Yeah, you're definitely not APK, obviously some other random person who supports APK. Because everyone totally uses phrases like "in computing" in normal, everyday conversation. Yep, definitely someone completely different and obviously not the little bitch who got called out on his bullshit. There is not a single person here who would possibly look at that post and assume that it is the same bitch that got called out. It is obviously someone completely different, maybe the same completely different person who started posting and defending APK at the exact same time when you, sorry I mean he, decided to stop posting as himself. Yes, clearly he has many supporters who are definitely not him just being a little bitch because he got called out and exposed. He's far too clever to do anything like that, and definitely has the nuts to create an account and let everyone know when he's posting.
You're pathetic, APK. Like anyone would stick up for you like that. You've lost, I've won, the argument is over. If you had anything else to show you would have. I exposed your bullshit for what it is, and you know it which is why you're back to acting like someone else. It's pathetic. If you want my answer to your so-called "challenge" then go read that thread again where I exposed your bullshit. I gave the answer multiple times. Maybe between trying to get paid $100 for forum posts you can figure out how to comprehend written language, and add that to your resume.
You want to know what speaks volumes, APK? What speaks volumes is that once I clearly exposed all of your bullshit as nothing more than bullshit, you up and vanished like a fart in the wind and all that's left are your sockpuppets. That's your defense mechanism, once your bullshit sees the light of day you retreat like a roach and throw up your hands to make shadows on the wall, and then you act like no one can tell it's you. I called you out in that last thread, and not a single reply from you posting as yourself, not one. Just your lame third-party bullshit. Yeah, surprise, more bullshit from you, it's crazy I know. Clearly the work of a superior programmer. Whenever anyone with a good position gets challenged they always retreat and hide like a little bitch.
That's why you don't bother to create an account and post as yourself, so you can act like it's not you doing the posting. You are even a bitch in your fundamental approach to posting on Slashdot. Go hide APK, I don't care. Go be a little bitch. Go be proud about a $100 forum post from 8 years. Go be proud about suggesting improvements to a program 16 years ago. Go be proud about suggesting changes that never got implemented. Whatever you have to hold on to. You're just a little bitch, hiding behind anonymous posts. Even though I don't tell you my name, at least I log in, at least you can tell which posts are mine. You don't even have the basic nuts to do that.
And, yeah, keep linking to that thread where I shine the light on your bullshit. Let everyone see it. Every time you pop your head up here again to make one of your stupid claims I'll do the same.
That's a perfect illustration of the problem with the entire debate on this issue.
"I thought" that X was true. Therefore, I'm telling you the conclusion that you should believe.
No one gives a shit what you think. Instead of throwing out some random figure, would it really kill you do to a single piece of research?
Here is one survey, which found that 70% of Americans believe the climate is changing, 41% think it is a very serious problem, 19% say somewhat serious, 9% say not too serious, 22% believe that climate is not changing at all, and 8% don't know. 63% of Democrats and 42% of independents see it as a very serious issue, while 18% of Republicans do. 43% of Republicans think climate change is not happening at all, while 17% of independents and 10% of Democrats feel the same. Of those who believe that it's happening, 34% think it is a combination of natural and man-made factors, 27% think it is mostly human activity, and 8% think it is mostly natural.
If you click on the article in the comment you replied to, there is even more data there. The study there is 2 years older than the one I cited, and it specifically shows (really, without you having to "think" about any 97% number at all) that 87% of AAAS members believe that climate change is mostly due to human activity, 88% of working PhDs believe that, 90% of active research scientists, and 50% of US adults (which is exactly what the person you responded to said).
All of this data, all over the place, and you're still going to say "I thought it was 97%. Sounds like OP is correct." based solely on your own preconceived beliefs, without even attempting to find any data to back up your thoughts. Again, a perfect example of the problems with this whole debate.
You want another great illustration about how well-informed members of the general public, such as yourself, are?
"Humans have evolved over time" All AAAS members surveyed: 98% Working PhD scientists: 99% Active Research scientists: 99% US Adults: 65%
Yeah, and if there's one thing that everyone who is skeptical about climate change has in common, it's that they all love science and the scientific method. They are the virtual embodiment of Aristotle, every one of them.
I really, really hope you continue to link to that thread, APK. I know I will. Keep it up with the "third-party" posts too, that totally helps your case.
