Methinks you can count on Europe to eventually get this right.
Twitter getting sued and losing to France's Jew student union over obnoxious hashtags is just the high profile round two of the same joust they had with Yahoo over nazi artifacts getting auctioned over a decade ago. They won last time; they'll win this time. And US companies will comply to French law on this matter just like last time. I suspect that the pitiful €1k/day fine is going to quickly balloon to obscene amounts of money until the courts get a reaction from Twitter.
In Germany, users are suing Facebook over the right to get deleted, and while they were the first, in typical German grassroots achievements, they no longer are the only ones. This is simply going to win, and they're just getting started. Sure enough, the Irish subsidiary is dragging its feet to comply. Presumably to Zuck's despair -- here's a continent with over 600M people willing not only in fighting for the right to be deleted but also in actually enforcing it. In the end, sane views will prevail, and the US laws will get kicked back across the Atlantic where they belong -- for US citizens to debate further, hopefully with new, more enlightened insights.
The same could arguably be told of countries like China, Egypt or Iran: ironically, US firms are made to comply with local law over there, plain and simple, much faster then they are to EU laws. But the EU is hopefully similar enough to the US that the latters' citizens will not shrug that the former are merely uneducated barbarians when their laws are sent back for review.
M.U.L.E., for all its descendants in the simulation genre, chief among them Civilization. Not that M.U.L.E. was the very very first, since Burten had written an economic simulation game prior to that, but it certainly popularized the genre.
Ultima III also comes to mind, for CRPGs. Best I'm aware, it was the first with a modern, graphical interface.
Apple has been clear from the start on this: "Don't like the App store's policies? Make an html5 app!" In fact, it was the only way to build apps for the original iPhone -- with Apple's blessing, at that. (And it still is how unwelcome vendors, e.g. porn operators, build iOS apps.)
Excuse me for asking, but... How is "products that pass certain internal milestones" (aka Steve Job's early scrutiny) in any way related or comparable to "9 products out of 10, even if a product was about to ship"?
As in Magic the Gathering? The card game with 12,000+ individual cards? In my honest opinion, it's the greatest game ever made. It's incredibly complex, and yet still understandable.
May I ask how many of those cards you actually use in practice? Think hard: how often have you built a deck that used that white 1/1 banding creature card (I forgot its name...)? It's not limited to uninteresting common cards, either. When I looked into selling my shoebox full of cards, I got told that players seldom fielded Serra Angels or Thunder Spirits anymore because there were better white creatures -- whereas back when I played, you'd find a few of either or both in nearly every white deck.
Back when I played, there were (give or take) a half dozen cards per extension that players (bar beginners) cared to use in practice. You'd be looking into perhaps two or three hundred cards when building your decks. Even less (though admittedly from a slightly different set) when building a highly themed deck -- those were the only reason you'd keep cards like Goblin Bombs in your shoebox. With a few hundred cards, you've more than enough to build a deck around pretty much every theme you want.
Keep China's high population, the latter's geographical repartition (mostly to the east), its economy's high growth rates by western standards, and the fact that it's a developing country (still under-equipped) all in mind. Not to mention its government's authoritarianism. In that light, 40 million connected households in two years is not unrealistic imho.
programming is not out of reach of the average person
Given enough time, a monkey banging at random on a keyboard will produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Does that mean that writing is not out of reach of the average monkey?
Is there any other place to get Barium besides China?
They're called rare earth metals not so much because they're rare, since they're a bit all over the place, but because they're not concentrated enough to mine efficiently. This makes it highly polluting to extract them.
The US a couple more countries used to extract them, until China came along with no pollution standards, and priced everyone out of the market. Trouble is, you can't "just restart" such a mine. It's a decade long process to do so -- and it's in progress insofar as I've been following, because China decided to keep these strategic minerals for itself so as to keep high tech manufacturing at home.
which is used as contrast for upper and lower GI studies
What the hell are these studies and why is it assumed Slashdot readers would know what they are? What's a "contrast" in this context?
Gl stands for Glycemic load. Barium is a rare earth metal. No idea how the test works exactly.
Is the submitter seriously asking us to suggest alternatives to barium? Worst submission ever. It could have explained what this bullshit means, and why China needed to improve safety?
Mining rare earth metals is very polluting. In the past two decades or so, most countries stopped producing rare earth metals, because China was producing enough and at a lower cost than they did. (It helped to have no pollution standards.) recently, China decided to keep its rare earth metals for itself to keep electronics manufacturing at home, and sharply cut exports. At the same time, its local population is increasingly vocal about pollution.
And agreed... TFS sucks and the question it concludes on is absolutely ludicrous.
