If you want to learn about pizzagate then maybe start at Wikipedia? If you want to see an argument over the issues, then maybe look at the discussion tab. If someone accuses Wikipedia of liberal bias then they haven't been paying attention.
That may be mostly true, but it's not due to the racist reasons you are implying. If you look at desparately poor region with little to no chance of finding jobs for young adult males, then the crime rates in those regions will go up. The demographics of those regions have more blacks than whites in this country. So blame the crime rate on poverty rather than race. The only people who repeat that silly stat of yours are white nationalists, and if you're trusting what they tell you then you need to get more educated.
Also note that in the US, for the exact same crime blacks have a higher conviction rate than whites and will get a longer sentence on average. For drug crimes it's absurdly biased against blacks whereas whites will get only a slap on the wrist (ie, inexpensive crack cocaine gets a long sentence whereas upper class cocaine gets you community service).
The Windows development environment starts by buying additional tools, usually IDEs in which you spend all your time so that you don't have to interact with the rest of Windows.
The whole concept of "professional gamer" is just so bizarre. And how can a professional gamer beat me in a single player game with no PvP idiocy or scoring system in sight?
Is it a career dead end if you can spend 20 years doing that work? Ie, I'm doing C right now, it's in high demand, and very interesting, and yet a lot of younger people avoid it for being out of fashion. And yet nearly half the world runs on C and most of the other half runs on COBOL, with a sliver of leftover stuff for everything else.
In the past, people didn't choose careers for what was interesting and exciting. Sometimes stability and benefits come first. If people only did interesting stuff, we'd never have any accountants who knew how to keep double books for those who do interesting things.
Having the higher resolution pre-rendered graphics led to quite a few similar games, and also changed the look and mood of many of the "find the pixel" graphical adventures (ie, think Syberia).
You can always call the hintline from Monkey Island 2, and in-game you'd find a phone booth where you could call up and get to a cartoon receptionist who supplied no help at all.
There are people who immediately go online to the walkthrough and follow that. They often end up missing the whole point of the game, presumably because they were used to shooters where they just want to get to the action and find the good hidden guns.
Didn't like that one much compared to Myst. Too many of it's puzzles were unrelated to the plot and the setting. Ie, to uncover a clue you have solve a puzzle about moving pennies around, and then later even more penny puzzles. The point with Myst I think is that it was interesting to actually look at. Later sequels added more back story and such which was slightly interesting but after awhile it just got old.
Well, the mainframes that do this work do not act like PCs. They are optimized for fast I/O rather than fast processing. Part of writing good mainframe code is in knowing how to optimally use the machine, and much of that isn't even in COBOL it's in all the stuff that goes around it (JCL, etc).
Short term thinking is part of it, as in the bottom line for the next 4 quarters is of vital importance to keeping your stock price inflated. The other big snag is that there's a much bigger tendency in modern time for huge projects to have exorbitant cost overruns.
Which I personally think is a mistake in the constitution (it may shock some to hear, but it is not a divinely inspired document). Why should every other citizen, politician, and official be subject to the criminal laws of the US except for the president? The impeachment process is ineffective since it's far too political, and of the very few times it has been used it has been highly political and used to get rid of someone unpopular with the congressional majority. In essence, if the president is popular with the party in power (who may also be corrupt) then there are no checks on the executive.
Some people say the president should be above all this to protect his or her ability to conduct war and run the country rather than get bogged down dealing with a defense. That's bullshit though, that's why we have vice presidents and cabinet members and we're well into the 21st century where the president should not be micromanaging the country.
We could build a giant dome around the entire planet! Let's make it out of ozone because that's inexpensive. Then add an escape hole so that too much methane doesn't build up.
That still doesn't explain why people watch others play video games. I can understand watching others screw up a lot for the humor effect, but Twitch does not have much in the "challenging things done well" category.
I've seen people do this. They assume the other person is going to change course, or continue on course, and when this fails to hold true theres a bump. I had a bicycle veer into me in another country because I stopped to let the bike pass me before I continued cross the road, while the cyclist assumed I would just continue on. I did learn some new words because of that. People do this in cars a lot especially when one driver is aggressive and assuming others will get out of their way.
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If you want to learn about pizzagate then maybe start at Wikipedia? If you want to see an argument over the issues, then maybe look at the discussion tab. If someone accuses Wikipedia of liberal bias then they haven't been paying attention.
That may be mostly true, but it's not due to the racist reasons you are implying. If you look at desparately poor region with little to no chance of finding jobs for young adult males, then the crime rates in those regions will go up. The demographics of those regions have more blacks than whites in this country. So blame the crime rate on poverty rather than race. The only people who repeat that silly stat of yours are white nationalists, and if you're trusting what they tell you then you need to get more educated.
