Does this mean the phone needs to be a smartphone with WhatsApp installed? Or can a brickphone be used with this sim in order to communicate on WhatsApp?
I kind of agree with the article, I did the Edinburgh course on Compiling Techniques and I remember the first coursework being using antler and convert something like tinyc to AST (or at least a very small subset of c). Most of this was just fiddling around with the grammar file until the output seemed sensible. The second part was writing an AST -> jvm bytecode compiler.
Going back to front may have been better, because we would have had more time for the 'hard' part (being during the quieter first half of the semester) as well as giving us a better understanding of how the AST should look, as we would have had to write/modify examples of the AST in order to get the backend working properly.
I'm more interesting in the fact that he is showing Halo 2 running on (what I'm guessing) is the microsoft surface. It seems like a strange choice to choose a game that is almost 10 years old unless he is hinting that Halo 2 Anniversary is also coming to PC?
Halo 2 was also the very first game to officially support the XInput API of the X360 controller on Windows, so he might be paying homage to it by showing that the first game running with the Xbox One controller is nothing else but Halo 2.
The article links to a wikipedia article about the circular reporting phenomenon, and I'm pleased to see that someone has added "vicious aardvark" as another name for circular reporting.
Very interesting, but this raises a point in my mind. If a colonisation trip takes several generations to reach its destination, would the human rights of the descendants of the original travellers be infringed?
They would be conceived, born, live out their lives and die without ever living anywhere but the ship (unless they are part of a generation lucky enough to reach the destination), and they would have no choice in the matter.
If a couple joins a colonization movement and moves to the middle of nowhere, with limited chance to survive (make your time) outside the colony, in a land occupied by dangerous animals and savage heathens - say, New England in the early 1600s - would you consider the human rights of their children and grandchildren to be infringed? Isn't the difference just a matter of degree?
(n.b. actual savageness of heathens is left as an exercise to the risk-averse potential colonist)
At the level of technological sophistication required to send a probe to another star system, you could probably sequence/modify the genome of the eggs/sperm to produce humans that have a lust for exploration and pioneering.
Now it's just a question of whether genome modification is ethical.
Many science fiction stories written about this. The most popular theme is the breakdown of civilization and an ignorant crowd of savages set down on the destination world. Other authors have them undergoing violent revolution a dozen times over the centuries, recapitulating human history. The resulting world is populated by whatever form of government is extant at the time of arrival. Still others imagine them passing serenely by the destination, no longer interested in their progenitors plans and seeing no other future for themselves than perpetual ship-board life.
I would think it would be similar to living during war times, in terms of restriction.
I'd also imagine that the kids would not really know better if they haven't tried anything else.