There's a part he gets slightly wrong, though, if he's hounding pussy. In that case, it's much more ideal to immediately offer to have a coffee in a public place, so as to get to know each other. A surprising number of chicks will accept -- likely more, in fact, than after a lengthy conversation.
I don't understand how this is even/. related news.
Consider the number of young readers who live at their parent's place. Or the number of more seasoned readers who might be divorced, or still single, and aren't going as much as they should.
Java though... makes me doubt the validity of TIOBE heavily, object-C doesn't help either, I get that there's a lot of android/iOS programming going on (I believe this is what object-C is used for mostly nowadays, but... more than 90% of businesses combined using.NET... doubtful). Maybe if TIOBE was based on +/- % changes I'd understanding, but as an overall popularity index, businesses have the $, and businesses use.NET unless they're web based...
And therein lies the rub in your argument. Many companies actually are web based. Many others are into mobile. And a shit ton of stuff is embedded or low level enough that.Net isn't even an option.
In my own industry (telco/finance), hardly anyone I'm aware of uses C# or VB.Net. It's almost all C for the low level stuff, Java for the enterprisy stuff, and java/Obj-C for mobile stuff. Oh, and there's some COBOL for legacy stuff, too.
In my brother's (automation/machine tools), it's mostly C for low level stuff, and C++ for higher level stuff.
In my sister's (public administration/archives), it's mostly web-based intranets.
And best I'm aware, games are mostly coded in C++ or (more recently) Obj-C++.
Admittedly, I haven't touched a Windows box in years, and my sample is too small to be noteworthy. In each case, though, note that.Net is nowhere in sight except on desktop apps such as Office. That's arguably where the volume dollars are at -- even though I'd suggest that volume dollars currently are in mobile.
At any rate, if TIOBE's metrics includes new lines of code produced per year, I for one am actually surprised that.Net came out on top last year.
because he seems to be, even though he admittedly found it necessary to ask his math teacher for information on vectors
"even though"? Are you somehow under the impression most smart people personally rederive the entire field of mathematics from scratch without any outside instruction?
Not. But fwiw, at his age, the brightest kids in a the class are frequently looking into what's coming next, as in what's taught a year or two later. On a more personal note, I never felt like an exception in doing so -- the brighter kids in some other classes did as much, and we had the nerdiest of conversations when we shared and discussed our findings. At any rate, at his age, many kids have a rather precise idea of what a vector is, or a matrix for matter. Some actually know enough of the latter to never need to ask about the former.
Also fwiw, and fyi, there actually are people out there who rederive a heck of a lot more than their teachers or peers wish they did. In particular in social sciences. But don't get me started.
Sunds like you've no idea what he actually did. He got his name in an article for having written a couple of lines of code under the supervision of his daddy.
According to the French press (who actually interviewed the kid, rather than reported second hand information), he worked as an interm in his father's lab. His father assigned him stuff so as to give him the opportunity to learn how to code.
By the kid's own admittance in those interviews, his primary interest was to learn to code; and he actually puts forward that he did. It's only later that his father and the latter's colleagues highlighted the importance of his program's findings, and they put his name forward in their article (rightly so) for having programmed the tool needed to show their hunch.
Anyway, not discounting how bright the kid might be (because he seems to be, even though he admittedly found it necessary to ask his math teacher for information on vectors), but can we please keep a cool head with respect to what actually happened? As in, a kiddo got an internship through his father and coded stuff requested by his father, and landed his name in a scientific article courtesy of his father for having written said article?
I no longer use my laptop, except when I'm programming or writing reports. It's as simple as that...
Everything else I do, including replying to you in Slashdot, is done from an iPad. There's some sort of learning curve initially, but it's fairly quick to get over with, and it really only applies to JS-happy sites such as this one. There's also the Flash problem, but I honestly don't miss the ads, and my own usage was such that I didn't mind losing embedded news channel videos that much. For everything else, it just works.
Methinks you should have your mom try an iPad for a few weeks or months, and advise if she feels something is missing. I, for one, am pretty certain I wouldn't miss my own laptop if it weren't for my needing it to get any work done...
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Methinks you can count on Europe to eventually get this right.
Twitter getting sued and losing to France's Jew student union over obnoxious hashtags is just the high profile round two of the same joust they had with Yahoo over nazi artifacts getting auctioned over a decade ago. They won last time; they'll win this time. And US companies will comply to French law on this matter just like last time. I suspect that the pitiful €1k/day fine is going to quickly balloon to obscene amounts of money until the courts get a reaction from Twitter.
