More and more crap accumulated until, low and behold, you had a glacier, a mountain, an ocean full of water, or a big database full of pictures of people you knew in highschool drunk off their asses, or a huge run-on sentance full of listed items and disjointed thoughts separated by commas.
Libertarianism is objectively pro-$strongest. In the US, $strongest is the corporations. Thus, the right wing in the US is corporatist. I'd say "fascist", but that's a word that people in the US associate with a charismatic "leader for life", and a degree of internal oppression to which we have not yet risen.
Let's see, we've got Federal civil rights violations (not murder, so it's a separate charge). We've got civil cases (lower standard of proof, no jail but stripping of assets). Now we've got jurisdiction shopping.
How many licks does it take to get to the chewy center of oppression in the Constitutional Tootsie-Pop? A one... A two... CRUNCH! Three?
You still don't get it. It's an evolutionary survival of the fittest. The "fittest" is what can deliver "good enough". Sloppy code has 10,000 kids that bear a striking resemblance to it before well-written code even gets a date. You're blaming the survivors for the environmental conditions that make them survivors.
Holy Crap. It took me about 15 seconds to recall what those memory addresses pointed to.
Sorry I can't remember how to set the raster interrupt vector. Just knowing that such things were possible on the C-64 brings back memories. I played with that a bit back in the day; but my skills weren't to the point where I could really exploit it for anything other than what (at the time) seemed like a silly site gag of having two cursors on the screen at once. The whole concept of multiple terminal windows and multitasking in the true sense hadn't occured to me, and nobody had taught me.
I think raster interrupt is most likely how they got the Defender cart to work so well. (Display high sprites, CPU jumps to raster interrupt halfway down the screen, reposition all the sprites to represent players and bogies on the bottom half, return from routine). It was the only cart game I ever bought. It was a fantastic home version for its time.
Actually, come to think of it, I did use raster interrupt in a program to display a few lines of text on the bottom of the screen, and graphics on most of the screen. That program allowed you to enter equations and graph them. I had no idea how to write an expression parser; but I knew enough about C-64 hacking to make it accept my equations as BASIC and then use the interpreter to run it. Sanity checking? That was the interpreter's job. I don't recall if I hooked an exception vector or anything like that to recover if you put in bad commands. I think I did. Once again, I knew nothing about parsers but I didn't have to because I could hack around in the C-64 internals, both software and hardware.
The software that did that went to the great bit bucket in the sky when I sold my machine to a teacher. I doubt the kids that got all my flopies ever did anything with it. I do think I have some screen printouts lying around somwhere. Maybe I'll dig them up.
This is why I would never, Ever, EVER script a trade. Ever. Let me repeat that for those who might still be tempted to use those trading platform "features". NEVER DO IT.
It's bad enough that I might botch the script, but they might botch it too.
Also, there's a saying in Vegas: speed kills.
Why, praytell, would anybody want to accelerate their trading? It makes sense if you're a market maker who can reliably make money on spreads and volume; but that's not Joe Blow using eTrade API or any other such carrot that the big online brokers are dangling in front of geeks.
If anything I have actualy been working to *reduce* the number of times I trade. I definitely don't need technical risk added to market risk, 100X more times per day.
P shift-O, and all the other "first letter, shift 2nd letter" abbreviations for BASIC commands were obligatory. Not only did it save you keystrokes, it also rendered the 2nd characters as a graphic. This made you look like some kind of computer god to the unintiated. I used to know a handful of opcodes in decimal. I'd POKE in a short program that SYS'd from basic in a loop. All it did was animate 8 square sprites on the screen randomly, but it impressed those who were non computer literate, which was a LOT of people in those days. Because of the horribly slow BASIC, this was the only way to make the sprites animate smoothly. The salesmen in the stores loved this. They were much less happy about time delayed SID blasting. Sorry. Kids like me resulted in all the display models being locked down.
The raw materials (silicon and trace elements) are virtually unlimited and highly recyclable, so that's not a problem. The problem is that photovoltaics have a limited lifespan.
What's the energy input to replace a panel? I do believe it's favorable. In other words, I think it's worthwhile to make the cells whereas ethanol is actualy a net loser. I just don't have numbers. Google time...
