Trolling aside, for a long time I've been using that capability to set my terminals to a palette based on the popular "Solarized light" scheme (but even a little more muted). Now I can look at the output of a "ls/dev" command, and not have my eyes bleed.
I count 36 OTA channels in my current lineup. That's about as many as I got on my first cable service in the 1980s. Admittedly, most of the channels are crap, but so are most of the channels on cable.
My favorite way to set it up is to get one of those huge outdoor antennas and just throw it on top of the fiberglass in the attic, generally pointed at the transmitters. I've always gotten flawless reception that way (much better than rabbit ears), without having an ugly lightning magnet on the outside of the house.
So these guys face up to 75 years in prison for trashing a poor guy's car.
In other news this week, they report that drunk girl who live-streamed wrecking her car and killing her little sister is facing up to *thirteen* whole years in prison.
The bad news: It appears to be metallic in composition, and it is almost perfectly spherical except for a large parabolic dish embedded just above the equator.
In my case, many years ago I started drinking tea as an alternative to sodas, partly because of vague concerns about artificial sweeteners, but mainly because I was afraid that all of that phosphoric acid was not good for my guts. I was never much of a fan of normal soda because the lingering film made my teeth feel like they were going to rot, but I was kind of addicted to diet sodas.
It took a couple of months for the craving to switch from soda to tea, but now I would pretty strongly prefer tea over diet soda. The biggest bonus is that tea is supposedly actually good for you. (However, I don't much like green tea, which everyone says is especially good for you.)
I drink it hot in the winter and iced in the summer, and I add a little less than one teaspoon of sugar to each serving (which is an order of magnitude less sugar than a normal soda). I tend to go for mid-range tea brands because they're better than the cheap stuff but still less expensive than most sodas per serving.
The good news: For once it's not cloudy when some interesting event is happening in the sky.
The bad news: All I can see is the blue-white glow from the new ultra-bright LED lights they installed last year on the nearby highway. (A literally glaring example of Jevons Paradox.)
The computers are labeled CONTRACT NO. NAS5-2154, a contract which apparently NASA has no paperwork for. Between that, and over 2/3 of the tapes not having any verifiable mission data on them, something, somewhere, doesn't add up.
They've finally found the smoking gun! These were the machines that were used to Photoshop all the pix for the faked moon landings, and they must have erased the tapes and shredded the contracts to hide the evidence!
To bring up a new system, getting the applicable device drivers is a much bigger deal than the choice of ARM vs x86 instruction set (which is mostly just a compiler switch). Unless your IoT device has the exact same hardware peripherals as a legacy PC, an x86 CPU doesn't buy you much over an ARM CPU.
And in 1899, driving horses and buggies was about the same as it was in 1869.
Moore's law doesn't have much to do with it. Improved software techniques and/or new types of circuits built on the current silicon processes will likely enable enough progress in machine learning to eventually transform most software development out of the realm of the of low-level logic steps.
My point is, in the future the tools used in software development may not even use the same concepts that have always been used up to this point. As opposed to coding up detailed procedural steps, it may instead resemble writing documentation and training material for human readers, so focusing on traditional reading and writing skills may be a better use of time than learning today's computer languages.
I'm not sure why you felt the need to tack on an apparent pointless insult.
By the time today's pre-K kids enter the workforce, traditional programming could be a niche activity relegated to kernel and device driver developers. It's not unlikely that the majority of application development will instead be focused on directing various machine learning activities, which could require skills closer to those of a manager of human employees than math and logic.
The "owner" only allows you to use the software if you agree to their terms, which make it abundantly clear that they have absolutely no responsibility for anything at all.
DDT was "banned" for agricultural use, not indoor use, where it is still used for malaria prevention.
At any rate, what makes you think that bedbugs won't become highly resistant to DDT, just as they have for most every other insecticide used on them? DDT is already nearly useless on other insects that have become resistant to it.
Tesla sees the writing on the wall, they need to export from China like Ford, Volvo, GM, etc. or else they will not be competitive.
To reciprocate the Chinese policy, the US ought to be placing a 50% import tariff on those Fords, Volvos and GMs imported from China. Then manufacturers can be competitive manufacturing cars in the US.
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Trolling aside, for a long time I've been using that capability to set my terminals to a palette based on the popular "Solarized light" scheme (but even a little more muted). Now I can look at the output of a "ls /dev" command, and not have my eyes bleed.
I count 36 OTA channels in my current lineup. That's about as many as I got on my first cable service in the 1980s. Admittedly, most of the channels are crap, but so are most of the channels on cable.
My favorite way to set it up is to get one of those huge outdoor antennas and just throw it on top of the fiberglass in the attic, generally pointed at the transmitters. I've always gotten flawless reception that way (much better than rabbit ears), without having an ugly lightning magnet on the outside of the house.
It's 2017. Who watches anything in real time?
