Right Now is 2016. Right Now is also a song by Van Halen and most of the things they mention in the video are still going on. They were always going on, and everybody knew it. The first thing that leaped to my mind was this little cartoon at 3:40 in the video..
Thank you for potentially making Slashdot a model for how not to Digg yourself into a hole. Also, I don't care about UTF-8. I can live without umlauts and accents, and I definitely don't want emoji.
That's the right question. I think you'll eventually reach the inevitable conclusion that we must hack their inverters, with the end result of filling the Google data center with freshly popped popcorn.
A few years ago this was true; but the commodities bubble has burst. Current zinc pennies are worth about 60% of face. Old copper pennies are still worth about 150%.
At this point, we really won't even mind if you keep it as a "communist" buffer state. Just install a saner puppet. Really. We won't mind that much. Do it. DO IT. DO IT!!!!
I'm obviously not the guy who said that; but I'll take a stab.
To me, CS is language agnostic. You could teach CS without a specific language or even a computer of any kind. You can teach binary arithmetic, recursion, sorting algorithms, and lambda calculus with pencil and paper. To me, CS is just specialized math.
Programming, as opposed to CS is the more practical working end of things. You need a computer with a language to teach programming.
You can teach programming and impart very little CS knowledge, although I think some is bound to creep in. Programmers are going to know things that pure CS students don't know, such as what a compiler error actually means. Likewise, many programmers have gone through their entire career without lambda or curried functions!
I don't think a course in pure CS or "just programming" would be good. They should, IMHO, be taught together. It's easier to call the course CS even if it's not pure CS. We shouldn't really pass judgement until we see the curriculum, which I doubt anybody commenting here has.
A newspaper would NEVER print (physically print) an ad that they hadn't reviewed first... NEVER
Well... when I used to read the print version of the Washington Post back in the 80s, there were a lot of ads in the sports pages for "massage parlors" and such. Anybody with half a brain knew what that was.
The difference is that back then, you couldn't get a virus just from reading the paper.
It's pretty obvious why they should require background checks. Simply knowing what the DoD wants you to hack is information that's valuable to spies. Also, I guarantee you there are some Chinese and Russian hackers who would pass background checks. That's the whole point of inserting your agents into a foreign country.
This is not as bad as it sounds. First, you cut the lion in half. Then you get another lion and cut in in half. Then you cover one of the half-lions with ants. After a while, you have an anti-lion. Bring the two together, and that releases the energy.
Back in the 80s, I seem to recall wire services carrying reports of a "mushroom cloud" over the ocean. It was reported by commercial pilots, probably reliable witnesses not inclined to make up things for jokes.
Speculation was undersea volcano, unusual thunderstorm convection, and impact. I don't recall them following up on it, and I think it remained a mystery... let's see if I can track this down in a few minutes before hitting submit....
This sounds like Transmeta. Remember that, Slashdot old-timers? The company had trouble, and was eventually bought by private equity. I'm too lazy to find out if this is a re-emergence by the rights holders, or if they're going to get sued by the guys who bought Transmeta's IP. IIRC, It was an Israeli company that took it off the US exchange. After that I lost track of it.
We must immediately divert all resources from the war on drugs, and wage war on carbon. Cook a steak on the grill? Go to jail. It really is that simple./sarc.
Strangely enough, it works for me even with wired in the blacklist. I can read the article text, I just can't see what's in the big frame up top, which is probably a picture of the ship and I already know what it looks like. You didn't miss much anyway. The text of the article is a few brief paragraphs that doesn't add much to what somebody following the story knows already.
If it'll help, the basket looks kind of like a depiction of a gravity well.
Also, the observers changed the outcome. The discussion of this game might very well spark insights that unify quantum mechanics with general relativity.
You can say you were there when the 21st century Newton got hit on the head by a basketball.
It ended up in a remote fishing village in Iceland, then it drove around Croatia for a couple days. Finally, it was stranded in Death Valley and over-heated.
I used to do delivery. 99% of the time I ignored directions because the package had an address on it, and I could use a map. I learned the hard way not to ignore that 1% where their "folksy directions" were key to getting there. You'd have hidden entrances, missing numbers, new streets and damaged bridges. They knew about that stuff. I didn't.
Really though, unless you're address is tricky like that, just give me the address. We had excellent maps and the directions were almost always wasting my time in a business where time was money. We were "contractors" long before Uber and all that, and yes it sucked and I didn't do it too long..
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Right Now is 2016. Right Now is also a song by Van Halen and most of the things they mention in the video are still going on. They were always going on, and everybody knew it. The first thing that leaped to my mind was this little cartoon at 3:40 in the video..
Thank you for potentially making Slashdot a model for how not to Digg yourself into a hole. Also, I don't care about UTF-8. I can live without umlauts and accents, and I definitely don't want emoji.
I'm voting for Barbara Streisand.