It's true. I am so jealous of someone who thinks that being paid $100 for a forum post 8 years ago is something to put on their resume today. 8 years ago the only thing I was doing was winning awards, I really wish that I had instead been paid $100 for a forum post. Well, maybe next year, and then I'll be able to brag about that in 2025. Oh well, back to work I guess.
I don't see any cognitive dissonance in what I'm describing (my god, maybe it's more pervasive than I think).
The reason you don't pre-order the game is the chance that it's over-hyped garbage.
OK, in this case the game was out for several days on PS4 before I "pre-ordered" it. Regardless, even though it might be garbage, it looked interesting enough that I was willing to check it out. I don't put a ton of faith in reviews, especially "professional" reviews (people who get paid to give their opinions). I like to make my own judgment on things like that. That being said, there are very few games that make me interested enough to pre-order. And, especially with the case of smaller developers, I'm willing to give them a good faith assumption that they'll fix any major problems and otherwise listen to the community. Bigger publishers, not so much.
Also in this case, even though I've continued to see a bunch of bad press about the PC launch, I had no problems playing for several hours this weekend. I think I started the game 3 times and it crashed on startup 2 of those times (where I just had to launch it again, and it worked), and otherwise I saw no graphic issues or performance problems. It worked fine, and I think I've only got a GTX 580 or something. I don't regret "pre-ordering" it 1 day before it came out on PC, after it had been on PS4 for a few days.
If you think the price is going to be steady for a while, and you'd like to play the game sooner rather than later, pre-ordering is fine. I "pre-ordered" it last night because it offered an extra ship at the start (is it good? I don't know). Then I spent today forgetting I had even done that until I saw this story. I might try to fire it up, or I might wait for an update or two. Either way, I plan on playing it before the price drops to $30.
The only reason to not pre-order a game that you intend to play soon is if they aren't offering any incentives. Otherwise, if you don't care about playing it soon, then wait a year when it's hopefully cheaper.
If you're talking about who I think you're talking about, he's probably trying to write another $100 forum post. It's been 8 years, it's time to update his resume.
Gee, did you forget a small little detail called The First Amendment ???
I did not suggest a law outlawing religion. It's already happening in several advanced countries, I'd just like to see it happen a little quicker. I'm not suggesting that legislation would make that happen, education will make it happen.
Everyone has faith.
No they don't. See the article above.
If you didn't have faith in your beliefs then why do you even have them in the first place???
I prefer "beliefs" that are fact-based and don't require faith, only evidence. I think that questions like "do you believe in evolution" are ridiculous questions, because evolution is not a belief system. It is a fact which is plainly obvious to anyone who cares to learn what it actually is and bothers to look around the world.
Trading one evil with another another isn't the solution.
I'm glad we can agree on that. Trading Islam with Christianity, for example, isn't exactly progress. It's more of a lateral move.
Are you being obtuse on purpose now? Here, let me copy and paste the answer:
The reason you choose to show more of your work is because I value anonymity and you don't.
There you go.
At this point, you're ignoring my other points, ignoring my answer to your question (which you ask every time we talk, and apparently never understand), and you're pretending to be someone else. I'll consider that an admission of defeat on your part. Way to represent yourself. A 52 year old guy who once tweaked a program, once got paid $100 for a forum post, and who acts like he's someone else. You're really driving home that superiority claim.
Once again, a discussion with you has devolved to the point where it's only pathetic. It's interesting how often discussions with you do that, isn't it?
Take care big guy, best of luck with your text sorting program. Way to go on that whole NCAA thing back in "your day", too bad those are so far behind you though.
It's very well and good that rational people pursue education, but we would still see the same pockets of extremism. The pockets that attack girls for going to school, or tell people that the only kind of education they need is a religious education.
Sorry, are you suggesting we kick them off the planet? Where exactly is "here" that they aren't welcome? I'm pretty sure that Islam is alive and well in all the countries which name it as a state religion. If your goal is to remove Islam as a "problem" for the world then kicking Muslims out of a single country isn't exactly going to cut it.
If you want to continue the discussion then drop the third party act and post as yourself. And, if that was your actual question, you worded it poorly. The reason you choose to show more of your work is because I value anonymity and you don't. What's unfortunate is the poor substance of the work that you choose to show, but I guess that's your choice, just like it is my choice to maintain the relative anonymity.
Way to ignore my entire post though. If you're going to pretend like you're someone else and ignore what I say then I'll take that as an admission of loss and move on.
