There's still a big difference between working for years to teach an animal something that most human toddlers pick up almost accidentally from exposure...and getting an animal to reason about things like religion, philosophy, infinity, the possible existance of the soul, calculus, etc..
The first dog that teachs another dog a language...I might be impressed...the first dog that teaches words to a human child, I'll be a bit more impressed.
The first dolphin that can solve a linear algebra problem or contemplate the age of the universe...*that* will impress me
I would hazard a guess that most systems that have such limits have them for defensive (or possibly commercial) purposes and that having 'no connection limit' just means that there wasn't an attempt to put one in
I'm sure you can write a TCP/IP stack in a turing machine, but why bother it's only vain attempts at glorifying a language which was perfectly fine in the area it was designed for.
This is the kinda stuff programmers do all the time when they are bored or playing around or trying stuff out. I'm not surprised someone did it, I'm just surprised it was considered worth telling anyone about. It's about as newsworthy as posting your homework solutions
Very true. Only some languages are a bit more difficult than others
True, I found that writing a webserver in Smalltalk (and an object server in Python) a lot easier than C, simply because the socket libraries in those languages hid a lot of the difficulty, and the string parsing was more sophisticated
[i]Neither of which are that hard when you know.[i]
Writing basic web servers in any languague is pretty easy, actually. Heck, I wrote a web server in Smalltalk that now powers ezboard.com. It's something a lot of programmers end up doing as a lark just to see that they can.
Yeah, I wrote a quick and dirty proof of concept distributed object client/server in Python in about two hours, but I wouldn't post it to slashdot. Quick and dirty proofs of concepts are what progreammers do every day...so what?
Sorta like saying that all those burglers make us realize that we need to lock our doors. If the burglers weren't there...we wouldn't need the locks anyways.
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I think your sig explains your question
he he he..
for some of us..it is near our house...
Rio Rancho borders Albququerque (my home) and that's about 1M people in the area
Myc cats recognize a very small set of words like "feed" and phrases like "leave the cat alone" (when directed at one of the kids
not really a sign of intelligence...
There's still a big difference between working for years to teach an animal something that most human toddlers pick up almost accidentally from exposure...and getting an animal to reason about things like religion, philosophy, infinity, the possible existance of the soul, calculus, etc..
The first dog that teachs another dog a language...I might be impressed...the first dog that teaches words to a human child, I'll be a bit more impressed.
The first dolphin that can solve a linear algebra problem or contemplate the age of the universe...*that* will impress me
this doesn't. just glorified animal tricks
this one doesn't have any
I would hazard a guess that most systems that have such limits have them for defensive (or possibly commercial) purposes and that having 'no connection limit' just means that there wasn't an attempt to put one in
For those who don't know what lucid dreams are; they are dreams in which you know you are dreaming
reminds me of Lathe of Heaven
I'm sure you can write a TCP/IP stack in a turing machine, but why bother it's only vain attempts at glorifying a language which was perfectly fine in the area it was designed for.
This is the kinda stuff programmers do all the time when they are bored or playing around or trying stuff out. I'm not surprised someone did it, I'm just surprised it was considered worth telling anyone about. It's about as newsworthy as posting your homework solutions
Very true. Only some languages are a bit more difficult than others
True, I found that writing a webserver in Smalltalk (and an object server in Python) a lot easier than C, simply because the socket libraries in those languages hid a lot of the difficulty, and the string parsing was more sophisticated
[i]Neither of which are that hard when you know.[i]
Writing basic web servers in any languague is pretty easy, actually. Heck, I wrote a web server in Smalltalk that now powers ezboard.com. It's something a lot of programmers end up doing as a lark just to see that they can.
[i]...yet it seems to handle this kind of stuff impressingly well.[/i] ..you say as the page loading icon spins and spins and spins... :)
Yeah, I wrote a quick and dirty proof of concept distributed object client/server in Python in about two hours, but I wouldn't post it to slashdot. Quick and dirty proofs of concepts are what progreammers do every day...so what?
Another story about something being done in PHP that ends up not being quite as impressive as the headline led to believe?
It's called The Register, with a higher Signal/Noise ratio
Sorta like saying that all those burglers make us realize that we need to lock our doors. If the burglers weren't there...we wouldn't need the locks anyways.
The 3D effects were the *least* of Jaws 3D's problems
Do free peanuts in a bar really lead people to drink beer?
...over carrier pigeon
Now, how do you put a router in orit?
pump out a lot of spam...
from that Windows-based supercomputer...
Albuquerque already has the "Sunport" and I can't remember what Pheonix calls theirs...Skyport?
Oww...sowwy about that
Yeah, I know. Smalltalk was Xerox' pre-cursor to those systems. I'm not sure what they were calling the windowing system at that time, though
but Michael Moore and others have mentioned it.
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