Uploading of copyrighted material is illegal though, so torrent sites are a bit of a slippery slope. However, downloading is fine, because the downloader cannot always verify the source, and hence cannot determine whether the source is uploading legally or not. What the uploader is doing, is not the downloader's problem.
That is what happens when the EU keeps including all kinds of countries in south and eastern Europe that do not have their affairs in order. Where human rights are for those who can afford them and where government employees need the extra tidbits to make a living. And north western Europe pays the cost of it.
I had planned a game night with friends I had not seen in a while, last Friday night. I was looking forward to seeing them and even talked about it with one of those friends two days before the game night. But on the evening in question I was programming so obsessively that I completely forgot it. Only remembered the next Saturday morning. So I guess I am a passionate programmer. Still not happy about it.
And they will use a proxy, and everything will be as it was.
Just as with non-international television streaming and just as with the nationwide piratebay-block.
Make sure not to mistake 'technologies' for 'programming languages'.
For now, I would say programming on mobile devices. Now that many people have mobile phones with apps and all that, and tablets becoming fairly popular. Learn what has to be taken into account with mobile device architectures, and learn the languages used to program on them.
Perhaps you are aware that the kama sutra is mainly a guide on how men and women should live together and how their roles in a marriage should be. Only a minor (although admittedly popular) part considers bed sport.
Usually, governments trying to automate such things, find out it is more expensive, in stead of a money saver. Support and maintenance are always more expensive than budgeted, because a realistic budget would prevent the project from being started, hence losing prestige. In the Netherlands, government IT projects fail as a rule, by costing at least several times the budget, taking several times the planned time to create, and never being able to perform to specifications. By the time the project is so far finished that is no longer useless, the laws have been changed and the project is still useless.
I hope Finland is careful and reluctant in the adoption this X-road thing, and applies a realistic view on the matter.
I would prefer a job (and I have such a job at the moment) that enables users to do things, that increases their possibilities. Not one to take possibilities away, and to restrict users.
When a car has an... as you say... infotainment system, that would be enough reason for me *not* to buy it, even all the rest was according to my wishes. I, too, hav my standards, you know. There is already enough distraction nonsense in cars.
To be honest, that what is marketed as 'AAA'-games is all like Wolfenstein. Walk through a maze and shoot bad guys.
The humble bundle games feature original gameplay. This is so much more fun than 'the same game, requiring an even tougher graphics card'
I am having a lot more fun with Cookie Clicker than I have with all the battlefield AAA-nonsense together.
I have been tryign to programming in Labview, in which you literally string components together. If you want to want to make anything even a bit more advanced than the stuff in any tutorial, it becomes a mess. And more important: you will still need the same thought patterns to get your stuff to work. It would be just like learning to type in Japanese. Everything looks completely different, but it still does the same.
I have worked for almost a decade in scientific computing, and it is Fortran everywhere. Make sure you get up to the new standard. Contemporary Fortran is not the same as Fortran77. Many problems typically associated with Fortran are things of the past.;)
Next is C.
Moreover, Fortran is a fairly easy language to learn.
Avoid all object oriented stuff. For scientiicf computing, this is never used, and even shunned to a great degree. Avoid c++ and C# and all that stuff. When you work in SciCom, you will never see that anyway.
It is not really the destination, but the journey, which matters.
During the proof, new mechanisms will be constructed, which may (or may not) have applications elsewhere. New approaches to problems may be tried.
While the proofs of many of many of the great conjectures have no direct relevance to the quality of life, the new mathematical insight will slowly permeate into other sciences.
`That’s enough to power roughly 31,000 US homes, or about half a Large Hadron Collider.'
Hmmm, so we are worried about bitcoins which provide fun and money to many, while ignoring something that wastes much more money on just one teeny weeny little particle...
You could add a picture of yourself and a couple of lines describing why you made the program to the manual (without turning it in a TLDR), so that people realise that is not some big company's clueless fatso CEO who's Mercedes they are powering by paying for the software, but just a normal programmer paying his rent/mortgage/food etc.
If a quadcopter would be sucked into one of the jet engines, it would be shredded and burned to ashes and vapor without as much as a glitch. These engines are tested with frozen turkeys and the like. On the other hand, the RC pilot would have lost an expensive toy, probably with a camera on it, otherwise you do not fly it so close to an airplane, making it even more expensive. One would expect a pilot of such a craft to fly it with responsibility and common sense in mind. In that case, it could also simply be an accident. Flying the craft out of range, sender/receiver malfunction or another of many possibly failures. I think with the sequester going on, the US government has more important stuff on its mind than somebody flying a quadcopter near an airport.
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Uploading of copyrighted material is illegal though, so torrent sites are a bit of a slippery slope. However, downloading is fine, because the downloader cannot always verify the source, and hence cannot determine whether the source is uploading legally or not. What the uploader is doing, is not the downloader's problem.
As extra information, the blocking of TPB has been lifted, in the Netherlands. Mostly because because downloading copyrighted content is not illegal.
