Comment Meanwhile... (Score 1) 403
Meanwhile, America is experimenting with Universal Basic Debt (UBD).
Meanwhile, America is experimenting with Universal Basic Debt (UBD).
This will produce so many lawsuits (and possibly homicides) that I think it has to be a hoax.
Could it be more than coincidence that today (10/1) is exactly six months away from April Fools Day?
I've coded applications with Qt and GTK and I prefer Qt because of its native C++ support. GTK has a C++ interface called GTKMM, but at the time I used it, it had serious issues dealing with third-party libraries.
I prefer C when I'm doing embedded/high-performance computing work. But for large, complex GUIs, I prefer C++. So that's why I go with Qt.
Satellites are great, but because of the ionosphere, it would be better to send terrestrial messages through the mantle. Can signals be reliably transmitted and received?
The sad thing is that my ex-girlfriend looked at my face and made the same recommendation. The sadder thing is that she was a machine too.
Sigh.
It's not open source, but for $0.01, you can buy Robert X. Cringely's wonderful though dated Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date. Not only does Bob give you first-hand accounts of the people who pioneered computer hardware, software, and operating systems, he's also pretty damn funny. You could also point your students to his free sites: the current site or the old site.
He's not always right, but he's usually knows what he's talking about and he's frequently entertaining.
I liked to use MySQL because, as the name implies, it belongs to ME. But PostgreSQL belongs to Postgre, and I have no idea who the hell that is.
8-)
fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped.