Note that Valve has recently scrambled to get application software onto Steam. A move they should have done 6 years ago. If Microsoft now moves to implement the Windows Store for Vista/7, Steam might be in some real trouble with regards to market share in the near future, let alone the far future.
They're still accountable to their customers. We can choose to walk away with our money any time we want. Has customer accountability influenced their decisions at all? Well, we've got Goldman Sachs over there, selling Mortgage Backed Securities that are designed to fail to their customers, and then shorting those very same securities. And yet Goldman still has customers...
The customers still have faith here because it isn't 'Goldman Sachs'.. its 'Goldman Sachs, Too Big To Fail' as codified into law sponsored by Dodd and friends.
You mean the law-abiding manner in which they use and abuse your government to pass regulations that support their monopolies (or near monopolies)?
You seem to be confusing Corporations with Libertarians. Perhaps this is your whole problem? Do you have anything bad to say about libertarianism that does not conflate corporations with libertarians?
Note that since 1988, the budget adjusted for inflation is higher than any time during the period 1973 to 1988 (the space shuttle began operational service in 1982)
It isnt that I think we shouldnt invest billions of dollars on space stuff, its that it is quite clearly obvious that NASA is a corrupt government organization shoveling money at corporations willy-nilly.
Feel free to compare NASA's budget 2 decades ago with todays budget. Its about the same. Somehow the technology in the space sector has gotten more expensive over time, unlike the cell phones that you are talking about.
The space shuttle only cost $1.7 billion per craft and only $450 million per launch.. thats the fucking space shuttle!! Now a few weather satellites cost $13 billion to make and deploy? These is corporations gorging themselves at the trough of runaway government deficits.
Why would it take that news outfit $12 billion? Just because it costs government a lot, doesn't mean that it should cost a private entity the same.
I would hope that if it costs $13 billion for some weather satellites, that nobody is foolish enough to pay it. Well, of course the government was that foolish.. but hey.
This works out to a years income for 288,888 people at the median ($45K) level. No, not the taxes they pay.. THEIR ENTIRE INCOME.
Or, with that kind of money you can order the production a whopping 260,000 commercial drones at $50,000 per unit. You can *lose* 71 commercial drones per day for 10 years and still not match the cost of these new weather satellites.
I am amazed at how often the cost that these projects consume doesnt greatly offend peoples senses. $10 billion costs $77 per household. Money like that adds up quickly.. a couple hundred projects like that and you've got the american government in a nutshell.
But the only difference that separate Intel and AMD is that Intel had had a vision, and AMD had not.
yes, the vision to screw AMD out of the market by paying off OEMs to not sell AMD chips right when AMD was building several new fabs to meet the capacity the market leader should have needed.
..and before you say it, Intel was *CONVICTED* of this. Its not just some anti-Intel hype.
The TSA is no longer about security, or even security theater. It is now a jobs program. Can't kill the TSA because that means 60000 more unemployment people, all of whom will be pissed off at whatever administration does it.
Too lazy to search but I do expect that the higher-end video cards have no problems decoding such resolution.
The problem isnt the processing of that number of pixels, its getting content that uses it. For instance, HDMI 1.2 and earlier support a maximum resolution of 1920x1200 at 60 FPS
HDMI 1.3 (June, 2006) maxes out at 2560x1600 at 75 FPS, and HDMI 1.4 (May, 2009) maxes out at 4096x2160 at 24 FPS. Note that the signal rate of both 1.3 and 1.4 are exactly the same, so all that changed was supporting more pixels at the expense of a lesser frame rate.
The television under discussion supports up to 3840 x 2160, which is shy of the max HDMI 1.4 resolution and well over the max HDMI 1.3 resolution. The HDMI 1.4 specification wasnt even finalized until 2009, so nobody was even considering producing more than 1600p before then, so good luck finding > 1600p content.
The fact that games on Linux don't scramble my desktop like they do under Windows IS ACTUALLY A GOOD THING.
The desktop is being scrambled because for various reasons the shell doesnt treat the resolution change as only temporary. You seem to be arguing against the wrong thing. You are arguing against a signal which indicates the resolution change is temporary, by pointing to a shell that disregards that signal.
Whether or not the shell should disregard that signal is a completely different discussion. Clearly the stock windows explorer shell ignores that signal to some extent, but that isnt an argument against the signal.
You seem to be confusing justification with fairness. The GP proposed that it was not 'unfair' -- well, quite clearly it is unfair. Having justification for unfairness doesnt make in fair.
