I would be wary of buying an HP laptop, as they publicly declared they are going to get rid of the whole PC-Laptop operations as well. So, do you imply that getting out of the business is the way to go for the industry?
Religion has always been at odds with Science, since Galileo started reasoning on astronomical observations, which blatantly contradicted the bible.
The universe was not created 5000 years ago, we don't descend from a single couple, different species evolved and were not "created".
So what?
Being an European I find this is amusing but utterly irrelevant, I fail to notice why this is news at all.
You are free to believe that earth is flat, if you really want to ignore evidence.
Second rate is way too generous, for this overrated soulless Hollywood drivel.
This is even worse than the Hulk movie.
All the "right ingredients" are there, in a predetermined and marketing driven demographical exact formula.
However, at the end of the day this film is just like a flashy bimbo: lots of promises, very shallow depth, all the right things at the right place, but no ideas, humor and no imagination worth speaking of save the usual tiresome plentitude of visual effects.
And the basic message is what? That the biggest you are (or become) the best winner you get? That enemies are mono-dimensional villains, and just need to be exterminated.
I don't know who needs or is buying this propaganda today, the message is outdated and worth a yawn.
73% on Rotten Tomatoes is even too much.
Italian politicians may be complaining about bad judges all the times, but they must be grateful to them. Hadn't they been so utterly servile towards the powerful, the current dictator would have been in jail. Italian law system ROUTINELY saved his bacon though DECADES.
Italian judges ruled that a bank transfer (proven) from Berlusconi's firm to a judge did not amount to corruption (and absolved the judge, currently in office, in the equivalent of the Supreme Court) because THAT did not prove that the judge had changed his sentence in order to favor Berlusconi's business over a competitor. It was deemed that Berlusconi "could not be deemed responsible for the actions of his employees" and that "he might not have known.".
Italian judicial system is plainly shameless, the worst sentences are normally rewarded by means of career as magistrates and up to political service (eg. the infamous absolution sentence for Pinelli murder in the 70's was actually the launch pad for the career of that judge, currently a senator of the republic.).
They purposely only condemned Berlusconi when they were absolutely sure that the sentence was moot because of expiry of terms.
This is only typical in Italy. You only have to fear the law if you are poor (being innocent does not matter).
If you are a member of the corrupt leading elite you can safely consider legal proceedings annoying and maybe costly, but without real danger.
Wrong solution. Corrupt Italian POLITICIANS deserve to have any filter on queries and human imposed intervention related to their queries removed.
1) Guess who searched for "corrupt "
2) Do you really think who sued Google was not known to be _Corrupt_ in the first place?
Google should ban ITALIAN GOVERNMENT IP addresses from service, same they do with hostile third world countries.
*THAT* would give the message.
Well, I simply fail to understand why your comment was moderated to Insightful, it should be modded down, for the following reason.
According to this line of thought, sexual tourism is just fine, provided the culture of the third world country you are visiting is not "advanced enough" to embrace our modern western values.
Unfortunately, there are minimal ethical principles which should always be enacted, towards anyone.
Not encouraging corruption, violation of basic human rights are among those.
Considering your intervention "insightful" is justifying the same immoral cynicism that led to Abu Graib: provided they don't catch you and you can get away with it, if you have power, anything goes.
Lack of ethics is never insightful, is just a form of short sightedness, failing to understand long term consequences of actions.
Uhm, I am already skeptical enough of the security consultants calling Wikileaks "traitors" on LinkedIn and repeating the same tiresome Foxnews spew word by word.
These folks might have been doing some tests on the field already.
Or was that is just normally occurring obtuseness?
You are right, the problem with code monkeys is that they learn a particular language (e.g.: Java) and a a fixed set of patterns/paradigms/libraries which someone else have decided to write, and just "apply", without the tiniest crumble of critical thinking. These "programmers" become obsolete 5 years after they leave their college
If you don't have at least some exposure to eg. Limits, you can't understand at all what software performance is about, as a concept.
