Also, there is an alternative to fractional-reserve banking! It's called a "mattress". Fat lot of good it's going to do you (or anyone else, for that matter).
For the rest of us, we have FDIC insurance and that's really about as good as it gets in this day and age, unless you trust the commodity markets (and while they're a useful hedge, the "rah rah rah, gold is king" attitude is over the top and probably going to come back and bite a few people. Although it's not so much crazy as the people who suggest an "oil standard". Right, tie your currency to the whims of OPEC and Venezuela, and let me know how that works out for you...)
It's not really "fraud" if you're reasonably up front about what you're going to do. "Pay me millions and millions of dollars, and I will run your company for you for a while." Duh-otay.
Some of those are explicitly "not supported yet" or "device needed for port" or other works-in-progress. Some of the trickier ones have multiple revisions and only one revision works, usually the earlier one. Some of those are out of production and difficult to find. They don't all have gigabit and USB, either.
If "Narnia" is fair game, consider having someone look at C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy series, and in particular That Hideous Strength. It's probably not historically significant enough to be one of your headliners, but it fills the "science vs humanity" niche in an interesting way and ties it together with some Arthurian legend, and moreover highlights a side of the author to which relatively few are exposed, and it targets a more mature audience. You should definitely have it in your list of independent-reading-for-students, especially for those who are otherwise interested in C.S. Lewis / Narnia.
I'll hazard tech-saavy IT-oriented entities won't have problems with building APIs to extract their data from the cloud (they probably built the API to put data into the cloud to begin with). Random-User-Guy who puts all his contacts into his Hotmail address book (with no export functionality) will have a harder time of it.
Oh yeah! And let's pick a totally random set of characters and use it to tell the code syntax parser to change modes! How brilliant! We can just use "qw" to mean "list of strings operator".
Yes. Totally random, because no one will understand that 'qw' means 'quote words' (or that qq{foo} and qq(foo) is the same as "foo", or that q{foo} is 'foo', or qr{foo} is the regular expression/foo/, or that qx(foo) will execute the system command foo and return the output... No, no rhyme or reason to that setup at all! And no one will ever think to read it in a book or perldoc perlop.
You can only save yourself typing time once, whereas readable code saves you time every day for years.
Which is why (properly-executed) Perl is as awesome as it is. Look, I realize there are some trade-offs there, and that non-Perl parsing of Perl in particular is a nightmare, but between having the programming language type my quotes and commas, and having myself type the quotes and commas, I will pick the programming language 98% of the time. My IDE can handle it.
The point of a programming language is to make things easier for people with a modicum of basic skills, not the illiterate - otherwise we'd just use BASIC all the time. When it comes to Perl, you don't have trouble because there's something wrong with the language: you have trouble because you're ignorant and illiterate with regards to Perl. Stop blaming the language for your own deficiencies, and either learn the language or decide you have no need to and accept it as a personal limitation.
Also, the AirWave Management Platform is in Perl (with C/XS/etc as appropriate in certain places). It sells for thousands-of to millions-of dollars, depending on your licensing and support needs. It's basically the only wireless network NMS out there which supports multiple brands of access point (Aruba, Cisco, HP/Colubris, Meru, Proxim, Symbol/Motorola, Foundry...) and its main competitor is basically Cisco WCS, which only manages/monitors Cisco devices.
Perl's take on object-oriented programming seems a little "fake" to some people: "what? you just bless hash references into a package named with a string? that's crazy!" But it works, and it works fairly well, and it is in fact very well-suited to development in this wildly heterogeneous environment.
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qw(the list of strings operator) is awesome and is equivalent to a list of strings. The main complication of Perl data types:
If the thing you're assigning to, or getting out, is an array, it starts with an @: @states = ("Alabama", "Alaska", "Arizona", "Arkansas"); (or if you don't like typing ",s all day long, @states = qw(Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas). If the thing you're assigning to, or getting out, is a scalar, it starts with a $: $states[0] eq 'Alabama' or $states[0] = "Canada". If you want an array reference, the reference itself is a scalar, and the thing you're pulling out is also a scalar because that's all you can put into arrays (which is why complex data structures are arrays or hashes with references to other arrays or hashes inside). $stateref = \@states; $stateref->[0] eq 'Canada'; $other_ref = [qw(manitoba vancouver tiajuana)]; @array_again = @$stateref; @array_again = @{$other_ref}.
And that's really all there is to it, unless you want array slices or something (and who doesn't? @threestates = @states[0..3]).... or getting those out of a reference (@{$stateref}[0..3]).
Oh, and hashes work on the same principle, but with % for the hash, {} for the indexes, () for populating the hash with an even-sized list, {} for the anonymous reference, and you can do @a_codes = @state_to_postal_codes{qw(alabama alaska arizona arkanasas)}
Yeah, but you totally missed the point: To the public, red = hot, blue = cold. The Public would be able to better appreciate an image presented with that sort of a color scheme.
