First program I ever wrote was on the used Casio Graph 25 I got, and that one wasn't even a powerful or well done language. By the end of high school I had a used Graph 65 where I wrote minesweeper, chess clock, mandelbrot set plot, and one of those bomber games which sucked since the display was too slow for it (It had a colour one) and a good couple of calculation programs - and it brought me to trying to program on a computer (C and Fortran 77). For kids who have some interest in messing with this sort of a thing, programmable calculators are a great starter that you can poke around in and do fun, rewarding things, unlike a computer where you have to learn a fuckton just to do basic things.
The only proof of this happening is your assertion. As far as I'm concerned, it's scumbags being executed - say the directors responsible for the melamin saturated human and pet foods. And thousands others. I fail to see why such scum should not be used.
Besides, if the rich want, they can get organs off the black markets, for example, Serbian kidneys by which the albanian scum financed their terrorist gatherings that , with western support, caused Kosovo to split off.
Agreed. And... it's nothing to do with actual schedule, morning or evening. The point is that I can easier do more stuff during the late (near going to bed) part of my daily cycle than the early (after waking) one - for half an hour after waking, I probably wouldn't pass Turing test x3. Which is the actual reason for being a night owl (schedule is constrained by waking time to go to lectures/work)
Well, then he wasn't passed over because of the answer, but because of lacking competence with regards to the field he was attempting to get a job in - a very different thing to what your original description made it look like.
Measuring a coder's worth by lines of code is kinda like gauging the performance of an engineer by the mass of components he contributed. "Today I designed 56.5 lbs of an engine".
Also analogous in terms of you saving material actually reflecting badly on your performance.
Linux System Administrator Guide put together by her among other people has been one of my favourite books during my teen years, and I learned quite a lot from it. Well written, funny in places, and explains how to do things really well.
And I'm not surprised it was done in the Czech Republic. See, the plans of Jan Tleskac for a flying bicycle were the central mcguffin to the plot of several "Rapid Arrows" (Rychle Sipy in original) novels by Jaroslav Foglar, an exponent of Boy Scout movement back home in the late 40s - lot of kids remember his works which were even made into TV series , as well as the "caged hedgehog" puzzle.
And in the words of L.D.Trockij, there's nothing to stop you from taking a stroll naked through Moscow in winter, if you ignore the cold and the police.
Farmers are in competition with one another, and companies like this exploit the fact shamelessly.
If this is what constitutes infringement, then fuck the law that makes it so with a rusty rake.
All Monsanto and its ilk is doing is raking in profits by holding people by the throats, and throttling progress in the process.
That said, if I did that, I wouldn't EVER shake off the suspicion that I'm involved in drugs off my batshit family.
I remember I had the envelope a cheapola chromatic harmonica was mailed to me in lying around, a family member misread the stuff as hormones, and suspected me of taking drugs or illicit supplements or shit. Needless to say, they couldn't understand why I felt utterly insulted by the assertion. Mind you, I was a legal adult at the time.
True, yet in no way contradicting my point.
Which is that the class action lawsuit does its good by punishing the company with a huge-ass combined fine, thus forcing them to alter their behaviour.
The point of a class-action lawsuit isn't to earn a gob of cash, it's to facefist the company into changing their behaviour from whatever was it that they were doing to fuck people over. Any cash you get is just a bonus.
Nope.
When you steal from Wal-Mart, a physical good goes missing, that used to belong to Wal-Mart and you have taken it from them. It's easy to calculate the loss from that - a single mars bar, or whatever was it that you nicked.
When you pirate, nothing goes missing, and the "owner" suffers no losses. All the "losses" are just them treating a distributed pirate copy depriving them of a sale, which is idiotic - it makes no more sense than WotC demanding damages from me because I play DnD 3.5 every weekend when I could be paying them for further editions. Hell, a baker suing you for baking your own bread and thus depriving him of sales is another such example.
Intellectual property is a bullshit concept that arises by trying to fit a model we understand (tangible property and related property rights) to things that don't share salient traits with it.
Therefore if you pirate, it isn't theft. At the very most, it's breaching someone's privileges.
Uh, nope.
Counting cards can be easily dealt with if you have a mixing machine that returns spent cards and mixes the deck, which there are.
The whole thing is based on you counting cards that got played, and as such,estimating what's left in the deck and playing accordingly.
If the deck contains almost everything all the time, this strategy dies.
Bullshit. The reason why they can sell games at $60 a pop is because they have the value added to them that they can be resold. If I buy a $60 game and sell it to a friend for $30, then a game that cannot be resold is only worth $30 Being able to sell these games adds a ton of value to the game,
This is completely correct. However.
so if publishers take this ability away, the price needs to DRASTICALLY fall, we're talking $10-15 for a new game
however, this does not follow. A manufacturer will sell their product for as much as their consumer base is willing to pay, and unless nonresellable games at current retail prices will end up being complete commercial failures due to widespread gamer rejection, they won't take the prices down (and even if they do, they'll creep up over time).
You can buy the sticks, shoes and even pieces of wood on the used market for a lot cheaper.
And, sure, there's a markup to make it rentable,but the price there arises from manufacture - the sticks costing thousands of dollars tend to be made from light, hard alloys with mechanical properties to fit the job.
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This. Yet another reason for me to stay with WindowMaker.
One doesn't need to taste a shit to tell it isn't chocolate.
First program I ever wrote was on the used Casio Graph 25 I got, and that one wasn't even a powerful or well done language.
