The fact is probably that taxpayer money isn't enough to fund those research projects anymore and they need more bored-out-of-their-mind-on-earth billionaires to take money out as 'conditioned donations'. The many of the past failures of the NASA spaceshuttle program was blamed at least partially on inadequate funding because NASA had to move fund from the spaceshuttle program to help fund other smaller projects. If the money, at least some of them, can be used to help provide safer spaceshuttle program and hopefully save the lives of at least some astronauts, then I'd deem it worthwhile. As for those 'untrained' passengers, I bet spaceshuttle providers will certainly not let anybody they deemed unsafe or a possible operation hazard onboard no matter how much they pay for the ticket--which is in no ways comparable to the cost of the entire shuttle itself and the lives of everybody else onboard. So, yup, no baby onboard sir.
This is certainly a lot more dangerous than going by airlines. I hope they give a good life insurance bonus plus full refund of your ticket money if you happen to be on the wrong shuttle and get blown up into smitherbits.
is through taking a low-level programming course. That's how I got started, even though I started later than probably 85% of the posters here. The first course on programming I took was on Pascal, a good teaching language that was, and the teacher focused on clear style and informative coding habits, which was a big help later on. But I heard QBasic was a good language for a cracking start too.
The fact about programming, is that 90% of your knowledge and skills come from practices and trial/failures. Work on problems, work on projects, and learn from other people(99% of the case peers)'s code and suggestions. Teachers can't teach you much more once you got started beyond the 'Dummy' courses. And yes, books are good too. But books are usually best for those who already had some programming languages, cuz once you got through with one language, the rest comes at ease. Much the same as once you are fluent with one foreign language, the others you can pick up much faster.
So my suggestion--if you don't have much programming language and want to learn QBasic to start with, take a course instead of buying one of the for-dummies book. They are kinda like jokes in the world of nerds now. And once you are done with QBasic and want to move on to other languages, look up websites where they offer customer opinions on books before you decide which one to buy. Better yet, find it in the bookstore and look it over before you take out your wallet!
He first started trying in 1993. I put up with him as much as I could. By 1995 he was doing a better job, but was still not enough--there were too many failed stunts still. By 1998 he was getting a lot of help from REAL entertainment giants like PC game companies, but too often he shuts down the curtains just as I was getting excited. By year 2000 I pretty much gave up my hope and made up my mind--this is one disappointing entertainment clown!!!
make sure there are enough pirated versions available online for the poor Egyptians to download. Aaaaah, the sweet taste of vengeful corruption...;)
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Indeed, I just can't understand why all the big companies seem to be targetting to increase employee arthritis rate with their ventilation system. What's more, the bigger the company (hence the bigger the working space), the colder it seems. Perhaps smaller companies can't afford large working spaces in well-air-conditioned biz buildings. Wow, I finally understood why so many geeks decide to shape themselves like polar bears...
Well, I can watch TV at home, right? As long as I have a television. And I can watch local channels for free, right? I don't have to buy cable in order to get something on the screen. And I can taperecord those programs, whichever I like, right? And I can copy my tapes over & over again & share it with my neighbors, friends, whoever, right? Anybody object to this and is gonna sue me? And I have absolutely nothing to do with the creation of the artwork on my tape, right? But I doubt I'll get a court bill for 'distributing copies' of the programs I recorded. Why? Because it's freely available to the public. There is no need for mass copy distribution. And how do those TV programs make money at all? Through commercials. I wonder if something like that can be done to online music? After all, who'd lisen to the same music over & over again for the rest of his life? How often do you listen to the music you bought last week? Last month? Last year? 5 years ago? Do we really have to own that music? We just want easy access, that's all. If there's a magic music box @ home through which I can pull out whatever music I wanted to listen at any time, I don't care about owning anything. Those CDs take up space & weight anyway.
We don't seem to bemoan the fact that we don't know how to light a fire with a cinder, or even say, light a fire by rubbing two pieces of wood together, or the fact that most Americans don't know how to ride a horse, or most of us don't know how to drive a carriage, etc etc.
