Come on. IPX/SPX wasn't all that bad. I wrote a lot of code on it, around '85. Anything NetB* was crap of course. Good times, cracking the Novell keycard code... that was soo primitive.
Then you can't publish any pictures of kids any more. Some pedo will get aroused over a picture of a clothed young girl or boy too (actually pedophilia seems to have a surprisingly high incidence, about 1% I read somewhere.) And you can't let your daughter out the door until she's 18 because somebody will drool over her.
If there's one thing I have learned about science, it is that there's never an either-or in biology and related subjects. Everything is a matter of degree. Biological systems are analog and full of control loops. So, I'll bet the answer is that there's some susceptibility to plaque buildup (several mutations that affect the structure of beta amyloid and related proteins as well as the garbage collection by glia cells) and some to herpes infections (immune system status in general.) The more of both you have the earlier you'll get it. And, OBTW, nutrition seems to have something to do with it too. Junk food bad, caffeine good, which makes me think that we're looking at low level inflammatory processes like in atherosclerosis.
Porn implies arousal. If you're aroused by this picture it's *your* problem. I can only see a picture of a naked girl way too young to be sexually interesting. So what? Would a picture of a naked baby girl be porn too? I saw a naked girl, maybe two years old, on the beach a couple of weeks ago (in California.) If I'd watched her playing I'm sure I could have seen between her legs. So should her parents be arrested because this was a live child porn show? Give me a break.
Yeah, I've been thinking of setting up a church myself. Imagine: No more taxes and sheeple that will donate to you:) I think the Perl Monks are up to something. Would a high priest in the Church of Perl be tax exempt? I'd qualify.
And how is the build process for a CPAN module going to automate this if VC isn't installed? "Dear user, please go here:http:..., then click this and that, wait for the download, then click setup.exe, wait for the install to finish, then come back here and retry. Oh, and mare sure you use only browser X or Y because Microsoft won't support anything else, and make sure you turn on Javascript, and cookies,..."
in a culture of C++ I really think the peer pressure would have been stronger to write more concise, more easily debugged, more flexible OO like code.
I've seen enough crappy C++ OO code to repudiate that, starting with code that wraps trivial data structures into objects with getters and setters just because the person who wrote it didn't learn anything else (or wanted to show off?), or turning something that would be easy at the char level with a few stdlib calls into a templated list and using STL iterators on it. You can write crap in any language and under any programming paradigm. If all you know is a hammer then any programming problem will look like a nail. Having a large repertoire and choosing the right tool for the job is what makes a good programmer. C, C++, sh, Perl and Assembler is what a good Linux programmer needs.
Not all that wrong. Loadable microcode on a Prime 550... yum! Problem was, the machine didn't have enough microcode space to load the COBOL and the C-optimized microcode so when both types of programs were running it had to swap microcode during context switches.
Everyone programming for Linux should start with machine code! Then after that, they should learn assembly. Only after mastering this can they begin to appreciate the power of Fortran! Finally, once they have mastered Fortran, C will finally make sense.
That's pretty much how I learned, except that there was also some BASIC on Commodore machines in there. You can probably leave out FORTRAN these days, but starting on the bare metal isn't wrong at all. I don't know if there's still bare bones single board systems like the KIM-1 or AIM-65 available these days but they'll give you a real understanding of how a microprocessor actually works. Doing this kind of stuff during HS (and, yes, FORTRAN on a mini) gave me a significant head start on all the other CS students who had only a high level view of computers.
A buddy of mine in university had to toggle the boot loader back into an old HP machine's core (yes, real core) after he blew it away through a programming error (no memory protection of course.) It took him well over an hour. Everybody was much more careful about single stepping through potentially hazardous area of their code first after that. Good times... uncontrolled access to the lab building so we had pizza and beer in there.
Perl modules may include C code and the module installers assume the availability of a compiler. Since that is not a given under Windows, ActiveState makes binary versions available in their PPM repository, but they support only a subset of modules for a number of reasons and are often behind. Bundling the C compiler (mingw gcc) with Perl is what Strawberry Perl is all about so you can use the standard build process for CPAN modules.
