(1) pick a sorting algorithm and sort a list of ten words alphabetically
Why limit yourself to 10? The difference, on a modern computer, between n^2 and n log n will not show up with that few. If you are going to make them write sort programs, make them sort arbitrary input. Then when they feel confident about their code ask them to sort 10000 words.
Teaching sorting help to better appreciate the quality of good algorithm, and there is nothing better for that than seeing your 'perfectly fine' stupidsort() never returning because the data is so large.
If you could view enough of the universe you would eventually see pattern repeat because the amount of atom combination is not infinite. You will also see all possible combination in between, that include fictional characters on fictional planets in fictional galaxies as long as these things are physically possible by assembling atom in various way.
That is if the universe is indeed infinite... I don't believe anything real can be infinite, at some point the universe overflow and roll over itself. Everything run out of space or time eventually.
And his employer can also use this same generated ID to check if he voted for the right candidate. Clearly a flawless system that greatly improve on the already perfected paper method. Also see this for more reasons as to why electronic voting is stupid.
Having all customisation option in hierarchical structure with description and a list of valid value inside a single interface is very convenient. It is similar about:config in firefox but for the entire desktop. Once you know how that tool work you can easily customise all applications, the alternative is to learn where all the option are located within each application. Although, I prefer the interface of firefox's about:config, typing path/searching is more efficient then opening up a tree.
Options was never removed from gnome. Stop spreading lies. Everything was conveniently accessible under a single UI; gconf-editor, now dconf-editor. Sharing instruction to modify was better this way then explaining a billion menu clicks. Also change can be automated. Gnomification is good, it is nice to see KDE catching up to modern desktop design.
And the next baby after the abortion would be all these things minus the schizophrenia. Or were you implying that it is schizophrenia that made him a 'beautiful person', 'very generous' and a 'musician'? Because I know a lot of peoples just like that and they are not schizophrenic.
The point is that they wont be able to argue that TOR is a paedophile/terrorist tool and use that as a 'probable cause' to harasses and torture citizens.
Electronic books are extremely resource intensive and require a massive amount of well-maintained centralised infrastructure. It's a huge price to pay for the convenience of "being slightly lighter".
It is not just slightly lighter, you can hold thousand kilograms worth of books in your pocket. The resource intensive and massive centralized infrastructure is only due to digital restriction management. DRM free book do not have this problem. Essentially, what you are saying is that electronic book are defective by design, but we can fix this and save paper in the process. Don't dismiss new technologies because of a few political glitch.
The only reason you are severely underestimating the grasshopper is because you anthropomorphize the cows. All living things desire to remain alive, all organisms* feel pain. Killing and causing suffering is part of life. You have to do it in order to live.. or pay someone to do it for you, in which case you are an hypocrite not someone of higher moral**.
* That include plants, which is now know for facts that they communicate, are self aware and feel pain. Nature has many way, the central nervous system is only the way used my animals to achieve the goal of all living organism.
** Strict vegetarian diet also involve the killing of animals. Mechanized agriculture kill wildlife the field and in processing facility. Unless the animal-right vegan carefully hand pick ALL his food, he is a hypocrite.
They will never update their NPAPI plugin while it is still working. Because if it work, don't fix it.
The NPAPI is only depreciate at this point; the summary state that the most common used ones are white-listed. It is therefore probably not impossible to custom white-list any if your specific need.
Censored site are often hijacked by scary-looking redirect to state propaganda. If this is accepted in the future specification, that propaganda page will require to return this status code. eg: "HTTP/1.0 451 Corrupted Government"
Non compliant censorship can, additionally, be protested on the basis that they are not compliant.
Which is just another reason it'll never happen. It's a loaded reference; what government is going to link themselves to F451 on purpose?
They will do just that. If this become part of the specification they will be obliged to follow them or else we can reject their censorship software on the basis that they are not compliant. eg: "No one is supporting paedophilia or aiding terrorism we simply want specification compliant software!". And when they do get compliant, everyone get the reference. It is win-win as far as living under a oppressive regime can be.
Look at the source of your demo. Each frame from the video (mp4, ogv) has colour on the top half and a mask on the bottom half. Then JavaScript is use to render them into a html canvas. This is neat, but far from the simplicity of embedding a PNG or APNG image. This is also very inefficient, a site that would use this hack to display animated icons would be horribly slow, especially on mobile platforms.
