Comment Re:So where did the meteorites come from? (Score 1) 69
I, for one, welcome our new meteorite overlords!
I also understood the Comcast/Netflix solution as Comcast including Netflix servers on their network directly, to cut down the congestion at the peering points. It's less about giving Netflix "equality," and more about optimizing the user experience for Comcast customers who consume Netflix.
The "trial" episode of CSI:Cyber was a regular CSI episode last year. Patricia Arquette's character "confused" a very life-like video stripper bot with non-sequitur, which made the bot's skin fall off to reveal metallic cyber bones. That was the best thing ever. Then I learned that they were going to make an actual show based on that sort of thing.
I think that the primary problem is the Windows reliance upon the name of a file to express that file's metadata. I realize that this has been the way of things for decades, but there are myriad ways to differentiate file types now. Modern filesystems have improved ways of storing and reading file metadata as well, without it having to impact the system's functionality.
The interesting thing with full "regular" usage of a Windows system, it is exceedingly rare to actually deal with the actual executable file. A typical user is going to use the menu system to access the executable. I'm a computery sort of person, and I find that the only time I make use explorer is when I need to migrate files from one solution to another, or when I have to stage something for a process I'm running. On a more normal basis, I access my downloads via the browser's download dialog. I access documents via the word processor's recent documents and/or Open dialog (which opens to the established landing place for documents). I access programs via the Start Menu, or Win+Q/Win+S, or Command+Space. Steam is my primary mode of running games, too - I use the UI instead of the shortcuts for the games that are installed.
I used to use the CLI a whole lot more. I guess I just got old, but mostly, it's that sort of "I'm not going to do more work than I really have to" curmudgeon sort of mentality. When I have to navigate to an executable, for instance, HxD, I will create a menu shortcut to it instead. It's just easier. In a lot of ways, the common usage metaphors are what keep users safe, too.
I'm pretty sure that they have the main writer of Episode V and VI on staff, so I don't think that writing will be much of an issue.
The world's first nuclear reactor was created in Chicago, under the bleachers of the stadium at UC. It was thought at the time that the world could actually end as a result.
The question is for programming, but the blog discusses AP CS. There are differences there, which are fairly important.
If one were to teach another to program, then I'd stick with a language that is closer to English. This is a reason why PASCAL or BASIC was used - they are a lot more verbose in nature than C, Java, etc. I think Python should qualify as well, because you do want to impress upon the learner the importance of formatting.
For CS concepts, it might be better to start with a language that's closer to the concepts in CS. For this purpose, I'd say Logo. There's a direct feedback in Logo, and it starts really simple. I learned it in junior high school. From there, you can get crazier into the functional programming world and migrate to scheme or full blown lisp, which then translates rather well to automata, grammars, languages, etc.
Except that it doesn't explain why you should follow it. Most people seem to use "karma" (or "what comes around goes around") as a not-quite-as-supernatural-as-an-omnipotent-God reason for following the Golden Rule.
Wouldn't an indoctrination by society of an expectation for others to follow the rules be a suitable enough reason for one to follow that same rule?
In other words, society is perpetuated through an evolved sense of peace. To follow the "Golden Rule" is to benefit society. Society is not a God, it is a social construct with the power to self-enforce the rule, if need be.
There's a pretty big maturity difference between a grown-ass man and a 10 or 11 year old.
I've been there. I know how that is, too. I wouldn't consider food that didn't make me feel stuffed, and would frequently eat to that point. I was uninterested in "healthy" materials. I like cheese a lot, which translates to me liking anything with cheese as a highlight.
I had to quit cold turkey. I had good reason to, considering that I got married and effectively removed myself from the environment where I had developed my habits. I dropped 40 pounds in roughly 6 months, and it was a healthy drop.
Now, I'm so accustomed to "healthy" food, that overly processed stuff just tastes terrible. Regular soda is overpoweringly sweet. Foods like frozen pizza, box mac & cheese, and fast food literally tastes abnormal. Once you get off the sugar, salt, and fat diet pushed by Kraft, Nestle, McDonald's/Wendy's/BK, Coca-Cola, Pepsico, etc, it becomes very difficult to get back on that diet. It shifts from satisfying your tummy and giving you that pleasant sleepy contentment to just tasting bad. The textures end up all wrong, and you'll find yourself wishing you'd gone for the "healthy" stuff.
It takes time, true. It isn't impossible, and it's remarkable how much your preference will change once you finally decide upon that change.
If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as if he had lost his senses. When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him.
