Depending on the anonymous reader's level of experience and literacy, Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby ( http://www.rubyinside.com/medi... ) may be a good introduction to the language, or to programming in general. It's a bit too whimsical to really teach you design patterns or anything, but as far as a first-time guide to the idea of variables and loops, it might be just what is needed.
Reading that made me ask three questions:
1) What kind of encryption did the FBI break?
2) Can they do it again, for any arbitrary encrypted data?
3) If 2), what kind of decryption should we use instead of 1) ?
Now honestly, even if it's organic matter that made it over with the rover, if it's reproducing and surviving on the planet, that's plenty interesting news.
You're exactly right - the "exciting" news might not be that life still exists on Mars, but that it easily could. This might have very interesting implications for terraforming.
Neither Breivik nor McVeigh was a Christian by any rational definition of the term.... While Breivik called himself a Christian, he explicitly said that he did not believe in the religion.
The entire point of game consoles is that developers at least have a chance at a homogenous platform where they can make sure the game mostly runs the same everywhere. If you allow upgrading CPU, GPU, etc. then it's just PC gaming with a weird OS and components that will most likely cost more just because they can.
it is the President's job to execute the laws & budget that congress hands him, with whatever funding they provide. We are looking now at a dictator if Obama does not sign a budget passed by congress.
It is the job of the President to be a check against the power of the Congress. If Congress passed a bill that balanced the budget by confiscating all private property, should Obama sign it? He is the executor, but also the protector.
What kind of law do you want to draft that reduces corporate influence without also reducing the ability of citizens to organize and lobby?
Simple: require that only HUMAN entities, not legal or financial entities, are allowed to organize and lobby. The Founding Fathers didn't imagine that we would be crazy enough to recognize a nonhuman corporation as a legal person with free speech and all of the other rights.
You're exactly right, and that's why they hate Anonymous so much. Most other terror organizations can be destroyed merely by taking out their head men. Anon doesn't work that way. Arrest the LOICers, Anon gets pissed off and LOICs. Arrest Moot, Anon gets pissed off and LOICs. Do nothing, Anon gets pissed off and LOICs. They have no control over them, and that's why they can't stand them.
I can match your anecdote with my own, and I'm not even making mine up. I live in a small town, and have access to all of the major cell phone providers, but only have reliable service from one. For internet service, I have one choice. No wifi, and no dial-up since the single internet provider is also the single phone provider, and they don't offer it. Voting with your dollars doesn't change a company's mind, it just gives them a reason to move to China.
Do you have some sort of entitlement to a technology career?... AT&T and the industry it created are well within their rights to make money.
That's a dangerous statement to make, my friend. It starts out with praising the companies for being the benefactors of a new age, and ends with serfdom and feudalism. That's what always bugs me about anti-government, pro-corporation free-market-ists. It always ends up with the big guy crushing the little guy, and then everybody blaming the little guy for daring to challenge the status quo.
I don't know about you, but if free speech is going to be regulated by company or government, I would rather have the government, who I can vote to change, do it, rather than a company that I have no control over.
So the rest of those companies go out of business, and their employees have to work at Amazon. You get less choice when you buy stuff online, so Amazon gets more money, so it can destroy other businesses, and hire more employees...
Yes, and then the university raises tuition so that they can cover expenses via the gov't subsidy, and make a pretty penny on top of that. Maybe Canadian universities aren't bastards, but American universities are.
Kids are going to have sex. That's the long and short of it. Would you rather that they do it not knowing how to be safe and responsible? Or would you rather that they have the knowledge of how to use contraceptives to reduce the risk of pregnancy and STDs? We teach kids how to do everything else safely, but we think, "Well, kids shouldn't be having sex anyway, so if we don't tell them about it, they won't do it." Hogwash.
The trouble is you're running a G4. I have a C2D mac mini (GMA 950 graphics, no less) and I get ~30 fps even on all of those examples (except for SVG, because SVG sucks.) You're surprised that a new technology runs badly on a computer that's somewhere between four and seven years old? I'm sorry if your computer doesn't do HTML5 as well as a newer computer does, but that doesn't make it a pile of crap all around. We shouldn't be locked into proprietary Flash, Silverlight, or anything just because a four-generation-old Mac can't run the new, promising stuff.
Erm... ALL of those have run on Macs since 1996. Citations? Sure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst Look in the righthand column.
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Until he gets out, and does it again. This time, with more knowledge of what not to do in order to stay undetected.
"Don't be evil"
Depending on the anonymous reader's level of experience and literacy, Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby ( http://www.rubyinside.com/medi... ) may be a good introduction to the language, or to programming in general. It's a bit too whimsical to really teach you design patterns or anything, but as far as a first-time guide to the idea of variables and loops, it might be just what is needed.
