Mind you, Cillian Murphy's line that the latest ENCOM Operating System "is the most secure thing ever" was amusing, and indicative of how Hollywood thinks. Obviously the way to keep something secure, reasons Hollywood, is to not release the code to ever increasing scrutiny, to keep it hidden.
Ha, stupid Hollywood. That is why you will fail.
I thought it was obvious the main reason the board was worried was not because the source code was released, but because someone managed to hack into "the most secure thing ever" to release the code in the first place.
Unless I'm missing the sarcasm in your post, I don't see how this makes Hollywood fail...
I think you forget that if Apple comes out with a better version of what you bought, you have 14 days to replace it with the newer version and get paid the price difference...
"That'd be incorrect, though. HL1 is pretty much entirely Quake 2, with a few lines from Quake 1. So say Valve themselves, and since they're the only ones who truely know how much code they took from each, we should defer to their statements. HL2 was written from scratch, though that is a topic of much debate. Regardless, unless I'm mistaken the "SDK" for Quake 1 was all in Quake C, so it is impossible that any of it made it into HL1, let alone HL2."
Actually, I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Half-Life is most definitely _NOT_ based on Quake 2.
I can't remember where I saw it, but a Valve developer posted on some forum and said they based the engine off Quake 1. Of course, they ripped everything out and rewrote it from scratch, but there is indeed Quake 1 and QuakeC code left in there. At least, I saw quite a bit of it (QuakeC) in the SDK. Quake 2 was licensed, but not one line of code was used.
Actually, I believe it would be "Linus Torvalds's pen."
You put an apostrophe followed by an s to indicate ownership for singular nouns, even if the noun already ends with an s. With plural nouns, you omit the s after the apostrophe.
Singular example: The class's discussion lasted an hour.
"But let's stay on course, and assume these are robots meant as domestic servants. Does the robot take non-lethal contradictory rules and simply process them in order, taking the last order? Two children would amuse themselves for hours telling the robot 'pick up that broom', 'don't pick up that broom' and keeping the robot in limbo. The robot should tell the children to behave and go pick up their rooms. Directly violating rule 2."
But the Second Law does not apply equally to everyone. The more forceful the command, and possibly the importance of the person, can override other commands given by other people.
For instance, if you tell a random robot off the street to pick up a piece of trash off the ground by saying "Please pick that up." in a soft voice, the robot will comply. However, if I intervene and say "Robot, DO NOT pick that up!" with a forceful voice, my order would override yours. Rank might be important, too. The command of the robot's owner, such as "Ignore those jerks," would probably override most everyone else's command, and the order of a police officer may supercede all others.
Wording also comes into play, and as you say, a robot can be taught to ignore the children's orders by either teaching it parenting or by showing it how not ignoring the children could be a violation of the First Law. Besides, robots with slightly more advanced intelligence could probably process which command would be better to follow, or try and see if it could strike a compromise.
The Three (well, Four) Laws aren't as cut and dry as they seem, as they are merely English interpretations of advanced mathematical concepts. Obviously, a more advanced AI would not have as much trouble in such trivial cases as "Pick up the broom," and "Don't pick up the broom,", and if it does, it needs to see a shrink (Preferrably Dr. Susan Calvin)
I know many people complain about this, but my 20GB 3rd gen iPod only gives me practically 6 or 7 hours of battery life (bought it in December of '03...use it quite a lot), which is extremely inconvenient, especially considering how much other players manage. Also, it doesn't have an FM tuner or the ability to play back OGG. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPod, but if the 4th gen iPods can give me significantly more battery life, an FM tuner, and (optionally) more file formats, I would drop up to $500 on the highest end model, because 20GB is no longer enough for me.
Otherwise, I might go for an iRiver.
On another note, would having my name engraved on the back of my iPod affect its resale value? I couldn't think of a cool Latin phrase or something geeky enough, so I just put my name down in case it gets stolen at school or something.
