I think we're forgetting why the four fathers and three mothers came to this country.
It was because the British were spying on their internet usage and banning facesitting videos. They came to this country to avoid government asking for their facebook passwords, and so that they could go to any internet site they liked without the FBI spying on them.
So *thats* why newspapers are dying and everyone gets their news from cable TV. Thanks for clearing that up.
Actually, most newspapers are being killed off by internet media, not cable TV. One print medium for the other. People who have difficulty reading still have, and will always have video based media to fall back on.
Well this "new paper" won't last several thousand years either. The ink disappears within 5 days- or quicker if you heat it. The very act of holding the paper, or even breathing on it will erase the ink.
In other news, I'm getting a check book made out of this paper...
Yes, although, should there be any form of checking in the future, what would your charge be? Perjury? Potentially serious punishment for a measly $10.
I can't remember where I read it, but I read that the same qualities that make many people procrastinate are the same qualities that make people better programmers. People that don't rush into things and pause and mull over "what is the best way to do this" end up being better programmers.
Despite my morning ritual, and constantly getting side-tracked, I've always been one of the more productive people everywhere I've worked.
Same for me, except that I reply to trolls, that believe that Climate change is caused by humanity, instead of by cosmic causes; and that Trump didn't win the election.;)
You've done it now... I'm brewing another cup of coffee... Just you wait.
Although I started with BASIC myself, I wouldn't consider it an ideal starting place for people today.
For one, no one uses it. Even most die-hard Visual Basic programmers use C# instead nowadays. BASIC is too dissimilar from most other languages to be a good starting one anyway.
I'd start with Java or C#. Both easy to use, both use fairly common skills that will translate to other languages easily. Both are employable languages. If you don't mind being Microsoft's biatch C# has the nicer IDE to get developing against- but you're pretty much guaranteed to be doing purely windows based stuff. Java gives you the opportunity to work on anything.
How to get started in programing. Well, I get started each morning by starting the kettle. Whilst the kettle boils, I wash out the French Press and my mug. I drink my coffee whilst reading Slashdot to see if there is anything I should be kept up-to-date on. By the time I finish it is time for another cup of coffee, so the process begins again, by that time, I have to reply to some troll who thinks climate change is a myth and that man never went to the moon.
I usually have three or four cups of coffee- and then it is time for lunch.
After lunch, I find myself able to start programming.
Hopefully they won't have that many BT devices they WANT the web to connect to.
If I'm reading Slashdot and it pops up a window that Slashdot wants to connect to my bedroom video camera* I'm not going to give it permission. The times I want a domain to be able to access a Bluetooth device will be few and far between.
Oh, I understand how this can be very good business tool.
One example: Your company produces a device that can be configured using a webbrower. Your BT enabled widget can now be set up and controlled just by going to a web page. No platform specific code required making it cheaper to set up and maintain. The end result is somewhat respectable.
Of course, this opens up a whole bunch of security holes. Your web browser opens up a BT enabled headset to listen in on the microphone. Even better a BT camera... Set your thermostat to an ungodly temperature. The security flaws are self-evident for anyone with half a brain.
If we assume this would only be used for good though, this would be fantastic technology. It needs good security though. Request permission for each device from each domain separately and require an admin password to authorize each and every device.
Yes, I think the existing patent laws are woefully out of date. They need a major overhaul and revising. Big changes need to be made , big changes that won't make some rich powerful people happy, but that are necessary.
We should always care about Patent Trolling. Patent Trolling is a parasitic problem within our economy. Patent Trolling suppresses innovation, both economic and intellectual. Patent Trolling Negatively impacts people's standard of living, if in a non-direct manner.
If you don't care about this specific instance of patent trolling, you should care about it as an anti-industry that no doubt has and does impact you, even if you're not aware of it.
Presumably, the next step is an ai that works to find the perfect algorithm to beat all others. You'll have different AI's trying to outsmart each other. It will be like the Rock Paper Scissor AI programs that people have written that can consistently beat humans in what one would think should be random (but in fact isn't).
All machines identically programmed with the exact same set of inputs will come to the same conclusion. Competing machines with different programming, and different set of inputs (or inputs that arrive at slightly different times) might come up with radically different conclusions.
The number one thing I always get from conferences (programming) is I learn about everything I've been doing wrong for the past year, and how I should be doing them in the future.
When you work primarily as an individual, it's easy to lose track of the modern way of doing things. Conferences really help redirect you to doing things the right way.
