Don't apologize, and don't get defensive. Stand behind what you say, and don't worry about little things like a -1 disagree moderation here or there. People misuse moderation all the time, and it doesn't mean much if they do.
It irritates me too, and I'm not sure what purpose they're supposed to serve.
When I updated from 10.4 to 10.5, I had to abandon the hack-ish multiple desktops solution I'd been using, because Apple included Spaces, which was less hack-ish but also less functional. I've been using multiple desktops since the mid-90s, but I had to give up on using Spaces, as being intolerably slow is not an option you can disable, and the GP will have a damned hard time convincing me that being unable to disable the animations is for my own good.
By January-March 2011 it was in a state most companies would release as gold master.
Yikes! I think Minecraft is fun, but it's buggier than Daggerfall, and the "official" release is buggier yet. I know most companies push to release software before it's ready, but as a lifelong gamer I've never run into another game as buggy as Minecraft.
(My super-late response is courtesy of a week of Minecraft.)
. IMHO all parties ("both parties" for you USians) should agree together to stand down to form a time-limited technocratic austerity government. This would be a sacrificial government - the political parties can be certain these guys don't get re-elected because the measures necessary will be deeply unpopular.
Speaking of commercial games now available for free, Ur-Quan Masters is a classic, and happens to be open source now as well. (For those who aren't familiar with the new title, UQM is Star Control 2.)
What is polymorphism? It is actually a bridge pattern between an abstract factory pattern and strategy pattern, you could say even a singleton pattern from the class view of point, and facade pattern from the object point of view.
That appears to be a really bad definition. Can you explain why you think it's a good one?
Facebook knows who all my friends are, and I don't even have an account. I suppose I count as a "facephobe", though I'd like to think of it more as possessing uncommon sense.
I'm not going to mod you down, because I think you have some valid points. You should be aware, though, that from the way you write, you sound a bit crazy. Don't capitalize random words. Say the point you want to make first. Then give your examples, and explain them if necessary. If you work to sound more rational, people will take your points more seriously.
To put it another way: if people think you're crazy, they'll ignore everything you say. If your goal is to make a difference, you have to not sound crazy.
Google is already barely usable for me with Javascript enabled. I imagine it will only get worse. With JS on, it seems to catch every keystroke and send it over the net, and does weird and stupid things with the keystrokes it catches. My cursor hops around in the input box--I thought it was a bizarre new browser bug, but it turns out to be Google's JS messing it up. Scrolling down doesn't work right anymore, because Google catches the arrow keypresses, but not repeats--so if I hold down the down arrow, my browser scrolls a bit, but if I release it and press down again, it jumps back up unpredictably (well, predictably to the #2 result, which I've probably scrolled past already). This isn't even going into the failures called autocomplete or instant, or the utterly obnoxious "plus one" crap they vomited all over their results pages.
The only way I can stand to go anywhere near Google is with JS disabled. But they decided not to make their site work properly without JS, which means you have to selectively enable it if, for example, you want to use Image Search. (I thought I was IP blocked from searching for images, or something odd like that--it turns out Google lies and claims to have zero results if you disable JS.)
You could check out SeaMonkey. It's a lot like Firefox, without the UI annoyances. There are tradeoffs, of course. For example, there's no separate search bar in SeaMonkey. (I like that, but the lack of a search bar is apparently a deal breaker for some users.)
Zynga's revenues increased massively, but their profits shrunk because they invested so much into growth. That's what they're hoping people will believe, I think, because they want to look like they have some growth left, so they can get rich off an IPO and (presumably) abandon ship.
In reality, their revenue is propped up by amortized income from past quarters. If you look more closely at the numbers, as in the article I linked, it looks much worse: although revenue is up, bookings are down, and bookings represent the actual money taken in by the company in a given quarter. Active users are down, and haven't gone up significantly in half a year. Zynga is most likely a company without a future.
FF11 and FF14 never seemed like they were FF games in the first place, so they didn't tarnish my perception of the brand, at least as far as I'm aware. On the other hand, FFX, FFX-2, FF12, and FF13...
One time, my company brought over coworkers from an Australian office. I was supposed to help them, but I couldn't understand them half the time! Less than 24 hours later, the accent clicked for me mentally, and suddenly I couldn't imagine how I failed to understand them before.
Let me ask you a hypothetical question: let's say you're from an English-speaking country other than Australia, you have trouble understanding an Australian accent, and your boss sends you to Australia for a week. Let's also say, for some reason, the company doesn't want to give you six months' advance notice, a vocal coach, and listening comprehension classes. Would you seriously tell your boss you can't do the job? Or would you adapt?
Personally, I doubt many people are incapable of adapting. I think it's more likely to be either laziness or bigotry speaking, when someone protests an accent. If you worked with Indians for any length of time, I doubt you'd have any problem understanding them, unless you have a cognitive deficit of some sort.
Your knowledge is out-of-date. In fact, the Flash shared objects are annoyingly deleteable these days--since they now disappear when people clear browser history or cookies, or in any other number of circumstances, people have been deleting their saves for Flash games and getting irritated at authors of said games for not being able to work around it. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
According to the article, it just submits a pull request. This isn't some bot running on Google's own servers making changes without permission. So if anyone has a problem with it, or if it submits poor changes, they can simply ignore it.
It's legitimate to criticize how an OS handles hardware failing, but I can assure you Windows doesn't always handle drive failure all that gracefully either.
Doesn't work if it's Hayes-compliant, because of the guard timer after +++. They needed a crappy out-of-spec (usually win)modem for that, and some people had them, but just being on dialup didn't guarantee it.
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Don't apologize, and don't get defensive. Stand behind what you say, and don't worry about little things like a -1 disagree moderation here or there. People misuse moderation all the time, and it doesn't mean much if they do.
