I have to imagine that this Asgard project predates Thor: Ragnarok, but it is fitting that the physical land of Asgard is now gone, and what we have left is spaceship Asgard, new home to the Asgardians.
Ah yes, here we go again. If you don't like the Republican platform or Republican values, then the only other option is that you were a big Hillary booster and are so so sad that she lost.
You can shove your false dichotomy somewhere else.
Say you try to drag and drop something in a web app in Chrome
I'm not going to want to drag and drop something in the first place. I'd actually have to FIND my desktop in the first place (I like full-screen windows, lots of them), I'd probably have to add an exception to noscript, which may be unlikely. That latter part might be necessary anyway, as I would greatly prefer a file upload button over drag-and-drop (yeuck) in the first place, and that probably requires some javascript hook.
Maybe web sites should not be trying to behave like apps.
Have you considered that a website might be trying to behave like an app in order to circumvent the costs and censorship aspects of being in Apple's App Store?
I wouldn't want to download and install apps for websites I visit. If a website insists "go download our app!" then that's a website I'm not going to be visiting anymore. That seems like a really bad path to go down.
No, Clinton proved that even a president can be a sexual predator.
Pretty sure that JFK proved that awhile ago. And other US Presidents as well like Eisenhower and Roosevelt. Bill Clinton was simply the first presidential candidate who got caught, exposed, and tried. The press used to look the other way about these sorts of things. They stopped doing so around when Gary Hart made his presidential run. From Richard Nixon -> Gary Hart -> Bill Clinton, a clear progression in the treatment of the presidency. I can't emphasize how much of a scandal the Hart affair was for three reasons: 1) It changed the game in terms of marital fidelity being something the press would consider reportable. That used to be the domain of the tabloid, with the mainstream press wiping their hands of such tawdry manners. 2) It changed the game in terms of ANYTHING shady in a politician's private life as being a reason to kick that person out of public service. It also changed the game in that it was now acceptable for one campaign to dig through the past of another candidate for dirt unrelated to fitness for the office. Many agreed with Hart at the time when he said "you don't get to the top by tearing someone else down." Can you imagine a politician claiming that now? We have so many examples to the contrary, you'd get laughed out of the room. Of course you tear down and smear your opponent like that. 3) There.. is no point #3.
Yes. Incorporate in the Bahamas. Set things up so the corporation pays you a salary. Then have the corporation sell your services to whomever. They pay the corp, the corp pays you. Neither of you pays taxes to the USA, though you'll both be paying taxes in the Bahamas.
That could still get you into trouble. There's a legal difference between 'offshoring' and 'tax evasion.' Tax evasion will come if you try to repatriate profits earned abroad without paying US taxes when they return. Naturally, you don't have to pay US taxes if the money remains abroad. How to get it back into the US is how one games the system. Merging with a foreign corporate entity to establish headquarters outside of the US is one common way, not one that is usually available for a single-person Bahamas incorporator. Another system, the one Apple uses, is that they don't move money from the foreign subsidiaries, the borrow money from them. Earnings remain abroad and they borrow money to pay dividends. The interest on loans is tax deductible, so they get a secondary benefit from this as well. But sometimes none of this is necessary because every once in awhile Congress will declare a 'tax holiday' to encourage companies to bring money back over to invest in the US.
I remember the AI that came with Starcraft solved this problem quite nicely. The computer AI just always knew what buildings and what units you had. That made for practicing against a computer fairly hard because all the strategies that involved deception fell flat. Plus on the higher-difficulties, whenever you built a unit, the computer immediately knew, and put in production a unit to counter it. So the computer was often better at the macro game, but players were still better at the micro game.
Sure, sounds good to me. I know it sounds complex and maybe not something the average user would want to hassle with, but maybe the average user is similarly frustrated with web browser slowness and might find that small bit of fiddling worth the overall faster experience.
Or maybe I'm the only guy with 5+ tabs open at once. ^_^
Bill Gates himself even admitted this [...] "As long as they are pirating, we want them to pirate OUR products, not something else"
That's because piracy drives software sales, and even if there isn't an immediate direct payment, piracy of Windows ends up still locking you into the Windows ecosystem while undercutting competitors. It does not do the same thing for TV shows and movies.
Show me one instance in the US or any other civilized first world country in the last 60 years where a corporation collaborated internally (more than 2 people working together at the direction of the CEO or board of directors) to kill people.
How about the entire tobacco industry? They knew for sure that their product was deadly and killed people, they suppressed any and all research and news that spread that information so people would make their own choices. That's as close to murder as it gets without actually dropping a bomb on someone's house.
I saw the trailer for Geostorm the other day and said, "Gee, that looks exactly like Day After Tomorrow." And my friend remarked, "No, it reminds me of 2012." We eventually agreed we were both right.
Well, they were all made by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, so there's a reason for that. After working together on Stargate, Independence Day, and Godzilla, they went their separate ways, though clearly they're still making like.. the same kinds of movies that they were when they were together.
Geostorm is really just another in a long line of action movies, the fourth that this particular director has been involved in. He was Roland Emmerich's partner for a long time, and that guy made tons of disaster movies. Geostorm looks like your typical "let's destroy some landmarks" movie.
