How are you "sticking it to megacorp"? They look at your tattoo and fedora (or perpetually-worn knit cap)and dismiss you as a hipster doofus. That's really sticking it to them alright.
It's been called a WORKSHOP or some close equivalent in various languages for something like 2000 years now! Why the heck do we need to make up a stupid name for it?
The Russian hole drilling had to stop because it go so hot that the drill was losing its hardness - at around 9 miles! I agree that the is probably meters VS miles.
By the way, "lack of distance" has been considered a feature, not a bug, for decades. The current US FM band (87.5-107.9 mHz) was chosen* to minimize "skip" transmission on the earlier, lower, band. This prevents stations from interfering as easily, and thus increases the number of stations permissible in a particular local listening area. There are still "clear channel" 50,000 watt AM stations that occupy exclusive frequencies for the entire country - they were trying to avoid that.
*partly - the other part was marginally a conspiracy to put Howard Armstrong's nascent FM network out of business by making the frequencies it operated on illegal. However, in fact, the lower frequency 42-49 mHz band *did* have the tendency to skip sometimes, and with the superior signal to noise ratio of wideband FM, could sometimes be clearly be heard at remarkable distances - or interfere with local stations at remarkable distances.
It might be an ocean of liquid hydrogen. Hydrogen freezes at about -430F (around -260 C for foreigners), which sounds like it could be about in the ballpark.
But of course, if you dismiss climate models, there is *no evidence at all* for global warming. Just say it a religious or political movement and be done with it.
Oh, sure, who doesn't like to hear this?Between this, and "metric system is better lectures" makes me feel small. Almost makes me overlook that fact that none of these wise-asses would exist, except for us.
In fact, many cases of Hitler references trivialize the almost inconceivable magnitude of the evil of the 3rd reich. But some cases - the Khmer Rouge or ISIS, for example - it really is appropriate. Yet Godwin is used to stifle the discussion. I think in that sense it has been a disservice.
I have used Macs since they existed, and I never once saw the Sad Mac, aside from looking it up, or seeing it in documentation. The spinning beach ball was also exceptionally rare until OS X came along, now you do see that one occasionally.
On "IBM machines" AKA DOS machines , I have seen xxx failed, Abort, Retry, Fail? almost incessantly. Not artistic, not particular memorable, aside from being drilled into one's head like "Polly Want a Cracker?" is for parrots.
Right, but you have to be a special kind of idiot to think the California Supertrain is a legitimate project to provide effective transportation. It is about sucking out Federal subsidies and the notion that it will ever be viable or economically sound is just foolish.
People have been launching sounding rockets into the aurora borealis for something like 60 years - in the many hundreds, if not thousands. The facilities in AK and Canada are far and away the most active sounding rocket sites in the world because of it.
Whether he was right or wrong, people have taken his statements, as with most religious zealots, to the ultimate ridiculous end.
I heard the capper in about 1988 or so, when one of our customers asked, during a code review, if an unconditional branch in assembly code wasn't just like a GOTO, which was prohibited.
You win! I was showing some newbies an example of that yesterday. With a lot of error checking, and indenting that Wirth would have approved of, the inner statements in the deepest loop wouldn't have fit on the screen.
The alternative chosen was *multiple subroutine exits*, which is arguably much worse than a few GOTOs.
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In strip poker against a computer, *nobody wins*
Can I get someone to knit me a wool cap, that I can then wear all the time, even in the summer?
How are you "sticking it to megacorp"? They look at your tattoo and fedora (or perpetually-worn knit cap)and dismiss you as a hipster doofus. That's really sticking it to them alright.
It's been called a WORKSHOP or some close equivalent in various languages for something like 2000 years now! Why the heck do we need to make up a stupid name for it?
The Russian hole drilling had to stop because it go so hot that the drill was losing its hardness - at around 9 miles! I agree that the is probably meters VS miles.
Of course most people hate him.
By the way, "lack of distance" has been considered a feature, not a bug, for decades. The current US FM band (87.5-107.9 mHz) was chosen* to minimize "skip" transmission on the earlier, lower, band. This prevents stations from interfering as easily, and thus increases the number of stations permissible in a particular local listening area. There are still "clear channel" 50,000 watt AM stations that occupy exclusive frequencies for the entire country - they were trying to avoid that.
*partly - the other part was marginally a conspiracy to put Howard Armstrong's nascent FM network out of business by making the frequencies it operated on illegal. However, in fact, the lower frequency 42-49 mHz band *did* have the tendency to skip sometimes, and with the superior signal to noise ratio of wideband FM, could sometimes be clearly be heard at remarkable distances - or interfere with local stations at remarkable distances.
Right. Just let people die of curable disases to avoid antibiotic resistance.
I think he is saying the field is shit and should be disregarded.
It might be an ocean of liquid hydrogen. Hydrogen freezes at about -430F (around -260 C for foreigners), which sounds like it could be about in the ballpark.
This appears to be an internet show, not a TV show, right?
But of course, if you dismiss climate models, there is *no evidence at all* for global warming. Just say it a religious or political movement and be done with it.
Right, maybe we should burn him at the stake for heresy!
You true believers have absolutely no idea how foolish you come across.
Oh, sure, who doesn't like to hear this?Between this, and "metric system is better lectures" makes me feel small. Almost makes me overlook that fact that none of these wise-asses would exist, except for us.
In fact, many cases of Hitler references trivialize the almost inconceivable magnitude of the evil of the 3rd reich. But some cases - the Khmer Rouge or ISIS, for example - it really is appropriate. Yet Godwin is used to stifle the discussion. I think in that sense it has been a disservice.
If I was hiring programmers, I would be very inclined to hire real engineers (of any stripe) than degreed "computer scientists"
I have used Macs since they existed, and I never once saw the Sad Mac, aside from looking it up, or seeing it in documentation. The spinning beach ball was also exceptionally rare until OS X came along, now you do see that one occasionally.
On "IBM machines" AKA DOS machines , I have seen xxx failed, Abort, Retry, Fail? almost incessantly. Not artistic, not particular memorable, aside from being drilled into one's head like "Polly Want a Cracker?" is for parrots.
"He got so wasted he SHORTED OUT!!. I want to party with that dude!"
"SPRING BREAK, YEAH!!!!"[/frat boy]
What are you talking about? Pseudo-scientific bullshit it what /. is about!
I thought it was really cool in 1970 when I saw it in Popular Mechanics.
Right, but you have to be a special kind of idiot to think the California Supertrain is a legitimate project to provide effective transportation. It is about sucking out Federal subsidies and the notion that it will ever be viable or economically sound is just foolish.
People have been launching sounding rockets into the aurora borealis for something like 60 years - in the many hundreds, if not thousands. The facilities in AK and Canada are far and away the most active sounding rocket sites in the world because of it.
How is this news?
Whether he was right or wrong, people have taken his statements, as with most religious zealots, to the ultimate ridiculous end.
I heard the capper in about 1988 or so, when one of our customers asked, during a code review, if an unconditional branch in assembly code wasn't just like a GOTO, which was prohibited.
You win! I was showing some newbies an example of that yesterday. With a lot of error checking, and indenting that Wirth would have approved of, the inner statements in the deepest loop wouldn't have fit on the screen.
The alternative chosen was *multiple subroutine exits*, which is arguably much worse than a few GOTOs.
Brett
Why would you make such a worthless class a requirement? Just to make sure girls take it?