Epigrams On Programming / quote 26 of 28
Turing machine
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
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Machine, environment and their interface
In our understanding, the two ovals represent the possible phenomena involving the environment (to the left) and a programmable plat- form connected to the…
Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective #machine #environment #interface #computer #specification
The holodeck idea
First introduced on 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' in 1987, the holodeck consists of an empty black cube covered in white gridlines upon which a computer…
Hamlet On The Holodeck #computer #Holodeck #machine #programming
Conspiracy theorists
Why does any of this matter? My concern is with the ultimate fate of knowing, of seeing the difference of what you can know and what you wish for. . . . The…
Why The Moon Landing Could Not Have Been A Hoax — It Wasn’t Technologically Possible To Fake It « The Scholarly Kitchen #differences #people #concern #fate
Definitive work
The final version of a work which has been published. Typically, the Definitive Work has been accepted, edited and published in print and/or digital form. The…
Episodes and clips
Finally clips. Clips were a later addition to the PIPs model and describing them is hard. Importantly they are not (as the name might suggest) necessarily…
Designing A Url Structure For Bbc Programmes | Smethurst #episodes #series #program #differences
Exoticising the unfamiliar
However, there is clearly a danger here of exoticising the unfamiliar.
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #culture #differences #perception