Bill Nye saying if common "regular" programmers are like farmers when it comes to "regular" science.
Farmers actually know quite a bit more about chemistry and biology than your average programmer. They might know more than Bill Nye, but he would never admit it.
Whose metric? Does improvement mean fewer false convictions or more convictions? Does improvement mean conviction rates remain the same but everyone gets a lollipop?
Having used some blocking add-on's like RequestPolicy I don't feel comfortable with the shady practice of consuming content without paying the price of seeing the ads.
I don't feel comfortable with the risky practice of consuming content and paying the price of exploit attempts via ad networks. It used to only happen on "sketchy" websites. Now big name news sites and the like are using sketchy ad networks that occasionally try to push malware. I've reached the point where I don't mind spending ten minutes figuring out which domains I can temporarily unblock safely for a site. It's rare that I go to "new" sites anyway. And ad domains are always blocked without question. If the site wants to host ads, they can do it the old fashioned way and host them on their own servers (and accept responsibility for the exploit attempts).
The public, as a whole, is comprised of people who are of less than average intelligence 50% of the time.
It's a bell curve, not a V. People with IQ "the exact number considered average" are the most populous compared to all other points on the chart. If IQ "average" was a score impossible to achieve, then your "50% below, 50% above" concept would make sense. As it is, it's a little less than 50% for both. And if "average" is a range rather than a precise number (most people consider it to be so with intelligence), then the percentages of population above and below drop considerably.
The Borg are a democratic, one Borg one vote[1]... Some people cannot imagine situations where no one person is actually in charge. Where there is no Alpha in the pack or community.
It's more than just one Borg one vote. There is no Alpha in charge of the Borg (the Borg "queen" or Unimatrix is a tertiary semi-autonomous drone that is budded off of the collective for a special purpose, much like Locutus and Seven of Nine), and the Borg aren't a democratic society. The Borg is a collective in the same sense that your body is a collective of cells. The Borg is a galaxy-spanning organism made of metal and humanoids.
Anyone who works with a computer as their primary tool should know basic concepts of encryption. They shouldn't need to know how to use an algorithm in a specific programming language or a pencil and paper to encrypt something, but they should be familiar with public/private keys and how they might be used in general. Too many people are still emailing passwords et al unencrypted. And not just bankers or secretaries.. programmers and even sysadmins seem ignorant of how to use encryption for communications.
I was just pointing out that most uses of goto (in any language) are childish infinite loops that pose no danger. This would skew the results of the study unless they ignored these as being trivial use.
And the immediate beneficiaries of this tax are not the public at large, but the lottery commission and advertising companies. Lotteries spend a lot of money on advertising.
CentOS doesn't make decisions, they take RedHat's old packages and release them as the new CentOS
Not exactly. They take RedHat's current sources and edit to remove references to RedHat, then compile and repackage and release as the current CentOS. It just takes them a while to do that. Of course anyone using RHEL probably has been sticking with RHEL6. I tried using RHEL7 but the system I installed it on wouldn't boot with RHEL7. "systemd! systemd!"/Kirk
Except the villains from "Amazing" 1 and 2 are what we knew MacGuire 4 and 5 were going to be, and we knew MacGuire 6 was going to be "Sinister Six". They just took the scripts for the unfilmed MacGuire movies, tacked on another origin (with web shooters; but no science nerd?), and changed the leading lady character.
Battleworld is from 1984. This is the fourth Secret Wars event (fifth if you count Nick Fury's "Secret War" with Latveria). They were contrived as a "let's see large numbers of supers duke it out without terribly altering Earth" move. Why they're doing that now after House of M, Civil War, Avengers vs X-Men, and the Ex Nihlo/White Event storylines that markedly changed Earth, I don't know.
Spidey also effortlessly and single handedly beat the later "uncanny" X-Men team during the first Secret Wars, but Prof X mind-wiped the memory from him immediately after.
A FOIA request is "please send me details of X", not "please publish details of X by sending a mass email". Sure, people should expect that their info is subject to FOIA request, but being this public is different.
And if they switch to an odometer tax for vehicle registrations then all fuel will be "red fuel" (vehicles are required to be registered to be on public roads anyway, so it's not like the farm vehicles will be suddenly subject to new taxes).
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Bill Nye saying if common "regular" programmers are like farmers when it comes to "regular" science.
Farmers actually know quite a bit more about chemistry and biology than your average programmer. They might know more than Bill Nye, but he would never admit it.
Plants will grow less. Humans will burn more to stay warm. This does not sound like a good plan.
Whose metric? Does improvement mean fewer false convictions or more convictions? Does improvement mean conviction rates remain the same but everyone gets a lollipop?
