So if I converted your body to energy, and beamed it to the moon, then converted it back to matter, you would not consider that to be teleportation?
If I had to transmit your particles that would be very limiting, as particles with significant mass won't accelerated to the speed of light. Might be faster to put you in a rocket and transport you the old fashion way.

I think the flaw here has more to do with the process not producing an object in the same state except position. Than with your arguments from your narrow definition of teleporting.

It's a tough problem to fix. If we come down too hard on companies for hiring guest workers, they'll often open off shore offices. If I had a choice between competing with a guest worker and competing with someone working in a country that has a cost of living that is a fraction of mine, I guess I'd rather have the guest worker. At least he's paid marginally more an will pay US taxes. Either way I'm out of a job though.

1. need some rare expertise that our competitors have vacuumed up. (although working campus to hire grad students tends to work well)
2. want some work done, but don't want to pay full price.
3. want the person we hired for reason #2 to not quit and go to our competitor for more money.
4. want someone who isn't going to leave in the evening to pick up their kids from soccer practice or whatever nonsense people with families get involved in.
5. need people aren't likely to raise sexual harassment complaints against the manager in charge of the project.

It's not so much of a hoax, as there aren't enough American citizens willing to put up with bullshit tech companies.

Before iPad, we called them PDAs and Pen Computers. It hasn't been so much a revolution in design as an evolution.

Android is free, Blackberry is free to switch over to it. But they chose not to do so.

My complaint is they plan to take the rest of us with them.

My favorite part of the story, and fits so well with today's story:
An assemblyman handed him the bill, offering to introduce him to the genius who wrote it. He declined, saying that he already met as many crazy people as he cared to.

Well we know that there was different amounts of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere through out the history of the Earth. We also know that was a long period where the cellulose in plants could not be broken down by bacteria and ended up being sequestered for millions of years, until we dug it up recently.

No amount of waiting will cause carbon to be trapped in the ground, because bacteria and fungus act too quickly to release it. Looks like fossil fuel was a one time thing and decidedly not renewable.

If we think having Cambrian period atmosphere and weather patterns are acceptable, then we should continue doing what we're doing. It would impact the security of our nation, and be very detrimental to our economy. But anyone reading this would have died of old age by then, so who the fuck cares.

Bullying in any form is unacceptable. With freedom comes responsibility. The password idea isn't half bad; however, rather than ask for their passwords, I would recommend refusing them access to social media for one year, in addition to good old mandatory public service on weekends, for one year. Add to that a class in how to develop empathy.

Some of the L4 kernels were an exercise in trying to get C++ to be usable in kernel land. The one I'm most familiar with is L4Ka::Pistachio, it does a fairly decent job. But there is a lot of C++ you just can't safely use. That's not to say you can design a kernel where more C++ functionality is possible, but I believe it is difficult to make it work. More difficult than writing a microkernel from scratch, which means to me that it's not worth doing if the primary goal was to write a kernel.

As a system software engineer, it's been a repeated hell to get C++ compilers and libraries to build and work correctly in a variety of embedded environments. Even big environments like Linux with a full user-space and proper virtual address space. I think part of me hates the tools and implementation of several C++ environments more than the language itself.

JavaScript originated in a GUI, because it was part of web browsers.

I learned C without a GUI, and had to use command-line.

But I think we can all agree that C is not a scripting language. I think your definition is neither rigorous nor correct.

JavaScript is compiled to native instructions. But that's actually not even relevant here, see below.

But the real quality of a scripting language is if the CST (concrete syntax tree) can be directly used, or if it must be translated to an AST (abstract syntax tree) to be interpreted or compiled.

It has more to do with the internal structure and limitations of parsing and grammars than it does with the life cycle of your tools. The old idea that it is about edit-compile-link-run versus edit-run was always a simplification and never a rigorous definition.

Apple II is before VIC-20, and before the PET.

I'm a TI 99/4a guy, but I didn't mention it initially because it wasn't the first.
There are several mini-ITX cases with built-in keyboards, enabling you to build up anything from an Atom to an i7.

You could use a rag with a little soap and water once in a while. A mouse isn't like a keyboard, it doesn't have hundreds of crevices for dirty to get trapped in it.

I get a lot of dirt on the bottom that needs to be cleaned before it starts making it not slide well. Probably because I eat lunch at my desk, it's probably soup that has splashed on my mouse pad. (or maybe dead skin? gross)

I call it Apple II. 1 MHz 8-bit CPU, 4kB RAM.