I love this do whatever you want as long as I don't have to barely take notice of it attitude that is the source of American freedom and democracy, keep it up, you are doing great, your country is more and more free every year so you are *obviously* doing something good!
The way I've experienced this is that the most difficult thing to learn when programing is the startup overhead.
Learning to develop on C on Windows properly requires learning Visual Studio and project management with that. It is also useful if you can have code *written by yourself* running as soon as possible.
Understanding compiler messages from gcc is cruelly hard for a programming virgin without hand holding, and IDEs are complex, Trying to write graphical apps right away is counterproductive and C itself is incredibly opaque, the language is just a bit pusher, you can't even do basic IO without calling external libraries, which is excellent for a systems programming language but taxing on a newbie, who is already trying to remember about string buffers, pointer arithmetic and C data types.
No, my recommendation for a teaching programming language would be javascript. It is high level enough that real programmers use it, yet simple and dynamic for beginners to learn. It is broken and fragmented, but so are many languages so it won't hurt them to learn that different users will see different results.
It doesn't need anything but a browser and a simple text editor, yet I recommend KomodoEdit, it's free, has simple class browser features for javascript and also helps with the html and css that you will also have to teach. And talking about HTML and CSS will prepare them for SQL and XPATH wich are excellent examples of DSLs. if there was a Javascript based web server with integrated sqlite that was dead simple to install it would be the perfect teaching tool ever.
One of the greatest things about Javascript in my opinion is that it has integrated form controls in the DOM. It's the best setup I can think of.
If you define Mobile OS tables as devices because they aren't running a general purpose OS, remind these people that a rooted tablet does is a general purpose computer. Meaning Androids and iPads could be tax-except if they surrender their root password to their user. That could turn out to be a good thing.
Well rebelling by protesting is overall good. Protesting has the effect of rising awareness of an issue to people in the mainstream. It's purpose is not to DoS a business but to bring the issue to the more passive sectors of the population.
In this way, I can't see what's wrong with protests. Even in the case of protests I don't agree with like abortion bans and civil rights, it is useful to know there is a sector of the population that is so backwards.
It also provides a way to confront these people and poke holes in their logic.
It really isn't hard, you don't even need to give government access to any of the ISP's infrastructure, nor do you need any complex legislations.
a) Have a department with the minimum amount of people and authority to wonder around, grab a connection test connection speed of mayor competing services as well as a few minor test ones. Then charge fines if an ISP is shown discriminating packages.
b) Have a phone/email contact office where people can complain about such instances.
It's more complicated than that of course, but the "(Inter)Net Neutrality Agency" NNA or INA simply doesn't need to have any more power than, that, and there is no logical reason why that can't be the case.
Which reminds me something I read somewhere a few years ago, that police training has changed.
Before 9/11 they used to train policemen to stay cool and in control, nowadays they teach them to "trust their instincts". Basically policemen are now trained to shoot first and ask later which is a recipe for tragedy.
But why the change of attitude? Because 9/11 made it possible to institute this change in attitude unchallenged. Policemen have become a source of fear.
No he can't, to him there isn't a difference between the neighborhood an the whole fucking world.
American morality is an aggressive "can do" not a "should do" mentality. It's based on the idea that if something can't be done by anyone then it's a crime. Conversely, if it can be done by one person then it can be done by every person.
The only point where these values invert is copyrights. Where it isn't illegal to overhear your neighbor's radio, but illegal to record and distribute recordings of it.
Maybe this woman should sue for copyright infringement. That (and drugs) seem the only kind of cases to be investigated by the police/heard on court.
Funny enough, Alpha single player is worth the €10, it's a hell of fun and the game runs smooth with few crashes.
Alpha/Beta multiplayer is buggy has hell, lags has hell and crashes like hell so after paying for the game and trying to play online I've been suffering a lot of troubles. Better stick to single player. Multiplayer is awfully incomplete.
On the bright side it's got one of the smoothest gameplays on an online game I've seen, but I play on Linux, I'm comparing it to the likes of Nexuiz.
The "Piece of official paper" is more than a certification that you are a capable person in your profession, formal education is a requirement in most professional fields.
Would you hire the services of a "drop out" medic? A drop out dentist? A drop out lawyer? It seems to me that "drop out" stars are more of the exception than the rule and they tend to be confined to certain fields.
