But then he'd never get to be president, so you'd never know to send a message back in time about it, so he would get to be the president, so you would know to send a message back in time about it.. etc. etc. etc. etc. If this works the potential for serious temporal causality loops is immense. Makes me wonder if its even possible to achieve time travel, or if it is what steps if any the universe will take to protect itself. It's up to the Living Receiver.
Admittedly, far more people know how to explain complexity theory than teach undergraduates why x=x+5 isn't completely insane.
Class, "x = x + 5;" makes perfect sense, because it's an assignment statement. Rather than defining a function or a variable, it performs a computation and afterwards assigns the computed value to a variable. I'll show you how the computer really executes it:
Load value of x at its appropriate address in storage, and add 5 to it. We'll label this new value n. Doesn't n = x + 5 make plenty of sense? Store the value of n in the storage location referred to by the variable x. Done.
I think there's always room for good people in CS. If you're a type who goes to Stanford/MIT/others and gets a degree in CS because you love learning about computational processes and have a natural drive and curiousty, my guess is that there are plenty of firms willing to hire you.
If, on the other hand, you want to learn CS to get a 'good job' after school, and end up going to a second-rate university where they teach you specific software instead of abstract ideas, you might not have such a good future after college.
I'm sure both types of students attend all universities CS departments, don't get me wrong. I think your attitude going into it is what matters most, if you love CS and work hard, I bet you'll be just fine. If possible, don't choose your major based on what's in fashion, do what you want. So no middle ground exists between Stanford, MIT, and Berkeley and crappy Java schools?
For the first false assumption: I doubt that any offspring of human/neanderthal -- if such offspring was possible at all -- would have been able to reproduce. I'm pretty sure that a Homo Sapiens Neanderthalis and Homo Sapiens Sapiens could interbreed and produce fertile offspring. After all, they came from the same species.
Unfortuneately most programmers- me included- went into this because we *don't* have good interpersonal skills, otherwise we would have been playing sports in high school instead of messing with computers. I was fat in high school, you insensitive clod!
Upper management doesn't get IT because upper management doesn't get much of anything. They only see numbers, numbers they must play with until they add up to a plus mark.
in the more arid parts of the country like Nevada and New Mexico you really have no chance in heck of getting sustainable tree growth out of the waterfall in those regions. I think you missed the bit about the *big* terraforming success of the century. If the USA began buying environmental and terraforming science from the Israelis we could begin making *our* deserts recede, just like the Negev.
It is also offensive because, as a practicing Jew, he uses Hebrew when he pretends to be talking Kazakh - which is pretty offensive itself. First of all, I don't see what's offensive about using Hebrew instead of a language of which he doesn't know one word.
Second of all, it adds another layer of humor. Did you know that, outside of the State of Israel, most Jews can't recognize spoken Hebrew? By using it, Cohen makes fun of his own people's ignorance of their own language and culture.
The article wasn't written or submitted by Captain Obvious by any chance was it? Completely misrepresenting TFA is all in a day's work for a Real Slashdot Man.
God, I love that show. And the comic strip, which has been put on "permanent hiatus" (ie: they've gotten Aaron McGruder). When will the new season come on?
My God, that's absolute genius. And you say it came from a right-wing think tank?
Actually, if we could *sell* the morphine cheaply to the third-world hospitals (at a price they could easily pay) we might even make some money off this.
it's not too uncommon in the US Too many people getting straight As gives colleges an easy way to increase selectivity rates. Grade inflation -> applying to colleges where the student doesn't really belong -> rejection from colleges student doesn't belong at -> colleges get higher selectivity rate -> colleges appear "better" on ranking lists.
That's not quite true. A former coworker of mine went to Israel for a wedding. She is a US citizen, but is originally from Latin America. Apparently, she looked Palestinian enough to be detained at Ben Gurion and questioned for hours while they rifled through her luggage. Eventually, they let her go, but then the same thing happened when she tried to leave! Point. They really need to understand that dark skin + Non-Jew != Palestinian.
Great sig, by the way. Could use a little cleaning up, but it made me laugh. What cleaning up does it need? If it's the conjugation of alef-mem-reish (I've heard before that my imperative conjugation is wrong.), could you fully explain how to conjugate paal verbs to imperative?
Except that, as far as I know, Israelis maintain all of their civil rights. For the Israeli government to oppress you, you must actually be Palestinian. That's better than America, where giving to the wrong Muslim charity can now get you locked away and tortured.
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But then he'd never get to be president, so you'd never know to send a message back in time about it, so he would get to be the president, so you would know to send a message back in time about it.. etc. etc. etc. etc. If this works the potential for serious temporal causality loops is immense. Makes me wonder if its even possible to achieve time travel, or if it is what steps if any the universe will take to protect itself.
It's up to the Living Receiver.
Admittedly, far more people know how to explain complexity theory than teach undergraduates why x=x+5 isn't completely insane.
