Visual Studio 2008, the current shipping version, is not nearly as effective with intellisense as Eclipse is. In particular, Eclipse actually feels faster when it comes to editing, does a good job with sifting through templates, and has the nice added bonus that integrating assembly is easy.
I mean, come on, integrating MASM for 64 bit assembly does NOT WORK OUT OF THE BOX with Visual Studio 2008. How can you call VisualStudio a serious tool for low level work when they didn't even test it with assembly. That's just crazy.
If only Microsoft's architecture and best practices groups actually worked to leverage the efficiency of the tools, rather than just drain it. The thing about Microsoft is that the tools are good, yes, but then they sell them with these practices and recommendations that just drain innovation and drags all developers down to a lowest common denominator.
It's really, Taylor all over again but applied to computer programming. The problem is, Taylor is what GM and Ford and Chrysler do, and the unions are locked in with. Just like we have pipefitters and machinist titles of varying kind on the shop floor at an old style manufacturing plant, we have guys that are being pushed into the database, u/i design, or middle tier roles, and really, 90% of all projects could be done with one guy putting together a half way decent screen in a craftsmen like fashion.
At this point, Microsoft is headed out just like GM - recruiting a lot of the best engineers, then just killing them in red tape, and delivering products that increasingly fail to captivate their market.
Ultimately, there is always some concept that is simply taken for granted in one's set of values.
But that's religion. Religion is basing your values on anything that can't be proven. You have to believe in some "fundamental human rights". You don't have to have a God to have religion. You can be an atheist and still be a religious fruitcake.
As for the quotation (it's what it is) in my sig - the point is mainly that there's no civilization without organization, and government is just a form of that organization on larger scale; and, of course, it needs taxes (and, broadly, the mandate to use force within certain limits) to function properly. Anarchy can never sustain a civilization for long.
I don't disagree with that. But you have to have consent by the governed, for government to work.
A lot of the "Vista failed" stuff was a bunch of criticism from the Linux camp, and indeed, against that, they one again failed to deliver an answer. Meanwhile, Vista still made quite a few billion dollars.
Now, with Windows 7, they've got Direct 2d, their own Core Audio APIs, its like, some pretty interesting stuff.
I run Linux for these reasons:
a) Linux has a great advantage in the package manager. That just woops ass. b) The installer is better than Windows c) I think there's more opportunity because the user base is so desperate for software d) Linux is free
but, to say that Linux is better than Windows, well, is crazy talk. Linux has its advantages, but for graphics and sound, its really not even close. Windows blows Linux out of the water.
I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization
Taxes don't make civilization. Religion does. If people didn't believe in God, there would anarchy, because really there's no fundamental reason to act civilized.
And the military applications are equally great. Want to attack a country ? How about a permanent rocket launch basis in the sky that does not ever need to come down ?
Have you noticed that powerful lasers are becoming cheaper and easier all the time, that radars are getting better and better all the time? We're getting to a point where anyone with a few grand will be able to shoot down one of these robot chumpies, and why the hell not, they are robots, and noone gave anyone permission for them to spy on me.
That's my answer to spy planes hovering over us.
KILL EVERY ONE OF THEM.
If you want to make them be both really big and really slow and have them go in long slow and predictable circles, hey so much the better.
KDE is not Amiga. When you first saw an Amiga running Deluxe Paint or any of the other things that it could do when it first came out, it was a life changing experience if you cared about multimedia. KDE is an ok desktop. I honestly don't even think it is as good as Windows 7. All KDE is a Desktop shell, control set, and some apps, like Windows Explorer and USER and Notepad, and one that took too long to write and still has no tools.
The thing is, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia at its soul, so it needs a lot of volunteers for initial content, but after that, it doesn't have to change all that much.
So, you still have the death penalty.......the human life is the highest good there is so nobody - NOBODY (including the state) has the right to decide that someone deserves to die - even if that guy killed a lot of people.
We barbarians would note that we would extend the franchise of life to the unborn, whereas you blissfully ignore that. So you can take your "civilization" and shove it up your ass. I mean, you would keep a convicted murderer alive but rip a baby out of its mother and flush it. Wow, you guys have some priorities.
I wasn't. Unlike you guys, we right wingers are capable of self deprecation.
Words cannot describe how much I enjoy their terrified thrashing around now a decent intelligent black man is President. Fun times
Well, at least we know that all of this so-called social justice crap really is the euphemism for hating white people that we suspected it to be. Having heard "finally its our time" and all this other crap from so-called minorities, we can say with great confidence now that 90% of liberal identity politics is just racism. I mean, if, as Jesse Jackson says that it would be stupid for a black guy to vote against the health care bill, then, why should a white guy vote for it?
