old)....they should also not all get a trophy just for participating in something. Doing so shows kids that they don't have to work hard for anything, and that they are entitled for no good reason. Actually, it showed my peers and I something completely different: that adults were deceptive scum who wanted you to feel good about losing.
Don't give us this Uphill Both Ways In the Snow crap. Just because kids in some other country work themselves miserable doesn't mean they derive an educational benefit from doing so. It also doesn't imply that our kids would derive an educational benefit from working as much.
Daily homework in elementary school has no real educational benefits. Once you reach middle school, it's time to start phasing homework into the kids' lives. Studies have shown that homework in high school has a signficant benefit.
So I suppose these same users who real operating systems have failed have bought and tried every newer, better operating system they could in an effort to find something suitable?
Yes, operating systems haven't developed anything really new recently, except in academic research. They will continue to do so until users see the worth in trying Haiku, Syllable, or some other alternative operating system.
I'll summarize a post about this I saw further up the page.
In the old days, when Truth-In-Advertising laws were made, all kinds of people assumed that advertising would make falsifiable claims of fact about the products in question. That's the "good" kind of marketing -- designed to both inform and persuade. You can fact-check it even when it lies.
Nowadays, marketing is more about image than anything. You can no longer debunk an advertisement, because after analysis most of the ad boils away as factually insubstantial. This is "bad" marketing -- designed to persuade without informing. In the worst cases, the advertising contains so little real information that the firm that comissioned the marketing doesn't gain any additional sales!
Cell-phone ads in the newspaper ("XYZ has the least dropped calls...") are Good Marketing. Viral advertising (Graffiti of kids with a new video-gaming handheld.) and the tripe aired during the Super Bowl (two men accidentally "kiss" while eating a candy bar) are Bad Marketing. There is a difference, and society could get rid of the bad and leave the good rather simply.
You're full of shit. There's a damned large difference between merely describing events as they happened (what modern history classes do) and explicitly teaching kids not to judge anything.
Furthermore, English class practically exists to teach kids that all points of view are not equally valid -- that teachers are right by nature and students wrong by nature. Somehow I don't think that kind of "judgement" teaches kids much of anything, either.
What they should really teach is Logic.
Now we get classes on S&M. What schools did you attend? I'd like to enroll.
As a genuinely ADHD person whose entire family takes stimulants to enable us to produce stupid-but-necessary work at the quantity and quality the rest of the world seems able to produce without medical help, I resent that, you insensitive clod!
I agree with you that ADHD is largely a manufactured illness. Or rather, what was once merely eccentric behavior has been redefined as illness by narrowing social norms and rising standards of what productive work is. So forgive us for trying to stay in the only game in town.
I would argue that if you want people to trust random strangers, you should create a situation or society that justifies trusting random strangers. Trying to get people to trust people when people aren't actually trustworthy is lying to people and untrustworthy in itself.
# Don't allocate resources sanely. One program (even worse when it has many threads) that is wanting more memory and more CPU will get the entire User Interface to a halt, even though guaranteeing the required resources for a smooth UI is so cheap. (i.e: Instead of guaranteeing 0.5% of the memory/cpu to the UI so its always smooth, even this 0.5% goes as an extra 0.5% boost to the program that's already got 99.4%) Real-time scheduling. Lottery scheduling. Raising the priority of the UI process, even under a normal Priority Round Robin scheduler.
Offer an unnecessarily(historically) complicated model to programs, where there are multiple spaces of memory (malloc'able/sbrk memory, and file system space), even though these memory types are actually interchangable and when you malloc, your RAM is moved to disk, and when you use a file, it often allocated RAM. Instead, operating systems should just expose one type of memory, that is always non-volatile and persistent, so that programs don't have to worry about converting/serializing back and forth between these memory types. This would also get rid of the unnecessary bootup/shutdown sequence all programs are currently dealing with. You're talking about "orthogonal persistence". EROS, KeyKOS and Unununium all pursue it.
Does not offer a high-level world of network-transparent primitives, that allows all method calls to transparently run over a network. If this existed, we would not see the abomination that is web-forms+AJAX and the rest of this ultra-complicated world that still does not work nearly as well as local GUI's. Instead of extending the web to support GUI functionality (poorly), we should have seen GUI's be extended to transparently reach over the network. The X protocol is similar, but not good enough as it transmits too low-level primitives (pixel data and mouse movements) and is also an alternative and not a standard GUI API that the operating system offers. Sun's NeWS did a little better than X Windows. So did Amoeba (and every other distributed operating system).
