There is already an open source java compiler (...) It does not support awt or Swing yet. This should be the obvious starting point for IBM
Kaffe supports AWT and limited portions of Swing. And it works great.
Oh, and there's this Jikes stuff, written by a little company called, well, IBM. Yes, it's free and libre. If Sun collaborate with IBM towards an open source Java, this will be the implementation they will use - not Sun's, and certainly not gcj !
GCJ is a great project but it's still pretty much that - a project. Kaffe is usable, Jikes is production-stable.
Lynx ? That bloated, inefficient piece of slagware ?;-)
I'm posting this using the graphic version of Links - yes, with pictures and all that !
Those people probably thought that making the best text browser asn't enough, so they decided to make the ideal complement to Moz as well. I use Links-graphics 90% of the time and only use Moz on sites that need Java, Flash or something like that.
"Mandrake" doesn't mean anything in French. The French name of that plant is mandragore (yes, it sounds even more mysterious:-)
Mandrake the Magician, however, is probably known by anyone aged 25 or over. His stories used to run in the "Journal de Mickey", which as you can guess is the prominent Disney publication here (70 years and counting !).
I can remember whole Mandrake stories. Hey, did you know that Hojo (the Asian cook) was really Inter-Intel's boss ?:-)
Yes, they took the name from the character. No, they do not compete in the same market. But yes, they might have thought a bit more before choosing that name.
due to the license constraints on Java Linux distro's are unable to ship java (except for gcj which is not complete).
Hell, 100+ posts and no one cared to mention kaffe yet ???
I've used kaffe for the papers that you will find in the Gecco 2001 and IJCAI 2003 proceedings under my name (just look at the pics). It's there, and it simply works, with AWT and all. No Swing yet but hey, who on Earth actually uses Swing unless forced to ?
Somewhere in the programming department at amazon...
"My, this bastard writes flashing comments about his own books and I can't do anything to stop him... Oh wait let's imagine for a second that I inadvertantly comment this 'unless ($anonymity_check)' thing...?"
India, on the other hand, appears to have contributed precisely jack shit to all of this, and it's very understandable that they're going to want to want a piece of the pie now that they can just go buy a book and pirate a copy of windows XP and take advantage of the American computer revolution.
The computer was invented by a Brit and a Hungarian.
Until those fscking American thiefs stole it, that is.
look, the other way than to choose names like that is to make something up like 'Buikoler-browswer', how good does that sound?
Sounds like an american pronunciation of the French "Bricoleur", which means "tinkerer" or "do-it-yourselfer".
The total amount of phonemes is small with regard to the total amount of concepts. It is almost impossible to find a name that will not "look like" something else.
Penrose's spinor group has been working on similar foundations for 30 years, and they've actually produced some interesting results
The important part in Wolfram's work (and more importantly in the ohter people's works that were inspired by Wolfram) is quite different. It's not really "applicable" in the way you mention - the annoying side of Wolfram's book is precisely that he tries to apply it to just about anything, including fundamental physics.
Another annoying side is mentioning lot of works by other people without acknowledging them, except in the small-print notes that make up more than 50% of the book's contents. Yet another annoying side is the embarassing passage on evolution - even a reckless creationist (which Wolfram isn't) would be ashamed of coming up with such a laughable piece of bad reasoning. Go check if you don't believe me.
See my comment below for why Wolfram's ideas are actually cool, even though Wolfram himself isn't.
He may be a smart guy, but I think he might just be recycling old material and calling it the Next Big Thing (TM)
This is quite true, notwithstanding the fact that he is precisely the source for much of this old material in the first place ! Wolfram is really a strange guy, and he does have weird ideas (especially on evolution), but at the end of the day he really started something deep.
Wolfram did not invent cellular automata, but he was the first one to study them in a scientific way. And he did find interesting things (papers here - caution, big hairy theoretical physics maths inside, but the central idea is quite clear).
First: very simple rules (a 1-D cellular automaton in which each cell depends only on its current state and that of each of its neighbour) can lead to arbitrarily complex behaviours regardless of initial conditions. But this is not the really interesting thing.
Second: Possible behaviours for a simple cellular automaton can fall in 4 categories: frozen (nothing changes), periodic, chaotic (measurably chaotic behaviour in which no recognizable pattern appears), and most importantly "complex": patterns emerge, propagate through the system, interact together in complex and non-trivial ways. Conway's game of Life is the most famous exemple of a class-IV cellular automaton, but Wolfram found a few much simpler ones.
There is something deep there. You probably heard about "chaos theory". Well what Wolfram says is that this is not the really cool stuff. If you think of it, chaos is just as boring as frozen, non-changing states. If you modify something in a frozen state, well your modification either stays there forever, or is immediately swallowed into oblivion. In the chaotic state, any modification you make will instantaneously disappear in the general whirlwind.
