The most complex stuff it would be able to print is a gothic castle (the ones with tiny windows), and you'd have to put the roofs on top of them afterwards. This is a more profound analogy than you initially suggest. It can build anything out of wax on the tabletop that peasants could build out of stone on a hill is a great way of expressing the allowed geometric complexity. The desktop equivalent of wood board floors, thatch panels for roofs, wool tapestries and various fixtures are not included in the construction at this stage, but those are things that aren't typically built on the hilltop either.
I personally cannot comment on how good UML is industry, I'm just a 1st year student at uni. But it seems to be a bit daft to be teaching a dying tool/language to fresh university students. By the time we get out at industry, nobody might use it any more. Erm, wake up, young pupil. A University is not a trade school. Don't expect to learn tools, expect to learn how to structure your thought to solve problems.
the subject matter is obtuse and few, until now, have ventured to write expository literature to explain the myriad concepts to the non-academician
Or in other words, most of them used big words to impress or confuse you.
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Uh, just from the title alone I knew it would be a filk of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive." It's not exactly an obscure song... even for those who aren't going gray.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Survive
I tend to tune out any argument that uses the word "theft" to describe unauthorized access. Did the Google Docs flaw deprive the owner of the document any access to the document, while keeping it for themselves? Did the Picasa flaw deprive the owner of the image any access to the image, while letting others have it? I suspect the answer in both cases is NO, the original owner had plenty of access to their own copies, and thus the inaccurate use of the word "theft" seems crafted to shock or mislead or conflate the actual issues.
The thing is, nearly the entire audience for Star Wars and Indiana Jones were too young to remember the "Saturday Serials" movie genre that Lucas was paying homage. They were cheap, they were pulpy, they had heros larger than life and more cheese than Wisconsin. The dialogue was not the selling point: the wow factor of swords and pistols and chases and mummies and exotic foreigners were the hook. Pay a dime to get in, pay a nickel for your root beer float afterwards.
Lucas recreated that bad-dialogue-silly-heroism on purpose. That's why he ignored all the flack about bad dialogue through the first trilogy and why he ignores it about the second trilogy too. It worked for us old-timers in 1977 because we weren't old-timers. Now with all the HBO and Blockbuster you can shake a stick at, even a kid born in 1990 has enough world-view inside him to spot how cheesy Episode One was, but has no cultural context with which to judge them. What has changed? We have.
I'm sure you've got more in you than that! Let loose!
What kind of yellow journalism would cover this so piss poorly? Slip-shod! The whole site is going in the tank. Was the product officially issued, or was it a leak? I predict the Number One sales spot in a quarter, but then the market will take a dump. I have an urge to splurge on one of these, myself, though this product's really only for the ones who wear the pants in their families. Will the seniors buy this? Depends. Does it run Linux? Where's the torrent for this? Can't have your urinal cake and eat it too. There is some bad news about the working conditions at the factory. Underpaid workers and dehydrated testing staff were chanting from the picket lines: "Hell No! We Won't Go!"
You need to compute the value, whenever looking at new commune/ collective/ arcology/ society construction. This is in some ways a non-numeric computation, but you should at least look at the basic per capita cost, e.g., cost(infrastructure + risk) / population. Many managers focus on one but ignore the other, but any cost-benefit study must look at both. One offset to the cost would be the value of goods or services produced by the population.
A yurt in a comfortable biome houses a small self-sufficient family at nearly no cost. A small crew can man an offshore oil rig (at least, in moderate shifts) because of the immense value of the product. A commune living in a multi-hundred-ton cylinder of concrete and steel floating a dozen miles offshore had better have some damn valuable product to overcome the huge costs of infrastructure and risk.
What? A financially successful title is going to have another sequel after all? They're not going to stop making products based on a concept to which users have shown a glimmer of attachment? They're going to find some way of explaining a continuation of a popular storyline after a seemingly final conclusion? Even if some of the earlier chapters have shown a risky disregard to quality? Color me shocked! Amazed, really. Will the wonders never cease...
The blurb has a lot of jargon but no reference as to what uses T-rays are likely to be put. T-rays applications They're likely to help with certain cancer scans within the body, but these are also the basis for new "scan 'em naked at fifty paces" airport security cameras. I'm not sure I'm too excited about advancement in this technology just at the moment. Yeah, yeah, scanners don't scan people, overzealous control-freak post-democratic regimes scan people. But you get my drift.
No. SCOTUS has already told us that the issue hinges on the word "unreasonable." Searching everything held by every single person coming into the country is considered reasonable.