In Germany, users are suing Facebook over the right to get deleted, and while they were the first, in typical German grassroots achievements, they no longer are the only ones. This is simply going to win, and they're just getting started. Sure enough, the Irish subsidiary is dragging its feet to comply. Presumably to Zuck's despair -- here's a continent with over 600M people willing not only in fighting for the right to be deleted but also in actually enforcing it. In the end, sane views will prevail, and the US laws will get kicked back across the Atlantic where they belong -- for US citizens to debate further, hopefully with new, more enlightened insights.
The same could arguably be told of countries like China, Egypt or Iran: ironically, US firms are made to comply with local law over there, plain and simple, much faster then they are to EU laws. But the EU is hopefully similar enough to the US that the latters' citizens will not shrug that the former are merely uneducated barbarians when their laws are sent back for review.
+1 interesting. I spent the last hour watching the first video. He's an excellent storyteller.
M.U.L.E., for all its descendants in the simulation genre, chief among them Civilization. Not that M.U.L.E. was the very very first, since Burten had written an economic simulation game prior to that, but it certainly popularized the genre.
Ultima III also comes to mind, for CRPGs. Best I'm aware, it was the first with a modern, graphical interface.
Hasn't Samsung learned its lesson when it copied Apple and got fined a billion dollars for doing so?
Apple has been clear from the start on this: "Don't like the App store's policies? Make an html5 app!" In fact, it was the only way to build apps for the original iPhone -- with Apple's blessing, at that. (And it still is how unwelcome vendors, e.g. porn operators, build iOS apps.)
Excuse me for asking, but... How is "products that pass certain internal milestones" (aka Steve Job's early scrutiny) in any way related or comparable to "9 products out of 10, even if a product was about to ship"?
As in Magic the Gathering? The card game with 12,000+ individual cards? In my honest opinion, it's the greatest game ever made. It's incredibly complex, and yet still understandable.
May I ask how many of those cards you actually use in practice? Think hard: how often have you built a deck that used that white 1/1 banding creature card (I forgot its name...)? It's not limited to uninteresting common cards, either. When I looked into selling my shoebox full of cards, I got told that players seldom fielded Serra Angels or Thunder Spirits anymore because there were better white creatures -- whereas back when I played, you'd find a few of either or both in nearly every white deck.
Back when I played, there were (give or take) a half dozen cards per extension that players (bar beginners) cared to use in practice. You'd be looking into perhaps two or three hundred cards when building your decks. Even less (though admittedly from a slightly different set) when building a highly themed deck -- those were the only reason you'd keep cards like Goblin Bombs in your shoebox. With a few hundred cards, you've more than enough to build a deck around pretty much every theme you want.
Go dancing, really... As a bonus, you'll socialize and get to hang out with cute chicks, for potentially more interesting physical activity.
And walk there, if possible.
And if email was away as well, we could probably solve our economic crisis.
Keep China's high population, the latter's geographical repartition (mostly to the east), its economy's high growth rates by western standards, and the fact that it's a developing country (still under-equipped) all in mind. Not to mention its government's authoritarianism. In that light, 40 million connected households in two years is not unrealistic imho.
Nah, the brainfuck version is a mere google away: :-)
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programming is not out of reach of the average person
Given enough time, a monkey banging at random on a keyboard will produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Does that mean that writing is not out of reach of the average monkey?
Is there any other place to get Barium besides China?
They're called rare earth metals not so much because they're rare, since they're a bit all over the place, but because they're not concentrated enough to mine efficiently. This makes it highly polluting to extract them.
The US a couple more countries used to extract them, until China came along with no pollution standards, and priced everyone out of the market. Trouble is, you can't "just restart" such a mine. It's a decade long process to do so -- and it's in progress insofar as I've been following, because China decided to keep these strategic minerals for itself so as to keep high tech manufacturing at home.
which is used as contrast for upper and lower GI studies
What the hell are these studies and why is it assumed Slashdot readers would know what they are? What's a "contrast" in this context?
Gl stands for Glycemic load. Barium is a rare earth metal. No idea how the test works exactly.
Is the submitter seriously asking us to suggest alternatives to barium? Worst submission ever. It could have explained what this bullshit means, and why China needed to improve safety?
Mining rare earth metals is very polluting. In the past two decades or so, most countries stopped producing rare earth metals, because China was producing enough and at a lower cost than they did. (It helped to have no pollution standards.) recently, China decided to keep its rare earth metals for itself to keep electronics manufacturing at home, and sharply cut exports. At the same time, its local population is increasingly vocal about pollution.
And agreed... TFS sucks and the question it concludes on is absolutely ludicrous.
