"Almost certainly not correct"? It is correct. People are things. Everything is a thing.
"Their" may be used as such, but it is done so incorrectly. It is wrong. It is not correct. I don't care if people are using it - that does not make it correct.
Oh look, a shitipedia link. That's so authoritative and accurate and unbiased.
No one is discriminating against you, you're just being lumped with the masses.
You can go to your doctor and get a certificate of health and present it to your insurance company. If they don't give a shit, take your business elsewhere.
Great. Let me know when you have convinced the insurance companies to not massively overcharge males for auto insurance despite the fact that females are statistically worse drivers.
(Female drivers are more likely than men to cause, be involved with, etc. collisions and what not, mile-for-mile. The reason insurance companies charge men more is because, on average, they drive much more than women. They play to the stereotype of "mature" adolescent girls and "irresponsible" adolescent boys to justify it, and they don't let me tell them that I drive very few miles. Oh well.)
Until then, I'm just being realistic and you're just being a whiny bitch. Go to a doctor, get a physical and a certificate of health, and tell your insurance company to STFU. If they don't listen, get a new insurance company.
"His" would limit the scope to male programmers. "Her" would limit the scope to female programmers. "His/her" or other such bullshit is retarded. "Its" is correct.
For a phone, I do not want something trying to measure my eye movements, my skin, etc.
I want the shit to be as fast as possible so i can be done as soon as possible and the thing can be back in my pocket with the screen off, the speaker off, the bluetooth off, and the radio in it's lowest-power mode.
Throttling back speed means you have to run for longer to get anything done. You can't throttle back power hogs like the screen or the radio, either.
This is a lot of noise about what will amount to something less effective than what we already have - throttling back when idle/near idle.
So if I walk away from my machine to let it process a job, it'll go slower?
If this is to save power, then reducing speed when an intensive task is performed is retarded, since you'll waste energy (having to run the task proportionately longer).
If we're only taking into account saving power when idle/mostly idle, then basing this off of metrics from the user is a waste of effort. Just test your apps and see what a user feels is "fast" for certain tasks, then attach those target times to those tasks, and let the CPU try to hit that target.
You'll waste less energy monitoring a user's behavior and galvanic boner response, and you won't annoy the user when your system behaves inconsistently.
If you want, you can let users specify whether or not they want to emphasize battery life or performance, or turn the feature off entirely and let shit work as it should.
The trick would be getting this shit implemented at level low enough that each app would be able to specify target times and specific tasks. Of course, if you're the fuckers worried about battery life, you're the one designing the hardware/platform, so you've got control.
Free speech means being able to stand on the White House lawn and announce that you're about to rape the president with a C4 dildo.
Free speech stops anyone from forcing you to stop your announcements, and prevents them from arresting/convicting you based on what you said (with a lack of you actually having DONE anything).
Free speech doesn't prevent you from being stopped and checked for weapons.
If your speech itself causes demonstrable harm (libel, slander), then you can be forced to cough up for the damages. Free speech means you can walk out of the court house spewing the same libel and slander that you just got sued over.
As you can see - we do NOT have free speech in this country, despite the fact that we are supposed to.
PC gamers (and console gamers to a lesser extent) will still get the infinite 100% discount by stealing.
Most people who are okay with buying used (I avoid buying used since you often don't get the original case, the instruction manual, a disc without gashes/semen on it, etc.) will still buy used and get a discount. If the primary point of contention for deciding whether or not to buy something is price, then the bulk of sales will be done at the lowest price available (the used market) as long as the savings (a few bucks) outweighs the issues of buying used (most people don't give a shit about manuals/cases/etc.).
What publishers do now is fucking disgusting. We've got the "next gen tax" where games now cost $60 instead of $50. (Rising development costs? If that were true we should be seeing better games.) Then, they slap on the significant "extras" (that were already done and would have been included on the fucking disc if they were honest, or were made later and should be free) for $10, and on top of that try to sell you costumes for your sack boy or Chun Li at $3 a pop.
To get the full game that would have cost $50 a few years ago, you'll end up paying $80. Over $100 if you want the collector's edition that comes in a metal case and has a sticker.
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Nope sorry.
It is the correct pronoun for all singulars.
"Almost certainly not correct"?
It is correct.
People are things.
Everything is a thing.
"Their" may be used as such, but it is done so incorrectly. It is wrong. It is not correct. I don't care if people are using it - that does not make it correct.
Oh look, a shitipedia link. That's so authoritative and accurate and unbiased.
You just don't get it, do you?
No one is discriminating against you, you're just being lumped with the masses.
You can go to your doctor and get a certificate of health and present it to your insurance company.
If they don't give a shit, take your business elsewhere.
Today's woot off sucks.
Great. Let me know when you have convinced the insurance companies to not massively overcharge males for auto insurance despite the fact that females are statistically worse drivers.
(Female drivers are more likely than men to cause, be involved with, etc. collisions and what not, mile-for-mile. The reason insurance companies charge men more is because, on average, they drive much more than women. They play to the stereotype of "mature" adolescent girls and "irresponsible" adolescent boys to justify it, and they don't let me tell them that I drive very few miles. Oh well.)
