Oh come on, you obviously don't understand anything about proper conspiracy theory analysis. Obviously no further investigation was done because it was covered up. That fact alone (no further investigation) absolutely proves without a shadow of a doubt that the report was true and that aliens were found, taken to be autopsied, and that the autopsy findings were ultimately linked directly to the Kennedy assassination. Boy oh boy oh boy oh boy... what's become of the Slashdot commenters these days...
Mod parent up -- You're exactly right. I had a mandatory typing class as a Freshman in High School in the 70s (agree is was the most useful physical skill learned in HS). At this point, "keyboarding" should be a mandatory class in lower schools. I'm sure most kids in high school are more than familiar with "texting" on a phone number pad, so hopefully they have some skill on a real keyboard. Even if a replacement for keyboards comes along eventually (as has been predicted for years) I'm sure people will still by typing on various systems for years to come.
Yeah, I still have an ancient Yggdrasil CD around here somewhere. I wonder if it is still readable by now though. I keep it in the same drawer as my old OS/2 install floppies...
Maybe you could touch your tongue to the capacitor leads on that stationary car. That should discharge it and render it "underivable". Is that kind of like:
final class Car {
public static void ShortTrip() { } }
Seems like you wouldn't really need a supercomputer. My guess is there are more important things to do in the world than waste computing resources on swim suit design.
I'd like to see some details on deployment, retrieval and navigation. It seems like having to fish a giant sail out of the water if the wind died down or changed directions unexpectedly would be problematic, although I assume the thing would float on the water. A big advantage of self propelled ships is the ability to travel in a straight line, which would seem to be an issue at least in terms of efficiency with a big kite just tied to the ship.
How much of the US GDP goes to health care vs. the military? Eliminate cigarettes and alcohol and you end up with a heck of a lot of money not being spent that could be used for any number of better things.
This seems like an interesting concept, but a 10 minute sub-orbital experiment is certainly a "first step" at best. Some details on how the robots actually attach themselves to the "web" and move around, and how they would actually perform some useful work would have been interesting.
When I leave Best Buy I just offer my receipt to the attendant and have never been challenged. Since the cost of shop lifting just gets pushed on to the consumer, I certainly hope having someone at the door reviewing receipts actually works to save money overall. I can't see any need to have higher prices just to pay for shoplifters.
Great idea. We just need a "Whole Cat/Dog/Bee/etc. Life Insurance Policy". Based on the life expectancy of the cat, (12 years for indoor cat, 6 months for outdoor cat near the Interstate, etc.), they save a few cat cells and collect between $350 and $8333 per month. If the cat dies early, they replace it with an exact replica (minus wear), or if the cat outlives the policy you get to collect dividend payments until the cat kicks off. You could even have a cash payout clause in case it turns out you don't really like the insured cat afterall. Petropolitan Life anyone (sorry for the bad pub).
I guess the excludes C (and probably most other languages). You sure wouldn't want to write
int i; for ( i=1; i=5; i++ ) {
printf( "Hello, %d\n", i ); }
when you could write int i; i = 1; helloloop: printf( "Hello, %d\n", i ); i = i + 1;/* Never used i++; !!! */ if ( i 6 ) goto helloloop;/* No = operator needed */
Connie Willis is a very tallented writer, having written excellent novels as well as some incredible short stories.
Of course by the time the 2053 Hugo awards come out we'll know exactly who the "giants" were in 2003. It seems a bit silly to think that there aren't writers as good today as there were 50 years ago. We might not see a Shakespeare every generation but there are plenty of good stories and authors to write them.
Dead on. There are probably lots of people that learned something about assembly language and saw it as just a bunch of linear instructions. Good modular programming can be done at more than one level. Good, easy to understand design is critical, but performance can be critical in many situations. Besides, the point isn't to know something about assembly so you can make EVERY decision based on optimization, but so you can make the necessary optimization decisions in an informed way.
Knowing something about the low level hardware / machine instructions and what compilers do to translate high level languages definitely helps programmers make better programming decisions.