Reading that made me ask three questions:
1) What kind of encryption did the FBI break?
2) Can they do it again, for any arbitrary encrypted data?
3) If 2), what kind of decryption should we use instead of 1) ?
So, a network made from this type of wire really would be a series of tubes?
Now honestly, even if it's organic matter that made it over with the rover, if it's reproducing and surviving on the planet, that's plenty interesting news.
You're exactly right - the "exciting" news might not be that life still exists on Mars, but that it easily could. This might have very interesting implications for terraforming.
Time is the most deadly thing in the world, and nobody protests its inexorable forward march.
Neither Breivik nor McVeigh was a Christian by any rational definition of the term.... While Breivik called himself a Christian, he explicitly said that he did not believe in the religion.
No TRUE Scotsman is a mass-murderer, either.
The entire point of game consoles is that developers at least have a chance at a homogenous platform where they can make sure the game mostly runs the same everywhere. If you allow upgrading CPU, GPU, etc. then it's just PC gaming with a weird OS and components that will most likely cost more just because they can.
it is the President's job to execute the laws & budget that congress hands him, with whatever funding they provide. We are looking now at a dictator if Obama does not sign a budget passed by congress.
It is the job of the President to be a check against the power of the Congress. If Congress passed a bill that balanced the budget by confiscating all private property, should Obama sign it? He is the executor, but also the protector.
What kind of law do you want to draft that reduces corporate influence without also reducing the ability of citizens to organize and lobby?
Simple: require that only HUMAN entities, not legal or financial entities, are allowed to organize and lobby. The Founding Fathers didn't imagine that we would be crazy enough to recognize a nonhuman corporation as a legal person with free speech and all of the other rights.
That's not beautiful logic either. A better comparison:
-Plants have chlorophyll, which they use for photosynthesis.
-Humans do not have chlorophyll.
-Therefore humans cannot perform photosynthesis.
"Don't expect the company to fix its mistakes, just spend more money!"
You're exactly right, and that's why they hate Anonymous so much. Most other terror organizations can be destroyed merely by taking out their head men. Anon doesn't work that way. Arrest the LOICers, Anon gets pissed off and LOICs. Arrest Moot, Anon gets pissed off and LOICs. Do nothing, Anon gets pissed off and LOICs. They have no control over them, and that's why they can't stand them.
At some point, Bradley Manning passed a background check. That didn't turn out so hot.
I can match your anecdote with my own, and I'm not even making mine up. I live in a small town, and have access to all of the major cell phone providers, but only have reliable service from one. For internet service, I have one choice. No wifi, and no dial-up since the single internet provider is also the single phone provider, and they don't offer it. Voting with your dollars doesn't change a company's mind, it just gives them a reason to move to China.
Do you have some sort of entitlement to a technology career? ... AT&T and the industry it created are well within their rights to make money.
That's a dangerous statement to make, my friend. It starts out with praising the companies for being the benefactors of a new age, and ends with serfdom and feudalism. That's what always bugs me about anti-government, pro-corporation free-market-ists. It always ends up with the big guy crushing the little guy, and then everybody blaming the little guy for daring to challenge the status quo.
I don't know about you, but if free speech is going to be regulated by company or government, I would rather have the government, who I can vote to change, do it, rather than a company that I have no control over.
But please, be as corporatist as you like.
Just imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
So the rest of those companies go out of business, and their employees have to work at Amazon. You get less choice when you buy stuff online, so Amazon gets more money, so it can destroy other businesses, and hire more employees...
Isn't the free market great?
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Yes, and then the university raises tuition so that they can cover expenses via the gov't subsidy, and make a pretty penny on top of that. Maybe Canadian universities aren't bastards, but American universities are.
I don't need to read no books, I got common sense.
Kids are going to have sex. That's the long and short of it. Would you rather that they do it not knowing how to be safe and responsible? Or would you rather that they have the knowledge of how to use contraceptives to reduce the risk of pregnancy and STDs? We teach kids how to do everything else safely, but we think, "Well, kids shouldn't be having sex anyway, so if we don't tell them about it, they won't do it." Hogwash.
The trouble is you're running a G4. I have a C2D mac mini (GMA 950 graphics, no less) and I get ~30 fps even on all of those examples (except for SVG, because SVG sucks.) You're surprised that a new technology runs badly on a computer that's somewhere between four and seven years old? I'm sorry if your computer doesn't do HTML5 as well as a newer computer does, but that doesn't make it a pile of crap all around. We shouldn't be locked into proprietary Flash, Silverlight, or anything just because a four-generation-old Mac can't run the new, promising stuff.
Erm... ALL of those have run on Macs since 1996.
Citations? Sure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst
Look in the righthand column.