I think he's a good choice, being a bit of an eccentric jerk type of guy. I quote wikipedia:
'Babbage's distaste for commoners ("the Mob") included writing "Observations of Street Nuisances" in 1864, as well as tallying up 165 "nuisances" over a period of 80 days. He especially hated street music, and in particular the music of organ grinders, against whom he railed in various venues. The following quotation is typical:
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.
Good Sequels: Mass Effect 2, Starcraft 2, Thief 3 Bad Sequels: Deus Ex 2, Fallout 3 (though Fallout: New Vegas is on the good-ish side)
The trend is that good sequels are true to the original format while only fixing things that are genuinely broken, while bad sequels piss in the face of the fans of the original games by deviating from the original format so much that the connection to the original game(s) become questionable.
That is the best option, obviously. But a gamepad with "triggers" like the xbox360 controller is okay, as it at least allows you to control acceleration, braking and turning in a smooth fashion. Keyboard+Mouse is the worst sort of atrocious. Everything is either full on, or full off. Either you slam the pedal, or you take your foot off it completely.
Nothing was lost? The porn! MY PRECIOUS DEVIANT PORN! Oh how I miss thee, German* midget wrapped in a latex catsuit fighting off naked clowns with an oversized Q-tip!
* How do I know she was German? Well, the only people who create weird shit like that are the Japanese and the Germans. And she wasn't Japanese.
Modern IDEs autocomplete documentation and explanatory comments for you? That's pretty neat. I obviously need to upgrade. The difference between an okay programmer and a good programmer is not in the code the compiler sees, it's in the code that the next person reading the code sees. It's possible to write the same algorithm in two different ways that will generate exactly the same AST, but only one of which is readable and easily comprehensible by another human. See the Obfuscated C Contest for extreme examples of the other kind.
Good programmers write code that doesn't need a multi-paragraph description and line-by-line comments. The structure of the project should obviously be documented (how does the modules connect, and so forth), and any caveats or unexpected behavior in for example boundary cases, but beyond that, good code documents itself.
This is a pathological degree of documentation (but none the less all too common):
/** Adds two numbers
@return The sum (a + b)
@arg a The first number
@arg b The second number */
int sum(int a, int b) {
return a + b; }
The function does what it says on the box, so you don't need to comment it.
Modern IDEs tend to auto-complete so much that it really isn't a problem, even in verbose languages like Java. Then there are of course those languages that are so abstract and dense that it will never matter, like say Haskell.
Heavily influenced by the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, SGU felt much more "adult" and real than any previous SG series (some of which were just downright hokey).
Only if, by "adult," you mean "emo."
I think the term used in the industry is "darker and edgier". But yeah. Emo.
It is expected that in the early 2400s, corporate America starts to colonise planets and fill them with non-cubicle space to meet the growing demand of area that is not spent on cubicles for the employees.
By Scandinavian standards, 4 Mbit/s is downright medieval, even the double is on the low side of the spectrum. I have 100 Mbit/s socket (up and down, no transfer cap, 10 IP addresses) in my apartment, costs about $20 a month.
From what I understand (and this may very well be wrong), Type 1 diabetes is when the immune system breaks down beta islets leaving one unable to produce insulin. So wouldn't this be a highly temporary fix, before the immune system goes to town again?
If so, I don't know if a lifetime of being stabbed in the balls is preferable to a lifetime of insulin injections.
More like a nanopizza. Slap on some fullerenes and nanotubes, nano-slide it into a nano-oven on a nano-sheet of graphene and nanocook it for a nanosecond in a nanokelvin nanooven. Then nanoeat it. May nanocause cellular nanodamage and nanocancer.
There is some pretty strange canon to support the abbreviation: Patrick Troughton was credited as "Dr. Who" during his run. Though I don't think he's ever been called anything other than "The Doctor" on screen.
Basic thermodynamics begs to differ. Thermal energy has very high entropy, therefore converting it to electricity (which has low entropy) is never going to be an efficient process.
