Con wrote some... Linus rebuked Con... Con kept working... Con was right... Con's was faster... several personal attacks on Con... Con would never... I've contacted Con... Nobody made Con support those... to repeatedly attack Con personally
Reading all that was really horrible. I can't believe you'd deliberately avoid his proper name just because he's been in prison.
(Just kidding. Even just from my small involvement in patching apps, I suspect the comments about Linus being an ass are more than correct, and that Alan and Con and others deserve our thanks).
I've never heard of him nor the book before, but since he's obviously a deeply fascinating and varied guy who writes self-promoting books about the company he works for, I'll give it a shot too.
The first 3d game was Maze War, AFAIK, way back in 1974. Even allowing for the site name, MaximumPC has a strange interest in ignoring history before the PC.
Actually, many of the things that make windows incompatible (Microsoft's embrace and extend) are bugs of one kind or another. For instance, often, websites written to work with IE's bugs don't work on functioning browsers that don't have those bugs. I think there are similar issues with kerberos, etc. So WINE does have to implement some buggy things exactly as they are on windows. Obviously, especially with security bugs, it tries to make things work without the bugs, or at least without them affecting the host machine. However, bugs are implemented.
I've never understood why people think being 'gangsta' is cool. Being 'gangsta' is being willfully ignorant and talking like you're retarded.
Because that's what most teenagers aspire to. It takes guts to admit that the pretty world view you were raised with just doesn't cut it in the real world, and that you're completely lost. So instead, most teenagers get angry, act like they know everything, lash out, break stuff, smoke chemicals and pretend they think it's a good thing, etc.
Eventually, if they're lucky, they realise that's not working for them, open their hearts again, and develop the maturity needed for the adult world. Or maybe they're unlucky and end up in prison before that happens.
Kind of. As a non-iphone-user, it's still interesting to see how far Apple will go before the realise they're working against their hard-won customer loyalty. On the other hand, customers complaining about DRM when they specifically went and bought something that was DRM'd is pretty dumb.
I'm sorry that you guys don't like it...Wanting to make lots of money is at the core of our system. You aren't going to change that.
I'm sorry, but it's absolutely not, and you're quite socially impaired for allowing yourself to believe it. Capitalism and corporations, whatever they have grown into, were created to boost SOCIETAL improvements. Do you really think society sat down and thought, "OK, we want John to be much richer than Sarah"? No amount of posting that it's OK will help you to justify your sociopathic beliefs, because they're unjustifiable. If you want peace of mind, then mature, consider the ethics of society and the common good, and act in accordance.
you may read the appellate court's decision here (PDF) or on scribd.
Or if scribd is insufficiently annoying, we can print it out with an old 40 chars-per-line dot matrix, onto toasted wholemeal bread. We can then supply a strong lamp, a pen, and some blank bread for use as notepaper whilst you attempt to decipher it.
frequency-doubling package of nonlinear crystals ^ frequency not defined
^ doubling not defined
^ the reserved word "package" cannot be used in this context
^ the reserved word "of" cannot be used in this context
^ the reserved word "nonlinear" cannot be used in this context
^ chamber in use, dilithium crystals cannot be accessed at this time
^ expected ;
Because you say so, so that's the final word on the subject despite the fact that biologists and neuroscientists who've spent their entire lives studying the subject and performing countless experiments say otherwise
SOME biologists and neuroscientists will always be around who say what you want. If you can show that the mainstream opinion is against me, I'll happily concede the point, and thank you for enlightening me, but I doubt it.
The fly doesn't "stop when it thinks it's done", it stops periodically (and entirely predictably) to check for danger signals
Oh really? You read it's mind then?;) Humans are predictable too. Doesn't mean they're not intelligent. They're just creatures of habit.
"intelligence" claims to explain how jellyfish and echinoderms work, because they manage to move around
Well, Jellyfish ARE pretty dumb, you know. The most complex behaviour I know of is in Box Jellyfish, which use simple visual contrast to avoid obstacles. A kid's home robot project could probably outsmart it. Nothing about that is disproportionate to what I'd expect from a simple nerve net, vs. what I'd expect from more intelligent creatures with complete, well developed brains. This only backs up my argument that flies have more complex brains, and so more complex behaviours.
How'd that work out for them, compared to the opposite?
About the same really, in terms of corruption. It was US sabotage of crucial pipelines, supply of misinformation, and propaganda about a better life in the west that really did in Russia.
It's quite amusing seeing MS trying to catch Google's 11+ year-old engine, while Google is probably working flat out to get ahead of sig.ma and the like as web 3.0 takes off.
this is yet another reason not to buy a kindle, how many other geeks out there feel same way now ?
I felt the same way already, and Bezos should have too. Going beyond the law to add DRM to your products which can do things like delete legitimate purchases, and then getting upset when your DRM deletes legitimate purchases? I'd like to say it's a change of heart, but it smells more like hypocrisy.
Hmm... so I couldn't find a reason and meaning in the Matrix because I can't find reason and meaning in religion?
Nope, never said that at all. It might be true that if you could find a particular kind of reason and meaning in The Matrix (as portrayed in the 1st movie) then you could also find it in religion (if you looked equally hard), but B does not imply A if A implies B.
As for the rest of what you wrote... well, frankly, I'm not at all interested in discussing ideas such as "...ants... aren't...running... software..." That should be blindingly obvious. Your argument that insect legs are mainly hardware would make some sense, if it were true, but it's not. Just go watch a fly put its legs up onto its back to clean its clean its wings, stop when it thinks it's done, wait a moment, then clean a little more before flying off, for instance. If you can still claim that there's no intelligence or insignificant "software" control there, you're just being wilfully ignorant.
Let's face it. The Matrix is no place to hang out. There's no good reason to go in except two:
1. Find "The One". 2. Meet the Oracle.
That's it. Any fight, anything you could accomplish, anything at all is meaning- and pointless
The matrix is basically an analogy for religion. Most religious people eventually decide that "normal" or "mundane" life is pretty meaningless in some way or another --- either because the "real" world is in the afterlife, or (more importantly and more commonly) because the real world has a higher level of spirituality -- doing good, overcoming tests, etc.
My point is... if you want to find meaning in the matrix, you can do it the same way that religious people find meaning in life. They usually do that by enjoying it, treating it like a fun game in some ways, but also as a deeply meaningful test of skill in others. The fact that it's unreal IS the reason to play -- to show you understand the unreality, but can work with that paradox to achieve successful outcomes. Some if it is simply a higher strategy (but arguably also almost spiritual), too, like samurai practiced with bushido etc.
For Neo, in the first (and arguably only) movie, the main test was to truly believe that the test wasn't real, and to understand the higher patterns involved. When he did, he became able to step out of it, or step back, so he could casually watch bullets fly at him, see the patterns of attack, and defend against them.
If a matrix game is to be interesting, it needs to test that more, and concentrate on endless fighting less. How do I overcome this opponent through some higher development? What are the patterns of these attacks? What skill have I got (or can I get) that he has no awareness of? What's the secret that makes him want to kill me, and how can I use knowledge of that to protect myself, or to turn his strength against him? How do I hack that guy's life?
Unfortunately, SOE won't get that at all. To make it work, they'd need a very cool game engine, with a lot of forethought and good AI. Star Wars Galaxies needed it too, I think, to make Jedi characters able to play their roles well. Arguably, many MMORPGs that have actual character alignments and attitudes do. But SOE won't be the ones to make it happen.
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switch (last_player_action) {
case QUIT:
exit(0);
default:
move_pitiful_player_char(last_player_action.direction, LUDICROUS_SPEED);
ai.queue.append(last_player_action);
ai.queue.append(new_action(ACTION_SAY_TO, player, "quit following me!"));
}
Reading all that was really horrible. I can't believe you'd deliberately avoid his proper name just because he's been in prison.
(Just kidding. Even just from my small involvement in patching apps, I suspect the comments about Linus being an ass are more than correct, and that Alan and Con and others deserve our thanks).
Clearly, you've never faced an angry bear waving its appendages at you.
See the part about maturing and opening your heart. That means you should start to feel some compassion for the dumb apes ;)
I've never heard of him nor the book before, but since he's obviously a deeply fascinating and varied guy who writes self-promoting books about the company he works for, I'll give it a shot too.
The first 3d game was Maze War, AFAIK, way back in 1974. Even allowing for the site name, MaximumPC has a strange interest in ignoring history before the PC.
Actually, many of the things that make windows incompatible (Microsoft's embrace and extend) are bugs of one kind or another. For instance, often, websites written to work with IE's bugs don't work on functioning browsers that don't have those bugs. I think there are similar issues with kerberos, etc. So WINE does have to implement some buggy things exactly as they are on windows. Obviously, especially with security bugs, it tries to make things work without the bugs, or at least without them affecting the host machine. However, bugs are implemented.
Because that's what most teenagers aspire to. It takes guts to admit that the pretty world view you were raised with just doesn't cut it in the real world, and that you're completely lost. So instead, most teenagers get angry, act like they know everything, lash out, break stuff, smoke chemicals and pretend they think it's a good thing, etc.
Eventually, if they're lucky, they realise that's not working for them, open their hearts again, and develop the maturity needed for the adult world. Or maybe they're unlucky and end up in prison before that happens.
ASL?
Kind of. As a non-iphone-user, it's still interesting to see how far Apple will go before the realise they're working against their hard-won customer loyalty. On the other hand, customers complaining about DRM when they specifically went and bought something that was DRM'd is pretty dumb.
