The guy was giving a talk that was at a level we might have given grade school children in 1995, in 2006, to the US congress.
That seems like it's about the right level for giving a talk to the US Congress. FFS, one of them thought the Internet was a truck. At that point, one doesn't launch into a technical explanation about the OSI model and packet-based networks.
Once you sell that software to me, you no longer have the right to determine how that software is used. If you don't want me using it however I please, don't sell it.
It's very difficult to get need-based financial aid if you're not dirt poor. I'm glad I only ended up with ~$20k in student loans instead of the ~$100k I would have had, had I chosen a "better" school.
You could get a "boot disc" that would boot up, display text ("Insert backup disc and press start"), and pause while you put in your backup, which would just be a burned image.
Spoken like a true non-programmer. Solving trivial problems poorly can be easy; solving interesting problems, or trivial problems in interesting and elegant ways, is not easy. My apologies in advance if you're a Turing Prize winner.
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The best part is that the people who require this will be driving themselves to their polling stations.
Mary Carey is one politician who has a firm conception of how we "grasp the tubes."
The guy was giving a talk that was at a level we might have given grade school children in 1995, in 2006, to the US congress.
That seems like it's about the right level for giving a talk to the US Congress.
FFS, one of them thought the Internet was a truck. At that point, one doesn't launch into a technical explanation about the OSI model and packet-based networks.
Apparently.
Once you sell that software to me, you no longer have the right to determine how that software is used. If you don't want me using it however I please, don't sell it.
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It WAS patently obvious.
Or you could use mono + gtk# on windows, mono + gtk# on gnu/linux, and mono + gtk# on mac.
It's very difficult to get need-based financial aid if you're not dirt poor. I'm glad I only ended up with ~$20k in student loans instead of the ~$100k I would have had, had I chosen a "better" school.
Dear web form designers: It is not unreasonable to expect that people know how to write their own address correctly.
You must have different users than I do.
Renders properly in firefox for me.
I've seen plenty of solitaire and freecell addicts who [cw]ouldn't get their work done because of it...
Yeah, that's the US for you.
Possession of an illegal substance, mandatory 3 years. Rape, 6 months probation.
Actually that's 0.4.9.5 behind. You yourself are 0.4.9.3 behind. UPDATE!
Why is it legitimate for a university to block pr0n? It's not just an institution of education, it's a residence.
Global wobble?
They can now dress casually?
The thing is, many geeks have the ability to write software, which can in turn be used by Joe Sixpack.
I'd make the same comparison with movies nowadays.
You could get a "boot disc" that would boot up, display text ("Insert backup disc and press start"), and pause while you put in your backup, which would just be a burned image.
Spoken like a true non-programmer.
Solving trivial problems poorly can be easy; solving interesting problems, or trivial problems in interesting and elegant ways, is not easy.
My apologies in advance if you're a Turing Prize winner.
2: of a high grade or quality
By what metric is a woman who doesn't like porn perfect?
The problem with the dreamcast and making games for it is that any idiot with a burner could just pirate the crap out of their games.
The same was true of the Playstation, yet Sony managed to do all right with it.
Don't worry, it's only a matter of time until Roe v. Wade is overturned, and our (legal) right to privacy will go away again.