Thanks, glad you agreed. I guess the last sentence could have been formulated in a less confrontative manner though. I got a bit annoyed at the.sig of the parent poster with its talk of beating up liberals.
Hah! Good, I wasn't the only one who got that connotation. I thought "Hmm, maybe these guys should put some pants on?" Still, I don't mind. Actually quite cute those li'l devils.;-)
So political correctness has made it to open source.
Political correctness is mostly associated with the "left". I'd say most people who react negatively to an image of a devil are conservative Christians. I have been yelled at for wearing a Monster Magnet t-shirt. It wasn't even "satanic", it was a stylized bull head on a flaming background. I read an anecdote here on Slashdot about someone who was in the American Deep South on holidays and was thrown out of a store for wearing a BSD shirt, and veiled hints that he had better leave town.
But I guess its only bad if us darn liber-uhls do it, eh?
Wow, great to see people from the mission here. I'm surprised your answer was ignored, I was expecting you would get instant +5 karma and lots of inane questions from Slashdotters.:-)
NASA has an Applet showing the current time on Mars.
Offtopic - NASA is really embracing Java lately. At least parts of the control and visualising software for the current mission uses Java, including Java 3D. Java not ready for user interfaces eh? They also certainly seem to be considering Java and Linux for future missions and have built a concept vehicle using it. The SD times article is very preachy, and I'm sure people sceptical of Java can argue over many of the points, but it is interesting still.
Or you'll be walking down a faintly lit corridor only to see a vague silhouette of something moving, but by the time you think "..what was tha-," something's swiping and screeching at you.
Um. I risk coming off as a superior asshole, but these kinds of scares are beginning to bore me. Its like in a slasher flick when the camera moves so that someone has their back/side to the "edge" of the screen, you know a hand is going to come in suddenly and grab them. Oh, and the first time its just the cat, or a friend who for some reason moves around without making any sound at all. Then when the characters, and presumably the audience, goes whew, false alarm, the real terror strikes.
A lot of the inspiration for the atmosphere of Doom 3 seems to have come from System Shock 2. Now that was a scary story, and not just because things went "boo". Hearing the audio logs of crew members as the infection spread through the ship... darn.
That is one pathetic strawman argument. I mean, you can't even find something irrelevant to attack the man himself with, so you have to use an unrelated topic about a person who just happen to be from the same country to try to smear him with?
You, and the grandparent posts made many interesting points, but there was one thing I would like to comment on:
The C++ code reuse model (and to some extent, OO in general) requires a huge amount of work, essentially doing a complete and highly detailed design before beginning any coding. If, at some point, you realize that you've made a small error and need some additional data, your changes may need to be vast and far-reaching. This was a popular design style ten years ago, but currently trendy stuff, like extreme programming involves more iteration.
Erm, you seem to be saying that OO will be replaced by XP? OO is a programming language paradigm (blech, I said the word), XP is a method of software development. Several books I have read on XP says that OO languages are most suited for XP development. There are many OO languages, show me an XP language? In other words, XP complements OO rather than replaces it.
Besides, my understanding of programming is that OO, if done right, actually carries less risk of having to change lots of code. Encapsulation and low coupling and all that jazz you know.;) Not that it is impossible to do in other languages of course, its what all good programmers have been doing, but my impression is that it comes more naturally in OO.
I take no sides on KDE vs Gnome or C vs C++ though. I only know Java well, but I'm slowly learning myself C/C++ through Linux.
You might be interested in this: http://www.daisy.org/about_us/mission.asp I don't know about the US, but in Sweden, you can go to a public library and borrow Daisy books for free if you are dylectic, vision impaired or have any other reason why you can't read a "normal" book.
I know there are several US companies and libraries in the Daisy consortium, so you might find something if you search a bit.
Thank you, thank you! I really disliked QS, and have on several occasions started to write a review on Slashdot, but just thinking about that slow plodding lead brick of a book made me so depressed I stopped. And here you sum up everything I thought about the book, and more things as well, more elegantly than I ever could. Thanks.
