I have always admired Microsoft's COM architecture and the relative simplicity that allows you to reuse already installed components
"Simplicity" is probably the one word you can't use to describe that nightmare called COM. COM makes programmers jump through hoops to achieve what plain vanilla C++ (mostly) already provides. Anyone who has ever tried to do a large project using COM (no, that little DirectX Tetris game doesn't count) can attest to the pain and suffering the architecture inflicts on those unlucky enough to have to use it.
CIO : I'd like you to connect the monitor server up to the LAN please NA : No CIO : Would you like to choose your replacement or should I? I have almost 100 resumes to pick from!
The current Windows virus problem boils down to three parties, equally at fault: The virus writer for writing the virus, the users for running the virus, and Microsoft for allowing viruses to be possible in the first place.
Don't try to paint users as helpless victims, as many of them are complete idiots and doing their best to make the problem worse.
Treatment of diseases is a HUGE CASH COW. Do you honestly think a drug company or medical researcher is going to give up this massive revenue stream by developing a cure for cancer or AIDS?
Modern medi$ine doesn't look for cures. There's no recurring income in cures. The real money is in treatments that patients have to take every day for the rest of their lives.
Look at any pharm company. They all will say their R&D budget goes toward producing _treatments_ not curing diseases. If they let their researchers try to develop cures, they would be cutting their own revenue stream.
I assure you that Chase, Wachovia, Discover and Citibank are very well aware that the dollar is a "virtual" currency. Small fluctuations in the percieved value of the dollar have large impacts on their business.
If you want your debt cleared (or at least relaxed) you should pray for a sudden devaluation of the dollar vs. goods with "real" values such as gold or your labor. If your $50,000 of debt which is worth a year of your labor today, was suddenly worth only 6 months of your labor tomorrow, you'd be a happy camper.
So relax and be thankful our currency isn't backed by gold!
It's alarming that big companies like Forbes associate Internet time with TV, using the blanket statement, "media consumption". I don't know about you but as a member of several online forums and an occational website content producer myself, someone who uses the internet as a tool to look up information, I don't really feel like I am sitting here consuming a media product.
Now, don't mind as I once again don my tin-foil hat.
You see this language everywhere. We are all consumers. We consume things. That's our purpose. "They" produce product and push it out, and we consume. Is Forbes's language evidence that big media still doesn't "Get It" with respect to the power of creation the Internet provides to us lowly consumption robots? Does the author really believe that Internet use soley consists of consumption of products?
Or is it one of the many subtle ways large companies push the idea that we are just consuming pac-men, and that nothing we do is imporant unless it involves consuming someone's product.
I think the consistant use of the word "consumer" to describe PEOPLE is evidence that this is a widespread attempt by those in charge (large corporations) to make their world-views come true through the force of subtle language changes.
If you think the current U.S. "middle class" is rich and educated, you better take a closer look. Two parents each working 50 hours a week to pay off the mortgage and cars is NOT rich. Most of what in the U.S. is considered middle class lives to barely break even when you take into account personal consumer debt.
The U.S. middle class _IS_ the proletariat in 1984. They are oppressed and kept powerless not by a big brother-like watchful government (yet), but by the debt brought on by their consumption-based lifestyles.
I won't even get into the education level of the U.S. middle class. Look around you and draw your own conclusions.
You, my friend, have been reading too much Dr. John Gray.
Younger women (under 20 or so) tend to be attracted to physical characteristics and the "bad boy" image (disrespectful and rebellious attitudes toward them and others), whereas older women (mid 20s and older) are more attracted to money (or earning potential, for instance a poor student in law or med school).
I've never met a woman drawn to a man's intellectual abilities. Sure, there may be a few out there, just as there may be a few mutants out there with only one eye.
Geeks, do yourself a favor. Don't hold out looking for the girl that respects your intellectual might or one who shares your love of recompiling your kernel. Get yourself into reasonable shape, and grab hold of the first woman who lets you put your dick in her.
You're right. Homeowners shouldn't have to think about things like door locks. House builders need to get with the program and build houses that automatically detect people leaving, lock the doors themselves and close all the windows. And the home builders should make sure only authorized people can get in the homes they build, because after all the home owner shouldn't have to concern himself with all that technical security stuff!!
Assess consumer reaction if press develop scare stories and develop best messages to pacify.