IMHO, "applied math" is a cop-out. We need better ways to teach the theory. There is a book that is decades old called "Calculus made easy". It might be out of print; but it was available deep in the stacks of the UVa library. Finding that book was some kind of godsend. In it, they lay out the fundamental theorem of calculus that relates summation and integrals. They somehow managed to do it in a way that gave me that "ah-ha!" experience. I owe the author an excellent grade on a test that, IIRC, counted for something like 30% of my grade. He (almost certainly a man given the age of the book) is probably dead though.
Oh wow, I got curious enough to google it before hitting post: Silvanus P. Thompson is the author, and yep, he wrote it in 1910 which makes it 102 years old. It's apparently regarded highly enough to still be in print too, which is a nice surprise.
I'm starting a compay that knocks people to the ground and puts a boot on their neck. My business model is to sell ads on the soles of the boots. Ticker symbol FY is available. W00t! Get the VCs on the line.
They stopped being a growth company, and their share price reflects that. Exponential growth followed by a plateau. Since there's inflation the shares have shrunk in real terms.
OK, people like to put the caption in the image sometimes. There are some apps that do it for you. It's in a lot of places, and you can sort of suss out a certain shared style among the people that do it. This isn't a "web". It's a meme on the web. It may or may not have staying power. You may or may not like it. You may simply use it as a marker to guess certain things about what kind of a site you just stumbled on. Whatever. It's NBD. The Economist is not going to replace paragraph after paragraph of analysis and commentary with a picture of Ben Bernanke pseudo-aged and the words STUCK RECORD superimposed on it.
Adblock: state of the art weapon system for one side in an arms race.
The other side fires back with overlay ads similar to what you see on TV. The ads will be more and more tightly integrated, and the protocols will be designed to integrate the ads into the content while still maintaining the features of ads that are served separately.
Then adblock will have to get more intelligent. There will be more product placement too. Crack open an ice cold Budweiser and enjoy the war.
Alrighty then. Eminent Domain isn't the government taking your property. It's part of the agreement when you purchased a coercive deed from the government--the agreement has an eminent domain clause.
And while you may wish to quibble that land is a physical item, the deed attached to the land is every bit as ephemeral as the PageRank patent, and it's the deed that makes you the owner, not the land.
Really though, it's pedantic. I think 99% of Slashdot's readers understood the comment. Furthermore, it's impossible to pedant-proof anything because the set of pedantic nitpics is essentially unbounded.
Furthermore, you... ooo.... interesting commercial on TV, gotta go.
It just means we won't have to do jobs that can be done by robots, and those are tedious and repetitive jobs anyway so no biggie.
It means that instead of somebody paying you $100/day to carry 50 lb. bags of sand up and down a ramp, you will pay somebody $30/month to rent equipment that simulates the physical labor of carrying 50 lb. bags of sand up and down a... oh... wait. Nevermind.
Coincidentally, new jobs like "life coach", "dietician", and "diabetic testing equipment salesman" will also come into exista.... oh... nevermind.
Um, yeah. We'll be saved from the drudgery of common labor. La, lah, lah (fingers in ears) carrry on my good, man. Carry on. No wait.... a robot does the carrrying. How many robots can you bench press?
Well, I don't like software patents either. However, Google will indeed have the government coming to take their IP when the PageRank patent expires. It probably won't mean much by then, since we've had time to realize that getting 1,254,562 results in 0.12 seconds isn't really that useful. Also, it's a system that can be gamed and you have to fight that. Nevertheless, the patent will become public domain much sooner than anything copyrighted. That's probably the ONLY thing to like about software patents. I actually got to see the GIF patent expire in my lifetime. Wow! And I also got to see it encourage progress; but not in the way that patents allegedly do that. It motivated the creation of PNG, which has alpha channels. BTW, did the IE team ever get alpha channels right? I was able to do that in a Windows app back in the 90s, and I never understood why MS couldn't master their own technology... but I digress...
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Yeah, it can get to Iran fast enough to beat them into submission so that we... have enough gas to get back.
I'm pretty sure there are more cost effective ways to achieve military... umm... Oh crap. Yeah. You're right. It's a weapon.
Here is one example. of a banker who most would consider "good". Two observations: 1. It's news that a banker is good. 2. It's a very small bank.
More and more crap accumulated until, low and behold, you had a glacier, a mountain, an ocean full of water, or a big database full of pictures of people you knew in highschool drunk off their asses, or a huge run-on sentance full of listed items and disjointed thoughts separated by commas.