The only possible threat I see to this tech-dependence is the possible threat of massive power failures. But honestly, we don't even need to be literate to have fun in life, and I doubt those power failures would last long anyhow. At least the kids will continue to draw. No technology will take away that interest from them, nor any current or near-future fansy new input devices can replace paper and pen yet (yeah, there's the Wacom tablets, but it's not the same, most importantly, the fashion of art doesn't necessarily evolve that way).
is the convenient solution to this little problem of our civilization. We'll just have to change the graffiti program so that it does read normal English writing instead of 'modified English writing'.;)
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The fact is probably that taxpayer money isn't enough to fund those research projects anymore and they need more bored-out-of-their-mind-on-earth billionaires to take money out as 'conditioned donations'. The many of the past failures of the NASA spaceshuttle program was blamed at least partially on inadequate funding because NASA had to move fund from the spaceshuttle program to help fund other smaller projects. If the money, at least some of them, can be used to help provide safer spaceshuttle program and hopefully save the lives of at least some astronauts, then I'd deem it worthwhile. As for those 'untrained' passengers, I bet spaceshuttle providers will certainly not let anybody they deemed unsafe or a possible operation hazard onboard no matter how much they pay for the ticket--which is in no ways comparable to the cost of the entire shuttle itself and the lives of everybody else onboard. So, yup, no baby onboard sir.
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This is certainly a lot more dangerous than going by airlines. I hope they give a good life insurance bonus plus full refund of your ticket money if you happen to be on the wrong shuttle and get blown up into smitherbits.
-N
is through taking a low-level programming course. That's how I got started, even though I started later than probably 85% of the posters here. The first course on programming I took was on Pascal, a good teaching language that was, and the teacher focused on clear style and informative coding habits, which was a big help later on. But I heard QBasic was a good language for a cracking start too.
The fact about programming, is that 90% of your knowledge and skills come from practices and trial/failures. Work on problems, work on projects, and learn from other people(99% of the case peers)'s code and suggestions. Teachers can't teach you much more once you got started beyond the 'Dummy' courses. And yes, books are good too. But books are usually best for those who already had some programming languages, cuz once you got through with one language, the rest comes at ease. Much the same as once you are fluent with one foreign language, the others you can pick up much faster.
So my suggestion--if you don't have much programming language and want to learn QBasic to start with, take a course instead of buying one of the for-dummies book. They are kinda like jokes in the world of nerds now. And once you are done with QBasic and want to move on to other languages, look up websites where they offer customer opinions on books before you decide which one to buy. Better yet, find it in the bookstore and look it over before you take out your wallet!
-N
He first started trying in 1993. I put up with him as much as I could. By 1995 he was doing a better job, but was still not enough--there were too many failed stunts still. By 1998 he was getting a lot of help from REAL entertainment giants like PC game companies, but too often he shuts down the curtains just as I was getting excited. By year 2000 I pretty much gave up my hope and made up my mind--this is one disappointing entertainment clown!!!
-N
Yup, more portable furnices on the way.
make sure there are enough pirated versions available online for the poor Egyptians to download. Aaaaah, the sweet taste of vengeful corruption... ;)
-N
Indeed, I just can't understand why all the big companies seem to be targetting to increase employee arthritis rate with their ventilation system. What's more, the bigger the company (hence the bigger the working space), the colder it seems. Perhaps smaller companies can't afford large working spaces in well-air-conditioned biz buildings. Wow, I finally understood why so many geeks decide to shape themselves like polar bears...
It's my ass that's complaining!!!
Well, I can watch TV at home, right? As long as I have a television. And I can watch local channels for free, right? I don't have to buy cable in order to get something on the screen. And I can taperecord those programs, whichever I like, right? And I can copy my tapes over & over again & share it with my neighbors, friends, whoever, right? Anybody object to this and is gonna sue me? And I have absolutely nothing to do with the creation of the artwork on my tape, right? But I doubt I'll get a court bill for 'distributing copies' of the programs I recorded. Why? Because it's freely available to the public. There is no need for mass copy distribution. And how do those TV programs make money at all? Through commercials. I wonder if something like that can be done to online music? After all, who'd lisen to the same music over & over again for the rest of his life? How often do you listen to the music you bought last week? Last month? Last year? 5 years ago? Do we really have to own that music? We just want easy access, that's all. If there's a magic music box @ home through which I can pull out whatever music I wanted to listen at any time, I don't care about owning anything. Those CDs take up space & weight anyway.
-N
We don't seem to bemoan the fact that we don't know how to light a fire with a cinder, or even say, light a fire by rubbing two pieces of wood together, or the fact that most Americans don't know how to ride a horse, or most of us don't know how to drive a carriage, etc etc.
The only possible threat I see to this tech-dependence is the possible threat of massive power failures. But honestly, we don't even need to be literate to have fun in life, and I doubt those power failures would last long anyhow. At least the kids will continue to draw. No technology will take away that interest from them, nor any current or near-future fansy new input devices can replace paper and pen yet (yeah, there's the Wacom tablets, but it's not the same, most importantly, the fashion of art doesn't necessarily evolve that way).
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is the convenient solution to this little problem of our civilization. We'll just have to change the graffiti program so that it does read normal English writing instead of 'modified English writing'. ;)
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