I believe my first computer "magazine" was a photocopied zine for Apple computers from back in the 70s. I think I bought my last computer magazine in about 2000. The web killed the market for such things long ago.
The main problem is that computer education fails to teach the basics - the simple lessons about input and output. Then, isolates the student so far from the hardware atop multiple layers of software cruft that you'll never get an idea how the real machine works.
I took an undergrad Computer Architecture class which was very nice. Had an excellent, simplistic virtual machine environment (MARIE) with a very short list of opcodes. By the time you were done with that, you should understand the things we understood back in the 70s and 80s working on Z-80 CP/M boxes or 8088s (or 6502s...). We should teach that class at the High School level.
Well, making shitty phones - either because the OS sucks (Windows Phone) or the hardware is flaky (HTC - the one HTC phone I owned was not particularly good) doesn't make it extremely likely that people are going to buy your phones.
The Russians thought this way during WWI and WW2. So did the Chinese during the Korean War. They suffered casualty rates that ran to 10:1. Human steamroller tactics produce a lot of bodies but not a lot of results.
People aren't going to pay for stuff that they don't need. Games aren't necessary. It would have to be a hell of a game on your phone to justify spending money.
Charging money for every game would just assure that very few or none of them get played. A Chili's near me put in small touchscreen terminals that handle credit card swipes at each table. Avoids waiting for the server to bring you the bill, it's nice. They also have games on the terminal. Every one costs at least a buck. I haven't seen one get played yet.
Creating a new economy doesn't work if no one shows up.
If you need to be private from your spouse/so, you should examine why. Then, alter your current relationship or find a relationship where it's comfortable enough that you don't feel like you have to keep secrets.
If you're keeping secrets, you're not all in, and bad things will come eventually. If you think that not being able to keep secrets constitutes abuse, I think you have a problematic definition.
Just imagine if his dispatch from his job were due to the color of his skin, and imagine the howling then. Get your own sense of perspective. The Nazis would have been entirely proud of how Eich was removed - this kind of public humiliation and elimination of subversive elements was entirely to their taste.
Which was misspelled anyway, USSR was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. I mean after getting all those statues torn down and otherwise being tossed on the ash heap of history, Lenin probably deserves to have his creation spelled correctly.
Hmm. I suppose you could say that the Pope is the actual descendant of the Pontifex Maximus due to the title being ascribed to the Pope, but in all other ways the Papacy has no relationship to the Roman Emperors and does not (and never did) claim their powers or titles. The Pontifex Maximus was entirely spiritual and imperium was quite separate from the (limited) powers of the Pontifex. It was a mostly ceremonial role in any event.
The events around Copenhagen - the disclosures of impropriety in merry old England - tend to work directly against your case. The IPCC is corrupt, the hockey stick was cooked up and no amount of propaganda will make that go away.
Because he knows that the data is cherry picked and manipulated. Everyone knows that, otherwise there would be no hockey stick. The defamation suit would fail. So concealing the maximum amount of information benefits his very weak case.
He'll probably lose the defamation case, in any event. Regardless of what data ultimately is clawed away from him.
Play Pirates, it was fun in the original "boot up your XT with the floppy" version, good in the mid-90s with "Pirates Gold" and the latest version is pretty much the same deal with better graphics. One of the better games i've ever played.
Your accusation of war mongering is as specious as all of the rest, going back to Kissinger. The wars were going to happen, with or without Condi Rice and with or without your approval. They were a geopolitical fait accompli. Hell, people back in 1990 could see where the next world problems were going to come from. Your blindness is inexcusable in that context.
A failure to recognize reality - realpolitik - doesn't make you morally superior. It makes you an idiot.
Or maybe they think that a decision isn't required and the lower courts can solve this. Generally, this would mean either the issue isn't important enough for them, the matter is settled law or the issue has been insufficiently litigated at a lower level. We can rule out the first two. Doesn't mean they won't come back for a bite at it if it is not resolved.
I've been around the whole world and I know one thing: I kiss the ground with every entry stamp into the US. The majority of the rest of the world is a shit hole in comparison. There are some uncommonly nice places elsewhere (like Australia and Germany) but they are definitely the exception to the rule.
As for US accomplishments, you forgot the nuclear weapons. Then again, you sad sack communists always forget the nuclear weapons pointed at you. Also, who got people to the Moon? I don't think it was Cuba. For that matter, modern computer technology, including this Internet we're using right now, pretty much all originated in the US. The USSR barely managed to directly copy Z-80s and 8088s before its collapse.
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What then?
Barbuda is not Barbados.
Gattaca. A combination of Gattaca and Idiocracy is pretty much the future.
I believe my first computer "magazine" was a photocopied zine for Apple computers from back in the 70s. I think I bought my last computer magazine in about 2000. The web killed the market for such things long ago.
The main problem is that computer education fails to teach the basics - the simple lessons about input and output. Then, isolates the student so far from the hardware atop multiple layers of software cruft that you'll never get an idea how the real machine works.
