IMHO in both computer science and mathematics the process of finding a solution is more important than the answer itself. If a person has correct answer but got it only by mistake then what good is it? I am not sure if grading students so objectively will help them later on when they face advance problems in math/c.s. Teachers like you should consider this aspect of education in mind.
Remember the Voyager mission? Every couple of years, deep space exploration vehicles experience the fists of fury from our very own yellow star. Check this out: Blast Wave Blows Through the Solar System
The solar wind clashes with the gases in interstellar space leading to ripples that can interfere with our communication with voyager and other such ships. The current flares will catch up in a couple of years but before that the voyagers would have experienced something else too. Read this: Voyager Enters Solar System's Final Frontier
If eBay uses Skype to serve ads it will be the second most evil thing in the world after News Corp's myspace.com deal. Somehow I don't feel that would be the case as eBay has been very responsible with their ad policy.
That's exactly why you use personal email for personal things...
You know you are a/.er when: You notice Mr. Obvious was modded up...
the whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with people getting together and making their own "insightful" comment on any random topic -- Linus Torvalds
If a 3rd party releases a kernel with modifications that allow them to track you without your knowing how nice for their revenue! Imagine redhat releasing a kernel for Fedora that gives feedback to companies on their users' computing habits...If you're doing all this at kernel level it will be too hard to track.
"A lot of people get confused and think you can't patent open-source software. You absolutely can. The limitations, typically, are who can you enforce those patents against," Gatto said. "Under the GPL, you can't assert your patent against people in the chain who took your software under an open-source license, but you could certainly enforce it against a third-party."
If Munich decides to move to Linux and next year's new GPL is invoked for upgrades then it means noone from Munich using Linux can use patented software. This is a great risk that they should also consider. Micsosoft on the other hand does not put any such restrictions on its users.
The Mutation engine it was called. It was big for a virus in its time. And there was Joshi from India, which asked the user to type "happy birthday Joshi", and the Cookie virus which asked you to type "Cookie" in order to proceed. The raindrop virus which made characters fall like raindrops on the screen, the Friday the 13th virus that attacked on (as you guessed) Friday the 13th, and many more. That was the golden period of virus writing it seems, as people came up with innovative ways of hacking the systems, instead of "breaking in" like these days.
From the DOS days: you forgot Michaelangelo, Dark Avenger (Eddie Lives Somewhere in Time), Cannabis (Your PC is now Stoned), the Chrismas tree virus, or the Joker. There was also one called the Whale (The Whale is not a Fish) which used really advanced techniques to evade detection. Then there was a whole family of small viruses called the Tiny family which were written just as an experiment in writing really tiny code that works.
The interesting thing about both Zelda and Final Fantasy is that they are games with large fan following, and they are constantly building up on that by releasing new versions with better graphics, better movies, better music and better this that. But what these developers fail to realize is that sometimes playing a video game is like reading a comic book. If you make it real, like make a movie out of X-Men, you take away that "thing" from the comic. You don't use your imagination anymore in a movie, or in a really real game.
There is also this thing with character voices. When I play a game full of text dialogues like Final Fantasy VII, I assign a voice to the characters that I feel suits them. In newer games they destroy that feeling and give them a voice that doesn't suit them as much. The way things happen in games claiming "more realism" destroys that little private thing betweem the gamer and the game, and introduces a third person's assumptions out of nowhere.
Then there is this whole issue of "realism" when it has to do with "reality". You keep trying to make the physics better, the flames real, the sky blue and the grass green, and spend hundreds of man/woman-hours perfecting these little things. I say, its great but what comes out of it? These are just tools to coy the publisher into thinking that the customers really want this game and will want to but the game because of its awesome graphics and its beautiful physics and AI. But what they forget is that reality isn't what makes us play a game. Its the reality that we usually want to go away from when we are playing a video game. If you make everything perfectly real, it just becomes a simulation of our world with some added effects. Thats so cruel!!!
I didn't mean to say that if we design for disabled users, we are automatically designing for normal people.