Outlaw debt? This is the government we're talking about! Get real!
Clearly we should instead establish a federal monopoly on "owing money". Then patriotic government bonds won't have competition from the silly private sector.;P
I can relate to the player-base limitations: I learned half of what I know about object-oriented engineering by making stuff on a MOO (MUD, Object-Oriented) while slacking off during high school and early-college. (The other half I mostly got from my job, a lot of it in the first few months.)
In this Brian de Palma film, a mission to rescue astronauts stranded on the titular planet finds a hill shaped like a giant face, with alien technology inside.
Out of curiosity: Exactly what authority does this three-letter acronym have to fine people for using "uncertified" results, anyway? What makes Oracle obligated to pay? Has Oracle signed contracts or membership agreements with them to make them subject to this sort of review? Can they fine me for saying VaporDB is a billion times faster than Oracle?
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Which is why the insurance fraudsters like to duck in front of your car very quickly and slam on the brakes.
Or, sometimes, wait at a stoplight for someone to leave enough room behind them, shift into reverse, and slam the accelerator.
Oh, sure, there are perfectly good reasons to want socialized health care, in the abstract. You're perfectly right, in the abstract. But in reality over here, not only are proposed health-care reforms less than the ideal of abstract perfection, we are also dealing with a variety of things on the political agenda, including a recession, and:
a couple of overseas wars
climate-change / CO2 reform
massive healthcare reform
labor relations reform (less of a priority just now it seems)
a laughably huge budget deficit
Implementing all of these is a real drain on the economy (whether through taxes or borrowing... or impeding the efficiency of businesses). At some point, we have to realize that we are faced with the fundamental problem of economics: Our resources are scarce, and we can't have everything. Well, maybe we can try, but don't expect it to help the recession much.
In any event, we already have basic socialized medical care for the poor in the form of Medicare and Medicaid. Perhaps those programs should be expanded or restructured or improved! But if we're going to undertake a massive reform for a system which is somewhat effective for well over half of the US population, we should take care that it doesn't become less effective. And blanket assertions from Mr. Obama notwithstanding, the current health-care reform bills are pretty dubious by that metric.
I believe our federal government classifies any three-wheeled motorized vehicle capable of traveling over 25mph or so as a "motorcycle". (Those that are limited to 25 are probably just classed as mopeds.)
As far as Slashdot is concerned, I blame people playing Civilization and its ilk, and thinking that you can (and possibly should) research just one area of technology at a time.
That sounds lovely. What are we supposed to do until then, though? Just sit around on our laurels and wait for it to happen? What of all the sight we could marginally-restore until it's all ready and perfect?
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Also, there is an alternative to fractional-reserve banking! It's called a "mattress". Fat lot of good it's going to do you (or anyone else, for that matter).
For the rest of us, we have FDIC insurance and that's really about as good as it gets in this day and age, unless you trust the commodity markets (and while they're a useful hedge, the "rah rah rah, gold is king" attitude is over the top and probably going to come back and bite a few people. Although it's not so much crazy as the people who suggest an "oil standard". Right, tie your currency to the whims of OPEC and Venezuela, and let me know how that works out for you...)
And hey, some of the time it's worth it.
Earth-shattering? No. Convenient? Yes.
If "Narnia" is fair game, consider having someone look at C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy series, and in particular That Hideous Strength. It's probably not historically significant enough to be one of your headliners, but it fills the "science vs humanity" niche in an interesting way and ties it together with some Arthurian legend, and moreover highlights a side of the author to which relatively few are exposed, and it targets a more mature audience. You should definitely have it in your list of independent-reading-for-students, especially for those who are otherwise interested in C.S. Lewis / Narnia.
802.11n?
I'll hazard tech-saavy IT-oriented entities won't have problems with building APIs to extract their data from the cloud (they probably built the API to put data into the cloud to begin with). Random-User-Guy who puts all his contacts into his Hotmail address book (with no export functionality) will have a harder time of it.
Norman Borlaug singlehandedly saved the world from starvation due to food production.
(An exaggeration, but a slight one.)
So you can also do @list[1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34] or @list[getFibonacci(0..8)] or any one of a number of things like that. So you can say
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Yes. Totally random, because no one will understand that 'qw' means 'quote words' (or that qq{foo} and qq(foo) is the same as "foo", or that q{foo} is 'foo', or qr{foo} is the regular expression /foo/, or that qx(foo) will execute the system command foo and return the output... No, no rhyme or reason to that setup at all! And no one will ever think to read it in a book or perldoc perlop.
Which is why (properly-executed) Perl is as awesome as it is. Look, I realize there are some trade-offs there, and that non-Perl parsing of Perl in particular is a nightmare, but between having the programming language type my quotes and commas, and having myself type the quotes and commas, I will pick the programming language 98% of the time. My IDE can handle it.
