Jon Rubinstein (not going to check the spelling, sorry)
Why the fuck not? Are you just exactly busy enough that you JUST have time to write a message on slashdot, and ONLY have type to type "(not going to check the spelling, sorry)"
Damn, you're lucky you got to the submit button in time.
Thank God. Frankly, I think its pretty dangerous to have to lean over and pull beer out of the back seat ice cooler while driving. Now, we can just plug a cooler into the cigarette lighter and keep our eyes on the road.
in fact, as an embryo in the pouch, you had a clitoris yourself.
BACK I SAY, Ye demon of science! If thats true, then all men have touched a clitoris without being married, and shall therefore be cast into the fires of hell!
The article clearly points this fact out, as does every other frikkin' article on Alan Turing, to which the answer should probably be: WHO GIVES A CRAP?
Because its a big freaking deal. Its not like he was a mathmatician who happened to also be gay on the side. After helping immensely in WW2, and inventing programming, he was forced to admit he was homosexual.
He was imprisoned as a security risk, and forced to either spend the rest of his life in jail or take hormone injections. He chose the hormone injections. His career was over, and he wasn't allowed to continue to work on the thing he is now famous for. Its strongly suspected that the forced government injections helped drive him to suicide a few years later.
FORCED GOVERNMENT INJECTIONS to try to stop him from being gay, and therefore easily susceptible to communists.
I know many people are jaded by political correctness and media hype, but in this case, it is a BIG GODDAMN ISSUE that this guy was gay.
If he had been black/female/whatever, and accomplished what he did, and in the end was imprisoned and eventually driven to suicide as a direct result of his ethnicity, he would be constantly brought up as a grim example of racism.
Children in school would learn about how the man who cracked Enigma and might have literally saved WW2 was eventually driven to commit suicide....
While no gay person I know has even heard of Turing. I never heard about him until college.
I think its another case of people not giving a damn about geeks...
No AMD suggestions please. I've never found them to be as stable as Intel CPUs.
I have an Intel machine myself, but have had AMDs in the past. The reason people think that AMD chips are unstable is that many people buy AMD processors when they're trying to get a cheap computer, and also use cheap memory, cheap motherboards, etc.
Get an AMD with a good motherboard, and it is as stable as an Intel.
here are plenty of porn and even illegal porn sites out there that you can get onto if you want to spend the time.
Or, if you don't want to spend time looking, there are several free services out there that will be happy to send you information on these sites via email.
I don't use any advanced math in my day to day programming job, but solving math problems uses the same type of thinking as solving many programming problems.
Basically, if you're having problems solving differential equation problems, you're never going to be able to really conceptualize what
MyClass **p;
means. Its why you see people start to struggle when they try to use STL, and have just memorized the syntax instead of knowing whats it means.
The windows are ANIMATED. Its the future! Many of you may not have the vision to imagine a world where windows are animated and icons move. Look at your desktop now, and imagine your windows being animated. Do you really think that could happen on your pathetic "modern" computer?
I've been a programmer for several years now, and I applaud Microsoft for fearlessly driving this technology forward.
We can no longer claim Microsoft doesn't innovate... they're clearly years ahead of their time.
At what point is there simply too much noise Vs. signal about how good one card is VS. the other. If you're a fan of nVidia you're going to buy their card no mater what and likewise for ATI no?
Yep. I was an nvidia fan... Right up until the FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY WATT required power supply.
I think that if I had to do it over again, I wouldn't have entered a technical field. Its great money comparitively when you're first starting out, but then it tops out when you're in your 30s. Most people change careers then.
Now, in the past generations, the techies had lifelong jobs at IBM and GE. In this generation, we're all getting fucked. Its not surprising that attitudes regarding scientists have gone down.
Scientists/engineers are just a slightly more expensive cog in the machine.
if you think 1million people should want something at $30, but 30% will just copy it the market price then becomes $50 or so if you want to make most of what you feel you are owed. This ignores the fact that if it was only available at $30, then most of that 30% would probably not buy it anyway.
