Hah. Like Microsoft deciding that file name dot-extensions were the devil's workshop and must be hidden from view by default.
I saw this a couple places in the comments. I could be wrong, and i haven't used an Apple product since the 90's but weren't Apple computers the first to hide the extension and instead differentiate in the icon only?
But I'd say that 99.999% of today's programmers have no fucking clue what code optimization really means..
CPU power is cheap, let the compiler optimize what it can, take care of larger bottlenecks, and who cares? The rapid development we have now allows us to progress at an amazing rate because it usually doesn't matter if we waste a few cycles. You can continue to do F1 at the edges, but the mass in the middle is fine with a Civic.
On chrome it's unreadable, on IE it's crazily formated. Firefox shows it correctly, but come on; talking about how awesome the web is and giving an example that fucks up?
I can't believe nobody has mentioned this; there was an article on the BBC last October about "The Japanese men who prefer virtual girlfriends to sex". They take them on dates and everything, so people are already doing what happens in the movie only with a way shittier version of the Girl.
It's also important to sweep the account you are sweeping into... usually, the wire transfer capability works both ways. So they can, without additional authorization, suck funds back out of your bank account. (if anyone happens to know a bank that will let you prevent this sort of outgoing transaction, I am all ears)
I think most banks will provide an account like that. I found out at work that we have an incoming only account (outgoing only to another account of ours) where our customers pay us when someone started trying to cash fraudulent checks on it. Since it doesn't allow it, we didn't lose anything. We use Bank of America.
COBOL is one of the few languages that is completely standardized. IO, formatting, everything works the same EVERYWHERE.
Hahahahaha!!!! No way. I work in a COBOL conversion shop (simple explanation, anyways) and I've worked with COBOL on several types of machines, and not even all the A series machines act the same with the same code. You would not believe the crazy, undocumented crap that programmers use to make their programs work.
Sure, the basic "COBOL" language is mostly standardized (once you pick your variant) but real life implementations are not coded that way and everyone manages to find the little things that make their stack unique.
Same experience here, but I am a US citizen so they might be more inclined to fuck around with you as a foreigner. My advice is to keep your laptop/ipod or whatever with you as carry-on luggage.
I just wanted to say thanks for answering the questions. Not everyone is satisfied with the answers, of course, but at least you tried walking into the dragons den. It was quite interesting reading what you had to say about all this instead of just another interpretation by someone else.
I'm not saying I agree with you on everything, but thanks.
(Comedy Central, should you be listening, I'd gladly pay for Daily Show and Colbert).
Grab the Media Hint extension for Chrome or Firefox and you'll be able to watch them on Hulu. I don't know if it works on Comedy Central's website or the colbert/dailyshow's own websites, but I know it let me use netflix, hulu, and pandora when I had to go to Belgium for work a couple months back. It makes those sites think you're in the US.
You might have to side-load it since it doesn't always seem available in the extensions "store" or whatever.
Slashdot Mirror
Hah. Like Microsoft deciding that file name dot-extensions were the devil's workshop and must be hidden from view by default.
I saw this a couple places in the comments. I could be wrong, and i haven't used an Apple product since the 90's but weren't Apple computers the first to hide the extension and instead differentiate in the icon only?
But I'd say that 99.999% of today's programmers have no fucking clue what code optimization really means..
CPU power is cheap, let the compiler optimize what it can, take care of larger bottlenecks, and who cares? The rapid development we have now allows us to progress at an amazing rate because it usually doesn't matter if we waste a few cycles. You can continue to do F1 at the edges, but the mass in the middle is fine with a Civic.
did you read the first 8 words of the summary? "A 500 meter (0.3 mile) stretch of road "
Also check out the CERN line mode browser simulation of the first web site
On chrome it's unreadable, on IE it's crazily formated. Firefox shows it correctly, but come on; talking about how awesome the web is and giving an example that fucks up?
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Ha ha! Slashdot has foiled your nefarious plan by not supporting unicode!
> And Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. Looked so lifelike in stills, but lack of any facial movement killed all belief that he wasn't CG.
FTFY
That was the joke
I can't believe nobody has mentioned this; there was an article on the BBC last October about "The Japanese men who prefer virtual girlfriends to sex". They take them on dates and everything, so people are already doing what happens in the movie only with a way shittier version of the Girl.
But can it run Crysis?
Dear lord, this is an old joke now?
Alright, I'll give you that one.
Well, they did make one that was reliably incorrect.
Why is this not +5 Funny?
(It's an obamacare/heath exchanges reference for those that don't get it)
That's great, except all the IDs had his picture on them.
Irregardless, that war's been lost for a while.
Screw the summary. Is this guy really asking us how to do his job?
Oh! visionary?
Thank you! Mod parent up. There's no reason to go "Durr! Micro$oft! lolz" every time a Microsoft related story comes up.
:P
This might even be the most on-topic post in the thread
It's also important to sweep the account you are sweeping into... usually, the wire transfer capability works both ways. So they can, without additional authorization, suck funds back out of your bank account. (if anyone happens to know a bank that will let you prevent this sort of outgoing transaction, I am all ears)
I think most banks will provide an account like that. I found out at work that we have an incoming only account (outgoing only to another account of ours) where our customers pay us when someone started trying to cash fraudulent checks on it. Since it doesn't allow it, we didn't lose anything. We use Bank of America.
I was really excited to read something about the Sega Master System and was bummed out when I realized my mistake.
I stopped at the word "sheeple". Don't ever use that word if you want to be taken seriously. It makes you look like a fucking asshat.
(very-es from to school to school)
I agree with your trade school idea, but is that really how you spelled "varies"?
"Go to Hell-ron, L Ron!"
Yeah, awesome fight scene
"Em grams.. get out of my head!"
COBOL is one of the few languages that is completely standardized. IO, formatting, everything works the same EVERYWHERE.
Hahahahaha!!!! No way. I work in a COBOL conversion shop (simple explanation, anyways) and I've worked with COBOL on several types of machines, and not even all the A series machines act the same with the same code. You would not believe the crazy, undocumented crap that programmers use to make their programs work.
Sure, the basic "COBOL" language is mostly standardized (once you pick your variant) but real life implementations are not coded that way and everyone manages to find the little things that make their stack unique.
Same experience here, but I am a US citizen so they might be more inclined to fuck around with you as a foreigner. My advice is to keep your laptop/ipod or whatever with you as carry-on luggage.
I just wanted to say thanks for answering the questions. Not everyone is satisfied with the answers, of course, but at least you tried walking into the dragons den. It was quite interesting reading what you had to say about all this instead of just another interpretation by someone else.
I'm not saying I agree with you on everything, but thanks.
(Comedy Central, should you be listening, I'd gladly pay for Daily Show and Colbert).
Grab the Media Hint extension for Chrome or Firefox and you'll be able to watch them on Hulu. I don't know if it works on Comedy Central's website or the colbert/dailyshow's own websites, but I know it let me use netflix, hulu, and pandora when I had to go to Belgium for work a couple months back. It makes those sites think you're in the US.
You might have to side-load it since it doesn't always seem available in the extensions "store" or whatever.