Modular is an approach that lends itself well to ant-farm type operations. It means that the coders themselves are pluggable modules, and can be recruited and fired at will.
It's an important part of the world, but it's not a particularly innovative part of it. Somebody else has to set things up 'just so' so the little worker ants have the proper little nuggets to move around.
Does not mean you should toss out programming languages though.
Definitely not. It isn't an either-or choice. But abstractions like pointers and malloc in the C language make a lot more sense if you have written at least one or two well-structured assembly language programs. Instead, further abstractions are often spun up to make the concept of pointers even MORE remote from the actual hardware.
Many good programmers get their start outside of an academic environment. I took a BASIC course in High School, but that was all that was offered at the time, and it was on ASR-33 teletypes that we dialed into a mainframe on with 110 baud Acoustic Couplers.
What prevented you from having a chance to program? Because no teacher told you to? You only do what you are told? What are you doing here on Slashdot?
I remember the old days on the University Campus, when the bears would lurk up in the last few rows of seats in the auditorium during the Linux User Group meetings. Good old bearded hackers.....
This list is just the EASY data you can pull. Imagine the data mining potential for this. Tie this into the users subscription data, and you have a good idea of age. IF you wanted even more data, just offer your subscribers a 20 dollars off for one month coupon for filling out a simple survey asking them their relationship status, how many kids they have, etc.
I can just imagine the shrieking of the privacy folks here and many other places.
It's more like you paid $7 for a plate at an all you can eat buffet.
Now, you can take all the shrimp if you like. Screw those people at the other tables. You don't even have to eat all the shrimp. You paid for all you can eat and theoretically you could eat every shrimp. The owner of the resturant should have anticipated you and had an infinite amount of shrimp on hand to put out on the buffet table.
Anybody who doesn't invent their new Facebook 'identity' thoroughly and whole-cloth deserves to have it deleted.
That means, writing down the details of your new identity in a file or on paper, including a plausible birth date, making up the appropriate school to have attended, etc.
I think this is an important and worthy endeavor. Because if everybody salted Facebook with a half dozen made up identities, it would ruin it as an 'identity' destination, and probably lower the Zucks take in revenue.
Yes, you have a point there about competition in the market for mobile devices.
It would have more validity, though, if Apple would open up the iOS market.
In other words, only if Amazon is able to sell apps in their 'App Store' that can install on Apple hardware are they intruding into conflict with Apple's trademark.
Has Piers Anthony's novel Pornucopia been made into a film now? I have both the first edition hardcover and the first edition paperback, but I thought Piers sorta was keeping it an underground novel.
Ann Coulter has her own website. Why don't you link to directly to her, to attribute what she says, and not to the website of one of her political enemies.
It should be trivial for you to do that, because, well, you're supposedly citing her as an example of something. Not just trumped up nonsense. Right?
Apple imposes a certain degree of editorial control, but they also allow a lot of things in their apps. I get a click-through warning about 'adult content' every time the App Store wants to update my Craigs List apps, for example.
The FPU was an expensive low-yield section of the circuit on the 486 processor. Often, the 486sx parts were ones with defects in the FPU section, so they just disabled the FPU and sold them cheap.
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Modular is an approach that lends itself well to ant-farm type operations. It means that the coders themselves are pluggable modules, and can be recruited and fired at will.
It's an important part of the world, but it's not a particularly innovative part of it. Somebody else has to set things up 'just so' so the little worker ants have the proper little nuggets to move around.
Well, if over 15 years of coding, plus a Master's degree in CS has not made me "see things in assembler", I wonder what would.
Sounds like it's too late for you.
Does not mean you should toss out programming languages though.
Definitely not. It isn't an either-or choice. But abstractions like pointers and malloc in the C language make a lot more sense if you have written at least one or two well-structured assembly language programs. Instead, further abstractions are often spun up to make the concept of pointers even MORE remote from the actual hardware.
Many good programmers get their start outside of an academic environment. I took a BASIC course in High School, but that was all that was offered at the time, and it was on ASR-33 teletypes that we dialed into a mainframe on with 110 baud Acoustic Couplers.
What prevented you from having a chance to program? Because no teacher told you to? You only do what you are told? What are you doing here on Slashdot?
Maybe a library that YOUR code calls. Not everybody is an application-layer coder in a trivial user-level environment.
The bear analogy works well.
I remember the old days on the University Campus, when the bears would lurk up in the last few rows of seats in the auditorium during the Linux User Group meetings. Good old bearded hackers.....
Multiple subscriptions per household.
We're geeks here, dude.
The only thing we run on a coaxial cable is 10base2.
I can just imagine the shrieking of the privacy folks here and many other places.
How would these 10 beeves correct English? What in English needed correcting?
It's more like you paid $7 for a plate at an all you can eat buffet.
Now, you can take all the shrimp if you like. Screw those people at the other tables. You don't even have to eat all the shrimp. You paid for all you can eat and theoretically you could eat every shrimp. The owner of the resturant should have anticipated you and had an infinite amount of shrimp on hand to put out on the buffet table.
There are several important counterpoint definitions that need to be added. There are some common chat-room abbreviations:
AFK- 'away from keyboard'
BRB- 'be right back'
To these, need to be added:
AK- 'at keyboard'- this should be typed every ten seconds or so into the chat channel so EVERYBODY knows you are still there.
SRH- 'staying right here'- this, again, should be typed every ten seconds or so.
NFC- 'nobody f*cking cares'- the appropriate response when anybody types AFK or BRB.
This is important stuff and sets the proper tone in chat-room settings.
Do you like Daft Punk?
No
Well, if you do I have a newsflash for you: by your definition, they're not real musicians!
Correct.
Better sign up for some piano lessons. Or guitar. Guitar is pretty easy.
Or (shocked look) make some of your own music.
But don't be surprised if some other people copy it.
Anybody who doesn't invent their new Facebook 'identity' thoroughly and whole-cloth deserves to have it deleted.
That means, writing down the details of your new identity in a file or on paper, including a plausible birth date, making up the appropriate school to have attended, etc.
I think this is an important and worthy endeavor. Because if everybody salted Facebook with a half dozen made up identities, it would ruin it as an 'identity' destination, and probably lower the Zucks take in revenue.
My six year old dog has a Facebook account.
Because I refuse to have one at all under my real name.
Your first decade is a special one, that lasts 11 years.
Or so the pedants say.
"You WILL see our advertising!"
Yes, you have a point there about competition in the market for mobile devices.
It would have more validity, though, if Apple would open up the iOS market.
In other words, only if Amazon is able to sell apps in their 'App Store' that can install on Apple hardware are they intruding into conflict with Apple's trademark.
Has Piers Anthony's novel Pornucopia been made into a film now? I have both the first edition hardcover and the first edition paperback, but I thought Piers sorta was keeping it an underground novel.
Ann Coulter has her own website. Why don't you link to directly to her, to attribute what she says, and not to the website of one of her political enemies.
It should be trivial for you to do that, because, well, you're supposedly citing her as an example of something. Not just trumped up nonsense. Right?
Apple imposes a certain degree of editorial control, but they also allow a lot of things in their apps. I get a click-through warning about 'adult content' every time the App Store wants to update my Craigs List apps, for example.
The FPU was an expensive low-yield section of the circuit on the 486 processor. Often, the 486sx parts were ones with defects in the FPU section, so they just disabled the FPU and sold them cheap.
And I would hope the measurements would be in microamperes. Or that the D cell that powers it is a standard one, not an expensive lithium D cell...