Oh, and I also hated Cryptonomicom, but for other reasons. Big fan of Zodia,c Snow Crash and Diamond Age though.:-)
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win....or you lose, in which case the saying should be modified to "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you lose."
I'm surprised that not more channels buy in more content produced from other countries. The best programs I have seen are made either in a) Britain b) Sweden. I'm sure there are lots of other quality programs made in the US and around the world that I never get to see though. Unfortunately I'm guessing that the channels that aim for the lowest common denominator are the ones that are making money... But there must be lots of stuff in the archives of national public TV channels around the world that is available for very cheap, isn't it possible that there is enough of a market to make at least a little profit from each show?
Oh well, I'm not holding my breath. If it wasn't for the crackdown on P2P I would be downloading much more quality stuff from the net. The annoying thing is that the people who made for instance Time Team encourage swapping tapes (they have a forum on their official homepage where people can ask for episodes to trade), and the people behind Mystery Science Theatre 3000 have said in interviews they don't mind people sharing episodes on the net. These things are not available to buy (those MST3K episdoes available to buy are not traded), so there is no one losing money when people share. However, when the big media companies are cracking down, you can't be sure you won't get a whopping lawsuit anyway.
Does anyone know if for instance Scrapheap Challenge (the British seasons) or Time Team are available somewhere on the net? I bought the Scrapheap DVD - Commandments, what a disappointment that was! A straight VHS to DVD recording. A whole season crammed into one hour, so each episode was basically summed up to: "Ok, this week we are building a catapult. [cut] Here we see someone welding. [cut] The teams are finished, and now lets spend five minutes on the exiting competition!" They removed all that made the show interesting, i.e. the design decisions, the little explanatory animations (perhaps a bit simple, but good for me who isn't very technical), the history trivia etc. The competition was only interesting because then we got to see how the design and skills of the team played off, but no, they had to dumb it down to the "action" part.
For pure entertainment, I can recommend finding the DAPCentral on the net and downloading Mystery Science Theatre 3000.
Now that I've gotten my Radeon All-in-Wonder card, I'm definitely starting to record Time Team, A Car is (Re)Born and Scrapheap, lets see if I share them in the future...:-)
Wow, I just read through what I wrote. This must have been one of the most rambling and incoherent posts I have ever made to/. Good thing this is the last day at work before the Christmas break, I think I need sleep.:-)
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"This new evidence proves global warming is bunk because now we know the scientists don't know everything."
To me this makes just as much sense as rejecting biology as soon as scientists discover a new species. "See! The proves the bible was right!"
I wrote an app in Java to change all the names because I hate that annoying style too. It's called Jrenamer.
I was working on an project some years ago where the suggested project name was Janus, after the Roman double-faced God of beginnings. We did it in Java, and then someone realised that, no, perhaps it wasn't such a good name for the project after all.
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Experiments on this have been done. People have learned monkeys to control robotic arms with their thoughts. They had the monkeys in a lab with a joystick, a computer screen and a robotic arm. They showed the monkeys that if they used the joystick to steer a dot into a target area, the robotic arm would take a monkey snack and drop it where the monkey could get it. The monkeys had sensors on their heads meanwhile, and they did it for some time until it became routine.
Then the scientists removed the joystick. The monkeys would get frustrated of course, and you could see them look at the screen. They wanted to move the joystick, and thereby activated the same areas of their brain as if they HAD used the joystick. The sensors read this and moved the dot on the screen and the arm took the snack. I'm not sure, but I believe they finally removed the screen, and the monkeys contorolled the robotic arm by thought alone.
If they could carry the arm with them, I assume eventually they would be able to use it just as well as their own biological arms.
pecial thanks to fuckchop moderators for modding down a perfectly topical post when there are no others like it in the thread. it's not fucking redundant, someone mod parent up please, thanks, he makes some good points.
The reason it was modded redundant might have been because we have had at least two dedicated Slashdot topics on this, and every time LOTR comes up someone mentions it.