The DRM could be XOR, it does not matter. They can abuse the laws to sue out of existence anyone aiding circumvention, for example a open source browser that still work without enforcing the restriction (showing all ads, disallow saving, disallow printing), and thus preventing the general public from accessing the web without encumberment.
People who are against "pro-rape" pages are now considered "humourless feminists"? That strikes me as a poor choice of words. I would like to think all sane people would be put off by "pro-rape" propaganda.
Pro-rape is acceptable and often funny when men are the victims. The "humourless feminist" is obviously a reference to the fact that some of these feminists will often rejoice and laugh at the idea of prison rape and male mutilation but become humourless when it's the other way around. The 'pro-rape' jokes are to highlight their hypocrisy on that matter. (eg: It is a troll in the traditional sense, and IMHO the only valid sense of the word)
I always been saying that the entertainment industry was the real pirate as what they were doing was closer to sailing the seas to sinking ship, steal booty and murder crewman then simply sharing data over the Internet. Now anyone not seeing it that way has no excuse.
Maybe he is fictive? Number three pigs '1', '2', and '4'. And laugh your ass off as the police search pig number 3 for months if not years.
Multiple aliases are better to remain anonymous. When the author is found, there is no way to know if all his aliases are discovered. Undiscovered aliases could be confused as a other person. Even if someone confess there is a sixth person it could be misinformation or plain ignorance.
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(1) pick a sorting algorithm and sort a list of ten words alphabetically
Why limit yourself to 10? The difference, on a modern computer, between n^2 and n log n will not show up with that few. If you are going to make them write sort programs, make them sort arbitrary input. Then when they feel confident about their code ask them to sort 10000 words.
Teaching sorting help to better appreciate the quality of good algorithm, and there is nothing better for that than seeing your 'perfectly fine' stupidsort() never returning because the data is so large.
If you could view enough of the universe you would eventually see pattern repeat because the amount of atom combination is not infinite. You will also see all possible combination in between, that include fictional characters on fictional planets in fictional galaxies as long as these things are physically possible by assembling atom in various way.
That is if the universe is indeed infinite... I don't believe anything real can be infinite, at some point the universe overflow and roll over itself. Everything run out of space or time eventually.
And his employer can also use this same generated ID to check if he voted for the right candidate. Clearly a flawless system that greatly improve on the already perfected paper method. Also see this for more reasons as to why electronic voting is stupid.
That is exactly what 'Insightful' is for.
if your system is hacked and they rewrite your ascii log files to hide their hack , how are you to know?
Because a proprietary stream of byte is so much more difficult to 'hack' compared to a stream of utf8 bytes.
Having all customisation option in hierarchical structure with description and a list of valid value inside a single interface is very convenient. It is similar about:config in firefox but for the entire desktop. Once you know how that tool work you can easily customise all applications, the alternative is to learn where all the option are located within each application. Although, I prefer the interface of firefox's about:config, typing path/searching is more efficient then opening up a tree.
Options was never removed from gnome. Stop spreading lies. Everything was conveniently accessible under a single UI; gconf-editor, now dconf-editor. Sharing instruction to modify was better this way then explaining a billion menu clicks. Also change can be automated. Gnomification is good, it is nice to see KDE catching up to modern desktop design.
And the next baby after the abortion would be all these things minus the schizophrenia. Or were you implying that it is schizophrenia that made him a 'beautiful person', 'very generous' and a 'musician'? Because I know a lot of peoples just like that and they are not schizophrenic.
The point is that they wont be able to argue that TOR is a paedophile/terrorist tool and use that as a 'probable cause' to harasses and torture citizens.
My first thought was 3d printer. Imagine deposing one atom tick layers of any element in any shape. eg; The Star Trek synthesiser.
But that wont happen because they'll ban the thing over irrational fear before the technology reach the point it can print a cup of earl grey.
Good thing it mentioned the anecdote about the eldery woman twice, otherwise I might have forgotten it. Clearly no one is proof reading these...
It was for stereoscopy purpose. If you had the Oculus you could have seen it in 3d and it would have brought you to tears.
MeowMeowBeenz now available on Xbox One.