Class, "x = x + 5;" makes perfect sense, because it's an assignment statement. Rather than defining a function or a variable, it performs a computation and afterwards assigns the computed value to a variable. I'll show you how the computer really executes it:
Load value of x at its appropriate address in storage, and add 5 to it. We'll label this new value n. Doesn't n = x + 5 make plenty of sense?
Store the value of n in the storage location referred to by the variable x.
Done.
Can I have my award/tenure now?
"Majora's Mask"
The Web may have turned 16, but she better not come home knocked up by one of those damned football playing apes I've seen her hanging around with!
I think there's always room for good people in CS. If you're a type who goes to Stanford/MIT/others and gets a degree in CS because you love learning about computational processes and have a natural drive and curiousty, my guess is that there are plenty of firms willing to hire you.
If, on the other hand, you want to learn CS to get a 'good job' after school, and end up going to a second-rate university where they teach you specific software instead of abstract ideas, you might not have such a good future after college.
I'm sure both types of students attend all universities CS departments, don't get me wrong. I think your attitude going into it is what matters most, if you love CS and work hard, I bet you'll be just fine. If possible, don't choose your major based on what's in fashion, do what you want.
So no middle ground exists between Stanford, MIT, and Berkeley and crappy Java schools?
"Russian" excludes "American", but "Jew" doesn't.
The 2 wolves each vote to have the sheep for dinner. Since so many seem to favor that option, so does the sheep.
Hallowed are the Ori.
For the first false assumption: I doubt that any offspring of human/neanderthal -- if such offspring was possible at all -- would have been able to reproduce.
I'm pretty sure that a Homo Sapiens Neanderthalis and Homo Sapiens Sapiens could interbreed and produce fertile offspring. After all, they came from the same species.
Unfortuneately most programmers- me included- went into this because we *don't* have good interpersonal skills, otherwise we would have been playing sports in high school instead of messing with computers.
I was fat in high school, you insensitive clod!
Upper management doesn't get IT because upper management doesn't get much of anything. They only see numbers, numbers they must play with until they add up to a plus mark.
Just come out and admit it: you English can't cook.
and they'll use the blood of christian children in their pastry-making.
don't forget that.
Actually, it's the un-circumsized penises we want.
Mmm... shkotzim...
in the more arid parts of the country like Nevada and New Mexico you really have no chance in heck of getting sustainable tree growth out of the waterfall in those regions.
I think you missed the bit about the *big* terraforming success of the century. If the USA began buying environmental and terraforming science from the Israelis we could begin making *our* deserts recede, just like the Negev.
It is also offensive because, as a practicing Jew, he uses Hebrew when he pretends to be talking Kazakh - which is pretty offensive itself.
First of all, I don't see what's offensive about using Hebrew instead of a language of which he doesn't know one word.
Second of all, it adds another layer of humor. Did you know that, outside of the State of Israel, most Jews can't recognize spoken Hebrew? By using it, Cohen makes fun of his own people's ignorance of their own language and culture.
Because deep down, all web developers want to be OS programmers?
Operating System Programmers do it with interrupts disabled.
The article wasn't written or submitted by Captain Obvious by any chance was it?
Completely misrepresenting TFA is all in a day's work for a Real Slashdot Man.
From now on you will not use "I" to refer to yourselves, because that word is reserved for female sheep!
No and fuck you, sir!
God, I love that show. And the comic strip, which has been put on "permanent hiatus" (ie: they've gotten Aaron McGruder). When will the new season come on?
My God, that's absolute genius. And you say it came from a right-wing think tank?
Actually, if we could *sell* the morphine cheaply to the third-world hospitals (at a price they could easily pay) we might even make some money off this.
the seasons continue to rotate, and Slashdot continues to post obvious articles worthy of stupid trolls.
it's not too uncommon in the US
Too many people getting straight As gives colleges an easy way to increase selectivity rates. Grade inflation -> applying to colleges where the student doesn't really belong -> rejection from colleges student doesn't belong at -> colleges get higher selectivity rate -> colleges appear "better" on ranking lists.
That's not quite true. A former coworker of mine went to Israel for a wedding. She is a US citizen, but is originally from Latin America. Apparently, she looked Palestinian enough to be detained at Ben Gurion and questioned for hours while they rifled through her luggage. Eventually, they let her go, but then the same thing happened when she tried to leave!
Point. They really need to understand that dark skin + Non-Jew != Palestinian.
Great sig, by the way. Could use a little cleaning up, but it made me laugh.
What cleaning up does it need? If it's the conjugation of alef-mem-reish (I've heard before that my imperative conjugation is wrong.), could you fully explain how to conjugate paal verbs to imperative?
Except that Arabic script is actually alphabetic, not composed of ideograms.
Except that, as far as I know, Israelis maintain all of their civil rights. For the Israeli government to oppress you, you must actually be Palestinian. That's better than America, where giving to the wrong Muslim charity can now get you locked away and tortured.