The right wing in the US is libertarian
Libertarianism is objectively pro-$strongest. In the US, $strongest is the corporations. Thus, the right wing in the US is corporatist. I'd say "fascist", but that's a word that people in the US associate with a charismatic "leader for life", and a degree of internal oppression to which we have not yet risen.
Let's see, we've got Federal civil rights violations (not murder, so it's a separate charge). We've got civil cases (lower standard of proof, no jail but stripping of assets). Now we've got jurisdiction shopping.
How many licks does it take to get to the chewy center of oppression in the Constitutional Tootsie-Pop? A one... A two... CRUNCH! Three?
You still don't get it. It's an evolutionary survival of the fittest. The "fittest" is what can deliver "good enough". Sloppy code has 10,000 kids that bear a striking resemblance to it before well-written code even gets a date. You're blaming the survivors for the environmental conditions that make them survivors.
Your one-liner has a bug. It's Open Source though, so it's a shallow bug.
Holy Crap. It took me about 15 seconds to recall what those memory addresses pointed to.
Sorry I can't remember how to set the raster interrupt vector. Just knowing that such things were possible on the C-64 brings back memories. I played with that a bit back in the day; but my skills weren't to the point where I could really exploit it for anything other than what (at the time) seemed like a silly site gag of having two cursors on the screen at once. The whole concept of multiple terminal windows and multitasking in the true sense hadn't occured to me, and nobody had taught me.
I think raster interrupt is most likely how they got the Defender cart to work so well. (Display high sprites, CPU jumps to raster interrupt halfway down the screen, reposition all the sprites to represent players and bogies on the bottom half, return from routine). It was the only cart game I ever bought. It was a fantastic home version for its time.
Actually, come to think of it, I did use raster interrupt in a program to display a few lines of text on the bottom of the screen, and graphics on most of the screen. That program allowed you to enter equations and graph them. I had no idea how to write an expression parser; but I knew enough about C-64 hacking to make it accept my equations as BASIC and then use the interpreter to run it. Sanity checking? That was the interpreter's job. I don't recall if I hooked an exception vector or anything like that to recover if you put in bad commands. I think I did. Once again, I knew nothing about parsers but I didn't have to because I could hack around in the C-64 internals, both software and hardware.
The software that did that went to the great bit bucket in the sky when I sold my machine to a teacher. I doubt the kids that got all my flopies ever did anything with it. I do think I have some screen printouts lying around somwhere. Maybe I'll dig them up.
A pocketknife is as sharp as a sword. Chose your weapons.
This is why I would never, Ever, EVER script a trade. Ever. Let me repeat that for those who might still be tempted to use those trading platform "features". NEVER DO IT.
It's bad enough that I might botch the script, but they might botch it too.
Also, there's a saying in Vegas: speed kills.
Why, praytell, would anybody want to accelerate their trading? It makes sense if you're a market maker who can reliably make money on spreads and volume; but that's not Joe Blow using eTrade API or any other such carrot that the big online brokers are dangling in front of geeks.
If anything I have actualy been working to *reduce* the number of times I trade. I definitely don't need technical risk added to market risk, 100X more times per day.
P shift-O, and all the other "first letter, shift 2nd letter" abbreviations for BASIC commands were obligatory. Not only did it save you keystrokes, it also rendered the 2nd characters as a graphic. This made you look like some kind of computer god to the unintiated. I used to know a handful of opcodes in decimal. I'd POKE in a short program that SYS'd from basic in a loop. All it did was animate 8 square sprites on the screen randomly, but it impressed those who were non computer literate, which was a LOT of people in those days. Because of the horribly slow BASIC, this was the only way to make the sprites animate smoothly. The salesmen in the stores loved this. They were much less happy about time delayed SID blasting. Sorry. Kids like me resulted in all the display models being locked down.
The raw materials (silicon and trace elements) are virtually unlimited and highly recyclable, so that's not a problem. The problem is that photovoltaics have a limited lifespan.
What's the energy input to replace a panel? I do believe it's favorable. In other words, I think it's worthwhile to make the cells whereas ethanol is actualy a net loser. I just don't have numbers. Google time...
The more the Betteridge meme spreads, the more effort headline authors will make to confound it.
