Education is not the answer when you have someone teaching you that doesn't know what they're talking about. I have a C++ teacher who told us that negative numbers were evaluated to false; I, who already knew C++ pretty well, told him that they were true. He went over to his laptop, typed something up, and then looked back up at me and told me to "throw out whatever book you're using, because it's garbage." I was a bit suspicious, so I checked the standard and it agrees with me, unsurprisingly. The next time the topic came up I corrected him again. He showed us the code he had written the first time: int a; if (a == -1)
cout << "True"; cout << "False";
That's supposed to check if negative numbers evaluate to true. If you know C++ you should be cringing right about now.
>Heck, look at all the kids who work as cashiers/stock clerks/burger joints, etc.
All of which are or are over the age of 14. Children can work, but many opportunities aren't available until you turn 14. Agricultural work is an exception to this. An 11-year-old kid is treated very differently than a 14-year-old kid, who's treated differently than a 16-year-old kid.
They may not prevent you from hiring children, but there are indeed restrictions. Children under the age of 14 aren't allowed to do most jobs and I'm almost positive that network administration is not one of the exceptions to this.
The GP is wrong. However, at the moment nobody has found a position which takes more than twenty turns to solve, which might have been what he was trying to say. I (and many other cubers) don't think that there is going to be any position which takes more than 20 or so turns to solve.
Oh, come on. If you're going to cheat, at least do it *properly*. Peeling off the stickers reduces the lifespan of stickers with an already short lifespan. If you're going to cheat, do the following:
1) Turn top face 45 degress.
2) Stick your finger underneath one of the edge pieces in the top layer.
3) Pop the edge piece out (the cube is pretty durable, this won't break it unless you do it incorrectly)
4) From here, you should be able to take the cube apart.
5) Reassemble in a solved state.
No, there's no 6) ??? 7) Profit! Steps 1-6 are the ??? and the Profit! is once you've finished.
Or you could just learn to solve the cube the right way.
GNU really has their work cut out for them here with their DotGNU project to provide a free implementation. Good luck rms and co; if you try hard enough, you might be able to implement it all before Duke Nukem Forever is released.
I was a bit unclear there - I meant that OEMs typically provide MS Works and/or a trial version of MS Office, and that Works is basically the same thing as a trial of Office (it's simply a watered-down version, and the version OEMs distribute is filled with wonderful advertisements for other MS products). I'm aware that they're not the same program.
If their software was so superior, why did WordPerfect die? Because Microsoft Windows happened to have an overwhelming majority in the OS market? If your company can make sure that OEMs put your office suite (or trial versions, a.k.a. MS Works) on computers, I imagine that that's going to make people more familiar with Word than with WordPerfect. And since people use what they're familiar with (generally speaking), Word pulls ahead. Once people start using Word and its format more, WordPerfect is in trouble unless it can provide compatibility, which it can't. Hence the lawsuit.
The superior product doesn't always win. GNU/Linux is, in my opinion, superior to Microsoft Windows for a great many things, but that isn't going to be enough to give it a majority in the home OS market.
You'd think that if we have patentslikethis out there, the patent office must not be spending that much time on patents...and yet, somehow we still have a growing backlog. Go figure.
Either they're spending a lot of time doing nothing and breezing through patents, are granting ridiculous patents after spending a lot of time reviewing them, or they're doing their job properly (or trying to, though how some of these patents ever get awarded is beyond me) and are grossly understaffed.
Once again, though, we're confronted with the issue of what would be the governing body that would manage the user registrations? I don't think this is your biggest problem with creating a "second internet" here...
or do we need to establish an entirely new entity to manage a more secure Internet?
Which, of course, would be regulated by the US government.
Has this guy thought for a few minutes about the implications of having a "second internet"? It's the dumbest idea I've seen since the/. article this morning about having a "UNG" (I mean seriously, wtf? If you expand the thing, it becomes "UNG's Not GNU's Not Unix").
It took a bit to realize that the random whitespace under the summary was in fact supposed to be an embedded video.
Also, I'm expected at least 90% of the the comments to be prefaced with tl;dr because they didn't RTFA because it's too long. Or should it be tl;dw and WTFV?
Aren't Google's CAPTCHA's basically the same for all their services (e.g. Google Groups)? I think Google Groups might be seeing quite a bit more spam...Blogger, Youtube/Google Videos, and Groups are all services that I could conceivably see getting spammed (assuming that the CAPTCHAs are similar, if not the same; I haven't checked).
Of course, Google being the fast-responding company that it is, they will doubtlessly have a new CAPTCHA by 12 hours from now, if not before.
Exactly. This is simply another instance of people trying to talk about technology correctly and failing miserably. They didn't even do anything remotely intelligent...any idiot can make fun of their teacher on a website.
We're thinking of having a contest where we have Vista and OS X and Linux... and see which one goes first Do they even have to ask? Vista will go down first, most likely. Also, what Linux distribution are they going to be using? A Debian machine is going to be a lot more difficult to break into than an alpha version of Fedora 9, for example.
The candidates are supposed to be convincing us why they're better than their opposition (in theory, anyway). While it's very heart-warming to hear Obama talk about his mother and her cancer, his healthcare plan really isn't very different from Clinton's.
