I overheard a conversation recently. There were a girl upset that a guys at a party totally missed the fact that she wanted to be asked out. She flirted shamelessly, but the guy ignored her and instead asked out her friend - who promptly turned him down.
They then both called the guy "an idiot".
Reminds me of something that happened when I was a kid (of 16). While on a trip I asked a girl out. She said no. Fine. Then at the end of the trip she asked me why I didn't ask a second time... Turns out she wanted another guy, but when that one went out with another girl she would have settled for me fine.
Relationship are complicated. Events like this make you grow up. After something like that you may be bitter for a while but then you start to understand people better... and economics too !!! If you spend your time doing video games, you won't grow up.
I've been using kubuntu everywhere: home, work and family computers. For the past few (at least 5) years, upgrades have been smooth with very few minor bugs since the kde3 -> kde4. But this time it's close to a disaster on the only machine I upgraded. They didn't do small incremental changes this time, they updated: kde4->kde5, qt4->qt5 (or the framework), whatever->systemd, lightdm->sddm.
I think the latter is the cause of all the graphic problems I've been having. If I use the fglrx graphic driver (for AMD/ATI), I cannot sleep anymore (it wakes up to a black screen) and I don't have ctrl-alt-F consoles anymore. If I use the xserver-xorg-video-ati driver, I cannot unlock the screen (it loops back to sddm). Which makes having a laptop rather useless.
And there are plenty of other issues: opened windows are lost between logins (or moved to random places, and always to the 1st desktop), all opened konsoles are lost, kate doesn't reopen files, some login screens are all white. Or all black. The date on the clock is too big and doesn't fit ! And one thing that ails me is that your preferences are not kept between KDE4 and 5. You have to spend an hour or way more to go through all the options to try and get the desktop the way you want it again.
Before I met my GF's mom, she told me that her mom looked much younger than she was, without telling me her age (or I forgot). So when I met her, she proudly asked me how old I thought she was. As a good programmer, I compensated knowing the way the bias went, and gave her a good decade more than she actually was. She didn't appreciate. Yeah, social skills, blah, blah, blah...
But, if they call it an engine, it must have a lot more specific impulse / momentum than just beaming microwaves off the back of the device. You CAN move by pointing a flashlight the opposite way (in space), but the acceleration is so low that you'll be dead of old age before you've moved a meter. So this must clearly be different and quite a few orders of magnitude better.
You can actually find plenty of 'unpersons' in the Egyptian pharaohs carving out any references of some of their disliked predecessors out of all the monuments they could find. Leading to plenty of perplexing datation problems for historians.
I'm a climber too but the GP has a point: there are a few summits, namely Everest, Mt Blanc and Denali, which attract inexperienced idiots. On those 3 you find people who have never put on crampons before, or even gone camping ! I've seen it firsthand. Climb on !
An intelligent person from say Pharonic times, would be able to understand modern technology after some exposure to it.
It's something that somewhat pissed me off in the movie The Mummy: they used Imhotep as the bad mummy came back to life. It's an insult to that guy who was a true genius of Galileo/Newton/Einstein caliber. 5 millennia ago he wrote medical texts, built the very first pyramid (still standing), invented collumns, performed surgery, astronomy, poetry, philosophy, was a prime minister, was born a commoner but was accorded divine status after his death... One of his diagnostics is still used in current medical textbooks. Come one Hollywood, have some respect ! OK, besides that, the film was halfway decent.
TL;DR: Attempting to artificially create a human language is a complete waste of time.
Right on the money. The only artificial language I did find interesting is one whose premise that you could use any word that exists in at least 4 European languages. I think it was Interlingua, but I can't find its specs right now. I did find it very easy to read. But then a chinese or bantu wouldn't understand a word anyway, so why bother ?
So, how retro-compatible are they ? Can you take any kind of TC container (file or device) and open it into those newcomers ? Or do you have to transfer the content into a new container ?
