Maybe it's because of the fact that the speaker was addressing a crowd at Macworld...
'You're carrying more processing power in your pocket than Curiosity,' Ben Cichy, chief flight software engineer, told an audience at this year's MacWorld.
Besides, it's not like there no code editors for the iPad.
Yeah, but who wants to use them? Sorry to ruffle feathers out there, but this whole argument is silly. The tablet is for a completely different target audience than an ultrabook, and that target audience is not programmers.
You can send text messages to e-mail addresses and vice-versa (see here), then get a cheap phone from Tracfone or something for voice service if she is able to use a phone for talking. I have my wife set up with a phone that gets triple minutes on the family value plan for $10. She gets 150 minutes, which roll over from month-to-month. She almost never uses all of them, so this works out quite well for us.
See definition 2 here. This is what was meant at the time the second amendment was ratified. You can check through all of the writings of the founding fathers, especially those of James Madison, author of the amendment.
I saw a number of pink hued guns at a gun show last month, including an AR-15 with a pink/camo stock & barrel. There was also a t-shirt that said "Yeah, I shoot like a girl" and the picture was of a male silhouette with two bullet holes in the crotch and one in the head.
You know it's a dumb idea. The Nobel Prize foundation lost a lot of credibility when they gave him the award for Economics, and lost the rest of it when they gave the peace prize to President Drone Strike.
No, I don't see how archiving Twits and tweets furthers this mission *at all.*
And in what way does that matter? After all, Congress, the President and the Supreme Court don't follow the Constitution, why should we expect any other bureaucracy to do what they're supposed to?
I've received several class action post-cards or emails over the past several years. They always go in the trash (real or virtual). Most of them are for some imagined offense that a company has committed, and amount to little more than a shakedown by some law firm trying to make a quick buck. I'm sure there are legitimate class actions, I've just never seen any that have benefitted me.
The truth is that Papa John's franchisees will likely cut hours to avoid Obamacare tax/penalty, not corp parent, and the comment was a prediction, not a promise.
<sarcasm>Yes, but we must show our support for the workers who have had their hours slashed by not spending our money with their employer. Once they lose enough money and go out of business, they will realize that they shouldn't have cut those hours!</sarcasm>
Nope, still wrong. Plenty of parents are willing to adopt, as proof look at foreign adoptions. What almost nobody wants is to adopt a kid more than a few months old. Hence the giant foster care system. But for babies supply of parents far exceeds supply of children.
My wife and I have looked into either foster care or adopting older children, the big roadblock for us was all the rules & regulations. For instance, they wanted us to have a fire escape added to our house since the extra rooms we have are on the second floor. We can't afford to make those kinds of modification to our house AND take on a couple of extra children.
Every minute spent working with those kids teaching them sports should be spent, instead, teaching them things that actually pay the bills in out-of-school-life.
False dichotomy. If you went to college, you know that you didn't spend every minute on education, so why should they? Furthermore, student athletes actually have higher graduation rates than non-athlete students.
Why on Earth would I offer a scholarship for someone who, ostensibly, diverts their time to things *other* than pursuit of knowledge (namely: sports)?! Scholarships should be for kids who, I dunno, are good at learning things, doing resarch, that sort of thing?
You act as if there's nothing to be learned from playing sports. There's plenty, both strategy and teamwork spring to mind immediately. Also, sports give the opportunity to many socio-economically disadvantaged people to obtain a college education that they might not have otherwise had access to. Most colleges that have sports programs also have programs specifically aimed at those athletes to help them succeed academically. Does every college athlete graduate? No, but I think there are a great deal more that do get a college education than would get one if it weren't for sports. Finally revenue sports do provide a lot of money for scholarships for those kids who are good at learning things, doing resarch (sic), that sort of thing...
I remember when I decided to learn how to juggle over Christmas break. I got a juggling kit for Christmas that included some bean bags and a video, and one of the things they suggested was to practice before you went to bed at night, because they said your mind would work on how to juggle while you were sleeping. Sure enough, the next morning when I tried I found I was able to do a much better job than I did the night before. I don't know if it was due to my unconscious working on it, or if it was the power of suggestion, but there seems to be something to it.
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'You're carrying more processing power in your pocket than Curiosity,' Ben Cichy, chief flight software engineer, told an audience at this year's MacWorld.
Agreed. But programmers like to throw fits if it doesn't meet their needs. So I'm pointing out that it does more than they think.
I agree with your point, hope I didn't come across as being hostile to what you were saying.
Besides, it's not like there no code editors for the iPad.
Yeah, but who wants to use them? Sorry to ruffle feathers out there, but this whole argument is silly. The tablet is for a completely different target audience than an ultrabook, and that target audience is not programmers.
Tell me, Microsoft, what games of YOURS are still being played 20 to 30 years later?
