I like Apples products somehow - OS-X is a decent Unix and has many of the strengths of Linux. They are pretty and have some impressive features (like timemachine)
still I never bought any of their products, because I always thought that they'd just become the next Microsoft (or the third IBM if you want), if they become big enough in a market... and here we are - Apple suppressing competition...
The $THEY want to (kill|assimilate|enslave) (the (children|friends) of)? us $US! We don't have much time left, we have to DEFEND ourselves! The longer we wait the bigger their advantage gets!
$THEY=Chinese $US=Americans
$THEY=Jews $US=Nationalsocialists
$THEY=Capitalists $US=Communists
$THEY=Communists $US=Capitalists
$THEY=Terrorists $US=Americans
$THEY=Globalists $US=9/11 Truthers
$THEY=Internet Pirates $US=Music Labels
$THEY=Google $US=Book Publishers
$THEY=Microsofties $US=Open Sourcerers
$THEY=Open Sourcerers $US=Microsofties
$THEY=Persians $US=Spartans
$THEY=Mordors $US=Humans
$THEY=Greek $US=Trojans
$THEY=Fags $US=Heteros (seriously, how stupid would that be!?)
I thought you might have male and female algorithms for some optimization problems "walking around" in a virtual world, mate to create combined algorithms, giving you some kind of blood-relationship between the algorithms (and yes, they should die after some time). the related algorithms would form "clans" and if males of opposing clans meet, they fight over each others ressources (RAM and CPU-Cycles) and there should be sources of these ressources, which should dry out over time, so the algorithms HAVE to migrate and attack each other to get new ressources... and fighting should drain some ressources (but having more ressources should give you an advantage in a fight, like being allowed to run longer or use more RAM)
having more ressources should make the male algorithms more attractive to the female algorithms and there should be some different kinds of "agressiveness"...
this is exactly how nature evolved our brains - this should really work well for genetic algorithms...
ultimately when one algorithm owns all the ressources, he's "the result"...
I only fear that the algorithms might develop some p*ssy features like compassion, culture, science, sharing, etc. This would make the results weak and useless! I'll have to hard-code religious fundamentalists, rabble-rousers, RIAA lawyers and republicans! And I have to give different clans different commandments so they can fight about who's commandments are the commandments by the one, true GOD!!! MUAHAHAHA
and god damn, I'll have to give a name to the ressources... I might call them spice... or oil...
iirc Debian changed the name and icon of firefox to iceweasel, because Mozilla told people to not change the icon when redistributing altered versions... Debian is quite strict about free software and that demand violates the 4 essential freedoms (even if it violates them only peripherally), so they forked firefox...
otoh they keep up with the versions - it seems they fork every version again or so - i don't know...
Do you really think google will just ignore it when youtube's webhits nosedive by 36% and their advertising partners leave en masse? If 36% of all internet users and especially the pros can't see your html 5 videos, then html 5 is done for.
just wait for html 5's demise and ogg/theora in html 6...
Mozilla is to powerful in the browsermarket for any website to not support them!
So you obviously never hacked using the ultimate hacker tool uplink. You should try! there you see how realistic most movies are, unlike most of the hacking tools YOU lamers use...
I just want to express my disdain for your freezing of wikileaks' assets.
In our times wikileaks is an important tool of democracy.
If wikileaks (thanks to you) ceases to exist, politicians can finally cash
in bribes again to their heart's content, without fear of being exposed.
Congratulations! I hope you are proud to be henchmen of censorship!
It may not be much, but I couldn't bear to keep my contempt to myself.
I should add that I'm from germany and our "Abitur" (which is about the same as college) is a joke. You have to be really stupid or extremely lazy not to get that...
When I was searching for a girlfriend on a dating platform, I also checked the box for "must have college degree", because I didn't want a girlfriend, with which I couldn't talk about anything else than the latest "american idol" episode...