Also note that in the US, for the exact same crime blacks have a higher conviction rate than whites and will get a longer sentence on average. For drug crimes it's absurdly biased against blacks whereas whites will get only a slap on the wrist (ie, inexpensive crack cocaine gets a long sentence whereas upper class cocaine gets you community service).
You can use the password on my luggage if you want.
The Windows development environment starts by buying additional tools, usually IDEs in which you spend all your time so that you don't have to interact with the rest of Windows.
The whole concept of "professional gamer" is just so bizarre. And how can a professional gamer beat me in a single player game with no PvP idiocy or scoring system in sight?
Is it a career dead end if you can spend 20 years doing that work? Ie, I'm doing C right now, it's in high demand, and very interesting, and yet a lot of younger people avoid it for being out of fashion. And yet nearly half the world runs on C and most of the other half runs on COBOL, with a sliver of leftover stuff for everything else.
In the past, people didn't choose careers for what was interesting and exciting. Sometimes stability and benefits come first. If people only did interesting stuff, we'd never have any accountants who knew how to keep double books for those who do interesting things.
Having the higher resolution pre-rendered graphics led to quite a few similar games, and also changed the look and mood of many of the "find the pixel" graphical adventures (ie, think Syberia).
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the babel fish puzzle.
I'd just like the game to be beautiful, relaxing, complex, and unbounded.
Just like Oblivion; peaceful, bucolic, quiet music, and.. AUGH why is this unicorn attacking me? Get er off, ugh, dammit... reload.
You can always call the hintline from Monkey Island 2, and in-game you'd find a phone booth where you could call up and get to a cartoon receptionist who supplied no help at all.
There are people who immediately go online to the walkthrough and follow that. They often end up missing the whole point of the game, presumably because they were used to shooters where they just want to get to the action and find the good hidden guns.
Didn't like that one much compared to Myst. Too many of it's puzzles were unrelated to the plot and the setting. Ie, to uncover a clue you have solve a puzzle about moving pennies around, and then later even more penny puzzles. The point with Myst I think is that it was interesting to actually look at. Later sequels added more back story and such which was slightly interesting but after awhile it just got old.
Not just banks though. It's common in payroll processing and stuff like that as well.
Well, the mainframes that do this work do not act like PCs. They are optimized for fast I/O rather than fast processing. Part of writing good mainframe code is in knowing how to optimally use the machine, and much of that isn't even in COBOL it's in all the stuff that goes around it (JCL, etc).
Short term thinking is part of it, as in the bottom line for the next 4 quarters is of vital importance to keeping your stock price inflated. The other big snag is that there's a much bigger tendency in modern time for huge projects to have exorbitant cost overruns.
Quite a lot like that, except that people who understand it are rarer than those who understand modern Rube Goldberg systems.
You're demanding that salary only 15 years out of college? Wow, just... wow. That's well above the norm even in Silicon Valley.
COBOL programmers are paid a very good wage. Much of that is due to the demand for the skills and the rarity of those with the skills.
Which I personally think is a mistake in the constitution (it may shock some to hear, but it is not a divinely inspired document). Why should every other citizen, politician, and official be subject to the criminal laws of the US except for the president? The impeachment process is ineffective since it's far too political, and of the very few times it has been used it has been highly political and used to get rid of someone unpopular with the congressional majority. In essence, if the president is popular with the party in power (who may also be corrupt) then there are no checks on the executive.
Some people say the president should be above all this to protect his or her ability to conduct war and run the country rather than get bogged down dealing with a defense. That's bullshit though, that's why we have vice presidents and cabinet members and we're well into the 21st century where the president should not be micromanaging the country.
We could build a giant dome around the entire planet! Let's make it out of ozone because that's inexpensive. Then add an escape hole so that too much methane doesn't build up.
True, but that doesn't mean the development environment doesn't suck.
That still doesn't explain why people watch others play video games. I can understand watching others screw up a lot for the humor effect, but Twitch does not have much in the "challenging things done well" category.
I wouldn't take this for granted. I didn't know this was a readily available app or that there was such an incredible need for it.
I've seen people do this. They assume the other person is going to change course, or continue on course, and when this fails to hold true theres a bump. I had a bicycle veer into me in another country because I stopped to let the bike pass me before I continued cross the road, while the cyclist assumed I would just continue on. I did learn some new words because of that. People do this in cars a lot especially when one driver is aggressive and assuming others will get out of their way.
Ancient technology, instead retrain these people as natural gas extracters.