Far *greater* than half of the world's population are below average intelligence. If you do not understand the previous sentence, then I say to you - albeit very slowly - you are in the lower portion.
That isn't necessarily true, although it may be. You say it as if it's self-evidently true, but it's possible for over half of the world's population to be *above* average. It just depends on the distribution.
Another mistake is that you're assuming that understanding such statistical quirks happens to coincide exactly with the line dividing below average and above average intelligence. It may not. Perhaps a portion of above-average people don't really understand it (you may be an example).
Thirdly, you're a rude ass, and that's worse than being stupid.
What's strange is that there is no doubt that you're exactly right. Your suggestions have been repeated by numerous other posters in this and other threads. There's nothing, really, to discuss. There's no issues for a user group to delve into. It simply is a case of waiting for the powers-that-be to commit to making those changes.
They aren't committing, which makes me suspect that this group is simply a bone thrown to divert criticism.
I don't think it has lost. It's still ahead of Chrome in marketshare, and it's not like Chrome has a huge foothold in business.
That said, I don't think current management has a chance of doing what is necessary to win. They've taken their enormous lead in quality and squandered it with marketing stunts and foolish decisions. Forcing the awesomebar, crippling the status bar, database driven bookmarks, marketing-driven version numbers...
"If you enter a plea of 'guilty' or 'no contest' then I will look over the sworn statements by both you and the arresting officer. In which case, I will assume the written report by the officer is true and you will be found guilty."
Honestly, I would never have thought this wasn't true. If you don't think the charges are true, you plead not guilty. "No Contest" means that you aren't contesting the accusations.
When one political party is a group of people who in the past few years have been strongly associated with Stormfront-level racism and thuggery
They've been associated with it by their opponents. Just as democrats have been associated with communistic welfare anti-american big-government thugs by their opponents. You're just believing the particular rhetoric that feels better to you.
Go educate yourself. A fetus isn't conscious. It has no feelings. It can't care about an abortion. That's been scientifically proven. If you believe otherwise, fine, keep your fetuses, but stop trying to force other people to keep theirs.
True, for certain values of Fetus. Are you willing to say that aborting a fetus after it can feel pain is wrong? That happens very early during the pregnancy.
Mono and by extension.net is a piece of shit and the only people who care are shills and the people that have been convinced by the shills to believe the hype. Even MS is abandoning.shit for javascript/html5 in their next OS. Hahahahahahaha
You're very wrong.
.Net is not bad at all, although not a solution for every problem. As an alternative to Java, it's better in every way except cross-platform compatibility. It obviously doesn't fill every hole that C++ fills.
You completely misunderstand the role of Javascript/html5 in future MS products. It's an option for simple apps; it would be ridiculous to think MS will push it to replace.Net. Nobody with any serious judgement believes that will happen, or even be a push.
However, I wouldn't do any development in Mono. It's nice architecture, but there are too many potential legal and social problems with it.
I'm no big fan of the Kinect, but it was a great move by MS. It's boosted sales for the 360 up to Wii levels. The PS3 Move turned out to be the abject failure of last year's E3.
Reagan won out the cold war without firing a shot.
Sadly, this fact is being revised away. Twenty years ago, everybody except a few desperate partisans knew this was true; today, the meme is being spread that the fall of the USSR was inevitable, and that Reagan's policies had nothing to do with it. It's an appealing meme to some people, so they accept it and spread it.
Many younger people are absolutely clueless about the cold war.
You can absolutely buy 100-watt light output equivalent incandescents. They just have to be more efficient, and use less than the hundred watts.
Can you? That's great, and I hope you can, but I couldn't find any. What I've dug up is that high-efficiency incandescents that meet the standards are only in the 20-30 watt range. Admittedly, I haven't spend hours and hours looking. Do you have a link?
I did; they're my predictions. I'm sure I'm right, though. You really think I'm not? Can you say, with a straight face, that you think more than 1 in 20 CFLs are properly recycled?
If "weak and expensive" is your definition for "effcient", I have no further questions regarding the downfall of American engineering.
In the context of incandescents, yes. As far as I've found, the 'high efficiency' incandescents only increase lumens/watt by about 30-40%, which means only the weakest incandescents may meet the new standards... while incidentally increasing the cost of the bulb by an order of magnitude. Increasing cost and lowering power does indeed meet my criteria for 'weak and expensive'. A highly efficient 20 watt incandescent bulb is not sufficient for most lighting purposes.
