we will just use GUIs to connect inputs and outputs and link up Java-Scripts
And that will become tedious to the point where a text-based description is easier. Some tiny little voice will suggest simply re-purposing the Java Script they're already using, but that voice will be silenced by a chorus of people extolling the virtues of some New Paradigm and its associated language. The cycle will continue. Also, stuff people are learning at no more than 200 level CS courses will be re-cycled, re-named, and re-implemented in a way that's just different enough to be incompatible.
Old thread now, but I'm glad it got started. This wiki list lead me to Senate Bean Soup. I grew up eating my late father's version of it. Unlike the recipes listed, I believe it had tomatoes in it, and perhaps a few other minor tweaks. The fundamental ingredients of beans and ham hocks were always there though. As an adult I've never made the soup for a few reasons. It's hard to scale the recipe down. Even if I could find ham hocks in the local market they aren't exactly health food. That soup rocks though, and my father's version definitely looked so much better that what's pictured in the article due to the reddish tomato color. Whether or not it tasted better I don't know since I've never had the Senate's version.
Well that's a whole different test. Soda is mostly sweetness; so it would be harder but still possible. Sprite is a lemon-lime. Coke is harder to describe, but has way less citrus. Plenty of people can tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke. Pepsi is all about sweet. Coke has more of a "bite". Blindfolded lemon-lime vs. cola is not a hard test for anybody with taste buds and olfactory bulbs. I have no idea how much olfaction comes into play since nobody does taste tests with a pinched nose. It's possible the guy who started this thread has no olfactory sense, and if so I apologize for coming down on them. It's a real handicap although not as bad as losing hearing or vision. It can kill you if there's a gas leak and you don't know it.
You're almost as bad as the parent. First, every BBQ style of the South. Cajun stuff. American-style Chinese which is nothing like actual Chinese food. That also has its own individuality between the east and west coasts. New York deli food. Various pizza styles. Most of the best American food has some ethnicity associated with it, but it's often not found in the country of origin with which it's associated. Thus, it's American food. "Mexican" which really isn't Mexican. Tex-Mex! That's just off the top of my head.
Let me put a cup of Folger's instant in front of you. Then let me put an Americano in front of you, made with Kenyan. If you can't tell the difference, your taste buds are shot.
My first thought was to wonder how she knew the test worked. For example, if I wrote a C parser I could feed known valid C programs into it for testing. If you make an Ebola test, a 16 year old can't just feed Ebola into it for testing. This article does a good job of explaining how she gets around that. The test doesn't need the whole virus. It just needs a protein that the virus makes. I don't think you can run down to the drugstore and get that either, but at least you could probably order it from somewhere without causing an international incident.
I understand it's not possible to put our current standard batteries in the latest phone. OTOH, a bulky DSLR has no excuse for a proprietary battery.
Related: make your equipment capable of running on both the lower-voltage rechargeable and alkaline. I'm pretty happy with my NiMH charger and AAs, but I know my lantern could be brighter if it hadn't been designed for alkaline. The only reason I have any alkaline in the house is because of this stupid irrigation timer--I just assumed that all modern stuff would work with a wider range of voltage now, but the timer doesn't. It doesn't draw that much power either--worked all summer and barely drained the alkaline batteries, yet it insists on the higher voltage.
C has iso646.h and trigraphs and maybe digraphs to work around this issue. Strangely, gt doesn't appear to be in there, perhaps because and there is no trigraph for < either unless I'm missing something. Maybe those characters are mor universal than I thought, and others less so. I've never been in an environment where I had to use these things; but it's something to be aware of...
I tried to get my father interested in some tech stuff once. He had retired right around the time DBASE III was in general use, and he used that program to do some stuff for a government contractor. So, it's not like he wasn't capable. He just wasn't interested. He had his checks, his visits to the store, occasional trips to see people, good food, a good house, the remote control, etc. He literally told me he just didn't care about that kind of stuff at his age. If the rural population is mostly elderly that are set in their ways, and they've been planting corn and raising chickens twice as long as the presenter has been alive, in ain't broke. They ain't fixin' it.
I don't think this has much to do with the South. I bet it's an aging population they've got.
There is nothing to say on the matter of ransom ware that Rudyard Kipling hasn't already said, with greater eloquence than I could muster. To reference another great saying, "millions for defense, not one penny for tribute".