Amen. I read TFA until it mentioned Domino. The GP about Oracle is right on the money too. Back in the old days Oracle was just a good database. Nowadays they're trying to rival every other cruftosystem out there. I just had an interesting experience trying to get at some data in our corporate Oracle system. Perl DBI, some filtering/processing/reduction and exporting into Excel seemed like the straightforward solution. Unfortunately, that's not the way it works these days. Everything is hidden under so many layers that our IS people were unable to tell me the table and field names to make up a simple SQL query. The business logic seems to happen in opaque Java apps.
Scientific accidents have brought some of the most groundbreaking discoveries - vulcanized rubber, X-rays, penicillin
I like how they compare 3 things that have been unimaginably advantageous to the human race to something that will allow me to view better-quality porn.
How is this rated funny, real people are trying to earn a living with porn. You insensitive clod.
Obviously the porn industry needs to invest in image processing research. Do the equivalent of airbrushing on your video and your problem is solved.
The oak populations could also synchronize their multi-year cycles through chemical means, something that's airborne or maybe a marker on pollen. Just a thought.
That ultrasound treatment is typical money grabbing by the medical-industrial complex. I struggled with back pain for years, going from doctor to doctor and getting everything from massages to injections, including ultrasound and chiropractics. Nothing helped, except for short term relief. After realizing that doctors don't know more about my body than I do myself and that they have their wallets' well being in mind at least as much as mine, I went out and did my own research. The solution? A gym membership and 10 personal trainer sessions - intense weight training to strengthen my core muscles. That was several years ago. Now I'm maintaining my body at a cost of about $300 per year, and it's even fun. My realization: There is no health care, just sick care. If you want health care, you have to do it yourself. The medical-industrial complex is interested to keep you as a customer.
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Come on. IPX/SPX wasn't all that bad. I wrote a lot of code on it, around '85. Anything NetB* was crap of course.
Good times, cracking the Novell keycard code... that was soo primitive.
Then you can't publish any pictures of kids any more. Some pedo will get aroused over a picture of a clothed young girl or boy too (actually pedophilia seems to have a surprisingly high incidence, about 1% I read somewhere.) And you can't let your daughter out the door until she's 18 because somebody will drool over her.
Wikipedia child image censored
A decision by a number of UK internet providers to block a Wikipedia page showing an image of a naked girl has angered users of the popular site.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7770456.stm
If there's one thing I have learned about science, it is that there's never an either-or in biology and related subjects. Everything is a matter of degree. Biological systems are analog and full of control loops.
So, I'll bet the answer is that there's some susceptibility to plaque buildup (several mutations that affect the structure of beta amyloid and related proteins as well as the garbage collection by glia cells) and some to herpes infections (immune system status in general.) The more of both you have the earlier you'll get it. And, OBTW, nutrition seems to have something to do with it too. Junk food bad, caffeine good, which makes me think that we're looking at low level inflammatory processes like in atherosclerosis.
Porn implies arousal. If you're aroused by this picture it's *your* problem.
I can only see a picture of a naked girl way too young to be sexually interesting. So what? Would a picture of a naked baby girl be porn too? I saw a naked girl, maybe two years old, on the beach a couple of weeks ago (in California.) If I'd watched her playing I'm sure I could have seen between her legs. So should her parents be arrested because this was a live child porn show? Give me a break.
Yeah, I've been thinking of setting up a church myself. Imagine: No more taxes and sheeple that will donate to you :)
I think the Perl Monks are up to something. Would a high priest in the Church of Perl be tax exempt? I'd qualify.
And how is the build process for a CPAN module going to automate this if VC isn't installed? ..."
"Dear user, please go here:http:..., then click this and that, wait for the download, then click setup.exe, wait for the install to finish, then come back here and retry. Oh, and mare sure you use only browser X or Y because Microsoft won't support anything else, and make sure you turn on Javascript, and cookies,
in a culture of C++ I really think the peer pressure would have been stronger to write more concise, more easily debugged, more flexible OO like code.
I've seen enough crappy C++ OO code to repudiate that, starting with code that wraps trivial data structures into objects with getters and setters just because the person who wrote it didn't learn anything else (or wanted to show off?), or turning something that would be easy at the char level with a few stdlib calls into a templated list and using STL iterators on it.