(note: the only reason I'm calling out Obama is because I've seen far too many of his universal healthcare commercials leading up to super tuesday and it's irritating to see him trying to win votes from his opposition by saying basically the same thing as them)
...with all their signs for "change". Anyone is going to be a change from the Bush administration. Also, I love those commercials for Obama where they talk about universal healthcare. They *do* realize that their competitor, Clinton, is also for universal healthcare, right?
The article basically says that they've discovered that people learn multiple words at a time instead of one at a time. Sure, I could see this as being something interesting, but beyond helping baby Einstein learn how to talk slightly sooner than he would have otherwise, I don't really see how this is that important.
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Education is not the answer when you have someone teaching you that doesn't know what they're talking about. I have a C++ teacher who told us that negative numbers were evaluated to false; I, who already knew C++ pretty well, told him that they were true. He went over to his laptop, typed something up, and then looked back up at me and told me to "throw out whatever book you're using, because it's garbage." I was a bit suspicious, so I checked the standard and it agrees with me, unsurprisingly. The next time the topic came up I corrected him again. He showed us the code he had written the first time:
int a;
if (a == -1)
cout << "True";
cout << "False";
That's supposed to check if negative numbers evaluate to true. If you know C++ you should be cringing right about now.
>Heck, look at all the kids who work as cashiers/stock clerks/burger joints, etc.
All of which are or are over the age of 14. Children can work, but many opportunities aren't available until you turn 14. Agricultural work is an exception to this. An 11-year-old kid is treated very differently than a 14-year-old kid, who's treated differently than a 16-year-old kid.
They may not prevent you from hiring children, but there are indeed restrictions. Children under the age of 14 aren't allowed to do most jobs and I'm almost positive that network administration is not one of the exceptions to this.
The GP's comment was the most obvious sarcasm ever. Congratulations! You win a gold star...for STUPIDITY!
The GP is wrong. However, at the moment nobody has found a position which takes more than twenty turns to solve, which might have been what he was trying to say. I (and many other cubers) don't think that there is going to be any position which takes more than 20 or so turns to solve.
Oh, come on. If you're going to cheat, at least do it *properly*. Peeling off the stickers reduces the lifespan of stickers with an already short lifespan. If you're going to cheat, do the following:
1) Turn top face 45 degress.
2) Stick your finger underneath one of the edge pieces in the top layer.
3) Pop the edge piece out (the cube is pretty durable, this won't break it unless you do it incorrectly)
4) From here, you should be able to take the cube apart.
5) Reassemble in a solved state.
No, there's no 6) ??? 7) Profit! Steps 1-6 are the ??? and the Profit! is once you've finished.
Or you could just learn to solve the cube the right way.
GNU really has their work cut out for them here with their DotGNU project to provide a free implementation. Good luck rms and co; if you try hard enough, you might be able to implement it all before Duke Nukem Forever is released.
I was a bit unclear there - I meant that OEMs typically provide MS Works and/or a trial version of MS Office, and that Works is basically the same thing as a trial of Office (it's simply a watered-down version, and the version OEMs distribute is filled with wonderful advertisements for other MS products). I'm aware that they're not the same program.
AC/DC has yet to sign a deal with Apple. Rather disappointing, really.
You'd think that if we have patents like this out there, the patent office must not be spending that much time on patents...and yet, somehow we still have a growing backlog. Go figure.
Either they're spending a lot of time doing nothing and breezing through patents, are granting ridiculous patents after spending a lot of time reviewing them, or they're doing their job properly (or trying to, though how some of these patents ever get awarded is beyond me) and are grossly understaffed.
Which, of course, would be regulated by the US government.
Has this guy thought for a few minutes about the implications of having a "second internet"? It's the dumbest idea I've seen since the /. article this morning about having a "UNG" (I mean seriously, wtf? If you expand the thing, it becomes "UNG's Not GNU's Not Unix").
It took a bit to realize that the random whitespace under the summary was in fact supposed to be an embedded video.
Also, I'm expected at least 90% of the the comments to be prefaced with tl;dr because they didn't RTFA because it's too long. Or should it be tl;dw and WTFV?
Aren't Google's CAPTCHA's basically the same for all their services (e.g. Google Groups)? I think Google Groups might be seeing quite a bit more spam...Blogger, Youtube/Google Videos, and Groups are all services that I could conceivably see getting spammed (assuming that the CAPTCHAs are similar, if not the same; I haven't checked).
Of course, Google being the fast-responding company that it is, they will doubtlessly have a new CAPTCHA by 12 hours from now, if not before.
Exactly. This is simply another instance of people trying to talk about technology correctly and failing miserably. They didn't even do anything remotely intelligent...any idiot can make fun of their teacher on a website.
The candidates are supposed to be convincing us why they're better than their opposition (in theory, anyway). While it's very heart-warming to hear Obama talk about his mother and her cancer, his healthcare plan really isn't very different from Clinton's. (note: the only reason I'm calling out Obama is because I've seen far too many of his universal healthcare commercials leading up to super tuesday and it's irritating to see him trying to win votes from his opposition by saying basically the same thing as them)
In other news, the Republican presidential campaign received an unexpected boost today from an anonymous donor.
...with all their signs for "change". Anyone is going to be a change from the Bush administration. Also, I love those commercials for Obama where they talk about universal healthcare. They *do* realize that their competitor, Clinton, is also for universal healthcare, right?
The article basically says that they've discovered that people learn multiple words at a time instead of one at a time. Sure, I could see this as being something interesting, but beyond helping baby Einstein learn how to talk slightly sooner than he would have otherwise, I don't really see how this is that important.