Assembly language allows the new programmer to understand the computer as it really is. Anyone who doesn't understand what is happening under the covers of higher abstraction layers is never going program above a very poor level.
Preferrably, a RISC assembly language, but PPC is relatively orthogonal.
You would be amazed at how much of "compiling a file in C" can be done in parallel. The fact that you've always thought of it in sequential terms and been taught about it exclusively in sequential terms does not make it an inherently sequential task. Not only the sequential order of operations but also many or most data dependencies are artificially imposed: The same result can often be derived using alternative, shallower, dependency partial orders.
A very large number of people hold that "piracy" is not only ethically permissible, it is ethically obligatory. Often the contention is that supporting the established regime of intellectual property is destructive to good ends and constructive to evil ends.
In general, this means either that most people disagree with your theory about the consequences of "piracy", or that they hold that other positive benefits of "piracy" outweigh any negative consequences such as you describe.
Using the world "piracy" for copyright infringement is like using the word "rape" for violating the speed limit. It's not a respectable use of language.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
Harassment may be a very big issue, but being hit on is not harassment. It's normal intergender social interaction. If you want to avoid being hit on, you could become a cloistered nun.
Detail memory degrades, but decision-making skills improve. I find that amphetamines and piracetam are helpful, overcoming fatigue, while improving focus and memory. I'm definitely at least twice the engineer at 45 that I was at 25. Thankfully, my pay scale reflects this improvement.
And a car has enough stored energy to destroy a small commercial building. But seriously, half a watt is enough to take down a jet, if luck is against you (and the eyes of the crew). And yes, I know what a magnetron tube is, and because of that my next-door neighbor thinks God is telling him to give me half his paycheck.
While I may not agree with her politics, it is appalling to me that such misogyny can go unreplied on Slashdot. Palin is the *only* one of the 4 top-ticket contenders with actual executive experience. As compared to Obama/Biden, she actually worked a union job in her lifetime. Rather than promising to return big oil windfall profits to the people, she's actually done it. Attack McCain all you want -- he deserves it for the Keating 5, for Iraq 2, but until you have something more than sneers and misogyny, leave Palin out of it. She's the best candidate in the race, and not in small part because she is a hockey mom.
This is the BoFH view: Arrogant and contemptuous of all of the people they are screwing over with their bloody-minded rules, enforced on whim over the toy domain of their tin-pot tyranny. When mission-critical operations are irreparably harmed by this pettiness, their castle inevitably crashes to the ground, and their kingdom is lost.
I'm working as a consultant in a city far from my home, where I pull down $10k in each 2 week paycheck. I get paid with a bank check drawn on North Fork Bank, which was recently purchased by Citigroup. My local bank is Bank of America. In order to get immediate access to the funds when a check arrives, I walk over to the nearest Citibank, where I have to stand around waiting for about 15 minutes while they work out approvals to cash the check. Then I get handed stacks of bills -- usually they don't have enough 100's on hand, so I have to take a mix of 100s, 50s, and 20s -- sometimes as much as 4 inches thick. I then stuff these in my pants, and walk 3 blocks to a subway station, occasionally checking to see that no one who was in the bank at the time has followed me. There I ride 2 stops and walk 1 block to my local bank, where I stand in line for 15-30 minutes, depending on how busy it is, in order to deposit the (now sweaty) cash.
Ain't modern technology grand. It would be easier if I could take it in gold coin. 10 eagles in my pocket would hardly make a bulge. Or maybe a Yap Island cash stone. I could ride it like a unicycle, thereby saving a subway ride.
This is actually a great choice, if you add a bluetooth dongle to the EEEPC. I use a 900L for mobe-ing around, since it leaves room for a good book on algebraic topology where my 2 kilo laptop used to go.
I have a Centro and the ssh is dandy. The Centro goes for $100 with a contract from Sprint, and does everything a blackberry will do, if you set up a gmail forward to ##########@messaging.sprintpcs.com -- and the battery will last about twice as long, unless you're constantly streaming video or something.