It is a belief system that needs to cease to exist.
How do you suggest we achieve that? Do you think we should just go ahead and kill 25% of the world's population? Would you suggest that the way to counter an ideology that believes in "convert or die" is to tell all of them that they need to either stop believing or die? What would that make us? Otherwise, what do you think is the best way to go about getting a couple billion people to abandon their beliefs that are over a millennium old, beliefs which form the foundation for the power structures in their countries, beliefs that people would rather fight and kill you over to preserve the power structure instead of abandon? And, for that matter, why stop at Islam? It seems like religion has been holding back real global progress, why not a push to take religion in general out of society?
Haha, you're onto attacks about my weight now? That's what you've come to? Let me think for a minute how much that means coming from someone who doesn't know anything about me. Which is it APK, am I flimsy or a fat chunk?
Something occurred to me when I was driving home last night, and I'd like to share it with you. I'm sure I've mentioned my age at some point on this site, so I'll say that I'm 15-16 years younger than you are. Let's think about what that means.
When you were my age, your apparent crowning achievement, based on how often you bring it up, is that you suggested some tweaks to someone else's program, which eventually became a finalist for an award that it didn't win. That's what you're so proud of achieving when you were my age. So, I look at myself, and where I am at that same point in life. I've gone from an intern while in college to a CTO, I've quintupled my income, I own my second house, drive a great car, have a nice retirement account, etc. I've gotten all of these things based solely on the quality of my work, in addition to the actual awards that were won by projects that I've had direct involvement in. I've redesigned and rebuilt this company's flagship products, I'm upgrading the infrastructure, I built the software that runs the entire business, we're getting contracts to help run entire states, and after more than a year of discussions at varies levels in the Navy we're on the last leg of finalizing the deal to get our software, that I designed and built, loaded onto every ship in the fleet and ultimately give ship commanders the ability to quickly assess the skill levels of everyone on board and figure out if there is a specialist on another ship nearby and having them sent over instead of flying in someone from the mainland at a cost of $30k per pop. Abilities that are going to be considered essential for commanders over the next couple decades, and we're on the ground floor. If I was to compare myself with your so-called achievement, that's like wiping out my resume and replacing it with statements about the people that I've helped on the programming forums that I help moderate. Forget all of the things I've achieved personally and professionally, and instead try to be proud of the guys who I have helped teach how to program or showed how to write more efficient code. I can't imagine being at this point in my life and only having minor things like that to be proud of. And what about 8 years from now? What if I'm 45 and I call up my friends being so proud because someone paid me $100 for a forum post? What if that's the major thing I can show when I'm 45? Holy hell man, I can't even imagine how far I would have to fall professionally in order for something like that to be a highlight. But, there you are, laying out these "achievements" in some misguided attempt to prove that you are superior to me. It's a joke. You're a bullshit artist. Just like when you tried to misrepresent your relationship with Russinovich, now you're trying to claim someone else's program becoming a finalist as your own achievement. You're trying to show a $100 forum post at the age of 45 or so as a reason why I should look up to you. It is stunningly pathetic.
Hosts work on facebook (just tested it) too
So what? Facebook announced 2 days ago that they are going to change how their ads are shown. You're telling me they haven't made that change yet? Who fucking cares? You're the buggy whip manufacturer sitting there with your fingers in your ears refusing to acknowledge the force of progress, just being proud about how great your buggy whip is. Host-based blocking is on the way out. I didn't say that Facebook has already made the change, and I don't see a date for the switch either. I don't care when they make the change, it doesn't matter to me. It should matter to you and your claims of "host blocking is so much better than anything else", but I don't really care when they make the change.
I prove I am YOUR SUPERIOR, easily w/ verifiable proofs
No, APK, you are not my superior. Your "proofs" are $100 forum posts, suggestions on API calls, and out-of-print magazine citations. That is not the work of a superior anything. And you can't prove your relation to me in any case without knowing the first thing about me. You don't know my age, you don't know my name, nothing. You know nothing about me, and only slightly more than nothing about programming.
YOU can't prove you've done SQUAT
The awards are right there on the wall in the conference room for everyone to see. You obviously have to know who I am first, but that's more of a "you" problem instead of a "me" problem.
Hosts work FINE on facebook right now
Are you suggesting they haven't made the change yet? Because I don't know either way. In either case, so what? Change is coming, it's coming and you're going to be obsolete, once again left to show how great you are because you once got $100 for a forum post.