But there is a small zone between these two extremes, in which a modification may give rise to patterns, structures, complex bursts of information that appear, grow, propagate and interact. This is what Doyne Farmer and Chris Langton later called the "Edge of Chaos", where interesting stuff can happen : an actual phase transition, often governed by a small set of parameters (possibly just one), between boring order and completely chaotic states. Around this pahase transition, interesting things can appear.
The world exist because the laws of physics are at the edge of chaos. Would the physical world be chaotic, no structure would ever appear, it would instantaneously be dissolved. In a frozen state, the universe is a black rock. Similaraly, life exists because chemistry is also on the edge of chaos. Molecules can assemble, interact in complex ways and produce order, patterns, structure.
There is something deep there. This guy, together with people like Chris Langton, Doyne Farmer, Stuart Kauffman, is one of the Founding Fathers of complexity sciences. "How do complex systems arise ? If I have a system, what are the condtions under which it can produce freeze, go straight away to chaos, or produce interesting things ? How do structures emerge in a given system ?" Take any paper by any of these four, and you immediately get into mind-boggling stuff. "Life, the universe, everything" - and it's a bit more complicated than 42.
Wolfram goes on. He (and his students) proved that even elementary cellular automaton can actually be universal Turing machines (unsurprisingly, these are class-IV automata). Thus the undecidability principle must be applied to them: you cannot guess, for a given cellular automaton, what the result will be after N iterations - or at least, you cannot do it with less calculations than it would take to actually perform these N calculations.
If such a simple thing as an elementary CA can give rise to universal computation, then universal computation and (most importantly) un
Indeed, I can't help but feel that we're overemphasizing India. That they are really the IT sweat-shops of the 21st century and while they may be master code-monkeys the chief beneficiaries of their work will be the Western world.
Yeah, right. We're over-emphasizing India and China. We're over-emphasizing ABOUT 1/3rd to 40% OF GODDAMN MANKIND !
Hell, remember the times when South Korea and Taiwan were "sweatshops" too ? Not even thirty years ago ! Well they seem to have gone a long way since then.
Now take all the South-East dragons, including newcomers such as Malaysia, and multiply that by about TWO FSCKING HUNDREDS !
Over-emphasize that !
The world is going to get multipolar. US, Europe, India, China, all of them with local "zones of influence". Plus a few independent powers that will not have such zones, but will be too big to be swallowed by others (e.g. Japan, Russia).
And the guys on top of all this, whoever they are, most probably won't look very caucasian.
From the text: "And God woot that in alle these langages and in many moo han these conclusions ben suffisantly lerned and taught, and yit by diverse reules; right as diverse pathes leden diverse folk the righte way to Rome."
Even in the 14th century, There Was More Than One Way To Do It !
England wants to knight him. Europe wants to hate him. Strange.
Not strange at all. In fact this even seems to be a recurring pattern with deceitful, arrogant, aggressive leaders from America seeking to establish their greedy domination over the world by any possible means, regardless of ethics or legality.
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Many songs put the vocalist at the center so this is a useful way to remove vocals from a song.
What I'd like to know is how you can remove the instrumental background so you only have the vocals.
Would be damn useful for Bjork remixes.
Thomas Miconi
There is already an open source java compiler (...) It does not support awt or Swing yet. This should be the obvious starting point for IBM
Kaffe supports AWT and limited portions of Swing. And it works great.
Oh, and there's this Jikes stuff, written by a little company called, well, IBM. Yes, it's free and libre. If Sun collaborate with IBM towards an open source Java, this will be the implementation they will use - not Sun's, and certainly not gcj !
GCJ is a great project but it's still pretty much that - a project. Kaffe is usable, Jikes is production-stable.
Thomas Miconi
Lynx ? That bloated, inefficient piece of slagware ? ;-)
I'm posting this using the graphic version of Links - yes, with pictures and all that !
Those people probably thought that making the best text browser asn't enough, so they decided to make the ideal complement to Moz as well. I use Links-graphics 90% of the time and only use Moz on sites that need Java, Flash or something like that.
Thomas Miconi
"Mandrake" doesn't mean anything in French. The French name of that plant is mandragore (yes, it sounds even more mysterious :-)
:-)
Mandrake the Magician, however, is probably known by anyone aged 25 or over. His stories used to run in the "Journal de Mickey", which as you can guess is the prominent Disney publication here (70 years and counting !).
I can remember whole Mandrake stories. Hey, did you know that Hojo (the Asian cook) was really Inter-Intel's boss ?