That is so absolutely, completely wrong. Thats not economics at all.
You figure out how many people will buy something at each price, and then you price it to make as much money as possible.
Do you think one day if piracy was magically "fixed" that EA would announce $15 off all of their games?
Time to tighten up those belts boys! The days of a big house in the suburbs with a giant SUV are pretty much over. If you expect to be able to continue living as well as you have been previously, you're kidding yourself.
Yes, and when people can't afford to buy SUVs and real estate anymore, what happens then?
Its very clever, because since everyone knows that schools are in poor shape, it tricks some people!
It bends the arguement so just a FEW MORE people think "Why, Americans are just too stupid!" or "They have to go overseas because we just can't produce the people!"
When really, we're laying off WELL EDUCATED, HARD WORKING people to put jobs overseas. Whether or not you think outsourcing is a good or bad thing, please don't swallow the latest sound of bullshit from our nation's elite.
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Jon Rubinstein (not going to check the spelling, sorry)
Why the fuck not? Are you just exactly busy enough that you JUST have time to write a message on slashdot, and ONLY have type to type "(not going to check the spelling, sorry)"
Damn, you're lucky you got to the submit button in time.
A 6-point computerized grading system. Hmmm. Moderators, watch out -- your jobs are about to become obsolete!
Don't worry! Our moderaters rate on a _FIVE_ point system, and are in no danger of being outsourced. Bush '04!
For those who enjoy a bit of math, did you know that in the Metric paper system, the height-to-width ratio of all pages is the square root of 2?
Slow News Day of the Year Award nominee here.
or even a car's cigarette lighter.
Thank God. Frankly, I think its pretty dangerous to have to lean over and pull beer out of the back seat ice cooler while driving. Now, we can just plug a cooler into the cigarette lighter and keep our eyes on the road.
Thank you, technology!
in fact, as an embryo in the pouch, you had a clitoris yourself.
BACK I SAY, Ye demon of science! If thats true, then all men have touched a clitoris without being married, and shall therefore be cast into the fires of hell!
Unless of course you're deliberately trying to start WWIII.
It turns out the only way to win that is not to play. How about a nice game of chess, instead?
Pssst. The patriot act passed through congress with almost no resistance. Last I looked, there were democrats in congress at the time.
There's a big difference between doing something wrong and wanting to fix it, and doing something wrong and wanting to keep it that way forever.
Wait, hold up. We at /. are complaining about overkill on a cool new tech toy.
Let me explain the thought process.
1) "Hey, cool new tech toy! I love it!"
2) "Wait, there's no way I can afford this!"
3) "Bah, this is an overengineered piece of shit!"
FSF India providing legal support.
Hmmm. I wonder if businesses might start picking up on the idea that outsourcing their software to india might not be a great idea.
The article clearly points this fact out, as does every other frikkin' article on Alan Turing, to which the answer should probably be: WHO GIVES A CRAP?
Because its a big freaking deal. Its not like he was a mathmatician who happened to also be gay on the side. After helping immensely in WW2, and inventing programming, he was forced to admit he was homosexual.
He was imprisoned as a security risk, and forced to either spend the rest of his life in jail or take hormone injections. He chose the hormone injections. His career was over, and he wasn't allowed to continue to work on the thing he is now famous for. Its strongly suspected that the forced government injections helped drive him to suicide a few years later.
FORCED GOVERNMENT INJECTIONS to try to stop him from being gay, and therefore easily susceptible to communists.
I know many people are jaded by political correctness and media hype, but in this case, it is a BIG GODDAMN ISSUE that this guy was gay.
If he had been black/female/whatever, and accomplished what he did, and in the end was imprisoned and eventually driven to suicide as a direct result of his ethnicity, he would be constantly brought up as a grim example of racism.
Children in school would learn about how the man who cracked Enigma and might have literally saved WW2 was eventually driven to commit suicide....