Hosts have been here since, oh, 73 iirc?
So what? What are you going to do when 25%, then 50%, etc of internet traffic is going to web sites that use same-domain ads?
I've been @ this longer I can show FAR MORE that way
Yes, I understand that you're well into your 50s, and yet you're still running around here trumpeting how you suggested a change to a program that almost won an award back in 2000, and how you got paid $100 for a forum post. You are the equivalent of the high school second-string quarterback sitting in a bar telling everyone about that one time you threw a touchdown, as if anyone gives a shit about what your old washed-up has-been ass did so long ago.
I CAN prove all I want. In fact, I AM proving all I want. The sum total of what I want to prove to you about my personal or professional life is exactly zero. Your opinion is as useless and worthless as your so-called "achievements". Of course, we both know that that simple fact isn't going to stop you from claiming victory, as if you're playing a game with me where the object is to prove how shit-hot you are. I'm not playing that game, I've never been playing that game, I have no desire to play that game, but we both know that you're going to continue to prove my predictions right by going around and claiming that I can't prove this or that. You're pathetic, man. Look at you, you're in your 50s crowing about $100 for a forum post, or showing a few lines about using the Win32 API and then not having your suggestions used. Go ahead, regale us all of the tale about when you were in your late 30s and you suggested a couple changes to an application, and then that application almost won an award but didn't. Because that totally makes it sound like you've lived an amazing life, and it totally makes everyone else so jealous of your abilities.
By the way, don't think that I don't notice when you ignore me poking all of the holes in your "achievements". I realize you're ignoring those, I realize you're trying to change the subject. You're about to do it again, you're probably about to try to steer the discussion back towards host files and away from the sad catalog of your life's "work". Your resume looks like that of a college-level intern trying to get real-world experience, but yet you're in your 50s and you're trying to go around here claiming how you're so superior. You are a walking, talking joke. The sad part is that, even though you're also laughing, you don't even get the joke. Everyone is laughing, but you're laughing for a completely different reason than everyone else. Everyone else is laughing at you, not with you. Maybe stop digging and get yourself out of the hole.
Now, go ahead, prove that you have no argument by once again claiming that I can't prove anything about myself.
You're illustrating what I find so funny about you, APK. Look at that list, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001. The only thing you cite since 2001 is a forum post that you got paid $100 for. That's still 8 years ago, you're citing a $100 forum post from 8 years ago, you think that's noteworthy enough to include on your resume. Due to how many times you bring it up, clearly your most valued achievement happened in 2000. That's 16 years ago.
And, are you even going to those links you post, or do you just hope no one will click on them? The first one goes to a page which shows your $100 award, and links to a protected page. Your "article" isn't publicly viewable. Your second link goes to a page asking if I want to buy the domain. Yeah, great reference, man. Make sure you hang onto that one.
in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too)
Yeah, it's so good that they haven't implemented it, and a follow-up later said that they will never implement it. Another great item for your resume, a suggestion you made 6 years ago that got turned down. What was your amazing suggestion? How to make a few Win32 API calls. Truly, that's groundbreaking work.
You apparently have some shareware that got occasionally mentioned in the late 90s, you once wrote a forum post that you got paid $100 for, you made some suggestions which got turned down (and an icon, I don't want to forget the icon and rob you of one of your "achievements"!), and then you wrote a glorified text sorting program which you decided to spam endlessly for some reason. This is your contribution to computing which you think is so shit-hot, you love talking about what a great programmer you are but your achievements over the past decade apparently amount to making HTTP requests, getting a response, sorting some text, and writing a file. This is year 1 computer science work, but that doesn't stop you from repeating over and over how this one time in 2000 you made a contribution to someone else's product which almost won an award at a Microsoft conference. Not your work that almost but didn't win, but their program which you probably contributed to by showing them how to make a few API calls. And you use all of this crap to portray yourself as some genius programmer. It's a giant shit facade APK. You're not fooling anyone other than yourself. Meanwhile, in that time the projects I've worked on have also been submitted for awards. We submitted in a smaller custom software category, and the judges decided to move it into the largest general technology category and then award us a gold. They awarded multiple golds, but we got one of them, and companies like Microsoft, Adobe, Intel, Cisco, etc got silvers and bronzes. But you don't see me shitting all over Slashdot trying to point out stuff like that, and you know why? Because that happened 10 years ago, I've done a lot of stuff since then and I'm not dwelling on all these old awards or whatever focusing on how great I think I am. I'm worried about the work I'm doing now, not what all I've done in the past. But hey man, you keep telling everyone about that time you got paid $100 for a forum post, because that's totally impressive to people who definitely aren't first-year computer science students. Seriously though, if you want to find people who are impressed by your "achievements" then you should really consider becoming a teacher at your local community college. You may actually be able to impress the people who show up for their intro classes. I'm not going to guarantee it, but it's at least possible.