Yes, they took the name from the character. No, they do not compete in the same market. But yes, they might have thought a bit more before choosing that name.
Thomas Miconi
The REALLY REALLY need to do a series about Willow...
:)
They did !
"Say my name, bitch !" - the greatest movie quote ever ever ever !
Thomas Miconi
Out of interest, would you name some better IDEs..?
:-)
You mean, besides vi ?
Thomas Miconi
due to the license constraints on Java Linux distro's are unable to ship java (except for gcj which is not complete).
Hell, 100+ posts and no one cared to mention kaffe yet ???
I've used kaffe for the papers that you will find in the Gecco 2001 and IJCAI 2003 proceedings under my name (just look at the pics). It's there, and it simply works, with AWT and all. No Swing yet but hey, who on Earth actually uses Swing unless forced to ?
Thomas Miconi
"Unfortunate error". Yeah right.
Somewhere in the programming department at amazon...
"My, this bastard writes flashing comments about his own books and I can't do anything to stop him... Oh wait let's imagine for a second that I inadvertantly comment this 'unless ($anonymity_check)' thing...?"
Thomas Miconi
India, on the other hand, appears to have contributed precisely jack shit to all of this, and it's very understandable that they're going to want to want a piece of the pie now that they can just go buy a book and pirate a copy of windows XP and take advantage of the American computer revolution.
/sarcasm )
The computer was invented by a Brit and a Hungarian.
Until those fscking American thiefs stole it, that is.
(
Thomas Miconi
look, the other way than to choose names like that is to make something up like 'Buikoler-browswer', how good does that sound?
Sounds like an american pronunciation of the French "Bricoleur", which means "tinkerer" or "do-it-yourselfer".
The total amount of phonemes is small with regard to the total amount of concepts. It is almost impossible to find a name that will not "look like" something else.
Thomas Miconi
and there are beau-coup bucks...
:)
"Beaucoup" (i.e. "much") is written as a single word.
However "Beau coup" does mean something: it may be translated as "nice shot", or possibly "nice trick".
So I guess it's not such a big mistake in that case
Thomas Miconi
Penrose's spinor group has been working on similar foundations for 30 years, and they've actually produced some interesting results
The important part in Wolfram's work (and more importantly in the ohter people's works that were inspired by Wolfram) is quite different. It's not really "applicable" in the way you mention - the annoying side of Wolfram's book is precisely that he tries to apply it to just about anything, including fundamental physics.
Another annoying side is mentioning lot of works by other people without acknowledging them, except in the small-print notes that make up more than 50% of the book's contents. Yet another annoying side is the embarassing passage on evolution - even a reckless creationist (which Wolfram isn't) would be ashamed of coming up with such a laughable piece of bad reasoning. Go check if you don't believe me.
See my comment below for why Wolfram's ideas are actually cool, even though Wolfram himself isn't.
Thomas Miconi
He may be a smart guy, but I think he might just be recycling old material and calling it the Next Big Thing (TM)
.
This is quite true, notwithstanding the fact that he is precisely the source for much of this old material in the first place ! Wolfram is really a strange guy, and he does have weird ideas (especially on evolution), but at the end of the day he really started something deep.
Wolfram did not invent cellular automata, but he was the first one to study them in a scientific way. And he did find interesting things (papers here - caution, big hairy theoretical physics maths inside, but the central idea is quite clear)
First: very simple rules (a 1-D cellular automaton in which each cell depends only on its current state and that of each of its neighbour) can lead to arbitrarily complex behaviours regardless of initial conditions. But this is not the really interesting thing.
Second: Possible behaviours for a simple cellular automaton can fall in 4 categories: frozen (nothing changes), periodic, chaotic (measurably chaotic behaviour in which no recognizable pattern appears), and most importantly "complex": patterns emerge, propagate through the system, interact together in complex and non-trivial ways. Conway's game of Life is the most famous exemple of a class-IV cellular automaton, but Wolfram found a few much simpler ones.
There is something deep there. You probably heard about "chaos theory". Well what Wolfram says is that this is not the really cool stuff. If you think of it, chaos is just as boring as frozen, non-changing states. If you modify something in a frozen state, well your modification either stays there forever, or is immediately swallowed into oblivion. In the chaotic state, any modification you make will instantaneously disappear in the general whirlwind.
But there is a small zone between these two extremes, in which a modification may give rise to patterns, structures, complex bursts of information that appear, grow, propagate and interact. This is what Doyne Farmer and Chris Langton later called the "Edge of Chaos", where interesting stuff can happen : an actual phase transition, often governed by a small set of parameters (possibly just one), between boring order and completely chaotic states. Around this pahase transition, interesting things can appear.