Interesting. I've dropped my 3rd gen at least 5 times while in use, and the worse that's happened was a broken lock switch (wouldn't work...fixed by dropping it again heh heh heh;).
You must factor in the amount of cached used. Linux likes to store as much in cache as possible, but will quickly give it up for an application that needs it. Also, sometimes top inaccurately reports memory usage concerning shared libs - several apps may be using the same lib which might take 10MB, and they all will be reported as using up at least 10MB.
There are also "unpublished numbers" which some telcos offer. That basically means that the telco is only allowed to give your number to the police if they ask for it. I have it, and I get almost no telemarketing calls anymore.
Except for the fact that RIAA sales have been increasing. No matter how much they bitched about piracy affecting their business, they couldn't deny the fact that they made more money in the past few years than they ever had.
So, if a particular mission requires non-stop, fast action, they'll be showing a picture of the latest AMD CPU? I can't think of another way for geeks to get their breath and heart rate levels up, other than reaching for another bag of CheeseyPoofs.
Currently, only ATI has DX9-compatible drivers. nVidia has yet to release their's, so I would suggest that anybody with an nVidia card wait for the latest Detonator drivers.
I agree. GNU/Linux and the several free BSDs have many different types and styles of GUIs. People like Dvorak don't seem to realize that the USERS, not the developers, make a GUI popular. If more users prefer Windows-like GUIs, then so what? Is that bad? Is it the Linux crowd's fault? You have a lot of choice with free software, far more than with Windows ever could provide - if Dvorak would open up his eyes he would be able to see that there are a lot of innovative GUIs that he could use if he wished.
The next version of Visual C++, Everett, due out in 2003 and is supposed to offer increased ANSI/ISO standards compliance and UNIX/Linux compatability. The enhancements over Visual C++.NET (7) seem very attractive and might be able to aid you. You can check it all out at:
MS Developer Tools Roadmap
"There have occasionally been UNIX knockoffs, like the vastly inferior command line "talk" implementation, however it was incapable of letting you know whne new users had signed on, also, it could not do file transfers."
Sorry to burst your bubble, but 'talk' has been around far longer than ICQ has. It is not an IM client nor was it designed to be. It was created back in the days when people had to use text-only terminals on UNIX machines and needed a form of communication.
Trillian, illegal? All it does is use the protocol, they didn't steal the source or whatever. KaZaA only provides file sharing, it doesn't promote distributing illegal files. That's like saying Ford makes money of killing people when someone runs people over with his Taurus.
On another note, 'duplicating effort'? Why did your parents decide to breed? After all, they're just duplicating what Adam and Eve did so long ago...
If I'm not mistaken, the Pentium 4 should be able to clock up to speeds of 10GHz. Or at least, that's what Intel has been saying for quite a while now...
Remember, id isn't a publisher at all; I think Q2 and up have been published with Activision. You probably have to find your own publisher for the game.
You're forgetting the 5% royalties that has to be paid for each game... Most games the use the Q3 engine make quite a bit of income. Not to mention, some companies use the Q3 engine to develop more than one game (although, I think id Software has some special licensing for this...). Raven comes to mind right away.
RtCW is based off the Team Arena engine, which is an enhanced Q3 engine with support for outdoor terrain. When you license the Q3 engine, you're really getting the Q3A: TA engine, since that is the latest version, and uh, improves quite a bit on the original.
Half-Life is _NOT_ based on the Quake2 engine. Rather, Valve licensed the Quake1 engine and replaced most of it with their own code. Valve did license the Q2 engine, but never used it.
It's a Mach microkernel with a FreeBSD kernel modified to run as a daemon. There is also a BSD-like layer (filesystem, some APIs, etc.). 70% of the userspace tools are from NetBSD, and I wouldn't doubt that they have some security code right out of OpenBSD.
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Mind you, Cillian Murphy's line that the latest ENCOM Operating System "is the most secure thing ever" was amusing, and indicative of how Hollywood thinks. Obviously the way to keep something secure, reasons Hollywood, is to not release the code to ever increasing scrutiny, to keep it hidden.
