Hey, how about you concentrate on the *comedy*?
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I was a huge fan of the series, but those movies were pretty atrocious. I'm not sure if they went with different writers, or maybe they were just off their game, but I sure hope the new season gets the old groove back. The math and physics jokes are funny, though, but even those seemed to be missing from the movies.
If you think NASA's problems are entirely attributable to this administration, you have obviously been asleep for the last 40 years. Nixon slashed NASA's budget after Apollo and, for all their talk and hollow promises, no President since (Republican or Democrat) has ever restored it. Obama is just the latest in a long line of Presidents who've made NASA what it is today (i.e. a shell of what it was in the 60's).
Even when it involves the ocean, no one thinks of Aquaman first. They'll only call him if every other superhero is dead. He's just behind the Apache Chief and Gleek on the call list.
Well, I guess now at least we know what the launch of that secretive X-37B Air Force shuttle was for. So we should be safe, assuming that a PS3 update doesn't screw up its aiming system.
It's a very profitable growth industry--right up until the point where everyone is either in prison or working at one (causing the government to go bankrupt and ending the gravy train).
You think this hasn't been done already? In the South, local sheriffs used to do this all the time (and still do in many places). Every year around harvest time for tobacco or cotton, they would go around and round up all the local drunkards/ne'r-do-wells/etc. and throw them in jail for whatever. Then they would hire them out as work gangs to local farmers, with the sheriff pocketing almost all of the money. The work gangs that a lot of Southern jails and prisons still use today are, in fact, just a historical extension of the old antebellum slave gangs. They even have the same structure (4-7 slaves and one overseer). They're great for shitty manual labor jobs (you can get them for about $1 an hour per prisoner/slave, even cheaper than hiring illegals).
I heard once that the A-levels are the Brit equivalent of the U.S. high school AP course levels. And your point is well taken. I learned BASIC in my AP course study in high school back when home computers were still a bit of a novelty. And, even in today's object-oriented world, I was able to adapt that knowledge much easier to modern languages than most of my peers who had never studied any computer language before.
Modern programming courses don't teach machine code and assembly in detail For the same reason that you don't start off a class for modern car mechanics by teaching them metallurgy and machining techniques--because it's an abstraction that they will likely never need. Most introductory texts still teach *some* binary and assembly (showing a few examples and explaining what binary code/assembly are and do) just to give students an idea of the underlying mechanics, but teaching a full course on these would be a waste of time better spent on more useful languages (and, much more importantly, on concepts and general programming methodologies).
Besides, CS students already have a high enough dropout and suicide rate as it is.
Actually, North Korea has already done an amazing job of keeping down energy use. By restricting electricity to a handful of elites and starving everyone else, they've been able to reduce their carbon footprint to almost nothing. Just look at the results. Glorious leader has produced a much more efficient country than that wasteful South Korea!
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I was a huge fan of the series, but those movies were pretty atrocious. I'm not sure if they went with different writers, or maybe they were just off their game, but I sure hope the new season gets the old groove back. The math and physics jokes are funny, though, but even those seemed to be missing from the movies.
I wonder if the Bizarro-world Aquaman is powerful and well-respected.
If you think NASA's problems are entirely attributable to this administration, you have obviously been asleep for the last 40 years. Nixon slashed NASA's budget after Apollo and, for all their talk and hollow promises, no President since (Republican or Democrat) has ever restored it. Obama is just the latest in a long line of Presidents who've made NASA what it is today (i.e. a shell of what it was in the 60's).
Yeah, I remember Steve Jobs saying he wasn't sick, right before he went into the hospital.
I'm not even an anime fan, and I think that's pretty fucking sweet.
Even when it involves the ocean, no one thinks of Aquaman first. They'll only call him if every other superhero is dead. He's just behind the Apache Chief and Gleek on the call list.
Okay, who's the wise-ass that just shot my grandf
Thanks professor, now get back to cutting those trees!
Apple wouldn't be the lesser of two evils if you were comparing them with Hitler.
Did I mention that the U.S. has the unwavering support of the Canadian mounties? Yeah, not talking so tough *now* are you, Luxembourg?
Well, I guess now at least we know what the launch of that secretive X-37B Air Force shuttle was for. So we should be safe, assuming that a PS3 update doesn't screw up its aiming system.
It's a very profitable growth industry--right up until the point where everyone is either in prison or working at one (causing the government to go bankrupt and ending the gravy train).
You think this hasn't been done already? In the South, local sheriffs used to do this all the time (and still do in many places). Every year around harvest time for tobacco or cotton, they would go around and round up all the local drunkards/ne'r-do-wells/etc. and throw them in jail for whatever. Then they would hire them out as work gangs to local farmers, with the sheriff pocketing almost all of the money. The work gangs that a lot of Southern jails and prisons still use today are, in fact, just a historical extension of the old antebellum slave gangs. They even have the same structure (4-7 slaves and one overseer). They're great for shitty manual labor jobs (you can get them for about $1 an hour per prisoner/slave, even cheaper than hiring illegals).
If it did, /. would become the biggest den of thieves in history pretty much overnight.
Yeah, but if they do it that way then you don't give them more of your money. Surely you can see the problem there.
I heard once that the A-levels are the Brit equivalent of the U.S. high school AP course levels. And your point is well taken. I learned BASIC in my AP course study in high school back when home computers were still a bit of a novelty. And, even in today's object-oriented world, I was able to adapt that knowledge much easier to modern languages than most of my peers who had never studied any computer language before.
Modern programming courses don't teach machine code and assembly in detail For the same reason that you don't start off a class for modern car mechanics by teaching them metallurgy and machining techniques--because it's an abstraction that they will likely never need. Most introductory texts still teach *some* binary and assembly (showing a few examples and explaining what binary code/assembly are and do) just to give students an idea of the underlying mechanics, but teaching a full course on these would be a waste of time better spent on more useful languages (and, much more importantly, on concepts and general programming methodologies).
Besides, CS students already have a high enough dropout and suicide rate as it is.
That's not fair. Not all aliens are evil.
No, they need to get Verizon out there to give them new cellphones.
Actually, North Korea has already done an amazing job of keeping down energy use. By restricting electricity to a handful of elites and starving everyone else, they've been able to reduce their carbon footprint to almost nothing. Just look at the results. Glorious leader has produced a much more efficient country than that wasteful South Korea!
I'm sorry, I can't understand you. To me you sound all pompous and faggy.
And 3 times more money was made last year on console game sales than PC game sales. So which do you think the developers are going to favor?
Unfortunately for the troops, yes.
Not funny. Do you realize how long my father carried a watch up his ass when *he* was in Vietnam?
No communication is allowed in or out at Apple's re-affirmation camp.