Well, you know, the shoe would have been on the other foot if I'd overheard her talking about the coloring books their mid-terms are based on
Wow, I think that is about the third time in this topic you make the assertion that arts subjects is about coloring books and crayons. Lots of easy karma points from dittohead Slashdot moderators when you pick on strawmen. You must be a very smart man in comparison, studying these incredibly difficult engineering subjects.
The astronomer Tycho Brahe actually died as the result of a burst bladder, because he was too embarrassed to step out for a whiz during a dinner party.
I have heard the "bladder bursting" meme before, sometimes it's a flag bearer at a Nobel dinner, sometimes a diplomat visiting a king/emperor/vizier... Unless you get a kidney stone lodged in your urethera and a complete stop, I doubt it is anatomically possible to "keep it in" until your bladder pops.
From what I have read, for AMD the choice was between a fab in the US, and in Dresden. I think they picked former East Germany because the previous factory doing well, of the high number of skilled workers who are willing to work for relatively low wages, and the Euro starting to make Europe a more attractive place to do business. So again tech jobs are moving to eastwards, but not quite as far this time. Why they didn't go the Malaysia or Philippines as you mentioned I don't know. Perhaps the current unrest in the world?
Too bad for US and Asian workers, congratulations to the Germans.
The author of this piece, Daniel Lyons, should use the by line, "SCO Mouthpiece." He is the same hack who wrote the "Linux's Hit Men" article about the FSF plus there was another recent piece of SCO FUD that I've managed to flush out of my memory.
He is actually a nice guy once you get to know him. He just has a problem being impartial when it comes to Linux because... well, you see, a penguin once seduced him and then broke his heart. It's a sad story really.
Yeah...or when I wanted to download Apache Tomcat for the first time and typed in www.tomcat.com (or maybe tomcat.org, forgot which) at work. Nice thing with all the explicit pop-ups and pop-unders too... bastards.
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Thanks, glad you agreed. I guess the last sentence could have been formulated in a less confrontative manner though. I got a bit annoyed at the .sig of the parent poster with its talk of beating up liberals.
:-)
Still, I have karma to spend.
Cheers,
Lars
Puff the Blowfish and it is instantly recognizable as obsd.
Yes, I agree, the fish instantly recognizable as obese. Oh, wait...
Also, it looks like an orgy.
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Hah! Good, I wasn't the only one who got that connotation. I thought "Hmm, maybe these guys should put some pants on?" Still, I don't mind. Actually quite cute those li'l devils.
So political correctness has made it to open source.
Political correctness is mostly associated with the "left". I'd say most people who react negatively to an image of a devil are conservative Christians. I have been yelled at for wearing a Monster Magnet t-shirt. It wasn't even "satanic", it was a stylized bull head on a flaming background. I read an anecdote here on Slashdot about someone who was in the American Deep South on holidays and was thrown out of a store for wearing a BSD shirt, and veiled hints that he had better leave town.
But I guess its only bad if us darn liber-uhls do it, eh?
Wow, great to see people from the mission here. I'm surprised your answer was ignored, I was expecting you would get instant +5 karma and lots of inane questions from Slashdotters. :-)
Here is another link for a proposed Mars Calendar:
http://mars.complete-isp.com/time/zubrin.html
NASA has an Applet showing the current time on Mars.
Offtopic - NASA is really embracing Java lately. At least parts of the control and visualising software for the current mission uses Java, including Java 3D. Java not ready for user interfaces eh?
They also certainly seem to be considering Java and Linux for future missions and have built a concept vehicle using it. The SD times article is very preachy, and I'm sure people sceptical of Java can argue over many of the points, but it is interesting still.
Or you'll be walking down a faintly lit corridor only to see a vague silhouette of something moving, but by the time you think "..what was tha-," something's swiping and screeching at you.
Um. I risk coming off as a superior asshole, but these kinds of scares are beginning to bore me. Its like in a slasher flick when the camera moves so that someone has their back/side to the "edge" of the screen, you know a hand is going to come in suddenly and grab them. Oh, and the first time its just the cat, or a friend who for some reason moves around without making any sound at all. Then when the characters, and presumably the audience, goes whew, false alarm, the real terror strikes.