I don't know how educated your colleagues are, but if they have studied computer science, then you should just shut your dumb mouth, because we learn how to analyze running times WITHOUT actually running it. Even without actually programming it, just by analyzing the problem itself. That is called "complexity theory" and (in that case) you are the one who doesn't have any clue about what you don't understand.
and go away with "tuning". You might improve running times a bit, but no little tuning hack can defeat the improvements you get by better algorithm design by an expert on algorithmics (I mean that e.g. some XOR AX AX might speed up your program by factor 2, but replacing simple backtracking with techniques to keep branching vectors small gets you exponential speed ups!)
so you never gave a course in programming and hat mathematicians in it... I did and I can tell you, that mathematicians write horrible ugly spaghetti code and jumping code without meaningful variable names! The stuff might work, but its unreadable, mostly some border cases don't work and don't get me started on running times!
one assistant told me that it would be more useful for a programmer compared to the first subject
WHAT!? thats utter bullshit and he has no freakin clue what he's talking about! If you are not about to write a 3D Engine or an Algebra system (like "derive", "maple", etc), the second subject is mostly useless for you! Take the first course, because nearly every problem you encounter in practice, is equivalent to some graph problem... also you need graph theory in EVERY course on theoretical computer science (complexity, computability, randomized algorithms, efiicient algorithms, parameterized algorithms), these are very closely related to graph theory. Also multithreading and thread synchronisation are discrete systems and even good string processing (compilers, scanners, etc). Heck, you meet discrete math even in artificial intelligence, logics, logic programming, relational databases, game theory, designing micro-chips, routing, networking, sorting algorithms, you name it! everything about computers and programming has to do with discrete math, because processors, operating systems and programs are discrete systems (equivalent to turing machines) and they operate on a discrete set of data (because you only have finite RAM and HD and "discrete" basically means "enumerable or finite")
maybe the problem is that religious games (I don't know even one counter example) focus to much on conveying the religion and to little on stuff like A STORY, or GAMEPLAY... they're like most educational games, they just AREN'T FUN TO PLAY. http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/?p=3878 http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/?p=4069
Although I don't think this is a completely bad idea, I have to wonder - when will the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL be limited to people with an IQ > 120?... exercising the mind would do some of these guys well either, don't you think?...
Slashdot Mirror
okay it were not the simpsons, it was Cornell University, but there was a starfish in a simpsons episode once...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehno85yI-sA
braaaaaainz!
braaaaaaaaiiiinnnz!
braaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiinnnnz!
read through the Darwin Awards
I'm shure you'll find some stunts there, that are crazy enough for you... happy imitating...
I like Apples products somehow - OS-X is a decent Unix and has many of the strengths of Linux. They are pretty and have some impressive features (like timemachine)
still I never bought any of their products, because I always thought that they'd just become the next Microsoft (or the third IBM if you want), if they become big enough in a market... and here we are - Apple suppressing competition...
I should buy a crystal ball or so...
rinse and repeat...
I thought you might have male and female algorithms for some optimization problems "walking around" in a virtual world, mate to create combined algorithms, giving you some kind of blood-relationship between the algorithms (and yes, they should die after some time). the related algorithms would form "clans" and if males of opposing clans meet, they fight over each others ressources (RAM and CPU-Cycles) and there should be sources of these ressources, which should dry out over time, so the algorithms HAVE to migrate and attack each other to get new ressources... and fighting should drain some ressources (but having more ressources should give you an advantage in a fight, like being allowed to run longer or use more RAM)
having more ressources should make the male algorithms more attractive to the female algorithms and there should be some different kinds of "agressiveness"...
this is exactly how nature evolved our brains - this should really work well for genetic algorithms...
ultimately when one algorithm owns all the ressources, he's "the result"...