The issue is that some programs change the screen resolution, and different programs take notice and rearrange their windows and icons when a screen resolution change notification takes place.
The problem is that there are no semantics in X that allow a program to change the screen resolution while NOT causing those other programs to do stuff.
This new flag is to signal these semantics. "Hey, we are changing the resolution, but we have this new idea called Exclusive Control over the display, so nobody needs to know that we did it because they cant render themselves anyways"
..and thus, those different programs never see the resolution change and therefore do not destroy the users chosen window and icon layout in their attempt to "fit" the temporary resolution that never should have mattered to them to begin with.
If this is a bad thing, why is it that when I go to one big grocery store, they sell their own made stuff for cheaper?
Your argument might have some teeth if it didn't overlook the fact that the re-branded Stop & Shop bread is made by the same factory that makes the re-branded Big Y bread. They are both selling the same product made by the same factory, just with different packaging.
You can't elect a black president in the absence of white voters.
uhhh... what?
First, try saying something that makes sense..
..then try saying something that actually applies to what you are replying to.
In the Panther incident, they were accused of shouting racial slurs and so forth, which would clearly be with the intent to discourage white voters from even approaching that particular polling station. It was wrong when the KKK did that sort of thing, too.
I dont make the kind of argument that you think I make. For starters, I have never considered a $1000 processor to be a good value unless it was a server chip and had something desktop variants didnt (for instance, significantly better I/O) You, however, seem to think its normal to compare a significantly more expensive processor to a significantly less expensive processor, while conveniently completely ignoring the price.
You are making an obvious statement in a deceptive way. Instead of saying "if you spend more, you get more" you go on about Intel engineers and other bullshit that doesnt fucking mean anything to the truth.. that if you spend more, you generally get more. Well no duh! Thank you captain obvious for conveniently not saying the obvious in order to make a specific brand look better than it should. Now shut the fuck up, fanboy.
If it were true that it wont compile in all cases, then the semicolon wouldnt be needed at all.. the compiler could just insert them in the obvious places. The fact is that there are plenty of cases where you can forget a semicolon and never get a compile error.
A simple example:
int *foo = 1;
int bar = 2
*foo++;
which gets parsed as:
int bar = 2 * foo++;
..a perfectly legal statement, but certainly not what was intended.
How do the Blank Panthers, or any other group, intimidate voters? The ballot is secret, no?
The fact that you voted isnt a secret. Your mistake is in thinking in terms of party lines instead of things like racial lines. This kind of intimidation isnt because you voted for the wrong guy, its because you had the gall to vote at all.
Please. This is Texas. Texas doesnt need to rig the votes to swing right. Its one of the redest states in the union.
The facts here is that (A) The UN can send observers, but under the international agreement they may not violate local laws. (B) Texas laws require that observers register to be observers, and that only people eligible to vote at the polling place may register to be observers at that polling place.
I don't see how either (A) or (B) can be considered unreasonable. What I do see is the unreasonable insinuation that Texas needs to intimidate voters.
People from my State find these hyper-reactions to Voter ID laws hilarious, because my State has had Voter ID laws since the 50's and nobody gave a shit then and nobody gives a shit now because its a very blue state. Its Connecticut. Over half the States have Voter ID laws, but the only time anyone claims that there is a problem with these laws is when its a red state. Hilarious.
Vista sales were crippled because it ran like shit when introduced and lots of hardware was incompatible. The outcry wasnt that things changed. The outcry was that things broke and it used too much resources.
It wasnt the fact that there was an "outcry".. it was the fact that Vista was an obstacle.
I would never hire someone who questioned turnover rates and asked why the position was vacant.
Spoken like someone thats only taken a job that they had to take. Contrary to popular belief, the best time to look for a new job is when you are secure in your current one, as you dont have to take whatever your prospective future employer tries to ram down your throat.
If that prospective future employer is the kind that "will never hire someone who questioned turnover rates," then they only get the people that need the job, not the people that want the job.
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Note that Valve has recently scrambled to get application software onto Steam. A move they should have done 6 years ago. If Microsoft now moves to implement the Windows Store for Vista/7, Steam might be in some real trouble with regards to market share in the near future, let alone the far future.
Whats stopping you now? Its not like Ponzi schemes are something new, or have been prevented by regulation.