A lot of the inspiration for the atmosphere of Doom 3 seems to have come from System Shock 2. Now that was a scary story, and not just because things went "boo". Hearing the audio logs of crew members as the infection spread through the ship... darn.
That is one pathetic strawman argument. I mean, you can't even find something irrelevant to attack the man himself with, so you have to use an unrelated topic about a person who just happen to be from the same country to try to smear him with?
I read that story in Sagan's The Demon Hunted World. It might be in BB too.
You, and the grandparent posts made many interesting points, but there was one thing I would like to comment on:
;) Not that it is impossible to do in other languages of course, its what all good programmers have been doing, but my impression is that it comes more naturally in OO.
The C++ code reuse model (and to some extent, OO in general) requires a huge amount of work, essentially doing a complete and highly detailed design before beginning any coding. If, at some point, you realize that you've made a small error and need some additional data, your changes may need to be vast and far-reaching. This was a popular design style ten years ago, but currently trendy stuff, like extreme programming involves more iteration.
Erm, you seem to be saying that OO will be replaced by XP? OO is a programming language paradigm (blech, I said the word), XP is a method of software development. Several books I have read on XP says that OO languages are most suited for XP development. There are many OO languages, show me an XP language? In other words, XP complements OO rather than replaces it.
Besides, my understanding of programming is that OO, if done right, actually carries less risk of having to change lots of code. Encapsulation and low coupling and all that jazz you know.
I take no sides on KDE vs Gnome or C vs C++ though. I only know Java well, but I'm slowly learning myself C/C++ through Linux.
You might be interested in this:
http://www.daisy.org/about_us/mission.asp
I don't know about the US, but in Sweden, you can go to a public library and borrow Daisy books for free if you are dylectic, vision impaired or have any other reason why you can't read a "normal" book.
I know there are several US companies and libraries in the Daisy consortium, so you might find something if you search a bit.
Thank you, thank you! I really disliked QS, and have on several occasions started to write a review on Slashdot, but just thinking about that slow plodding lead brick of a book made me so depressed I stopped. And here you sum up everything I thought about the book, and more things as well, more elegantly than I ever could. Thanks.
:-)
Oh, and I also hated Cryptonomicom, but for other reasons. Big fan of Zodia,c Snow Crash and Diamond Age though.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win. ...or you lose, in which case the saying should be modified to "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you lose."
I'm surprised that not more channels buy in more content produced from other countries. The best programs I have seen are made either in
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a) Britain
b) Sweden.
I'm sure there are lots of other quality programs made in the US and around the world that I never get to see though. Unfortunately I'm guessing that the channels that aim for the lowest common denominator are the ones that are making money...
But there must be lots of stuff in the archives of national public TV channels around the world that is available for very cheap, isn't it possible that there is enough of a market to make at least a little profit from each show?
Oh well, I'm not holding my breath. If it wasn't for the crackdown on P2P I would be downloading much more quality stuff from the net. The annoying thing is that the people who made for instance Time Team encourage swapping tapes (they have a forum on their official homepage where people can ask for episodes to trade), and the people behind Mystery Science Theatre 3000 have said in interviews they don't mind people sharing episodes on the net. These things are not available to buy (those MST3K episdoes available to buy are not traded), so there is no one losing money when people share. However, when the big media companies are cracking down, you can't be sure you won't get a whopping lawsuit anyway.
Does anyone know if for instance Scrapheap Challenge (the British seasons) or Time Team are available somewhere on the net? I bought the Scrapheap DVD - Commandments, what a disappointment that was! A straight VHS to DVD recording. A whole season crammed into one hour, so each episode was basically summed up to: "Ok, this week we are building a catapult. [cut] Here we see someone welding. [cut] The teams are finished, and now lets spend five minutes on the exiting competition!" They removed all that made the show interesting, i.e. the design decisions, the little explanatory animations (perhaps a bit simple, but good for me who isn't very technical), the history trivia etc. The competition was only interesting because then we got to see how the design and skills of the team played off, but no, they had to dumb it down to the "action" part.
