I'd rather have them add scantily clad men than take out the scantily clad women. Then everyone's happy: companies get to tease our lizard hindbrains, men get to glance at some cute models' tits and ass, women get to glance at whatever the hell they glance at on handsome muscley gentlemen (abs, shoulders, Achille's heel, who the hell knows), everyone's being treated equally!
And then we'll be able to trade our photos of scantily clad men to female attendants of the expo in exchange of photos of scantily clad women, and it'll be a nice fun social thing, you'll get to meet girls and show them the photos you took for them and they'll go "awww, you really know a girl's tastes! That photo you took is spot on!" and they might even agree to go out on a date later, and they won't be so surprised to learn you're bisexual or something because you took photos of half-naked men at an expo to impress them.
Sergei: "Uhh, Larry?"
Larry: "Yes, Sergei?"
Sergei: "I, umm... I misclicked."
Larry: "On what?"
Sergei: "Motorola. I was browsing Corpazon and I accidentally clicked the 1-Click Buy button for Motorola."
Larry: "How much is that?"
Sergei: "12.5 bils..."
Larry: "Meh, just keep it. Not worth the bother to cancel that."
Sergei: "Alright... I guess we might be able to use them for some of our Android stuff."
*Larry shrugged*
What can a 1000x programmer do?
- Max out the input capacities of six keyboards simultaneously
- Hack lighthouses, power grids and satellites in realtime
- Produce code so beautiful it makes female programmers wet
"10x" and "25x" programmers sound just as ludicrous to me...
Protip: Productivity can NOT be measured in lines of code...
If Google do as good as job with Blink as they did with V8, I think this could put Chrome way ahead of the others and make it an incredibly advanced and fast browser, even more than it already is. I'm excited to see what Chrome will be with Blink in a few more versions.
Couldn't the fact that we take criminals and put them in a giant cage with all of the other criminals and then forget about them for decades have something to do with recidivists?
The removal of Google Labs was more than just another product being retired. It was a sign of a massive shift of mentality from Google. This is when they started doing their own thing and not giving a damn what users think. Since then, it's becoming clearer and clearer that Google is not particularly worried about doing evil or not, and much less about what benefits the users. This is worrying for users, but investors and COs are probably thrilled.
Well, good for you, sounds like you had a nice time in school when you were younger. Where I went, they put little colored stickers on books to indicate the "reading level" of a book, and you weren't allowed to take a book that was at a higher level than the one corresponding to what year of school you were in. How's that for encouragement.
I will admit that I am also quite lazy and quite unwilling to even enter a relationship, but that's not really my point here, though I guess it probably discredits everything I've said and will say on the topic. I'm not trying to convince anyone, I'm just saying that all of my hopes and ideals are crushed.
When he talks about the "SOLE"s he put in classrooms, specifically when he mentions that the teacher just stands back and says "it just happens all by itself", you immediately see that all of those great ideas will be extremely hard to adopt on a mainstream level, almost impossible I fear.
As he said, the British model of education is so well-designed and so firmly embedded into society, protected by political capital, laws, teacher unions, social norms, etc. that I don't see this happening in my lifetime, or the lifetime of the generation after me.
Yes, we should be driven to learn instead of legally obligated to be educated. Yes, learning should be motivated by fun and curiosity and desire to learn. Yes, Maths should be visualized, intuitized, computerized, and made fun. Yes, History should be a bunch of stories and not a table of dates and events. Yes to all of his and Khan's calls to modern learning that bets on creativity and individuality.
But none of this will happen, and for that reason, I won't bring another human being into this world to suffer through our schools and education system.
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If that insight is so trivial, why hasn't most of the western world realized this, why do we still cling to our ways of sending kids to jail-factories to cram their brains with data in a carefully planned industrial process?
What's easier for them though: building huge libraries and shipping in millions of books, or getting access to the same information by getting a broadband connection and a computer?
I don't understand this glorification of ink-and-paper books when digital text is exactly the same thing except orders of magnitudes cheaper.
Trying to explain to an old lady over the phone how to access a WiFi network is probably a lot harder than growing and caring for hundreds of fruit-bearing trees, harvesting them, processing the fruits, carefully fermenting them following a carefully honed recipe, bottling them and selling them. Heck, with all my experience with computers, even I would rather start an apple cider farm than start taking Apple tech support calls.
The progress bar knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or from where it isn't from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference or deviation. The progress subsystem uses deviation to generate corrective commands to drive the progress bar from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was is now the position that it isn't.
In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the progress bar is and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the progress bar must also know where it was. The progress bar computer scenario works as follows: because the variation has modified some of the information the progress bar has obtained, it is not sure just where it is, however it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice versa. And by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called "error".
How is this supposed to give a "breakfast drink" impression? It's just a shiny metal can like every other energy drinks. If it had been me, I would've sold it in big 2L and 4L jugs like real fruit juice. That would've been a much better way to masquerade it as breakfast-compatible.
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I'd rather have them add scantily clad men than take out the scantily clad women. Then everyone's happy: companies get to tease our lizard hindbrains, men get to glance at some cute models' tits and ass, women get to glance at whatever the hell they glance at on handsome muscley gentlemen (abs, shoulders, Achille's heel, who the hell knows), everyone's being treated equally!
And then we'll be able to trade our photos of scantily clad men to female attendants of the expo in exchange of photos of scantily clad women, and it'll be a nice fun social thing, you'll get to meet girls and show them the photos you took for them and they'll go "awww, you really know a girl's tastes! That photo you took is spot on!" and they might even agree to go out on a date later, and they won't be so surprised to learn you're bisexual or something because you took photos of half-naked men at an expo to impress them.