Dropping out of collage seems reasonable for developers because Software Development is an craft a trade, not a profession. Same goes for entrepreneurs, chancing upon a successful idea is not a formal profession. And believe me, it was chance.
Many successful ideas seem obvious in hindsight but they weren't so obvious back when they were conceived. And when you factor in the rate of failed enterprises you see that being an entrepreneur is a bad career choice. It just seem good because you only hear about the lucky ones not the unlucky ones who chased the wrong ideas.
Investors, on the other hand. Professional investors like Paul Graham of Y combinator. They love entrepreneurs. They may drop them like a hot potato if their ideas don't fly, but they love to attract young entrepreneurs because en mass, they are a good investment, even though only 1 in 10 succeeds, they get to cash in with the lucky ones and shrug off the cost of the unlucky ones like a snake shed their dead skin, then dance on top of these crushed dreams while rising their precious boys like trophies for the world to see.
Ok I got a little dramatic there but my point is: a) Distrust people who make a career out of founding start-ups when they tell you to drop out of collage to raise a start-up. b) I know you *just know* your idea is pure gold. The other 9 guys thinks so too. The rich guy saying he believes on you know doesn't actually mean *you* you, more like you, the concept. I don't mean to stop you but... c) His backup plan are the other 9 start-ups, what's *your* back up plan? Like a football player, you need a secure career. d) Secure -well paid- jobs are in the professional fields. Those fields need education. e) Unless you're a a programmer, or a model, or a photographer, etc.
Don't listen to this asshole. Don't drop out of college..
Google is no problem, watching a movie is. Plugging the EVO phone into an HDMI monitor to watch a movie is a huge load. Texting is almost nothing and can be ignored.
But you don't have to charge by WHAT is being used, only for the how much. A movie is a huge load because it carries a lot of packages, not because "it's YouTube". On the same tune, there is no reason why a visit to Vodafone should be free of charge while a visit to facebook 2cents/MB. It's entirely possible that someone will just visit a single facebook page, to check a link in a mail for instance, then download several MBs of html from vodafone's site, looking through the TOS and trying to figure out how to fill a complaint. Why does vodafone get a free pass?
Never ever is is right to charge for who is transferring data. Charge for QoS, charge for traffic charge for service maintenance, never for identity, that's just evil.
As far as I know, this is some kind of push from Mozilla to promote open standards like theora. Enabling Firefox to use closed standards is trivial, they just didn't want to.
Like I said in another reply, this move from MS helps both Firefox -which doesn't help MS- and H.264 -which does help MS-
So this makes more sense as a pro H.264 move than a pro-Firefox move or an anti-Chrome move (which makes even less sense).
How do you figure that? It makes more sense than your theory. Your theory is that people will switch to Chrome then to Mac/ChromeOS/Android. This doesn't quite make sense, people are not going to switch OS because they tried another browser TEH CHROME. People don't use Chrome and switch to Mac. In fact people don't switch OSes, They switch machines.
On the other hand many governments are demanding open standards, including video codecs for the web. Ensuring that Firefox can run H.264, while illegal in Ubuntu and the like. Helps creating the illusion that H.264 is an unencumbered standard, acceptable for governments and the like.
My point is that MS doesn't have much to gain from helping Firefox, but they have much to gain from helping H.264 since they thrive on proprietary standards.
Not really, while 2 largely echoed 1, it also played to subvert itself, which couldn't be done without the first one to set expectations. They are just different movies.
Director James Cameron of Aliens (sequel to Alien), Titanic and Avatar's fame, not that you'll know anything about them, except probably negative things.
May I ask, what is it that you find interesting mister? I'm really expecting something impossibly obscure, inconceivably boring and flabbergastingly pedantic, but tell me anyway.
The only reason I can figure Microsoft did this was to keep people from dropping Firefox and going to Chrome.
That's the only reason you can think of really? My first impression was different. If I recall correctly, the main problem with Mozilla and H.264 is that, while there are open source decoders, they are illegal to distribute in Usptostan.
THAT, not the (also real) hate for flash but that; was the main reason for the push of theora and the <video> tag and HTML5.
So the main advantage I see for MS is not eliminating a reason to switch from Firefox to Chrome (both rivals for IE) but eliminating a reason to switch from Windows to *nix.
pretty bizarre for TFS to refer to Chromium as 'incredibly secure' when it's designed to monitor everything you do.