It's fascinating to watch how both sides are hypocritical and have flip-flopped their arguments on this..
It's probably because this isn't a black and white issue- both sides are correct. Yes, a lot of things are made in China BECAUSE it's cheaper to make them over there. This does result in lack of American jobs.
On the other hand. Manufacturing jobs tend to be lower wage and unappealing for most people. It's better than being unemployed, but there's a reason more evolved economies tend to move away from them and why China is, itself, trying to move away from a manufacturing dominated economy.
Also, putting tarrifs on imports WILL lower standard of living for people in this country that has a job. You will pay more for the same goods. Even if they start producing them in the US, you will still pay more. The economy as a whole will take a big hit whilst more people have jobs.
So why have the parties flip-flopped? Because placing tariffs on goods is a leftist idea. The democrats as a whole have moved away from it, but it still is a more left-wing ideology. If you look around the globe it's usually non-authoritarian right wing politicians who want to remove tariffs. Economically Trump has a lot of left-wing ideas: Yuge public social building programs, like 20bln$ walls, tariffs and the like.
He's a republican so a lot of republicans are backing him regardless... and likewise a lot of democrats are bashing him regardless.
This isn't typical left vs right because Trump isn't really right wing- he's left of Clinton on many issues- there's a reason so many Republicans don't like him- he is only half right wing. He has cherry picked bad-ideas from both sides of the spectrum.
What a ridiculous study. There is no way for them to know how many fake news stories in total are out there and how many people actually read them. To claim only 8% of people read a fake news story is a bizarre claim, since I think we all encountered numerous.
It's distasteful that so many people are bashing Trump and talking about Fake News at a time when events like the Bowling Green Massacre take place every day.
Can we all come together please, forget our partisanship and different religions, and agree to offer a prayer to all those that died in Bowling Green like good Baptists. May they rest in peace and go to Baptist heaven.
Slashdot Mirror
I guess you can't start a fire from disposing of Headphone jacks incorrectly.
Umm... You realize you are posting on a social media platform, using a social media account, right?
There's nothing social about Slashdot.
I think we're forgetting why the four fathers and three mothers came to this country.
It was because the British were spying on their internet usage and banning facesitting videos. They came to this country to avoid government asking for their facebook passwords, and so that they could go to any internet site they liked without the FBI spying on them.
So *thats* why newspapers are dying and everyone gets their news from cable TV. Thanks for clearing that up.
Actually, most newspapers are being killed off by internet media, not cable TV. One print medium for the other. People who have difficulty reading still have, and will always have video based media to fall back on.
Much prefer a blog to a vlog. I hate video or audio for getting information. It takes so much longer than just reading.
Well this "new paper" won't last several thousand years either. The ink disappears within 5 days- or quicker if you heat it. The very act of holding the paper, or even breathing on it will erase the ink.
In other news, I'm getting a check book made out of this paper...
" I don't see a signature".
Yes, although, should there be any form of checking in the future, what would your charge be? Perjury? Potentially serious punishment for a measly $10.
Boooo! No free money for me!
Same Here in Rio de Janeiro!
Are we programmers all procrastinators?
I can't remember where I read it, but I read that the same qualities that make many people procrastinate are the same qualities that make people better programmers. People that don't rush into things and pause and mull over "what is the best way to do this" end up being better programmers.
Despite my morning ritual, and constantly getting side-tracked, I've always been one of the more productive people everywhere I've worked.
Same for me, except that I reply to trolls, that believe that Climate change is caused by humanity, instead of by cosmic causes; and that Trump didn't win the election. ;)
You've done it now... I'm brewing another cup of coffee... Just you wait.
Although I started with BASIC myself, I wouldn't consider it an ideal starting place for people today.
For one, no one uses it. Even most die-hard Visual Basic programmers use C# instead nowadays. BASIC is too dissimilar from most other languages to be a good starting one anyway.
I'd start with Java or C#. Both easy to use, both use fairly common skills that will translate to other languages easily. Both are employable languages. If you don't mind being Microsoft's biatch C# has the nicer IDE to get developing against- but you're pretty much guaranteed to be doing purely windows based stuff. Java gives you the opportunity to work on anything.
How to get started in programing. Well, I get started each morning by starting the kettle. Whilst the kettle boils, I wash out the French Press and my mug. I drink my coffee whilst reading Slashdot to see if there is anything I should be kept up-to-date on. By the time I finish it is time for another cup of coffee, so the process begins again, by that time, I have to reply to some troll who thinks climate change is a myth and that man never went to the moon.