They're still accountable to their customers. We can choose to walk away with our money any time we want. Has customer accountability influenced their decisions at all? Well, we've got Goldman Sachs over there, selling Mortgage Backed Securities that are designed to fail to their customers, and then shorting those very same securities. And yet Goldman still has customers...
The customers still have faith here because it isn't 'Goldman Sachs' .. its 'Goldman Sachs, Too Big To Fail' as codified into law sponsored by Dodd and friends.
(psst, Dodd and Frank are democrats)
You mean the law-abiding manner in which they use and abuse your government to pass regulations that support their monopolies (or near monopolies)?
You seem to be confusing Corporations with Libertarians. Perhaps this is your whole problem? Do you have anything bad to say about libertarianism that does not conflate corporations with libertarians?
This graph shows both the nominal value and the inflation adjusted values up to 2005
Note that since 1988, the budget adjusted for inflation is higher than any time during the period 1973 to 1988 (the space shuttle began operational service in 1982)
It isnt that I think we shouldnt invest billions of dollars on space stuff, its that it is quite clearly obvious that NASA is a corrupt government organization shoveling money at corporations willy-nilly.
Feel free to compare NASA's budget 2 decades ago with todays budget. Its about the same. Somehow the technology in the space sector has gotten more expensive over time, unlike the cell phones that you are talking about.
The space shuttle only cost $1.7 billion per craft and only $450 million per launch.. thats the fucking space shuttle!! Now a few weather satellites cost $13 billion to make and deploy? These is corporations gorging themselves at the trough of runaway government deficits.
Why would it take that news outfit $12 billion? Just because it costs government a lot, doesn't mean that it should cost a private entity the same.
I would hope that if it costs $13 billion for some weather satellites, that nobody is foolish enough to pay it. Well, of course the government was that foolish.. but hey.
This works out to a years income for 288,888 people at the median ($45K) level. No, not the taxes they pay.. THEIR ENTIRE INCOME.
Or, with that kind of money you can order the production a whopping 260,000 commercial drones at $50,000 per unit. You can *lose* 71 commercial drones per day for 10 years and still not match the cost of these new weather satellites.
I am amazed at how often the cost that these projects consume doesnt greatly offend peoples senses. $10 billion costs $77 per household. Money like that adds up quickly.. a couple hundred projects like that and you've got the american government in a nutshell.
But the only difference that separate Intel and AMD is that Intel had had a vision, and AMD had not.
yes, the vision to screw AMD out of the market by paying off OEMs to not sell AMD chips right when AMD was building several new fabs to meet the capacity the market leader should have needed.
..and before you say it, Intel was *CONVICTED* of this. Its not just some anti-Intel hype.
The TSA is no longer about security, or even security theater. It is now a jobs program. Can't kill the TSA because that means 60000 more unemployment people, all of whom will be pissed off at whatever administration does it.
Too lazy to search but I do expect that the higher-end video cards have no problems decoding such resolution.
The problem isnt the processing of that number of pixels, its getting content that uses it. For instance, HDMI 1.2 and earlier support a maximum resolution of 1920x1200 at 60 FPS
HDMI 1.3 (June, 2006) maxes out at 2560x1600 at 75 FPS, and HDMI 1.4 (May, 2009) maxes out at 4096x2160 at 24 FPS. Note that the signal rate of both 1.3 and 1.4 are exactly the same, so all that changed was supporting more pixels at the expense of a lesser frame rate.
The television under discussion supports up to 3840 x 2160, which is shy of the max HDMI 1.4 resolution and well over the max HDMI 1.3 resolution. The HDMI 1.4 specification wasnt even finalized until 2009, so nobody was even considering producing more than 1600p before then, so good luck finding > 1600p content.
The fact that games on Linux don't scramble my desktop like they do under Windows IS ACTUALLY A GOOD THING.
The desktop is being scrambled because for various reasons the shell doesnt treat the resolution change as only temporary. You seem to be arguing against the wrong thing. You are arguing against a signal which indicates the resolution change is temporary, by pointing to a shell that disregards that signal.
Whether or not the shell should disregard that signal is a completely different discussion. Clearly the stock windows explorer shell ignores that signal to some extent, but that isnt an argument against the signal.
You seem to be confusing justification with fairness. The GP proposed that it was not 'unfair' -- well, quite clearly it is unfair. Having justification for unfairness doesnt make in fair.
The issue is that some programs change the screen resolution, and different programs take notice and rearrange their windows and icons when a screen resolution change notification takes place.