I took an undergrad Computer Architecture class which was very nice. Had an excellent, simplistic virtual machine environment (MARIE) with a very short list of opcodes. By the time you were done with that, you should understand the things we understood back in the 70s and 80s working on Z-80 CP/M boxes or 8088s (or 6502s...). We should teach that class at the High School level.
Surprise surprise, left wing ideologues hate self-reliance. News at 11.
Well, making shitty phones - either because the OS sucks (Windows Phone) or the hardware is flaky (HTC - the one HTC phone I owned was not particularly good) doesn't make it extremely likely that people are going to buy your phones.
The Russians thought this way during WWI and WW2. So did the Chinese during the Korean War. They suffered casualty rates that ran to 10:1. Human steamroller tactics produce a lot of bodies but not a lot of results.
People aren't going to pay for stuff that they don't need. Games aren't necessary. It would have to be a hell of a game on your phone to justify spending money.
Charging money for every game would just assure that very few or none of them get played. A Chili's near me put in small touchscreen terminals that handle credit card swipes at each table. Avoids waiting for the server to bring you the bill, it's nice. They also have games on the terminal. Every one costs at least a buck. I haven't seen one get played yet.
Creating a new economy doesn't work if no one shows up.
If you need to be private from your spouse/so, you should examine why. Then, alter your current relationship or find a relationship where it's comfortable enough that you don't feel like you have to keep secrets.
If you're keeping secrets, you're not all in, and bad things will come eventually. If you think that not being able to keep secrets constitutes abuse, I think you have a problematic definition.
Just imagine if his dispatch from his job were due to the color of his skin, and imagine the howling then. Get your own sense of perspective. The Nazis would have been entirely proud of how Eich was removed - this kind of public humiliation and elimination of subversive elements was entirely to their taste.
Which was misspelled anyway, USSR was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. I mean after getting all those statues torn down and otherwise being tossed on the ash heap of history, Lenin probably deserves to have his creation spelled correctly.
Hmm. I suppose you could say that the Pope is the actual descendant of the Pontifex Maximus due to the title being ascribed to the Pope, but in all other ways the Papacy has no relationship to the Roman Emperors and does not (and never did) claim their powers or titles. The Pontifex Maximus was entirely spiritual and imperium was quite separate from the (limited) powers of the Pontifex. It was a mostly ceremonial role in any event.
The amazing thing is that this writer was paid and probably edited. Yet this tripe escaped. Old media is in its last death throes.
One word: Afghanistan. Hundreds of casualties on his watch. About 2/3 of total Afghanistan casualties are owned by him.
Seems like your boy Obama is in the prosthetics business, too.
The events around Copenhagen - the disclosures of impropriety in merry old England - tend to work directly against your case. The IPCC is corrupt, the hockey stick was cooked up and no amount of propaganda will make that go away.
I have no idea about his ancestry but he's one shitty, vacillating Chief Executive. It's like reliving the Carter years.
Because he knows that the data is cherry picked and manipulated. Everyone knows that, otherwise there would be no hockey stick. The defamation suit would fail. So concealing the maximum amount of information benefits his very weak case.
He'll probably lose the defamation case, in any event. Regardless of what data ultimately is clawed away from him.
Play Pirates, it was fun in the original "boot up your XT with the floppy" version, good in the mid-90s with "Pirates Gold" and the latest version is pretty much the same deal with better graphics. One of the better games i've ever played.
Your accusation of war mongering is as specious as all of the rest, going back to Kissinger. The wars were going to happen, with or without Condi Rice and with or without your approval. They were a geopolitical fait accompli. Hell, people back in 1990 could see where the next world problems were going to come from. Your blindness is inexcusable in that context.
A failure to recognize reality - realpolitik - doesn't make you morally superior. It makes you an idiot.
So a totalitarian outcome would be just fine, as long as the NSA stops spying?
Now you're just being an idiot.
You're just impatient and young.
Truth. Much worse things have happened than NSA spying. Breaking the US system of laws to solve this one problem is stupid and shortsighted.
Or maybe they think that a decision isn't required and the lower courts can solve this. Generally, this would mean either the issue isn't important enough for them, the matter is settled law or the issue has been insufficiently litigated at a lower level. We can rule out the first two. Doesn't mean they won't come back for a bite at it if it is not resolved.
I've been around the whole world and I know one thing: I kiss the ground with every entry stamp into the US. The majority of the rest of the world is a shit hole in comparison. There are some uncommonly nice places elsewhere (like Australia and Germany) but they are definitely the exception to the rule.
As for US accomplishments, you forgot the nuclear weapons. Then again, you sad sack communists always forget the nuclear weapons pointed at you. Also, who got people to the Moon? I don't think it was Cuba. For that matter, modern computer technology, including this Internet we're using right now, pretty much all originated in the US. The USSR barely managed to directly copy Z-80s and 8088s before its collapse.
Get back under your rock!
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Check one of these out. They can help you. (assuming you are 25 or over)