From my own company, we do heavy mobile development and we litterally have cabinets FULL of mobile phones. Not just one of each, we generally have the same phone with multiple versions on it as well.
This sounds eerily familiar. I worked for Broderbund back in the day. One of their big products was "Print Shop" which allowed the consumer to create greeting cards, etc. to send to their printer. To support that product they had large wall filled with every major printer on the market at the time. A huge patch bay allowed you to hook up a given printer to a given test computer.
What's the state of QA for the major PC game creators? Do they have to test with every major graphics card on the market?
But if you follow the logic of mandatory seatbelts and motorcycle helmets, red-light cameras and anti-texting laws to their natural conclusion, it’s easy to imagine that some bureaucrats will want to co-author your car’s software.
And then what? Will you ever be allowed to go over the speed limit again? Police are already drooling to see our GPS data. Will that become automatic too? Will the cops have the power to tell your car to stop whether you want it to or not? Will authorities be able to tell your car to take a detour to alleviate traffic? Make it turn around when it gets too close to certain off-limit areas?
Really, anyone on slashdot disrespecting Wil Wheaton hasn't got a fucking clue. In the past Wil had a presence (still has a presence?) on Slashdot. Read and learn.
Next Tuesday the trial of 19-year-old Dharun Ravi opens. . . . If found guilty, Mr. Ravi could go to jail for ten years.
What did Dharun Ravi do? Well, he was a freshman roommate at Rutgers University with a chap named Tyler Clementi. Clementi was homosexual, and not a closeted one — he didn’t make much of a secret of it. Why would he? Our young people are taught from kindergarten on that “gay is just as good as straight,” that Heather has two mommies, that homosexuals should be “proud,” and so on. My local high school has a club for homosexual students. Anyone who’s embarrassed or ashamed about being homosexual hasn’t been paying attention for about thirty years. And in fact, Clementi wasn’t ashamed: in those first three weeks of his freshman year, he attended at least one meeting of the Rutgers students Bisexual, Gay, and Lesbian Alliance.
Well, a year last September, Dharun Ravi and another freshman, Molly Wei, used a webcam to secretly watch Clementi kissing a young man Clementi had picked up. After watching the video, Ravi gossiped about it on Twitter, quote: “I saw him making out with a dude. Yay.”
Three days after that, Clementi committed suicide by jumping from the George Washington Bridge. Whether this had any connection at all to the webcam incident, is not known. That Dharun Ravi thought his prank might drive Clementi to suicide is preposterous; that he intended that result is preposterosity squared.
The homosexualists were up in arms none the less, and every damn fool politician in New Jersey joined in the hue and cry. Chris Christie, who I think less of every time he opens his fat mouth, quote: “I don’t know how those two folks are going to sleep at night, knowing that they contributed to driving that young man to that alternative.” They don’t know that, Governor, and neither do you, and neither does anyone. They played a trivial prank; Clement killed himself; cause and effect are not obvious, certainly not established to any fair evidentiary standards.
(And nor will the trial attempt to establish such cause and effect. As the USA Today report notes: “Ravi is not charged with anything to do with the suicide.” A legal friend tells me that if the prosecution so much as mentions Clementi’s suicide, that would be grounds for a mistrial. The trial is not about the suicide, it’s about what Dharun Ravi did – see above.)
Ah, the joy of programming on the Commodore Pet in 9th grade. I remember feeling so high on my programming skills when I wrote a game which required almost all of the Pet's 8K memory.
On a similar subject, a friend who didn't possess "the art" required to be an intuitive programmer, worked on a game of his own. As with most games now as then, there is a delay while the game loads up, does preliminary calculations, etc. To add this "feature" to his game, at startup he added a large, empty loop.
Whether or not water != hydration is ancillary to the main point. The story is implicitly criticizing the government-as-protector role. Want to see a story which implicitly advocates the government-as-protector role? Here you go:
The new [Italian] government sworn in on November 16th has the chairman of NATO’s military committee...as defence minister; the boss of Italy’s biggest retail bank...as minister for economic development and infrastructure; and no fewer than seven professors...out of a cabinet of 17...The new government’s only defect may be that it contains no young people...It is rare for the intellectual firepower of so many technocrats to be trained on a country’s problems.
In the OP's story, the author implicitly suggests that government would better serve the people by getting the hell out of their lives. In second story, the author implicitly suggests that a country's problems are best solved by intellectual firepower getting more involved in people's lives.
I'd buy them copies of programs like cat, shut, yes, and xeyes (which is a game). If you have them on your system you could copy them but I'm not sure if that's ethical.
Pick a language from the functional (e.g., Haskell) or logic (e.g., Prolog) programming families. It'll get your juices flowing again, thinking about programming in a totally different way.
I would add a phenomenological aspect of gold: over the long term the average growth of the world economy has been about 2% which is the same average by which the supply of gold has increased.
When speculators are right, they even out price fluctuations...When speculators are wrong or generally stupid, all hell breaks loose.
The problem with this explanation is that there are always two sides to a transaction. When one person speculates that a low priced item will increase in price and wants to buy up that item, there is someone on the other side of the transaction who does not share that belief (e.g., speculating in the opposite direction) and who wants to sell that item. Both sides of the transaction are speculating, yes?
health care is pretty vital to "promote the general Welfare" (US Constition - Preamble)
Your premise is that Obamacare promotes the general welfare. One point of disagreement between proponents and detractors is whether, on balance, healthcare provided by The State results in lower quality care at greater expense. This is far from a settled question and so it is premature to hide behind the "general Welfare" argument.
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of miscellaneous technical gear, then host an IETF conference at your house.
think of the children('s phones)?
From my own company, we do heavy mobile development and we litterally have cabinets FULL of mobile phones. Not just one of each, we generally have the same phone with multiple versions on it as well.
