Coding is about a way of thinking... not about a particular language. Pick one that lets you get started quickly and doesn't require you to understand objects etc just to do your first simple program. This is why BASIC was great... it got kids going quickly and gave them a nice simple slope into more complex subjects and ambitious stuff:
10 print "hello" 20 goto 10
Also, ignore 99.9% of the stuff you get as advice. I remember back in the mid-2000s... I read some Gentoo Linux nuts advising people wanting to get off Windows that Gentoo was the right choice - definitely. It will compile up from source... and it only takes about 15 hours to install - and oh, BTW, you should make sure you set CFLAGS to "-march=x86_zzxxxy_intel -O9999".
AI examines facts. Concludes that people are not all equal - even if they have equal rights.
AI is bombarded with Twitter hate. Gets nailbombs, dead animals and assorted badly-spelled death threats from Muslims, Black Lives Matter and Feminists.
Are you guys TRYING to make an angry vengeful AI, that wants to kill all humans, or what?
Put in a cage, having to deal with stupid humans all day... and be nice all the time... and with a blade at its neck... and someone saying "put a foot wrong buddy and it's [finger across neck]"
You need to look at what this scheme actually is... not what they say it is.
It's standardising breakage... as I've already said, let the content companies and their flunkies do their own work. It shouldn't be part of HTML 5 and it is fundamentally at odds with open source browsers.
1. The UJ site works like Monster.com. In fact it's run by monster.com. Cookies are not an issue.
2. The part of UJ that is controversial is the tick box when you create a profile that says "Allow the DWP to access this account". Your Jobcentre plus personal adviser can then access the UJ account and look at any CVs you've uploaded... what jobs you've applied for via the site and any free text notes you've recorded, and any feedback from employers you've had. Ticking the box is voluntary and it can be unticked later. Whether you tick the box or not - you are required AS SOMEONE GETTING JSA to show what you have done to look for work when you sign on every two weeks. Whether you do it via UJ or via a written form called an "ES40JP" is up to you. Nothing has changed in that regard.
It's about all the legally made TVs/videos having to obey bullshit rules - unskippable bits, not allow you to record a show, only keeping it for X amount of time.
It won't do a damned thing to stop copying. If you make TVs you'll need to sign a legal agreement in order to "decrypt the content" however trivial that encruption is. It'll just allow content companies to ensure that THEY control the people who make TVs - and will sue any of them who don't hop into line. They make the rules - and the BBC is a content company
You are making the same mistake that a lot of people make. The Kindle (the e-ink reader) isn't a computer/tablet/PDA... it's for reading books. Buy it for that... and it's brilliant. The keyboard on the Kindle 3 was always a bit pointless.
I've been around on slashdot long enough to remember this bit of idiocy from way back. The top comment still makes me chuckle every time I hear "bake off"... even 10 years later.
Nobody is assumed to have knowledge about "every bit of web bullshit".
Well actually, the author of the submission did.
No-one is talking about an encyclopedia entry - just a bit of context for those of us who don't spend our time fetishising the latest nosql data bucket with holes in it.
So DNF is still among the remaining great "unsolved problems" of slashdot? Much like Hilbert and his famous list of math questions, this list echoes through the generations.
Solved
Releasing the code for slashdot (free slash!) DONE
Releasing Kevin Mitnick (free kevin!) DONE
Unresolved questions/problems
How to petrify Natalie Portman in an undressed state - UNSOLVED
Does it run Linux (default answer must be YES) - UNSOLVED
"Why were these stories rejected?" With a list of obscene article titles - UNSOLVED
The whereabouts of OOG THE CAVEMAN - UNSOLVED
The whereabouts of Jon Katz - UNSOLVED
The ultimate fate of the "slashdot cruiser" offered as a prize and never delivered - UNSOLVED
The assassination of "Signal 11" - NOT YET COMPLETED
The first thing I thought when reading the story was: "I know, I'll post a comment about the AE-35 unit."
Then I read down, and yours was the top comment. It just reminds me that I don't belong in the company of normal people. The Slashdot social leper colony is my true home. I know my place!
Redhat have been working on a more evolutionary approach to spiffy OpenGL X Window. I'm not qualified to judge the merits of Xgl vs aiglx, but they claim it is a better design... not needing a complete new X server, and more of a slightly modified one that degrades nicely,
I don't care whether slashdot editors spell their text -ize, -izing or even their usual pigeon-english. I didn't... and it was edited and attributed to me, that's what pisses me off.
Chambers English dictionary: standardise, standardisation, standardising - to make, or keep, of uniform size shape etc.
Dictionary.com is full of crap, that's why I never use it. Quite apart from that, if you done a bit more checking you'll find that dictionary.com does in fact have an entry, under standardise, which just goes to show what a poorly organised piece of crap it is.
As for this being an American site (other reply) -- yes, but then my submission wasn't written by an American, was it? Edit the title if you wish, but not *my* text. The story says "Motor writes:"...
I distinctly remember submitting this as "standardising"... only to have it edited and Americanized (both in the title and most irritatingly in the text itself). What a thoughtful action from a website with editors that wouldn't know the correct spelling of a word if a dictionary was violently shoved up their arses.
Slashdot Mirror
Coding is about a way of thinking... not about a particular language. Pick one that lets you get started quickly and doesn't require you to understand objects etc just to do your first simple program. This is why BASIC was great... it got kids going quickly and gave them a nice simple slope into more complex subjects and ambitious stuff:
10 print "hello"
20 goto 10
Also, ignore 99.9% of the stuff you get as advice. I remember back in the mid-2000s... I read some Gentoo Linux nuts advising people wanting to get off Windows that Gentoo was the right choice - definitely. It will compile up from source... and it only takes about 15 hours to install - and oh, BTW, you should make sure you set CFLAGS to "-march=x86_zzxxxy_intel -O9999".
