If you want to be a man and not a little boy, you can admit that you were wrong and should do your own homework before you judge others.
Geez, man why the abuse?
I worked briefly at Digital Equipment Corporation in the early 1990s. I was feeling wistful from your comment about how much things had changed over the years, remembering when Yahoo was actually a king. (A friend of mine told me he remembers when Yahoo's address still contained stanford.edu.) Usenet, FTP, HotWired.com, Napster...
That seems to me like the real substance of this discussion. Anyways, thanks for your thoughts on Digital Equipment Corporation.
"In an interview with Bloomberg, Bill Gates says he was 'disappointed' by reports that he supported the FBI in its legal battle with Apple, saying "that doesn't state my view on this.' "
By the way, that band bears more than a little resemblance to the Ramones, which isn't a coincidence. The Ramones were big fans of the group, and actually namechecked the drummer -- "ol' Moulty" -- in their song "Do You Remember Rock 'n Roll Radio" (produced by Phil Spector).
In the 1960s there was a garage band called The Barbarians. Their drummer only had one hand, but he held the drumsticks on the other side using a two-finger hook. One of the most inspiring things I've ever seen in my life is the video of an auditorium of teenagers screaming enthusiastically when he launched into his drum solo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
CS50 starts students off with C, but by the end you've moved on to PHP, SQL, JavaScript, and HTML. It's nice that people care so much about CS50 that they're now just arguing about how it's being implemented. But for what it's worth, everyone can also take the course free online at EdX, the Harvard-MIT partnership. (That's what I did.) They'll even give you a (free) certificate of completion.
"The state party doesn’t track all of the coin flips, but following anecdotal reports of Clinton’s improbable luck on Monday night, Lau disclosed that it was Sanders who fared better in the games of chance that were reported through the party’s official mobile app. The Vermont senator won six of those seven coin flips--a fact that underlines how incomplete the available data remains, and the likelihood that a full accounting of all the coin flips on Monday night would yield a more even result than initial reports suggested."
"The delegates that were decided by coin flips were delegates to the party's county conventions, of which there are thousands selected across the state from 1,681 separate precincts," says the Des Moines Register.
This is only a story because conspiracy nuts are saying Hillary's lead was so close that lucky coin tosses are the only reason she won. Which is completely untrue, because these were for a handful of state delegates, which had no impact on the final delegate count (according to the Des Moines Register.
A Dell customer service rep phoned me, told me the model numbers on both my computers, described issues from my support history seven months earlier -- and then tried the exact same "infected with malware" scam.
I think the only thing that will change this may be more news coverage of how common this is -- to the point where companies like Dell and Symantec have to reassure their customers that this will no longer be happening when you purchase their products.
That should be "planned". (Larry said they'd PLANNED to focus just on MoarVM, but they were pleased with the progress of the JVM, so there's support for that too...)
The "Compilers" section at Perl6.org talks about Rakudo as being "a compiler running on MoarVM, the JVM and other backends."
At the presentation last night, Larry said they'd plan to focus just on MoarVM, but they were pleased with the progress of the JVM, so there's some support for that too.
If a candidate is popular, articles will be written about them, and their SEO will increase. (Yes, this may further increase their popularity, but they were already popular.) If anything, their original popularity is driving their Google rank *and* their likelihood of winning the election. I think the researcher takes two "effects," and says one is actually causing the other.
This study is really only interesting for its focus on "undecided voters," but in many electorates this is a really small sliver of the general electorate, so it's hard to say what exactly is swaying them. I mean, are people really Googling "Who should I vote for?", and then just reading the first few articles and deciding "Okay, this first one sounds good.,,"
By "this is the only question that matters," I meant "Do all geeks hate the show?" (From the parent comment.) And not my own question, "Are we being used right now..."
This may be the only question that really needs to be answered. There's very strong feelings about "Big Bang Theory" -- some negative -- and for this to be a real conversation, it probably needs to be addressed in some way.
In fact, I'm curious what made Dr. Saltzberg come to Slashdot. Are the producers aware of a "geek backlash", and are they attempting to address it by sending their show's technical adviser to Slashdot? Are we secretly being monitored for a later article about how real geeks all love "Big Bang Theory" which will just cherry-pick anything vaguely positive that's said in this discussion? Maybe we need some more clarity about how this "Ask David Saltzberg" event come together...
Once we understand what's going on here, maybe then we can segue into examples of Dr. Saltzberg's input on the show -- and how its one true geek interacts with the rest of its production staff
Slashdot Mirror
The one in Memphis has an enormous screen on one wall.
http://appleinsider.com/articl...
They say it's designed to give you the laid-back feeling of shopping in a small town.
If you want to be a man and not a little boy, you can admit that you were wrong and should do your own homework before you judge others.
Geez, man why the abuse?
