No one's ever made a high-budget version of any of Heinlein's books (let's not pretend Starship Troopers shared anything but the name), even the "Big 3".
Actually his point was that "traditional" CS isn't valued by business.
Which is mostly true. Most businesses can't tell the difference between a DFA/CFG/Turing Machine if they tried.
However the argument that CS doesn't HAVE value is completely false. (And thus my comment about storing monetary amounts in standard floats -- a practice I've personally seen businesses doing in 2016. Why are we getting rounding errors?)
BTW: We're talking AP exams - these are college credit exams for CS. I'd might allow allow them to skip Intro to Programming Languages with that test...but COT?
OK, I'll play. You know there are no jobs for computers scientists
Can you provide an explanation of P vs NP? Does it apply to the search of Prime Numbers? What real world examples of P vs NP?
Too difficult? Can you explain what a DFA/NFA is? What the corresponding architecture is in electronic circuits? What sort of problems (real world) can a DFA/NFA solve? What sort can't it solve (think Pumping Lemma)? Can you provide an example (real world)?
Yeah. Everyone wants programmers. Even if they go to boot-camp schools and come out in 26 weeks knowing a gee-wiz-bang-language. Then they use floats for storing monetary amounts and the CEO wonders why they're losing money.
Not that we can complain. Even computer scientists (a la Marvin Minsky) can get things wrong.
No, you had to be given the opportunity to serve. They had to find a place for you. But you weren't guaranteed never to be fired.
Actually - to be fair - there wasn't a guarantee that you wouldn't be killed either.
There's a big decision in the novel about if Rico should be dismissed, or 'salvaged' with 'administrative punishment.'
And again - to be fair - that big decision has to do with a felony. (Both book and movie - book: he would've 'nuked' a teammate and movie: a fellow soldier dies while he's attempting to fix the soldier's helmet - something he wasn't qualified to do (I prefer the book version))
The point is misleading - it's not about denying someone the vote - but rather how the military policed their own. The book runs a chapter prior to this talking about a fellow soldier who, in the heat of the moment, jumps up and slugs his commanding officer (Zim) - a hanging offense. A review of the situation occurs - and a court marital (field) later and this soldier is flogged and discharged (dishonorably).
But these cases weren't about voting - they were about breaking the law.
I'll grant you that a group of dishonest military people COULD rig the system - prevent only whom they deem worthy to be allowed in. But the premise is that everyone, in general, agreed to follow the rules and allow people a chance to earn their voting privilege. (In fact, being "washed out' (fired) in the military didn't mean you couldn't go on and attempt to earn your privilege through other service - he cites one person who does.)
But could it be rigged? In fact, in the book, Heinlein basically admits that's how it started out: The system of requiring military service before voting simply "happened' because a group of vets had to decide to hang another vet....and they weren't going to allow anyone else to do it / have a say in it.
The comment on it: That this system worked. Not right, not wrong....it simply worked.
And that takes us to the US system of government. Heinlein points out (in Expanded Universe, iirc) that his mother was denied the vote for decades. Others are denied the vote for a myriad of reasons, even now. (Felons for example, lose the right to vote)
But my point was the complexity that some people prefer. (I know I do).
What was the command to get to a hard drive with a C64? OPEN 1,8,15,"N:NEWDISK,01":CLOSE 1 ?
Mac? Stick the disk in the slot. (Not that Vanilla Macs came with hard drives)
Using a Mac was like driving a car with an automatic transmission. Yeah, it did what I wanted...but if I WANTED control....
Yawn. It's no about the computer. It's about the computer experience.
Like Apple or hate it. Apple (and Jobs in particular) has worked for the last 20+ years trying to remove the "computer" from people who had to work with it.
Did you ever get to work with an original Mac? The one that had a training cassette that was to be played with the original tutorial programs? The entire purpose of that machine was to make working with it so simply anyone could do it. (Even my mom...god rest her soui...as mathematically incompetent as she was had no problem using it.)
Now compare that with trying to get a C64 to read from a floppy drive.
Is the ad annoying? Sure. Apple haters are really going to hate it.
But they should be running chrome books by now, anyway.:-)
But blankets and smallpox rumors go back to 1763 and Fort Pitt. Sources of that story go back to 1898. (And no, in 1763 - it would not be the US Government, obviously).
Much of the opposition came from Democrats, though the vote did produce a striking coalition of conservatives and liberals who backed an alternative that would have imposed stricter protections for Americans whose information got snared in the data dragnet.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/...
Really? - cause prior to Obama the same investigations were going on...and the same unmasking and no legal framework was around any of it. (That's what started this law in the first place).
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Which is mostly true. Most businesses can't tell the difference between a DFA/CFG/Turing Machine if they tried.
However the argument that CS doesn't HAVE value is completely false. (And thus my comment about storing monetary amounts in standard floats -- a practice I've personally seen businesses doing in 2016. Why are we getting rounding errors?)
BTW: We're talking AP exams - these are college credit exams for CS. I'd might allow allow them to skip Intro to Programming Languages with that test...but COT?
Can you provide an explanation of P vs NP? Does it apply to the search of Prime Numbers? What real world examples of P vs NP?