This is what you work so hard to prove, the only thing you've proven is that you're nothing more than a paper tiger. And you probably still wonder why I refuse to identify myself and my work to you. Your opinion of me means nothing because you don't know who I am or what I work on. You talk out of your ass and act like what's coming out is pure brilliance. You're
I don't know anyone who has or needs anywhere close to this amount if storage.
An enterprise SSD drive is not targeted at individuals, it is targeted at companies. Hence the "enterprise" designation. A single drive that large would potentially replace an entire RAID array, although you're obviously going to trade some performance and reliability, but it's a great place for storing large long-term backup images.
You're a funny guy, APK, back again with all of your posts posing as a third party. Yeah man, no one can tell that's you at all, you're just that clever.
Maybe one day I'll tell you about the deal that sees my software running on every ship in the US Navy fleet, as well as shore installations. Until then, have fun with your text management algorithms.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, you're definitely not APK, obviously some other random person who supports APK. Because everyone totally uses phrases like "in computing" in normal, everyday conversation. Yep, definitely someone completely different and obviously not the little bitch who got called out on his bullshit. There is not a single person here who would possibly look at that post and assume that it is the same bitch that got called out. It is obviously someone completely different, maybe the same completely different person who started posting and defending APK at the exact same time when you, sorry I mean he, decided to stop posting as himself. Yes, clearly he has many supporters who are definitely not him just being a little bitch because he got called out and exposed. He's far too clever to do anything like that, and definitely has the nuts to create an account and let everyone know when he's posting.
You're pathetic, APK. Like anyone would stick up for you like that. You've lost, I've won, the argument is over. If you had anything else to show you would have. I exposed your bullshit for what it is, and you know it which is why you're back to acting like someone else. It's pathetic. If you want my answer to your so-called "challenge" then go read that thread again where I exposed your bullshit. I gave the answer multiple times. Maybe between trying to get paid $100 for forum posts you can figure out how to comprehend written language, and add that to your resume.
Yes APK, I read that exchange too. I'm glad you did, even though you chose to retreat and stop responding, because you're a pussy.
You want to know what speaks volumes, APK? What speaks volumes is that once I clearly exposed all of your bullshit as nothing more than bullshit, you up and vanished like a fart in the wind and all that's left are your sockpuppets. That's your defense mechanism, once your bullshit sees the light of day you retreat like a roach and throw up your hands to make shadows on the wall, and then you act like no one can tell it's you. I called you out in that last thread, and not a single reply from you posting as yourself, not one. Just your lame third-party bullshit. Yeah, surprise, more bullshit from you, it's crazy I know. Clearly the work of a superior programmer. Whenever anyone with a good position gets challenged they always retreat and hide like a little bitch.
That's why you don't bother to create an account and post as yourself, so you can act like it's not you doing the posting. You are even a bitch in your fundamental approach to posting on Slashdot. Go hide APK, I don't care. Go be a little bitch. Go be proud about a $100 forum post from 8 years. Go be proud about suggesting improvements to a program 16 years ago. Go be proud about suggesting changes that never got implemented. Whatever you have to hold on to. You're just a little bitch, hiding behind anonymous posts. Even though I don't tell you my name, at least I log in, at least you can tell which posts are mine. You don't even have the basic nuts to do that.
And, yeah, keep linking to that thread where I shine the light on your bullshit. Let everyone see it. Every time you pop your head up here again to make one of your stupid claims I'll do the same.
That's a perfect illustration of the problem with the entire debate on this issue.
"I thought" that X was true. Therefore, I'm telling you the conclusion that you should believe.
No one gives a shit what you think. Instead of throwing out some random figure, would it really kill you do to a single piece of research?