The "effects of hard drugs" to which you aver are in fact the effects of criminalization. I've been addicted to opiates in the past, and highly recommend it to anyone who is suffering from severe chronic pain. There is no substantive material difference between dilaudid and heroin, except that heroin is illegal in the US (not so in the UK, for example). I lost some hearing, but if I hadn't had the drugs, I probably would have killed myself to escape the depression caused by unrelenting pain.
Driving will fuck you up. In fact, driving is vastly more dangerous than intelligently using unadulterated heroin in the presence of plenty of cash money.
Drugs are good if used well, and bad if used ill, just like guns or toothpicks or pretty girls.
The DoD gives adderall to fighter pilots. Is this because they want to handicap the enemy? Your post is bogus because it is falsely predicated. I use performance-enhancing nootropics, and have very good professional results. I strongly endorse their use, as beneficial to society, beneficial to the careers of their users, and beneficial to the families and other financial beneficiaries of the users.
I have become addicted to opiates in the past, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is suffering chronic pain or depression. It is not very difficult to stop using opiates when the condition has been resolved.
Heroin addiction is treated like the bogeyman. Actually, what you should be fearful of is the organized crime which subverts the feral government, due to the vast amounts of unaccounted cash that flows in the drug trade, because heroin is illegal.
The illegality of heroin causes gang violence, prostitution, armed robberies, assassinations, police and political corruption, military invasions and occupations, mass murder, revolutions, coups d etat, and more
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Assembly language allows the new programmer to understand the computer as it really is. Anyone who doesn't understand what is happening under the covers of higher abstraction layers is never going program above a very poor level.
Preferrably, a RISC assembly language, but PPC is relatively orthogonal.
You would be amazed at how much of "compiling a file in C" can be done in parallel. The fact that you've always thought of it in sequential terms and been taught about it exclusively in sequential terms does not make it an inherently sequential task. Not only the sequential order of operations but also many or most data dependencies are artificially imposed: The same result can often be derived using alternative, shallower, dependency partial orders.
A very large number of people hold that "piracy" is not only ethically permissible, it is ethically obligatory. Often the contention is that supporting the established regime of intellectual property is destructive to good ends and constructive to evil ends.
In general, this means either that most people disagree with your theory about the consequences of "piracy", or that they hold that other positive benefits of "piracy" outweigh any negative consequences such as you describe.
Using the world "piracy" for copyright infringement is like using the word "rape" for violating the speed limit. It's not a respectable use of language.
Indeed, perhaps this "art project" is actually a patent troll.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ... whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
Think of Al Gore's responsibility in all of this!
You drool methamphetamine?
Which also doesn't apply in the Netherlands.
Women naturally gravitate to medicine. They don't naturally gravitate to engineering. Thus your example is useless to your point.
Harassment may be a very big issue, but being hit on is not harassment. It's normal intergender social interaction. If you want to avoid being hit on, you could become a cloistered nun.
Detail memory degrades, but decision-making skills improve. I find that amphetamines and piracetam are helpful, overcoming fatigue, while improving focus and memory. I'm definitely at least twice the engineer at 45 that I was at 25. Thankfully, my pay scale reflects this improvement.
And a car has enough stored energy to destroy a small commercial building. But seriously, half a watt is enough to take down a jet, if luck is against you (and the eyes of the crew). And yes, I know what a magnetron tube is, and because of that my next-door neighbor thinks God is telling him to give me half his paycheck.
While I may not agree with her politics, it is appalling to me that such misogyny can go unreplied on Slashdot. Palin is the *only* one of the 4 top-ticket contenders with actual executive experience. As compared to Obama/Biden, she actually worked a union job in her lifetime. Rather than promising to return big oil windfall profits to the people, she's actually done it. Attack McCain all you want -- he deserves it for the Keating 5, for Iraq 2, but until you have something more than sneers and misogyny, leave Palin out of it. She's the best candidate in the race, and not in small part because she is a hockey mom.