Kinda interesting they didn't have the dimensions of the solar plane readily available. From the pictures it looks like the wingspan is an easy 100 feet to carry how much, one guy? Wonder how big the wings would be to carry 200 passengers, oh, and where would get the energy to carry them at 600mph? Seems to me solar and flight are fundamentally at odds simply because you need vast surface area to get the energy to reach high speeds...but then, maybe it can work, almost like you optimize
solar powered plane energy = kw * wing area meters ^ 2 - kw * motor * mass * velocity ^ 2. and mass = wing density * wing area meters ^ 2
would have to factor in wind resistance from the giant wings, but that's cross sectional area, I thought, that causes drag, so if you made the wings really thin...
Wow... my system is insecure, once I have a hooptie that can convert XYZ into assembly language, and run it, on my machine. OMFG!!
Why do that like that? Hell, we could even claim that all shell systems are vulnerable to Zork! I could just as easily have a tiny resident thing that can translate text adventure commands to native assembly language and compromise a machine.
r0 = the mail box r1 = the white house r2 = flood control dam #1
leave house. take letter from mail box. it's very dark, you are likely to be eaten by a grue... [oh no, my victim's machine has detected my zork attack! I must do something...] light torch. you have been eaten by a grue! [they kicked me out of the account]
maybe I will have to have a planetfall attack next.
Yes, and you've completely glossed over the point that it is Opera's choice to have that office in China. You've made it seem that the office is pure set of hostages, with poor Opera able to do nothing.
The fact is, you demand a response, but to what? All of your points do nothing but cloud the truth. You deceive through omission. Let's re-add:
1) Opera put those hostages there. 2) They do not need to be there. Why do you need to have an office in China to sell a browser over the internet? Geez, I wonder.
In your non-reality world that may be true, but in reality it's not.In your non-reality world that may be true, but in reality it's not.
No, in the objective world, I'm right, and I can prove it by pointing at any number of reduced human aspirations in recent generations. Ever since the 1960s, humanity has gone south.
it's a very useful skill to have if you're interested in reality
See, I'm not really all that interested in it. Our obsession with reality is overrated because it is culturally acidic. Reality is all about looking down and sometimes humanity needs to be looking up.
"Finally made it to the middle class? So sorry, we are shutting down your shop and relocating your services to a less expensive country with even less paid drones. We're the new IBM... we don't make computers, operating systems. We just make it easier to manage slavery."
This is false. Because of actions like these, the Chinese become increasingly aware of what's going on, as do foreigners.
You're defending this arrangement pretty strongly. Mind you, do you have a stake in it? I mean, I know a lot of companies and people make these kinds of claims and then trot out this line. I am leary of the conflict of interest. Are they really doing it to help the people of China, or are they really just helping themselves? I don't even think they see the difference.
America's artistic value continues to decline with each hollywood blockbuster to be released. No studies whatsoever have been made to test if it could possibly be correlated to poor schooling in the fields of Language Arts, Drama/Theatre, and Humanitarian studies. Up Next, a story about how a 3 legged dog saved a baby.
Dude, all the people with education in the Language Arts, Drama, and Humanitarian studies are the ones turning out the crap we have now.
They've just sold out.
Decades ago, media discovered this: Why make a really deep and interesting exploration and celebraton of American culture when you can make a simple film with a muddied down pan humanistic message and sell it to a billion people, rather than 100 million in the USA alone.
My friends on the right think all of this USA bashing in Hollywood comes because of some socialist bent, and who knows, some of it might, because that's the crowd, but really, its just cashing in. Its easier to sell a film that kinda bashes America to another country than it is to sell a film that says: "hey, isn't America great!". Every artist with half a brain knows that these days, and they are just making watered down meaningless consumer crap because if you put anything in it, it will piss off perhaps an entire country.
I mean, serious, imagine trying to make any artistic work that everyone in Cleveland, Dubai, Berlin, Beijing, Ho Chi Minh City, Tokyo, Cairo, London, Ireland, Warsaw, etc, would actually ALL buy.
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WTF?
VisualStudio supports plain old C++
Visual Studio 2008, the current shipping version, is not nearly as effective with intellisense as Eclipse is. In particular, Eclipse actually feels faster when it comes to editing, does a good job with sifting through templates, and has the nice added bonus that integrating assembly is easy.
I mean, come on, integrating MASM for 64 bit assembly does NOT WORK OUT OF THE BOX with Visual Studio 2008. How can you call VisualStudio a serious tool for low level work when they didn't even test it with assembly. That's just crazy.
If only Microsoft's architecture and best practices groups actually worked to leverage the efficiency of the tools, rather than just drain it. The thing about Microsoft is that the tools are good, yes, but then they sell them with these practices and recommendations that just drain innovation and drags all developers down to a lowest common denominator.