I only fear that the algorithms might develop some p*ssy features like compassion, culture, science, sharing, etc. This would make the results weak and useless! I'll have to hard-code religious fundamentalists, rabble-rousers, RIAA lawyers and republicans! And I have to give different clans different commandments so they can fight about who's commandments are the commandments by the one, true GOD!!! MUAHAHAHA
and god damn, I'll have to give a name to the ressources... I might call them spice... or oil...
iirc Debian changed the name and icon of firefox to iceweasel, because Mozilla told people to not change the icon when redistributing altered versions... Debian is quite strict about free software and that demand violates the 4 essential freedoms (even if it violates them only peripherally), so they forked firefox...
otoh they keep up with the versions - it seems they fork every version again or so - i don't know...
Do you really think google will just ignore it when youtube's webhits nosedive by 36% and their advertising partners leave en masse?
If 36% of all internet users and especially the pros can't see your html 5 videos, then html 5 is done for.
just wait for html 5's demise and ogg/theora in html 6...
Mozilla is to powerful in the browsermarket for any website to not support them!
So you obviously never hacked using the ultimate hacker tool uplink. You should try! there you see how realistic most movies are, unlike most of the hacking tools YOU lamers use...
It may not be much, but I couldn't bear to keep my contempt to myself.
In case you were unaware, even if you upload 0 copies of a file, 3000 people are still able to download the file
So Drupal removes ("dries") the feature called "buytaert" (probably some kind of e-commerce feature) in version 7... ok, lets read the story now...
It's good to know who has the power in this "demo"cracy
I should add that I'm from germany and our "Abitur" (which is about the same as college) is a joke. You have to be really stupid or extremely lazy not to get that...
When I was searching for a girlfriend on a dating platform, I also checked the box for "must have college degree", because I didn't want a girlfriend, with which I couldn't talk about anything else than the latest "american idol" episode...
sorry, I thought we were talking about programmers, not network admins...
I don't know how educated your colleagues are, but if they have studied computer science, then you should just shut your dumb mouth, because we learn how to analyze running times WITHOUT actually running it. Even without actually programming it, just by analyzing the problem itself. That is called "complexity theory" and (in that case) you are the one who doesn't have any clue about what you don't understand.
and go away with "tuning". You might improve running times a bit, but no little tuning hack can defeat the improvements you get by better algorithm design by an expert on algorithmics (I mean that e.g. some XOR AX AX might speed up your program by factor 2, but replacing simple backtracking with techniques to keep branching vectors small gets you exponential speed ups!)
so you never gave a course in programming and hat mathematicians in it... I did and I can tell you, that mathematicians write horrible ugly spaghetti code and jumping code without meaningful variable names! The stuff might work, but its unreadable, mostly some border cases don't work and don't get me started on running times!
WHAT!? thats utter bullshit and he has no freakin clue what he's talking about! If you are not about to write a 3D Engine or an Algebra system (like "derive", "maple", etc), the second subject is mostly useless for you! Take the first course, because nearly every problem you encounter in practice, is equivalent to some graph problem... also you need graph theory in EVERY course on theoretical computer science (complexity, computability, randomized algorithms, efiicient algorithms, parameterized algorithms), these are very closely related to graph theory. Also multithreading and thread synchronisation are discrete systems and even good string processing (compilers, scanners, etc). Heck, you meet discrete math even in artificial intelligence, logics, logic programming, relational databases, game theory, designing micro-chips, routing, networking, sorting algorithms, you name it! everything about computers and programming has to do with discrete math, because processors, operating systems and programs are discrete systems (equivalent to turing machines) and they operate on a discrete set of data (because you only have finite RAM and HD and "discrete" basically means "enumerable or finite")
this kinda reminds me of human nature
http://xkcd.com/305/
maybe the problem is that religious games (I don't know even one counter example) focus to much on conveying the religion and to little on stuff like A STORY, or GAMEPLAY... they're like most educational games, they just AREN'T FUN TO PLAY.
http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/?p=3878
http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/?p=4069
Wikileaks in TOR and Freenet
Although I don't think this is a completely bad idea, I have to wonder - when will the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL be limited to people with an IQ > 120?... exercising the mind would do some of these guys well either, don't you think?...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sippenhaft