It irritates me too, and I'm not sure what purpose they're supposed to serve.
When I updated from 10.4 to 10.5, I had to abandon the hack-ish multiple desktops solution I'd been using, because Apple included Spaces, which was less hack-ish but also less functional. I've been using multiple desktops since the mid-90s, but I had to give up on using Spaces, as being intolerably slow is not an option you can disable, and the GP will have a damned hard time convincing me that being unable to disable the animations is for my own good.
Yikes! I think Minecraft is fun, but it's buggier than Daggerfall, and the "official" release is buggier yet. I know most companies push to release software before it's ready, but as a lifelong gamer I've never run into another game as buggy as Minecraft.
(My super-late response is courtesy of a week of Minecraft.)
Fuck you.
Speaking of commercial games now available for free, Ur-Quan Masters is a classic, and happens to be open source now as well. (For those who aren't familiar with the new title, UQM is Star Control 2.)
No, I have no idea whether you know what polymorphism is. Certainly you have yet to demonstrate the knowledge.
Assume I've failed your test. Can you explain why you believe your definition is "almost correct"?
Oh. Just a heads up: you should probably learn that!
That appears to be a really bad definition. Can you explain why you think it's a good one?
Posting "u mad, bro?" should get your Slashdot license revoked.
Facebook knows who all my friends are, and I don't even have an account. I suppose I count as a "facephobe", though I'd like to think of it more as possessing uncommon sense.
I'm not going to mod you down, because I think you have some valid points. You should be aware, though, that from the way you write, you sound a bit crazy. Don't capitalize random words. Say the point you want to make first. Then give your examples, and explain them if necessary. If you work to sound more rational, people will take your points more seriously.
To put it another way: if people think you're crazy, they'll ignore everything you say. If your goal is to make a difference, you have to not sound crazy.
Parasites may benefit from being parasites, but that doesn't mean they aren't harmful and shouldn't be removed.
Google is already barely usable for me with Javascript enabled. I imagine it will only get worse. With JS on, it seems to catch every keystroke and send it over the net, and does weird and stupid things with the keystrokes it catches. My cursor hops around in the input box--I thought it was a bizarre new browser bug, but it turns out to be Google's JS messing it up. Scrolling down doesn't work right anymore, because Google catches the arrow keypresses, but not repeats--so if I hold down the down arrow, my browser scrolls a bit, but if I release it and press down again, it jumps back up unpredictably (well, predictably to the #2 result, which I've probably scrolled past already). This isn't even going into the failures called autocomplete or instant, or the utterly obnoxious "plus one" crap they vomited all over their results pages.
The only way I can stand to go anywhere near Google is with JS disabled. But they decided not to make their site work properly without JS, which means you have to selectively enable it if, for example, you want to use Image Search. (I thought I was IP blocked from searching for images, or something odd like that--it turns out Google lies and claims to have zero results if you disable JS.)
You could check out SeaMonkey. It's a lot like Firefox, without the UI annoyances. There are tradeoffs, of course. For example, there's no separate search bar in SeaMonkey. (I like that, but the lack of a search bar is apparently a deal breaker for some users.)
-1 overrated. Heat works, but your oven doesn't run hot enough. Bad idea, in any case.
Zynga's revenues increased massively, but their profits shrunk because they invested so much into growth. That's what they're hoping people will believe, I think, because they want to look like they have some growth left, so they can get rich off an IPO and (presumably) abandon ship.
In reality, their revenue is propped up by amortized income from past quarters. If you look more closely at the numbers, as in the article I linked, it looks much worse: although revenue is up, bookings are down, and bookings represent the actual money taken in by the company in a given quarter. Active users are down, and haven't gone up significantly in half a year. Zynga is most likely a company without a future.
FF11 and FF14 never seemed like they were FF games in the first place, so they didn't tarnish my perception of the brand, at least as far as I'm aware. On the other hand, FFX, FFX-2, FF12, and FF13...
One time, my company brought over coworkers from an Australian office. I was supposed to help them, but I couldn't understand them half the time! Less than 24 hours later, the accent clicked for me mentally, and suddenly I couldn't imagine how I failed to understand them before.
Let me ask you a hypothetical question: let's say you're from an English-speaking country other than Australia, you have trouble understanding an Australian accent, and your boss sends you to Australia for a week. Let's also say, for some reason, the company doesn't want to give you six months' advance notice, a vocal coach, and listening comprehension classes. Would you seriously tell your boss you can't do the job? Or would you adapt?
Personally, I doubt many people are incapable of adapting. I think it's more likely to be either laziness or bigotry speaking, when someone protests an accent. If you worked with Indians for any length of time, I doubt you'd have any problem understanding them, unless you have a cognitive deficit of some sort.
Your knowledge is out-of-date. In fact, the Flash shared objects are annoyingly deleteable these days--since they now disappear when people clear browser history or cookies, or in any other number of circumstances, people have been deleting their saves for Flash games and getting irritated at authors of said games for not being able to work around it. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Err, I meant to type Github, not Google. *headdesk*
According to the article, it just submits a pull request. This isn't some bot running on Google's own servers making changes without permission. So if anyone has a problem with it, or if it submits poor changes, they can simply ignore it.
Wow. Actually, I'm a teetotaller. I've never even tried alcohol, and I'm 29. Not into other drugs, either. Nice ad hominem, though.
Or we could reduce crime by making all victimless crimes (i.e. most crimes) legal. Then we wouldn't need so many cops.
It's legitimate to criticize how an OS handles hardware failing, but I can assure you Windows doesn't always handle drive failure all that gracefully either.
Doesn't work if it's Hayes-compliant, because of the guard timer after +++. They needed a crappy out-of-spec (usually win)modem for that, and some people had them, but just being on dialup didn't guarantee it.