Wow I hope this is a troll for your own sanity. Use ctrl+F on "truth" and see your epic fail.

>Unless you're suggesting that it isn't possible, but that's really just another theory that you're going to have to justify in the same way.

That's quite easy. Black holes are formed when gravity overwhelms all other forces, which I take to mean nuclear strong/weak forces. (If you look at a neutron star, it's density is the same as a nuclear density.)

In everyday life, it takes about 7000 cubic kilometers of volume before you have enough space to pack in enough mass to do this (calculated from a 12km schwarzchild radius typical of a neutron star).

And you want to do that on a smaller scale? Where oh where will you get the gravity?

Actually, check Wikipedia, it says 10^500. Wikipedia can be wrong, or imprecise, but they're not known for sarcasm.

It's under "Superstring Theory" below the yellow table.

So wait, we have two theories that describe different realms and no data for the intersection of the two realms, but people are trying to come up with a theory for the intersection?

That's like saying, I know how to fly a plane, and I know how to drive a car, but neither skill applies to flying cars, which I've also never seen.

But they must exist, right??

>C is also a bad choice, because of its syntax and reliance on pointers. Pointers are actually a fairly advanced concept, not suitable for beginners, not to mention that C's notation for pointers is inherently confusing. Yet you can hardly do anything meaningful in C without them.

I've argued for C, but this is true.

>This company has a whole floor of I-T people patching their Windows systems

I find it bizarre that Windows is used in the business world in these large-scale deployments. If you have a secretary who browses the web and uses Excel, fine, that's what Windows is for.

Anything networked is not Windows friendly. Any job where the employee uses 2-3 custom applications all day long (besides MS apps, office, whatever) should be locked down so those two applications run as fast as possible.

Every day I have phone support people complaining that their computer is slow. I've stopped asking if it's Windows because it's just embarrassing for everybody involved.

But I suppose MS got a good headstart for having a stable user experience. I can't see programming on Windows, but then again, I've never written a GUI. And I'm not sure I'd want to write THAT on linux.

>give them Processing (processing.org).

Pretty cool. I said "make them do mandelbrot." Processing did.

As a homeschooling parent, how many other kids does your child interact with on a typical day? Because when I think homeschooling, I think zero. Do they at least go in afterward and play sports?

You can teach them all the facts you want, but if they're not meeting other children, they're not being "schooled."

Oh, and fluoride is the waste product of the aluminum industry. No militia card required to know a good business strategy.

We made a contact list app in HS. Probably for the in-house class before we took AP Comp Sci.

It's a good exercise but very string/file IO oriented. Also can be replaced with a spreadsheet. I always liked simple math programs that display graphics.

How about...make mandelbrot. Not really complicated at all. But also not something you would learn without help.

Any languages chosen should be practical, real-world tools. This throws out BASIC, Pascal, and Fortran. No "teaching-only" languages please.

I would teach the first half of the class in C. "Silly mistakes" is the name of the game here. You need to learn compiling, linking, array bounds, file I/O, how to make strings. What C teaches you is that if you are willing to stack bytes one at a time, you can eventually build anything. This is my bone to throw to the architecture crowd. And when you link to graphics libraries, you can do some visualization. This will be the payoff for suffering through array hell.

The second half I would teach PHP and web protocols. Get, post, making forms and passing variables. Urlencode and decode. Database connections and some basic SQL. I've seen this stuff taught in 3 weeks, and it's extremely practical. Making selectboxes. If you can make a selectbox, you're a fucking pro.

This would cover a whole class imo. Installing linux and using apps can be another class. And it would be a good class because linux is extremely non-obvious yet quite pleasant when it's working.

>No one "learns" to type in the span of a lesson provided by a classroom environment.

I learned to type over the summer when I was about 25, so I don't see why a semester class isn't long enough.

This article saved you.

In Soviet Russia, you save bupropion!

>Early versions of the electronic passports, using RFID chips with a protocol called 'basic access control' (BAC), were successfully hacked by university researchers and security experts."

That's horrible! What are you going to do about this???

They used to have dueling live trance mixes at 5pm on the two competing dance stations here. "Used to" is like 8 years ago.

Actually I looked up one of those songs on YouTube and all the comments were like, "wow I listened to this when i was six, such great memories!" Fucking gen y/z epic ruin. If you listened to trance music when you were six, what do you listen to now that's better?

My Morning Jacket?!

>ethanol sucks

I suspect it does, but since I'm not allowed to buy anything else (pure), how can I tell?