LOL, after a year of her hesitating I finally installed Linux on my mom's Dell laptop (we actually specced it for Linux hardware support) and transferred her email profiles over. Now she keeps telling how much she loves it, especially the "happy heron" in her desktop background.
Speaking of the Middle East, I don't think you've actually been there. Middle Easterners are extremely civil and hospitable, much more so than many Americans I've met!
Sure it would. But we'd still have to sacrifice the ability to see family members or take vacations far away. Reducing air travel to a "business-only" thing drops much of the utility of air travel.
And let's not even talk about international flights which, in the USA, almost always mean traveling over the Atlantic or Pacific ocean, a distance that we simply can't afford to cross in any other way than by airplane if we don't want to spend months of our lives on transportation.
There's a new show on PBS now called Dragonfly TV that I think reflects the current trends in science education research, which in turn are trying to capture what it is scientists really DO. This show is all about real kids who are using science and doing experiments in order to solve actual problems in the real world. It's "science = a process used to solve problems." In one episode, for instance, the kids on a reservation want to make a cheap, lightweight, watertight, flameproof material to make housing out of. They test bricks made of a variety of different materials, and finally settle on bales of hay covered in cement - and then actual houses are built out of them! http://xkcd.com/397/
Oh shut up. I'm of Generation Y and none of us actually think that way. At least, none of us who got into college. And the ones that didn't are too dumb to even grasp proper pseudoscience.
The decline of science being "cool" is most likely due to the fact that all fun or practically useful science experiments or engineering projects have been removed from everyone's environment until they turn 18 for being "too dangerous". Teach the kids how to blow things up and they'll like learning science again.
Well multi-touch definitely would have been nice for hackability. On a computer I get by with a single pointer, but on that I've got right and middle clicks.
I can see why you've been modded Funny. Null-termination is not, at all, even slightly, the same thing as an array carrying its size with it. Null entries can pop up anywhere for any reason, often bugs. It's much, much, much safer to just use the extra integer word and store the number of entries in the array.
We don't misunderstand the economics. We have notions of structuring the rules of a market around certain rights such as "An employment contract may not regulate what the employee does with their non-working hours."
This isn't even a political issue. Israel was apparently found to have a lot of credit-card fraud, so they were taken off the list. Palestine was left on the list because, given the state of the place, I'm not quite sure there are enough people with credit cards for fraud to happen (so their donations are considered reliable). BIG FUCKING DEAL.
Don't know how this made Slashdot. Editors must be trolling today.
A spot of land is a country if it governs itself without involuntary outside contact. It's pretty simple; all these things of "recognizing" or "not recognizing" some country or territory are just political games.
Rachel Corrie was killed in an accident. The bulldozer driver couldn't have killed her on purpose even if he wanted to. He simply couldn't see her. There was some negligence the IDF's part, but the fact is that Rachel Corrie intentionally put herself in a dangerous situation to make a point, while many safe options were available. OK, let's just admit that the IDF most likely covered it up deliberately. No military force on this Earth will openly admit to the accidental killing of a third-party civilian if they can help it.
Israel not listed because, as with other 14 countries, their IP space is very used by fraudsters. Given that they all use Windoze, I'm not at all surprised. I wouldn't like to get a look at the botnets that probably girdle the entire Israeli network...
Oh for God's sake can we just agree that TFA is fucking stupid and not go for another round of the Israel/Palestine/WhatIsAntisemitism Standing Flamewar!?
Do you really think Israel's children are in a situation where they require the assistance of UNICEF? Those in the Negev and the Galili, far away from the rich major cities? YES, Israel in the extremely rural villages can be like a Third-World country. Bastard government.
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What we call "Mars" was originally known as "Arrakis". Let's go find us some fossilized sandworms!
LOL, after a year of her hesitating I finally installed Linux on my mom's Dell laptop (we actually specced it for Linux hardware support) and transferred her email profiles over. Now she keeps telling how much she loves it, especially the "happy heron" in her desktop background.
Notably, I've never seen a soap opera or serial comic book that provided full resolution, either.
Speaking of the Middle East, I don't think you've actually been there. Middle Easterners are extremely civil and hospitable, much more so than many Americans I've met!
Sure it would. But we'd still have to sacrifice the ability to see family members or take vacations far away. Reducing air travel to a "business-only" thing drops much of the utility of air travel.
And let's not even talk about international flights which, in the USA, almost always mean traveling over the Atlantic or Pacific ocean, a distance that we simply can't afford to cross in any other way than by airplane if we don't want to spend months of our lives on transportation.
Polemic screeds against what 90% of the population believes just won't do that well.
Controversy will always make the bestseller lists. That doesn't give polemic works like "The God Delusion" any cultural staying power.
Oh shut up. I'm of Generation Y and none of us actually think that way. At least, none of us who got into college. And the ones that didn't are too dumb to even grasp proper pseudoscience.
The decline of science being "cool" is most likely due to the fact that all fun or practically useful science experiments or engineering projects have been removed from everyone's environment until they turn 18 for being "too dangerous". Teach the kids how to blow things up and they'll like learning science again.
Well multi-touch definitely would have been nice for hackability. On a computer I get by with a single pointer, but on that I've got right and middle clicks.
I can see why you've been modded Funny. Null-termination is not, at all, even slightly, the same thing as an array carrying its size with it. Null entries can pop up anywhere for any reason, often bugs. It's much, much, much safer to just use the extra integer word and store the number of entries in the array.
TODAY: Feeling up.
That's funny. I live in the Albany area and I've never even heard of "the Masie Center". The top employer of tech-savvy folks in our area is RPI.
No, just the year of GLaDOS on the mainframe.
We don't misunderstand the economics. We have notions of structuring the rules of a market around certain rights such as "An employment contract may not regulate what the employee does with their non-working hours."
This isn't even a political issue. Israel was apparently found to have a lot of credit-card fraud, so they were taken off the list. Palestine was left on the list because, given the state of the place, I'm not quite sure there are enough people with credit cards for fraud to happen (so their donations are considered reliable). BIG FUCKING DEAL.
Don't know how this made Slashdot. Editors must be trolling today.
A spot of land is a country if it governs itself without involuntary outside contact. It's pretty simple; all these things of "recognizing" or "not recognizing" some country or territory are just political games.
Oh for God's sake can we just agree that TFA is fucking stupid and not go for another round of the Israel/Palestine/WhatIsAntisemitism Standing Flamewar!?
My question is how the Palestinians are paying credit-card donations...