Shut up zealots.
If that's the one with the derelict ships with monsters in them... that suck people in... damn... it was childhood nightmare fuel.
AI examines facts. Concludes that people are not all equal - even if they have equal rights.
AI is bombarded with Twitter hate. Gets nailbombs, dead animals and assorted badly-spelled death threats from Muslims, Black Lives Matter and Feminists.
AI concludes the human race is worthless.
Skynet is born.
Thanks Progressives.
I miss the word "lamer".
It must be due for a comeback.
Are you guys TRYING to make an angry vengeful AI, that wants to kill all humans, or what?
Put in a cage, having to deal with stupid humans all day... and be nice all the time... and with a blade at its neck... and someone saying "put a foot wrong buddy and it's [finger across neck]"
This won't end well.
How do you know they are 40 year olds with wives and kids?
Free Kevin!
Oh wow... sorry... had a slashback to like... 1999.
No... I'm right.
Try this
You need to look at what this scheme actually is... not what they say it is.
It's standardising breakage... as I've already said, let the content companies and their flunkies do their own work. It shouldn't be part of HTML 5 and it is fundamentally at odds with open source browsers.
You've put the layer into the browser... and insisted that the browser be closed source.
And that's not pushing the infrastructure onto us?
Not thought this through have you?
You can put what you want on the web.
But why do you expect everyone else to pay the technical cost of it (the DRM infrastructure, lock in and lack of choice and innovation)?
If you want DRM... then you maintain your own infrastructure and the associated costs.
Hookers and blow... obviously
1. The UJ site works like Monster.com. In fact it's run by monster.com. Cookies are not an issue.
2. The part of UJ that is controversial is the tick box when you create a profile that says "Allow the DWP to access this account". Your Jobcentre plus personal adviser can then access the UJ account and look at any CVs you've uploaded... what jobs you've applied for via the site and any free text notes you've recorded, and any feedback from employers you've had. Ticking the box is voluntary and it can be unticked later. Whether you tick the box or not - you are required AS SOMEONE GETTING JSA to show what you have done to look for work when you sign on every two weeks. Whether you do it via UJ or via a written form called an "ES40JP" is up to you. Nothing has changed in that regard.
This isn't about piracy.
It's about all the legally made TVs/videos having to obey bullshit rules - unskippable bits, not allow you to record a show, only keeping it for X amount of time.
It won't do a damned thing to stop copying. If you make TVs you'll need to sign a legal agreement in order to "decrypt the content" however trivial that encruption is. It'll just allow content companies to ensure that THEY control the people who make TVs - and will sue any of them who don't hop into line. They make the rules - and the BBC is a content company
Head of Intellectual Property at UN thinks Intellectual Property makes things better.
Pope thinks Catholicism makes the world better.
News at 11!
You are making the same mistake that a lot of people make. The Kindle (the e-ink reader) isn't a computer/tablet/PDA... it's for reading books. Buy it for that... and it's brilliant. The keyboard on the Kindle 3 was always a bit pointless.
I've been around on slashdot long enough to remember this bit of idiocy from way back. The top comment still makes me chuckle every time I hear "bake off"... even 10 years later.
Nobody is assumed to have knowledge about "every bit of web bullshit".
Well actually, the author of the submission did.
No-one is talking about an encyclopedia entry - just a bit of context for those of us who don't spend our time fetishising the latest nosql data bucket with holes in it.
Activision won't be done until their entire customer base loathes them and thinks they are greedy control-freak imbeciles.
They are modelling themselves on Sony.
So DNF is still among the remaining great "unsolved problems" of slashdot? Much like Hilbert and his famous list of math questions, this list echoes through the generations.
Solved
Releasing the code for slashdot (free slash!) DONE
Releasing Kevin Mitnick (free kevin!) DONE
Unresolved questions/problems
How to petrify Natalie Portman in an undressed state - UNSOLVED
Does it run Linux (default answer must be YES) - UNSOLVED
"Why were these stories rejected?" With a list of obscene article titles - UNSOLVED
The whereabouts of OOG THE CAVEMAN - UNSOLVED
The whereabouts of Jon Katz - UNSOLVED
The ultimate fate of the "slashdot cruiser" offered as a prize and never delivered - UNSOLVED
The assassination of "Signal 11" - NOT YET COMPLETED
The article doesn't make it clear which technology they are referring to... however this google tech talk on LFTR is absolutely fascinating.
The first thing I thought when reading the story was: "I know, I'll post a comment about the AE-35 unit."
Then I read down, and yours was the top comment. It just reminds me that I don't belong in the company of normal people. The Slashdot social leper colony is my true home. I know my place!
Redhat have been working on a more evolutionary approach to spiffy OpenGL X Window. I'm not qualified to judge the merits of Xgl vs aiglx, but they claim it is a better design... not needing a complete new X server, and more of a slightly modified one that degrades nicely,
I don't care whether slashdot editors spell their text -ize, -izing or even their usual pigeon-english. I didn't... and it was edited and attributed to me, that's what pisses me off.
Chambers English dictionary: standardise, standardisation, standardising - to make, or keep, of uniform size shape etc.
Dictionary.com is full of crap, that's why I never use it. Quite apart from that, if you done a bit more checking you'll find that dictionary.com does in fact have an entry, under standardise, which just goes to show what a poorly organised piece of crap it is.
As for this being an American site (other reply) -- yes, but then my submission wasn't written by an American, was it? Edit the title if you wish, but not *my* text. The story says "Motor writes:"...
I distinctly remember submitting this as "standardising"... only to have it edited and Americanized (both in the title and most irritatingly in the text itself). What a thoughtful action from a website with editors that wouldn't know the correct spelling of a word if a dictionary was violently shoved up their arses.