Comment Re:this possibly means one of two things.. (Score 1) 160
Basically, the automatic cutbacks coming up mean all military spending will be cut in half.
All of it.
Yay!
Basically, the automatic cutbacks coming up mean all military spending will be cut in half.
All of it.
Yay!
I'm thinking more of a pair of glasses with built-in video projectors. It can project a Guy Fawkes mask onto your face as you walk around town.
You may laugh but it'll probably sound like a good idea a couple of decades from now. I should probably patent it.
So... if I want to know what sort of stuff Jeremy Clarkson buys I can just print his face on some paper and wear it at a gas station.
Yep, that sounds like they've sorted out all the privacy issues.
I especially liked the part where they told him that he did it wrong, that telling the newspapers was bad.
The correct course of action was to call the people in power and let them know they're spying on the population.
Oh, for mod points.
"The screeners
Uhuh, that would make them primary targets.
Maybe they're not so dumb as they look.
(Or maybe they're the sort of people who watch far too much guns-n-ammo TV where phrases like "primary target" are part of normal conversation...)
Hint: "Armed security officers" can also be untrained overpaid mouthbreathers with power trip issues.
All it takes for them to get involved in a situation is a nod from one of the currently employed untrained overpaid mouthbreathers with power trip issues and one of the the newly employed untrained overpaid mouthbreathers with power trip issues will be right there to help.
If we follow the logic through to the end, everybody, everywhere needs an armed guard; just in case the lunatic-du-jour decides that's where he wants to kill people.
Marathon runs obviously need an armed guard every 10 yards along the course. We have proof that terrorists see marathon runs as a target!
Clearly you've never programmed bare metal as we did in the days of the Commodore 64, TRS-80, Apple II, Commodore PET, etc.
It was *fun* back then. There wasn't even a debounced keyboard driver for most of those machines. You had to map the bits of the IO ports to individual keys.
These days we use Arduinos. Try writing a software TV output or SID chip emulator on one...
A Raspberry Pi is a bit too much like having a real computer.
I never got that "learning to program" excuse. Just install Python on whatever computer you're using right now. Why do you need a separate piece of hardware that doesn't even have a screen??
Yep, that's about the response I'd expect from a Python programmer.
Yep. You have laws against polluting rivers, anti-smog laws, you even have laws against dropping bits of paper in the street.
Nobody seems to be making noise about how those laws they're taking away their personal freedoms.
Guess what? CO2 is a pollutant. There's no reason not to regulate how much of it people are allowed to release into the air.
I'd be more interested in a camera upgrade. Up to the level of the non-Pro Surface would be enough.
Paula Bean...?
What I want to know is why these people aren't hunted down and branded with a big "Useless, do not employ" on their foreheads?
Dad and his brothers took the mattress to the side of the railroad tracks and burned it.
And that seems like normal behavior...?
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