I'm sorry, but it's absolutely not, and you're quite socially impaired for allowing yourself to believe it. Capitalism and corporations, whatever they have grown into, were created to boost SOCIETAL improvements. Do you really think society sat down and thought, "OK, we want John to be much richer than Sarah"? No amount of posting that it's OK will help you to justify your sociopathic beliefs, because they're unjustifiable. If you want peace of mind, then mature, consider the ethics of society and the common good, and act in accordance.
I think you may be overestimating the necessary cracking time by about a month.
Or if scribd is insufficiently annoying, we can print it out with an old 40 chars-per-line dot matrix, onto toasted wholemeal bread. We can then supply a strong lamp, a pen, and some blank bread for use as notepaper whilst you attempt to decipher it.
But that's only because it all happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, right? And the real one all rusted? Right?
frequency-doubling package of nonlinear crystals
^ frequency not defined
^ doubling not defined
^ the reserved word "package" cannot be used in this context
^ the reserved word "of" cannot be used in this context
^ the reserved word "nonlinear" cannot be used in this context
^ chamber in use, dilithium crystals cannot be accessed at this time
^ expected ;
SOME biologists and neuroscientists will always be around who say what you want. If you can show that the mainstream opinion is against me, I'll happily concede the point, and thank you for enlightening me, but I doubt it.
Oh really? You read it's mind then? ;) Humans are predictable too. Doesn't mean they're not intelligent. They're just creatures of habit.
Well, Jellyfish ARE pretty dumb, you know. The most complex behaviour I know of is in Box Jellyfish, which use simple visual contrast to avoid obstacles. A kid's home robot project could probably outsmart it. Nothing about that is disproportionate to what I'd expect from a simple nerve net, vs. what I'd expect from more intelligent creatures with complete, well developed brains. This only backs up my argument that flies have more complex brains, and so more complex behaviours.
Really? Why? ;)
About the same really, in terms of corruption. It was US sabotage of crucial pipelines, supply of misinformation, and propaganda about a better life in the west that really did in Russia.
It's quite amusing seeing MS trying to catch Google's 11+ year-old engine, while Google is probably working flat out to get ahead of sig.ma and the like as web 3.0 takes off.
That is a very good point.
I felt the same way already, and Bezos should have too. Going beyond the law to add DRM to your products which can do things like delete legitimate purchases, and then getting upset when your DRM deletes legitimate purchases? I'd like to say it's a change of heart, but it smells more like hypocrisy.
Nope, never said that at all. It might be true that if you could find a particular kind of reason and meaning in The Matrix (as portrayed in the 1st movie) then you could also find it in religion (if you looked equally hard), but B does not imply A if A implies B.
Relative to all but the most recent AI, yes.
As for the rest of what you wrote... well, frankly, I'm not at all interested in discussing ideas such as "...ants... aren't...running... software..." That should be blindingly obvious. Your argument that insect legs are mainly hardware would make some sense, if it were true, but it's not. Just go watch a fly put its legs up onto its back to clean its clean its wings, stop when it thinks it's done, wait a moment, then clean a little more before flying off, for instance. If you can still claim that there's no intelligence or insignificant "software" control there, you're just being wilfully ignorant.
The matrix is basically an analogy for religion. Most religious people eventually decide that "normal" or "mundane" life is pretty meaningless in some way or another --- either because the "real" world is in the afterlife, or (more importantly and more commonly) because the real world has a higher level of spirituality -- doing good, overcoming tests, etc.
My point is... if you want to find meaning in the matrix, you can do it the same way that religious people find meaning in life. They usually do that by enjoying it, treating it like a fun game in some ways, but also as a deeply meaningful test of skill in others. The fact that it's unreal IS the reason to play -- to show you understand the unreality, but can work with that paradox to achieve successful outcomes. Some if it is simply a higher strategy (but arguably also almost spiritual), too, like samurai practiced with bushido etc.
For Neo, in the first (and arguably only) movie, the main test was to truly believe that the test wasn't real, and to understand the higher patterns involved. When he did, he became able to step out of it, or step back, so he could casually watch bullets fly at him, see the patterns of attack, and defend against them.
If a matrix game is to be interesting, it needs to test that more, and concentrate on endless fighting less. How do I overcome this opponent through some higher development? What are the patterns of these attacks? What skill have I got (or can I get) that he has no awareness of? What's the secret that makes him want to kill me, and how can I use knowledge of that to protect myself, or to turn his strength against him? How do I hack that guy's life?
Unfortunately, SOE won't get that at all. To make it work, they'd need a very cool game engine, with a lot of forethought and good AI. Star Wars Galaxies needed it too, I think, to make Jedi characters able to play their roles well. Arguably, many MMORPGs that have actual character alignments and attitudes do. But SOE won't be the ones to make it happen.
So a pretty good chance then.