What would you rather have them do? Start writing in assembly?:)
Scratch is a terrific ice breaker. You can build and test simple concepts without having to worry about syntax. Yet it still teaches people how code is generally structured and read. I think people who've been programming for even a short span of time can forget that to the uninitiated a page of code looks like rainbow-alphabet-puke. Scratch teaches *concepts*, like how one bit of code can nest or plug-in to another. So when people start a real language and they see a big chunk of indented code they understand that "chunk" is plugged in to whatever is at the top, even if they don't understand what it does.
I used Scratch in my CS101 labs and I loved it. After four weeks of mucking about with it we switched over to C++ and no one seemed lost. Not then anyways. The clueless blank stares generally don't start until the second year... with pointers.
Free speech does not guarantee the right to be heard. If you showed up at a rally and tried to yell out your one little opinion at the top of your lungs, you'd probably be drowned out by the crowd. Is that stifling free speech? Same thing with a DDOS. Their website is temporarily drowned out by the angry masses. That's not censorship, that's just finding yourself on the side of a minority. And anyways - eventually the crowd will move on and you'll be able to hear yourself think again. Same with anon. IMO anyways.
Won't happen. Breeder reactors have already been smeared as potential sources of 'nucular wepins', what with all that concentrated plutonium they produce. You'll never get the public behind that with anything short of "But Jack Bauer is guarding the place."
No, but they don't need to be. This is the million-monkeys problem: I'm sure a few trillion bacteria would eventually crank out better code than the mouth-breathing jackass two cubicles over.
You're painting all atheists with the gnostic atheist brush. Most atheists are agnostic/soft/implicit atheists. That is, they don't claim to know weather or not a god exists, but they think it likely that none do.
Here's how my physics prof explained this to me years ago:
A woman who is 4.5 months pregnant is traveling east. Another woman who is 4.5 months pregnant is traveling west. When they meet, the local "intensity" of babies is momentarily doubled (eg: 2) But when they meet, they will not instantly produce one baby.
Same thing with photons - they don't merge, but if you measure their waveforms they might appear to. At least that's how I understand things - IANAP.
Because up here the last time they tried, they lost and lost BAD. BMG Canada vs John Doe resulted in the judge declaring file sharing was entirely legal! It was a sledgehammer to the balls for the music industry. It took a year for the Federal Court of Appeals to nix the previous judges ruling (while not making any judgement themselves), leaving the question of file sharing legality an open and unanswered question. That was six years ago. The Canadian music industry is waiting for copyright reform (probably coming in the next year) before they risk slamming their collective dicks in a door again. In the meantime they'll just soak up some media levy - it's cheaper than constantly hiring lawyers anyway.
We already had that fight - the courts here ruled that 'non-removable' storage (hard drives, embedded flash) or devices containing such things (iPods, PCs) are exempt from the tax. So this just seems like the CRIA trying to pick up any scraps it can.
Funny, I love it for that reason. When I go to a new site and see it has twenty different domains trying to load in ads, tracking, social garbage, and the like, that's generally a big clue that I want nothing to do with that place.
I don't know where you live, but I know at my university virtually all of the vending machines take debit and credit cards.
And despite possessing a significant level of slashdot-induced paranoia about such things, I must admit that the RFID enabled ones are actually kind of neat: You just pick your drink, wave your card/wallet at the machine, and grab your beverage at the bottom, and off you go. Perfect for those "my next class is on the other side of campus and I forgot my personal jetpack" times.
I STILL remember reading Jeff Green's editorial at the back of CGW the month that merger was announced. His closing statement: "Ladies and gentlemen, Han Solo has joined the Empire."
Slashdot Mirror
What would you rather have them do? Start writing in assembly? :)
Scratch is a terrific ice breaker. You can build and test simple concepts without having to worry about syntax. Yet it still teaches people how code is generally structured and read. I think people who've been programming for even a short span of time can forget that to the uninitiated a page of code looks like rainbow-alphabet-puke. Scratch teaches *concepts*, like how one bit of code can nest or plug-in to another. So when people start a real language and they see a big chunk of indented code they understand that "chunk" is plugged in to whatever is at the top, even if they don't understand what it does.