There's a part he gets slightly wrong, though, if he's hounding pussy. In that case, it's much more ideal to immediately offer to have a coffee in a public place, so as to get to know each other. A surprising number of chicks will accept -- likely more, in fact, than after a lengthy conversation.
I don't understand how this is even /. related news.
Consider the number of young readers who live at their parent's place. Or the number of more seasoned readers who might be divorced, or still single, and aren't going as much as they should.
You forgot a few:
- php sucks: 47 million.
- ruby sucks: 6.3 million
- python sucks: 3.7 million
- JavaScript sucks: 26.5 million
And even though they're not Turing complete:
- HTML sucks: 76.2 million
- CSS sucks: 4.3 million
By your metric, JavaScript is the most popular:
http://www.dodgycoder.net/2011/11/stackoverflows-programming-language.html
https://github.com/languages
Java though... makes me doubt the validity of TIOBE heavily, object-C doesn't help either, I get that there's a lot of android/iOS programming going on (I believe this is what object-C is used for mostly nowadays, but... more than 90% of businesses combined using .NET... doubtful). Maybe if TIOBE was based on +/- % changes I'd understanding, but as an overall popularity index, businesses have the $, and businesses use .NET unless they're web based...
And therein lies the rub in your argument. Many companies actually are web based. Many others are into mobile. And a shit ton of stuff is embedded or low level enough that .Net isn't even an option.
In my own industry (telco/finance), hardly anyone I'm aware of uses C# or VB.Net. It's almost all C for the low level stuff, Java for the enterprisy stuff, and java/Obj-C for mobile stuff. Oh, and there's some COBOL for legacy stuff, too.
In my brother's (automation/machine tools), it's mostly C for low level stuff, and C++ for higher level stuff.
In my sister's (public administration/archives), it's mostly web-based intranets.
And best I'm aware, games are mostly coded in C++ or (more recently) Obj-C++.
Admittedly, I haven't touched a Windows box in years, and my sample is too small to be noteworthy. In each case, though, note that .Net is nowhere in sight except on desktop apps such as Office. That's arguably where the volume dollars are at -- even though I'd suggest that volume dollars currently are in mobile.
At any rate, if TIOBE's metrics includes new lines of code produced per year, I for one am actually surprised that .Net came out on top last year.
What? Proper diet, exercise and eating less will make you lose fat. Its not really hard to understand.
Actually, you're incorrect -- things are not so simple.
"even though"? Are you somehow under the impression most smart people personally rederive the entire field of mathematics from scratch without any outside instruction?
Not. But fwiw, at his age, the brightest kids in a the class are frequently looking into what's coming next, as in what's taught a year or two later. On a more personal note, I never felt like an exception in doing so -- the brighter kids in some other classes did as much, and we had the nerdiest of conversations when we shared and discussed our findings. At any rate, at his age, many kids have a rather precise idea of what a vector is, or a matrix for matter. Some actually know enough of the latter to never need to ask about the former.
Also fwiw, and fyi, there actually are people out there who rederive a heck of a lot more than their teachers or peers wish they did. In particular in social sciences. But don't get me started.
He merely wrote code under the supervision of his daddy.
Sunds like you've no idea what he actually did. He got his name in an article for having written a couple of lines of code under the supervision of his daddy.
According to the French press (who actually interviewed the kid, rather than reported second hand information), he worked as an interm in his father's lab. His father assigned him stuff so as to give him the opportunity to learn how to code.
By the kid's own admittance in those interviews, his primary interest was to learn to code; and he actually puts forward that he did. It's only later that his father and the latter's colleagues highlighted the importance of his program's findings, and they put his name forward in their article (rightly so) for having programmed the tool needed to show their hunch.
Anyway, not discounting how bright the kid might be (because he seems to be, even though he admittedly found it necessary to ask his math teacher for information on vectors), but can we please keep a cool head with respect to what actually happened? As in, a kiddo got an internship through his father and coded stuff requested by his father, and landed his name in a scientific article courtesy of his father for having written said article?
I no longer use my laptop, except when I'm programming or writing reports. It's as simple as that...
Everything else I do, including replying to you in Slashdot, is done from an iPad. There's some sort of learning curve initially, but it's fairly quick to get over with, and it really only applies to JS-happy sites such as this one. There's also the Flash problem, but I honestly don't miss the ads, and my own usage was such that I didn't mind losing embedded news channel videos that much. For everything else, it just works.
Methinks you should have your mom try an iPad for a few weeks or months, and advise if she feels something is missing. I, for one, am pretty certain I wouldn't miss my own laptop if it weren't for my needing it to get any work done...