It's really simple. The alternative was to write Java applets, which ground your computer to a half for 10-20 seconds while the runtime booted up.
The typical grumpy Slashdotter response was to insist high and low that Java wasn't slow.
I think the typical grumpy Slashdotter response was to insist that no one actually needed to do the shit that the stupid javascript app or Java applet was trying to do.
So tell the rest of the world again about Citizens United [wikipedia.org] and how america hasn't institutionalised corruption?
The Citizens United decision says one thing: that groups of people don't give up their free speech rights because they're an organization and not just a single person.
I've had probably a dozen devices with an optical output, laptops, CD players, DVD players, music streaming boxes, and I'm probably forgetting something. What was rare was anything with an optical audio input, or it seems that way to me. The only thing I can recall having an optical input was this fancy (for the time) SoundBlaster card I bought as part of a computer system from my brother.
Optical has only recently been supplanted by other digital offerings, but there was a decent time period where if you wanted something better than RCA cables and you weren't just getting the cheapest CD player the store offered, then it had Optical. TVs were not complex at the time, and you basically had a receiver which fed to the speakers and had a ton of RCA and optical ports.
I recently bought an Astro Gaming headset which came with a basestation so it could transmit wirelessly. You could hook it up to the analog soundcard out, but if wanted what surroundsound it could actually do, the basestation had to be connected with optical S/PDIF. Which fortunately my Soundblaster card has.
Yup. The laptop won't display, and Roku media centers will not display anything if the HDCP handshaking goes wrong. I got around that by hooking up an HDMI Detective which had my projector's EDID saved to it (the problem with my old setup was that my HDMI switcher didn't support HDCP very well).
I think I've seen this rodeo before. What I see is that web developers work to make their site "fast enough". In Scrum terms, they don't apply premature optimizations. They use too many modules with too many dependencies and assume everyone has a fast internet.
I also see a lot of websites that worked well when you had 10-20 users, but when you got to thousands, they started getting pokey slow.
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I have to imagine that this Asgard project predates Thor: Ragnarok, but it is fitting that the physical land of Asgard is now gone, and what we have left is spaceship Asgard, new home to the Asgardians.
The alternative was "anyone else," since we don't have to elect the single candidates that a political party tells us to.
It takes a snowflake to to know one, eh?
We had to listen you you Nazis and your KKK brethren for eight years; we're just returning the favor. Paybacks are a bitch eh?
Can't wait for the midterms. If your side loses are you going to be the gracious losers you seem to think we should be? No? I thought not.
fuckin' crybaby winners are the worst.
The wonderful thing about this post is it's vague enough that I can't tell which side he's on.
Ah yes, here we go again. If you don't like the Republican platform or Republican values, then the only other option is that you were a big Hillary booster and are so so sad that she lost.
You can shove your false dichotomy somewhere else.
Say you try to drag and drop something in a web app in Chrome
I'm not going to want to drag and drop something in the first place. I'd actually have to FIND my desktop in the first place (I like full-screen windows, lots of them), I'd probably have to add an exception to noscript, which may be unlikely. That latter part might be necessary anyway, as I would greatly prefer a file upload button over drag-and-drop (yeuck) in the first place, and that probably requires some javascript hook.
Maybe web sites should not be trying to behave like apps.
Have you considered that a website might be trying to behave like an app in order to circumvent the costs and censorship aspects of being in Apple's App Store?
I wouldn't want to download and install apps for websites I visit. If a website insists "go download our app!" then that's a website I'm not going to be visiting anymore. That seems like a really bad path to go down.
No, Clinton proved that even a president can be a sexual predator.
Pretty sure that JFK proved that awhile ago. And other US Presidents as well like Eisenhower and Roosevelt.
Bill Clinton was simply the first presidential candidate who got caught, exposed, and tried. The press used to look the other way about these sorts of things. They stopped doing so around when Gary Hart made his presidential run. From Richard Nixon -> Gary Hart -> Bill Clinton, a clear progression in the treatment of the presidency. I can't emphasize how much of a scandal the Hart affair was for three reasons:
1) It changed the game in terms of marital fidelity being something the press would consider reportable. That used to be the domain of the tabloid, with the mainstream press wiping their hands of such tawdry manners.
2) It changed the game in terms of ANYTHING shady in a politician's private life as being a reason to kick that person out of public service. It also changed the game in that it was now acceptable for one campaign to dig through the past of another candidate for dirt unrelated to fitness for the office. Many agreed with Hart at the time when he said "you don't get to the top by tearing someone else down." Can you imagine a politician claiming that now? We have so many examples to the contrary, you'd get laughed out of the room. Of course you tear down and smear your opponent like that.
3) There.. is no point #3.
Yes. Incorporate in the Bahamas. Set things up so the corporation pays you a salary. Then have the corporation sell your services to whomever. They pay the corp, the corp pays you. Neither of you pays taxes to the USA, though you'll both be paying taxes in the Bahamas.