It's 1995 all over again! Except better because now we got hoverboard, flying car and dehydrated pizza.
Electronic books are extremely resource intensive and require a massive amount of well-maintained centralised infrastructure. It's a huge price to pay for the convenience of "being slightly lighter".
It is not just slightly lighter, you can hold thousand kilograms worth of books in your pocket. The resource intensive and massive centralized infrastructure is only due to digital restriction management. DRM free book do not have this problem. Essentially, what you are saying is that electronic book are defective by design, but we can fix this and save paper in the process. Don't dismiss new technologies because of a few political glitch.
The only reason you are severely underestimating the grasshopper is because you anthropomorphize the cows. All living things desire to remain alive, all organisms* feel pain. Killing and causing suffering is part of life. You have to do it in order to live.. or pay someone to do it for you, in which case you are an hypocrite not someone of higher moral**.
* That include plants, which is now know for facts that they communicate, are self aware and feel pain. Nature has many way, the central nervous system is only the way used my animals to achieve the goal of all living organism.
** Strict vegetarian diet also involve the killing of animals. Mechanized agriculture kill wildlife the field and in processing facility. Unless the animal-right vegan carefully hand pick ALL his food, he is a hypocrite.
Eat bugs? No thanks, I'll stick to birds, fish, and mammals. No escargo or grasshoppers for me, thank you.
Escargots aren't insects...
Correct, but they are 'bug' according to various definition. The OP didn't made any reference to insects.
They will never update their NPAPI plugin while it is still working. Because if it work, don't fix it.
The NPAPI is only depreciate at this point; the summary state that the most common used ones are white-listed. It is therefore probably not impossible to custom white-list any if your specific need.
Censored site are often hijacked by scary-looking redirect to state propaganda. If this is accepted in the future specification, that propaganda page will require to return this status code. eg: "HTTP/1.0 451 Corrupted Government"
Non compliant censorship can, additionally, be protested on the basis that they are not compliant.
The book do not need to match reality in any way. It's a reference to burning books, censoring the web is burning books. That is the message.
Which is just another reason it'll never happen. It's a loaded reference; what government is going to link themselves to F451 on purpose?
They will do just that. If this become part of the specification they will be obliged to follow them or else we can reject their censorship software on the basis that they are not compliant. eg: "No one is supporting paedophilia or aiding terrorism we simply want specification compliant software!". And when they do get compliant, everyone get the reference. It is win-win as far as living under a oppressive regime can be.
Look at the source of your demo. Each frame from the video (mp4, ogv) has colour on the top half and a mask on the bottom half. Then JavaScript is use to render them into a html canvas. This is neat, but far from the simplicity of embedding a PNG or APNG image. This is also very inefficient, a site that would use this hack to display animated icons would be horribly slow, especially on mobile platforms.
DRM is a two part system; The first part is a useless technology and the second part is a legislation that outlaw circumvention of the first part.
The DRM could be XOR, it does not matter. They can abuse the laws to sue out of existence anyone aiding circumvention, for example a open source browser that still work without enforcing the restriction (showing all ads, disallow saving, disallow printing), and thus preventing the general public from accessing the web without encumberment.
People who are against "pro-rape" pages are now considered "humourless feminists"? That strikes me as a poor choice of words. I would like to think all sane people would be put off by "pro-rape" propaganda.
Pro-rape is acceptable and often funny when men are the victims. The "humourless feminist" is obviously a reference to the fact that some of these feminists will often rejoice and laugh at the idea of prison rape and male mutilation but become humourless when it's the other way around. The 'pro-rape' jokes are to highlight their hypocrisy on that matter. (eg: It is a troll in the traditional sense, and IMHO the only valid sense of the word)
I always been saying that the entertainment industry was the real pirate as what they were doing was closer to sailing the seas to sinking ship, steal booty and murder crewman then simply sharing data over the Internet. Now anyone not seeing it that way has no excuse.
So must be doing something about that.
Maybe he is fictive? Number three pigs '1', '2', and '4'. And laugh your ass off as the police search pig number 3 for months if not years.
Multiple aliases are better to remain anonymous. When the author is found, there is no way to know if all his aliases are discovered. Undiscovered aliases could be confused as a other person. Even if someone confess there is a sixth person it could be misinformation or plain ignorance.