Here is one survey, which found that 70% of Americans believe the climate is changing, 41% think it is a very serious problem, 19% say somewhat serious, 9% say not too serious, 22% believe that climate is not changing at all, and 8% don't know. 63% of Democrats and 42% of independents see it as a very serious issue, while 18% of Republicans do. 43% of Republicans think climate change is not happening at all, while 17% of independents and 10% of Democrats feel the same. Of those who believe that it's happening, 34% think it is a combination of natural and man-made factors, 27% think it is mostly human activity, and 8% think it is mostly natural.
If you click on the article in the comment you replied to, there is even more data there. The study there is 2 years older than the one I cited, and it specifically shows (really, without you having to "think" about any 97% number at all) that 87% of AAAS members believe that climate change is mostly due to human activity, 88% of working PhDs believe that, 90% of active research scientists, and 50% of US adults (which is exactly what the person you responded to said).
All of this data, all over the place, and you're still going to say "I thought it was 97%. Sounds like OP is correct." based solely on your own preconceived beliefs, without even attempting to find any data to back up your thoughts. Again, a perfect example of the problems with this whole debate.
You want another great illustration about how well-informed members of the general public, such as yourself, are?
"Humans have evolved over time"
All AAAS members surveyed: 98%
Working PhD scientists: 99%
Active Research scientists: 99%
US Adults: 65%
Yeah, and if there's one thing that everyone who is skeptical about climate change has in common, it's that they all love science and the scientific method. They are the virtual embodiment of Aristotle, every one of them.
Anything less is religion.
Thanks for the lecture, Archangel Michael.
I really, really hope you continue to link to that thread, APK. I know I will. Keep it up with the "third-party" posts too, that totally helps your case.
It's true. I am so jealous of someone who thinks that being paid $100 for a forum post 8 years ago is something to put on their resume today. 8 years ago the only thing I was doing was winning awards, I really wish that I had instead been paid $100 for a forum post. Well, maybe next year, and then I'll be able to brag about that in 2025. Oh well, back to work I guess.
I don't see any cognitive dissonance in what I'm describing (my god, maybe it's more pervasive than I think).
The reason you don't pre-order the game is the chance that it's over-hyped garbage.
OK, in this case the game was out for several days on PS4 before I "pre-ordered" it. Regardless, even though it might be garbage, it looked interesting enough that I was willing to check it out. I don't put a ton of faith in reviews, especially "professional" reviews (people who get paid to give their opinions). I like to make my own judgment on things like that. That being said, there are very few games that make me interested enough to pre-order. And, especially with the case of smaller developers, I'm willing to give them a good faith assumption that they'll fix any major problems and otherwise listen to the community. Bigger publishers, not so much.
Also in this case, even though I've continued to see a bunch of bad press about the PC launch, I had no problems playing for several hours this weekend. I think I started the game 3 times and it crashed on startup 2 of those times (where I just had to launch it again, and it worked), and otherwise I saw no graphic issues or performance problems. It worked fine, and I think I've only got a GTX 580 or something. I don't regret "pre-ordering" it 1 day before it came out on PC, after it had been on PS4 for a few days.
If you think the price is going to be steady for a while, and you'd like to play the game sooner rather than later, pre-ordering is fine. I "pre-ordered" it last night because it offered an extra ship at the start (is it good? I don't know). Then I spent today forgetting I had even done that until I saw this story. I might try to fire it up, or I might wait for an update or two. Either way, I plan on playing it before the price drops to $30.
The only reason to not pre-order a game that you intend to play soon is if they aren't offering any incentives. Otherwise, if you don't care about playing it soon, then wait a year when it's hopefully cheaper.
If you're talking about who I think you're talking about, he's probably trying to write another $100 forum post. It's been 8 years, it's time to update his resume.
the writers of the "gospels"
Who are those people, anyway? Who wrote the gospels? And when did they write them? And were they edited?
FTFY
No, you didn't.
Gee, did you forget a small little detail called The First Amendment ???
I did not suggest a law outlawing religion. It's already happening in several advanced countries, I'd just like to see it happen a little quicker. I'm not suggesting that legislation would make that happen, education will make it happen.
Everyone has faith.
No they don't. See the article above.
If you didn't have faith in your beliefs then why do you even have them in the first place???
I prefer "beliefs" that are fact-based and don't require faith, only evidence. I think that questions like "do you believe in evolution" are ridiculous questions, because evolution is not a belief system. It is a fact which is plainly obvious to anyone who cares to learn what it actually is and bothers to look around the world.
Trading one evil with another another isn't the solution.