That could still get you into trouble. There's a legal difference between 'offshoring' and 'tax evasion.' Tax evasion will come if you try to repatriate profits earned abroad without paying US taxes when they return. Naturally, you don't have to pay US taxes if the money remains abroad. How to get it back into the US is how one games the system. Merging with a foreign corporate entity to establish headquarters outside of the US is one common way, not one that is usually available for a single-person Bahamas incorporator. Another system, the one Apple uses, is that they don't move money from the foreign subsidiaries, the borrow money from them. Earnings remain abroad and they borrow money to pay dividends. The interest on loans is tax deductible, so they get a secondary benefit from this as well. But sometimes none of this is necessary because every once in awhile Congress will declare a 'tax holiday' to encourage companies to bring money back over to invest in the US.
That implies though that the judicial is an arm of the Kremlin, though I'd say the Judicial branch is probably the least compromised of the three.
I remember the AI that came with Starcraft solved this problem quite nicely. The computer AI just always knew what buildings and what units you had. That made for practicing against a computer fairly hard because all the strategies that involved deception fell flat. Plus on the higher-difficulties, whenever you built a unit, the computer immediately knew, and put in production a unit to counter it. So the computer was often better at the macro game, but players were still better at the micro game.
Sure, sounds good to me. I know it sounds complex and maybe not something the average user would want to hassle with, but maybe the average user is similarly frustrated with web browser slowness and might find that small bit of fiddling worth the overall faster experience.
Or maybe I'm the only guy with 5+ tabs open at once. ^_^
Half the web sites I go to I have to "request desktop site" because the mobile version sucks. I think I prefer the zoom-in paradigm better.
But having a mobile version doesn't mean you need a 2017-style website nightmare.
Bill Gates himself even admitted this [...] "As long as they are pirating, we want them to pirate OUR products, not something else"
That's because piracy drives software sales, and even if there isn't an immediate direct payment, piracy of Windows ends up still locking you into the Windows ecosystem while undercutting competitors. It does not do the same thing for TV shows and movies.
Ha! Are you actually trying to SHAME someone for paying for the content that he viewed instead of leeching off of others?
Clinton and weiner are gone. Hollywood still has all the liberal molesters active
No, the Sexual Assaulter In Chief is still in DC.
Show me one instance in the US or any other civilized first world country in the last 60 years where a corporation collaborated internally (more than 2 people working together at the direction of the CEO or board of directors) to kill people.
How about the entire tobacco industry? They knew for sure that their product was deadly and killed people, they suppressed any and all research and news that spread that information so people would make their own choices.
That's as close to murder as it gets without actually dropping a bomb on someone's house.
No, but Kevin Spacey is.
I saw the trailer for Geostorm the other day and said, "Gee, that looks exactly like Day After Tomorrow." And my friend remarked, "No, it reminds me of 2012." We eventually agreed we were both right.
Well, they were all made by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, so there's a reason for that. After working together on Stargate, Independence Day, and Godzilla, they went their separate ways, though clearly they're still making like.. the same kinds of movies that they were when they were together.
I don't want to know.
But I kindof do.
Geostorm is really just another in a long line of action movies, the fourth that this particular director has been involved in. He was Roland Emmerich's partner for a long time, and that guy made tons of disaster movies. Geostorm looks like your typical "let's destroy some landmarks" movie.
It's really simple. The alternative was to write Java applets, which ground your computer to a half for 10-20 seconds while the runtime booted up.
The typical grumpy Slashdotter response was to insist high and low that Java wasn't slow.
I think the typical grumpy Slashdotter response was to insist that no one actually needed to do the shit that the stupid javascript app or Java applet was trying to do.
There was another alternative too: ActiveX. Oof.
So tell the rest of the world again about Citizens United [wikipedia.org] and how america hasn't institutionalised corruption?
The Citizens United decision says one thing: that groups of people don't give up their free speech rights because they're an organization and not just a single person.
I've had probably a dozen devices with an optical output, laptops, CD players, DVD players, music streaming boxes, and I'm probably forgetting something. What was rare was anything with an optical audio input, or it seems that way to me. The only thing I can recall having an optical input was this fancy (for the time) SoundBlaster card I bought as part of a computer system from my brother.
Optical has only recently been supplanted by other digital offerings, but there was a decent time period where if you wanted something better than RCA cables and you weren't just getting the cheapest CD player the store offered, then it had Optical. TVs were not complex at the time, and you basically had a receiver which fed to the speakers and had a ton of RCA and optical ports.
I recently bought an Astro Gaming headset which came with a basestation so it could transmit wirelessly. You could hook it up to the analog soundcard out, but if wanted what surroundsound it could actually do, the basestation had to be connected with optical S/PDIF. Which fortunately my Soundblaster card has.
Yup. The laptop won't display, and Roku media centers will not display anything if the HDCP handshaking goes wrong. I got around that by hooking up an HDMI Detective which had my projector's EDID saved to it (the problem with my old setup was that my HDMI switcher didn't support HDCP very well).
I think I've seen this rodeo before. What I see is that web developers work to make their site "fast enough". In Scrum terms, they don't apply premature optimizations. They use too many modules with too many dependencies and assume everyone has a fast internet.
I also see a lot of websites that worked well when you had 10-20 users, but when you got to thousands, they started getting pokey slow.