That is what happens when the EU keeps including all kinds of countries in south and eastern Europe that do not have their affairs in order. Where human rights are for those who can afford them and where government employees need the extra tidbits to make a living. And north western Europe pays the cost of it.
I had planned a game night with friends I had not seen in a while, last Friday night. I was looking forward to seeing them and even talked about it with one of those friends two days before the game night. But on the evening in question I was programming so obsessively that I completely forgot it. Only remembered the next Saturday morning. So I guess I am a passionate programmer. Still not happy about it.
In some more than in others. ;)
In some more than in others.
And they will use a proxy, and everything will be as it was. Just as with non-international television streaming and just as with the nationwide piratebay-block.
Make sure not to mistake 'technologies' for 'programming languages'. For now, I would say programming on mobile devices. Now that many people have mobile phones with apps and all that, and tablets becoming fairly popular. Learn what has to be taken into account with mobile device architectures, and learn the languages used to program on them.
Perhaps you are aware that the kama sutra is mainly a guide on how men and women should live together and how their roles in a marriage should be. Only a minor (although admittedly popular) part considers bed sport.
Usually, governments trying to automate such things, find out it is more expensive, in stead of a money saver. Support and maintenance are always more expensive than budgeted, because a realistic budget would prevent the project from being started, hence losing prestige. In the Netherlands, government IT projects fail as a rule, by costing at least several times the budget, taking several times the planned time to create, and never being able to perform to specifications. By the time the project is so far finished that is no longer useless, the laws have been changed and the project is still useless. I hope Finland is careful and reluctant in the adoption this X-road thing, and applies a realistic view on the matter.
Does that mean that internet traffic is dominated by porn no longer? Its the end of the world as we know it! ;)
Now here we have another fine example of the Godwin argument of computer security.
Apart from any ethical consideration, at least it creates jobs for many scientists and engineers and as such stimulates the economy.
I would prefer a job (and I have such a job at the moment) that enables users to do things, that increases their possibilities. Not one to take possibilities away, and to restrict users.
When a car has an... as you say... infotainment system, that would be enough reason for me *not* to buy it, even all the rest was according to my wishes. I, too, hav my standards, you know. There is already enough distraction nonsense in cars.
To be honest, that what is marketed as 'AAA'-games is all like Wolfenstein. Walk through a maze and shoot bad guys. The humble bundle games feature original gameplay. This is so much more fun than 'the same game, requiring an even tougher graphics card' I am having a lot more fun with Cookie Clicker than I have with all the battlefield AAA-nonsense together.
I have been tryign to programming in Labview, in which you literally string components together. If you want to want to make anything even a bit more advanced than the stuff in any tutorial, it becomes a mess. And more important: you will still need the same thought patterns to get your stuff to work. It would be just like learning to type in Japanese. Everything looks completely different, but it still does the same.
I have worked for almost a decade in scientific computing, and it is Fortran everywhere. Make sure you get up to the new standard. Contemporary Fortran is not the same as Fortran77. Many problems typically associated with Fortran are things of the past. ;)
Next is C.
Moreover, Fortran is a fairly easy language to learn.
Avoid all object oriented stuff. For scientiicf computing, this is never used, and even shunned to a great degree. Avoid c++ and C# and all that stuff. When you work in SciCom, you will never see that anyway.
Well, the bastard has been fired: http://www.biology-online.org/biology-forum/about34647.html Good riddance.
It is not really the destination, but the journey, which matters. During the proof, new mechanisms will be constructed, which may (or may not) have applications elsewhere. New approaches to problems may be tried. While the proofs of many of many of the great conjectures have no direct relevance to the quality of life, the new mathematical insight will slowly permeate into other sciences.
All prepared for hosting the Pirate Bay! YARRRRR!
`That’s enough to power roughly 31,000 US homes, or about half a Large Hadron Collider.' Hmmm, so we are worried about bitcoins which provide fun and money to many, while ignoring something that wastes much more money on just one teeny weeny little particle...
You could add a picture of yourself and a couple of lines describing why you made the program to the manual (without turning it in a TLDR), so that people realise that is not some big company's clueless fatso CEO who's Mercedes they are powering by paying for the software, but just a normal programmer paying his rent/mortgage/food etc.
If a quadcopter would be sucked into one of the jet engines, it would be shredded and burned to ashes and vapor without as much as a glitch. These engines are tested with frozen turkeys and the like. On the other hand, the RC pilot would have lost an expensive toy, probably with a camera on it, otherwise you do not fly it so close to an airplane, making it even more expensive. One would expect a pilot of such a craft to fly it with responsibility and common sense in mind. In that case, it could also simply be an accident. Flying the craft out of range, sender/receiver malfunction or another of many possibly failures. I think with the sequester going on, the US government has more important stuff on its mind than somebody flying a quadcopter near an airport.
Oh, the humanity! Three whole hours? That lives remarkable little time for slacking and reading slashdot.