Analyzing superheros or santa claus or the like from a technical angle for laughs is shooting fish in a barrel. I like Niven and I've read the piece. Fish. Barrel. Bang.
I was in line to see something else overhearing the conversation of two teen girls in line. The Hulk was playing at the theater.
White Teen Girl: What about "The Hulk"? Asian Teen Girl: I heard that the movie had a lot of jumping in it. White Teen Girl: Jumping? Asian Teen Girl: Yeah, like the hulk jumps a lot. White Teen Girl: OK. Asian Teen Girl: I don't like movies with jumping.
That's the problem with schools and computers and a main reason why I never took any computer classes in schools. I feel like I should be free to explore my computer - and when it belongs to me, I can. Schools are run by facists.
What is the point of requiring every kid in the school to carry a laptop around with them? What benefit is there to that? According to the article, the teachers did not like the program because the laptops were a distraction in class.
I'm certainly not against computers, and I think they do have a place in education (writing reports, etc), but not in the classroom.
Kids need to spend school time learning academic subjects, not IMing each other and downloading music.
It is possible to include both a CFM and a Mach-O executable in the same application bundle. The Mac-O executable will be launched on MacOS X and the CFM executable will be launched on MacOS 9. I have delivered commercial software in this manner.
You missed my point entirely. My point is that this guy was dragging out the same arguments about the automatic cruise control system and I was pointing out that there are folks who used/still use the same arugments against other safety innovations. My point is not that I am against such innovations.
The thing that would matter to me, and I think most people, is who has it available for sale first where I can buy it. The fact that GM and Chrystler had some experimental vehicles in the 60s with airbags doesn't matter at all to me as I couldn't buy one.
Just to clarify: when I wrote the above, I did not mean that the seatbelt caused the woman's car to be on fire. The car was in an accident which caused the seatbelt latch to become jammed and also caused the car to catch on fire.
My dad tried to get the lady out, the car was on fire, the fire was spreading, he tried cutting the seatbelt, squeezing her out, unlatching it. Eventually the fire started burning his arms and he had to back away and listen to the woman scream while she burned to death.
Linux package managers track dependencies among all software packages and ensure that all dependencies you need to run something are installed. If you insist on running something that depends on an old version of a system library, it may even install the old version alongside the new one. The Macintosh equivalent would be that you could run 10.2 and 10.4 simultaneously. And, yes, it works and users don't even notice.
You are talking about backwards compatibility. MacOS X has that via the frameworks versioning. It too works fine and users don't notice.
While that kind of adaptivity has its place, you should not have to do that sort of thing for dealing with minor operating system version differences.
You don't. You need it when you are relying on a facility that might or might not exist. Not changes below the API level.
Then you will recall that Apple basically hacked on MacOS until it became unmaintainable and they had to ditch it.
No, I remember that Systems 1-9 did not have a kernel, did not have protected memory, did not have true multi-tasking. The old system software ran the chip 100% of the time in supervisor mode, did multi-tasking by cooperation, and relied on the good will of applications to not bring the system down. Yes, those were faults, but they had more to do with the original system being written in the early 1980s for hardware with 128K of RAM than with "10 years of Apple hacking it into unmaintainability". Get a clue.
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Analyzing superheros or santa claus or the like from a technical angle for laughs is shooting fish in a barrel. I like Niven and I've read the piece. Fish. Barrel. Bang.
I really can't take one more damn "origin story" in another comic book movie.
That's exactly why I liked "Ghost World". No origin story for Enid.
I was in line to see something else overhearing the conversation of two teen girls in line. The Hulk was playing at the theater.
White Teen Girl: What about "The Hulk"?
Asian Teen Girl: I heard that the movie had a lot of jumping in it.
White Teen Girl: Jumping?
Asian Teen Girl: Yeah, like the hulk jumps a lot.
White Teen Girl: OK.
Asian Teen Girl: I don't like movies with jumping.
Socialism = Corrupt individuals use the police power of the state to take goods from the hard-working to bribe those who keep them in power
Socialist, eh? Sounds like Congress to me.
Yeah, I read that and I was like, "What the hell is Ant Man?"