While no gay person I know has even heard of Turing. I never heard about him until college.
I think its another case of people not giving a damn about geeks...
No AMD suggestions please. I've never found them to be as stable as Intel CPUs .
I have an Intel machine myself, but have had AMDs in the past. The reason people think that AMD chips are unstable is that many people buy AMD processors when they're trying to get a cheap computer, and also use cheap memory, cheap motherboards, etc.
Get an AMD with a good motherboard, and it is as stable as an Intel.
here are plenty of porn and even illegal porn sites out there that you can get onto if you want to spend the time.
Or, if you don't want to spend time looking, there are several free services out there that will be happy to send you information on these sites via email.
We need more people like Spitzer around to go after the bullshit without being crazy like Ashcroft.
Isn't it sad that we need to qualify the statement "We need a good AG" with "who isn't crazy."?
and, BTW, I consider being annointed with cooking oil and covering up a statue's breasts to be crazy.
I thought
Not trying to troll, but in my school, 90% of the incoming students took advanced calc first semester freshmen year.
I don't use any advanced math in my day to day programming job, but solving math problems uses the same type of thinking as solving many programming problems.
Basically, if you're having problems solving differential equation problems, you're never going to be able to really conceptualize what
MyClass **p;
means. Its why you see people start to struggle when they try to use STL, and have just memorized the syntax instead of knowing whats it means.
The windows are ANIMATED. Its the future! Many of you may not have the vision to imagine a world where windows are animated and icons move. Look at your desktop now, and imagine your windows being animated. Do you really think that could happen on your pathetic "modern" computer?
I've been a programmer for several years now, and I applaud Microsoft for fearlessly driving this technology forward.
We can no longer claim Microsoft doesn't innovate... they're clearly years ahead of their time.
God Bless.
At what point is there simply too much noise Vs. signal about how good one card is VS. the other. If you're a fan of nVidia you're going to buy their card no mater what and likewise for ATI no?
Yep. I was an nvidia fan... Right up until the FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY WATT required power supply.
I think that if I had to do it over again, I wouldn't have entered a technical field. Its great money comparitively when you're first starting out, but then it tops out when you're in your 30s. Most people change careers then.
Now, in the past generations, the techies had lifelong jobs at IBM and GE. In this generation, we're all getting fucked. Its not surprising that attitudes regarding scientists have gone down.
Scientists/engineers are just a slightly more expensive cog in the machine.
if you think 1million people should want something at $30, but 30% will just copy it the market price then becomes $50 or so if you want to make most of what you feel you are owed. This ignores the fact that if it was only available at $30, then most of that 30% would probably not buy it anyway.
That is so absolutely, completely wrong. Thats not economics at all.
You figure out how many people will buy something at each price, and then you price it to make as much money as possible.
Do you think one day if piracy was magically "fixed" that EA would announce $15 off all of their games?
Wow, how inciteful. Its people like that who have caused some friends to take their game programming experience off their resume.
I want to go pirate this asshole's games now.
Time to tighten up those belts boys! The days of a big house in the suburbs with a giant SUV are pretty much over. If you expect to be able to continue living as well as you have been previously, you're kidding yourself.
Yes, and when people can't afford to buy SUVs and real estate anymore, what happens then?
Its very clever, because since everyone knows that schools are in poor shape, it tricks some people!
It bends the arguement so just a FEW MORE people think "Why, Americans are just too stupid!" or "They have to go overseas because we just can't produce the people!"
When really, we're laying off WELL EDUCATED, HARD WORKING people to put jobs overseas. Whether or not you think outsourcing is a good or bad thing, please don't swallow the latest sound of bullshit from our nation's elite.
Games based on movies SUCK. The inverse is also true.
With the grand exception of the old Lucasarts games, X-Wing* and the indiana jones SCUMM adventures.
Canada is a signatory as well.
There! Happy now? Slashdot finally mentioned Canada, but it turns out you're a bunch of facists like the rest of us. W00t!