The best way to learn to program is to actually do it, so I echo the other posters when I say to pick a program and do it. Python is a good language to learn, It makes sense most of the time, so it makes it easier to learn.
Making a game of any type is a great way to learn. Just Tick-Tack-Toe even is enough to just to get your foot in the door. Once you get your first success, no matter how small, it will snowball.
Good luck.
Understood. But with the IRS they are after money. With the homeland security, they aren't after anything, therefore anything will be/ and can be collected... I worry about the just-in-case mentality. After all, if 4 terrabytes costs $100 retail, they could easily have storage of every person in the country and stay within budget.
(my keylogging program seems to be giving me problems. Cut it out!!!!)
The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.
Does giving the Department of Homeland Security affect this, by being able to collect information on it's citizens? Are people still able to peaceably protest when the minute details of their lives are in the government cloud?
That's like designing a high performance car with psychologists, politicians, economists, mathematicians and English professors. Not likely to work will on the track, but will have the proper attitude, be politically correct, will know why it's loosing money and won't divide by zero, and will use proper syntax.
There are probably valid reasons for not doing this, but it always seemed to me that ip addresses should be defined by physical location. Obviously there is still a need for roaming ip addresses, but what if, under ip6, a block was defined that specified ip via gps coordinates to the best resolution possible with the numbers within the block. DNS is just a 1 to 1 lookup between name and ip address, so I don't think that would change much except you could do things like Name->GPS->IP.
Comments welcome. Am I totally out to lunch with this idea?
I too am a gentoo'r, and I have about 10 different windows managers available to me. I tend to go with the KDE because it is the most like windows. (Yes I'm bilingual!) but sometimes I go with Gnome or blackbox or the others just for a change.
KDE seems to handle the dual monitor the best, (or at least the closest to the way I would expect dual monitors to work) I don't have a problem with the newest version of Gnome, seems very snappy. It took a while but now that it's here I don't mind.
I like having lots of desktops. I log in as different projects that I'm working on, and often will have one desktop setup for one project and another for another project.
The amount doesn't matter. If someone wouldn't let you into your car unless you paid them a dollar, it would be the same thing as if they forced you to pay 99 dollars. It's still immoral to lock someone out of something they own. It's also still immoral to lock out one particular brand of gasoline.
Consider diseases that would normally kill a person often before they are able to reproduce. Like Diabetics Muscular Dystrophy, Asthma, heart disease, and so on. Now they can be treated to the point were...although not cured..., the diseases can be passed on to children of the sufferers. So, as we are getting better at treating symptoms but not able to cure the underlying genetic problem, the genetic problem is being spread through-out the world.
Consider diseases that normally would have decimated a population, but for the few who had the genetic where withal to withstand the disease. We've developed vaccines that bypass the natural selection, and therefore eliminate the genetic ability to select for stronger defences.
The cold hard truth is that we are genetically weaker then our ancestors, and that is the cost of modern medicine.
You could be right. I spent a few days playing with it, then dropped it, so those memory cells have been reclaimed for other uses. Still even if it is as you state, requiring an open brace to be at the end of the line or else it's a syntax error, seems arbitrary, and IMHO ugly.
I can't remember the specifics now, but it was something to do with the meaning of the line changing if the semicolon was on the end of the line, or on the next line. The statement was one that needed a semicolon. So to me it showed a big inconsistency.
The semicolon at the end of the line thing decided me that it was a toy language. That the meaning of the statement(s) change if the semicolon is on a new-line or on the same line.
I agree, pay for cable, watch commercials, we are double paying for everything, and all for re-runs and rehashes of old shows. I think it's time to quit TV and go totally internet.
You seem to be getting upset. Maybe we should stop before you hurt yourself:)
I said you're analogy was horrible, and gave a better one. You then changed my analogy said that it was mine, and complimented it, and said I was losing. (I didn't realize it was a contest) I called you on it, and now you give the Whaaahmbulance alert? Who isn't listening to who?
My original post, which sparked this discussion, was that at one time, bounty hunters would come to Canada and illegally abduct black runaways back to the states. I also pointed out that this was still happening today, although not for the slave trade, but still by bounty hunters. This is still illegal. The article was about the Virgina State affecting a Canadian enterprise. THIS WAS ONLY A STATE, NOT EVEN FEDERAL. Wether the enterrprise was legal or not is beside the point. In both countries we are still innocent until proven guilty, and in both countries there is due process, that involves BOTH COUNTRIES WHEN CROSSING THE BORDER. In this case, the due process was circumvented. There is NO treaty allowing the take down of a Canadian site by another country, and I hope to god there never will be. If you know of such a treaty please let me know what it's called.
That's a horrible analogy. It's more like a sheriff from Virgina County, driving up to Canada, hooking a car up to a tow truck and towing it back to the states. Can't you see how that's wrong? Yes the car was speeding,had a taillight broken and was transporting illegal substances. Yes that's illegal in both countries, No that doesn't give the US sheriff the right to enforce US and Canadian Laws outside of his state. We are separate COUNTRIES.
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The best way to learn to program is to actually do it, so I echo the other posters when I say to pick a program and do it. Python is a good language to learn, It makes sense most of the time, so it makes it easier to learn. Making a game of any type is a great way to learn. Just Tick-Tack-Toe even is enough to just to get your foot in the door. Once you get your first success, no matter how small, it will snowball. Good luck.
I agree. Never tell any pollsters who your are voting for. It's what a free vote is all about. Not knowing who your neighbour is voting for.