I worked briefly at Digital Equipment Corporation in the early 1990s. I was feeling wistful from your comment about how much things had changed over the years, remembering when Yahoo was actually a king. (A friend of mine told me he remembers when Yahoo's address still contained stanford.edu.) Usenet, FTP, HotWired.com, Napster...
That seems to me like the real substance of this discussion. Anyways, thanks for your thoughts on Digital Equipment Corporation.
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Long live the dreamers, long live the net
Well, it is Alaska.
I mean, what do you think it costs to heat a giant building each month in Alaska?
He's said that he named the language "Python" partly because he was a big fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Read this comment first....
https://science.slashdot.org/c...
The real truth - stuff they don't teach in 'murrican schools..
One day, the antichrist commie Franklin Delano Roosevelt woke up and said to himself...
It was Harry Truman, not FDR.
Score one for the 'murrican schools.
"In an interview with Bloomberg, Bill Gates says he was 'disappointed' by reports that he supported the FBI in its legal battle with Apple, saying "that doesn't state my view on this.' "
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2...
By the way, that band bears more than a little resemblance to the Ramones, which isn't a coincidence. The Ramones were big fans of the group, and actually namechecked the drummer -- "ol' Moulty" -- in their song "Do You Remember Rock 'n Roll Radio" (produced by Phil Spector).
In the 1960s there was a garage band called The Barbarians. Their drummer only had one hand, but he held the drumsticks on the other side using a two-finger hook. One of the most inspiring things I've ever seen in my life is the video of an auditorium of teenagers screaming enthusiastically when he launched into his drum solo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
CS50 starts students off with C, but by the end you've moved on to PHP, SQL, JavaScript, and HTML. It's nice that people care so much about CS50 that they're now just arguing about how it's being implemented. But for what it's worth, everyone can also take the course free online at EdX, the Harvard-MIT partnership. (That's what I did.) They'll even give you a (free) certificate of completion.
http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...
http://www.desmoinesregister.c...
So it doesn't seem like those six really mattered, in the end....
It's interesting but meaningless.
A Dell customer service rep phoned me, told me the model numbers on both my computers, described issues from my support history seven months earlier -- and then tried the exact same "infected with malware" scam.
http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/20...
I think the only thing that will change this may be more news coverage of how common this is -- to the point where companies like Dell and Symantec have to reassure their customers that this will no longer be happening when you purchase their products.
There's a comment on the 10 Zen Monkeys article that links to a Dell forum post about the exact same issue *in 2014*
http://en.community.dell.com/s...
Maybe Dell *can't* fix this problem -- so their only solution is to hope nobody notices...
That should be "planned". (Larry said they'd PLANNED to focus just on MoarVM, but they were pleased with the progress of the JVM, so there's support for that too...)
The "Compilers" section at Perl6.org talks about Rakudo as being "a compiler running on MoarVM, the JVM and other backends."
At the presentation last night, Larry said they'd plan to focus just on MoarVM, but they were pleased with the progress of the JVM, so there's some support for that too.
Here's URLs where the event was announced.
http://www.meetup.com/SVPerl/e...
http://perl6releasetalk.ticket...
If a candidate is popular, articles will be written about them, and their SEO will increase. (Yes, this may further increase their popularity, but they were already popular.) If anything, their original popularity is driving their Google rank *and* their likelihood of winning the election. I think the researcher takes two "effects," and says one is actually causing the other.
This study is really only interesting for its focus on "undecided voters," but in many electorates this is a really small sliver of the general electorate, so it's hard to say what exactly is swaying them. I mean, are people really Googling "Who should I vote for?", and then just reading the first few articles and deciding "Okay, this first one sounds good.,,"
I first read that as: "Justice Department's Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness'
By "this is the only question that matters," I meant "Do all geeks hate the show?" (From the parent comment.) And not my own question, "Are we being used right now..."
I wonder if this is just a cynical attempt to appear "tough on monopolies" -- right before Tom Wheeler guts Net Neutrality forever.
Reminder: next Wednesday is a "Day of Action" to publicize the need to maintain Net Neutrality.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/9...
This may be the only question that really needs to be answered. There's very strong feelings about "Big Bang Theory" -- some negative -- and for this to be a real conversation, it probably needs to be addressed in some way.
In fact, I'm curious what made Dr. Saltzberg come to Slashdot. Are the producers aware of a "geek backlash", and are they attempting to address it by sending their show's technical adviser to Slashdot? Are we secretly being monitored for a later article about how real geeks all love "Big Bang Theory" which will just cherry-pick anything vaguely positive that's said in this discussion? Maybe we need some more clarity about how this "Ask David Saltzberg" event come together...
Once we understand what's going on here, maybe then we can segue into examples of Dr. Saltzberg's input on the show -- and how its one true geek interacts with the rest of its production staff
Maybe next, someone at Vanderbilt can build us the internet...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...