I second this. I have no interest in having an additional set of finger-memory mappings. Which is a bummer, because otherwise there's a lot to like about the MBP.
I don't have any kind of physics background, so maybe someone can explain this to me.
If you have a single-atom-thick layer of some material, how much of a bump can it withstand before the sheet gets ripped apart? I would imagine even a small vibration of the material, such as dropping the overall package on a desk, would ruin it.
You need Disney starlets who program for real and have a gaggle of friends who all think it's so amazing.
But you know what, it's not amazing. CS is about as ***AMAZING*** as when an accountant reconciles a messy set of receipts while filing someone's taxes.
CS is interesting to the person doing it, the same way math is. And it often pays well, as do other jobs which require advanced mathematical thinking. But is being around me when I solve a design problem the same as being around Tom Brady when he throws a touchdown pass in the Super Bowl? No. And trying to get kids to sign up for CS classes based on the notion that CS is that exciting is an evil lie.
Why do all demographics have to be represented equally?
This is going to come across as flamebait, but I really don't mean it that way. My guess is that social liberals are very empathetic to a particular stereotype of suffering: that of a girl, who through no fault of her own, was placed in a society that kept her from having as fulfilling a life as she could. They're greatly troubled by this, and are desperate to address the problem, thus alleviating their own sympathetic pain.
Well, this is simple. If I get a bill addressed to "asshole", then it is clearly not to me. (My name is different.) So it goes unpaid. And they will not be able to collect (by collecting agency/authorities) until they fix the name either.
And when they eventually fix the name, they can't add surcharges for late payment - I never got any bill on time . ..
That will be cold comfort when they trash your credit rating.
All of these I've read stories treat "demand" as a fixed quantity that's independent of the commodity's price. There's also no discussion about whether or not the planet explodes if "demand" isn't met.
Am I being pedantic, or are these stories really fatally flawed in this way?
Even back in the days of CRTs, why would you ever change your desktop resolution to anything other than the optimum setting?
IIRC, some of my monitors didn't have a uniquely optimum resolution. Very high resolutions could force a lower refresh rate, causing unpleasant visual artifacts. Very high resolutions could also be blurry, if the dot pitch wasn't fine enough. Some refresh rate (or was it resolution? I forget) caused a high-pitch whine that bothered me. Higher resolutions could have interference issues if the VGA cable was insufficiently shielded. Etc.
I'm very happy that we now use LCD's with digital signalling.
NSA et.al. work in secret, outside the law. Formally they're covered by the law, but the problem is that this includes many secret laws giving them lots of leeway,
I disagree. No U.S. law can supersedes the Constitution. Much of what they've done violates the fourth and eighth Amendments. The problem isn't simply secret laws, it's a lawless executive branch, a pandering legislative branch, and a cowardly judicial branch.
I have no idea what to say. It's been so long since Congress has done anything not moronic and/or treasonous in my judgment. I've forgotten how to respond.
OTOH, there are probably so many ways these two senators can get hamstrung, that we'll never see any benefit from this. The side-lining of them will be quiet and effective.
The same people who claim to have nooses put on their door knobs, or had the N word written on their check, or etc. etc. only to find they did it themselves, "to make a statement"
Why do you equate gun-rights advocates with KKK members?
TOS really didn't push the utopian future as much. Gene really started pushing that with TNG.
I agree there was some utopianism, but there was also the occasional dose of human triumphalism. I'm not a devout fan, but I remember an episode where Riker makes Q uncomfortable by alluding to some future glory of the human race about which Q apparently is aware. I could be wrong, but I imagine that idea crept into other episodes as well.
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But I shoot to make 100% of the code I write fluff.
Can you explain that some more?
I second this. I have no interest in having an additional set of finger-memory mappings. Which is a bummer, because otherwise there's a lot to like about the MBP.
It will take civil war and/or an successful invasion, I suspect.
And in the final tally, the lives lost will not have been worth it an interruption the the surveillance state.
And since the technology is likely to still exist after the bloodshed, it won't take long at all to set up a new surveillance state.
