> Humans consume resources. If you're concerned about limited resources,
I don't like this tiny little box you think in. What about colonizing space? What about economic systems of the machine age where people don't have to work to live at a decent standard?
It's because of fear like yours that I don't have my flying car yet.
The problem with Haskell is that it forces you to solve a problem. You don't write for loop, because that's a solved problem, it's a function called "map". You don't write synchronization logic, because that's a solved problem, it's a function called "atomically".
To write Haskell, you have to get off your ass and solve your own problem. (Or reimplement an existing library, but that's hard to explain to the boss.)
> We're geeks: we're smarter than average (in terms of IQ at least) basically by definition.
Bullshit. We've just invested significant time and effort into understanding computers. Does that make us smarter than people getting really good at other areas of their life?
Actually, I think they are. The more people know about social engineering (or pretty much any "evil" knowledge, technique or information), the more people will realize when it's happening to them.
Remember the old saying: if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have them.
i have a hard time believing that they have enough people part of anon, to get 32 caught at once... cover story?
Is it so hard to believe 32 of them were dumb enough?
When that happens, we log back to Facebook and bitch about our lives even more.
We'd need a complete rethinking of resource distribution otherwise, and I doubt most of us could imagine a world without capitalism.
A lot of people buy stuff as a replacement of their personalities.
FTFY
This is similiar to obtaining technical certifications for factory jobs. Americans simply do not do them anymore in a global economy.
The very idea of this comparison makes me sad about the state of modern software.
we do need a source of cheap labor.
If CEO's knew what seasoned developers know about Microsoft, they would run away in fear.
If normal people knew what developers know about software, civilization would collapse.
That's why they're out buying iPads and that's where this CromeOS thing is aiming for also.
Selling bicycles is not the way to help drivers fix their car.
I thought this was about Anonymous, not Wikileaks. Anonymous in particular and 4chan in general has not brought to light anything I'm aware of except tentactle porn torrents.
That's it, I've had it with this thread. Read this whole discussion again, but with "Allah" instead of "Anonymous". They're equally real.
Since I know Microsoft well, that is all the reason I need to avoid Mono now and forever.
You know Bill doesn't work there anymore, right?
Geek alert! Geek alert! Geek alert!
Congratulations, you have detected a geek on a website that labels itself "News for nerds".
For a better deal, say that they can have their required materials sold in electronic format for half the cost, but they're only tied to the registered account of the device?
For an even better deal, put all the material on it, up to and including some college level stuff, for free. Keep them learning when the teacher is boring.
Isn't that what school is supposed to be about?
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