What I was trying to stress on, was that if we think really hard about the needs of the disabled, we find that other problems are relatively easy to solve. We don't seriously design a UI based on what can be good for users, and instead we simply do what we assume will work for everyone.
Like you said, blind users might prefer text only. You are obviously not blind (or you'd have said that already), and you are making assumptions about what blind users will prefer.
From the article: Every single little tiny-weeny little interaction-shraction requires your visual attention."
We are a long way from HCI obviously, as the article does not seem to consider blind computer users as Human. If we focus on the hard problems (one of which is improving the interaction with disabled users) the easy ones will simply fall into place.
From the article: The free software association said on Tuesday it would start adapting rules for development and use of free software by including penalties against those who patent software or use anti-piracy technology.
This means that people who were using older GPL'd software are free from obligations of the upcoming license. This obviously doesn't solve the problem because you can always use older GPLed software and modify it yourself to keep it up to date. The whole idea of free software is that it gives people the freedom to do what they want with it. The new license will be saying something like: "Hey, you can have this candy as long as you don't take any from those guys"
We really need to think about where this is taking us.
Once some of us start testing the CSS seriously we'll be greeted with messages like "Please don't bother us for 72 hours"!!! Are you sure you want everyone on Slashdot to test the CSS yet?
I doubt anyone will win a Nobel prize for this discovery but your question falls in the same line as: "what good is the discovery of black holes", or "what good is the knowledge of how many types of stars are there" -- (O, B, A, F, G, K, M).
Science has been at work for ages, and many discoveries are made just for sake of curiosity. Do you feel curious only about useful things? Your question above gives away the answer to mine...
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IMHO in both computer science and mathematics the process of finding a solution is more important than the answer itself. If a person has correct answer but got it only by mistake then what good is it? I am not sure if grading students so objectively will help them later on when they face advance problems in math/c.s. Teachers like you should consider this aspect of education in mind.
...and once again ladies and gentlemen: Mr. Obvious gets modded up!!!
No it just means more games like Call of Duty and less like Final Fantasy.
Remember the Voyager mission? Every couple of years, deep space exploration vehicles experience the fists of fury from our very own yellow star. Check this out: Blast Wave Blows Through the Solar System
The solar wind clashes with the gases in interstellar space leading to ripples that can interfere with our communication with voyager and other such ships. The current flares will catch up in a couple of years but before that the voyagers would have experienced something else too. Read this: Voyager Enters Solar System's Final Frontier
If eBay uses Skype to serve ads it will be the second most evil thing in the world after News Corp's myspace.com deal. Somehow I don't feel that would be the case as eBay has been very responsible with their ad policy.
I guess eBay wants to enable its users to communicate with each other during bids. Much like real life bidding...this would be fun!
Maybe they want users to talk to the seller over voIP to save money....paypal+skype+ebay=powerful bidding.
That's exactly why you use personal email for personal things...
/.er when: You notice Mr. Obvious was modded up...
You know you are a
the whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with people getting together and making their own "insightful" comment on any random topic -- Linus Torvalds
And whats the guarantee that S3 won't go quiet again raising doubts about support?
If a 3rd party releases a kernel with modifications that allow them to track you without your knowing how nice for their revenue! Imagine redhat releasing a kernel for Fedora that gives feedback to companies on their users' computing habits...If you're doing all this at kernel level it will be too hard to track.
That was my attempt at alleged humour my friend :)
"A lot of people get confused and think you can't patent open-source software. You absolutely can. The limitations, typically, are who can you enforce those patents against," Gatto said. "Under the GPL, you can't assert your patent against people in the chain who took your software under an open-source license, but you could certainly enforce it against a third-party."
If Munich decides to move to Linux and next year's new GPL is invoked for upgrades then it means noone from Munich using Linux can use patented software. This is a great risk that they should also consider. Micsosoft on the other hand does not put any such restrictions on its users.