I don't have any kind of physics background, so maybe someone can explain this to me.
If you have a single-atom-thick layer of some material, how much of a bump can it withstand before the sheet gets ripped apart? I would imagine even a small vibration of the material, such as dropping the overall package on a desk, would ruin it.
But you know what, it's not amazing. CS is about as ***AMAZING*** as when an accountant reconciles a messy set of receipts while filing someone's taxes.
CS is interesting to the person doing it, the same way math is. And it often pays well, as do other jobs which require advanced mathematical thinking. But is being around me when I solve a design problem the same as being around Tom Brady when he throws a touchdown pass in the Super Bowl? No. And trying to get kids to sign up for CS classes based on the notion that CS is that exciting is an evil lie.
This is going to come across as flamebait, but I really don't mean it that way. My guess is that social liberals are very empathetic to a particular stereotype of suffering: that of a girl, who through no fault of her own, was placed in a society that kept her from having as fulfilling a life as she could. They're greatly troubled by this, and are desperate to address the problem, thus alleviating their own sympathetic pain.
Well, this is simple. If I get a bill addressed to "asshole", then it is clearly not to me. (My name is different.) So it goes unpaid. And they will not be able to collect (by collecting agency/authorities) until they fix the name either.
And when they eventually fix the name, they can't add surcharges for late payment - I never got any bill on time . . .
That will be cold comfort when they trash your credit rating.
5th grade : Minecraft
6th grade : Minecraft
7th grade: porn
8th grade: porn
All of these I've read stories treat "demand" as a fixed quantity that's independent of the commodity's price. There's also no discussion about whether or not the planet explodes if "demand" isn't met.
Am I being pedantic, or are these stories really fatally flawed in this way?
When talking about the public, you should use the pronoun "we", not "they".
That's news to me. I didn't think the public could think :P
Pro tip: you're a member of the public.
Please let them walk into a huge secret patent thicket which serves them green, green justice.
IIRC, some of my monitors didn't have a uniquely optimum resolution. Very high resolutions could force a lower refresh rate, causing unpleasant visual artifacts. Very high resolutions could also be blurry, if the dot pitch wasn't fine enough. Some refresh rate (or was it resolution? I forget) caused a high-pitch whine that bothered me. Higher resolutions could have interference issues if the VGA cable was insufficiently shielded. Etc.
I'm very happy that we now use LCD's with digital signalling.
Seriously? You had a TV show with both Holodecks and Diana Troy, you you were dreaming of voice commands???
So, could we say it's like you visited a plumbing store, and they only wanted to discuss the pictures on the wall?
I disagree. No U.S. law can supersedes the Constitution. Much of what they've done violates the fourth and eighth Amendments. The problem isn't simply secret laws, it's a lawless executive branch, a pandering legislative branch, and a cowardly judicial branch.
I for one welcome our new virtual-currency overlords.
Geddit? Because Valve made Half-life 2, and...
Oh, forget it.
I'll take your word for it. But it's still happening, so apparently there's an enforcement gap.
I disagree. In each of those episodes, I was unsatisfied at JarJar not dying in a fire.
Or heck, just hit the phone company execs with a criminal conspiracy to commit fraud charge.
Is that the phone company is allowed to let callers lie about their identity via caller ID.
If all commercial calls could be incontrovertibly tied to corporate officers, a lot of this nonsense would end quickly.
I have no idea what to say. It's been so long since Congress has done anything not moronic and/or treasonous in my judgment. I've forgotten how to respond.
OTOH, there are probably so many ways these two senators can get hamstrung, that we'll never see any benefit from this. The side-lining of them will be quiet and effective.
The same people who claim to have nooses put on their door knobs, or had the N word written on their check, or etc. etc. only to find they did it themselves, "to make a statement"
Why do you equate gun-rights advocates with KKK members?
I agree there was some utopianism, but there was also the occasional dose of human triumphalism. I'm not a devout fan, but I remember an episode where Riker makes Q uncomfortable by alluding to some future glory of the human race about which Q apparently is aware. I could be wrong, but I imagine that idea crept into other episodes as well.