1. Manage human workers with an algorithm.
2. Manage algorithms with human workers.
3. Goto 1 until the Borg rule.
IMHO, "applied math" is a cop-out. We need better ways to teach the theory. There is a book that is decades old called "Calculus made easy". It might be out of print; but it was available deep in the stacks of the UVa library. Finding that book was some kind of godsend. In it, they lay out the fundamental theorem of calculus that relates summation and integrals. They somehow managed to do it in a way that gave me that "ah-ha!" experience. I owe the author an excellent grade on a test that, IIRC, counted for something like 30% of my grade. He (almost certainly a man given the age of the book) is probably dead though.
Oh wow, I got curious enough to google it before hitting post: Silvanus P. Thompson is the author, and yep, he wrote it in 1910 which makes it 102 years old. It's apparently regarded highly enough to still be in print too, which is a nice surprise.
The wiki article on that describes it from a music theory PoV. I guess they really don't write songs like that anymore.
Oh, and parent should not be modded down. "Fuck You" is pretty much the only valid response to that bullshit.
I'm starting a compay that knocks people to the ground and puts a boot on their neck. My business model is to sell ads on the soles of the boots. Ticker symbol FY is available. W00t! Get the VCs on the line.
Microsoft's lost decade is this
They stopped being a growth company, and their share price reflects that. Exponential growth followed by a plateau. Since there's inflation the shares have shrunk in real terms.
OK, people like to put the caption in the image sometimes. There are some apps that do it for you. It's in a lot of places, and you can sort of suss out a certain shared style among the people that do it. This isn't a "web". It's a meme on the web. It may or may not have staying power. You may or may not like it. You may simply use it as a marker to guess certain things about what kind of a site you just stumbled on. Whatever. It's NBD. The Economist is not going to replace paragraph after paragraph of analysis and commentary with a picture of Ben Bernanke pseudo-aged and the words STUCK RECORD superimposed on it.
Adblock: state of the art weapon system for one side in an arms race.
The other side fires back with overlay ads similar to what you see on TV. The ads will be more and more tightly integrated, and the protocols will be designed to integrate the ads into the content while still maintaining the features of ads that are served separately.
Then adblock will have to get more intelligent. There will be more product placement too. Crack open an ice cold Budweiser and enjoy the war.
County fair blue ribbon for Slashdot posting.
Alrighty then. Eminent Domain isn't the government taking your property. It's part of the agreement when you purchased a coercive deed from the government--the agreement has an eminent domain clause.
And while you may wish to quibble that land is a physical item, the deed attached to the land is every bit as ephemeral as the PageRank patent, and it's the deed that makes you the owner, not the land.
Really though, it's pedantic. I think 99% of Slashdot's readers understood the comment. Furthermore, it's impossible to pedant-proof anything because the set of pedantic nitpics is essentially unbounded.
Furthermore, you... ooo.... interesting commercial on TV, gotta go.
It just means we won't have to do jobs that can be done by robots, and those are tedious and repetitive jobs anyway so no biggie.
It means that instead of somebody paying you $100/day to carry 50 lb. bags of sand up and down a ramp, you will pay somebody $30/month to rent equipment that simulates the physical labor of carrying 50 lb. bags of sand up and down a... oh... wait. Nevermind.
Coincidentally, new jobs like "life coach", "dietician", and "diabetic testing equipment salesman" will also come into exista.... oh... nevermind.
Um, yeah. We'll be saved from the drudgery of common labor. La, lah, lah (fingers in ears) carrry on my good, man. Carry on. No wait.... a robot does the carrrying. How many robots can you bench press?
Well, I don't like software patents either. However, Google will indeed have the government coming to take their IP when the PageRank patent expires. It probably won't mean much by then, since we've had time to realize that getting 1,254,562 results in 0.12 seconds isn't really that useful. Also, it's a system that can be gamed and you have to fight that. Nevertheless, the patent will become public domain much sooner than anything copyrighted. That's probably the ONLY thing to like about software patents. I actually got to see the GIF patent expire in my lifetime. Wow! And I also got to see it encourage progress; but not in the way that patents allegedly do that. It motivated the creation of PNG, which has alpha channels. BTW, did the IE team ever get alpha channels right? I was able to do that in a Windows app back in the 90s, and I never understood why MS couldn't master their own technology... but I digress...