If you don't understand what performance optimization is, you will gladly embrace whatever shitty Java enterprise framework Sun/Oracle is currently pushing down your throat during that particular month, without even thinking about it, whether is good for the problem at hand or a more minimalistic approach could have saved the day. I won't mention thinking about reliability during design: far too many java frameworks are based on the assumption that network connection does not time out. Ignorance leads to spectacular system failures in large systems.
There are too many "programmers" who follow uncritically whatever products "big boys" sell unto them.
They are not "programmers", to call a spade a spade, they are "consumers". What is worse, they end up making a career, and end up destroying creativity and critical thinking around them, because they become devisors inside companies.
I think they actively damage the industry, as a whole. In order to be a good designer, you need critical thinking, and being able to think in GENERAL terms, at a sufficiently abstract level. As such, not only you need some continuous math, but also exposure to different geometries and abstract algebra comes really handy.
P.S: I too have debugged code I wished the author knew what Big O was all about.
Try upgrading an old Android smartphone to a new version of Android and report experience...
Apple is not that evil, they provide systems which actually _WORK_
The upgrade cost of Android is in most cases the cost of a brand new phone.
This is a worthy lesson for _everybody_, not just swedes.
And I am talking about Italy, when I mention the dangers of electing _brain damaged_ right wingers.
Brain damaged right wingers are hard to get off one's back because they are supported by the US administration, who cares only about support to their military aggression wars and do their very best to keep them in place, at all costs. Berlusconi is a case in point.
Before Wikileaks we had suspicions, now we have certainties about how this supposedly "democratic process" and autonomous decisions are influenced by the US.
Slashdot Mirror
Garbage in, garbage out
It's not dead; it's resting.
Yes, resting in peace, RIP
I would be wary of buying an HP laptop, as they publicly declared they are going to get rid of the whole PC-Laptop operations as well.
So, do you imply that getting out of the business is the way to go for the industry?
Religion has always been at odds with Science, since Galileo started reasoning on astronomical observations, which blatantly contradicted the bible. The universe was not created 5000 years ago, we don't descend from a single couple, different species evolved and were not "created". So what? Being an European I find this is amusing but utterly irrelevant, I fail to notice why this is news at all. You are free to believe that earth is flat, if you really want to ignore evidence.
Second rate is way too generous, for this overrated soulless Hollywood drivel. This is even worse than the Hulk movie. All the "right ingredients" are there, in a predetermined and marketing driven demographical exact formula. However, at the end of the day this film is just like a flashy bimbo: lots of promises, very shallow depth, all the right things at the right place, but no ideas, humor and no imagination worth speaking of save the usual tiresome plentitude of visual effects. And the basic message is what? That the biggest you are (or become) the best winner you get? That enemies are mono-dimensional villains, and just need to be exterminated. I don't know who needs or is buying this propaganda today, the message is outdated and worth a yawn. 73% on Rotten Tomatoes is even too much.
I beg to dissent. They did abandon VB6 developers, didn't they?
Well, I thought that in order to produce new original research you actually needed access to older research and possibly understand it :-)
Side effect of your algorithm in C would be setting applicant.wanted_for_crime to false>7b>.
Comes as an outcome of not distinguishing between = and ==
Now all criminals had better apply :-)
Well, but please avoid Italy, France and the UK. You would be surprised at how bigmouthed, dimwit and insane we Europeans could possibly be.
Italian politicians may be complaining about bad judges all the times, but they must be grateful to them. Hadn't they been so utterly servile towards the powerful, the current dictator would have been in jail. Italian law system ROUTINELY saved his bacon though DECADES.
Italian judges ruled that a bank transfer (proven) from Berlusconi's firm to a judge did not amount to corruption (and absolved the judge, currently in office, in the equivalent of the Supreme Court) because THAT did not prove that the judge had changed his sentence in order to favor Berlusconi's business over a competitor. It was deemed that Berlusconi "could not be deemed responsible for the actions of his employees" and that "he might not have known.".