Too difficult? Can you explain what a DFA/NFA is? What the corresponding architecture is in electronic circuits? What sort of problems (real world) can a DFA/NFA solve? What sort can't it solve (think Pumping Lemma)? Can you provide an example (real world)?
Yeah. Everyone wants programmers. Even if they go to boot-camp schools and come out in 26 weeks knowing a gee-wiz-bang-language. Then they use floats for storing monetary amounts and the CEO wonders why they're losing money.
Not that we can complain. Even computer scientists (a la Marvin Minsky) can get things wrong.
Actually - to be fair - there wasn't a guarantee that you wouldn't be killed either.
And again - to be fair - that big decision has to do with a felony. (Both book and movie - book: he would've 'nuked' a teammate and movie: a fellow soldier dies while he's attempting to fix the soldier's helmet - something he wasn't qualified to do (I prefer the book version))
The point is misleading - it's not about denying someone the vote - but rather how the military policed their own. The book runs a chapter prior to this talking about a fellow soldier who, in the heat of the moment, jumps up and slugs his commanding officer (Zim) - a hanging offense. A review of the situation occurs - and a court marital (field) later and this soldier is flogged and discharged (dishonorably).
But these cases weren't about voting - they were about breaking the law.
I'll grant you that a group of dishonest military people COULD rig the system - prevent only whom they deem worthy to be allowed in. But the premise is that everyone, in general, agreed to follow the rules and allow people a chance to earn their voting privilege. (In fact, being "washed out' (fired) in the military didn't mean you couldn't go on and attempt to earn your privilege through other service - he cites one person who does.)
But could it be rigged? In fact, in the book, Heinlein basically admits that's how it started out: The system of requiring military service before voting simply "happened' because a group of vets had to decide to hang another vet....and they weren't going to allow anyone else to do it / have a say in it.
The comment on it: That this system worked. Not right, not wrong....it simply worked.
And that takes us to the US system of government. Heinlein points out (in Expanded Universe, iirc) that his mother was denied the vote for decades. Others are denied the vote for a myriad of reasons, even now. (Felons for example, lose the right to vote)
Yep, Ishtar and Galahad. (Not the original poster)
The laserwriter came out in 1985....a year after the original mac. (Never used it myself, it was more expensive than the mac)
Usually...depending on how unique a setup you have. It's also 2018. (Not 1984) :-)
Hint - there wasn't any installation. It literally was "plug-n-play".
Of course, the downside was that was the ONLY printer you could use.
But compare that setup with say Linux CUPS.
But my point was the complexity that some people prefer. (I know I do).
What was the command to get to a hard drive with a C64? OPEN 1,8,15,"N:NEWDISK,01":CLOSE 1 ?
Mac? Stick the disk in the slot. (Not that Vanilla Macs came with hard drives) Using a Mac was like driving a car with an automatic transmission. Yeah, it did what I wanted...but if I WANTED control....
Like Apple or hate it. Apple (and Jobs in particular) has worked for the last 20+ years trying to remove the "computer" from people who had to work with it.
Did you ever get to work with an original Mac? The one that had a training cassette that was to be played with the original tutorial programs? The entire purpose of that machine was to make working with it so simply anyone could do it. (Even my mom...god rest her soui...as mathematically incompetent as she was had no problem using it.)
Now compare that with trying to get a C64 to read from a floppy drive.
Is the ad annoying? Sure. Apple haters are really going to hate it.
But they should be running chrome books by now, anyway. :-)
If you talking about Ward Churchill. Then yes - its bs.
If you're trying to say no blankets were distributed....
http://www.straightdope.com/co...
https://www.umass.edu/legal/de...
in 1763. (Not the US Government...but...)
That should read....
I know it's crabby, but he's being a basshole, just for the halibut.
-- She drank like a......she drank a lot.
I can't see how. The article was published on Jan 15th, 2018.
But blankets and smallpox rumors go back to 1763 and Fort Pitt. Sources of that story go back to 1898. (And no, in 1763 - it would not be the US Government, obviously).
Much of the opposition came from Democrats, though the vote did produce a striking coalition of conservatives and liberals who backed an alternative that would have imposed stricter protections for Americans whose information got snared in the data dragnet. https://m.washingtontimes.com/...
Really? - cause prior to Obama the same investigations were going on...and the same unmasking and no legal framework was around any of it. (That's what started this law in the first place).
Just stop getting in our way when we're going after Trump, okay?
Donald Trump can declare that Obama isn't a US citizen and undermine his Presidency.
But don't you *DARE* try that yourself.
You don't have the same rights as dear Leader.
https://www.eff.org/wp/pattern...
Senator: Bill Nelson (D) Senator: Marco Rubio (R) Representative: Stephanie Murphy (D)
We just got Murphy. Getting rid of Mica was a PITA.
WHAT! He SIGNED the bill. He's a GLOBAL TOO? Is there NO ONE that DIANE FEINSTEIN won't take to BED???
There...fixed it for you.
Likewise - Devin Nunes has nothing to do with Democrats or even Obama.
Wrong. A majority of people in the USA did NOT want her to be President.
by that reasoning - a majority of the people in the USA did NOT want Trump to be President either.
You're kinda proving my point. :-)
To quote: The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.
(guess who said that....)