Bar exams and CPA certs are not like job interview tests, not remotely. They are similar to tests you took at University, albiet usually longer.
Job interview tests are typically applied by people who are too stupid to understand why your answer is superior to their standardized answer.
Just say no. They are stupid, so they will die. Do you really want to join them?
This is the BoFH view: Arrogant and contemptuous of all of the people they are screwing over with their bloody-minded rules, enforced on whim over the toy domain of their tin-pot tyranny. When mission-critical operations are irreparably harmed by this pettiness, their castle inevitably crashes to the ground, and their kingdom is lost.
Michael Shermer is a dipstick, and character assassination isn't an argument.
It would be more accurate to say that no truly convincing evidence has been presented to you, personally.
Hopefully, they support the ACPI and Wifi.
I'm working as a consultant in a city far from my home, where I pull down $10k in each 2 week paycheck. I get paid with a bank check drawn on North Fork Bank, which was recently purchased by Citigroup. My local bank is Bank of America. In order to get immediate access to the funds when a check arrives, I walk over to the nearest Citibank, where I have to stand around waiting for about 15 minutes while they work out approvals to cash the check. Then I get handed stacks of bills -- usually they don't have enough 100's on hand, so I have to take a mix of 100s, 50s, and 20s -- sometimes as much as 4 inches thick. I then stuff these in my pants, and walk 3 blocks to a subway station, occasionally checking to see that no one who was in the bank at the time has followed me. There I ride 2 stops and walk 1 block to my local bank, where I stand in line for 15-30 minutes, depending on how busy it is, in order to deposit the (now sweaty) cash.
Ain't modern technology grand. It would be easier if I could take it in gold coin. 10 eagles in my pocket would hardly make a bulge. Or maybe a Yap Island cash stone. I could ride it like a unicycle, thereby saving a subway ride.
This is actually a great choice, if you add a bluetooth dongle to the EEEPC. I use a 900L for mobe-ing around, since it leaves room for a good book on algebraic topology where my 2 kilo laptop used to go.
I have a Centro and the ssh is dandy. The Centro goes for $100 with a contract from Sprint, and does everything a blackberry will do, if you set up a gmail forward to ##########@messaging.sprintpcs.com -- and the battery will last about twice as long, unless you're constantly streaming video or something.
The "effects of hard drugs" to which you aver are in fact the effects of criminalization. I've been addicted to opiates in the past, and highly recommend it to anyone who is suffering from severe chronic pain.
There is no substantive material difference between dilaudid and heroin, except that heroin is illegal in the US (not so in the UK, for example). I lost some hearing, but if I hadn't had the drugs, I probably would have killed myself to escape the depression caused by unrelenting pain.
Driving will fuck you up. In fact, driving is vastly more dangerous than intelligently using unadulterated heroin in the presence of plenty of cash money.
Drugs are good if used well, and bad if used ill, just like guns or toothpicks or pretty girls.
The DoD gives adderall to fighter pilots. Is this because they want to handicap the enemy? Your post is bogus because it is falsely predicated. I use performance-enhancing nootropics, and have very good professional results. I strongly endorse their use, as beneficial to society, beneficial to the careers of their users, and beneficial to the families and other financial beneficiaries of the users.
An example would be the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA, discovered under the influence of LSD. That one got a Nobel prize.
I have become addicted to opiates in the past, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is suffering chronic pain or depression. It is not very difficult to stop using opiates when the condition has been resolved.
Heroin addiction is treated like the bogeyman. Actually, what you should be fearful of is the organized crime which subverts the feral government, due to the vast amounts of unaccounted cash that flows in the drug trade, because heroin is illegal.
The illegality of heroin causes gang violence, prostitution, armed robberies, assassinations, police and political corruption, military invasions and occupations, mass murder, revolutions, coups d etat, and more