Bison's output isn't binary, it's C (a somewhat contrived and difficult to understand C, but C nevertheless). It doesn't generate "compiled binaries", as the article points out.
It's still source code. Maybe not the original source code, but source code anyway. I don't think that violates the GPL intrinsically (maybe it violates its spirit, but not the license by itself).
"For example, the obvious mistake seen in the video is that the robot strikes at the *weapon*, not the *person*. As any 1st year fencing student knows, you can't win the fight that way. I love fighting nubies who make that mistake."
Certainly direction and target is the primary parameter to take into account... for humans. I think that you are missing the very obvious but very important fact that we are talking about machines here. Their raison d'être is to excel precisely where we don't (at least for now). Their constraints and objectives are also different.
Should a match ever happen, on an equal ground, I would be betting on the machine.
Consider what would happen if a robot directed a hit to a stick handed by you... but without safety measures on. This is, with full machine strength and speed.
Machines can *literally* have the strength of ten men, and far beyond. And they can move faster than our eyes can see.
The swing would not have to be directed to your body. Nor be particularly elegant, or have a great follow-up. With enough speed and force, your stick would be gone from your hand after the first move, and you would probably be suffering severe incapacitating injuries in your arm (or more, if you happened to be behind the stick).
It would not be "human fencing", just like the raw calculative power in a CPU isn't "human intelligence". Each one has its uses.
Skin is actually light sensitive. Pain receptors are directly connected to neurons. It could be used for torture, if they found a way to replace regular sub-cutaneous skin neurons with photosensitive ones.
Politicians in the US are encouraging religion for two reasons:
* First and foremost, they believe that not doing so is a political suicide; in other words, that the majority of the population (or at least, the voting ones) are religious.
* Second, a religious population is easier to manipulate - they are better prepared to accept statements as true without demanding evidence, for one thing. This is something the islamists figured out long ago but it the US politics has been historically moderate, but very used in the recent history, initially by republicans alone, and now by both main parties.
So, yes, religious beliefs are part of the political agenda. But this is being done because of selfish political reasons, not to "counter" the islamists.
At least for now, the only ones that believe that the best way to combat extremist islam with its own weapons are the rednecks taking their kids to a Jesus camp
Slashdot Mirror
That's not a computer.
"Zelda? A remake of an old game that wasn't exactly the best to begin with."
Actually, that Zelda is considered the very best pretty much unanimously. See:
http://apps.metacritic.com/games/platforms/n64/legendofzeldaocarina
I agree with you on everything else, except on Sony; I don't think they'll make a huge comeback with the new portable.
xD they never fail to deliver.
How did they miss the chance?
Hemm ... no.
So? They are getting extra money. They should be doing extra work.
Already done.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185183/
It won seven Razzies in 2001.
"I thought Harrison Ford to once again proves that he is just to old for this sort of work"
TOO old.
Thanks.
"Which would you prefer to have to make changes to ?"
Well, I'd actually use antlr, not bison, to begin with. It's much more potent than bison, and the source code it generates is human-readable.
Bison's output isn't binary, it's C (a somewhat contrived and difficult to understand C, but C nevertheless). It doesn't generate "compiled binaries", as the article points out.
It's still source code. Maybe not the original source code, but source code anyway. I don't think that violates the GPL intrinsically (maybe it violates its spirit, but not the license by itself).
There's the Director's Cut Edition.
And then the Remasterized Hi-def with Aragorn singing Edition.
And then the Collector's pack.
And it continues and continues.
"If you want privacy, then you need your anonymity."
Please explain.
What is a car?
No, you should have an automated script that does all those things for you.
The abstract in Slashdot is pretty much the whole text in the linked post. The other 3 paragraphs repeat the same idea.
"In fact" I know at least one person whose mac book pro doesn't boot after the update to Lion (well it does, but on an endless "updating" loop)
Setting up a game in a post-apocaliptic future wasteland is a paradigm of creativity.
"For example, the obvious mistake seen in the video is that the robot strikes at the *weapon*, not the *person*. As any 1st year fencing student knows, you can't win the fight that way. I love fighting nubies who make that mistake."
Certainly direction and target is the primary parameter to take into account ... for humans. I think that you are missing the very obvious but very important fact that we are talking about machines here. Their raison d'être is to excel precisely where we don't (at least for now). Their constraints and objectives are also different.
Should a match ever happen, on an equal ground, I would be betting on the machine.
Consider what would happen if a robot directed a hit to a stick handed by you ... but without safety measures on. This is, with full machine strength and speed.
Machines can *literally* have the strength of ten men, and far beyond. And they can move faster than our eyes can see.
The swing would not have to be directed to your body. Nor be particularly elegant, or have a great follow-up. With enough speed and force, your stick would be gone from your hand after the first move, and you would probably be suffering severe incapacitating injuries in your arm (or more, if you happened to be behind the stick).
It would not be "human fencing", just like the raw calculative power in a CPU isn't "human intelligence". Each one has its uses.
Skin is actually light sensitive. Pain receptors are directly connected to neurons. It could be used for torture, if they found a way to replace regular sub-cutaneous skin neurons with photosensitive ones.
We need more scandals.
"What could possibly be more geek than that? It's fantastic."
A steampunk car built from scratch.
And using SNES controllers.
It didn't happen because of it, but despise it.
I can't figure out whether this is supposed to be a serious or joke comment.
You mean, shoot Microsoft?
I don't agree.
Politicians in the US are encouraging religion for two reasons:
So, yes, religious beliefs are part of the political agenda. But this is being done because of selfish political reasons, not to "counter" the islamists.
At least for now, the only ones that believe that the best way to combat extremist islam with its own weapons are the rednecks taking their kids to a Jesus camp