Depending on the location, a lot of it comes from hydro. A lot of it comes from coal too, but the cars were being powered by oil before, so that's about the same.

How long before The Tetris Company sends a notice of claimed infringement to Slashdot's designated agent, claiming that this post and others like it infringes the copyright in Tetris ?

Maybe not, but as soon as you tell yourself, "I don't need to test this code, a normal user will never get to it;" you can be certain that after saying that, a user will find a way to break it. The Gods of Eternity will laugh at you.

In BBC Basic, a single line is 255 characters. RTFA.

Intractable.

Whiner. Stop complaining or you'll have to write it all in binary! And don't you dare ask for more!

Add IPX8 to the high specs.

Again.

Yeah, when people start talking about how great positive thinking is, I always think, "Sure, as long as things are going well."

Your mindset is, to some degree, a prediction of the future. For that prediction to be helpful, it needs to be fairly accurate. Now many people will point out that predictions can be self-fulfilling, and a positive expectation is more likely to lead to a positive outcome. It's true. But it can also leave you unprepared for a negative outcome.

I think positivity needs to be measured, constrained, and tempered by a realistic assessment. It's useful to consider the what happens if things don't go well, and prepare for things to go very badly. Perhaps more importantly, I think it's important for us all to understand that different people just seem to have different mindsets, different approaches, and different personalities. Whatever your mindset, it can be helpful to have someone around who is very positive, because they can help to keep us all motivated and moving forward. But it's also very useful to have a pessimist around, who will point out the problems with your plans, force you to confront some uncomfortable truths, and rain on your parade a little bit.

People of all kinds can be useful and valuable, so it's important to not shit all over pessimists all the time. As if they don't have enough to worry about, without y'all treating them like they're useless.

In this case, a line is no longer than 255 characters. If you never used one of the early toy computers, you won't remember it, but each programming line was typically limited to a certain length.

And let's not even get started talking about line numbers.

You're no fun. If I worked for you, I'd quit as soon as possible.

Really, who couldn't love code like this:
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Something like a giraffe, the tall people can reach the fruit from the trees?

Yes. In fact I'm such a frequent contributor to Slashdot's comment section that I occasionally hit the daily comment cap while trying to narrow down a point.

no, free as in beer, not as in speech.

What apple is doing is like giving away "free" beer to people who paid a lot of money to join a private beer drinking club. So its not "free" beer, its "no additional cost" beer.

Its also not Free as in speech either.

the major diffrence is the apple sells both the hardware and software, while microsoft just sells the software, and other companies sell the hardware.

So apple can say "well, the operating system part is complimentory with the purchase of hardware", and other PC makers cannot say this, because they don't own the software.

In fact, other PC makers want to do this, but instead of their own software, they want to give away Free as in speech software with hardware purchases.