Re:Creative use of language for propaganda
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Botnets As "eWMDs"
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Yes, everybody in the rest of the world can see how the Americans are defending their country all over the globe. That's why your country has become so immensely popular these days
Creative use of language for propaganda
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Botnets As "eWMDs"
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Sadly, I'm always stumped by how far a language can be warped so that things are labeled in a desirable way by the authorities.
This has been happening since the ancient times and we haven't grown out of it. The athenian hegemony was named the athenian alliance, the enslavement of foreign countries by the Romans was called Pax Romana, and even now, he american goverment classifies botnets as eWMD's, every country in the world dubs their Ministry of Military as Ministry of Defence, and War will always be Peace in the Ministry of Love.
Yeah, but what Stroustrup is trying to say is that the formal process has to be taught, so that the latter process can work more efficiently.
Now matter how much of a flash of insight I get, I'll never even code Hello World if I don't know how to program properly.
correction to my above post: Smaller frequencies require larger antennae. The smallest possible "largest dimension" of an AM antenna is much to small to BIG in an integrated circuit
Smaller frequencies require larger antennae. The smallest possible "largest dimension" of an AM antenna is much to small to fit in an integrated circuit
Yeah, but this doesn't cover matters of opinion. For example, I could claim that "restaurant X is the worst I've ever been to, and I don't recommend anyone going there"
Real question is: "Why wouldn't they?"
Sure, they should build it, or teh ubuntu people should build it, but if it's ready in one format, why should it NOT be released? Besides, if you can build it, share your skills and contribute!
University is supposed to make you a scientist. If the focus were on gaining practical, hand-on experience, your education would be outdated in just a few years, when the next best thing appeared. Not having the theoretical background, you would either become obsolete or forced to learn a new approach right from the start. After all, the best way to learn to code, is to code yourself. If you have the theoretical understanding, which progresses at a much slower pace than practice, it's much easier to adapt to a newer approach. That doesn't make it easy for the students, but, just as in mathematics, there is no royal path to knowledge.
In summary, it's better to "learn how to learn" than to focus on one thing and become useless when this thing is replaced
True, but it's difficult (not to mention a major waste of man-hours and resources) to reverse engineer everything. Plus, it takes a significant amount of time. By then, the device isn't as "hot" as it was when it first came out.
Not that it matters to the end-user, but what can linux do if the manufacturer doesn't release specs or drivers?
You are right of course that this a problem with linux, but reverse engineering can only take you so far...
I agree. The that they've just verified that the theory of relativity works in a phenomenon on the quantum level is something we knew and suspected all along. oh, wait...
Being unable to present an alternative idea doesn't make the initial idea any more right!
For example, if I claim that internet censorship stops murders, wars, child pornography, Kane, Sauron and obesity, doesn't make me right if I ask you: "then what does?"
Why do people think that the operator between electronic and traditional voting is "XOR"?
Can't you have both?
You can always use electronic voting that prints out paper votes, which are cast in a real life ballot. The voter then knows that nothing has been tampered with, the press gets ultra-fast draft results and the final results come from manually counting the printouts.
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Yes, everybody in the rest of the world can see how the Americans are defending their country all over the globe. That's why your country has become so immensely popular these days
Sadly, I'm always stumped by how far a language can be warped so that things are labeled in a desirable way by the authorities.
This has been happening since the ancient times and we haven't grown out of it. The athenian hegemony was named the athenian alliance, the enslavement of foreign countries by the Romans was called Pax Romana, and even now, he american goverment classifies botnets as eWMD's, every country in the world dubs their Ministry of Military as Ministry of Defence, and War will always be Peace in the Ministry of Love.
If I'm going down, I'm going to take everyone with me! It was slashdot that made me do it, I swearz!
Yeah, but what Stroustrup is trying to say is that the formal process has to be taught, so that the latter process can work more efficiently. Now matter how much of a flash of insight I get, I'll never even code Hello World if I don't know how to program properly.
Yeah, after the second attempt, I gave up trying. Maybe I should flag myself as Informative Inarticulate idiot
correction to my above post: Smaller frequencies require larger antennae. The smallest possible "largest dimension" of an AM antenna is much to small to BIG in an integrated circuit
Smaller frequencies require larger antennae. The smallest possible "largest dimension" of an AM antenna is much to small to fit in an integrated circuit
Yeah, but this doesn't cover matters of opinion. For example, I could claim that "restaurant X is the worst I've ever been to, and I don't recommend anyone going there"
Assuming you can jailbreak it in time
Real question is: "Why wouldn't they?"
Sure, they should build it, or teh ubuntu people should build it, but if it's ready in one format, why should it NOT be released? Besides, if you can build it, share your skills and contribute!
University is supposed to make you a scientist. If the focus were on gaining practical, hand-on experience, your education would be outdated in just a few years, when the next best thing appeared. Not having the theoretical background, you would either become obsolete or forced to learn a new approach right from the start. After all, the best way to learn to code, is to code yourself. If you have the theoretical understanding, which progresses at a much slower pace than practice, it's much easier to adapt to a newer approach. That doesn't make it easy for the students, but, just as in mathematics, there is no royal path to knowledge.
In summary, it's better to "learn how to learn" than to focus on one thing and become useless when this thing is replaced
No! What about the radiation? Won't that create a zombie apocalypse? Ah! We're doomed anyway!
True, but it's difficult (not to mention a major waste of man-hours and resources) to reverse engineer everything. Plus, it takes a significant amount of time. By then, the device isn't as "hot" as it was when it first came out.
Not that it matters to the end-user, but what can linux do if the manufacturer doesn't release specs or drivers?
You are right of course that this a problem with linux, but reverse engineering can only take you so far...
Still, that didn't change the fact that it was Windows 95
Windows 95 on a 486 must be a new definition of "works well" I wasn't previously aware of.
yes, but for fallout 3 it's early crhistmas 2008-2009. If Duke Nukem came out today, it would be early christmas 1998-1999 (at least)
I agree. The that they've just verified that the theory of relativity works in a phenomenon on the quantum level is something we knew and suspected all along. oh, wait...
No. The faster a machine is, the better video quality it can encode in real time
Maybe we'll find the Intelligent Designer with a supercomputer designing life on earth. All that vapor must come from water-cooling the circuits
Being unable to present an alternative idea doesn't make the initial idea any more right!
For example, if I claim that internet censorship stops murders, wars, child pornography, Kane, Sauron and obesity, doesn't make me right if I ask you: "then what does?"
Of course. Windows Genuine Advantage
Why do people think that the operator between electronic and traditional voting is "XOR"?
Can't you have both?
You can always use electronic voting that prints out paper votes, which are cast in a real life ballot. The voter then knows that nothing has been tampered with, the press gets ultra-fast draft results and the final results come from manually counting the printouts.
Spelling Nazis were successful! The affront to spelling canon has been rectified!
ad? As in advertisement? I'm pretty sure you mean add!
Spelling Nazi Strikes Again!!!