Italian judicial system is plainly shameless, the worst sentences are normally rewarded by means of career as magistrates and up to political service (eg. the infamous absolution sentence for Pinelli murder in the 70's was actually the launch pad for the career of that judge, currently a senator of the republic.).
They purposely only condemned Berlusconi when they were absolutely sure that the sentence was moot because of expiry of terms. This is only typical in Italy. You only have to fear the law if you are poor (being innocent does not matter).
If you are a member of the corrupt leading elite you can safely consider legal proceedings annoying and maybe costly, but without real danger.
Wrong solution. Corrupt Italian POLITICIANS deserve to have any filter on queries and human imposed intervention related to their queries removed. 1) Guess who searched for "corrupt " 2) Do you really think who sued Google was not known to be _Corrupt_ in the first place? Google should ban ITALIAN GOVERNMENT IP addresses from service, same they do with hostile third world countries. *THAT* would give the message.
Well, I simply fail to understand why your comment was moderated to Insightful, it should be modded down, for the following reason. According to this line of thought, sexual tourism is just fine, provided the culture of the third world country you are visiting is not "advanced enough" to embrace our modern western values. Unfortunately, there are minimal ethical principles which should always be enacted, towards anyone. Not encouraging corruption, violation of basic human rights are among those. Considering your intervention "insightful" is justifying the same immoral cynicism that led to Abu Graib: provided they don't catch you and you can get away with it, if you have power, anything goes. Lack of ethics is never insightful, is just a form of short sightedness, failing to understand long term consequences of actions.
Uhm, I am already skeptical enough of the security consultants calling Wikileaks "traitors" on LinkedIn and repeating the same tiresome Foxnews spew word by word. These folks might have been doing some tests on the field already. Or was that is just normally occurring obtuseness?
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
You are right, the problem with code monkeys is that they learn a particular language (e.g.: Java) and a a fixed set of patterns/paradigms/libraries which someone else have decided to write, and just "apply", without the tiniest crumble of critical thinking. These "programmers" become obsolete 5 years after they leave their college
If you don't have at least some exposure to eg. Limits, you can't understand at all what software performance is about, as a concept. If you don't understand what performance optimization is, you will gladly embrace whatever shitty Java enterprise framework Sun/Oracle is currently pushing down your throat during that particular month, without even thinking about it, whether is good for the problem at hand or a more minimalistic approach could have saved the day. I won't mention thinking about reliability during design: far too many java frameworks are based on the assumption that network connection does not time out. Ignorance leads to spectacular system failures in large systems.
There are too many "programmers" who follow uncritically whatever products "big boys" sell unto them. They are not "programmers", to call a spade a spade, they are "consumers". What is worse, they end up making a career, and end up destroying creativity and critical thinking around them, because they become devisors inside companies. I think they actively damage the industry, as a whole. In order to be a good designer, you need critical thinking, and being able to think in GENERAL terms, at a sufficiently abstract level. As such, not only you need some continuous math, but also exposure to different geometries and abstract algebra comes really handy.
P.S: I too have debugged code I wished the author knew what Big O was all about.
Try upgrading an old Android smartphone to a new version of Android and report experience... Apple is not that evil, they provide systems which actually _WORK_ The upgrade cost of Android is in most cases the cost of a brand new phone.
Nonsense, M$ crap deserves to be deleted, hard disk reformatted and a serious OS (Linux) installed.
This is a worthy lesson for _everybody_, not just swedes. And I am talking about Italy, when I mention the dangers of electing _brain damaged_ right wingers. Brain damaged right wingers are hard to get off one's back because they are supported by the US administration, who cares only about support to their military aggression wars and do their very best to keep them in place, at all costs. Berlusconi is a case in point. Before Wikileaks we had suspicions, now we have certainties about how this supposedly "democratic process" and autonomous decisions are influenced by the US.