Ha, stupid Hollywood. That is why you will fail.
I thought it was obvious the main reason the board was worried was not because the source code was released, but because someone managed to hack into "the most secure thing ever" to release the code in the first place.
Unless I'm missing the sarcasm in your post, I don't see how this makes Hollywood fail...
I think you forget that if Apple comes out with a better version of what you bought, you have 14 days to replace it with the newer version and get paid the price difference...
"That'd be incorrect, though. HL1 is pretty much entirely Quake 2, with a few lines from Quake 1. So say Valve themselves, and since they're the only ones who truely know how much code they took from each, we should defer to their statements. HL2 was written from scratch, though that is a topic of much debate. Regardless, unless I'm mistaken the "SDK" for Quake 1 was all in Quake C, so it is impossible that any of it made it into HL1, let alone HL2."
Actually, I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Half-Life is most definitely _NOT_ based on Quake 2.
I can't remember where I saw it, but a Valve developer posted on some forum and said they based the engine off Quake 1. Of course, they ripped everything out and rewrote it from scratch, but there is indeed Quake 1 and QuakeC code left in there. At least, I saw quite a bit of it (QuakeC) in the SDK. Quake 2 was licensed, but not one line of code was used.
Actually, I believe it would be "Linus Torvalds's pen."
You put an apostrophe followed by an s to indicate ownership for singular nouns, even if the noun already ends with an s. With plural nouns, you omit the s after the apostrophe.
Singular example: The class's discussion lasted an hour.
"But let's stay on course, and assume these are robots meant as domestic servants. Does the robot take non-lethal contradictory rules and simply process them in order, taking the last order? Two children would amuse themselves for hours telling the robot 'pick up that broom', 'don't pick up that broom' and keeping the robot in limbo. The robot should tell the children to behave and go pick up their rooms. Directly violating rule 2."
But the Second Law does not apply equally to everyone. The more forceful the command, and possibly the importance of the person, can override other commands given by other people.
For instance, if you tell a random robot off the street to pick up a piece of trash off the ground by saying "Please pick that up." in a soft voice, the robot will comply. However, if I intervene and say "Robot, DO NOT pick that up!" with a forceful voice, my order would override yours. Rank might be important, too. The command of the robot's owner, such as "Ignore those jerks," would probably override most everyone else's command, and the order of a police officer may supercede all others.
Wording also comes into play, and as you say, a robot can be taught to ignore the children's orders by either teaching it parenting or by showing it how not ignoring the children could be a violation of the First Law. Besides, robots with slightly more advanced intelligence could probably process which command would be better to follow, or try and see if it could strike a compromise.
The Three (well, Four) Laws aren't as cut and dry as they seem, as they are merely English interpretations of advanced mathematical concepts. Obviously, a more advanced AI would not have as much trouble in such trivial cases as "Pick up the broom," and "Don't pick up the broom,", and if it does, it needs to see a shrink (Preferrably Dr. Susan Calvin)
I know many people complain about this, but my 20GB 3rd gen iPod only gives me practically 6 or 7 hours of battery life (bought it in December of '03...use it quite a lot), which is extremely inconvenient, especially considering how much other players manage. Also, it doesn't have an FM tuner or the ability to play back OGG. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPod, but if the 4th gen iPods can give me significantly more battery life, an FM tuner, and (optionally) more file formats, I would drop up to $500 on the highest end model, because 20GB is no longer enough for me.
Otherwise, I might go for an iRiver.
On another note, would having my name engraved on the back of my iPod affect its resale value? I couldn't think of a cool Latin phrase or something geeky enough, so I just put my name down in case it gets stolen at school or something.
Interesting. I've dropped my 3rd gen at least 5 times while in use, and the worse that's happened was a broken lock switch (wouldn't work...fixed by dropping it again heh heh heh ;).
"Laugh all you want, but I put my money where my mouth was,"
On your penis?