The Washington Times. Say what you will about their ownership and/or editorial slant, but it works right out of the box without trying to figure what you need to enable.
Not auto-playing audio or video is something that would be far more useful. Flash loaded via plug-in? Scan that shit on-the-fly for media APIs and replace its window with a permission button.
This has been going on for years. Companies offer unlimited service, and then a hand full of customers try to see how far they can take it. You would think that they would have some standard boilerplate specifying something to the effect that while there is no specific limit, they reserve the right to cap accounts that are at or near the top of usage. I imagine these things are a typical bell curve with a long tail. I think clipping the crazy long tail of users who are using 100,000 more resources than average is perfectly legit. The lawyers need to put their heads together and come up with a commercial definition of "unlimited" that 99.9% of us can live with. The 0.1% who think they have a right to store 70TB for nothing are just as much dick-heads as anybody else.
This business of shipping a car from one dealer to another is exactly how I got my current car. The color and body style I wanted wasn't on the lot. It's still just a "trim level" though, not true customization.
This is how cars were sold in the USA at one time. I remember as a boy in the 70s, sitting there with my Dad. The dealer went over a long list of options which even included things such as rear axle ratio and other technical specs. A few weeks later, a piece of Detroit iron was ready for us.
I think they eliminated that process as part of the general dumbing-down of America.
It's a big trailer that they've been living in for years, and you can't just air the place out. This seems like the expected outcome. Consider this part of the experiment. If it's really causing a deterioration of air and/or surface cleanliness vs. Earth-bound standards, fix it. Whatever solution you come up with might have applications for terrestrial hospitals, or other things we haven't thought of yet.
That would work, but the muscle memory for opening the file, making an entry, and closing the file is IMHO more fool-proof. Bear in mind, I had a customer in my ear and problems to solve while doing this.
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we will just use GUIs to connect inputs and outputs and link up Java-Scripts
And that will become tedious to the point where a text-based description is easier. Some tiny little voice will suggest simply re-purposing the Java Script they're already using, but that voice will be silenced by a chorus of people extolling the virtues of some New Paradigm and its associated language. The cycle will continue. Also, stuff people are learning at no more than 200 level CS courses will be re-cycled, re-named, and re-implemented in a way that's just different enough to be incompatible.
Old thread now, but I'm glad it got started. This wiki list lead me to Senate Bean Soup. I grew up eating my late father's version of it. Unlike the recipes listed, I believe it had tomatoes in it, and perhaps a few other minor tweaks. The fundamental ingredients of beans and ham hocks were always there though. As an adult I've never made the soup for a few reasons. It's hard to scale the recipe down. Even if I could find ham hocks in the local market they aren't exactly health food. That soup rocks though, and my father's version definitely looked so much better that what's pictured in the article due to the reddish tomato color. Whether or not it tasted better I don't know since I've never had the Senate's version.
Well that's a whole different test. Soda is mostly sweetness; so it would be harder but still possible. Sprite is a lemon-lime. Coke is harder to describe, but has way less citrus. Plenty of people can tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke. Pepsi is all about sweet. Coke has more of a "bite". Blindfolded lemon-lime vs. cola is not a hard test for anybody with taste buds and olfactory bulbs. I have no idea how much olfaction comes into play since nobody does taste tests with a pinched nose. It's possible the guy who started this thread has no olfactory sense, and if so I apologize for coming down on them. It's a real handicap although not as bad as losing hearing or vision. It can kill you if there's a gas leak and you don't know it.
You're almost as bad as the parent. First, every BBQ style of the South. Cajun stuff. American-style Chinese which is nothing like actual Chinese food. That also has its own individuality between the east and west coasts. New York deli food. Various pizza styles. Most of the best American food has some ethnicity associated with it, but it's often not found in the country of origin with which it's associated. Thus, it's American food. "Mexican" which really isn't Mexican. Tex-Mex! That's just off the top of my head.
All coffee is basically indistinguishable
Let me put a cup of Folger's instant in front of you. Then let me put an Americano in front of you, made with Kenyan. If you can't tell the difference, your taste buds are shot.
A: Because when it's smart, it's dumb.
Q: How many robots does it take to screw in a light-bulb?
A: Wow! I didn't know there were little robots in my light-bulbs.
Thank-you. I'll be here all week.