Given the rise of byte code environments like Java and.NET and the sophisticated tools available for working with them, I would think schools would do well to teach a class programming at that level. While obviously not a true assembly language, something like Java byte code is a lower level look at how programs really work, and since Java is highly portable you wouldn't have to worry about what hardware the students used like you would with an actual assembly language course. I still think doing some work with assembly and getting some exposure to hardware architectures is best, but this might be a reasonable alternative.
Actually there is some controversy about whether Wolfgang Mozart wrote all of his early works or whether his father Leopold wrote them. I'm thinking KB is more likely to take up the argument that Columbus couldn't have sailed to the "New World" because the earth was flat.
Actually, the Windows clipboard can be rather irritating, particularly with MS Office Apps (I avoid them whenever possible, but get stuck on occasion) that put their own twist on things. On Windows I use a very handy clipboard manager called ClipMate (www.thornsoft.com). Something similar on Linux would be nice. Is it possible to redirect output to the clipboard in Linux, something like "ls >/dev/clipboard"? That would also be handy.
I agree and wouldn't mod your post as funny. This falls more in line with how many hairs do you have on your head. Unless that number is getting uncomfortably low, you don't really care as long as it does the job of keeping the sun off your dome.
Does the number of machines google uses enable the engine to produce good results? THAT is a question of more importance and the answer seems to be more "questionable" all the time. I hope that trend reverses and we get reliable search results. Who cares if it takes 10,000 machines or 100,000 as long as Google works and can stay in business.
Who wants to be sitting in front of an 1,100 pound wheel when it hits something (like a wall; even at "only" 25 MPH)? For the 55+ MPH version, I can just imagine hitting the brakes hard and having the wheel roll right over you. Didn't I see that happen to the Coyote once on the Road Runner show?
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I got back into D&D a bit after many years listening to the Dungeons and Randomness podcast. Worth a listen.
Oh come on, you obviously don't understand anything about proper conspiracy theory analysis. Obviously no further investigation was done because it was covered up. That fact alone (no further investigation) absolutely proves without a shadow of a doubt that the report was true and that aliens were found, taken to be autopsied, and that the autopsy findings were ultimately linked directly to the Kennedy assassination. Boy oh boy oh boy oh boy... what's become of the Slashdot commenters these days...
Mod parent up -- You're exactly right. I had a mandatory typing class as a Freshman in High School in the 70s (agree is was the most useful physical skill learned in HS). At this point, "keyboarding" should be a mandatory class in lower schools. I'm sure most kids in high school are more than familiar with "texting" on a phone number pad, so hopefully they have some skill on a real keyboard. Even if a replacement for keyboards comes along eventually (as has been predicted for years) I'm sure people will still by typing on various systems for years to come.
Yeah, I still have an ancient Yggdrasil CD around here somewhere. I wonder if it is still readable by now though. I keep it in the same drawer as my old OS/2 install floppies...
Who the "hell" has Slashdot ID 666? He/she could sue the Vatican and who knows how many others for sure.
Maybe you could touch your tongue to the capacitor leads on that stationary car. That should discharge it and render it "underivable". Is that kind of like:
final class Car {
public static void ShortTrip() { }
}
Seems like you wouldn't really need a supercomputer. My guess is there are more important things to do in the world than waste computing resources on swim suit design.
I'd like to see some details on deployment, retrieval and navigation. It seems like having to fish a giant sail out of the water if the wind died down or changed directions unexpectedly would be problematic, although I assume the thing would float on the water. A big advantage of self propelled ships is the ability to travel in a straight line, which would seem to be an issue at least in terms of efficiency with a big kite just tied to the ship.
How much of the US GDP goes to health care vs. the military? Eliminate cigarettes and alcohol and you end up with a heck of a lot of money not being spent that could be used for any number of better things.
Windows project output:
Hello, World!
I'm not sure, but I think the water torture myth has something to do with watching a Sports Illustrated swimsuit shoot and not getting to touch...
This seems like an interesting concept, but a 10 minute sub-orbital experiment is certainly a "first step" at best. Some details on how the robots actually attach themselves to the "web" and move around, and how they would actually perform some useful work would have been interesting.
