A driver handles the abstraction of hardware to a software construct.

Operating systems handle allocation and management of other more abstract constructs (such as files, sockets, and processes),...

Wow. Just wow.

Cosi, that's pretty impressive... I've never heard of Pressburger equations or the Omega test (and I'm going into Calculus III this semester). That must be something in Calculus XIV or something...

I think my favorite programming shortcuts are subroutines and functions for small pieces of code. Using them makes your programs smaller and your code easier to read, but it also uses more space on...

Thanks for the idea Chainsaw. I encrypted a bitmap with PGP and deleted the header to leave a file of basically random data. Winzip couldn't compress it at all (It got bigger by a couple hundred...

Hrm.... truly random data is harder to find than I thought. <grumbles>

I would have said what you just said if it hadn't been 1:45 AM ;) . Well, I'm gonna try making random data and seeing if winzip will compress it. It will be interesting to see if winzip can do the...

Actually, I heard that from someone else. I don't know it for a fact, I suppose I shouldn't have posted it :( .

From what I've heard, programs are considered AI when they can fool a human being into thinking they are human (ie. over IRC chat or similar). Several programs have been able to do this sucessfully.

AI would be basically like a human being, but it would think differently.

I wouldn't really want an AI computer - but maybe I've been reading 2001: A Space Odyssey too much.

I've been wondering about this for awhile now: does random data compress?

Some people seem to think it does, while others maintain that it doesn't. I mean to mathematically prove that only 1/255...

Well, once I was working some a function that would return a string along the lines of : "This system has been running for 1 week, 3 days, 2 hours, 1 minute, 0 seconds."

I was doing this in VB and...

Well, the hardest thing I've ever made would have to be the programming language I invented in April this year. It's a very low-level two-dimensional progamming language for DOS that compiles to...