They would have detected the Higgs boson first, and would have attracted the best scientific minds on the planet.
It would have been the perfect Creationist honeypot - attract all the best scientific minds to America, and then watch Trump gut anything and everything having to do with reason, rationale, or scientific thought.
There are a number of islands that got their own domain, despite not really doing much with them.
And some TLDs are managed in a quite hilarious fashion, such as that for the Kingdom of Tonga, a Polynesian archipelago of islands whose TLD is managed from California. From the official FAQ: "San Quentin!? Isn't that a California prison?"
Prove to me it wasn't intentional espionage. There's a million ways for a mole to plausibly leak sensitive information without the mole being discovered.
a student's odds of being killed in a school shooting in any given year are (51 million) / (13.9 per year) = 1 in 3.67 million. About 120 Americans are killed every year by deer [vox.com]. (325.7 million Americans) / (120 per year) = 1 in 2.71 million.
You must be a poor scientist, because you shouldn't compare the number of school children killed by one type of fatality with the number of ALL Americans killed by another type of fatality.
If 120 Americans are killed every year by dear, how many of those Americans are school children?
The difference here is the composition of two separate technologies (content purchasing and content streaming) into a single application that would reduce Apple's grip on the portable entertainment marketplace.
If some pre-existing "screen sharing" app were to suddenly incorporate a way to purchase applications and games to be remotely accessed by the screen sharing app, Apple would take a similar stance.
Good God, of all languages, why JavaScript? JavaScript is a terrible programming language! And its floating point math is bonkers, have you ever tried doing 0.1 * 0.2 in JavaScript, the answer is 0.020000000000000004! Can you imagine how main spreadsheet errors this will cause?
And JavaScript doesn't even have type safety! If Microsoft were smart, they would use a compiled programming language, like C, that you'd have to compile using a command-line compiler with a GPG-Key that you could inspect to avoid government MITM attacks! Now the government can get your tax spreadsheet information!
And, JavaScript is terrible because a lot of popular JavaScript frameworks have their own package managers! Can you imagine developers BLINDLY TRUSTING whatever package and whatever dependencies it has? Every developer should be forced to only use the OS package manager to install JavaScript libraries!
And, JavaScript is terrible because hundreds of programmers release hundreds of new packages every day, and they grow old and stale and now the JavaScript package ecosystem is older and staler and more crowded than the iOS app store ecosystem!
And, JavaScript is terrible because anyone can just pick it up and start playing with it, and they can write a web server in 15 minutes without even knowing about tail recursion or Monte Carlo cyclomatic complexity reduction! Script kiddies will start taking our jobs, and they don't even have to know how to covert an AST optimization into a stack heap implementation!
I hope that Microsoft realizes the error of their ways, and instead implement something like LISP as the programming language.
The dispute is over pre-written directions known as application program interfaces, or APIs, which can work across different types of devices and provide the instructions for things like connecting to the internet or accessing certain types of files. By using the APIs, programmers don't have to write new code from scratch to implement every function in their software or change it for every type of device.
Let me take a stab at using my journalism skills to improve the clarity and accuracy of this summary:
At the heart of the issue is a technical lingo known as API, which is how programmers tell computers what to do. Since computers can only do as they're told, and only understand ones and zeroes, programmers must use a special robot language to talk to computers, which gets translated from the programmer's magical jargon to a series of ones and zeroes. Unfortunately, a series of ones and zeroes looks very similar to other series of ones and zeroes, so it can be difficult for programmers to keep track of what they're telling the computer.
That's where APIs help; they let the programmers speak more normally to computers, using a pseudo-robot language like "while iterating a data structure perform calculations on the user's social data network", which gets translated into a series of ones and zeroes like "1000101".
But... but... but... Hillary Clinton lost the election and the only people who care about Putin's involvement in Venezuela's cryptocurrency are butt-hurt snowflakes who can't accept that their candidate lost.
The sun should be at its highest at noon, not 1:00.
I wholeheartedly agree. The sun needs to be directly above me as I eat my lunch, otherwise the strong gravitational forces from the sun will suck my sandwich back up my throat and make me vomit all over my keyboard.
Someone once suggested that I eat lunch at 1pm instead of noon, but the asymmetrical offset would interfere with my polyphasic sleep schedule.
Thanks for the recommendation! Every time I'm forced to use WordPress, I feel dirty, as though I'm using some framework that's written by a shadowy gray market powered by child labor and stolen credit cards. The WordPress admin interface is amongst the worst I've seen, and the "ecosystem" and marketplace of plugins is mostly garbage riddled with gaping security holes.
So what if some application was last updated 10 years ago if it does the job and is essentially bug free?
"If it does the job" can change as your needs change. Do you want to be locked to a fossil that has no hope of growing and changing with the times? What if a new vulnerability like Shellshock or Heartbleed affects the software? Do you just say, "Oh whelp, nobody updated the software in six years so I guess it's time to move on?"
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Not to be snarky here, but my first thought after reading this was "So I guess that's exactly NOT what you should do, huh?"
It's like the George Costanza method of dispute resolution.
Yes, especially CI servers that are using a regex to find the most recent version of software using numerical comparison.
They would have detected the Higgs boson first, and would have attracted the best scientific minds on the planet.
It would have been the perfect Creationist honeypot - attract all the best scientific minds to America, and then watch Trump gut anything and everything having to do with reason, rationale, or scientific thought.
"Unlimited" is the amount of money that Verizon hopes to make from their customers.
There are a number of islands that got their own domain, despite not really doing much with them.
And some TLDs are managed in a quite hilarious fashion, such as that for the Kingdom of Tonga, a Polynesian archipelago of islands whose TLD is managed from California. From the official FAQ: "San Quentin!? Isn't that a California prison?"