The Mutation engine it was called. It was big for a virus in its time. And there was Joshi from India, which asked the user to type "happy birthday Joshi", and the Cookie virus which asked you to type "Cookie" in order to proceed. The raindrop virus which made characters fall like raindrops on the screen, the Friday the 13th virus that attacked on (as you guessed) Friday the 13th, and many more. That was the golden period of virus writing it seems, as people came up with innovative ways of hacking the systems, instead of "breaking in" like these days.
AIDS was a trojan, not a virus...i wonder where the condom company got its name from....
From the DOS days: you forgot Michaelangelo, Dark Avenger (Eddie Lives Somewhere in Time), Cannabis (Your PC is now Stoned), the Chrismas tree virus, or the Joker. There was also one called the Whale (The Whale is not a Fish) which used really advanced techniques to evade detection. Then there was a whole family of small viruses called the Tiny family which were written just as an experiment in writing really tiny code that works.
Oh those are Judges from 3rd Wold Cuntries....
(Before I get flamed, remember he once hinted that Canada is 3rd world and so we shouldn't import drugs from them?)
The interesting thing about both Zelda and Final Fantasy is that they are games with large fan following, and they are constantly building up on that by releasing new versions with better graphics, better movies, better music and better this that. But what these developers fail to realize is that sometimes playing a video game is like reading a comic book. If you make it real, like make a movie out of X-Men, you take away that "thing" from the comic. You don't use your imagination anymore in a movie, or in a really real game.
There is also this thing with character voices. When I play a game full of text dialogues like Final Fantasy VII, I assign a voice to the characters that I feel suits them. In newer games they destroy that feeling and give them a voice that doesn't suit them as much. The way things happen in games claiming "more realism" destroys that little private thing betweem the gamer and the game, and introduces a third person's assumptions out of nowhere.
Then there is this whole issue of "realism" when it has to do with "reality". You keep trying to make the physics better, the flames real, the sky blue and the grass green, and spend hundreds of man/woman-hours perfecting these little things. I say, its great but what comes out of it? These are just tools to coy the publisher into thinking that the customers really want this game and will want to but the game because of its awesome graphics and its beautiful physics and AI. But what they forget is that reality isn't what makes us play a game. Its the reality that we usually want to go away from when we are playing a video game. If you make everything perfectly real, it just becomes a simulation of our world with some added effects. Thats so cruel!!!
I didn't mean to say that if we design for disabled users, we are automatically designing for normal people.
What I was trying to stress on, was that if we think really hard about the needs of the disabled, we find that other problems are relatively easy to solve. We don't seriously design a UI based on what can be good for users, and instead we simply do what we assume will work for everyone.
Like you said, blind users might prefer text only. You are obviously not blind (or you'd have said that already), and you are making assumptions about what blind users will prefer.
From the article: Every single little tiny-weeny little interaction-shraction requires your visual attention."
We are a long way from HCI obviously, as the article does not seem to consider blind computer users as Human. If we focus on the hard problems (one of which is improving the interaction with disabled users) the easy ones will simply fall into place.
From the article: The free software association said on Tuesday it would start adapting rules for development and use of free software by including penalties against those who patent software or use anti-piracy technology.
This means that people who were using older GPL'd software are free from obligations of the upcoming license. This obviously doesn't solve the problem because you can always use older GPLed software and modify it yourself to keep it up to date. The whole idea of free software is that it gives people the freedom to do what they want with it. The new license will be saying something like: "Hey, you can have this candy as long as you don't take any from those guys"
We really need to think about where this is taking us.
Once some of us start testing the CSS seriously we'll be greeted with messages like "Please don't bother us for 72 hours"!!! Are you sure you want everyone on Slashdot to test the CSS yet?
I don't need a laptop bag!
Look at the parent...
I doubt anyone will win a Nobel prize for this discovery but your question falls in the same line as: "what good is the discovery of black holes", or "what good is the knowledge of how many types of stars are there" -- (O, B, A, F, G, K, M).
Science has been at work for ages, and many discoveries are made just for sake of curiosity. Do you feel curious only about useful things? Your question above gives away the answer to mine...
Whats up with Gandhi these days? I thought it was only me doing this shit.