The security model, using users, groups and assigning those to objects is of very rough granulity, requires a system administrator to modify the model (users/groups) and does not allow fine-grained control over the access of entities (processes) to objects (i.e: As a non-administrator, I cannot prevent my mp3 player from accessing the network or deleting the files it can read). Instead, a capability-security model should be used (not POSIX capabilities, but EROS/KeyKos type ones), which is much simpler to use, verify and much more powerful and fine-grained. This would also facilitate secure movement of components between computers - which could be done automatically by the OS to improve performance. More on that on a later post. You said it yourself: Capability security systems. Real Access Control Lists would help, too.
Most of the solutions in the operating system world are already there, but nobody uses them in commodity systems. Why? Backwards compatibility. I'm serious. Too many new operating systems aim for backwards compatibility with POSIX, Windows, Amiga, BeOS, RISC OS, the Lisp Machines, or some other old OS architecture. I'll give you a quote: "A new operating system project should address a real problem that is no currently being addressed; constructing yet another general-purpose POSIX- or Windows32-compliant system that runs standard applications is not a worthwhile goal in and of itself." That's from The Pebble Component-Based Operating System, written in 1999.
And then, of course, we can go and search for "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant". Everyone in the commercial seems to ignore the great strides forward operating-system research has made.
Yes, I am an operating-systems geek. How'd you know?
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I hope this book helps out the video game writing situation, but most video games still have better writing than the movie referenced in this post's title.
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But let's say the machine shows one thing on its screen and another on your paper receipt. Let's say that it shows a "hacked" vote on both. How do you make it count the vote you want without leaving the voting booth, complaining to a poll worker, and making your vote non-secret?
Greenspun talked about market economics, not intrinsic worth as a human being. He meant that if demand for women in a university is higher than demand for men, the university should be willing to pay a higher price for the very restricted supply of women.
Writing your own working kernel from scratch is a significant acheivement, changing a few lines of code in the Linux kernel, not so much. The former. In Object Pascal (gotta love having software exception support in your kernel-development language with no extra work on your part), which practically nobody uses for kernel work. With (what to my knowledge is) original research work in it. If you have an email address, I can send you the paper in Abiword or.doc format.
In any case, if a high school student is a gifted programmer he/she would be foolish not to go on to college after graduation and I suspect most do. I applied to college in the past month. I'm going to include all the Comp-Sci stuff in a portfolio (those get submitted separately from applications), so they can see they're admitting a talented Comp-Sci geek and probable researcher.
I don't mean to brag. Most guys who're self-taught started in high-school. They're generally ready for this kind of work by their senior year of college. I started coding in 5th grade, so I just have the head start of plain, old luck at having found a life's interest so early.
In my opinion, the gap is caused by an innate difference: I don't think women geek out on things like men do; instead they seem to go into whatever field has the greatest intersection of Enjoyable Work and Money.
2) So and so's kid is creating basic websites or doing some other form of really simple IT work and people dont know the difference between that and kernel hacking. (there are a decent amount of people who arent college educated in this group) In my experience, creating basic form apps and websites in 5th grade leads to kernel hacking by high school.
They have the comfort of being in a majority. Actually, the male majority is confined to engineering schools, which pushes away the men who want a social life.
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Don't give us this Uphill Both Ways In the Snow crap. Just because kids in some other country work themselves miserable doesn't mean they derive an educational benefit from doing so. It also doesn't imply that our kids would derive an educational benefit from working as much.
Daily homework in elementary school has no real educational benefits. Once you reach middle school, it's time to start phasing homework into the kids' lives. Studies have shown that homework in high school has a signficant benefit.
So I suppose these same users who real operating systems have failed have bought and tried every newer, better operating system they could in an effort to find something suitable?
Yes, operating systems haven't developed anything really new recently, except in academic research. They will continue to do so until users see the worth in trying Haiku, Syllable, or some other alternative operating system.
Eat a-creamy-nougat-dipped-in-chocolate-as-dark-as-mid night-at-winter-solstice-and-topped-with-a-caramel -covered-coffee-bean YOU GRAY BASTARDS!
Wanna contribute to Glider? I can send you current source code and a paper by email.
I'll summarize a post about this I saw further up the page.
In the old days, when Truth-In-Advertising laws were made, all kinds of people assumed that advertising would make falsifiable claims of fact about the products in question. That's the "good" kind of marketing -- designed to both inform and persuade. You can fact-check it even when it lies.
Nowadays, marketing is more about image than anything. You can no longer debunk an advertisement, because after analysis most of the ad boils away as factually insubstantial. This is "bad" marketing -- designed to persuade without informing. In the worst cases, the advertising contains so little real information that the firm that comissioned the marketing doesn't gain any additional sales!
Cell-phone ads in the newspaper ("XYZ has the least dropped calls...") are Good Marketing. Viral advertising (Graffiti of kids with a new video-gaming handheld.) and the tripe aired during the Super Bowl (two men accidentally "kiss" while eating a candy bar) are Bad Marketing. There is a difference, and society could get rid of the bad and leave the good rather simply.