It's really, Taylor all over again but applied to computer programming. The problem is, Taylor is what GM and Ford and Chrysler do, and the unions are locked in with. Just like we have pipefitters and machinist titles of varying kind on the shop floor at an old style manufacturing plant, we have guys that are being pushed into the database, u/i design, or middle tier roles, and really, 90% of all projects could be done with one guy putting together a half way decent screen in a craftsmen like fashion.
At this point, Microsoft is headed out just like GM - recruiting a lot of the best engineers, then just killing them in red tape, and delivering products that increasingly fail to captivate their market.
Have you ever tried finding a small plane 50 meters overhead
Dude, its more than that. 50,000 feet up is 10 miles away. You cannot see or even hear even a pretty big jet at that altitude.
We still manage to act civilised as it's the right thing to do - I don't want people being shitty towards me, so I'm not shitty towards them
But that's still faith, involved in that. I mean, if you walked around with that attitude in New York City..
so let me restate what I wrote:
You have to have faith, to have civilization.
Ultimately, there is always some concept that is simply taken for granted in one's set of values.
But that's religion. Religion is basing your values on anything that can't be proven. You have to believe in some "fundamental human rights". You don't have to have a God to have religion. You can be an atheist and still be a religious fruitcake.
As for the quotation (it's what it is) in my sig - the point is mainly that there's no civilization without organization, and government is just a form of that organization on larger scale; and, of course, it needs taxes (and, broadly, the mandate to use force within certain limits) to function properly. Anarchy can never sustain a civilization for long.
I don't disagree with that. But you have to have consent by the governed, for government to work.
They've pulled a Vista with 4.x,
A lot of the "Vista failed" stuff was a bunch of criticism from the Linux camp, and indeed, against that, they one again failed to deliver an answer. Meanwhile, Vista still made quite a few billion dollars.
Now, with Windows 7, they've got Direct 2d, their own Core Audio APIs, its like, some pretty interesting stuff.
I run Linux for these reasons:
a) Linux has a great advantage in the package manager. That just woops ass.
b) The installer is better than Windows
c) I think there's more opportunity because the user base is so desperate for software
d) Linux is free
but, to say that Linux is better than Windows, well, is crazy talk. Linux has its advantages, but for graphics and sound, its really not even close. Windows blows Linux out of the water.
I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization
Taxes don't make civilization. Religion does. If people didn't believe in God, there would anarchy, because really there's no fundamental reason to act civilized.
And the military applications are equally great. Want to attack a country ? How about a permanent rocket launch basis in the sky that does not ever need to come down ?
Have you noticed that powerful lasers are becoming cheaper and easier all the time, that radars are getting better and better all the time? We're getting to a point where anyone with a few grand will be able to shoot down one of these robot chumpies, and why the hell not, they are robots, and noone gave anyone permission for them to spy on me.
That's my answer to spy planes hovering over us.
KILL EVERY ONE OF THEM.
If you want to make them be both really big and really slow and have them go in long slow and predictable circles, hey so much the better.
KDE is not Amiga. When you first saw an Amiga running Deluxe Paint or any of the other things that it could do when it first came out, it was a life changing experience if you cared about multimedia. KDE is an ok desktop. I honestly don't even think it is as good as Windows 7. All KDE is a Desktop shell, control set, and some apps, like Windows Explorer and USER and Notepad, and one that took too long to write and still has no tools.
The thing is, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia at its soul, so it needs a lot of volunteers for initial content, but after that, it doesn't have to change all that much.
No? Then I guess we'll just have to accept that many persons of color will despise us all, since we all look the same.
As I said, that would be what they call racism.
So, you still have the death penalty.......the human life is the highest good there is so nobody - NOBODY (including the state) has the right to decide that someone deserves to die - even if that guy killed a lot of people.
We barbarians would note that we would extend the franchise of life to the unborn, whereas you blissfully ignore that. So you can take your "civilization" and shove it up your ass. I mean, you would keep a convicted murderer alive but rip a baby out of its mother and flush it. Wow, you guys have some priorities.
ROFLMAO, come on mods, he cant be serious.
I wasn't. Unlike you guys, we right wingers are capable of self deprecation.
Words cannot describe how much I enjoy their terrified thrashing around now a decent intelligent black man is President. Fun times
Well, at least we know that all of this so-called social justice crap really is the euphemism for hating white people that we suspected it to be. Having heard "finally its our time" and all this other crap from so-called minorities, we can say with great confidence now that 90% of liberal identity politics is just racism. I mean, if, as Jesse Jackson says that it would be stupid for a black guy to vote against the health care bill, then, why should a white guy vote for it?
