And also, those people constantly spouting off about the "1%" seem to not really understand statistics. When they claim that one out of a hundred people are members of some hyper-rich cabal running the world and crushing the rest of us under their feet... they don't seem to grasp how common 1%'ers are. There's 3,000,000 of them in the US; thousands in any decent sized town. They're not the Illuminati.
At home, I'm running Firefox 3.6 on one machine, Firefox 9.0 on another, and Opera on a third. Silent updates ensure that I'll be moving the second machine to Opera.
Most people aren't anti-union in principle; they're anti unions as unions currently are. Unions were an important factor in fixing some terrible practices, but those practices don't exist anymore. Unions, for the most part, have outlived their purpose, and now exist to perpetuate their own existence. Judge them as they are now, not by their accomplishments eighty years ago.
Build houses? That'll sequester the carbon for a century or two. Lumber is around 50% carbon dioxide, by weight, and it all came from the atmosphere.
For that matter, as another poster mentioned, ash is primarily carbon. If you plant a forest, burn it down, and push the ash into a hole, you've actually removed net carbon from the atmosphere.
.Net is a nice platform; I like it much better than Java, except for the obvious non-portability. Mono is good, and in theory solves that problem, but something about it still makes me nervous. I'd use it for pet projects, but not for anything truly important.
Visual Basic seemed everywhere for a decade, and a couple of decisions on MS's part pretty much killed it off in a span of a year or two.
It's still around, but mostly irrelevant. Don't think Java is guaranteed prominence forever.
Conversely, I have never bought and never will buy a single-player game that requires an internet connection. This is 2012; we should know by now how companies will abuse that.
Well, I think going from turn-based to real-time was a pretty big variation from the typical rogue-like. Also, as rogue-likes go, it's very, very simple. I would like to see a diablo-like treatment done to a real, in-depth roguelike (like realtime nethack).
It does bring back memories of "Sword of Fargoal," though.
It's much like the tax code. The complexity of all the myriad rules, each intended to have a beneficial motivating effect, has combined to make an ultimately negative effect. Society would be better served without all the rules intended to better serve society.
I'd say that, in general, complicated tasks and bulk tasks are faster on the CLI, but that's not always the case.
Let's say I have a folder open, and want to copy all the images with redheads into a subdirectory. Pretty fast and easy in most GUIs. It would be very slow on a CLI, unless you were really forward-thinking form the outset with your file naming conventions.
He's a troll, but I actually agree that the ribbon is not a bad UI element. I'd like some changes to it (ability to add and remove elements, for instance)... but I think most of the criticism against it is just stubborness.
Or 'GNU IMP', or 'G-IMP', or something like that. I think it's being held back simply by stubborn pride on the developer's side. The name is having a definite effect on adoption.
Though they are a threat to consoles, and other handheld gaming devices.
They're a potential threat to handheld gaming devices, but not to consoles. The sticking point is power. Modern consoles pull 75+ watts and need substantial cooling. A tablet has a power budget that is an order of magnitude smaller.
Not that you can't use a tablet for gaming, but it isn't comparable to modern consoles. Gaming ergonomics is another way in which tablets still fail, but that is something that's conceivably fixable.
You're uneducated. The philosophical fundamentals of free speech were being discussed 2,500 years ago by the Greeks (along with its corollary, free inquiry and scientific thought).
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Why do you think anybody would think anything "ronpaulisanidiot" has to say about Ron Paul is the slightest bit credible?
Your anonymous posts were actually slightly more credible, to those posters who couldn't immediately recognize you.
And also, those people constantly spouting off about the "1%" seem to not really understand statistics. When they claim that one out of a hundred people are members of some hyper-rich cabal running the world and crushing the rest of us under their feet... they don't seem to grasp how common 1%'ers are. There's 3,000,000 of them in the US; thousands in any decent sized town. They're not the Illuminati.
Techdirt is one.
At home, I'm running Firefox 3.6 on one machine, Firefox 9.0 on another, and Opera on a third. Silent updates ensure that I'll be moving the second machine to Opera.
