I would please hope that anyone with moderator points reading this comment would take the time to analyze my comment a bit more carefully before the knee-jerk reaction comes into play.
Encouraging people to break the law like this could give slashdot a bad reputation. I mean, this is meant to be news for nerds, not a 1337 \/\/4r3z site.
The holders of the copyright to LOTR will certainly be considering legal action against slashdot for this blatant encouragement of IP theft.
I am getting really really sick of reading about how this or that probe is not going to work despite costing millions of taxpayers dollars.
Exactly who do they employ to build these things ? Trained monkeys seem to have a better chance of getting a working probe into orbit or landing on mars than NASA.
NASA should take a look at its recruitment process and from now on, only the top Rocket Scientists, Physicists, Engeneers and Astrologers should be allowed in.
If the next NASA project fails, then the whole organization should be canned and private enterprise can take up the slack.
Of the breakfast club ? and St Elmo's Fire ? I never knew he was a coder/hacker. How can this have been kept quiet for so long ? Did Matt's agent keep it secret so Matt didn't appear to be homosexual (like a large number of Linux users) ?
Perhaps you should take a look at the controversial news site adequacy.org. They have a moderation system over there which ensures no trolls slip through the net.
It doesn't really matter. The coffee will not kill you before you have had at least a chance to reproduce. Hence from a strictly biological perspective it is not 'bad' for you.
In fact, it is only bad for you if you think a few extra years of alzheimer's and incontinece in your twilight years is something to look forward to. Personally, I'd rather continue drinking coffee and die a couple of years early. Not a big deal.
I remember looking at the binaries of scott adams games and some of the sierra games (mystery house etc) on the Apple ][ using the disassembler binary viewer just to find out what the vocabulary was. I was aged about 12 or 13 at the time.
My sister and I were reminiscing about playing mystery house and the very real sense of fear we had whilst playing it. Quite funny looking back on it since the graphics were pretty useless line drawings. I guess it shows that you can make a good game with limited cpu resources.
Not this stupid 'programming is art' BS again!
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to recognize the artistry involved in writing software
What pretentious bullshit. Software is NOT art. It can be closely compared to bricklaying, or cabinet making, it is a CRAFT.
Try expressing an emotion in C++. It cannot be done. Please think before repeating these banal opinions that software is art. It just isn't. Deal with it, and if you want to be an artist, learn to paint.
Software engineering is there for one reason only. To perform a business function for the minimal amount of outlay. It is unlike bridge building in so many ways. Most software is only live for a couple of years at the most. This kind of VB quick hack does not need heavy duty architecture
Conversely where this approach is required (saftey critical systems) Formal Methods such as Z and VDM are often applied to prove the correctness of the specs etc and therefore guarantee bug free code.
As ever it is Horses for Courses. Don't lump all software developers together.
Crap inserted to avoid lame compression filter what is this bullshit ? slashdot has really gone down the tubes don't know why I keep coming back ! thank you.
What makes you think it would be any better in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (to give it its proper name) ?
There are plenty of draconian security laws in place over there. And riots. And racism.
Trust me you are better off staying in the USA even with a unique ID number (that is, a unique ID number in addition to your Social Security number)
No you are confused. Miller's theory of chunking was to do with the fact that it is easier to remember sequences than random selections. e.g. If I tell you my 11-digit telephone number, you probably need to write it down, but you will remember your own number.
I cannot remember who the 7 items or less guy was, but that was to do with the number of things one could remember at any given time in short-term memory.
I would normally disagree with any illegal behaviour, but since the Jusice Department has found Gates, Monkey-Boy Ballmer and the rest of the Redmond Retards guilty of anti competitive behaviour, I would have to agree with the parent poster.
I mean, every single thing in a computer is on some sort of timer or another. From RAM to the Disk Drive, to the sound card, the modem and the CPU itself, everything is clocked.
This must be a misprint, or some kind of 'troll' article like the ones you sometimes see at hardocp.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot continues with the mindless consumerism as if nothing has happened. How sad.