The point of a programming language is to make things easier for people with a modicum of basic skills, not the illiterate - otherwise we'd just use BASIC all the time. When it comes to Perl, you don't have trouble because there's something wrong with the language: you have trouble because you're ignorant and illiterate with regards to Perl. Stop blaming the language for your own deficiencies, and either learn the language or decide you have no need to and accept it as a personal limitation.
Also, the AirWave Management Platform is in Perl (with C/XS/etc as appropriate in certain places). It sells for thousands-of to millions-of dollars, depending on your licensing and support needs. It's basically the only wireless network NMS out there which supports multiple brands of access point (Aruba, Cisco, HP/Colubris, Meru, Proxim, Symbol/Motorola, Foundry...) and its main competitor is basically Cisco WCS, which only manages/monitors Cisco devices.
Perl's take on object-oriented programming seems a little "fake" to some people: "what? you just bless hash references into a package named with a string? that's crazy!" But it works, and it works fairly well, and it is in fact very well-suited to development in this wildly heterogeneous environment.
qw(the list of strings operator) is awesome and is equivalent to a list of strings. The main complication of Perl data types: If the thing you're assigning to, or getting out, is an array, it starts with an @: @states = ("Alabama", "Alaska", "Arizona", "Arkansas"); (or if you don't like typing ",s all day long, @states = qw(Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas). If the thing you're assigning to, or getting out, is a scalar, it starts with a $: $states[0] eq 'Alabama' or $states[0] = "Canada". If you want an array reference, the reference itself is a scalar, and the thing you're pulling out is also a scalar because that's all you can put into arrays (which is why complex data structures are arrays or hashes with references to other arrays or hashes inside). $stateref = \@states; $stateref->[0] eq 'Canada'; $other_ref = [qw(manitoba vancouver tiajuana)]; @array_again = @$stateref; @array_again = @{$other_ref}.
And that's really all there is to it, unless you want array slices or something (and who doesn't? @threestates = @states[0..3]).... or getting those out of a reference (@{$stateref}[0..3]).
Oh, and hashes work on the same principle, but with % for the hash, {} for the indexes, () for populating the hash with an even-sized list, {} for the anonymous reference, and you can do @a_codes = @state_to_postal_codes{qw(alabama alaska arizona arkanasas)}
That's the Dell that's not a netbook. The Swordfish is $450.
I'd say somewhere around $500 or so, just on gut instinct. Much beyond that and you just have an ultraportable.
This guy starts at $1800. So, um, no. Notnetbook.
Yeah, but you totally missed the point: To the public, red = hot, blue = cold. The Public would be able to better appreciate an image presented with that sort of a color scheme.
Reminds me of water on Mars.
Outlaw debt? This is the government we're talking about! Get real!
Clearly we should instead establish a federal monopoly on "owing money". Then patriotic government bonds won't have competition from the silly private sector. ;P
I can relate to the player-base limitations: I learned half of what I know about object-oriented engineering by making stuff on a MOO (MUD, Object-Oriented) while slacking off during high school and early-college. (The other half I mostly got from my job, a lot of it in the first few months.)
No. The US Military had simply discovered Segway personal mobility devices.
In this Brian de Palma film, a mission to rescue astronauts stranded on the titular planet finds a hill shaped like a giant face, with alien technology inside.
Out of curiosity: Exactly what authority does this three-letter acronym have to fine people for using "uncertified" results, anyway? What makes Oracle obligated to pay? Has Oracle signed contracts or membership agreements with them to make them subject to this sort of review? Can they fine me for saying VaporDB is a billion times faster than Oracle?
Or, sometimes, wait at a stoplight for someone to leave enough room behind them, shift into reverse, and slam the accelerator.
a HERF gun is "(a device like EMP but directional) ... capable of stalling cars at a distance and crashing computers as well."
(less of a priority just now it seems)
Implementing all of these is a real drain on the economy (whether through taxes or borrowing... or impeding the efficiency of businesses). At some point, we have to realize that we are faced with the fundamental problem of economics: Our resources are scarce, and we can't have everything. Well, maybe we can try, but don't expect it to help the recession much.
In any event, we already have basic socialized medical care for the poor in the form of Medicare and Medicaid. Perhaps those programs should be expanded or restructured or improved! But if we're going to undertake a massive reform for a system which is somewhat effective for well over half of the US population, we should take care that it doesn't become less effective. And blanket assertions from Mr. Obama notwithstanding, the current health-care reform bills are pretty dubious by that metric.
I believe our federal government classifies any three-wheeled motorized vehicle capable of traveling over 25mph or so as a "motorcycle". (Those that are limited to 25 are probably just classed as mopeds.)
As far as Slashdot is concerned, I blame people playing Civilization and its ilk, and thinking that you can (and possibly should) research just one area of technology at a time.
That sounds lovely. What are we supposed to do until then, though? Just sit around on our laurels and wait for it to happen? What of all the sight we could marginally-restore until it's all ready and perfect?