This may have been modded "Funny" but it's actually quite informative. Of course us anti-corporatists have known this all along, but it's interesting to see these guys being so open and honest about their intent to "PACIFY" the "CONSUMERS". Look at any and all marketing today. It's all designed to pacify us in one way or another... to stun us, blind us, or numb our minds to what is really going on. The goal is to get us to be a bunch of nice passive cows, buying and believing everything we are fed.
When someone brings up a concern, or protests the action of a large corporation or government, the powers that be go into spin mode, "developing the best message to pacify" the people.
I'd love to see these Adolf Hitler try to run for president today. I imagine he'd hire these very same people to "construct a proactive framework to minimise negatives arising" and try to best pacify the pesky human rights folks...
Wow!!! SHADOWED menus??? I can just feel my productivity being enhanced already! This will probably be the killer feature pushing forward Linux on the corporate desktop!!!
Soon we'll have a shadowed mouse cursor, almost guaranteeing Linux's adoption by the pointy haired manager types. The future is now!
I write a program, and part of it needs to simply read a.PNG file from disk and draw it on the screen. That's all. This should require a short and simple executable.
Do I _REALLY_ want to pull in libpng and libSDL just to do this? What kind of risks does pulling these libraries in add to my project? How much will this bloat my code? Will users be confused from the different versions of these libraries? What if I one day want to port to a platform that these libraries work on?
Turns out it's usually simpler, easier, and less risky to just roll your own.
Imagine if a system were installed nationwide, which detected every crime committed the second it was comitted, and sent a ticket/issued a warrent to the criminal. Practically overnight all the stupid laws that make 95% of us criminals would have to be abolished or the system would collapse under its own weight.
Imagine if everyone would get a ticket each time they exceeded the speed limit. Limits would have to be raised to reasonable levels nationwide, or people would riot in the streets.
Perhaps a little bit of big brotherism is what we need to abolish unreasonable laws.
In April, a 33-year-old California man was arrested and charged with illegally videotaping films - if convicted, he faces up to 26 years in federal prison.
I guess the concept of punishments fitting the crime has gone out of style in the USA?
* (me) Coke is measured in liters. You can get a two-liter or a three-liter. The two-liter has just what it says in it -- two liters. * (Mom) That doesn't help me.
or Quake (I or II, can't remember) they had a hack where they wouldn't need to clear the framebuffer. That version of Quake would do a glClear at each frame, which takes some time, and prior to framebuffer compression, there was a hack where you wouldn't need to clear the framebuffer if you swapped the Z-check and only used half of the Z span every frame.
This is actually not cheating. Nothing in the pixel format descriptor really specifies the PRECISION of the Z buffer, it only specifies the DEPTH. Just because you're only using 15 of those 16 bits doesn't mean you're cheating!
Advertisements are intrusive no matter what form they take. Just because they use less bits and/or are smaller on the page doesn't change the fact that they are unwanted.
Clearly you have never been inside a public school during class hours within the past, say, 10 years.
Of course there are no classes like "Discrimination 101" or "How to Harass the Weird Kids" but I can assure you that attitudes of hate, fear, and ridicule directed towards non-conformists and oddballs are widespread and actually encouraged (through toleration and turning a blind eye) by teachers and school administrations across the country.
Whenever I read about "looking for suspicious activity" I cringe at what my neighbors might be suspicious of. We (at least in the USA) are trained from birth to conform and not stand out. We are taught in school to ridicule and/or fear people who are different--people who look different or behave different. Some of the folks I live near are afraid of people who wear black. Others don't like seeing people walking home after midnight. The problem with letting joe sixpack look for "suspicious" people is that anyone who does anything besides sleeping, going to work and shopping, will inevitably be considered suspicious by someone.
The USA has become a nation of freightened sheep, and the general public is happy to lock people away who don't totally conform to the norm (please compare our imprisonment rates for non-violent offenders against the rest of the world).
Would you want your neighbors to watch you and decide whether you're doing something "suspicious"? How about letting your business competitor decide? How about that homeowner's association nazi who thinks your yard gnome is too big?
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I have always admired Microsoft's COM architecture and the relative simplicity that allows you to reuse already installed components
"Simplicity" is probably the one word you can't use to describe that nightmare called COM. COM makes programmers jump through hoops to achieve what plain vanilla C++ (mostly) already provides. Anyone who has ever tried to do a large project using COM (no, that little DirectX Tetris game doesn't count) can attest to the pain and suffering the architecture inflicts on those unlucky enough to have to use it.