Furthermore, English class practically exists to teach kids that all points of view are not equally valid -- that teachers are right by nature and students wrong by nature. Somehow I don't think that kind of "judgement" teaches kids much of anything, either.
What they should really teach is Logic. Now we get classes on S&M. What schools did you attend? I'd like to enroll.
As a genuinely ADHD person whose entire family takes stimulants to enable us to produce stupid-but-necessary work at the quantity and quality the rest of the world seems able to produce without medical help, I resent that, you insensitive clod!
I agree with you that ADHD is largely a manufactured illness. Or rather, what was once merely eccentric behavior has been redefined as illness by narrowing social norms and rising standards of what productive work is. So forgive us for trying to stay in the only game in town.
I would argue that if you want people to trust random strangers, you should create a situation or society that justifies trusting random strangers. Trying to get people to trust people when people aren't actually trustworthy is lying to people and untrustworthy in itself.
Where does Common Lisp protect side-effects?
Yeah, because being overrun by $YOUR_DESPISED_BUT_QUICKLY_BREEDING_MINORITY will actually reduce world population.
Who we gonna call?
And then there are those of us who simply never have been good with people, since long before we got computers.
This would also get rid of the unnecessary bootup/shutdown sequence all programs are currently dealing with. You're talking about "orthogonal persistence". EROS, KeyKOS and Unununium all pursue it. Does not offer a high-level world of network-transparent primitives, that allows all method calls to transparently run over a network. If this existed, we would not see the abomination that is web-forms+AJAX and the rest of this ultra-complicated world that still does not work nearly as well as local GUI's. Instead of extending the web to support GUI functionality (poorly), we should have seen GUI's be extended to transparently reach over the network. The X protocol is similar, but not good enough as it transmits too low-level primitives (pixel data and mouse movements) and is also an alternative and not a standard GUI API that the operating system offers. Sun's NeWS did a little better than X Windows. So did Amoeba (and every other distributed operating system). The security model, using users, groups and assigning those to objects is of very rough granulity, requires a system administrator to modify the model (users/groups) and does not allow fine-grained control over the access of entities (processes) to objects (i.e: As a non-administrator, I cannot prevent my mp3 player from accessing the network or deleting the files it can read).
Instead, a capability-security model should be used (not POSIX capabilities, but EROS/KeyKos type ones), which is much simpler to use, verify and much more powerful and fine-grained. This would also facilitate secure movement of components between computers - which could be done automatically by the OS to improve performance. More on that on a later post. You said it yourself: Capability security systems. Real Access Control Lists would help, too.
Most of the solutions in the operating system world are already there, but nobody uses them in commodity systems. Why? Backwards compatibility. I'm serious. Too many new operating systems aim for backwards compatibility with POSIX, Windows, Amiga, BeOS, RISC OS, the Lisp Machines, or some other old OS architecture. I'll give you a quote: "A new operating system project should address a real problem that is no currently being addressed; constructing yet another general-purpose POSIX- or Windows32-compliant system that runs standard applications is not a worthwhile goal in and of itself." That's from The Pebble Component-Based Operating System , written in 1999.
And then, of course, we can go and search for "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant". Everyone in the commercial seems to ignore the great strides forward operating-system research has made.
Yes, I am an operating-systems geek. How'd you know?
I hope this book helps out the video game writing situation, but most video games still have better writing than the movie referenced in this post's title.
But let's say the machine shows one thing on its screen and another on your paper receipt. Let's say that it shows a "hacked" vote on both. How do you make it count the vote you want without leaving the voting booth, complaining to a poll worker, and making your vote non-secret?
I smell sour grapes.
What stops the machine from printing a false result?
Didn't Magic Carpet have a sequel or two? I think it was called "Magic Carpet: Hidden Worlds".
Anyway, I'd love to see it updated! When I stick the old CD into my modern computer (after a DOS boot-disk, of course), it runs so fast I can't play.
Death meeting himself would be pointless. He can remember the future.
Greenspun talked about market economics, not intrinsic worth as a human being. He meant that if demand for women in a university is higher than demand for men, the university should be willing to pay a higher price for the very restricted supply of women.
I don't mean to brag. Most guys who're self-taught started in high-school. They're generally ready for this kind of work by their senior year of college. I started coding in 5th grade, so I just have the head start of plain, old luck at having found a life's interest so early.
In my opinion, the gap is caused by an innate difference: I don't think women geek out on things like men do; instead they seem to go into whatever field has the greatest intersection of Enjoyable Work and Money.
Adjusted for IQ, quantitative skills, and working hours, jobs in science are the lowest paid in the United States. And women care much, much more than men do about that.