with nothing more than a small typo, requires new releases to add even minor new features, and has an upstream that is ... difficult (I mean come on, rejecting patches to support not-Linux? Even when an offer to maintain the other system comes with the patch?), ... especially since Debian has (except for the whole GFDL is non-free spat) been pretty closely aligned with GNU.
Build more nuclear fission plants, throw more than a few pennies at fusion research. Problem solved.
Still, when CFLs cost about $2 for a four pack... I only have a few incadescent bulbs left (weird vanity bulbs in the bathroom, a pair of three way bulbs in some floor lamps because 3-way CFLs suck and seem to die faster than incadescents do anyway, at least for me).
The mobile and beta sites are actually built upon a REST API. Supposedly documentation was going to be released to the public, eventually. Personally, I wish more things supported AtomPub...
Did you ever find a split screen Doom variant? I've been interested in setting this up for ages, but it'd be a huge pain afaict... I'm at the point where I'm thinking the only option is going to be xmonad or similar set to run four instances, each with their own file namespaces to override the config to use a different controller for each copy. But that's kind of ... hackish, and a lot of work I don't want to do just to play a game with other folks on the ol' 50" tube.
Oh man... in my computer science class in high school ('99-'01) we had a bunch of old 486es (dang typing class got PIIIs for some reason, we got Turbopascal and TurboC++ on Windows 3.11) with a Netware server. No security, and we had a substitute teacher from the NSA since the "real" CS teacher quit (really great, since he decided to teach us things like algorithimic analysis ... gave me a great head start). We managed to get a copy of Doom onto the Netware server and ... finished your work? He looked the other way and let us frag the hell out of each other. I bet students nowadays would be a heap of trouble for rooting the file server and filling it with games, heh.
If you liked Marathon... it lives on.
Or you can always grab a System 7.5 image and set up Basilisk II (amusingly enough, you can pretend to be a Quadra with a 1920x1080 graphics card... the experience is pretty surreal).
I really, really don't get the anti-Carmack crap ... when everyone loves Gabe Newell. Which one of those two has released all of their game engines under the GPL again? Which one is pushing a DRMed platform again? Thanks to Carmack's openness, you can play Doom today with full dynamic lighting... and can even load MD3 models into the game if you feel like. Quake III is still a fun multiplayer game (I recently got the spearmint ioquake3 port running on my teevee machine... cue four player split screen death match mayhem albeit with controllers so it's not quite perfect, but when everyone is equally handicapped by their input devices...). The Darkplaces port of Quake is beautiful on modern hardware (I'm not really a gamer thanks to having a pitiful computer until around 2005, so maybe my opinions are off base, but I think Darkplaces Quake has a better feel to it than these hyper-realistic shooters that everyone plays nowadays).
You need legal standing to do that, and that means they have to get your name right when they take it down... otherwise, you have to prove you are actually the creator before filing the counter notice. And, since an individual doesn't have a legal team, it's effectively been made impossible. The legal system is a joke at this point...
According to their FAQ, the modem will support the UMTS frequencies used by both AT&T and T-Mobile in the US.
You've never seen the Devin Townsend Skullet eh?
Interesting... we used Reaper on my last tour actually. It replaced three guitar cabs, an ipod drummer, and a light controller with a laptop and a couple of hardware dsps and midi pedal boards... the Free Software nerd in me would have rather used Ardour and Guitarix and Hydrogen and a ton of custom programming, but it seemed like the evil proprietary solution worked better. Now that I know the authors behind that eeeeeeevil, I guess I know why it worked so well. Except for copying regions with automation around... (but Ardour3 is similarly obnoxious, so who can judge)
They did released Milkdrop under the BSD license a few years ago, there's a clone for OpenGL. XBMC uses it, and it can even load Milkdrop 1.x presets (totally just grabbed a huge set of those and am living like it's 2001 right now). I'm unaware of anything that can emulate AVS presets unfortunately.
Audacious can load Winamp 2.x and XMMS skins too. I'm still using it after a few years of flirting with other media players (ok, I may have given up and used xbmc on the teevee machine, but that's because it has a nice party mode and milkdrop!).
Second class status? Works fine for me with an ancient xmms skin. About as well as xmms ever did at least.
You've never used Common Lisp, eh? One of the great parts of the language is that you can just grab 20 or 30 year old code off of the Net and have it Just Work (tm).
Of course, that might be because Common Lisp was 40 years ahead of its time.