This sounds eerily familiar. I worked for Broderbund back in the day. One of their big products was "Print Shop" which allowed the consumer to create greeting cards, etc. to send to their printer. To support that product they had large wall filled with every major printer on the market at the time. A huge patch bay allowed you to hook up a given printer to a given test computer. What's the state of QA for the major PC game creators? Do they have to test with every major graphics card on the market?
The commercial and jingle etched into the memories of all who were sentient in the 80's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfgN5tUgjb8
But if you follow the logic of mandatory seatbelts and motorcycle helmets, red-light cameras and anti-texting laws to their natural conclusion, it’s easy to imagine that some bureaucrats will want to co-author your car’s software. And then what? Will you ever be allowed to go over the speed limit again? Police are already drooling to see our GPS data. Will that become automatic too? Will the cops have the power to tell your car to stop whether you want it to or not? Will authorities be able to tell your car to take a detour to alleviate traffic? Make it turn around when it gets too close to certain off-limit areas?
From: http://www.aei.org/article/society-anda-culture/take-the-wheel-somebody/
Chillin...
Really, anyone on slashdot disrespecting Wil Wheaton hasn't got a fucking clue. In the past Wil had a presence (still has a presence?) on Slashdot. Read and learn.
Next Tuesday the trial of 19-year-old Dharun Ravi opens. . . . If found guilty, Mr. Ravi could go to jail for ten years.
What did Dharun Ravi do? Well, he was a freshman roommate at Rutgers University with a chap named Tyler Clementi. Clementi was homosexual, and not a closeted one — he didn’t make much of a secret of it. Why would he? Our young people are taught from kindergarten on that “gay is just as good as straight,” that Heather has two mommies, that homosexuals should be “proud,” and so on. My local high school has a club for homosexual students. Anyone who’s embarrassed or ashamed about being homosexual hasn’t been paying attention for about thirty years. And in fact, Clementi wasn’t ashamed: in those first three weeks of his freshman year, he attended at least one meeting of the Rutgers students Bisexual, Gay, and Lesbian Alliance.
Well, a year last September, Dharun Ravi and another freshman, Molly Wei, used a webcam to secretly watch Clementi kissing a young man Clementi had picked up. After watching the video, Ravi gossiped about it on Twitter, quote: “I saw him making out with a dude. Yay.”
Three days after that, Clementi committed suicide by jumping from the George Washington Bridge. Whether this had any connection at all to the webcam incident, is not known. That Dharun Ravi thought his prank might drive Clementi to suicide is preposterous; that he intended that result is preposterosity squared.
The homosexualists were up in arms none the less, and every damn fool politician in New Jersey joined in the hue and cry. Chris Christie, who I think less of every time he opens his fat mouth, quote: “I don’t know how those two folks are going to sleep at night, knowing that they contributed to driving that young man to that alternative.” They don’t know that, Governor, and neither do you, and neither does anyone. They played a trivial prank; Clement killed himself; cause and effect are not obvious, certainly not established to any fair evidentiary standards.
(And nor will the trial attempt to establish such cause and effect. As the USA Today report notes: “Ravi is not charged with anything to do with the suicide.” A legal friend tells me that if the prosecution so much as mentions Clementi’s suicide, that would be grounds for a mistrial. The trial is not about the suicide, it’s about what Dharun Ravi did – see above.)
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/291621/darkness-new-jersey-john-derbyshire
Ah, the joy of programming on the Commodore Pet in 9th grade. I remember feeling so high on my programming skills when I wrote a game which required almost all of the Pet's 8K memory. On a similar subject, a friend who didn't possess "the art" required to be an intuitive programmer, worked on a game of his own. As with most games now as then, there is a delay while the game loads up, does preliminary calculations, etc. To add this "feature" to his game, at startup he added a large, empty loop.
Um...
with gun and camera options. Oh, and it's large--the dustbin hold is spacious enough to hold a corpse.
In the OP's story, the author implicitly suggests that government would better serve the people by getting the hell out of their lives. In second story, the author implicitly suggests that a country's problems are best solved by intellectual firepower getting more involved in people's lives.
I'd buy them copies of programs like cat, shut, yes, and xeyes (which is a game). If you have them on your system you could copy them but I'm not sure if that's ethical.
Pick a language from the functional (e.g., Haskell) or logic (e.g., Prolog) programming families. It'll get your juices flowing again, thinking about programming in a totally different way.
this research was funded by a grant from Hanes.
the faces of those sitting on toilets in the restrooms?
Go is a language out of Google. Now Dart? Is Dart supposed to replace Go, or does Dart meet a different need?
I would add a phenomenological aspect of gold: over the long term the average growth of the world economy has been about 2% which is the same average by which the supply of gold has increased.
When speculators are right, they even out price fluctuations...When speculators are wrong or generally stupid, all hell breaks loose.
The problem with this explanation is that there are always two sides to a transaction. When one person speculates that a low priced item will increase in price and wants to buy up that item, there is someone on the other side of the transaction who does not share that belief (e.g., speculating in the opposite direction) and who wants to sell that item. Both sides of the transaction are speculating, yes?
Metamucil. Pallets of it.
I'll second this one. Very insightful. Redirects your entire approach towards the design of usability: The Design of Everyday Things
sort of.
Steve Jobs Macintosh Launch Video (1984)
health care is pretty vital to "promote the general Welfare" (US Constition - Preamble)
Your premise is that Obamacare promotes the general welfare. One point of disagreement between proponents and detractors is whether, on balance, healthcare provided by The State results in lower quality care at greater expense. This is far from a settled question and so it is premature to hide behind the "general Welfare" argument.
will be more likely to take off in the U.S. if we first have to convert it to metric.