wbr1's original statement didn't work as a joke in my opinion. Others seem to agree: at the moment it has not a single 'funny' moderation. I made an attempt to make it funnier but, in retrospect, failed miserably. This thread had potential but we're not exactly getting comedy gold here. Sorry folks, nothing to see here...
You, sir, make no sense. The comic you refer to actually shows the problem with the current system. With a single sign-in all the little sites you log into do not know your password and so the scheme described here can't work.
Parent was talking about eating fruit, not seeds. Fruit is where the seeds are made. This is equivalent to the ovaries or testicles in humans. Are you happy now?
I didn't say they're living well. Gaza is not and never has been a wealthy area (Arabs without oil), although I hear it has a fancy new shopping mall and a water park. If you have complaints against the state of the population perhaps you should direct them to the government in charge, who is doing very little to improve living conditions there? In any case my point was that they do have food there, and the situation is in no way comparable to the Nazi concentration camps.
The biggest problem with the question posed by this article is that even if I had a time machine and could meet myself when I started programming, I'd have a hard time selling "The C Programming Language" to my 5 year old self. Seriously, most of us started programming as kids, and we did it for fun. Reading long books is no fun, and CS theory is seriously no fun at all.
Personally I started with "Inside ATARI Basic" by Bill Carris. It was a very fun read and was definitely aimed at kids and beginner adults. Unfortunately my walk through the book came to a screeching halt when trying to understand what FOR and NEXT did. The book explained that FOR and NEXT are like the two parts of an Oreo cookie, and the code in between them was like the cream in the middle. Mmmmm, Oreo cookies. Yum! But what does it actually do? No explanation at all. At that point I gave up on BASIC and moved to LOGO. It was only 5 years later that it was explained to me that FOR-NEXT was a loop structure, which is what broke the barriers for me and allowed me to move from BASIC to Assembly, then (much later on) on to Java, C and C++.
But I digress. My main point here is that nobody starts programming by reading Knuth cover to cover and then digging in, and that most of the "must read" and influential books on the subject make no sense to the beginner.
The better explanation is this: That's no sun. It's the moon! If you take a long exposure shot on a moonlit night, the sky will be blue and the land will appear sunlit, but there will be stars visible in the sky - just like in this video. Occasionally the moon itself is visible as a very bright spot. Note that when the sun rises the shot becomes completely overexposed, and that's why several scenes end with everything washing out and becoming white.
Not sure about the 6502 in general, but the version used in Atari computers actually does have a (thankfully well hidden!) Self Destruct Vector. As the machine reached the end of its commercial life, Atari Corp. released the access procedure, perhaps as a sort of farewell present.
A program demonstrating its use was released, with full source code, in ANALOG computing's April 1986 issue (article here). It was aptly named "Paperweight". You can download binaries from the net but I'd rather not give a link here for obvious reasons. However, for those curious to see what a typical execution (note the humorous pun!) looks like, it's on youtube.
Oh, it works very well on an emulator! Not sure if this simulator could do it though, I doubt they have a rising smoke effect in the javascript...
Country A bombs country B. Daily. For years. Country B retaliates by bombing country A's power plant. Seems like sound logic to me. If country A had wanted to keep its power plant it should have either (a) refrained from bombing country B or (b) arranged some pretty serious defenses against country B's counterattacks.
Israeli repair crews did not need to enter Gaza, because the damage was done to power lines in Israel, connecting Israel's power plants to Gaza. Hamas were not kind enough to hold their fire while technicians were fixing the electricity for them.
Your complaints against Israel are perhaps valid, but why isn't Gaza getting any fuel, electricity or supplies from its neighbor to the south? Is it because Jews are expected to act as saints unconditionally, while Arabs treating fellow Arabs as dirt is considered normal?
Considering Gaza as a "victim" is just outrageous. Since Israel evacuated the territory, granting independence to the local population, it has seen nothing but a torrent of rockets, attempted (and one successful) soldier kidnappings and terrorist attacks coming from the territory. We give them electricity, they bomb us. We give them supplies, they bomb the border crossings. And then they cry that they have no power and no supplies. And then the international media wakes up... and then trolls like you show up.
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Actually the Iron Dome has been used successfully against Grad missiles, which are basically renamed Katyushas.
No.
what's going on neil? why isn't flac doing it for ya?
He can't trademark it.
wbr1's original statement didn't work as a joke in my opinion. Others seem to agree: at the moment it has not a single 'funny' moderation. I made an attempt to make it funnier but, in retrospect, failed miserably. This thread had potential but we're not exactly getting comedy gold here. Sorry folks, nothing to see here...
Apparently you coffee test all the electronics in your house before use.