Presentations include Neil Turok's 'What Banged?,' John Ellis with 'The Large Hadron Collider,'... Raymond Laflamme with 'Harnessing the Quantum World,' and many other talks.
For some reason, after those titles, the phrase, 'Many Norweigian films including "The Hot Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", and "The Huge Molars of Horst Nordfink"' floated through my head.
HP promises blacker blacks and whiter whites -- though TFoT quotes one source who notes that if they deliver this, it will be due to the back-lighting and not to the number of bits/pixel.
Wow, the definition of dynamic range isn't based on the number of bits per pixel? Whodathunk? Then it must also be true that using a double variable instead of a float does not in fact make 3.0000000000000 > pi.
"Microsoft still has not adopted Silverlight, and uses Flash all over it's websites. "Despite all the controversy over Microsoft using Silverlight to take over the rich internet market from Adobe Flash, the software giant seems to be not even trying. In fact, even most Microsoft web sites are using Flash instead of Silverlight."
A perfect blurb for Slashdot. Bashes Microsoft. Claims competition is a "controversy." Mixes up pronouns. Makes up impressive sounding terminology like "the rich internet market." Shocked that different parts of a megacorporation uses different toolsets. Has no clue or firmly ignores that management of Microsoft departments are as segmented as possible for profit reasons, antitrust reasons and at the demand of the marketplace. Even gets the Microsoft-haters like me to go WTF?! and post a reply, driving up page hits.
I played all the mass-produced Interactive Fiction games in the 80s, back when Infocom bought ads in BYTE magazine. Hadn't really thought much about the tools to make such games since then, but obviously, the state of the art has progressed quite a lot. About a week ago, I decided to load up a modern tool called "Inform", which in version 7 takes "literate programming" to a whole new level. From an example in their manual:
Foyer of the Opera House is a room. "You are standing in a spacious hall, splendidly decorated in red and gold, with glittering chandeliers overhead. The entrance from the street is to the north, and there are doorways south and west."
Instead of going north in the Foyer, say "You've only just arrived, and besides, the weather outside seems to be getting worse."
The Cloakroom is west of the Foyer. "The walls of this small room were clearly once lined with hooks, though now only one remains. The exit is a door to the east."
In the Cloakroom is a supporter called the small brass hook. The hook is scenery. Understand "peg" as the hook.
Inform's output is playable in the same Z-machine standards that were derived from Infocom's original machine, that have been released on cellphones, pdas, palmtops, laptops and mainframes for years and years. I'm having fun developing my own short story, and there are a lot of folks remained in the IF world the whole time who have been churning out dozens if not hundreds of titles you can download (most for free) and try. Some are very short, some are quite elaborate.
Plus, you wouldn't want to waste an RFID-based memory circuit to disable the faulty little motion sensor in the toilet stall that causes the toilet to flush every time you are on the throne.:)
The first thing that came to my mind, and another AC at -1 noted it, is that "gNewSense" must be pronounced "gee, nuisance" or just "nuisance." I can't decide if GIMP or Nuisance wins the prize for most useless name. I'm not saying go through a formal focus group process, but if it's a project worth spending a little time on, isn't it worth a name that doesn't have unsavory connotations? Just ask four friends (vocally) whether a name just sounds vaguely nonsensical or might be misunderstood as something else.
Like many here, I have been waiting and watching all of the endless demonstrations of this game, because it really caught my attention. However, my interest is waning with each new demo.
Am I the only one who doesn't like the direction the artwork is going? Maybe it's partly the presentation format but there's more to it. The early demos had a nice art style, realistic colors used in a gentle way, subtler textures. The more recent demos have shown the same super-saturated colors that plastic toy manufacturers (and Redmond OS designers) prefer to use. Even the space shots and primordial ooze scenes seem less realistic and more schematic in nature lately. In short, What was M. C. Escher is now M. C. Hammer.
Maybe they're spreading themselves too thin with an insanely aggressive multi-platform release (hello, Nintendo DS simultaneous release with 2D pixel art!?). Maybe there are some real technical challenges to making this "pervasively online yet not at risk from griefers" panacea they appear to promise. But honestly, don't make it suck on purpose.
I also appreciate the greater ease of doing things in Java (actually.Net these days for me) as I don't have to worry about all those little details and instead can worry about getting the project done on time and moving on to the next thing.
I dunno but the next thing after writing a bit of Java code is usually wrapping each statement in try/catches or fuglifying your methods with all kinds of throw declarations you don't care about.