Until then, I'm just being realistic and you're just being a whiny bitch. Go to a doctor, get a physical and a certificate of health, and tell your insurance company to STFU. If they don't listen, get a new insurance company.
"Their" is plural.
"A programmer" is singular.
"His" would limit the scope to male programmers.
"Her" would limit the scope to female programmers.
"His/her" or other such bullshit is retarded.
"Its" is correct.
The comma is correct. Many people consider it optional (I do not). In a comma-delimited list, and is implied.
"Its" is correct. "His" states a gender, when I was referring to all programmers.
Digital camera + SD card + private "reading" room.
"My quick read..."
In my day, we had a different word for "reading" for an assignment / a test / recreation / a post.
That word was "cheating".
You sir, will accept the FUD, bullshit, and factual errors you are fed, and you will LIKE IT.
The dumb, fat, masses are EXACTLY who BMI is designed for and EXACTLY who it is pushed upon.
One that's probably wrecked a few peoples' lives.
TWO meanings for the price of one.
I see what you did there.
Show me a programmer creating "perfectly engineered code", and I'll show you a programmer building up its resume.
Hey dipshit, the "ideal weight" is a rule-of-thumb for the masses, with an average amount of muscle mass.
You know this, yet you want to make a stink.
Oh, it'll get you all sorts of things, I'm aware of that. It should not, however.
"Verbal assault" is bullshit, and isn't a real crime.
And stupidity is both legal AND encouraged.
For a phone, I do not want something trying to measure my eye movements, my skin, etc.
I want the shit to be as fast as possible so i can be done as soon as possible and the thing can be back in my pocket with the screen off, the speaker off, the bluetooth off, and the radio in it's lowest-power mode.
Throttling back speed means you have to run for longer to get anything done.
You can't throttle back power hogs like the screen or the radio, either.
This is a lot of noise about what will amount to something less effective than what we already have - throttling back when idle/near idle.
So if I walk away from my machine to let it process a job, it'll go slower?
If this is to save power, then reducing speed when an intensive task is performed is retarded, since you'll waste energy (having to run the task proportionately longer).
If we're only taking into account saving power when idle/mostly idle, then basing this off of metrics from the user is a waste of effort. Just test your apps and see what a user feels is "fast" for certain tasks, then attach those target times to those tasks, and let the CPU try to hit that target.
You'll waste less energy monitoring a user's behavior and galvanic boner response, and you won't annoy the user when your system behaves inconsistently.
If you want, you can let users specify whether or not they want to emphasize battery life or performance, or turn the feature off entirely and let shit work as it should.
The trick would be getting this shit implemented at level low enough that each app would be able to specify target times and specific tasks. Of course, if you're the fuckers worried about battery life, you're the one designing the hardware/platform, so you've got control.
You sure do (or are supposed to).
Free speech means being able to stand on the White House lawn and announce that you're about to rape the president with a C4 dildo.
Free speech stops anyone from forcing you to stop your announcements, and prevents them from arresting/convicting you based on what you said (with a lack of you actually having DONE anything).
Free speech doesn't prevent you from being stopped and checked for weapons.
If your speech itself causes demonstrable harm (libel, slander), then you can be forced to cough up for the damages. Free speech means you can walk out of the court house spewing the same libel and slander that you just got sued over.
As you can see - we do NOT have free speech in this country, despite the fact that we are supposed to.
They'd make less, I'd guess.
PC gamers (and console gamers to a lesser extent) will still get the infinite 100% discount by stealing.
Most people who are okay with buying used (I avoid buying used since you often don't get the original case, the instruction manual, a disc without gashes/semen on it, etc.) will still buy used and get a discount.
If the primary point of contention for deciding whether or not to buy something is price, then the bulk of sales will be done at the lowest price available (the used market) as long as the savings (a few bucks) outweighs the issues of buying used (most people don't give a shit about manuals/cases/etc.).
What publishers do now is fucking disgusting.
We've got the "next gen tax" where games now cost $60 instead of $50. (Rising development costs? If that were true we should be seeing better games.) Then, they slap on the significant "extras" (that were already done and would have been included on the fucking disc if they were honest, or were made later and should be free) for $10, and on top of that try to sell you costumes for your sack boy or Chun Li at $3 a pop.
To get the full game that would have cost $50 a few years ago, you'll end up paying $80. Over $100 if you want the collector's edition that comes in a metal case and has a sticker.
Teh book pictured is not the same as the one reviewed.
I refuse to read this shit.
Hell, I refuse to read.
Google ^ i
Restarted FF with plugins disabled, 60 MB, and climbing as I sat and read.
Restarted FF with plugins enabled, 67 MB, and climbing as I sit and read and type this.
Went up to 70 MB as I typed this.
2 tabs open, this tab and /. main page.
100 MB. FF3 with ABP and a woot tracker.
Ridiculous memory hog.
"What they're trying to do is stop people from going to GameStop to buy $50 games for $35, none of which goes into the publishers' pockets."
Really?
Last time I checked, Gamestop sells used games a day or two after they come out (at $60) for $55.
And I haven't seen a PC game or peripheral (new or used) in a Gamestop in ages.
Really, if we distill the arguments against DRM down far enough, it becomes clear that the ideas is to try to get shit for free.
Uh...
-1: Lack of reading comprehension and basic reasoning skills.