The world exist because the laws of physics are at the edge of chaos. Would the physical world be chaotic, no structure would ever appear, it would instantaneously be dissolved. In a frozen state, the universe is a black rock. Similaraly, life exists because chemistry is also on the edge of chaos. Molecules can assemble, interact in complex ways and produce order, patterns, structure.
There is something deep there. This guy, together with people like Chris Langton, Doyne Farmer, Stuart Kauffman, is one of the Founding Fathers of complexity sciences. "How do complex systems arise ? If I have a system, what are the condtions under which it can produce freeze, go straight away to chaos, or produce interesting things ? How do structures emerge in a given system ?" Take any paper by any of these four, and you immediately get into mind-boggling stuff. "Life, the universe, everything" - and it's a bit more complicated than 42.
Wolfram goes on. He (and his students) proved that even elementary cellular automaton can actually be universal Turing machines (unsurprisingly, these are class-IV automata). Thus the undecidability principle must be applied to them: you cannot guess, for a given cellular automaton, what the result will be after N iterations - or at least, you cannot do it with less calculations than it would take to actually perform these N calculations.
If such a simple thing as an elementary CA can give rise to universal computation, then universal computation and (most importantly) un
The French press release is obviously a translation of the original Humricun English. And not a very good one at that.
:-)
Mais a partir de maintenant, une seconde version "solide comme du roc"...
Hell, if I had put a translation like this in an assignement my English teacher would have skinned me alive !
Think of a L'Oreal effect here. What do you think came first, "Because I'm worth it" or "Parce que je le vaux bien" ?
Only difference is, you don't get the sexy Laetitia Casta shots as a bonus - yet
Thomas Miconi
What is Man ?
A Man is a creature that can play a game against 2078 processors - and win.
Thomas Miconi,
man.
Gotta lova the last line:
Now is a time to remember that sometimes our spooks get it right in a big way.
Gee, I wonder what he's talking about...
Thomas Miconi
Surrealistic multilingual bands ?
Chorus to Pink Martini's Sympathique:
"Je ne veux pas travailler / Je ne veux pas dejeuner / Je veux seulement oublier / Et puis je fume"
Which means:
"I don't want to work
I don't want to have lunch
I just want to forget
And I smoke, too"
Those guys are great musicians, but I do hope the one who wrote that song is not part of a local Linux internationalization group...
Thomas Miconi
Indeed, I can't help but feel that we're overemphasizing India. That they are really the IT sweat-shops of the 21st century and while they may be master code-monkeys the chief beneficiaries of their work will be the Western world.
Yeah, right. We're over-emphasizing India and China. We're over-emphasizing ABOUT 1/3rd to 40% OF GODDAMN MANKIND !
Hell, remember the times when South Korea and Taiwan were "sweatshops" too ? Not even thirty years ago ! Well they seem to have gone a long way since then.
Now take all the South-East dragons, including newcomers such as Malaysia, and multiply that by about TWO FSCKING HUNDREDS !
Over-emphasize that !
The world is going to get multipolar. US, Europe, India, China, all of them with local "zones of influence". Plus a few independent powers that will not have such zones, but will be too big to be swallowed by others (e.g. Japan, Russia).
And the guys on top of all this, whoever they are, most probably won't look very caucasian.
Thomas Miconi
Booble is (was ? ) simply worthless as a pr0n engine.
What, an "adult search engine" that returns exactly 0 matches for the word "bondage" ?
I mean, come ON ! Even altavista picture search does better !
(Uh, hope my supervisor doesn't read slashdot too much...)
Thomas Miconi
The other way ?
Does it mean that if i search for "FBI fugitives" Google will find me a date ? Yeepee !
Eh... Well maybe that's not such a good idea after all...
Thomas Miconi
From the text: "And God woot that in alle these langages and in many moo han these conclusions ben suffisantly lerned and taught, and yit by diverse reules; right as diverse pathes leden diverse folk the righte way to Rome."
Even in the 14th century, There Was More Than One Way To Do It !
Thomas Miconi
From the text: >
Even back in the 14th century, there was more than one way to do it !
Thomas Miconi
For all the people reading this (especially outside the UK and the US) and wondering why they've never heard about this city called "Mumbai"...
...it's just Bombay.
Thomas Miconi
Entering a relationship out of loneliness is almost always a recipe for disaster.
Yup. That's what my last girlfriend told me when she dumped me. About five years ago.
England wants to knight him. Europe wants to hate him. Strange.
Not strange at all. In fact this even seems to be a recurring pattern with deceitful, arrogant, aggressive leaders from America seeking to establish their greedy domination over the world by any possible means, regardless of ethics or legality.
Not that I'm referring to anyone in partidubyar.
Thomas Miconi