Prosecutor:...or international terror conspiracy to overthrow the government with an insurgent army funded with drug trafficking and armed robbery and fraud.
Wife: Have you got anything without fraud?
Prosecutor: Well, there's fraud indecent exposure extortion and fraud, that's not got much fraud in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY fraud!
Man: Why can't she have racketeering extortion blackmail and fraud?
Wife: THAT'S got fraud in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much fraud in it as fraud extortion traffic ticket and fraud, has it?
Vikings: Fraud fraud fraud fraud... (Crescendo through next few lines...)
Wife: Could you do the extortion indecent exposure blackmail and fraud without the fraud then?
Prosecutor: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like fraud!
Prosecutor: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have extortion indecent exposure blackmail and fraud without the fraud.
Wife: I don't like fraud!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your fraud. I love it. I'm having fraud fraud fraud fraud fraud fraud fraud extortion fraud fraud fraud and fraud!
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I think he's a good choice, being a bit of an eccentric jerk type of guy. I quote wikipedia:
'Babbage's distaste for commoners ("the Mob") included writing "Observations of Street Nuisances" in 1864, as well as tallying up 165 "nuisances" over a period of 80 days. He especially hated street music, and in particular the music of organ grinders, against whom he railed in various venues. The following quotation is typical:
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.
Good Sequels: Mass Effect 2, Starcraft 2, Thief 3
Bad Sequels: Deus Ex 2, Fallout 3 (though Fallout: New Vegas is on the good-ish side)
The trend is that good sequels are true to the original format while only fixing things that are genuinely broken, while bad sequels piss in the face of the fans of the original games by deviating from the original format so much that the connection to the original game(s) become questionable.
No, for driving games a wheel is what you need.
That is the best option, obviously. But a gamepad with "triggers" like the xbox360 controller is okay, as it at least allows you to control acceleration, braking and turning in a smooth fashion. Keyboard+Mouse is the worst sort of atrocious. Everything is either full on, or full off. Either you slam the pedal, or you take your foot off it completely.
Nothing was lost? The porn! MY PRECIOUS DEVIANT PORN! Oh how I miss thee, German* midget wrapped in a latex catsuit fighting off naked clowns with an oversized Q-tip!
* How do I know she was German? Well, the only people who create weird shit like that are the Japanese and the Germans. And she wasn't Japanese.
Modern IDEs autocomplete documentation and explanatory comments for you? That's pretty neat. I obviously need to upgrade. The difference between an okay programmer and a good programmer is not in the code the compiler sees, it's in the code that the next person reading the code sees. It's possible to write the same algorithm in two different ways that will generate exactly the same AST, but only one of which is readable and easily comprehensible by another human. See the Obfuscated C Contest for extreme examples of the other kind.
Good programmers write code that doesn't need a multi-paragraph description and line-by-line comments. The structure of the project should obviously be documented (how does the modules connect, and so forth), and any caveats or unexpected behavior in for example boundary cases, but beyond that, good code documents itself.
This is a pathological degree of documentation (but none the less all too common):
@return The sum (a + b)
@arg a The first number
@arg b The second number */
int sum(int a, int b) {
return a + b;
}
The function does what it says on the box, so you don't need to comment it.
Modern IDEs tend to auto-complete so much that it really isn't a problem, even in verbose languages like Java. Then there are of course those languages that are so abstract and dense that it will never matter, like say Haskell.
Stupid Flanders!
I think that's tenths of micrometers, which is on the edge of what our eyes can resolve.
Heavily influenced by the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, SGU felt much more "adult" and real than any previous SG series (some of which were just downright hokey).
Only if, by "adult," you mean "emo."
I think the term used in the industry is "darker and edgier". But yeah. Emo.
You know, I had mod points earlier today. No idea where they went, but I really wish I had them now.
+1 Awesome.
It is expected that in the early 2400s, corporate America starts to colonise planets and fill them with non-cubicle space to meet the growing demand of area that is not spent on cubicles for the employees.