The standards of efficiency were set at levels to deliberately exclude all but the weakest incandescents; it's like claiming that a law mandating a 75 mpg minimum fuel mileage isn't a ban on gasoline-powered automobiles. In truth, it would be; and the fact that somebody might produce a highly-expensive and underpowered gasoline-powered vehicle doesn't really change that reality.
'Efficient' meaning weak and expensive. There's a reason that all the light bulb manufacturers supported the ban; they can raise the price for a lightbulb from a quarter to several dollars. This law is anti-consumer. The green justification is just marketing.
Actually, due to a technicality, you can continue to buy 'heat lamp bulbs' that just happen to emit light as a 'side-effect'. There are companies that are gearing up to sell them to those of us who prefer incandescents.
However, hopefully, the ban on incandescents will be lifted, and I can continue to purchase bulbs from the local grocery store.
It's a far cry from a traditional civilization game, but is worlds ahead of the typical farmville zynga crap. It's got me logging onto facebook daily, instead of once a month.
I would rather have them learning in Javascript than Java. Probably better Javascript than C++, too, but that could go either way.
Straight C would be best, imo. Less noise and clutter getting in the way. I think getting people writing simple programs as fast as possible is important, so that they can keep their interest, so that they can play. If you start trying to teach programming by first trying to force people to use more abstract concepts, such as OO, many of them will just hit a brick wall.
If you want your kid to learn carpentry, you give them a lot of wood, nails, a hammer, and a saw, and let them spend a year just playing. Learning the most basic concepts. You don't start by discussing building codes.
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Far *greater* than half of the world's population are below average intelligence. If you do not understand the previous sentence, then I say to you - albeit very slowly - you are in the lower portion.
That isn't necessarily true, although it may be. You say it as if it's self-evidently true, but it's possible for over half of the world's population to be *above* average. It just depends on the distribution.
Another mistake is that you're assuming that understanding such statistical quirks happens to coincide exactly with the line dividing below average and above average intelligence. It may not. Perhaps a portion of above-average people don't really understand it (you may be an example).
Thirdly, you're a rude ass, and that's worse than being stupid.
What's strange is that there is no doubt that you're exactly right. Your suggestions have been repeated by numerous other posters in this and other threads. There's nothing, really, to discuss. There's no issues for a user group to delve into. It simply is a case of waiting for the powers-that-be to commit to making those changes.
They aren't committing, which makes me suspect that this group is simply a bone thrown to divert criticism.
I don't think it has lost. It's still ahead of Chrome in marketshare, and it's not like Chrome has a huge foothold in business.
That said, I don't think current management has a chance of doing what is necessary to win. They've taken their enormous lead in quality and squandered it with marketing stunts and foolish decisions. Forcing the awesomebar, crippling the status bar, database driven bookmarks, marketing-driven version numbers...
The trolling is to be expected. What's unexpected, and a little sad, is that somebody modded this up.
Climate change is far more important that space travel, I'm glad we have our priorities in order.
I can't tell if you're joking or serious. I hope you're joking, but suspect you're serious.
"If you enter a plea of 'guilty' or 'no contest' then I will look over the sworn statements by both you and the arresting officer. In which case, I will assume the written report by the officer is true and you will be found guilty."
Honestly, I would never have thought this wasn't true. If you don't think the charges are true, you plead not guilty. "No Contest" means that you aren't contesting the accusations.
When one political party is a group of people who in the past few years have been strongly associated with Stormfront-level racism and thuggery
They've been associated with it by their opponents. Just as democrats have been associated with communistic welfare anti-american big-government thugs by their opponents. You're just believing the particular rhetoric that feels better to you.
Go educate yourself. A fetus isn't conscious. It has no feelings. It can't care about an abortion. That's been scientifically proven. If you believe otherwise, fine, keep your fetuses, but stop trying to force other people to keep theirs.
True, for certain values of Fetus. Are you willing to say that aborting a fetus after it can feel pain is wrong? That happens very early during the pregnancy.
Jackbooted Rethuglicans at work.
they typically support and vote DemocRat.
A pox on both your houses. Neither of you are rational.
Can you not read the posts responding to that claim? Don't chide others for making the same mistake you do.
Cold weather does not mean your roof is necessarily covered in snow all winter. Your situation is not everybody's situation.
