it's your computer's fault for acting all slutty like that with all that spare ram, unused cpu cycles and an ethernet card aching to transmit all your personal information to Adobe!
Look, let's say Psystar found a loophole and got away with it, and could now sell computers with MacOS x. Apple will make sure to fix that loophole before the next release, and people with Psystar clones will be super pissed they can't get the next version. I'm also sure Steve has his engineers looking for a signature unique to the fake macs, and put out an update (ala windows genuine advantage) asap that'll prevent people running those computers from getting updates, or even worse, being able to use their computer. I'm sure they'd succeed too because of Apple's extremely limited selection of hardware configurations...it's unlikely they'd run into the WGA mishaps Microsoft did. It would seem pretty stupid for anybody to buy a psystar computer when the company making the operating system is determined to make sure the OS doesn't run on those computers.
There are many books out there, but the ones that I found most exceptional and clear in computer science were: Introduction to the Theory of Computation - Michael Sipser: I never really understood this subject (with 3 classes and 3 other books on it) until I read this book. He did a great job clarifying the math and getting to the core of computability, complexity, and automata. Introduction to Algorithms (aka CLR): great reference book...I still use it as a working software developer Programming Languages Concepts and Constructs - Ravi Sethi: very clear and gentle introduction to theory of programming languages Computer Organization and Design - Patterson & Hennessy: i hate hardware, but this book made computer architecture really clear, their grad level book is also pretty good Design Patterns (aka the Gang of Four book): the bible for object-oriented people...if you haven't read this book, you don't know jack about OO OpenGL SuperBible - Wright: huge, but extremely clear, especially in comparison to the standard opengl book
well said! you can only get so far in practical applications of computer science & engineering w/o the theoretical knowledge behind it. my experience is the people who do not have the degrees tend to have a very limited understanding, and can only do the basic mundane things, while the people with degrees are able to quickly adapt to new challenges and are the ones who get to work on the state-of-the-art.
That's the beauty of it...all you get as instructions is "eat and evolve". This game is a work of art as you have to discover what you can do...at first I was running from enemies, then I realized I could eat them as well...then I found out I could eat my buddies as well...it's great. Great music too, very chill.
I absolutely agree. I'm not a database programmer (I know a little SQL), but I required one for a certain project that needed GIS data. I was able to install MySQL in a day with all its little GUI tools, add all my data to the DB, setup indexes(indices?) link in the C API into my application, and remotely call the server and query data from it. It's probably one of the highest, if not highest, quality open-source projects I've seen, and definitely commercial-grade. I tried Oracle as well (for some other project), and it was absolute hell.
My understanding is that there isn't much to the standard, it's up to the application (such as SOAP) to define the "semantics". It's just a nice way to store and verify metadata.
One of the major points of the.NET framework is having multiple languages being able to compile to same bytecode. The implementation of Mono or.NET has nothing to do with which high-level languages utilize it, therefore dumping VB.NET over C# doesn't buy you anything. In fact, having more languages to choose from encourages development using Mono...and if you don't like VB or C# or managed C++, you can make your own language, as long as it can be described by the semantics of the CLR.
Was anybody else reminded of that episode of friends where chandler has to close his bank account to quit the gym because their membership cancellation person is some hot chick?
The guy is saying there are 50 layer dependencies, and tons of circular dependencies. It's software engineering 101, their model is wrong...they're not properly abstracting out each layer. I'm not a big fan of Linux, but every module can be decoupled in it, and modules work together even though they're written by completely different projects due to standards...that's how you design a proper system.
I was pleasantly surprised to see GNOME running on that thing...it looks like they'll really be able to pull off what they want to do even with the laptop's limited hardware capabilities.
It's amazing how much effort Negroponte is putting into thinking about the design...he's even correlating colors to emotions that they invoke...geez. He and his team are doing a good job, they've managed to create a laptop that looks much more attractive than the crap companies like Dell spew out, no wonder people want to buy their own.
I don't see how open sourcing Java would help Sun, it's the only thing they have left. They've open sourced everything. I mean, yeah, great, thanks...but they've turned themselves into something like Xerox PARC.
Anyway, if they do choose to open source it, this will help increase Java's presence in the development world. It really is a great language (and virtual machine).
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it's your computer's fault for acting all slutty like that with all that spare ram, unused cpu cycles and an ethernet card aching to transmit all your personal information to Adobe!