By Scandinavian standards, 4 Mbit/s is downright medieval, even the double is on the low side of the spectrum. I have 100 Mbit/s socket (up and down, no transfer cap, 10 IP addresses) in my apartment, costs about $20 a month.
From what I understand (and this may very well be wrong), Type 1 diabetes is when the immune system breaks down beta islets leaving one unable to produce insulin. So wouldn't this be a highly temporary fix, before the immune system goes to town again?
If so, I don't know if a lifetime of being stabbed in the balls is preferable to a lifetime of insulin injections.
Hmm, I seem to have written nanooven twice. Chalk it up to weird quantum effects. You get those on such a scale.
More like a nanopizza. Slap on some fullerenes and nanotubes, nano-slide it into a nano-oven on a nano-sheet of graphene and nanocook it for a nanosecond in a nanokelvin nanooven. Then nanoeat it. May nanocause cellular nanodamage and nanocancer.
There is some pretty strange canon to support the abbreviation: Patrick Troughton was credited as "Dr. Who" during his run. Though I don't think he's ever been called anything other than "The Doctor" on screen.
I'm a physicist, and I've done this. Excellent method.
Though it was a machine-generated plot.
I was gonna say the same thing until I read your post.
Worth a try. At least it couldn't get any worse.
Basic thermodynamics begs to differ. Thermal energy has very high entropy, therefore converting it to electricity (which has low entropy) is never going to be an efficient process.
Still works though, as spamming, in the sense of sending bulk quantities of unsolicited advertisement emails is illegal (in some places).
That's a lot of fraud. I can see how this must have happened:
Man: Well, what've you got?
Prosecutor: Well, there's extortion and blackmail; extortion racketeering and blackmail; blackmail and fraud; extortion and fraud; racketeering extortion blackmail and fraud; extortion indecent exposure blackmail and fraud; fraud indecent exposure fraud fraud criminal negligence and fraud; fraud misuse of police property fraud fraud racketeering fraud extortion and spam;
Vikings: Fraud fraud fraud fraud...
Prosecutor: ...fraud fraud fraud criminal negligence and fraud; fraud fraud fraud fraud fraud fraud traffic violation fraud fraud fraud...
Vikings: fraud! Lovely fraud! Lovely fraud!
Prosecutor: ...or international terror conspiracy to overthrow the government with an insurgent army funded with drug trafficking and armed robbery and fraud.
Wife: Have you got anything without fraud?
Prosecutor: Well, there's fraud indecent exposure extortion and fraud, that's not got much fraud in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY fraud!
Man: Why can't she have racketeering extortion blackmail and fraud?
Wife: THAT'S got fraud in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much fraud in it as fraud extortion traffic ticket and fraud, has it?
Vikings: Fraud fraud fraud fraud... (Crescendo through next few lines...)
Wife: Could you do the extortion indecent exposure blackmail and fraud without the fraud then?
Prosecutor: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like fraud!
Vikings: Lovely fraud! Wonderful fraud!
Prosecutor: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely fraud! Wonderful fraud!
Prosecutor: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have extortion indecent exposure blackmail and fraud without the fraud.
Wife: I don't like fraud!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your fraud. I love it. I'm having fraud fraud fraud fraud fraud fraud fraud extortion fraud fraud fraud and fraud!
Vikings: Fraud fraud fraud fraud. Lovely fraud! Wonderful fraud!
Waitress: Shut up!! Extortion is off.
Man: Well could I have her fraud instead of the extortion then?
Waitress: You mean fraud fraud fraud fraud fraud fraud... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)
Vikings: (Singing elaborately...) Fraud fraud fraud fraud. Lovely fraud! Wonderful fraud! Fraud fra-a-a-a-a-ud fraud fra-a-a-a-a-ud fraud. Lovely fraud! Lovely fraud! Lovely fraud! Lovely fraud! Lovely fraud! Fraud fraud fraud fraud!
"Claims made about the future were wrong"
Actually, the accusation is that the claims aren't even wrong.
Slashdot puts narrow constraints on the length of titles. What's a guy to do?
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