You: User #264583
Me: User #9175
Hm, nope. I think that makes you the new guy.
Because of course, nobody at slashdot could have more than one account. Could they ?
You're... new here... aren't you ?
Scot hacker has converted to OS-X on Mac
They have not switched. That is a flat out LIE. Lets have some evidence please. One down, two to go.
You do not lose choice since emulation is available
You do not lose performance.
That is a myth put about by Stupid Linux Zealots.
As for price ? Well quality costs money.
It certainly is
OS X will never seriously compete with Linux. Linux can run on any hardware
Yes, and Windows, which only runs on PCs 0wns Linux's ass, so what was that you were saying about competition?
Linux is tecnically superior to OS X
MMM HMMMM You keep telling yourself that.
Don't forget that the governments of France and Germany will switch to Linux.
Complete bullshit.
The holders of the copyright to LOTR will certainly be considering legal action against slashdot for this blatant encouragement of IP theft.
I just hope this isn't abused by the authorities, a powerful technology like that needs some checks and balances to ensure against abuse.
Exactly who do they employ to build these things ? Trained monkeys seem to have a better chance of getting a working probe into orbit or landing on mars than NASA.
NASA should take a look at its recruitment process and from now on, only the top Rocket Scientists, Physicists, Engeneers and Astrologers should be allowed in.
If the next NASA project fails, then the whole organization should be canned and private enterprise can take up the slack.
Of the breakfast club ? and St Elmo's Fire ? I never knew he was a coder/hacker. How can this have been kept quiet for so long ? Did Matt's agent keep it secret so Matt didn't appear to be homosexual (like a large number of Linux users) ?
Perhaps you should take a look at the controversial news site adequacy.org. They have a moderation system over there which ensures no trolls slip through the net.
In fact, it is only bad for you if you think a few extra years of alzheimer's and incontinece in your twilight years is something to look forward to. Personally, I'd rather continue drinking coffee and die a couple of years early. Not a big deal.
I mean, I remember when in America real men drank alcohol. These days its all 'lite' beer and spritzers.
Have we gone soft ? I don't see us living much longer than before so where's the payoff ?
My sister and I were reminiscing about playing mystery house and the very real sense of fear we had whilst playing it. Quite funny looking back on it since the graphics were pretty useless line drawings. I guess it shows that you can make a good game with limited cpu resources.
What pretentious bullshit. Software is NOT art. It can be closely compared to bricklaying, or cabinet making, it is a CRAFT.
Try expressing an emotion in C++. It cannot be done. Please think before repeating these banal opinions that software is art. It just isn't. Deal with it, and if you want to be an artist, learn to paint.
Conversely where this approach is required (saftey critical systems) Formal Methods such as Z and VDM are often applied to prove the correctness of the specs etc and therefore guarantee bug free code.
As ever it is Horses for Courses. Don't lump all software developers together.
Crap inserted to avoid lame compression filter what is this bullshit ? slashdot has really gone down the tubes don't know why I keep coming back ! thank you.
Fucking propellerhead nerds. Its people like you who made me stop reading slashdot.
Uhh No.
There are plenty of draconian security laws in place over there. And riots. And racism.
Trust me you are better off staying in the USA even with a unique ID number (that is, a unique ID number in addition to your Social Security number)
I cannot remember who the 7 items or less guy was, but that was to do with the number of things one could remember at any given time in short-term memory.
I would normally disagree with any illegal behaviour, but since the Jusice Department has found Gates, Monkey-Boy Ballmer and the rest of the Redmond Retards guilty of anti competitive behaviour, I would have to agree with the parent poster.
Plenty of things beat that. Getting laid for example (not that slashdot readers would know about that).
You just don't get it, do you ?
"lying in a hammock" "wireless laptop on the porch" "ultimate cubicle"
You are still at work whatever your cube looks like. A prison is still a prison even if the food is good.
This must be a misprint, or some kind of 'troll' article like the ones you sometimes see at hardocp.