That's the right question. I think you'll eventually reach the inevitable conclusion that we must hack their inverters, with the end result of filling the Google data center with freshly popped popcorn.
I was comparing face value to melt value, not production cost to melt value.
A few years ago this was true; but the commodities bubble has burst. Current zinc pennies are worth about 60% of face. Old copper pennies are still worth about 150%.
At this point, we really won't even mind if you keep it as a "communist" buffer state. Just install a saner puppet. Really. We won't mind that much. Do it. DO IT. DO IT!!!!
I'm obviously not the guy who said that; but I'll take a stab.
To me, CS is language agnostic. You could teach CS without a specific language or even a computer of any kind. You can teach binary arithmetic, recursion, sorting algorithms, and lambda calculus with pencil and paper. To me, CS is just specialized math.
Programming, as opposed to CS is the more practical working end of things. You need a computer with a language to teach programming.
You can teach programming and impart very little CS knowledge, although I think some is bound to creep in. Programmers are going to know things that pure CS students don't know, such as what a compiler error actually means. Likewise, many programmers have gone through their entire career without lambda or curried functions!
I don't think a course in pure CS or "just programming" would be good. They should, IMHO, be taught together. It's easier to call the course CS even if it's not pure CS. We shouldn't really pass judgement until we see the curriculum, which I doubt anybody commenting here has.
A newspaper would NEVER print (physically print) an ad that they hadn't reviewed first... NEVER
Well... when I used to read the print version of the Washington Post back in the 80s, there were a lot of ads in the sports pages for "massage parlors" and such. Anybody with half a brain knew what that was.
The difference is that back then, you couldn't get a virus just from reading the paper.
It's pretty obvious why they should require background checks. Simply knowing what the DoD wants you to hack is information that's valuable to spies. Also, I guarantee you there are some Chinese and Russian hackers who would pass background checks. That's the whole point of inserting your agents into a foreign country.
Very well then. Konchord it is.
Now you're just fishin' for more bad jokes.
As long as he has neighbors, fava beans, and Chianti it's all good.
I'd like to see a 4-way race: Trump vs. Sanders vs. Hillary vs. $GOP_establishment_guy.
Regardless of who wins, the best outcome would be for the Trump vs. Sanders race to pull in almost all the votes.
This is not as bad as it sounds. First, you cut the lion in half. Then you get another lion and cut in in half. Then you cover one of the half-lions with ants. After a while, you have an anti-lion. Bring the two together, and that releases the energy.
Back in the 80s, I seem to recall wire services carrying reports of a "mushroom cloud" over the ocean. It was reported by commercial pilots, probably reliable witnesses not inclined to make up things for jokes.
Speculation was undersea volcano, unusual thunderstorm convection, and impact. I don't recall them following up on it, and I think it remained a mystery... let's see if I can track this down in a few minutes before hitting submit....
Oh wow, it was easier than I thought it would be. Here's the original story.
It was the 3rd google hit for "pilots spot mushroom cloud". Would that all my searches were that easy.
This sounds like Transmeta. Remember that, Slashdot old-timers? The company had trouble, and was eventually bought by private equity. I'm too lazy to find out if this is a re-emergence by the rights holders, or if they're going to get sued by the guys who bought Transmeta's IP. IIRC, It was an Israeli company that took it off the US exchange. After that I lost track of it.
We must immediately divert all resources from the war on drugs, and wage war on carbon. Cook a steak on the grill? Go to jail. It really is that simple. /sarc.
Strangely enough, it works for me even with wired in the blacklist. I can read the article text, I just can't see what's in the big frame up top, which is probably a picture of the ship and I already know what it looks like. You didn't miss much anyway. The text of the article is a few brief paragraphs that doesn't add much to what somebody following the story knows already.
If it'll help, the basket looks kind of like a depiction of a gravity well.
Also, the observers changed the outcome. The discussion of this game might very well spark insights that unify quantum mechanics with general relativity.
You can say you were there when the 21st century Newton got hit on the head by a basketball.
Oh! DeLorean is paging me. brb.
It ended up in a remote fishing village in Iceland, then it drove around Croatia for a couple days. Finally, it was stranded in Death Valley and over-heated.
Sorry. Couldn't resist. See later story.
I used to do delivery. 99% of the time I ignored directions because the package had an address on it, and I could use a map. I learned the hard way not to ignore that 1% where their "folksy directions" were key to getting there. You'd have hidden entrances, missing numbers, new streets and damaged bridges. They knew about that stuff. I didn't.
Really though, unless you're address is tricky like that, just give me the address. We had excellent maps and the directions were almost always wasting my time in a business where time was money. We were "contractors" long before Uber and all that, and yes it sucked and I didn't do it too long..
Winning is a natural high, right? People steal to get high. Why not cheat?
If they can harvest enough energy to power a Speak-and-Spell hacked into a satellite up-link, they might have something.