You must factor in the amount of cached used. Linux likes to store as much in cache as possible, but will quickly give it up for an application that needs it. Also, sometimes top inaccurately reports memory usage concerning shared libs - several apps may be using the same lib which might take 10MB, and they all will be reported as using up at least 10MB.
While not exactly the simplest way, you CAN use an iPod under Linux using WINE:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~geha/ipod/
I haven't tried to see if iTunes for Windows can be used with WINE as well, but it might work.
There are also "unpublished numbers" which some telcos offer. That basically means that the telco is only allowed to give your number to the police if they ask for it. I have it, and I get almost no telemarketing calls anymore.
Except for the fact that RIAA sales have been increasing. No matter how much they bitched about piracy affecting their business, they couldn't deny the fact that they made more money in the past few years than they ever had.
So, if a particular mission requires non-stop, fast action, they'll be showing a picture of the latest AMD CPU? I can't think of another way for geeks to get their breath and heart rate levels up, other than reaching for another bag of CheeseyPoofs.
Currently, only ATI has DX9-compatible drivers. nVidia has yet to release their's, so I would suggest that anybody with an nVidia card wait for the latest Detonator drivers.
I agree. GNU/Linux and the several free BSDs have many different types and styles of GUIs. People like Dvorak don't seem to realize that the USERS, not the developers, make a GUI popular. If more users prefer Windows-like GUIs, then so what? Is that bad? Is it the Linux crowd's fault? You have a lot of choice with free software, far more than with Windows ever could provide - if Dvorak would open up his eyes he would be able to see that there are a lot of innovative GUIs that he could use if he wished.
The next version of Visual C++, Everett, due out in 2003 and is supposed to offer increased ANSI/ISO standards compliance and UNIX/Linux compatability. The enhancements over Visual C++ .NET (7) seem very attractive and might be able to aid you. You can check it all out at:
MS Developer Tools Roadmap
"There have occasionally been UNIX knockoffs, like the vastly inferior command line "talk" implementation, however it was incapable of letting you know whne new users had signed on, also, it could not do file transfers."
Sorry to burst your bubble, but 'talk' has been around far longer than ICQ has. It is not an IM client nor was it designed to be. It was created back in the days when people had to use text-only terminals on UNIX machines and needed a form of communication.
Trillian, illegal? All it does is use the protocol, they didn't steal the source or whatever. KaZaA only provides file sharing, it doesn't promote distributing illegal files. That's like saying Ford makes money of killing people when someone runs people over with his Taurus.
On another note, 'duplicating effort'? Why did your parents decide to breed? After all, they're just duplicating what Adam and Eve did so long ago...
So when virtual reality is mainstream, Microsoft will rename "Nexus" to "Matrix" and send out "Agents" against all malacious hackers/virii/trojans?
I have a feeling this is going to get ugly...
Linux.ORG?
If I'm not mistaken, the Pentium 4 should be able to clock up to speeds of 10GHz. Or at least, that's what Intel has been saying for quite a while now...
Remember, id isn't a publisher at all; I think Q2 and up have been published with Activision. You probably have to find your own publisher for the game.
You're forgetting the 5% royalties that has to be paid for each game... Most games the use the Q3 engine make quite a bit of income. Not to mention, some companies use the Q3 engine to develop more than one game (although, I think id Software has some special licensing for this...). Raven comes to mind right away.
RtCW is based off the Team Arena engine, which is an enhanced Q3 engine with support for outdoor terrain. When you license the Q3 engine, you're really getting the Q3A: TA engine, since that is the latest version, and uh, improves quite a bit on the original.
Half-Life is _NOT_ based on the Quake2 engine. Rather, Valve licensed the Quake1 engine and replaced most of it with their own code. Valve did license the Q2 engine, but never used it.
It's a Mach microkernel with a FreeBSD kernel modified to run as a daemon. There is also a BSD-like layer (filesystem, some APIs, etc.). 70% of the userspace tools are from NetBSD, and I wouldn't doubt that they have some security code right out of OpenBSD.