Indeed, it seems taken from a marketing blurb. ChromeOS is not really more pleasant for browsing than any of my customized Firefox setups but security is what it is really lacking.
For security it needs: * Tor(veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery optional) * Privoxy * AdblockPlus(to prevent drive by downloads from infected ad partners) * Ghostery * CookieCuller * Block third party cookies (fuck disqus) * Disable visited link styling * Install HTTPS anywhere. * Consider using startpage.com for searching
The following makes browsing unpleasant tho: * Block Flash by default * Block Java applets from installing * NoScript
Every Terminator movie is "the \"I'll be back\" one", it's one of the movies catchphrases. Actually I think 2 is the one that uses it most.
While the first one is the most shocking and new one, 2 is absolutely the best of the franchise. I consider it Cameron's best movie.
The pace is varied and fluid, the photography and ambient are engulfing, the action is novel. The plot twists unexpectedly without being disorientating or nonsensical. It managed to be practical, poetical, fun and dramatic; ad did it all well.
It was a milestone, a trend-setter that even today influences all action movies. Thus, it's chokeful of clichés, mainly because it has been pillaged like crazy by every action movie since.
Don't think of it as one of Arnie's movies, think about it as one of Cameron's movies, but then again I doubt you'll like it.
Well the survey doesn't show the MSNBC doing a better job at misinforming users than Fox. So I'll take that as your personal, misinformed, opinion. At least, go make your own survey that shows liberals are misinformed, just don't blame me if you don't like the results.
Except that the claim is not that Fox viewers are stupid but that they are misinformed, which would be true of smart people who get their news exclusively from Fox.
Is like saying that not all iPhone users are stupid but they all get dropped calls if they handle the phone differently than Steve Jobs, this would be true of users of those models regardless of how intelligent they may be.
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My goodness astroturf is high!
I love this do whatever you want as long as I don't have to barely take notice of it attitude that is the source of American freedom and democracy, keep it up, you are doing great, your country is more and more free every year so you are *obviously* doing something good!
But snakes are better. Kidding aside. Python is based on ABC which was an educational language just the same.
The way I've experienced this is that the most difficult thing to learn when programing is the startup overhead.
Learning to develop on C on Windows properly requires learning Visual Studio and project management with that. It is also useful if you can have code *written by yourself* running as soon as possible.
Understanding compiler messages from gcc is cruelly hard for a programming virgin without hand holding, and IDEs are complex, Trying to write graphical apps right away is counterproductive and C itself is incredibly opaque, the language is just a bit pusher, you can't even do basic IO without calling external libraries, which is excellent for a systems programming language but taxing on a newbie, who is already trying to remember about string buffers, pointer arithmetic and C data types.
No, my recommendation for a teaching programming language would be javascript. It is high level enough that real programmers use it, yet simple and dynamic for beginners to learn. It is broken and fragmented, but so are many languages so it won't hurt them to learn that different users will see different results.
It doesn't need anything but a browser and a simple text editor, yet I recommend KomodoEdit, it's free, has simple class browser features for javascript and also helps with the html and css that you will also have to teach. And talking about HTML and CSS will prepare them for SQL and XPATH wich are excellent examples of DSLs. if there was a Javascript based web server with integrated sqlite that was dead simple to install it would be the perfect teaching tool ever.
One of the greatest things about Javascript in my opinion is that it has integrated form controls in the DOM. It's the best setup I can think of.
If you define Mobile OS tables as devices because they aren't running a general purpose OS, remind these people that a rooted tablet does is a general purpose computer. Meaning Androids and iPads could be tax-except if they surrender their root password to their user. That could turn out to be a good thing.
Alas, it could, it won't.
Well rebelling by protesting is overall good. Protesting has the effect of rising awareness of an issue to people in the mainstream. It's purpose is not to DoS a business but to bring the issue to the more passive sectors of the population.
In this way, I can't see what's wrong with protests. Even in the case of protests I don't agree with like abortion bans and civil rights, it is useful to know there is a sector of the population that is so backwards.
It also provides a way to confront these people and poke holes in their logic.
Because nukes are the only way to be sure.
Sorry I had to.
It is. I learned it by exploring the interface of MS Word. So it is kind of obvious that Ood files would behave the same.
I mean, of course it is not common knowledge by the average user but it is know by the average geeky user who sets things up for their boss/family.