I skip the ads, and I usually speed up the playback to 1.5X, so a "60 minute" program usually takes well under 30 minutes to watch.
So these guys face up to 75 years in prison for trashing a poor guy's car.
In other news this week, they report that drunk girl who live-streamed wrecking her car and killing her little sister is facing up to *thirteen* whole years in prison.
You mean the guy who wants to cut back on regulations because he, unlike you, understands that regulations often have serious unintended consequences?
And what that guy doesn't understand is that likewise, failing to regulate often has serious unintended consequences.
The good news: They got info on the object
The bad news: It appears to be metallic in composition, and it is almost perfectly spherical except for a large parabolic dish embedded just above the equator.
Did it achieve the main point of having a reusable launch system? HELL NO!
I don't count a reusable rocket that costs several times more to operate per launch than disposable rockets of similar capacity as "successful".
In my case, many years ago I started drinking tea as an alternative to sodas, partly because of vague concerns about artificial sweeteners, but mainly because I was afraid that all of that phosphoric acid was not good for my guts. I was never much of a fan of normal soda because the lingering film made my teeth feel like they were going to rot, but I was kind of addicted to diet sodas.
It took a couple of months for the craving to switch from soda to tea, but now I would pretty strongly prefer tea over diet soda. The biggest bonus is that tea is supposedly actually good for you. (However, I don't much like green tea, which everyone says is especially good for you.)
I drink it hot in the winter and iced in the summer, and I add a little less than one teaspoon of sugar to each serving (which is an order of magnitude less sugar than a normal soda). I tend to go for mid-range tea brands because they're better than the cheap stuff but still less expensive than most sodas per serving.
There was also that guy in Detroit who developed the cost-saving measure of only putting half of a vinyl top on cars.
The good news: For once it's not cloudy when some interesting event is happening in the sky.
The bad news: All I can see is the blue-white glow from the new ultra-bright LED lights they installed last year on the nearby highway. (A literally glaring example of Jevons Paradox.)
The computers are labeled CONTRACT NO. NAS5-2154, a contract which apparently NASA has no paperwork for. Between that, and over 2/3 of the tapes not having any verifiable mission data on them, something, somewhere, doesn't add up.
They've finally found the smoking gun! These were the machines that were used to Photoshop all the pix for the faked moon landings, and they must have erased the tapes and shredded the contracts to hide the evidence!
Skills skills are more skillful then LUDDITE apps! Only LUDDITE appsters lack skill skills!
Skilly skill SKILLS!
To bring up a new system, getting the applicable device drivers is a much bigger deal than the choice of ARM vs x86 instruction set (which is mostly just a compiler switch). Unless your IoT device has the exact same hardware peripherals as a legacy PC, an x86 CPU doesn't buy you much over an ARM CPU.
Right... It looks like you should get out of this industry and get a job flipping burgers if you think that has a better future.
Whoosh.
Is so.
It's not a "mention".
It's a PLEDGE of ALLEGIANCE to a nation, and that nation is UNDER a GOD. If that's not a religious rite practiced in an institution, what is?
And in 1899, driving horses and buggies was about the same as it was in 1869.
Moore's law doesn't have much to do with it. Improved software techniques and/or new types of circuits built on the current silicon processes will likely enable enough progress in machine learning to eventually transform most software development out of the realm of the of low-level logic steps.
My point is, in the future the tools used in software development may not even use the same concepts that have always been used up to this point. As opposed to coding up detailed procedural steps, it may instead resemble writing documentation and training material for human readers, so focusing on traditional reading and writing skills may be a better use of time than learning today's computer languages.
I'm not sure why you felt the need to tack on an apparent pointless insult.
By the time today's pre-K kids enter the workforce, traditional programming could be a niche activity relegated to kernel and device driver developers. It's not unlikely that the majority of application development will instead be focused on directing various machine learning activities, which could require skills closer to those of a manager of human employees than math and logic.
Thankfully, I'll probably be retired by then.
The "owner" only allows you to use the software if you agree to their terms, which make it abundantly clear that they have absolutely no responsibility for anything at all.
There is not way in hell that bedbugs would become "extinct" before developing resistance to any single insecticide.
Given the way you're foaming at the mouth, I think you should be more concerned about rabies than bedbugs anyway.
DDT was "banned" for agricultural use, not indoor use, where it is still used for malaria prevention.
At any rate, what makes you think that bedbugs won't become highly resistant to DDT, just as they have for most every other insecticide used on them? DDT is already nearly useless on other insects that have become resistant to it.
Tesla sees the writing on the wall, they need to export from China like Ford, Volvo, GM, etc. or else they will not be competitive.
To reciprocate the Chinese policy, the US ought to be placing a 50% import tariff on those Fords, Volvos and GMs imported from China. Then manufacturers can be competitive manufacturing cars in the US.