When I leave Best Buy I just offer my receipt to the attendant and have never been challenged. Since the cost of shop lifting just gets pushed on to the consumer, I certainly hope having someone at the door reviewing receipts actually works to save money overall. I can't see any need to have higher prices just to pay for shoplifters.
Great idea. We just need a "Whole Cat/Dog/Bee/etc. Life Insurance Policy". Based on the life expectancy of the cat, (12 years for indoor cat, 6 months for outdoor cat near the Interstate, etc.), they save a few cat cells and collect between $350 and $8333 per month. If the cat dies early, they replace it with an exact replica (minus wear), or if the cat outlives the policy you get to collect dividend payments until the cat kicks off. You could even have a cash payout clause in case it turns out you don't really like the insured cat afterall. Petropolitan Life anyone (sorry for the bad pub).
I guess the excludes C (and probably most other languages). You sure wouldn't want to write
/* Never used i++; !!! */ /* No = operator needed */
int i;
for ( i=1; i=5; i++ ) {
printf( "Hello, %d\n", i );
}
when you could write
int i;
i = 1;
helloloop:
printf( "Hello, %d\n", i );
i = i + 1;
if ( i 6 ) goto helloloop;
Sure fire way to get the /. population to convert to the metric system:
"Hey baby, wanna see my big 10cm"!
Connie Willis is a very tallented writer, having written excellent novels as well as some incredible short stories.
Of course by the time the 2053 Hugo awards come out we'll know exactly who the "giants" were in 2003. It seems a bit silly to think that there aren't writers as good today as there were 50 years ago. We might not see a Shakespeare every generation but there are plenty of good stories and authors to write them.
Dead on. There are probably lots of people that learned something about assembly language and saw it as just a bunch of linear instructions. Good modular programming can be done at more than one level. Good, easy to understand design is critical, but performance can be critical in many situations. Besides, the point isn't to know something about assembly so you can make EVERY decision based on optimization, but so you can make the necessary optimization decisions in an informed way.
Knowing something about the low level hardware / machine instructions and what compilers do to translate high level languages definitely helps programmers make better programming decisions.
.NET and the sophisticated tools available for working with them, I would think schools would do well to teach a class programming at that level. While obviously not a true assembly language, something like Java byte code is a lower level look at how programs really work, and since Java is highly portable you wouldn't have to worry about what hardware the students used like you would with an actual assembly language course. I still think doing some work with assembly and getting some exposure to hardware architectures is best, but this might be a reasonable alternative.
Given the rise of byte code environments like Java and
Actually there is some controversy about whether Wolfgang Mozart wrote all of his early works or whether his father Leopold wrote them. I'm thinking KB is more likely to take up the argument that Columbus couldn't have sailed to the "New World" because the earth was flat.
Actually, the Windows clipboard can be rather irritating, particularly with MS Office Apps (I avoid them whenever possible, but get stuck on occasion) that put their own twist on things. On Windows I use a very handy clipboard manager called ClipMate (www.thornsoft.com). Something similar on Linux would be nice. Is it possible to redirect output to the clipboard in Linux, something like "ls > /dev/clipboard"? That would also be handy.
I agree and wouldn't mod your post as funny. This falls more in line with how many hairs do you have on your head. Unless that number is getting uncomfortably low, you don't really care as long as it does the job of keeping the sun off your dome.
Does the number of machines google uses enable the engine to produce good results? THAT is a question of more importance and the answer seems to be more "questionable" all the time. I hope that trend reverses and we get reliable search results. Who cares if it takes 10,000 machines or 100,000 as long as Google works and can stay in business.
Who wants to be sitting in front of an 1,100 pound wheel when it hits something (like a wall; even at "only" 25 MPH)? For the 55+ MPH version, I can just imagine hitting the brakes hard and having the wheel roll right over you. Didn't I see that happen to the Coyote once on the Road Runner show?
And if you do it in a repeating pattern you get an Al-Gore-Rhythm.
Any word on Hooters sponsoring a baseball stadium? Just so long as they don't bring their cameras...