Particularly since there will be empty cars driving around to reach their next 'driver' instead of being parked. Either by being full on autonomous taxis, or shared between a number of individuals (like one car per family, once the father has reached work he sends the car back home so that the mother can take the kid to kindergarden, etc). Also, instead of paying 40$/hour to park the car download, tell it to drive around slowly until your meeting/dinner is over; that's not going to be a good thing for traffic.
With the latest exploits talking about dormant BIOS exploits impossible to remove without a JTAG hardware programmer, or USB port reprogramming with direct access to your memory... I'm afraid the worse is yet to come. This kind of exploit is mostly OS agnostic (plug in the wrong USB device and get completely owned), directly on hardware, undetectable, etc... If the authors want to keep it dormant for long periods they can.
When the first bots started I wish the internet providers had taken steps to completely block the internet access to the clueless owners of owned Windows systems. Show them a captive page with a short explanation why, and a download of an antivirus. No internet access until then. But this should have been done over 15 years ago.
In England we call them, much more accurately, train drivers.
Interestingly, in France we call them chauffeurs, as in heaters. Because they used to have to shovel coal under the steam engine long before they could start them. And taxi and truck drivers are still called this way. Etymology...
A former boss once told me: "Whenever you think of a clever programming trick: forget it !". At the time I thought it was a joke, but now with experience I see the wisdom of that.
Go on the first line, press Ctrl-K (yes the line disappears because it's actually a cut), press Ctrl-K again on all the next lines you want to copy. When done press Ctrl-U to paste back your text. Move to when you want to paste, press Ctrl-U again. Done.
It is also interesting that 40 years of careful research into programming language design, including very sophisticated systems such as Algol 68 and Common Lisp, had absolutely no effect on the design of what are the most commonly used hack languages today. (PHP and C.)
I'm not sure using one of the most stupid and brutish sport in existence as an analogy on the subject of education really goes in the right direction...
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But then if you have to use another justification, would it be as efficient at starting a war ? I say not.
I overheard a conversation recently. There were a girl upset that a guys at a party totally missed the fact that she wanted to be asked out. She flirted shamelessly, but the guy ignored her and instead asked out her friend - who promptly turned him down. They then both called the guy "an idiot".
Reminds me of something that happened when I was a kid (of 16). While on a trip I asked a girl out. She said no. Fine. Then at the end of the trip she asked me why I didn't ask a second time... Turns out she wanted another guy, but when that one went out with another girl she would have settled for me fine.
Relationship are complicated. Events like this make you grow up. After something like that you may be bitter for a while but then you start to understand people better... and economics too !!! If you spend your time doing video games, you won't grow up.
I think the latter is the cause of all the graphic problems I've been having. If I use the fglrx graphic driver (for AMD/ATI), I cannot sleep anymore (it wakes up to a black screen) and I don't have ctrl-alt-F consoles anymore. If I use the xserver-xorg-video-ati driver, I cannot unlock the screen (it loops back to sddm). Which makes having a laptop rather useless.
And there are plenty of other issues: opened windows are lost between logins (or moved to random places, and always to the 1st desktop), all opened konsoles are lost, kate doesn't reopen files, some login screens are all white. Or all black. The date on the clock is too big and doesn't fit ! And one thing that ails me is that your preferences are not kept between KDE4 and 5. You have to spend an hour or way more to go through all the options to try and get the desktop the way you want it again.
Before I met my GF's mom, she told me that her mom looked much younger than she was, without telling me her age (or I forgot). So when I met her, she proudly asked me how old I thought she was. As a good programmer, I compensated knowing the way the bias went, and gave her a good decade more than she actually was. She didn't appreciate. Yeah, social skills, blah, blah, blah...
But, if they call it an engine, it must have a lot more specific impulse / momentum than just beaming microwaves off the back of the device. You CAN move by pointing a flashlight the opposite way (in space), but the acceleration is so low that you'll be dead of old age before you've moved a meter. So this must clearly be different and quite a few orders of magnitude better.
