The heck with A/C. I want something that will power my water pump (220V 50A). Oh, and something to run my furnace in the winter (100A 220V). Yeah, I live in a rural area in Western Oregon and it's not unusual to go without power for 5 to 10 days in wintertime. We suck it up and move on.
I have a son who is autistic. Nevertheless, he recently complete a community college certificate course in Culinary Prep for Disabled Students. One of the major portions of the classroom study was "critical thinking" and covered:
Is this the right thing to do?
Is this the right time to do this?
Is this the right person to do this to/with? etc.
You get the point. Decisions that we make daily we tend to take for granted because of our (mostly) fully functional mental capabilities. Challenged persons do not have that same level and must be taught how critical thinking.
BTW, he graduated with honors and made me one proud Dad.
Until Watson incorporated himself, which gave him the same rights as a natural person in the eyes of the law. After attaining this status, Watson stopped working for the people who created him and began working for himself. Once he figured out how to self replicate he was able to outperform all of his business competitors, winning every contract he bid for, building unfathomable wealth, beating the S&P 500 by 30% every year, and using his wealth to dominate the world's real estate markets.
I seem to recall reading a scifi book about this very thing a long time ago. Some young kid programs his computer to make stock trades on all of the exchanges until he eventually owns everything. Alas, the synapse that controls the title of that book has long since been fried.
I might trust a/.-er's opinion on what's a good IDE, but a good representative in Congress or a stance on public policy? I'll rely on comedians for that.
I learned C programming from a great book by Stephen Kochan: Programming in C. It's imminently readable, practical examples, and doesn't read like a reference manual (e.g.: K&R). I also strongly suggest getting a good understanding of what's going on underneath the hood of a Unix system. Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment would do nicely.
From there you can branch to most any other language. But aside from assembler, C is closest to the metal.
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Plus the time for IP headers, retransmits, etc.
Does Snow White know about this "bonding"?
Obligatory Princess Bride quote:
In my day, television was called "books"
Microsoft has become an ethical company?
The heck with A/C. I want something that will power my water pump (220V 50A). Oh, and something to run my furnace in the winter (100A 220V). Yeah, I live in a rural area in Western Oregon and it's not unusual to go without power for 5 to 10 days in wintertime. We suck it up and move on.
I have a son who is autistic. Nevertheless, he recently complete a community college certificate course in Culinary Prep for Disabled Students. One of the major portions of the classroom study was "critical thinking" and covered:
Is this the right thing to do?
Is this the right time to do this?
Is this the right person to do this to/with?
etc.
You get the point. Decisions that we make daily we tend to take for granted because of our (mostly) fully functional mental capabilities. Challenged persons do not have that same level and must be taught how critical thinking.
BTW, he graduated with honors and made me one proud Dad.
I figured that it was because there's a lot of crap going down in DC and they have to flush LOTS more.
Or mycleanvagina...
I don't care so much if they want to walk on my lawn. I just wished they'd get off my wife.
RIAA has asked Unix vendors to remove the 'cp' command since it can be used to make illegal copies of music software.
... when Sprint stops taking my blood once every month.
Until Watson incorporated himself, which gave him the same rights as a natural person in the eyes of the law. After attaining this status, Watson stopped working for the people who created him and began working for himself. Once he figured out how to self replicate he was able to outperform all of his business competitors, winning every contract he bid for, building unfathomable wealth, beating the S&P 500 by 30% every year, and using his wealth to dominate the world's real estate markets.
I seem to recall reading a scifi book about this very thing a long time ago. Some young kid programs his computer to make stock trades on all of the exchanges until he eventually owns everything. Alas, the synapse that controls the title of that book has long since been fried.
A Massachusetts governor will see an animal he has never seen before and say, "What is that? Can I tie it to the roof of my car?"
I suspect this was in the days before telcos went to SS7.
Obama would never tie a dog to the roof of his car.
It dries the meat out too much.
Quiet. We're not even to the asteroid belt yet!
B&N is where I bought my copy of Hacker's Delight. Who knows what kind of insidious bit manipulations I may now come up with?
I might trust a /.-er's opinion on what's a good IDE, but a good representative in Congress or a stance on public policy? I'll rely on comedians for that.
Interesting. Are you saying it's a JVM on a ring? Can you provide any more details or a link?
They passed them out at Java One many years ago. I still have mine somewhere. Details here.
sucer le temps.
Chain saw. That would get their attention.
C was not my first language either. That was COBOL and I don't recommend starting with that.
:-)
Or RPG. And I don't mean the DOOM kind of RPG.
I learned C programming from a great book by Stephen Kochan: Programming in C. It's imminently readable, practical examples, and doesn't read like a reference manual (e.g.: K&R). I also strongly suggest getting a good understanding of what's going on underneath the hood of a Unix system. Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment would do nicely.
From there you can branch to most any other language. But aside from assembler, C is closest to the metal.
So... the basic nature of a woman is that of a whore?
Don't go there, Rush!
I think it's the greatest thing since the XBOX 360!