How did we get into a Malthusian dystopia all of the sudden? Please just follow your ideals, cancel your internet subscription and go live under a rock.
First of all, you now suddenly went from "wealthy family" to "wealthy slacker". Second, a slacker who spends money for goods and services is obviously better for the economy that somebody who doesn't.
I don't see how multi-generational welfare families are any morally worse than multi-generational wealthy families, yet tons more complain about the former than they do about the latter. Idle is idle. Both are a net drain on society, but in different ways.
The former pay taxes, the latter don't. I don't know what kind of arithmetic or economics you are using, but how are wealthy families a "net drain"?
Pyongyang, September 28 (KCNA) -- On April 15, Juche 86 (1997) leader Kim Jong Il inspected an army unit defending Height 1211 in the frontline area.
The officials accompanying him were worried about his safety because of the rugged road to the height and a thick fog.
When the car carrying him reached the foot of the mountain, the fog suddenly disappeared with the mountain road clearly seen.
The officials were relieved at the phenomenon, but still afraid that his appearance on the height might draw the enemy's observation.
When the leader climbed to the top of the mountain, however, the ridge was covered with clouds all of a sudden.
As he reached the observation post on the ridge, the enemy side was brightly illuminated by the sun.
The officials marveled at the wonder of nature.
After acquainting himself with the situation of the enemy side 1 000 meters away from the observation post, he gave important tasks to increase the unit's combat efficiency in every way and turn the height into an impregnable fortress. -0-
You are getting angry and off-topic again. You won't be able to stop people from using their cell phones in the car.
It is obvious that people do think they can multitask, and many studies confirm that people don't notice the negative impact of their multitasking. There are no surveillance systems clever enough to detect offenders, so higher penalties aren't going to work very well.
A more realistic approach would be to make calls less distracting, for example by improving the interface and improving the sound quality.
Sure there will be a tradeoff, but we already do that with cd players and radios. We accept scraping off dead bodies from the road so that we can listen to some songs while driving.
You can do this with many products. The high-scoring long reviews of a mobile phone are probably written by fanbois, the short ones which list the defects are the ones written by people who know what matters.
Thanks to a very clean and well-though design done from scratch, the Direct3D 10/11 APIs are vastly better than OpenGL and can be supported with orders of magnitude less code and development time, as you can see by comparing the lines of code of this commit and those in the existing Mesa OpenGL implementation.
As somebody who only has little OpenGL coding experience I can't really comment on this.
Hunters also have to pay a fee to dispose of the boar carcass. So some let the animal go to a neighboring territory where the animals can be shot to be eaten.
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How did we get into a Malthusian dystopia all of the sudden? Please just follow your ideals, cancel your internet subscription and go live under a rock.
First of all, you now suddenly went from "wealthy family" to "wealthy slacker". Second, a slacker who spends money for goods and services is obviously better for the economy that somebody who doesn't.
edit: The other way around of course
I don't see how multi-generational welfare families are any morally worse than multi-generational wealthy families, yet tons more complain about the former than they do about the latter. Idle is idle. Both are a net drain on society, but in different ways.
The former pay taxes, the latter don't. I don't know what kind of arithmetic or economics you are using, but how are wealthy families a "net drain"?
Maybe to be physically close to Wall Street computers.
I liked this one:
Pyongyang, September 28 (KCNA) -- On April 15, Juche 86 (1997) leader Kim Jong Il inspected an army unit defending Height 1211 in the frontline area.
The officials accompanying him were worried about his safety because of the rugged road to the height and a thick fog.
When the car carrying him reached the foot of the mountain, the fog suddenly disappeared with the mountain road clearly seen.
The officials were relieved at the phenomenon, but still afraid that his appearance on the height might draw the enemy's observation.
When the leader climbed to the top of the mountain, however, the ridge was covered with clouds all of a sudden.
As he reached the observation post on the ridge, the enemy side was brightly illuminated by the sun.
The officials marveled at the wonder of nature.
After acquainting himself with the situation of the enemy side 1 000 meters away from the observation post, he gave important tasks to increase the unit's combat efficiency in every way and turn the height into an impregnable fortress. -0-
You are getting angry and off-topic again. You won't be able to stop people from using their cell phones in the car.
It is obvious that people do think they can multitask, and many studies confirm that people don't notice the negative impact of their multitasking. There are no surveillance systems clever enough to detect offenders, so higher penalties aren't going to work very well.
A more realistic approach would be to make calls less distracting, for example by improving the interface and improving the sound quality.
Sure there will be a tradeoff, but we already do that with cd players and radios. We accept scraping off dead bodies from the road so that we can listen to some songs while driving.
they specifically mention the fact that if you're tagged in an image your boss is contacted
What a great way to get rid of workplace rivals! This will enable a whole new level of viciousness in company politics!
Seriously, it would take very little work and very little risk to completely ruin someone's career.
If somebody can destroy your career like that, you are in the wrong career.
Here's an idea. Lets read the article and understand it.
He was suggesting text-to-speech
Am I the only one who clicked the video and realized that it wasn't about the death ray two minutes into it?
You can do this with many products. The high-scoring long reviews of a mobile phone are probably written by fanbois, the short ones which list the defects are the ones written by people who know what matters.
I doubt anyone will use Direct3D natively on Linux, except for the Wine developpers.
I wonder if they won't because of technological or ideological reasons
This is what the developer wrote in the commit message:
Thanks to a very clean and well-though design done from scratch,
the Direct3D 10/11 APIs are vastly better than OpenGL and can be
supported with orders of magnitude less code and development time,
as you can see by comparing the lines of code of this commit and
those in the existing Mesa OpenGL implementation.
As somebody who only has little OpenGL coding experience I can't really comment on this.
Why not?
Why would I want to face competition from Temp Engineers willing to work at $15/hour?
Wait - so the companies are bad for not being competitive enough but it is okay when you don't want competition?
Seconded.
GP is flaimbait, you are overrated. Will I be offtopic or troll?
you can override all 2d-context drawing instructions for a specific canvas element
I hope Moxie CrimeFighter Jillette kicks your stupid ass one day.
Hunters also have to pay a fee to dispose of the boar carcass. So some let the animal go to a neighboring territory where the animals can be shot to be eaten.
His wife is doing the suing now though
getting on /.
I try buy products that advertise less (like unheard of brands). I am a simpleton.
Why not try to buy the product with the best cost-benefit ratio?
I have read somewhere that people associate higher framerate with cheap home videos.
Reminds me of how some people like mp3 artifacts now...
Got a 30mbit line here (south germany) and it streamed just fine - even buffered 30% faster than playback