You, sir, make no sense. The comic you refer to actually shows the problem with the current system. With a single sign-in all the little sites you log into do not know your password and so the scheme described here can't work.
Or was your argument about puppets?
Parent was talking about eating fruit, not seeds. Fruit is where the seeds are made. This is equivalent to the ovaries or testicles in humans. Are you happy now?
Children? No, my friend; he eats the bits where the children are made. Eww.
For my own work on a C6711, I've been using the TI compiler under Wine.
Why? The Code Generation Tools (free registration required) all have Linux versions.
I didn't say they're living well. Gaza is not and never has been a wealthy area (Arabs without oil), although I hear it has a fancy new shopping mall and a water park. If you have complaints against the state of the population perhaps you should direct them to the government in charge, who is doing very little to improve living conditions there? In any case my point was that they do have food there, and the situation is in no way comparable to the Nazi concentration camps.
Quite well, in fact. I hear the obesity rate there is almost as high as the US. Apparently Israel is doing a terrible job at starving them..
Well then, where are the Egyptian start-ups?
The biggest problem with the question posed by this article is that even if I had a time machine and could meet myself when I started programming, I'd have a hard time selling "The C Programming Language" to my 5 year old self. Seriously, most of us started programming as kids, and we did it for fun. Reading long books is no fun, and CS theory is seriously no fun at all.
Personally I started with "Inside ATARI Basic" by Bill Carris. It was a very fun read and was definitely aimed at kids and beginner adults. Unfortunately my walk through the book came to a screeching halt when trying to understand what FOR and NEXT did. The book explained that FOR and NEXT are like the two parts of an Oreo cookie, and the code in between them was like the cream in the middle. Mmmmm, Oreo cookies. Yum! But what does it actually do? No explanation at all. At that point I gave up on BASIC and moved to LOGO. It was only 5 years later that it was explained to me that FOR-NEXT was a loop structure, which is what broke the barriers for me and allowed me to move from BASIC to Assembly, then (much later on) on to Java, C and C++.
But I digress. My main point here is that nobody starts programming by reading Knuth cover to cover and then digging in, and that most of the "must read" and influential books on the subject make no sense to the beginner.
Associated Presses. (ok, ok. Access Points.)
Don't joke. These things are smaller than a VHS tape and can store *two* movies!
1. Get a Comfy keyboard.
2. Remove baby stickers.
3. Attach to USB port.
Voila, a foot keyboard for $80.
The better explanation is this: That's no sun. It's the moon! If you take a long exposure shot on a moonlit night, the sky will be blue and the land will appear sunlit, but there will be stars visible in the sky - just like in this video. Occasionally the moon itself is visible as a very bright spot. Note that when the sun rises the shot becomes completely overexposed, and that's why several scenes end with everything washing out and becoming white.
A program demonstrating its use was released, with full source code, in ANALOG computing's April 1986 issue (article here). It was aptly named "Paperweight". You can download binaries from the net but I'd rather not give a link here for obvious reasons. However, for those curious to see what a typical execution (note the humorous pun!) looks like, it's on youtube.
Oh, it works very well on an emulator! Not sure if this simulator could do it though, I doubt they have a rising smoke effect in the javascript...
How many laptop thieves give a crap about the information in the machine? In 99% of the cases all they want is to sell it, as quickly as possible.
Why would that be a mispronounciation? That's how it was originally intended to be pronounced. It's everybody else who's got it wrong :)
Whomever posted this story really took their time...
Don't Panic!
Objective Reality? The Mossad organized rockets to be fired from Gaza into Israel? I bet you're one of those "9/11 was an inside job" folks too.
Country A bombs country B. Daily. For years. Country B retaliates by bombing country A's power plant. Seems like sound logic to me. If country A had wanted to keep its power plant it should have either (a) refrained from bombing country B or (b) arranged some pretty serious defenses against country B's counterattacks.
Israeli repair crews did not need to enter Gaza, because the damage was done to power lines in Israel, connecting Israel's power plants to Gaza. Hamas were not kind enough to hold their fire while technicians were fixing the electricity for them.
Your complaints against Israel are perhaps valid, but why isn't Gaza getting any fuel, electricity or supplies from its neighbor to the south? Is it because Jews are expected to act as saints unconditionally, while Arabs treating fellow Arabs as dirt is considered normal?
Considering Gaza as a "victim" is just outrageous. Since Israel evacuated the territory, granting independence to the local population, it has seen nothing but a torrent of rockets, attempted (and one successful) soldier kidnappings and terrorist attacks coming from the territory. We give them electricity, they bomb us. We give them supplies, they bomb the border crossings. And then they cry that they have no power and no supplies. And then the international media wakes up... and then trolls like you show up.
GP is apparently not a native English speaker, and probably meant "on their heads".