Look, let's say Psystar found a loophole and got away with it, and could now sell computers with MacOS x. Apple will make sure to fix that loophole before the next release, and people with Psystar clones will be super pissed they can't get the next version. I'm also sure Steve has his engineers looking for a signature unique to the fake macs, and put out an update (ala windows genuine advantage) asap that'll prevent people running those computers from getting updates, or even worse, being able to use their computer. I'm sure they'd succeed too because of Apple's extremely limited selection of hardware configurations...it's unlikely they'd run into the WGA mishaps Microsoft did. It would seem pretty stupid for anybody to buy a psystar computer when the company making the operating system is determined to make sure the OS doesn't run on those computers.
There are many books out there, but the ones that I found most exceptional and clear in computer science were:
Introduction to the Theory of Computation - Michael Sipser: I never really understood this subject (with 3 classes and 3 other books on it) until I read this book. He did a great job clarifying the math and getting to the core of computability, complexity, and automata.
Introduction to Algorithms (aka CLR): great reference book...I still use it as a working software developer
Programming Languages Concepts and Constructs - Ravi Sethi: very clear and gentle introduction to theory of programming languages
Computer Organization and Design - Patterson & Hennessy: i hate hardware, but this book made computer architecture really clear, their grad level book is also pretty good
Design Patterns (aka the Gang of Four book): the bible for object-oriented people...if you haven't read this book, you don't know jack about OO
OpenGL SuperBible - Wright: huge, but extremely clear, especially in comparison to the standard opengl book
well said! you can only get so far in practical applications of computer science & engineering w/o the theoretical knowledge behind it. my experience is the people who do not have the degrees tend to have a very limited understanding, and can only do the basic mundane things, while the people with degrees are able to quickly adapt to new challenges and are the ones who get to work on the state-of-the-art.
That's the beauty of it...all you get as instructions is "eat and evolve". This game is a work of art as you have to discover what you can do...at first I was running from enemies, then I realized I could eat them as well...then I found out I could eat my buddies as well...it's great. Great music too, very chill.
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It's funded by DARPA, I don't think they can contract outside the US as it is a defense-related project.
I absolutely agree. I'm not a database programmer (I know a little SQL), but I required one for a certain project that needed GIS data. I was able to install MySQL in a day with all its little GUI tools, add all my data to the DB, setup indexes(indices?) link in the C API into my application, and remotely call the server and query data from it. It's probably one of the highest, if not highest, quality open-source projects I've seen, and definitely commercial-grade. I tried Oracle as well (for some other project), and it was absolute hell.
TomKat are getting married, who cares about potential asteroids http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/people_holmes_dress/
My understanding is that there isn't much to the standard, it's up to the application (such as SOAP) to define the "semantics". It's just a nice way to store and verify metadata.
One of the major points of the .NET framework is having multiple languages being able to compile to same bytecode. The implementation of Mono or .NET has nothing to do with which high-level languages utilize it, therefore dumping VB.NET over C# doesn't buy you anything. In fact, having more languages to choose from encourages development using Mono...and if you don't like VB or C# or managed C++, you can make your own language, as long as it can be described by the semantics of the CLR.
best linux distro IMHO
been using it since FC1
ha, seriously, my first thought was the Navy dumped Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes...I watch way too much E! Channel...
well said
Was anybody else reminded of that episode of friends where chandler has to close his bank account to quit the gym because their membership cancellation person is some hot chick?
The guy is saying there are 50 layer dependencies, and tons of circular dependencies. It's software engineering 101, their model is wrong...they're not properly abstracting out each layer. I'm not a big fan of Linux, but every module can be decoupled in it, and modules work together even though they're written by completely different projects due to standards...that's how you design a proper system.
I was pleasantly surprised to see GNOME running on that thing...it looks like they'll really be able to pull off what they want to do even with the laptop's limited hardware capabilities. It's amazing how much effort Negroponte is putting into thinking about the design...he's even correlating colors to emotions that they invoke...geez. He and his team are doing a good job, they've managed to create a laptop that looks much more attractive than the crap companies like Dell spew out, no wonder people want to buy their own.
RMS can buy a cellphone!
I don't see how open sourcing Java would help Sun, it's the only thing they have left. They've open sourced everything. I mean, yeah, great, thanks...but they've turned themselves into something like Xerox PARC. Anyway, if they do choose to open source it, this will help increase Java's presence in the development world. It really is a great language (and virtual machine).
leave drm on celine dion's shit...i'm sure my heart will go on even if i can't copy her cd...