You can write crap in any language and under any programming paradigm. If all you know is a hammer then any programming problem will look like a nail. Having a large repertoire and choosing the right tool for the job is what makes a good programmer. C, C++, sh, Perl and Assembler is what a good Linux programmer needs.
Not all that wrong. Loadable microcode on a Prime 550... yum! Problem was, the machine didn't have enough microcode space to load the COBOL and the C-optimized microcode so when both types of programs were running it had to swap microcode during context switches.
Everyone programming for Linux should start with machine code! Then after that, they should learn assembly. Only after mastering this can they begin to appreciate the power of Fortran! Finally, once they have mastered Fortran, C will finally make sense.
That's pretty much how I learned, except that there was also some BASIC on Commodore machines in there. You can probably leave out FORTRAN these days, but starting on the bare metal isn't wrong at all. I don't know if there's still bare bones single board systems like the KIM-1 or AIM-65 available these days but they'll give you a real understanding of how a microprocessor actually works. Doing this kind of stuff during HS (and, yes, FORTRAN on a mini) gave me a significant head start on all the other CS students who had only a high level view of computers.
A buddy of mine in university had to toggle the boot loader back into an old HP machine's core (yes, real core) after he blew it away through a programming error (no memory protection of course.)
It took him well over an hour. Everybody was much more careful about single stepping through potentially hazardous area of their code first after that. Good times... uncontrolled access to the lab building so we had pizza and beer in there.
Microsoft and Windows? Good luck with that.
Perl could be a first class citizen on Windows if MS bundled a C compiler and library like any decent OS does.
Perl modules may include C code and the module installers assume the availability of a compiler. Since that is not a given under Windows, ActiveState makes binary versions available in their PPM repository, but they support only a subset of modules for a number of reasons and are often behind.
Bundling the C compiler (mingw gcc) with Perl is what Strawberry Perl is all about so you can use the standard build process for CPAN modules.
...what vulnerability the FBI was referencing.
Nice. How many do they have?
What do lesbians have to do with the quantum mechanical pseudo-particle for friction?
Amen. I read TFA until it mentioned Domino.
The GP about Oracle is right on the money too. Back in the old days Oracle was just a good database. Nowadays they're trying to rival every other cruftosystem out there. I just had an interesting experience trying to get at some data in our corporate Oracle system. Perl DBI, some filtering/processing/reduction and exporting into Excel seemed like the straightforward solution. Unfortunately, that's not the way it works these days. Everything is hidden under so many layers that our IS people were unable to tell me the table and field names to make up a simple SQL query. The business logic seems to happen in opaque Java apps.
So we can blame him for giving Hubbard his start? Not something I'd brag about. ;)
That was before Dianetics and Scientology. Hubbard was just a sci-fi author back then, before he found he could get rich by other means.
A small pinch of unobtainium will certainly help.
Scientific accidents have brought some of the most groundbreaking discoveries - vulcanized rubber, X-rays, penicillin
I like how they compare 3 things that have been unimaginably advantageous to the human race to something that will allow me to view better-quality porn.
How is this rated funny, real people are trying to earn a living with porn. You insensitive clod.
Obviously the porn industry needs to invest in image processing research. Do the equivalent of airbrushing on your video and your problem is solved.
The oak populations could also synchronize their multi-year cycles through chemical means, something that's airborne or maybe a marker on pollen. Just a thought.
Meh. Write-only Perl line noise.
How can that be a real program without about 10 lines of module and class declarations around it?
I did this in high school you insensitive clod!
Oh and it was in FORTRAN :P
That ultrasound treatment is typical money grabbing by the medical-industrial complex. I struggled with back pain for years, going from doctor to doctor and getting everything from massages to injections, including ultrasound and chiropractics. Nothing helped, except for short term relief.
After realizing that doctors don't know more about my body than I do myself and that they have their wallets' well being in mind at least as much as mine, I went out and did my own research.
The solution? A gym membership and 10 personal trainer sessions - intense weight training to strengthen my core muscles. That was several years ago. Now I'm maintaining my body at a cost of about $300 per year, and it's even fun.
My realization: There is no health care, just sick care. If you want health care, you have to do it yourself. The medical-industrial complex is interested to keep you as a customer.
Of course using Windows Live Search is a terrible disease. Duh.