CIO : I'd like you to connect the monitor server up to the LAN please
NA : No
CIO : Would you like to choose your replacement or should I? I have almost 100 resumes to pick from!
Don't apologise for stupid users either.
The current Windows virus problem boils down to three parties, equally at fault: The virus writer for writing the virus, the users for running the virus, and Microsoft for allowing viruses to be possible in the first place.
Don't try to paint users as helpless victims, as many of them are complete idiots and doing their best to make the problem worse.
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Treatment of diseases is a HUGE CASH COW. Do you honestly think a drug company or medical researcher is going to give up this massive revenue stream by developing a cure for cancer or AIDS?
Modern medi$ine doesn't look for cures. There's no recurring income in cures. The real money is in treatments that patients have to take every day for the rest of their lives.
Look at any pharm company. They all will say their R&D budget goes toward producing _treatments_ not curing diseases. If they let their researchers try to develop cures, they would be cutting their own revenue stream.
I assure you that Chase, Wachovia, Discover and Citibank are very well aware that the dollar is a "virtual" currency. Small fluctuations in the percieved value of the dollar have large impacts on their business.
If you want your debt cleared (or at least relaxed) you should pray for a sudden devaluation of the dollar vs. goods with "real" values such as gold or your labor. If your $50,000 of debt which is worth a year of your labor today, was suddenly worth only 6 months of your labor tomorrow, you'd be a happy camper.
So relax and be thankful our currency isn't backed by gold!
It's copyright infringement, not a bunch of people sailing around with their swords in the air looting the natives and stashing thier booty (ARRGH!)
Well, this just goes to show that bicycle-riding mechanical engineers can be just as racist as pickup driving rednecks.
It's alarming that big companies like Forbes associate Internet time with TV, using the blanket statement, "media consumption". I don't know about you but as a member of several online forums and an occational website content producer myself, someone who uses the internet as a tool to look up information, I don't really feel like I am sitting here consuming a media product.
Now, don't mind as I once again don my tin-foil hat.
You see this language everywhere. We are all consumers. We consume things. That's our purpose. "They" produce product and push it out, and we consume. Is Forbes's language evidence that big media still doesn't "Get It" with respect to the power of creation the Internet provides to us lowly consumption robots? Does the author really believe that Internet use soley consists of consumption of products?
Or is it one of the many subtle ways large companies push the idea that we are just consuming pac-men, and that nothing we do is imporant unless it involves consuming someone's product.
I think the consistant use of the word "consumer" to describe PEOPLE is evidence that this is a widespread attempt by those in charge (large corporations) to make their world-views come true through the force of subtle language changes.
Ok, off with the tin-foil hat! Good day.
You, sir, are horribly mis-informed.
If you think the current U.S. "middle class" is rich and educated, you better take a closer look. Two parents each working 50 hours a week to pay off the mortgage and cars is NOT rich. Most of what in the U.S. is considered middle class lives to barely break even when you take into account personal consumer debt.
The U.S. middle class _IS_ the proletariat in 1984. They are oppressed and kept powerless not by a big brother-like watchful government (yet), but by the debt brought on by their consumption-based lifestyles.
I won't even get into the education level of the U.S. middle class. Look around you and draw your own conclusions.
You, my friend, have been reading too much Dr. John Gray.
Younger women (under 20 or so) tend to be attracted to physical characteristics and the "bad boy" image (disrespectful and rebellious attitudes toward them and others), whereas older women (mid 20s and older) are more attracted to money (or earning potential, for instance a poor student in law or med school).
I've never met a woman drawn to a man's intellectual abilities. Sure, there may be a few out there, just as there may be a few mutants out there with only one eye.
Geeks, do yourself a favor. Don't hold out looking for the girl that respects your intellectual might or one who shares your love of recompiling your kernel. Get yourself into reasonable shape, and grab hold of the first woman who lets you put your dick in her.
You're right. Homeowners shouldn't have to think about things like door locks. House builders need to get with the program and build houses that automatically detect people leaving, lock the doors themselves and close all the windows. And the home builders should make sure only authorized people can get in the homes they build, because after all the home owner shouldn't have to concern himself with all that technical security stuff!!