I usually have three or four cups of coffee- and then it is time for lunch.
After lunch, I find myself able to start programming.
Hopefully they won't have that many BT devices they WANT the web to connect to.
If I'm reading Slashdot and it pops up a window that Slashdot wants to connect to my bedroom video camera* I'm not going to give it permission. The times I want a domain to be able to access a Bluetooth device will be few and far between.
*I don't really have one, just an example
And Malware reporting fake heart-attacks.
Oh, I understand how this can be very good business tool.
One example: Your company produces a device that can be configured using a webbrower. Your BT enabled widget can now be set up and controlled just by going to a web page. No platform specific code required making it cheaper to set up and maintain. The end result is somewhat respectable.
Of course, this opens up a whole bunch of security holes. Your web browser opens up a BT enabled headset to listen in on the microphone. Even better a BT camera... Set your thermostat to an ungodly temperature. The security flaws are self-evident for anyone with half a brain.
If we assume this would only be used for good though, this would be fantastic technology. It needs good security though. Request permission for each device from each domain separately and require an admin password to authorize each and every device.
Yes, I think the existing patent laws are woefully out of date. They need a major overhaul and revising. Big changes need to be made , big changes that won't make some rich powerful people happy, but that are necessary.
Nor should we.
We should always care about Patent Trolling. Patent Trolling is a parasitic problem within our economy. Patent Trolling suppresses innovation, both economic and intellectual. Patent Trolling Negatively impacts people's standard of living, if in a non-direct manner.
If you don't care about this specific instance of patent trolling, you should care about it as an anti-industry that no doubt has and does impact you, even if you're not aware of it.
Presumably, the next step is an ai that works to find the perfect algorithm to beat all others. You'll have different AI's trying to outsmart each other. It will be like the Rock Paper Scissor AI programs that people have written that can consistently beat humans in what one would think should be random (but in fact isn't).
All machines identically programmed with the exact same set of inputs will come to the same conclusion. Competing machines with different programming, and different set of inputs (or inputs that arrive at slightly different times) might come up with radically different conclusions.
Sounds like they're making China great again.
The number one thing I always get from conferences (programming) is I learn about everything I've been doing wrong for the past year, and how I should be doing them in the future.
When you work primarily as an individual, it's easy to lose track of the modern way of doing things. Conferences really help redirect you to doing things the right way.
Nope he started with exterminating the handicapped, then moved on to the gays, then the Jews and other deplorables.
In Trump's case he's already getting rid of medicine for the terminally ill who don't have insurance... so he's already following the pattern.
Gays are next.
It's fascinating to watch how both sides are hypocritical and have flip-flopped their arguments on this..
It's probably because this isn't a black and white issue- both sides are correct. Yes, a lot of things are made in China BECAUSE it's cheaper to make them over there. This does result in lack of American jobs.
On the other hand. Manufacturing jobs tend to be lower wage and unappealing for most people. It's better than being unemployed, but there's a reason more evolved economies tend to move away from them and why China is, itself, trying to move away from a manufacturing dominated economy.
Also, putting tarrifs on imports WILL lower standard of living for people in this country that has a job. You will pay more for the same goods. Even if they start producing them in the US, you will still pay more. The economy as a whole will take a big hit whilst more people have jobs.
So why have the parties flip-flopped? Because placing tariffs on goods is a leftist idea. The democrats as a whole have moved away from it, but it still is a more left-wing ideology. If you look around the globe it's usually non-authoritarian right wing politicians who want to remove tariffs. Economically Trump has a lot of left-wing ideas: Yuge public social building programs, like 20bln$ walls, tariffs and the like.
He's a republican so a lot of republicans are backing him regardless... and likewise a lot of democrats are bashing him regardless.
This isn't typical left vs right because Trump isn't really right wing- he's left of Clinton on many issues- there's a reason so many Republicans don't like him- he is only half right wing. He has cherry picked bad-ideas from both sides of the spectrum.
What a ridiculous study. There is no way for them to know how many fake news stories in total are out there and how many people actually read them. To claim only 8% of people read a fake news story is a bizarre claim, since I think we all encountered numerous.
It's distasteful that so many people are bashing Trump and talking about Fake News at a time when events like the Bowling Green Massacre take place every day.
Can we all come together please, forget our partisanship and different religions, and agree to offer a prayer to all those that died in Bowling Green like good Baptists. May they rest in peace and go to Baptist heaven.