If the weight ratio is too great, you could simply have two planes and suspend the pilot on a line between the wings.
Or you could always go with a solar powered balloon plane.
Kinda interesting they didn't have the dimensions of the solar plane readily available. From the pictures it looks like the wingspan is an easy 100 feet to carry how much, one guy? Wonder how big the wings would be to carry 200 passengers, oh, and where would get the energy to carry them at 600mph? Seems to me solar and flight are fundamentally at odds simply because you need vast surface area to get the energy to reach high speeds...but then, maybe it can work, almost like you optimize
solar powered plane energy = kw * wing area meters ^ 2 - kw * motor * mass * velocity ^ 2.
and
mass = wing density * wing area meters ^ 2
would have to factor in wind resistance from the giant wings, but that's cross sectional area, I thought, that causes drag, so if you made the wings really thin...
That's research?
Wow... my system is insecure, once I have a hooptie that can convert XYZ into assembly language, and run it, on my machine. OMFG!!
Why do that like that? Hell, we could even claim that all shell systems are vulnerable to Zork! I could just as easily have a tiny resident thing that can translate text adventure commands to native assembly language and compromise a machine.
r0 = the mail box
r1 = the white house
r2 = flood control dam #1
leave house. take letter from mail box.
it's very dark, you are likely to be eaten by a grue... [oh no, my victim's machine has detected my zork attack! I must do something...]
light torch.
you have been eaten by a grue! [they kicked me out of the account]
maybe I will have to have a planetfall attack next.
we map floyd to r0
give floyd the...
Hint: Opera has an office in China.
Yes, and you've completely glossed over the point that it is Opera's choice to have that office in China. You've made it seem that the office is pure set of hostages, with poor Opera able to do nothing.
The fact is, you demand a response, but to what? All of your points do nothing but cloud the truth. You deceive through omission. Let's re-add:
1) Opera put those hostages there.
2) They do not need to be there. Why do you need to have an office in China to sell a browser over the internet? Geez, I wonder.
In your non-reality world that may be true, but in reality it's not.In your non-reality world that may be true, but in reality it's not.
No, in the objective world, I'm right, and I can prove it by pointing at any number of reduced human aspirations in recent generations. Ever since the 1960s, humanity has gone south.
it's a very useful skill to have if you're interested in reality
See, I'm not really all that interested in it. Our obsession with reality is overrated because it is culturally acidic. Reality is all about looking down and sometimes humanity needs to be looking up.
But an excellent translation of:
"Finally made it to the middle class? So sorry, we are shutting down your shop and relocating your services to a less expensive country with even less paid drones. We're the new IBM... we don't make computers, operating systems. We just make it easier to manage slavery."
you can't just see something for what it is,
Kinda tough with all the hype.
The moon is covered in helium 3. There, we have to have a manned lunar colony in order to be safe from terrorists!
This is false. Because of actions like these, the Chinese become increasingly aware of what's going on, as do foreigners.
You're defending this arrangement pretty strongly. Mind you, do you have a stake in it? I mean, I know a lot of companies and people make these kinds of claims and then trot out this line. I am leary of the conflict of interest. Are they really doing it to help the people of China, or are they really just helping themselves? I don't even think they see the difference.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
And yet you want a national take over of all the public schools?
Let the local boards do what they will. It's those people's communities, not yours.
America's artistic value continues to decline with each hollywood blockbuster to be released. No studies whatsoever have been made to test if it could possibly be correlated to poor schooling in the fields of Language Arts, Drama/Theatre, and Humanitarian studies.
Up Next, a story about how a 3 legged dog saved a baby.
Dude, all the people with education in the Language Arts, Drama, and Humanitarian studies are the ones turning out the crap we have now.
They've just sold out.
Decades ago, media discovered this: Why make a really deep and interesting exploration and celebraton of American culture when you can make a simple film with a muddied down pan humanistic message and sell it to a billion people, rather than 100 million in the USA alone.
My friends on the right think all of this USA bashing in Hollywood comes because of some socialist bent, and who knows, some of it might, because that's the crowd, but really, its just cashing in. Its easier to sell a film that kinda bashes America to another country than it is to sell a film that says: "hey, isn't America great!". Every artist with half a brain knows that these days, and they are just making watered down meaningless consumer crap because if you put anything in it, it will piss off perhaps an entire country.
I mean, serious, imagine trying to make any artistic work that everyone in Cleveland, Dubai, Berlin, Beijing, Ho Chi Minh City, Tokyo, Cairo, London, Ireland, Warsaw, etc, would actually ALL buy.
Refuse? They would be thrown in jail, and the Chinese office would be history.
Yes, that's what is called doing the right thing.