By the end of high school I had a used Graph 65 where I wrote minesweeper, chess clock, mandelbrot set plot, and one of those bomber games which sucked since the display was too slow for it (It had a colour one) and a good couple of calculation programs - and it brought me to trying to program on a computer (C and Fortran 77). For kids who have some interest in messing with this sort of a thing, programmable calculators are a great starter that you can poke around in and do fun, rewarding things, unlike a computer where you have to learn a fuckton just to do basic things.
The only proof of this happening is your assertion. As far as I'm concerned, it's scumbags being executed - say the directors responsible for the melamin saturated human and pet foods. And thousands others. I fail to see why such scum should not be used.
Besides, if the rich want, they can get organs off the black markets, for example, Serbian kidneys by which the albanian scum financed their terrorist gatherings that , with western support, caused Kosovo to split off.
must be overjoyed. Way to go! Let's waste even the single good thing that can come from those scheduled for execution.
Agreed. And ... it's nothing to do with actual schedule, morning or evening. The point is that I can easier do more stuff during the late (near going to bed) part of my daily cycle than the early (after waking) one - for half an hour after waking, I probably wouldn't pass Turing test x3.
Which is the actual reason for being a night owl (schedule is constrained by waking time to go to lectures/work)
use this shit as "justification" to deny people payments. And make it mandatory.
Well, then he wasn't passed over because of the answer, but because of lacking competence with regards to the field he was attempting to get a job in - a very different thing to what your original description made it look like.
Measuring a coder's worth by lines of code is kinda like gauging the performance of an engineer by the mass of components he contributed. "Today I designed 56.5 lbs of an engine".
Also analogous in terms of you saving material actually reflecting badly on your performance.
Well, in that case, I'm sorry but you're a twat. The candidate gave an intelligent answer to an idiotic question.
Linux System Administrator Guide put together by her among other people has been one of my favourite books during my teen years, and I learned quite a lot from it. Well written, funny in places, and explains how to do things really well.
I only know the way it's called in Czech - I don't know how it'd translate properly; English is not my mothertongue.
And I'm not surprised it was done in the Czech Republic. See, the plans of Jan Tleskac for a flying bicycle were the central mcguffin to the plot of several "Rapid Arrows" (Rychle Sipy in original) novels by Jaroslav Foglar, an exponent of Boy Scout movement back home in the late 40s - lot of kids remember his works which were even made into TV series , as well as the "caged hedgehog" puzzle.
0% is stupid on its own, due to the glaring numbers of false positives that you get that way.
And in the words of L.D.Trockij, there's nothing to stop you from taking a stroll naked through Moscow in winter, if you ignore the cold and the police.
Farmers are in competition with one another, and companies like this exploit the fact shamelessly.
If this is what constitutes infringement, then fuck the law that makes it so with a rusty rake.
All Monsanto and its ilk is doing is raking in profits by holding people by the throats, and throttling progress in the process.
That said, if I did that, I wouldn't EVER shake off the suspicion that I'm involved in drugs off my batshit family. I remember I had the envelope a cheapola chromatic harmonica was mailed to me in lying around, a family member misread the stuff as hormones, and suspected me of taking drugs or illicit supplements or shit. Needless to say, they couldn't understand why I felt utterly insulted by the assertion. Mind you, I was a legal adult at the time.
True, yet in no way contradicting my point.
Which is that the class action lawsuit does its good by punishing the company with a huge-ass combined fine, thus forcing them to alter their behaviour.
The point of a class-action lawsuit isn't to earn a gob of cash, it's to facefist the company into changing their behaviour from whatever was it that they were doing to fuck people over. Any cash you get is just a bonus.
Nope.
When you steal from Wal-Mart, a physical good goes missing, that used to belong to Wal-Mart and you have taken it from them. It's easy to calculate the loss from that - a single mars bar, or whatever was it that you nicked.
When you pirate, nothing goes missing, and the "owner" suffers no losses. All the "losses" are just them treating a distributed pirate copy depriving them of a sale, which is idiotic - it makes no more sense than WotC demanding damages from me because I play DnD 3.5 every weekend when I could be paying them for further editions.
Hell, a baker suing you for baking your own bread and thus depriving him of sales is another such example.
Intellectual property is a bullshit concept that arises by trying to fit a model we understand (tangible property and related property rights) to things that don't share salient traits with it.
Therefore if you pirate, it isn't theft. At the very most, it's breaching someone's privileges.
Uhh, this would be great if he was working for a salary.
He's a contractor, he's getting paid the same even if he teaches a guy instead of coding.
Uh, nope. ,estimating what's left in the deck and playing accordingly.
Counting cards can be easily dealt with if you have a mixing machine that returns spent cards and mixes the deck, which there are.
The whole thing is based on you counting cards that got played, and as such
If the deck contains almost everything all the time, this strategy dies.
Last week germs from Lake Vostok, this week this
We're living in a pulp fiction sci-fi
And it's awesome.
This is completely correct. However.
however, this does not follow. A manufacturer will sell their product for as much as their consumer base is willing to pay, and unless nonresellable games at current retail prices will end up being complete commercial failures due to widespread gamer rejection, they won't take the prices down (and even if they do, they'll creep up over time).
You can buy the sticks, shoes and even pieces of wood on the used market for a lot cheaper. ,but the price there arises from manufacture - the sticks costing thousands of dollars tend to be made from light, hard alloys with mechanical properties to fit the job.
And, sure, there's a markup to make it rentable