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Re:Where is science fiction leading us and what does it concern? on Monday June 09, 2008 @11:12AM (#212819)
Many writers are very good at making already extremely complicated subjects (like social mores, conflicts, depression) even more impenetrable. There are very few writers indeed willing to explain complex subjects (like relativity or quantum physics) in simpler terms. If they did, it wouldn't be 'literature'.

Ask YC: What replaced GOTO?

Posted by jackarcalon on Monday June 09, 2008 @10:50AM
from the self-post dept.

I don't understand how you can write a program without 'GOTO'. How does the computer know where to go in a 100000 line program without line numbers? Could someone post a link to a modern example? They didn't know the answer at Digg.

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Re:Arrington On Copyright: Wrong on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @10:32PM (#201703)
No more $100000000 movies is a small price to pay for no more copyright. I could happily live the rest of my life without another professionally made book, program, or song. In fact I would be ecstatic.