I'm not 100% up on my late-1990s corporate dramas anymore, and maybe it's just a flippant or spurious kind of analogy to ponder, so set me straight where I've got this wrong:
Putting a file in a particular directory, so that other users might possibly request initiation of a download, is a criminal activity that can incur penalties of ~10000000% the cost of obtaining the original file legally. It doesn't matter if the file is actually downloaded. That's the "making available" charge.
But somehow, brazenly sharing ideas in memory technologies with all your competitors in the standards group, while maintaining a submarine patent, and then launching legal attacks on all those who built on the shared ideas, this is somehow okay because they hadn't proved that such a move had moved beyond the standards group and affected the marketplace? That's the "no harm to consumers" defense?
How about charging proportionally to the full liquid (salary) and equity (stock) income of the CEO, when the patent is to be held by the corporation? Any time the patent is transferred to a new holder, the full fee should be calculated and paid again. I think this stone could kill a few birds. Outrageous executive pay would be penalized, and many small companies and individuals could hold onto more patents.
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Or in other words, most of them used big words to impress or confuse you.
Uh, just from the title alone I knew it would be a filk of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive." It's not exactly an obscure song... even for those who aren't going gray. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Survive
There, fixed your typo.
I tend to tune out any argument that uses the word "theft" to describe unauthorized access. Did the Google Docs flaw deprive the owner of the document any access to the document, while keeping it for themselves? Did the Picasa flaw deprive the owner of the image any access to the image, while letting others have it? I suspect the answer in both cases is NO, the original owner had plenty of access to their own copies, and thus the inaccurate use of the word "theft" seems crafted to shock or mislead or conflate the actual issues.
The thing is, nearly the entire audience for Star Wars and Indiana Jones were too young to remember the "Saturday Serials" movie genre that Lucas was paying homage. They were cheap, they were pulpy, they had heros larger than life and more cheese than Wisconsin. The dialogue was not the selling point: the wow factor of swords and pistols and chases and mummies and exotic foreigners were the hook. Pay a dime to get in, pay a nickel for your root beer float afterwards.
Lucas recreated that bad-dialogue-silly-heroism on purpose. That's why he ignored all the flack about bad dialogue through the first trilogy and why he ignores it about the second trilogy too. It worked for us old-timers in 1977 because we weren't old-timers. Now with all the HBO and Blockbuster you can shake a stick at, even a kid born in 1990 has enough world-view inside him to spot how cheesy Episode One was, but has no cultural context with which to judge them. What has changed? We have.
I'm sure you've got more in you than that! Let loose!
What kind of yellow journalism would cover this so piss poorly? Slip-shod! The whole site is going in the tank. Was the product officially issued, or was it a leak? I predict the Number One sales spot in a quarter, but then the market will take a dump. I have an urge to splurge on one of these, myself, though this product's really only for the ones who wear the pants in their families. Will the seniors buy this? Depends. Does it run Linux? Where's the torrent for this? Can't have your urinal cake and eat it too. There is some bad news about the working conditions at the factory. Underpaid workers and dehydrated testing staff were chanting from the picket lines: "Hell No! We Won't Go!"
What was that?! Get your mind out of the gutter!
You need to compute the value, whenever looking at new commune/ collective/ arcology/ society construction. This is in some ways a non-numeric computation, but you should at least look at the basic per capita cost, e.g., cost(infrastructure + risk) / population. Many managers focus on one but ignore the other, but any cost-benefit study must look at both. One offset to the cost would be the value of goods or services produced by the population.
A yurt in a comfortable biome houses a small self-sufficient family at nearly no cost. A small crew can man an offshore oil rig (at least, in moderate shifts) because of the immense value of the product. A commune living in a multi-hundred-ton cylinder of concrete and steel floating a dozen miles offshore had better have some damn valuable product to overcome the huge costs of infrastructure and risk.
What? A financially successful title is going to have another sequel after all? They're not going to stop making products based on a concept to which users have shown a glimmer of attachment? They're going to find some way of explaining a continuation of a popular storyline after a seemingly final conclusion? Even if some of the earlier chapters have shown a risky disregard to quality? Color me shocked! Amazed, really. Will the wonders never cease...
*cough*Aliens4*cough*Terminator3*cough*IndianaJones4*cough*
The blurb has a lot of jargon but no reference as to what uses T-rays are likely to be put. T-rays applications They're likely to help with certain cancer scans within the body, but these are also the basis for new "scan 'em naked at fifty paces" airport security cameras. I'm not sure I'm too excited about advancement in this technology just at the moment. Yeah, yeah, scanners don't scan people, overzealous control-freak post-democratic regimes scan people. But you get my drift.