Seriously, I think we need more. This is great news. Much better then bloodshed etc. Isn't it nice to get some good news for a change?
Understood. But with the IRS they are after money. With the homeland security, they aren't after anything, therefore anything will be/ and can be collected... I worry about the just-in-case mentality. After all, if 4 terrabytes costs $100 retail, they could easily have storage of every person in the country and stay within budget. (my keylogging program seems to be giving me problems. Cut it out!!!!)
The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.
Does giving the Department of Homeland Security affect this, by being able to collect information on it's citizens? Are people still able to peaceably protest when the minute details of their lives are in the government cloud?
but it casts a big shadow....
Sorry just had to say.
"What can we do with the Start menu to revive it, to give it some new identity, give it some new power?"
Git rid of it. That's what we will do!
Yes I pin applications that I use all the time, but for those applications that I seldom use, I like to use the start button.
Yes we poisoned the well of censorship.
Does this meant that opa can't handle a simple slashdotting?!!
That's like designing a high performance car with psychologists, politicians, economists, mathematicians and English professors. Not likely to work will on the track, but will have the proper attitude, be politically correct, will know why it's loosing money and won't divide by zero, and will use proper syntax.
There are probably valid reasons for not doing this, but it always seemed to me that ip addresses should be defined by physical location. Obviously there is still a need for roaming ip addresses, but what if, under ip6, a block was defined that specified ip via gps coordinates to the best resolution possible with the numbers within the block.
DNS is just a 1 to 1 lookup between name and ip address, so I don't think that would change much except you could do things like Name->GPS->IP.
Comments welcome. Am I totally out to lunch with this idea?
I too am a gentoo'r, and I have about 10 different windows managers available to me. I tend to go with the KDE because it is the most like windows. (Yes I'm bilingual!) but sometimes I go with Gnome or blackbox or the others just for a change.
KDE seems to handle the dual monitor the best, (or at least the closest to the way I would expect dual monitors to work)
I don't have a problem with the newest version of Gnome, seems very snappy. It took a while but now that it's here I don't mind.
I like having lots of desktops. I log in as different projects that I'm working on, and often will have one desktop setup for one project and another for another project.
The best comment I've see so far.
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You must be kidding. Windows 8 for ARM will need the biggest fattest most memory hungry ARM there is.
The amount doesn't matter. If someone wouldn't let you into your car unless you paid them a dollar, it would be the same thing as if they forced you to pay 99 dollars. It's still immoral to lock someone out of something they own. It's also still immoral to lock out one particular brand of gasoline.
You can use notepad...
Consider diseases that would normally kill a person often before they are able to reproduce. Like Diabetics Muscular Dystrophy, Asthma, heart disease, and so on. Now they can be treated to the point were ...although not cured..., the diseases can be passed on to children of the sufferers. So, as we are getting better at treating symptoms but not able to cure the underlying genetic problem, the genetic problem is being spread through-out the world.
Consider diseases that normally would have decimated a population, but for the few who had the genetic where withal to withstand the disease. We've developed vaccines that bypass the natural selection, and therefore eliminate the genetic ability to select for stronger defences.
The cold hard truth is that we are genetically weaker then our ancestors, and that is the cost of modern medicine.
You could be right. I spent a few days playing with it, then dropped it, so those memory cells have been reclaimed for other uses. Still even if it is as you state, requiring an open brace to be at the end of the line or else it's a syntax error, seems arbitrary, and IMHO ugly.
I can't remember the specifics now, but it was something to do with the meaning of the line changing if the semicolon was on the end of the line, or on the next line. The statement was one that needed a semicolon. So to me it showed a big inconsistency.
The semicolon at the end of the line thing decided me that it was a toy language. That the meaning of the statement(s) change if the semicolon is on a new-line or on the same line.
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I agree, pay for cable, watch commercials, we are double paying for everything, and all for re-runs and rehashes of old shows. I think it's time to quit TV and go totally internet.
You seem to be getting upset. Maybe we should stop before you hurt yourself :)
I said you're analogy was horrible, and gave a better one.
You then changed my analogy said that it was mine, and complimented it, and said I was losing. (I didn't realize it was a contest)
I called you on it, and now you give the Whaaahmbulance alert? Who isn't listening to who?
My original post, which sparked this discussion, was that at one time, bounty hunters would come to Canada and illegally abduct black runaways back to the states. I also pointed out that this was still happening today, although not for the slave trade, but still by bounty hunters. This is still illegal. The article was about the Virgina State affecting a Canadian enterprise. THIS WAS ONLY A STATE, NOT EVEN FEDERAL. Wether the enterrprise was legal or not is beside the point. In both countries we are still innocent until proven guilty, and in both countries there is due process, that involves BOTH COUNTRIES WHEN CROSSING THE BORDER. In this case, the due process was circumvented. There is NO treaty allowing the take down of a Canadian site by another country, and I hope to god there never will be. If you know of such a treaty please let me know what it's called.
You can't change someone's analogy and then tell them it's wrong. That's just plain stupid.
You try again.
That's a horrible analogy. It's more like a sheriff from Virgina County, driving up to Canada, hooking a car up to a tow truck and towing it back to the states.
Can't you see how that's wrong?
Yes the car was speeding,had a taillight broken and was transporting illegal substances. Yes that's illegal in both countries, No that doesn't give the US sheriff the right to enforce US and Canadian Laws outside of his state.
We are separate COUNTRIES.