Arctic Cooling makes some good thermal paste, and they are widely reputed and recommended. Might I also recommend cooling with Prolimatech.
Do we know what they use for heatsinks, fans, or maybe water cooling components?
That's right, I didn't even read the summary. Come at me bros.
Ah, The Onion, funny as always!
This is clearly Rodney McKay starving for attention and compliments. Hasn't he been accosted by the FBI about his job in the Stargate program yet?
I have a well, actually, so if I let the tap open I would just dry it out, my water tank would fill with air and the pump would stop.
Trojans are a very serious internet security issue. I'm pretty sure a lot of Slashdot users care about Trojans too.
School lowers school achievement in children.
Sergei: "Uhh, Larry?"
Larry: "Yes, Sergei?"
Sergei: "I, umm... I misclicked."
Larry: "On what?"
Sergei: "Motorola. I was browsing Corpazon and I accidentally clicked the 1-Click Buy button for Motorola."
Larry: "How much is that?"
Sergei: "12.5 bils..."
Larry: "Meh, just keep it. Not worth the bother to cancel that."
Sergei: "Alright... I guess we might be able to use them for some of our Android stuff."
*Larry shrugged*
SkySQL is a sequel to MySQL. Whose sequel? Your sequel? My sequel? SkySQL.
The legendary 1000x programmer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_I65LA4sns#t=208s
What can a 1000x programmer do?
- Max out the input capacities of six keyboards simultaneously
- Hack lighthouses, power grids and satellites in realtime
- Produce code so beautiful it makes female programmers wet
"10x" and "25x" programmers sound just as ludicrous to me...
Protip: Productivity can NOT be measured in lines of code...
Was that what Apple did in iOS 6?
Let's not research this too much shall we?
If Google do as good as job with Blink as they did with V8, I think this could put Chrome way ahead of the others and make it an incredibly advanced and fast browser, even more than it already is. I'm excited to see what Chrome will be with Blink in a few more versions.
That's my joke
"The ABSOLUTELY WORST thing you can do to your mind however, is becoming a sceptic."
Hmm... I'm not so sure about that. I'm not convinced. If those ideas were so great, there would be no way to be sceptic about them, would there?
Couldn't the fact that we take criminals and put them in a giant cage with all of the other criminals and then forget about them for decades have something to do with recidivists?
The removal of Google Labs was more than just another product being retired. It was a sign of a massive shift of mentality from Google. This is when they started doing their own thing and not giving a damn what users think. Since then, it's becoming clearer and clearer that Google is not particularly worried about doing evil or not, and much less about what benefits the users. This is worrying for users, but investors and COs are probably thrilled.
Shouldn't we have saved the Lazarus project for when Commander Shepard needs it to come back and save the universe again?
Well, good for you, sounds like you had a nice time in school when you were younger. Where I went, they put little colored stickers on books to indicate the "reading level" of a book, and you weren't allowed to take a book that was at a higher level than the one corresponding to what year of school you were in. How's that for encouragement.
I will admit that I am also quite lazy and quite unwilling to even enter a relationship, but that's not really my point here, though I guess it probably discredits everything I've said and will say on the topic. I'm not trying to convince anyone, I'm just saying that all of my hopes and ideals are crushed.
When he talks about the "SOLE"s he put in classrooms, specifically when he mentions that the teacher just stands back and says "it just happens all by itself", you immediately see that all of those great ideas will be extremely hard to adopt on a mainstream level, almost impossible I fear.
As he said, the British model of education is so well-designed and so firmly embedded into society, protected by political capital, laws, teacher unions, social norms, etc. that I don't see this happening in my lifetime, or the lifetime of the generation after me.
Yes, we should be driven to learn instead of legally obligated to be educated. Yes, learning should be motivated by fun and curiosity and desire to learn. Yes, Maths should be visualized, intuitized, computerized, and made fun. Yes, History should be a bunch of stories and not a table of dates and events. Yes to all of his and Khan's calls to modern learning that bets on creativity and individuality.
But none of this will happen, and for that reason, I won't bring another human being into this world to suffer through our schools and education system.
If that insight is so trivial, why hasn't most of the western world realized this, why do we still cling to our ways of sending kids to jail-factories to cram their brains with data in a carefully planned industrial process?
What's easier for them though: building huge libraries and shipping in millions of books, or getting access to the same information by getting a broadband connection and a computer?
I don't understand this glorification of ink-and-paper books when digital text is exactly the same thing except orders of magnitudes cheaper.
Trying to explain to an old lady over the phone how to access a WiFi network is probably a lot harder than growing and caring for hundreds of fruit-bearing trees, harvesting them, processing the fruits, carefully fermenting them following a carefully honed recipe, bottling them and selling them. Heck, with all my experience with computers, even I would rather start an apple cider farm than start taking Apple tech support calls.
The progress bar knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or from where it isn't from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference or deviation. The progress subsystem uses deviation to generate corrective commands to drive the progress bar from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was is now the position that it isn't.
In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the progress bar is and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the progress bar must also know where it was. The progress bar computer scenario works as follows: because the variation has modified some of the information the progress bar has obtained, it is not sure just where it is, however it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice versa. And by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called "error".
How is this supposed to give a "breakfast drink" impression? It's just a shiny metal can like every other energy drinks. If it had been me, I would've sold it in big 2L and 4L jugs like real fruit juice. That would've been a much better way to masquerade it as breakfast-compatible.