Mono and by extension .net is a piece of shit and the only people who care are shills and the people that have been convinced by the shills to believe the hype. Even MS is abandoning .shit for javascript/html5 in their next OS. Hahahahahahaha
.Net is not bad at all, although not a solution for every problem. As an alternative to Java, it's better in every way except cross-platform compatibility. It obviously doesn't fill every hole that C++ fills.
.Net. Nobody with any serious judgement believes that will happen, or even be a push.
You're very wrong.
You completely misunderstand the role of Javascript/html5 in future MS products. It's an option for simple apps; it would be ridiculous to think MS will push it to replace
However, I wouldn't do any development in Mono. It's nice architecture, but there are too many potential legal and social problems with it.
I'm no big fan of the Kinect, but it was a great move by MS. It's boosted sales for the 360 up to Wii levels. The PS3 Move turned out to be the abject failure of last year's E3.
Reagan won out the cold war without firing a shot.
Sadly, this fact is being revised away. Twenty years ago, everybody except a few desperate partisans knew this was true; today, the meme is being spread that the fall of the USSR was inevitable, and that Reagan's policies had nothing to do with it. It's an appealing meme to some people, so they accept it and spread it.
Many younger people are absolutely clueless about the cold war.
Citation needed.
I'm honestly puzzled by how anyone with enough literacy to read this website can know so little about China.
You can absolutely buy 100-watt light output equivalent incandescents. They just have to be more efficient, and use less than the hundred watts.
Can you? That's great, and I hope you can, but I couldn't find any. What I've dug up is that high-efficiency incandescents that meet the standards are only in the 20-30 watt range. Admittedly, I haven't spend hours and hours looking. Do you have a link?
A standard deliberately designed to exclude incandescent bulbs. The weak and expensive high-efficiency incandescents are not a sufficient replacement.
I did; they're my predictions. I'm sure I'm right, though. You really think I'm not? Can you say, with a straight face, that you think more than 1 in 20 CFLs are properly recycled?
If "weak and expensive" is your definition for "effcient", I have no further questions regarding the downfall of American engineering.
In the context of incandescents, yes. As far as I've found, the 'high efficiency' incandescents only increase lumens/watt by about 30-40%, which means only the weakest incandescents may meet the new standards... while incidentally increasing the cost of the bulb by an order of magnitude. Increasing cost and lowering power does indeed meet my criteria for 'weak and expensive'. A highly efficient 20 watt incandescent bulb is not sufficient for most lighting purposes.
The standards of efficiency were set at levels to deliberately exclude all but the weakest incandescents; it's like claiming that a law mandating a 75 mpg minimum fuel mileage isn't a ban on gasoline-powered automobiles. In truth, it would be; and the fact that somebody might produce a highly-expensive and underpowered gasoline-powered vehicle doesn't really change that reality.
'Efficient' meaning weak and expensive. There's a reason that all the light bulb manufacturers supported the ban; they can raise the price for a lightbulb from a quarter to several dollars. This law is anti-consumer. The green justification is just marketing.
"It's not a ban, and they aren't banned until 2012 anyway."
I have no doubt that you're outnumbered more than 10:1. I doubt even 5% of the CFLs are 'properly' recycled.
Actually, due to a technicality, you can continue to buy 'heat lamp bulbs' that just happen to emit light as a 'side-effect'. There are companies that are gearing up to sell them to those of us who prefer incandescents.
However, hopefully, the ban on incandescents will be lifted, and I can continue to purchase bulbs from the local grocery store.
What involvement has the US had in his accusation, charges, or deportation?
Oh, it's secret. Got it. The lack of evidence proves it.
Sid Meier's CivWorld went to open beta last week.
It's a far cry from a traditional civilization game, but is worlds ahead of the typical farmville zynga crap. It's got me logging onto facebook daily, instead of once a month.
I would rather have them learning in Javascript than Java. Probably better Javascript than C++, too, but that could go either way.
Straight C would be best, imo. Less noise and clutter getting in the way. I think getting people writing simple programs as fast as possible is important, so that they can keep their interest, so that they can play. If you start trying to teach programming by first trying to force people to use more abstract concepts, such as OO, many of them will just hit a brick wall.
If you want your kid to learn carpentry, you give them a lot of wood, nails, a hammer, and a saw, and let them spend a year just playing. Learning the most basic concepts. You don't start by discussing building codes.