For pure entertainment, I can recommend finding the DAPCentral on the net and downloading Mystery Science Theatre 3000.
Now that I've gotten my Radeon All-in-Wonder card, I'm definitely starting to record Time Team, A Car is (Re)Born and Scrapheap, lets see if I share them in the future...
Wow, I just read through what I wrote. This must have been one of the most rambling and incoherent posts I have ever made to
ITYM cue, or possibly queue.
:-)
Thanks, I'll remember that.
"This new evidence proves global warming is bunk because now we know the scientists don't know everything."
To me this makes just as much sense as rejecting biology as soon as scientists discover a new species. "See! The proves the bible was right!"
I wrote an app in Java to change all the names because I hate that annoying style too. It's called Jrenamer.
I was working on an project some years ago where the suggested project name was Janus, after the Roman double-faced God of beginnings. We did it in Java, and then someone realised that, no, perhaps it wasn't such a good name for the project after all.
Experiments on this have been done. People have learned monkeys to control robotic arms with their thoughts. They had the monkeys in a lab with a joystick, a computer screen and a robotic arm. They showed the monkeys that if they used the joystick to steer a dot into a target area, the robotic arm would take a monkey snack and drop it where the monkey could get it. The monkeys had sensors on their heads meanwhile, and they did it for some time until it became routine.
Then the scientists removed the joystick. The monkeys would get frustrated of course, and you could see them look at the screen. They wanted to move the joystick, and thereby activated the same areas of their brain as if they HAD used the joystick. The sensors read this and moved the dot on the screen and the arm took the snack. I'm not sure, but I believe they finally removed the screen, and the monkeys contorolled the robotic arm by thought alone.
If they could carry the arm with them, I assume eventually they would be able to use it just as well as their own biological arms.
pecial thanks to fuckchop moderators for modding down a perfectly topical post when there are no others like it in the thread.
it's not fucking redundant, someone mod parent up please, thanks, he makes some good points.
The reason it was modded redundant might have been because we have had at least two dedicated Slashdot topics on this, and every time LOTR comes up someone mentions it.
Having an open relationship is usually more fun in fantasy than in practice. I know, difficult to believe... :-)
Well, you know, the shoe would have been on the other foot if I'd overheard her talking about the coloring books their mid-terms are based on
Wow, I think that is about the third time in this topic you make the assertion that arts subjects is about coloring books and crayons. Lots of easy karma points from dittohead Slashdot moderators when you pick on strawmen. You must be a very smart man in comparison, studying these incredibly difficult engineering subjects.
The astronomer Tycho Brahe actually died as the result of a burst bladder, because he was too embarrassed to step out for a whiz during a dinner party.
Sorry, urban legend. Most likely he died of mercury poisoning.
I have heard the "bladder bursting" meme before, sometimes it's a flag bearer at a Nobel dinner, sometimes a diplomat visiting a king/emperor/vizier...
Unless you get a kidney stone lodged in your urethera and a complete stop, I doubt it is anatomically possible to "keep it in" until your bladder pops.
From what I have read, for AMD the choice was between a fab in the US, and in Dresden. I think they picked former East Germany because the previous factory doing well, of the high number of skilled workers who are willing to work for relatively low wages, and the Euro starting to make Europe a more attractive place to do business. So again tech jobs are moving to eastwards, but not quite as far this time. Why they didn't go the Malaysia or Philippines as you mentioned I don't know. Perhaps the current unrest in the world?
Too bad for US and Asian workers, congratulations to the Germans.
The author of this piece, Daniel Lyons, should use the by line, "SCO Mouthpiece." He is the same hack who wrote the "Linux's Hit Men" article about the FSF plus there was another recent piece of SCO FUD that I've managed to flush out of my memory.
He is actually a nice guy once you get to know him. He just has a problem being impartial when it comes to Linux because... well, you see, a penguin once seduced him and then broke his heart. It's a sad story really.
Yeah...or when I wanted to download Apache Tomcat for the first time and typed in www.tomcat.com (or maybe tomcat.org, forgot which) at work. Nice thing with all the explicit pop-ups and pop-unders too... bastards.