No. SCOTUS has already told us that the issue hinges on the word "unreasonable." Searching everything held by every single person coming into the country is considered reasonable.
Wait, so it was both broken AND not broken? Don't open the box! Just leave it as it is and we can have a half-cryptographic solution forever.
For some reason, after those titles, the phrase, 'Many Norweigian films including "The Hot Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", and "The Huge Molars of Horst Nordfink"' floated through my head.
Wow, the definition of dynamic range isn't based on the number of bits per pixel? Whodathunk? Then it must also be true that using a double variable instead of a float does not in fact make 3.0000000000000 > pi.
A perfect blurb for Slashdot. Bashes Microsoft. Claims competition is a "controversy." Mixes up pronouns. Makes up impressive sounding terminology like "the rich internet market." Shocked that different parts of a megacorporation uses different toolsets. Has no clue or firmly ignores that management of Microsoft departments are as segmented as possible for profit reasons, antitrust reasons and at the demand of the marketplace. Even gets the Microsoft-haters like me to go WTF?! and post a reply, driving up page hits.
I played all the mass-produced Interactive Fiction games in the 80s, back when Infocom bought ads in BYTE magazine. Hadn't really thought much about the tools to make such games since then, but obviously, the state of the art has progressed quite a lot. About a week ago, I decided to load up a modern tool called "Inform", which in version 7 takes "literate programming" to a whole new level. From an example in their manual:
Inform's output is playable in the same Z-machine standards that were derived from Infocom's original machine, that have been released on cellphones, pdas, palmtops, laptops and mainframes for years and years. I'm having fun developing my own short story, and there are a lot of folks remained in the IF world the whole time who have been churning out dozens if not hundreds of titles you can download (most for free) and try. Some are very short, some are quite elaborate.
Plus, you wouldn't want to waste an RFID-based memory circuit to disable the faulty little motion sensor in the toilet stall that causes the toilet to flush every time you are on the throne. :)
Maybe Steve Fossett is now dating Nina Reiser in the Bahamas.
The first thing that came to my mind, and another AC at -1 noted it, is that "gNewSense" must be pronounced "gee, nuisance" or just "nuisance." I can't decide if GIMP or Nuisance wins the prize for most useless name. I'm not saying go through a formal focus group process, but if it's a project worth spending a little time on, isn't it worth a name that doesn't have unsavory connotations? Just ask four friends (vocally) whether a name just sounds vaguely nonsensical or might be misunderstood as something else.
In other news, water is wet, wheels are generally pretty round, and Liberace liked bling.
Like many here, I have been waiting and watching all of the endless demonstrations of this game, because it really caught my attention. However, my interest is waning with each new demo.
Am I the only one who doesn't like the direction the artwork is going? Maybe it's partly the presentation format but there's more to it. The early demos had a nice art style, realistic colors used in a gentle way, subtler textures. The more recent demos have shown the same super-saturated colors that plastic toy manufacturers (and Redmond OS designers) prefer to use. Even the space shots and primordial ooze scenes seem less realistic and more schematic in nature lately. In short, What was M. C. Escher is now M. C. Hammer.
Maybe they're spreading themselves too thin with an insanely aggressive multi-platform release (hello, Nintendo DS simultaneous release with 2D pixel art!?). Maybe there are some real technical challenges to making this "pervasively online yet not at risk from griefers" panacea they appear to promise. But honestly, don't make it suck on purpose.
I dunno but the next thing after writing a bit of Java code is usually wrapping each statement in try/catches or fuglifying your methods with all kinds of throw declarations you don't care about.
I'm not 100% up on my late-1990s corporate dramas anymore, and maybe it's just a flippant or spurious kind of analogy to ponder, so set me straight where I've got this wrong:
Putting a file in a particular directory, so that other users might possibly request initiation of a download, is a criminal activity that can incur penalties of ~10000000% the cost of obtaining the original file legally. It doesn't matter if the file is actually downloaded. That's the "making available" charge.
But somehow, brazenly sharing ideas in memory technologies with all your competitors in the standards group, while maintaining a submarine patent, and then launching legal attacks on all those who built on the shared ideas, this is somehow okay because they hadn't proved that such a move had moved beyond the standards group and affected the marketplace? That's the "no harm to consumers" defense?
How about charging proportionally to the full liquid (salary) and equity (stock) income of the CEO, when the patent is to be held by the corporation? Any time the patent is transferred to a new holder, the full fee should be calculated and paid again. I think this stone could kill a few birds. Outrageous executive pay would be penalized, and many small companies and individuals could hold onto more patents.