It really isn't hard, you don't even need to give government access to any of the ISP's infrastructure, nor do you need any complex legislations.
a) Have a department with the minimum amount of people and authority to wonder around, grab a connection test connection speed of mayor competing services as well as a few minor test ones. Then charge fines if an ISP is shown discriminating packages.
b) Have a phone/email contact office where people can complain about such instances.
It's more complicated than that of course, but the "(Inter)Net Neutrality Agency" NNA or INA simply doesn't need to have any more power than, that, and there is no logical reason why that can't be the case.
Which reminds me something I read somewhere a few years ago, that police training has changed.
Before 9/11 they used to train policemen to stay cool and in control, nowadays they teach them to "trust their instincts". Basically policemen are now trained to shoot first and ask later which is a recipe for tragedy.
But why the change of attitude? Because 9/11 made it possible to institute this change in attitude unchallenged. Policemen have become a source of fear.
No he can't, to him there isn't a difference between the neighborhood an the whole fucking world.
American morality is an aggressive "can do" not a "should do" mentality. It's based on the idea that if something can't be done by anyone then it's a crime. Conversely, if it can be done by one person then it can be done by every person.
The only point where these values invert is copyrights. Where it isn't illegal to overhear your neighbor's radio, but illegal to record and distribute recordings of it.
Maybe this woman should sue for copyright infringement. That (and drugs) seem the only kind of cases to be investigated by the police/heard on court.
Funny enough, Alpha single player is worth the €10, it's a hell of fun and the game runs smooth with few crashes.
Alpha/Beta multiplayer is buggy has hell, lags has hell and crashes like hell so after paying for the game and trying to play online I've been suffering a lot of troubles. Better stick to single player. Multiplayer is awfully incomplete.
On the bright side it's got one of the smoothest gameplays on an online game I've seen, but I play on Linux, I'm comparing it to the likes of Nexuiz.
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They SELL sarcasm detectors on Best Buy!? I'm off to buy one! Everybody is tells me I need one of those!
The "Piece of official paper" is more than a certification that you are a capable person in your profession, formal education is a requirement in most professional fields.
Would you hire the services of a "drop out" medic? A drop out dentist? A drop out lawyer? It seems to me that "drop out" stars are more of the exception than the rule and they tend to be confined to certain fields.
Dropping out of collage seems reasonable for developers because Software Development is an craft a trade, not a profession. Same goes for entrepreneurs, chancing upon a successful idea is not a formal profession. And believe me, it was chance.
Many successful ideas seem obvious in hindsight but they weren't so obvious back when they were conceived. And when you factor in the rate of failed enterprises you see that being an entrepreneur is a bad career choice. It just seem good because you only hear about the lucky ones not the unlucky ones who chased the wrong ideas.
Investors, on the other hand. Professional investors like Paul Graham of Y combinator. They love entrepreneurs. They may drop them like a hot potato if their ideas don't fly, but they love to attract young entrepreneurs because en mass, they are a good investment, even though only 1 in 10 succeeds, they get to cash in with the lucky ones and shrug off the cost of the unlucky ones like a snake shed their dead skin, then dance on top of these crushed dreams while rising their precious boys like trophies for the world to see.
Ok I got a little dramatic there but my point is:
a) Distrust people who make a career out of founding start-ups when they tell you to drop out of collage to raise a start-up.
b) I know you *just know* your idea is pure gold. The other 9 guys thinks so too. The rich guy saying he believes on you know doesn't actually mean *you* you, more like you, the concept. I don't mean to stop you but...
c) His backup plan are the other 9 start-ups, what's *your* back up plan? Like a football player, you need a secure career.
d) Secure -well paid- jobs are in the professional fields. Those fields need education.
e) Unless you're a a programmer, or a model, or a photographer, etc.
Don't listen to this asshole. Don't drop out of college..
Google is no problem, watching a movie is. Plugging the EVO phone into an HDMI monitor to watch a movie is a huge load. Texting is almost nothing and can be ignored.
But you don't have to charge by WHAT is being used, only for the how much. A movie is a huge load because it carries a lot of packages, not because "it's YouTube". On the same tune, there is no reason why a visit to Vodafone should be free of charge while a visit to facebook 2cents/MB. It's entirely possible that someone will just visit a single facebook page, to check a link in a mail for instance, then download several MBs of html from vodafone's site, looking through the TOS and trying to figure out how to fill a complaint. Why does vodafone get a free pass?