Since nobody's mentioned it: Reversi
You can send text messages to e-mail addresses and vice-versa (see here ), then get a cheap phone from Tracfone or something for voice service if she is able to use a phone for talking. I have my wife set up with a phone that gets triple minutes on the family value plan for $10 . She gets 150 minutes, which roll over from month-to-month. She almost never uses all of them, so this works out quite well for us.
IT'S A TRAP!
Great, you ignored the word militia.
See definition 2 here. This is what was meant at the time the second amendment was ratified. You can check through all of the writings of the founding fathers, especially those of James Madison, author of the amendment.
There are a number of pink guns out there.
I saw a number of pink hued guns at a gun show last month, including an AR-15 with a pink/camo stock & barrel. There was also a t-shirt that said "Yeah, I shoot like a girl" and the picture was of a male silhouette with two bullet holes in the crotch and one in the head.
Very timely....
You know it's a dumb idea. The Nobel Prize foundation lost a lot of credibility when they gave him the award for Economics, and lost the rest of it when they gave the peace prize to President Drone Strike.
No, I don't see how archiving Twits and tweets furthers this mission *at all.*
And in what way does that matter? After all, Congress, the President and the Supreme Court don't follow the Constitution, why should we expect any other bureaucracy to do what they're supposed to?
Even in the new mobile devices, with all the weight of Google and Apple thrown behind Java and the JVM
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I believe he was referring to Joe using camel case, myVar, and then Bill later fixing it to snake case, my_var.
Yes, that's exactly what I was referring to. The example was purposely simple.
Most diffs can ignore whitespace...
Yeah, but they don't understand that myVar and my_var are actually supposed to be the same variable...
The gun is always loaded.
In other words, always treat a gun like it's loaded even if you don't think it is.
I've received several class action post-cards or emails over the past several years. They always go in the trash (real or virtual). Most of them are for some imagined offense that a company has committed, and amount to little more than a shakedown by some law firm trying to make a quick buck. I'm sure there are legitimate class actions, I've just never seen any that have benefitted me.
The truth is that Papa John's franchisees will likely cut hours to avoid Obamacare tax/penalty, not corp parent, and the comment was a prediction, not a promise.
<sarcasm>Yes, but we must show our support for the workers who have had their hours slashed by not spending our money with their employer. Once they lose enough money and go out of business, they will realize that they shouldn't have cut those hours!</sarcasm>
Nope, still wrong. Plenty of parents are willing to adopt, as proof look at foreign adoptions. What almost nobody wants is to adopt a kid more than a few months old. Hence the giant foster care system. But for babies supply of parents far exceeds supply of children.
My wife and I have looked into either foster care or adopting older children, the big roadblock for us was all the rules & regulations. For instance, they wanted us to have a fire escape added to our house since the extra rooms we have are on the second floor. We can't afford to make those kinds of modification to our house AND take on a couple of extra children.
Every minute spent working with those kids teaching them sports should be spent, instead, teaching them things that actually pay the bills in out-of-school-life.
False dichotomy. If you went to college, you know that you didn't spend every minute on education, so why should they? Furthermore, student athletes actually have higher graduation rates than non-athlete students.
Why on Earth would I offer a scholarship for someone who, ostensibly, diverts their time to things *other* than pursuit of knowledge (namely: sports)?! Scholarships should be for kids who, I dunno, are good at learning things, doing resarch, that sort of thing?
You act as if there's nothing to be learned from playing sports. There's plenty, both strategy and teamwork spring to mind immediately. Also, sports give the opportunity to many socio-economically disadvantaged people to obtain a college education that they might not have otherwise had access to. Most colleges that have sports programs also have programs specifically aimed at those athletes to help them succeed academically. Does every college athlete graduate? No, but I think there are a great deal more that do get a college education than would get one if it weren't for sports. Finally revenue sports do provide a lot of money for scholarships for those kids who are good at learning things, doing resarch (sic), that sort of thing...
I remember when I decided to learn how to juggle over Christmas break. I got a juggling kit for Christmas that included some bean bags and a video, and one of the things they suggested was to practice before you went to bed at night, because they said your mind would work on how to juggle while you were sleeping. Sure enough, the next morning when I tried I found I was able to do a much better job than I did the night before. I don't know if it was due to my unconscious working on it, or if it was the power of suggestion, but there seems to be something to it.
And so you prove my point by failing to notice the bug. Lay off the drugs, man!
I was going for "funny", quit being such a buzz-kill! :-P
I don't know about other recreational drugs, but I've heard about people using Ritalin to help improve their focus.
Any questions?
So drugs help you use fewer lines & less whitespace? Awesome!
What is a "creator of user generated content"?
You. Your comment is user-generated content, and you are its creator.
So, did you just violate his copyright by quoting him? Did I just violate yours? I'm confused...