Most people aren't anti-union in principle; they're anti unions as unions currently are. Unions were an important factor in fixing some terrible practices, but those practices don't exist anymore. Unions, for the most part, have outlived their purpose, and now exist to perpetuate their own existence. Judge them as they are now, not by their accomplishments eighty years ago.
Because when the environment changes in a way unpleasant for us, we will want godlike powers to bend nature to our will.
And the environment WILL change in bad ways. It doesn't love us, and it's not watching out for us.
Yesterday, wasn't the general consensus from the scientific community that we were 1500 years off from the next ice age
I think that was the general consensus of the scientists involved in writing one particular paper.
Build houses? That'll sequester the carbon for a century or two. Lumber is around 50% carbon dioxide, by weight, and it all came from the atmosphere.
For that matter, as another poster mentioned, ash is primarily carbon. If you plant a forest, burn it down, and push the ash into a hole, you've actually removed net carbon from the atmosphere.
.Net is a nice platform; I like it much better than Java, except for the obvious non-portability. Mono is good, and in theory solves that problem, but something about it still makes me nervous. I'd use it for pet projects, but not for anything truly important.
Visual Basic seemed everywhere for a decade, and a couple of decisions on MS's part pretty much killed it off in a span of a year or two. It's still around, but mostly irrelevant. Don't think Java is guaranteed prominence forever.
Conversely, I have never bought and never will buy a single-player game that requires an internet connection. This is 2012; we should know by now how companies will abuse that.
Consoles are for children and people who like to wave their wand around.
"Despite the facts, I will insist..."
Well, I think going from turn-based to real-time was a pretty big variation from the typical rogue-like. Also, as rogue-likes go, it's very, very simple. I would like to see a diablo-like treatment done to a real, in-depth roguelike (like realtime nethack). It does bring back memories of "Sword of Fargoal," though.
So fair point if your internet connection generally has poor latency or the servers you can stuck on by location aren't very reliable.
Replace 'poor latency' with 'typical latency', and you have a more accurate statement.
It's much like the tax code. The complexity of all the myriad rules, each intended to have a beneficial motivating effect, has combined to make an ultimately negative effect. Society would be better served without all the rules intended to better serve society.
Your ethics is purely based on what benefits you and only you?
Some people vote based on principles, and have a problem with penalizing other people just to put more in their own pocket. Strange.
Capitalism and democracy are fundamentally incompatible.
Despite all history indicating otherwise.
In other words, liberty.
Completely depends on the task.
I'd say that, in general, complicated tasks and bulk tasks are faster on the CLI, but that's not always the case.
Let's say I have a folder open, and want to copy all the images with redheads into a subdirectory. Pretty fast and easy in most GUIs. It would be very slow on a CLI, unless you were really forward-thinking form the outset with your file naming conventions.
He's a troll, but I actually agree that the ribbon is not a bad UI element. I'd like some changes to it (ability to add and remove elements, for instance)... but I think most of the criticism against it is just stubborness.
Or 'GNU IMP', or 'G-IMP', or something like that. I think it's being held back simply by stubborn pride on the developer's side. The name is having a definite effect on adoption.
Though they are a threat to consoles, and other handheld gaming devices.
They're a potential threat to handheld gaming devices, but not to consoles. The sticking point is power. Modern consoles pull 75+ watts and need substantial cooling. A tablet has a power budget that is an order of magnitude smaller.
Not that you can't use a tablet for gaming, but it isn't comparable to modern consoles. Gaming ergonomics is another way in which tablets still fail, but that is something that's conceivably fixable.
Why? Both his comments were downmodded appropriately. It's not anti-apple bias, because the first comment is +5.
things like the death penalty, an appallingly bad judicial system, a broken political system in Washington, Guantanamo bay, etc.,
Those may all be bad (and they may not), but they have nothing in particular to do with fascism.
You're uneducated. The philosophical fundamentals of free speech were being discussed 2,500 years ago by the Greeks (along with its corollary, free inquiry and scientific thought).