Never ever is is right to charge for who is transferring data. Charge for QoS, charge for traffic charge for service maintenance, never for identity, that's just evil.
As far as I know, this is some kind of push from Mozilla to promote open standards like theora. Enabling Firefox to use closed standards is trivial, they just didn't want to.
Like I said in another reply, this move from MS helps both Firefox -which doesn't help MS- and H.264 -which does help MS-
So this makes more sense as a pro H.264 move than a pro-Firefox move or an anti-Chrome move (which makes even less sense).
How do you figure that? It makes more sense than your theory. Your theory is that people will switch to Chrome then to Mac/ChromeOS/Android. This doesn't quite make sense, people are not going to switch OS because they tried another browser TEH CHROME. People don't use Chrome and switch to Mac. In fact people don't switch OSes, They switch machines.
On the other hand many governments are demanding open standards, including video codecs for the web. Ensuring that Firefox can run H.264, while illegal in Ubuntu and the like. Helps creating the illusion that H.264 is an unencumbered standard, acceptable for governments and the like.
My point is that MS doesn't have much to gain from helping Firefox, but they have much to gain from helping H.264 since they thrive on proprietary standards.
Not really, while 2 largely echoed 1, it also played to subvert itself, which couldn't be done without the first one to set expectations. They are just different movies.
Director James Cameron of Aliens (sequel to Alien), Titanic and Avatar's fame, not that you'll know anything about them, except probably negative things.
May I ask, what is it that you find interesting mister? I'm really expecting something impossibly obscure, inconceivably boring and flabbergastingly pedantic, but tell me anyway.
The only reason I can figure Microsoft did this was to keep people from dropping Firefox and going to Chrome.
That's the only reason you can think of really? My first impression was different. If I recall correctly, the main problem with Mozilla and H.264 is that, while there are open source decoders, they are illegal to distribute in Usptostan.
THAT, not the (also real) hate for flash but that; was the main reason for the push of theora and the <video> tag and HTML5.
So the main advantage I see for MS is not eliminating a reason to switch from Firefox to Chrome (both rivals for IE) but eliminating a reason to switch from Windows to *nix.
pretty bizarre for TFS to refer to Chromium as 'incredibly secure' when it's designed to monitor everything you do.
Indeed, it seems taken from a marketing blurb. ChromeOS is not really more pleasant for browsing than any of my customized Firefox setups but security is what it is really lacking.
For security it needs:
* Tor(veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery optional)
* Privoxy
* AdblockPlus(to prevent drive by downloads from infected ad partners)
* Ghostery
* CookieCuller
* Block third party cookies (fuck disqus)
* Disable visited link styling
* Install HTTPS anywhere.
* Consider using startpage.com for searching
The following makes browsing unpleasant tho:
* Block Flash by default
* Block Java applets from installing
* NoScript
that's the "I'll be back" one?
Every Terminator movie is "the \"I'll be back\" one", it's one of the movies catchphrases. Actually I think 2 is the one that uses it most.
While the first one is the most shocking and new one, 2 is absolutely the best of the franchise. I consider it Cameron's best movie.
The pace is varied and fluid, the photography and ambient are engulfing, the action is novel. The plot twists unexpectedly without being disorientating or nonsensical. It managed to be practical, poetical, fun and dramatic; ad did it all well.
It was a milestone, a trend-setter that even today influences all action movies. Thus, it's chokeful of clichés, mainly because it has been pillaged like crazy by every action movie since.
Don't think of it as one of Arnie's movies, think about it as one of Cameron's movies, but then again I doubt you'll like it.
Well the survey doesn't show the MSNBC doing a better job at misinforming users than Fox. So I'll take that as your personal, misinformed, opinion. At least, go make your own survey that shows liberals are misinformed, just don't blame me if you don't like the results.
It is complaining that they didn't enough enough donations.
It did meet its goal but it didn't meet it enough, like it should have met them more!
Except that the claim is not that Fox viewers are stupid but that they are misinformed, which would be true of smart people who get their news exclusively from Fox.
Is like saying that not all iPhone users are stupid but they all get dropped calls if they handle the phone differently than Steve Jobs, this would be true of users of those models regardless of how intelligent they may be.