..and thus, those different programs never see the resolution change and therefore do not destroy the users chosen window and icon layout in their attempt to "fit" the temporary resolution that never should have mattered to them to begin with.
The problem is that there are no semantics in X that allow a program to change the screen resolution while NOT causing those other programs to do stuff.
This new flag is to signal these semantics. "Hey, we are changing the resolution, but we have this new idea called Exclusive Control over the display, so nobody needs to know that we did it because they cant render themselves anyways"
If this is a bad thing, why is it that when I go to one big grocery store, they sell their own made stuff for cheaper?
Your argument might have some teeth if it didn't overlook the fact that the re-branded Stop & Shop bread is made by the same factory that makes the re-branded Big Y bread. They are both selling the same product made by the same factory, just with different packaging.
I would hardly call Google putting their services closer to the top as unfair.
What would you call it if you were the one pushed off the first page because Google rigged the game?
Companies like Google and Facebook "pay you" for your personal information by giving you free service.
You can't elect a black president in the absence of white voters.
uhhh... what?
..then try saying something that actually applies to what you are replying to.
First, try saying something that makes sense..
In the Panther incident, they were accused of shouting racial slurs and so forth, which would clearly be with the intent to discourage white voters from even approaching that particular polling station. It was wrong when the KKK did that sort of thing, too.
blah blah blah...
I dont make the kind of argument that you think I make. For starters, I have never considered a $1000 processor to be a good value unless it was a server chip and had something desktop variants didnt (for instance, significantly better I/O) You, however, seem to think its normal to compare a significantly more expensive processor to a significantly less expensive processor, while conveniently completely ignoring the price.
You are making an obvious statement in a deceptive way. Instead of saying "if you spend more, you get more" you go on about Intel engineers and other bullshit that doesnt fucking mean anything to the truth.. that if you spend more, you generally get more. Well no duh! Thank you captain obvious for conveniently not saying the obvious in order to make a specific brand look better than it should. Now shut the fuck up, fanboy.
In c or c++ not much as it won't compile
If it were true that it wont compile in all cases, then the semicolon wouldnt be needed at all.. the compiler could just insert them in the obvious places. The fact is that there are plenty of cases where you can forget a semicolon and never get a compile error.
..a perfectly legal statement, but certainly not what was intended.
A simple example:
int *foo = 1;
int bar = 2
*foo++;
which gets parsed as:
int bar = 2 * foo++;
How do the Blank Panthers, or any other group, intimidate voters? The ballot is secret, no?
The fact that you voted isnt a secret. Your mistake is in thinking in terms of party lines instead of things like racial lines. This kind of intimidation isnt because you voted for the wrong guy, its because you had the gall to vote at all.
Except that the "permitted by law" part isn't referring to what you think it is. It is in reference to the laws of the national government.
Really? Because I'm pretty sure that there isnt a federal law that prevents you from pulling your pud out and jerking off while observing elections.
Please. This is Texas. Texas doesnt need to rig the votes to swing right. Its one of the redest states in the union.
The facts here is that (A) The UN can send observers, but under the international agreement they may not violate local laws. (B) Texas laws require that observers register to be observers, and that only people eligible to vote at the polling place may register to be observers at that polling place.
I don't see how either (A) or (B) can be considered unreasonable. What I do see is the unreasonable insinuation that Texas needs to intimidate voters.
People from my State find these hyper-reactions to Voter ID laws hilarious, because my State has had Voter ID laws since the 50's and nobody gave a shit then and nobody gives a shit now because its a very blue state. Its Connecticut. Over half the States have Voter ID laws, but the only time anyone claims that there is a problem with these laws is when its a red state. Hilarious.
Vista sales were crippled because it ran like shit when introduced and lots of hardware was incompatible. The outcry wasnt that things changed. The outcry was that things broke and it used too much resources.
.. it was the fact that Vista was an obstacle.
It wasnt the fact that there was an "outcry"
Anyone care to take a shot at estimating how many man-years have been globally wasted finding missing semicolons?
A thousand? A hundred thousand?
I would never hire someone who questioned turnover rates and asked why the position was vacant.
Spoken like someone thats only taken a job that they had to take. Contrary to popular belief, the best time to look for a new job is when you are secure in your current one, as you dont have to take whatever your prospective future employer tries to ram down your throat.
If that prospective future employer is the kind that "will never hire someone who questioned turnover rates," then they only get the people that need the job, not the people that want the job.