If Steve Jobs says his DRM is OK, then it is OK.
If Steve Jobs were to shoot a man to death, I would know for sure that the man needed to be shot.
And you get slashdot in your car? cool.
Sure. I just use this hack.
It looks geared to be the under $2 area and not the couple of pennies area, so I think calling it "Micropayments" is a bit much
So when the service of making payments in the range of 1-5 pennies becomes available, we'll have to call it "nanopayments".
OMFG! They are making you take a test to get welfare? That's totally against the law! I better call the ACLU!
So, what you're saying is that I do have a good chance of convincing people that my pet fish, Firey Fish, invented the rubella vaccine.
Take your pick:
To keep it's feet warm. Duh!
No shoes/no shirt/no service. Duh!
You mean AI researchers are to blame when its a hot day and the A/C in my new car doesn't blast me in the face with cool air?
Please do not introduce this concept.
That's the problem with schools and computers and a main reason why I never took any computer classes in schools. I feel like I should be free to explore my computer - and when it belongs to me, I can. Schools are run by facists.
Not only that, but if I were the kid, I would rather spend the 15 hours than waste my parents money - even if I was totally innocent.
What is the point of requiring every kid in the school to carry a laptop around with them? What benefit is there to that? According to the article, the teachers did not like the program because the laptops were a distraction in class.
I'm certainly not against computers, and I think they do have a place in education (writing reports, etc), but not in the classroom.
Kids need to spend school time learning academic subjects, not IMing each other and downloading music.
If you are convicted of a felony, you lose the right to bear arms under 18 USC 922(g)(1).
So you can't be a copy, armed guard, armed forces member, etc.
Damn. And some of those kids really wanted to be copies.
It is possible to include both a CFM and a Mach-O executable in the same application bundle. The Mac-O executable will be launched on MacOS X and the CFM executable will be launched on MacOS 9. I have delivered commercial software in this manner.
How can the unicorns be pink if they are invisible? Aren't inivisible things, by definition, "clear colored"?
If you make any statement to the police in that situation without your attorney present, you are a fool.
Either way someone has to fix the computer - your own people or some third party company that you are paying. So, what's the difference?
You missed my point entirely. My point is that this guy was dragging out the same arguments about the automatic cruise control system and I was pointing out that there are folks who used/still use the same arugments against other safety innovations. My point is not that I am against such innovations.
The thing that would matter to me, and I think most people, is who has it available for sale first where I can buy it. The fact that GM and Chrystler had some experimental vehicles in the 60s with airbags doesn't matter at all to me as I couldn't buy one.
Just to clarify: when I wrote the above, I did not mean that the seatbelt caused the woman's car to be on fire. The car was in an accident which caused the seatbelt latch to become jammed and also caused the car to catch on fire.
My dad tried to get the lady out, the car was on fire, the fire was spreading, he tried cutting the seatbelt, squeezing her out, unlatching it. Eventually the fire started burning his arms and he had to back away and listen to the woman scream while she burned to death.
Linux package managers track dependencies among all software packages and ensure that all dependencies you need to run something are installed. If you insist on running something that depends on an old version of a system library, it may even install the old version alongside the new one. The Macintosh equivalent would be that you could run 10.2 and 10.4 simultaneously. And, yes, it works and users don't even notice.
You are talking about backwards compatibility. MacOS X has that via the frameworks versioning. It too works fine and users don't notice.
While that kind of adaptivity has its place, you should not have to do that sort of thing for dealing with minor operating system version differences.
You don't. You need it when you are relying on a facility that might or might not exist. Not changes below the API level.
Then you will recall that Apple basically hacked on MacOS until it became unmaintainable and they had to ditch it.
No, I remember that Systems 1-9 did not have a kernel, did not have protected memory, did not have true multi-tasking. The old system software ran the chip 100% of the time in supervisor mode, did multi-tasking by cooperation, and relied on the good will of applications to not bring the system down. Yes, those were faults, but they had more to do with the original system being written in the early 1980s for hardware with 128K of RAM than with "10 years of Apple hacking it into unmaintainability". Get a clue.