Assess consumer reaction if press develop scare stories and develop best messages to pacify.
This may have been modded "Funny" but it's actually quite informative. Of course us anti-corporatists have known this all along, but it's interesting to see these guys being so open and honest about their intent to "PACIFY" the "CONSUMERS". Look at any and all marketing today. It's all designed to pacify us in one way or another... to stun us, blind us, or numb our minds to what is really going on. The goal is to get us to be a bunch of nice passive cows, buying and believing everything we are fed.
When someone brings up a concern, or protests the action of a large corporation or government, the powers that be go into spin mode, "developing the best message to pacify" the people.
I'd love to see these Adolf Hitler try to run for president today. I imagine he'd hire these very same people to "construct a proactive framework to minimise negatives arising" and try to best pacify the pesky human rights folks...
Wow!!! SHADOWED menus??? I can just feel my productivity being enhanced already! This will probably be the killer feature pushing forward Linux on the corporate desktop!!!
Soon we'll have a shadowed mouse cursor, almost guaranteeing Linux's adoption by the pointy haired manager types. The future is now!
I think some of you are going to burn in meta-moderation...
I write a program, and part of it needs to simply read a
Do I _REALLY_ want to pull in libpng and libSDL just to do this? What kind of risks does pulling these libraries in add to my project? How much will this bloat my code? Will users be confused from the different versions of these libraries? What if I one day want to port to a platform that these libraries work on?
Turns out it's usually simpler, easier, and less risky to just roll your own.
This is GREAT!
Imagine if a system were installed nationwide, which detected every crime committed the second it was comitted, and sent a ticket/issued a warrent to the criminal. Practically overnight all the stupid laws that make 95% of us criminals would have to be abolished or the system would collapse under its own weight.
Imagine if everyone would get a ticket each time they exceeded the speed limit. Limits would have to be raised to reasonable levels nationwide, or people would riot in the streets.
Perhaps a little bit of big brotherism is what we need to abolish unreasonable laws.
In April, a 33-year-old California man was arrested and charged with illegally videotaping films - if convicted, he faces up to 26 years in federal prison.
I guess the concept of punishments fitting the crime has gone out of style in the USA?
* (Mom) That doesn't help me.
Now, my mom is not a stupid person.
Yes, she is.
or Quake (I or II, can't remember) they had a hack where they wouldn't need to clear the framebuffer. That version of Quake would do a glClear at each frame, which takes some time, and prior to framebuffer compression, there was a hack where you wouldn't need to clear the framebuffer if you swapped the Z-check and only used half of the Z span every frame.
This is actually not cheating. Nothing in the pixel format descriptor really specifies the PRECISION of the Z buffer, it only specifies the DEPTH. Just because you're only using 15 of those 16 bits doesn't mean you're cheating!
Advertisements are intrusive no matter what form they take. Just because they use less bits and/or are smaller on the page doesn't change the fact that they are unwanted.
Clearly you have never been inside a public school during class hours within the past, say, 10 years.
Of course there are no classes like "Discrimination 101" or "How to Harass the Weird Kids" but I can assure you that attitudes of hate, fear, and ridicule directed towards non-conformists and oddballs are widespread and actually encouraged (through toleration and turning a blind eye) by teachers and school administrations across the country.
Whenever I read about "looking for suspicious activity" I cringe at what my neighbors might be suspicious of. We (at least in the USA) are trained from birth to conform and not stand out. We are taught in school to ridicule and/or fear people who are different--people who look different or behave different. Some of the folks I live near are afraid of people who wear black. Others don't like seeing people walking home after midnight. The problem with letting joe sixpack look for "suspicious" people is that anyone who does anything besides sleeping, going to work and shopping, will inevitably be considered suspicious by someone.
The USA has become a nation of freightened sheep, and the general public is happy to lock people away who don't totally conform to the norm (please compare our imprisonment rates for non-violent offenders against the rest of the world).
Would you want your neighbors to watch you and decide whether you're doing something "suspicious"? How about letting your business competitor decide? How about that homeowner's association nazi who thinks your yard gnome is too big?
should I allow my own cultural consumption to be determined by something other than my own personal taste?
One point the other replies didn't mention:
Have you ever sat down and questioned why you feel the need to purchase "culture" from someone (huge corporation or otherwise)?
Is being a consumer (of culture) an important part of your life? If so, why?