So already I can't get popular titles to run on my kick ass workstation with high end graphic cards and monitors. To play them I would have to buy a crappy console and hook it up to my mediocre TV.
Now, people want to move from that to playing on a phone?
While this is only tangentially relevant to my post, I'll have a try at it.
Like it or not, politicians are necessary. The only alternative are generals, who would negotiate with a barrage of artillery instead of words.
And just as the Geneva Convention outlines the civilized way to kill each other, Diplomatic conventions pretty much outlaw the outright assassination of heads of states and diplomats during anything less than all out war and even then it is not a good idea. After all, at some point, you will want to talk to those who have their hands on the levers of power regardless of the outcome of hostilities.
Assassinating Kim Il whatever the hell his name is would risk a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula and would also risk involvement of China. There is a time and a place for killing SOBs like him, but you need to be smart about it.
And kidnapping/killing foreign nationals who represent a threat AND are hosted by hostile governments, while you may think it distasteful, has been going on for centuries.
The character and proclivities of a person gives you valuable insight that can be useful during negotiations or deciding to even have them or not.
If the supreme leader was actually just a nice guy in a difficult spot, you would approach talks differently than you would if he is a blowhard pedophile.
And you are right about your boss. And what has happened is that someone who works for you has told the world what you really think. Not only about your boss, but what you think about your colleagues too.
Just about everyone considers NK to be a violent, unstable, despotic regime that cares nothing for its population and is run by a paranoid, incompetent and self aggrandizing blowhard that probably likes 12 year old girls (or boys) and is generally someone who would have a good time partying with Hitler.
Now, try to hold some kind of diplomatic talks with them after saying that to his face.
I would bet that if you thought your boss an ignorant jackass, you wouldn't go ahead and tell him that before you sat down for a quarterly performance review.
Your third grade sensibilities regarding truth, while quaint, if taken to heart by any administration are dangerous.
Diplomacy is all about establishing and maintaining relationships among countries. As with any kind of relationship, there will be things left unsaid and thoughts that should never see the light of day.
Imagine if your every thought about your girl/boy friend/mother-in-law, etc. were all made public for them and everyone else to see. I suspect that any relationship you had would quickly sour. Although, I bet many Slashdotters don't really bother with relationships.
The information release does not come close to rising the level of "truth" that wikileaks bleats about being their sole reason for being. Most will acknowledge that Julian is on some kind of paranoid power trip...it's all about him and not what has or will be published.
I find it hard to square the traditional Slashdot zeal for privacy in all things with the rank ambivalence and even "she deserved it" attitude over this particular privacy breach.
So a breach of privacy is fine as long as the person who is the victim is a political enemy?
Trucks and cars have steering wheels, brakes, and gas pedals. To go left, you turn the wheel left, to go right, you turn the wheel right. To stop, you mash the brake and to mash the gas pedal.
If it were languages, you could end up steering right to go left, or pressing the gas pedal 3 time to go faster on this vehicle and twice on this other one..
Sure, there would be things to learn that are unique to jacking around 30,000lbs trucks rather than 2,000lbs cars, but the steering wheel and the pedals and the mirrors would all be in the same place and work the same.
OK..well done.
Not one name called here today...on Slashdot no less.
Of course whether or not to declare a type when first referencing a variable would be a subject for discussion when designing this mythical common syntax.
But each one of my examples simply create a container and place a value in it. How the underlying implementation is done is not relevant to me.
There is no reason each of the languages I cited (as well as any others that use strong typing) should not use identical syntax to do the same thing. (Not the syntax I used, but whatever the "standard" would be.)
DECLARE @MyCounter int; Dim MyCounter as Integer int MyCounter;
All of these contain the same information, the name and the type and in the end, I have a variable that I can manipulate. Yet they rearrange the syntax....why?
And just look at the iterative structures....same thing. They perform the same function, but the syntax is different and I see no reason for that to be so. It is the same through the structure of the language.
These are differences for differences sake. Yet they can prevent someone who has years of experience in VB.net for instance, from landing a job programming in C#.net.
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A few thousand Wikileak supporters are not going to shut down Amazon.
A few thousand Wikileak supporters using DDOS tools can.
One wacko with a grudge can use a botnet to shut down a site.
So if I don't like the comments on Slashdot, it's perfectly acceptable for me to rent a botnet and DDOS shut Slashdot down?
No, Amazon choose not to do business with Wikileaks . They did not block Wikileaks actions in any way.
Wikileaks is free to find someone else to perform what Amazon's former function.
Wishing they weren't there doesn't make them go away.
Essentially they are saying that if you don't agree with them and/or support their cause, they are going to blockade your business.
It's not a boycott and it's not a protest. It is actively interfering with business. No different than parking a cement truck in front of the doors.
If this becomes acceptable, then no one with a web presence is immune to wackos with a grudge or those with legitimate beefs.
The burden of proof is to prove a negative?
Yes, I use it to watch TV, not play games.
So already I can't get popular titles to run on my kick ass workstation with high end graphic cards and monitors. To play them I would have to buy a crappy console and hook it up to my mediocre TV.
Now, people want to move from that to playing on a phone?
