We could settle this whole argument by just figuring out a way to convince Microsoft that it is in its own best interest to put pressure on the standards body to reverse the standard. It would be redefined within a year:-)
Nice to see religion come up on Slashdot and not be the topic of vociferous argument for once:) Like that one quote in a Hitchhiker's book about the religion of Everybody Should Stop Taking This Religion Thing So Seriously And Have A Pizza, or however it came out...I can't find it by a quick googling...
I would sure like to see your keyboard that has an infinite number of keys. There's a very important distinction between "practically infinite" and really infinite. A standard computer keyboard, not counting shift/ctrl/alt would have n! / (k! (n - k) !) or whatever the formula is, where ~105 is the number of keys on the keyboard.
We just had a talk about Turing machines at my university, and I just have to say that that looks flippin' awesome, especially considering that it allegedly actually computes something! Unfortunately I have no mod points.
The post would make just as much sense if you substituted the terms "Linux" for "OS X" and "Firefox" for "Safari," so I'd say it's not really very apologetical. And to be fair, they're valid questions because this kind of article does seem to come up a lot around here, a la "OMG they found an exploit for Linux! Oh wait, you have to be logged in as root, manually set it to executable, and ignore the security warning when you run it."
What? Because he's never used a C64, because he would like to see how far we've come, because the brand doesn't mean anything to him, because he doesn't feel like an all-in-one, or because he thinks this product won't do well? I'm missing something.
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nibble 4
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byte 8
word 16
double word 32
quad word 64
kilobyte 1000
Obviously it makes more sense this way
We could settle this whole argument by just figuring out a way to convince Microsoft that it is in its own best interest to put pressure on the standards body to reverse the standard. It would be redefined within a year :-)
You can tell it's a question because of the lack of a question mark?
...which still gives you a finite number of combinations as you could always have more combinations if you had one extra key.
Oh my god, they're not giving 100% support to an OS that's almost 9 years old?!? Burn them at the stake!!!
Nice to see religion come up on Slashdot and not be the topic of vociferous argument for once :) Like that one quote in a Hitchhiker's book about the religion of Everybody Should Stop Taking This Religion Thing So Seriously And Have A Pizza, or however it came out...I can't find it by a quick googling...
I would sure like to see your keyboard that has an infinite number of keys. There's a very important distinction between "practically infinite" and really infinite. A standard computer keyboard, not counting shift/ctrl/alt would have n! / (k! (n - k) !) or whatever the formula is, where ~105 is the number of keys on the keyboard.
We just had a talk about Turing machines at my university, and I just have to say that that looks flippin' awesome, especially considering that it allegedly actually computes something! Unfortunately I have no mod points.
Hmmm...what should we call this...a Slashtweet? A Slweet?
The post would make just as much sense if you substituted the terms "Linux" for "OS X" and "Firefox" for "Safari," so I'd say it's not really very apologetical. And to be fair, they're valid questions because this kind of article does seem to come up a lot around here, a la "OMG they found an exploit for Linux! Oh wait, you have to be logged in as root, manually set it to executable, and ignore the security warning when you run it."
What? Because he's never used a C64, because he would like to see how far we've come, because the brand doesn't mean anything to him, because he doesn't feel like an all-in-one, or because he thinks this product won't do well? I'm missing something.
Feh. Real programmers just use registers. Ever.
Even if Slashdot *is* News for Nerds, not everyone can read uncommented assembly.
Except that would seem to imply that at some point, the U.S. was fucking China...has that ever happened? Pre-WWII, maybe?
Somebody could step on you.
Just one or two a day? It seems like every headline is lambasted as, if not an outright lie, significantly misleading.
from the skynet-jokes-are-allowed-and-encouraged dept.
(please no Skynet jokes)
does not compute.
You forgot the xkcd link.
So there *is* such a thing as a free lunch!
Be that as it may, it's kinda the whole "I did not speak when they..." thing going on there.
Anarchists can't do that.
Could enough heroin cause an abortion? Or would it just screw up the child really bad...
What?
It's an interesting look back at a time when the Internet was still a novelty and not yet a necessity.
I'd be interested to see something that is both a novelty and a necessity.
So he's using 4 fingers instead of 2...