Having used some blocking add-on's like RequestPolicy I don't feel comfortable with the shady practice of consuming content without paying the price of seeing the ads.
I don't feel comfortable with the risky practice of consuming content and paying the price of exploit attempts via ad networks. It used to only happen on "sketchy" websites. Now big name news sites and the like are using sketchy ad networks that occasionally try to push malware. I've reached the point where I don't mind spending ten minutes figuring out which domains I can temporarily unblock safely for a site. It's rare that I go to "new" sites anyway. And ad domains are always blocked without question. If the site wants to host ads, they can do it the old fashioned way and host them on their own servers (and accept responsibility for the exploit attempts).
Apes can't sue, though.
Humans can. Humans are great apes.
This assumes robots won't be disposable. They might be recycled when damaged and new robots built by other robots in a factory.
The public, as a whole, is comprised of people who are of less than average intelligence 50% of the time.
It's a bell curve, not a V. People with IQ "the exact number considered average" are the most populous compared to all other points on the chart. If IQ "average" was a score impossible to achieve, then your "50% below, 50% above" concept would make sense. As it is, it's a little less than 50% for both. And if "average" is a range rather than a precise number (most people consider it to be so with intelligence), then the percentages of population above and below drop considerably.
The Borg are a democratic, one Borg one vote[1] ... Some people cannot imagine situations where no one person is actually in charge. Where there is no Alpha in the pack or community.
It's more than just one Borg one vote. There is no Alpha in charge of the Borg (the Borg "queen" or Unimatrix is a tertiary semi-autonomous drone that is budded off of the collective for a special purpose, much like Locutus and Seven of Nine), and the Borg aren't a democratic society. The Borg is a collective in the same sense that your body is a collective of cells. The Borg is a galaxy-spanning organism made of metal and humanoids.
Apple decides to make the screws for the iPhone 7 out of pentagonal graphene.
Anyone who works with a computer as their primary tool should know basic concepts of encryption. They shouldn't need to know how to use an algorithm in a specific programming language or a pencil and paper to encrypt something, but they should be familiar with public/private keys and how they might be used in general. Too many people are still emailing passwords et al unencrypted. And not just bankers or secretaries.. programmers and even sysadmins seem ignorant of how to use encryption for communications.
That doesn't use goto. The researchers were interested in uses of goto.
And my point is that a simple infinite loop might be within the researchers' definition of appropriate. Skewing the results.
I was just pointing out that most uses of goto (in any language) are childish infinite loops that pose no danger. This would skew the results of the study unless they ignored these as being trivial use.
FART: printf("FART\n"); goto FART;
And the immediate beneficiaries of this tax are not the public at large, but the lottery commission and advertising companies. Lotteries spend a lot of money on advertising.
CentOS doesn't make decisions, they take RedHat's old packages and release them as the new CentOS
Not exactly. They take RedHat's current sources and edit to remove references to RedHat, then compile and repackage and release as the current CentOS. It just takes them a while to do that. Of course anyone using RHEL probably has been sticking with RHEL6. I tried using RHEL7 but the system I installed it on wouldn't boot with RHEL7. "systemd! systemd!" /Kirk
Pay me for bug testing.
Except the villains from "Amazing" 1 and 2 are what we knew MacGuire 4 and 5 were going to be, and we knew MacGuire 6 was going to be "Sinister Six". They just took the scripts for the unfilmed MacGuire movies, tacked on another origin (with web shooters; but no science nerd?), and changed the leading lady character.
Battleworld is from 1984. This is the fourth Secret Wars event (fifth if you count Nick Fury's "Secret War" with Latveria). They were contrived as a "let's see large numbers of supers duke it out without terribly altering Earth" move. Why they're doing that now after House of M, Civil War, Avengers vs X-Men, and the Ex Nihlo/White Event storylines that markedly changed Earth, I don't know.
And it would clear up Pietro and Wanda. MCU would be allowed to call the mutants and Magneto's children.
Spidey also effortlessly and single handedly beat the later "uncanny" X-Men team during the first Secret Wars, but Prof X mind-wiped the memory from him immediately after.
A FOIA request is "please send me details of X", not "please publish details of X by sending a mass email". Sure, people should expect that their info is subject to FOIA request, but being this public is different.
And if they switch to an odometer tax for vehicle registrations then all fuel will be "red fuel" (vehicles are required to be registered to be on public roads anyway, so it's not like the farm vehicles will be suddenly subject to new taxes).
And juxtaposition.
HAIKU!
There is no mention of nature. Haiku in form, but not haiku in spirit.