Sometimes individual rights collide with the collective interest. When you choose to live in a country with a government, you give up some individual rights
Speaking of when you choose, when exactly is that? Does this choice happen when you are born, or when you begin toddling? What alternatives are you given when you are making this choice?
Uh, it was always a niche skill. When assembly language programming was a more common way to write large programs, computer programming was a niche skill.
It's not comparable to the obsolete skill of tuning a carburetor. That's obsolete because, like, your car doesn't have one. Fuel injection doesn't work by controlling a carburetor.
Your computer is based on machine language, and it's pretty safe to say that your next one will also, and so will the one after that.
Due to the growth in computing, there are probably more people working with assembly language today, in terms of absolute numbers, than in 1968.
Not all of the bits of an ID are necessarily there for uniqueness. Wider ID's allow for features such as check digits (being able to tell whether an ID is valid without doing an existence query in a remote database) and other information. Namely, various immutable properties of the object that is denoted by the ID can be stored in the ID itself. This is similar to using spare bits within a machine address for tagging an object with a type or other attribute. It may be very useful to be able to tell something about an object just from the ID alone.
Now complete couch potatoes have yet another way to vicariously experience the thrill of elite, competitive sport, while evading the dangers of injury and overexertion.
Then in the 80's, there were Apple II computers, and various clones! Apple added checks to try to prevent their OS from running on the clones, and people hacked either the software or their machines to get around it.
In a sense, an x86 PC is a "cheap clone" of the proprietary Apple hardware.
It's possible that the reason Japanese has a word that means blue-green is by association with the Chinese word that also means blue-green. The kanji symbol that means blue-green has "aoi" is its "kun" (native Japanese) reading. The "on" (ancient Chinese-derived pronounciations) are sei and sho'. Did "aoi" exist before it was associated with the kanji, or was it invented afterward, giving rise to a Japanese word for a Chinese-derived concept? Which came first, midori or aoi?
The "midori" kanji also has Chinese-derived "roku" and "ryoku" readings which are used in some compounds, so that "light green" can be read as "asamidori" (kun) or "senryoku" (on)!
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Geek and troll duke it out over some damn model airplane calculator.
Upset geek generates Slashdot story, asking about how to handle this.
Good grief.
Speaking of when you choose, when exactly is that? Does this choice happen when you are born, or when you begin toddling? What alternatives are you given when you are making this choice?
in exchange you get safety for your person.
Moron.
I think that the individual has the right to decide whether it's more important for him to gain a few dollars versus influencing which party wins.
How can you possibly ``cheat'' with a heavier vehicle?
Real cars weigh a lot more anyway.
If someone happens to find a way to win with a 300 kg vehicle, what's wrong with that?
Like Leonard Bernstein, for instance?
That's like, 2^32.
:)
Is this really a computer? Or 32 bits worth of really impractical memory?
that the shirt on your back isn't covered by a property tax?
Doh.
Uh, it was always a niche skill. When assembly language programming was a more common way to write large programs, computer programming was a niche skill.
It's not comparable to the obsolete skill of tuning a carburetor. That's obsolete because, like, your car doesn't have one. Fuel injection doesn't work by controlling a carburetor.
Your computer is based on machine language, and it's pretty safe to say that your next one will also, and so will the one after that.
Due to the growth in computing, there are probably more people working with assembly language today, in terms of absolute numbers, than in 1968.
Ten kilobytes of ``how to improve online dating so I will finally have a girlfriend''.
Uh huh, inadequate online dating software is what is standing in your way.
Reviewed back in 1999 on Slashdot.
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/09/16/1333202
How about: ``photosynthesis''. From the Greek root meaning light, plus synthesis: making up larger hydrocarbons from smaller units.
Whaddya guys think?
I would avoid being in an office, and avoid dreaming about a dream office.
Doh!
This body deliberately left blank.
And on too? Aaaaah.
Academic Programmers: A Spotter's Guide. :)
Oldie goodie.
Not all of the bits of an ID are necessarily there for uniqueness. Wider ID's allow for features such as check digits (being able to tell whether an ID is valid without doing an existence query in a remote database) and other information. Namely, various immutable properties of the object that is denoted by the ID can be stored in the ID itself. This is similar to using spare bits within a machine address for tagging an object with a type or other attribute. It may be very useful to be able to tell something about an object just from the ID alone.
One reason might be that it's stolen?
Someone steals your number, buys kiddie porn, and now you're the suspect.
More pseudo-visionary clap trap from people who can't bang two bits together.
Hey, I'm Slashdot user 1484. I have a waiver that lets me be a curmudgeon whenever I please, which is pretty much all the time.
Now complete couch potatoes have yet another way to vicariously experience the thrill of elite, competitive sport, while evading the dangers of injury and overexertion.
They're at it again!
Then in the 80's, there were Apple II computers, and various clones! Apple added checks to try to prevent their OS from running on the clones, and people hacked either the software or their machines to get around it.
In a sense, an x86 PC is a "cheap clone" of the proprietary Apple hardware.
Suppose your cubicle had a push button which would mix an alert sound into your headphones.
Shouldn't be hard to cob together. Read it through the parallel port, use the appropriate API to make a sound.
Then get yourself some decent headphones that block the noise out, and keep the sounds in.
The "midori" kanji also has Chinese-derived "roku" and "ryoku" readings which are used in some compounds, so that "light green" can be read as "asamidori" (kun) or "senryoku" (on)!
:)
Well the given name "Hikaru" is indeed Japanese. But shouldn't "Sulu" be "Suru"?
Or maybe we are to believe that in the distant future, Japanese phonetics will acquire the L sound?
``Fake'' books of jazz and pop tunes with dumb chords substituted, simplified classical pieces that are easier to play, etc.
:)
If you can have a dumbed-down Bach or Beethoven as a ring tone on your phone, why not a dumbed down Jane Austen or Dostoyevsky on your bookshelf?