Prove to me it wasn't intentional espionage. There's a million ways for a mole to plausibly leak sensitive information without the mole being discovered.
I'm sure that the Chinese government has the same standards of quality as the factories that churn out cheap knock-offs of consumer products, amirite?
a student's odds of being killed in a school shooting in any given year are (51 million) / (13.9 per year) = 1 in 3.67 million. About 120 Americans are killed every year by deer [vox.com]. (325.7 million Americans) / (120 per year) = 1 in 2.71 million.
You must be a poor scientist, because you shouldn't compare the number of school children killed by one type of fatality with the number of ALL Americans killed by another type of fatality.
If 120 Americans are killed every year by dear, how many of those Americans are school children?
Then you probably shouldn't install the app, don't you think?
That's great advice. Let me go find an Amish community to live in, where the Terms & Conditions are implicit.
The answer is right there in the post:
Unfortunately, reaching that simple conclusion sometimes seems to be above human reason.
The difference here is the composition of two separate technologies (content purchasing and content streaming) into a single application that would reduce Apple's grip on the portable entertainment marketplace.
If some pre-existing "screen sharing" app were to suddenly incorporate a way to purchase applications and games to be remotely accessed by the screen sharing app, Apple would take a similar stance.
Yet, he's not wrong.
So I'm guessing that your Facebook news feed regularly shows ads for Anstle machines, amirite?
Good God, of all languages, why JavaScript? JavaScript is a terrible programming language! And its floating point math is bonkers, have you ever tried doing 0.1 * 0.2 in JavaScript, the answer is 0.020000000000000004! Can you imagine how main spreadsheet errors this will cause?
And JavaScript doesn't even have type safety! If Microsoft were smart, they would use a compiled programming language, like C, that you'd have to compile using a command-line compiler with a GPG-Key that you could inspect to avoid government MITM attacks! Now the government can get your tax spreadsheet information!
And, JavaScript is terrible because a lot of popular JavaScript frameworks have their own package managers! Can you imagine developers BLINDLY TRUSTING whatever package and whatever dependencies it has? Every developer should be forced to only use the OS package manager to install JavaScript libraries!
And, JavaScript is terrible because hundreds of programmers release hundreds of new packages every day, and they grow old and stale and now the JavaScript package ecosystem is older and staler and more crowded than the iOS app store ecosystem!
And, JavaScript is terrible because anyone can just pick it up and start playing with it, and they can write a web server in 15 minutes without even knowing about tail recursion or Monte Carlo cyclomatic complexity reduction! Script kiddies will start taking our jobs, and they don't even have to know how to covert an AST optimization into a stack heap implementation!
I hope that Microsoft realizes the error of their ways, and instead implement something like LISP as the programming language.
It must be refreshing to possess the level of ignorance that you do.
Your example is completely wrong, and the fact that you have been moderated up shows how low Slashdot goes these days
The irony is that your observation only applies to your own post, which is so wrong as to be hilarious.
This is the age of unsubstantiated bullshit. Indirect accusations are now more powerful than fact.
The dispute is over pre-written directions known as application program interfaces, or APIs, which can work across different types of devices and provide the instructions for things like connecting to the internet or accessing certain types of files. By using the APIs, programmers don't have to write new code from scratch to implement every function in their software or change it for every type of device.
Let me take a stab at using my journalism skills to improve the clarity and accuracy of this summary:
At the heart of the issue is a technical lingo known as API, which is how programmers tell computers what to do. Since computers can only do as they're told, and only understand ones and zeroes, programmers must use a special robot language to talk to computers, which gets translated from the programmer's magical jargon to a series of ones and zeroes. Unfortunately, a series of ones and zeroes looks very similar to other series of ones and zeroes, so it can be difficult for programmers to keep track of what they're telling the computer.
That's where APIs help; they let the programmers speak more normally to computers, using a pseudo-robot language like "while iterating a data structure perform calculations on the user's social data network", which gets translated into a series of ones and zeroes like "1000101".
But... but... but... Hillary Clinton lost the election and the only people who care about Putin's involvement in Venezuela's cryptocurrency are butt-hurt snowflakes who can't accept that their candidate lost.
The sun should be at its highest at noon, not 1:00.
I wholeheartedly agree. The sun needs to be directly above me as I eat my lunch, otherwise the strong gravitational forces from the sun will suck my sandwich back up my throat and make me vomit all over my keyboard.
Someone once suggested that I eat lunch at 1pm instead of noon, but the asymmetrical offset would interfere with my polyphasic sleep schedule.
You know, you need to actually explain what the heck what you're writing means.
The first rule of S Mode club is THAT YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT S MODE.
Silverstripe blows them all away.
Thanks for the recommendation! Every time I'm forced to use WordPress, I feel dirty, as though I'm using some framework that's written by a shadowy gray market powered by child labor and stolen credit cards. The WordPress admin interface is amongst the worst I've seen, and the "ecosystem" and marketplace of plugins is mostly garbage riddled with gaping security holes.
So what if some application was last updated 10 years ago if it does the job and is essentially bug free?
"If it does the job" can change as your needs change. Do you want to be locked to a fossil that has no hope of growing and changing with the times? What if a new vulnerability like Shellshock or Heartbleed affects the software? Do you just say, "Oh whelp, nobody updated the software in six years so I guess it's time to move on?"
He just did, you moron.
Uhm, no, try again.
We're going to buy your product in bulk and sell it, and here are the terms you're going to agree to..." [ I'm exaggerating to make the point].
In Amazon parlance, this is known as "taking inventory".