I used Scratch in my CS101 labs and I loved it. After four weeks of mucking about with it we switched over to C++ and no one seemed lost.
Not then anyways. The clueless blank stares generally don't start until the second year... with pointers.
Free speech does not guarantee the right to be heard.
If you showed up at a rally and tried to yell out your one little opinion at the top of your lungs, you'd probably be drowned out by the crowd. Is that stifling free speech?
Same thing with a DDOS. Their website is temporarily drowned out by the angry masses. That's not censorship, that's just finding yourself on the side of a minority. And anyways - eventually the crowd will move on and you'll be able to hear yourself think again. Same with anon.
IMO anyways.
Their backup plan is to buy power from their nuclear-fueled neighbours.
Really? The climax to ME2 is probably the best part of the whole game.
Call em "MoonWalks"
That way you can be sued three ways instead of just one!
Won't happen. Breeder reactors have already been smeared as potential sources of 'nucular wepins', what with all that concentrated plutonium they produce.
You'll never get the public behind that with anything short of "But Jack Bauer is guarding the place."
No, but they don't need to be. This is the million-monkeys problem: I'm sure a few trillion bacteria would eventually crank out better code than the mouth-breathing jackass two cubicles over.
The horse is now diamonds!
You're painting all atheists with the gnostic atheist brush. Most atheists are agnostic/soft/implicit atheists. That is, they don't claim to know weather or not a god exists, but they think it likely that none do.
No, it went under his feet.
rm -rf /*
It blows up quite nicely.
Well, sort of nicely.
Here's how my physics prof explained this to me years ago:
A woman who is 4.5 months pregnant is traveling east.
Another woman who is 4.5 months pregnant is traveling west.
When they meet, the local "intensity" of babies is momentarily doubled (eg: 2)
But when they meet, they will not instantly produce one baby.
Same thing with photons - they don't merge, but if you measure their waveforms they might appear to.
At least that's how I understand things - IANAP.
A tax on HDDs and other "non-removable" media or devices (read: iPods) was already smashed. This is just the CRIA trying to pick up table scraps.
Because up here the last time they tried, they lost and lost BAD.
BMG Canada vs John Doe resulted in the judge declaring file sharing was entirely legal! It was a sledgehammer to the balls for the music industry. It took a year for the Federal Court of Appeals to nix the previous judges ruling (while not making any judgement themselves), leaving the question of file sharing legality an open and unanswered question. That was six years ago. The Canadian music industry is waiting for copyright reform (probably coming in the next year) before they risk slamming their collective dicks in a door again. In the meantime they'll just soak up some media levy - it's cheaper than constantly hiring lawyers anyway.
We already had that fight - the courts here ruled that 'non-removable' storage (hard drives, embedded flash) or devices containing such things (iPods, PCs) are exempt from the tax. So this just seems like the CRIA trying to pick up any scraps it can.
Funny, I just left 4chan and now I have this weird dejavu feeling...
Well, he did apologize.
That's more than we usually get when this sort of thing happens.
Funny, I love it for that reason. When I go to a new site and see it has twenty different domains trying to load in ads, tracking, social garbage, and the like, that's generally a big clue that I want nothing to do with that place.
Applications Boundaries Enforcer. (Options -> Advanced -> ABE)
Site *.googleapis.*
Accept from *.whateveryoursiteis.com
Deny
Because 95% of the world's population lives outside of the USA?
I don't know where you live, but I know at my university virtually all of the vending machines take debit and credit cards.
And despite possessing a significant level of slashdot-induced paranoia about such things, I must admit that the RFID enabled ones are actually kind of neat: You just pick your drink, wave your card/wallet at the machine, and grab your beverage at the bottom, and off you go. Perfect for those "my next class is on the other side of campus and I forgot my personal jetpack" times.
I STILL remember reading Jeff Green's editorial at the back of CGW the month that merger was announced. His closing statement:
"Ladies and gentlemen, Han Solo has joined the Empire."
Nnnnnnnnnooooooooooo!!! :(
In space, the floors, walls, and ceiling would ALL be sticky.
Gross.
I know! They could call it... Virtual Boy 2! :P
How many ounces in a pint?