Every time someone criticizes Bush, his supporters come out of the woodwork to say we're only doing it because we don't like him, not because we've looked at the policies and come to a disagreement.
So if you repeat that Karl Rove talking point, don't expect it to foster a reasonable debate. Okay?
The fact is, Bush is pulling millions out of real science to fund a manned mission that will cost billions. That's an order of magnitude deficit. THAT is the problem.
On the upside, when NASA does finally get to Mars, they can shop at the Virgin Galactic gift shop.
Yeah you try that. It's only a matter of time before some mischevious grad students fill your house with jiffy-pop and watch as the giant laser makes popcorn for the whole neighborhood.
If you start kids with COBOL, you will have a generation running away from computers as fast as they can.
More important than the language (which for the sake of teaching, should be simple) is the types of problems to solve. Finding prime numbers and other math-intensive problems will help guide kids to the principles of good programming. Or problems that force them to optimize code (which gets harder as computers get faster). Or programs that quickly grow as features are added, which either become unmanageable (without good practices) or elegant, and shows them the difference. The great thing about Pascal is that it forces code organization.
As far as VB goes, let's just all be glad Bill Gates didn't drop out of Harvard to write a COBOL interpreter.
Can't believe the correct answer wasn't in the first five posts.
The text was written as an editorial in the Chicago Tribune. The editor had a child who was graduating that year, and wrote this graduation editorial. It was later made into a song, and somehow someonw got the idea that Kurt Vonnegut (and Vannever Bush I've heard) said it.
Come on people, didn't you read Bradbury? When the Earth is destroyed, the only people left on the Martian colony will be one guy and a fat chick. What kind of survival is that?
Slashdot Mirror
Every time someone criticizes Bush, his supporters come out of the woodwork to say we're only doing it because we don't like him, not because we've looked at the policies and come to a disagreement.
So if you repeat that Karl Rove talking point, don't expect it to foster a reasonable debate. Okay?
The fact is, Bush is pulling millions out of real science to fund a manned mission that will cost billions. That's an order of magnitude deficit. THAT is the problem.
On the upside, when NASA does finally get to Mars, they can shop at the Virgin Galactic gift shop.
"The original property laws provided complete ownership for everything below a property, and all the sky above a property."
So my property in space changes as the Earth rotates? Every 2.5 years at opposition I own Mars. Woo hoo!
Yeah you try that. It's only a matter of time before some mischevious grad students fill your house with jiffy-pop and watch as the giant laser makes popcorn for the whole neighborhood.
We have to eat every m*****f****ing steak on this m*****f****ing plane!
I'm not happy about living under the thumb of our new mice overlords, but my genetically engineered children will be.
What are you looking for? A videogame based on New Yorker cartoons?
Sounds great, but what happens when Max busts a deal, faces the wheel, and a very pissed off Master Blaster declares embargo?
If you start kids with COBOL, you will have a generation running away from computers as fast as they can.
More important than the language (which for the sake of teaching, should be simple) is the types of problems to solve. Finding prime numbers and other math-intensive problems will help guide kids to the principles of good programming. Or problems that force them to optimize code (which gets harder as computers get faster). Or programs that quickly grow as features are added, which either become unmanageable (without good practices) or elegant, and shows them the difference. The great thing about Pascal is that it forces code organization.
As far as VB goes, let's just all be glad Bill Gates didn't drop out of Harvard to write a COBOL interpreter.
I can't think of a joke here, but I am re-reading THHGTTG for the nth time.
Perhaps the 10 million year program is nearly complete?
We'll call one mouse Alan, and the other mouse Parsons...
Don't forget San Francisco Bay Area.
Oh, wait...
They wanted to repeal gravity so they could more easily haul away the massively large bribes they've been taking.
First get elected to Congress. Then, be a crook. But I repeat myself.
We have some old sci-fi to update as well...
http://www.slawcio.com/foundation/edgew.html
Sounds like an improvement over the Concorde. Faster, higher, and it can fly over continents without breaking everyone's windows.
I blame the media blamers.
(Dale Gribble)
Technically, isn't Luke an intra-galactic hero?
"Communicate with corn"
"Calm jittery squirrels"
Can't believe the correct answer wasn't in the first five posts.
The text was written as an editorial in the Chicago Tribune. The editor had a child who was graduating that year, and wrote this graduation editorial. It was later made into a song, and somehow someonw got the idea that Kurt Vonnegut (and Vannever Bush I've heard) said it.
Talk nerdy to me.
The new act will be called U-CAN-SPAM, and it will be aimed at big corporate political donors.
Actually, you'd keep the battery and buy a new laptop for it every few years.
And a live action role-playing game!
Come on people, didn't you read Bradbury? When the Earth is destroyed, the only people left on the Martian colony will be one guy and a fat chick. What kind of survival is that?
If life gets wiped out on Earth, those colonies are going to have a hard time waiting for the next supply ship.