My first thought was to wonder how she knew the test worked. For example, if I wrote a C parser I could feed known valid C programs into it for testing. If you make an Ebola test, a 16 year old can't just feed Ebola into it for testing. This article does a good job of explaining how she gets around that. The test doesn't need the whole virus. It just needs a protein that the virus makes. I don't think you can run down to the drugstore and get that either, but at least you could probably order it from somewhere without causing an international incident.
I understand it's not possible to put our current standard batteries in the latest phone. OTOH, a bulky DSLR has no excuse for a proprietary battery.
Related: make your equipment capable of running on both the lower-voltage rechargeable and alkaline. I'm pretty happy with my NiMH charger and AAs, but I know my lantern could be brighter if it hadn't been designed for alkaline. The only reason I have any alkaline in the house is because of this stupid irrigation timer--I just assumed that all modern stuff would work with a wider range of voltage now, but the timer doesn't. It doesn't draw that much power either--worked all summer and barely drained the alkaline batteries, yet it insists on the higher voltage.
Still disgusted. See you sometime next year to remind you that I'm still disgusted.
C has iso646.h and trigraphs and maybe digraphs to work around this issue. Strangely, gt doesn't appear to be in there, perhaps because and there is no trigraph for < either unless I'm missing something. Maybe those characters are mor universal than I thought, and others less so. I've never been in an environment where I had to use these things; but it's something to be aware of...
I tried to get my father interested in some tech stuff once. He had retired right around the time DBASE III was in general use, and he used that program to do some stuff for a government contractor. So, it's not like he wasn't capable. He just wasn't interested. He had his checks, his visits to the store, occasional trips to see people, good food, a good house, the remote control, etc. He literally told me he just didn't care about that kind of stuff at his age. If the rural population is mostly elderly that are set in their ways, and they've been planting corn and raising chickens twice as long as the presenter has been alive, in ain't broke. They ain't fixin' it.
I don't think this has much to do with the South. I bet it's an aging population they've got.
Apple can't tell you which file is bad. You have to scan them yourself.
Nice heroic effort to track it down on their part; but I wonder if a general-purpose malware scanner could have saved them some time.
There is nothing to say on the matter of ransom ware that Rudyard Kipling hasn't already said, with greater eloquence than I could muster. To reference another great saying, "millions for defense, not one penny for tribute".
The Washington Times. Say what you will about their ownership and/or editorial slant, but it works right out of the box without trying to figure what you need to enable.
The only winning move is not to play.
Everybody knows there are limits to how literally you should take things. :)
Not auto-playing audio or video is something that would be far more useful. Flash loaded via plug-in? Scan that shit on-the-fly for media APIs and replace its window with a permission button.
This has been going on for years. Companies offer unlimited service, and then a hand full of customers try to see how far they can take it. You would think that they would have some standard boilerplate specifying something to the effect that while there is no specific limit, they reserve the right to cap accounts that are at or near the top of usage. I imagine these things are a typical bell curve with a long tail. I think clipping the crazy long tail of users who are using 100,000 more resources than average is perfectly legit. The lawyers need to put their heads together and come up with a commercial definition of "unlimited" that 99.9% of us can live with. The 0.1% who think they have a right to store 70TB for nothing are just as much dick-heads as anybody else.
US elections have fallen prey to the same economic force that drives "Christmas creep" at retail establishments.
STFU. What was that? Rights. Well...
We're deeing thee beest theet we keen. Theer wheel be pleenty eave helium. Treest eece.
This business of shipping a car from one dealer to another is exactly how I got my current car. The color and body style I wanted wasn't on the lot. It's still just a "trim level" though, not true customization.
This is how cars were sold in the USA at one time. I remember as a boy in the 70s, sitting there with my Dad. The dealer went over a long list of options which even included things such as rear axle ratio and other technical specs. A few weeks later, a piece of Detroit iron was ready for us.
I think they eliminated that process as part of the general dumbing-down of America.
It's a big trailer that they've been living in for years, and you can't just air the place out. This seems like the expected outcome. Consider this part of the experiment. If it's really causing a deterioration of air and/or surface cleanliness vs. Earth-bound standards, fix it. Whatever solution you come up with might have applications for terrestrial hospitals, or other things we haven't thought of yet.
That would work, but the muscle memory for opening the file, making an entry, and closing the file is IMHO more fool-proof. Bear in mind, I had a customer in my ear and problems to solve while doing this.