Seems we are going backwards here.
We let the U.S.A. hang out around us so that we have access to things like Cajun food, Wisconsin cheese and nice beaches (ours suck).
While this is only tangentially relevant to my post, I'll have a try at it.
Like it or not, politicians are necessary. The only alternative are generals, who would negotiate with a barrage of artillery instead of words.
And just as the Geneva Convention outlines the civilized way to kill each other, Diplomatic conventions pretty much outlaw the outright assassination of heads of states and diplomats during anything less than all out war and even then it is not a good idea. After all, at some point, you will want to talk to those who have their hands on the levers of power regardless of the outcome of hostilities.
Assassinating Kim Il whatever the hell his name is would risk a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula and would also risk involvement of China. There is a time and a place for killing SOBs like him, but you need to be smart about it.
And kidnapping/killing foreign nationals who represent a threat AND are hosted by hostile governments, while you may think it distasteful, has been going on for centuries.
Nonsense.
The character and proclivities of a person gives you valuable insight that can be useful during negotiations or deciding to even have them or not.
If the supreme leader was actually just a nice guy in a difficult spot, you would approach talks differently than you would if he is a blowhard pedophile.
And you are right about your boss. And what has happened is that someone who works for you has told the world what you really think. Not only about your boss, but what you think about your colleagues too.
Consider North Korea.
Just about everyone considers NK to be a violent, unstable, despotic regime that cares nothing for its population and is run by a paranoid, incompetent and self aggrandizing blowhard that probably likes 12 year old girls (or boys) and is generally someone who would have a good time partying with Hitler.
Now, try to hold some kind of diplomatic talks with them after saying that to his face.
I would bet that if you thought your boss an ignorant jackass, you wouldn't go ahead and tell him that before you sat down for a quarterly performance review.
Your third grade sensibilities regarding truth, while quaint, if taken to heart by any administration are dangerous.
Diplomacy is all about establishing and maintaining relationships among countries. As with any kind of relationship, there will be things left unsaid and thoughts that should never see the light of day.
Imagine if your every thought about your girl/boy friend/mother-in-law, etc. were all made public for them and everyone else to see. I suspect that any relationship you had would quickly sour. Although, I bet many Slashdotters don't really bother with relationships.
The information release does not come close to rising the level of "truth" that wikileaks bleats about being their sole reason for being. Most will acknowledge that Julian is on some kind of paranoid power trip ...it's all about him and not what has or will be published.
Janet and Obama are already jealous . Dreaming, 'If only".
I wish a distracted driver would have an encounter with that idiot LaHood.
Don't jack around with Kryptonite. It can leave very nasty burns.
My idea was that with people on death row...life ANYWHERE would be better than certain death here on earth
Mars: The New Australia!
Things didn't go so well for the first colonists.
I find it hard to square the traditional Slashdot zeal for privacy in all things with the rank ambivalence and even "she deserved it" attitude over this particular privacy breach.
So a breach of privacy is fine as long as the person who is the victim is a political enemy?
What's worse, in the UK you can't even shoot the bastard when he does break down the door.
Well, I do see your point, but...
Trucks and cars have steering wheels, brakes, and gas pedals. To go left, you turn the wheel left, to go right, you turn the wheel right. To stop, you mash the brake and to mash the gas pedal.
If it were languages, you could end up steering right to go left, or pressing the gas pedal 3 time to go faster on this vehicle and twice on this other one..
Sure, there would be things to learn that are unique to jacking around 30,000lbs trucks rather than 2,000lbs cars, but the steering wheel and the pedals and the mirrors would all be in the same place and work the same.
OK..well done.
Not one name called here today...on Slashdot no less.
Of course whether or not to declare a type when first referencing a variable would be a subject for discussion when designing this mythical common syntax.
But each one of my examples simply create a container and place a value in it. How the underlying implementation is done is not relevant to me.
There is no reason each of the languages I cited (as well as any others that use strong typing) should not use identical syntax to do the same thing. (Not the syntax I used, but whatever the "standard" would be.)
DECLARE @MyCounter int;
Dim MyCounter as Integer
int MyCounter;
All of these contain the same information, the name and the type and in the end, I have a variable that I can manipulate. Yet they rearrange the syntax ....why?
Sounds like inexperienced programmers. The first 10 languages you learn are challenging, after that it's all syntax and frameworks.
Try explaining that to hiring managers and the HR folks.
I think everyone is missing my point.
For instance, in SQL:
DECLARE @MyCounter int;
SET @MyCounter = 0;
Visual Basic:
Dim MyCounter as Integer
MyCounter = 0
C#:
int MyCounter;
MyCounter = 0;
And just look at the iterative structures....same thing. They perform the same function, but the syntax is different and I see no reason for that to be so. It is the same through the structure of the language.
These are differences for differences sake. Yet they can prevent someone who has years of experience in VB.net for instance, from landing a job programming in C#.net.
I see your point, but the analogy is pretty weak.
This would be better:
Cut Off saw, Radial Arm Saw, Table Saw, Miter Saw.
And to stay with the tenuous analogy, the guy with 20 years experience using the Table Saw is useless to you if you are using the Radial Arm Saw.