I don't understand how those lab technicians are not in jail for criminal incompetence.
You can actually find plenty of 'unpersons' in the Egyptian pharaohs carving out any references of some of their disliked predecessors out of all the monuments they could find. Leading to plenty of perplexing datation problems for historians.
Well, one of those two is obviously wrong since they are mutually exclusive. So, what of it ?
I'm a climber too but the GP has a point: there are a few summits, namely Everest, Mt Blanc and Denali, which attract inexperienced idiots. On those 3 you find people who have never put on crampons before, or even gone camping ! I've seen it firsthand. Climb on !
The one for 'blue baby', cyanosis due to missing heart/pulmonary valve.
An intelligent person from say Pharonic times, would be able to understand modern technology after some exposure to it.
It's something that somewhat pissed me off in the movie The Mummy: they used Imhotep as the bad mummy came back to life. It's an insult to that guy who was a true genius of Galileo/Newton/Einstein caliber. 5 millennia ago he wrote medical texts, built the very first pyramid (still standing), invented collumns, performed surgery, astronomy, poetry, philosophy, was a prime minister, was born a commoner but was accorded divine status after his death... One of his diagnostics is still used in current medical textbooks. Come one Hollywood, have some respect ! OK, besides that, the film was halfway decent.
Yeah, the industrial milk and meat from the Netherland doesn't have a good reputation in the rest of Europe. Just google "dutch giant industrial farm"
TL;DR: Attempting to artificially create a human language is a complete waste of time.
Right on the money. The only artificial language I did find interesting is one whose premise that you could use any word that exists in at least 4 European languages. I think it was Interlingua, but I can't find its specs right now. I did find it very easy to read. But then a chinese or bantu wouldn't understand a word anyway, so why bother ?
Hey guys, we found the Python programmer !
Don't like the license ? That's absolutely fine. But then don't use it and write your goddamn operating system FROM SCRATCH !
So, how retro-compatible are they ? Can you take any kind of TC container (file or device) and open it into those newcomers ? Or do you have to transfer the content into a new container ?
Particularly since there will be empty cars driving around to reach their next 'driver' instead of being parked. Either by being full on autonomous taxis, or shared between a number of individuals (like one car per family, once the father has reached work he sends the car back home so that the mother can take the kid to kindergarden, etc). Also, instead of paying 40$/hour to park the car download, tell it to drive around slowly until your meeting/dinner is over; that's not going to be a good thing for traffic.
When the first bots started I wish the internet providers had taken steps to completely block the internet access to the clueless owners of owned Windows systems. Show them a captive page with a short explanation why, and a download of an antivirus. No internet access until then. But this should have been done over 15 years ago.
Pay me ten times a minimally acceptable wage for two years and I can retire the next eighteen doing what I want.
Not necessarily because by then you'll have a loan on an expensive house, a bunch of kids on the way and a greedy mistress.
In England we call them, much more accurately, train drivers.
Interestingly, in France we call them chauffeurs, as in heaters. Because they used to have to shovel coal under the steam engine long before they could start them. And taxi and truck drivers are still called this way. Etymology...
A former boss once told me: "Whenever you think of a clever programming trick: forget it !". At the time I thought it was a joke, but now with experience I see the wisdom of that.
Go on the first line, press Ctrl-K (yes the line disappears because it's actually a cut), press Ctrl-K again on all the next lines you want to copy. When done press Ctrl-U to paste back your text. Move to when you want to paste, press Ctrl-U again. Done.
It is also interesting that 40 years of careful research into programming language design, including very sophisticated systems such as Algol 68 and Common Lisp, had absolutely no effect on the design of what are the most commonly used hack languages today. (PHP and C.)
Thank god for that.
I enjoy your comics and like most of those you cite. Will check on the others.
I'm not sure using one of the most stupid and brutish sport in existence as an analogy on the subject of education really goes in the right direction...