I'm glad we can agree on that. Trading Islam with Christianity, for example, isn't exactly progress. It's more of a lateral move.
Are you being obtuse on purpose now? Here, let me copy and paste the answer:
The reason you choose to show more of your work is because I value anonymity and you don't.
There you go.
At this point, you're ignoring my other points, ignoring my answer to your question (which you ask every time we talk, and apparently never understand), and you're pretending to be someone else. I'll consider that an admission of defeat on your part. Way to represent yourself. A 52 year old guy who once tweaked a program, once got paid $100 for a forum post, and who acts like he's someone else. You're really driving home that superiority claim.
Once again, a discussion with you has devolved to the point where it's only pathetic. It's interesting how often discussions with you do that, isn't it?
Take care big guy, best of luck with your text sorting program. Way to go on that whole NCAA thing back in "your day", too bad those are so far behind you though.
pus or minus
That's the name of my Gwar cover band.
It's very well and good that rational people pursue education, but we would still see the same pockets of extremism. The pockets that attack girls for going to school, or tell people that the only kind of education they need is a religious education.
Sorry, are you suggesting we kick them off the planet? Where exactly is "here" that they aren't welcome? I'm pretty sure that Islam is alive and well in all the countries which name it as a state religion. If your goal is to remove Islam as a "problem" for the world then kicking Muslims out of a single country isn't exactly going to cut it.
If you want to continue the discussion then drop the third party act and post as yourself. And, if that was your actual question, you worded it poorly. The reason you choose to show more of your work is because I value anonymity and you don't. What's unfortunate is the poor substance of the work that you choose to show, but I guess that's your choice, just like it is my choice to maintain the relative anonymity.
Way to ignore my entire post though. If you're going to pretend like you're someone else and ignore what I say then I'll take that as an admission of loss and move on.
It is a belief system that needs to cease to exist.
How do you suggest we achieve that? Do you think we should just go ahead and kill 25% of the world's population? Would you suggest that the way to counter an ideology that believes in "convert or die" is to tell all of them that they need to either stop believing or die? What would that make us? Otherwise, what do you think is the best way to go about getting a couple billion people to abandon their beliefs that are over a millennium old, beliefs which form the foundation for the power structures in their countries, beliefs that people would rather fight and kill you over to preserve the power structure instead of abandon? And, for that matter, why stop at Islam? It seems like religion has been holding back real global progress, why not a push to take religion in general out of society?
Haha, you're onto attacks about my weight now? That's what you've come to? Let me think for a minute how much that means coming from someone who doesn't know anything about me. Which is it APK, am I flimsy or a fat chunk?
Something occurred to me when I was driving home last night, and I'd like to share it with you. I'm sure I've mentioned my age at some point on this site, so I'll say that I'm 15-16 years younger than you are. Let's think about what that means.
When you were my age, your apparent crowning achievement, based on how often you bring it up, is that you suggested some tweaks to someone else's program, which eventually became a finalist for an award that it didn't win. That's what you're so proud of achieving when you were my age. So, I look at myself, and where I am at that same point in life. I've gone from an intern while in college to a CTO, I've quintupled my income, I own my second house, drive a great car, have a nice retirement account, etc. I've gotten all of these things based solely on the quality of my work, in addition to the actual awards that were won by projects that I've had direct involvement in. I've redesigned and rebuilt this company's flagship products, I'm upgrading the infrastructure, I built the software that runs the entire business, we're getting contracts to help run entire states, and after more than a year of discussions at varies levels in the Navy we're on the last leg of finalizing the deal to get our software, that I designed and built, loaded onto every ship in the fleet and ultimately give ship commanders the ability to quickly assess the skill levels of everyone on board and figure out if there is a specialist on another ship nearby and having them sent over instead of flying in someone from the mainland at a cost of $30k per pop. Abilities that are going to be considered essential for commanders over the next couple decades, and we're on the ground floor. If I was to compare myself with your so-called achievement, that's like wiping out my resume and replacing it with statements about the people that I've helped on the programming forums that I help moderate. Forget all of the things I've achieved personally and professionally, and instead try to be proud of the guys who I have helped teach how to program or showed how to write more efficient code. I can't imagine being at this point in my life and only having minor things like that to be proud of. And what about 8 years from now? What if I'm 45 and I call up my friends being so proud because someone paid me $100 for a forum post? What if that's the major thing I can show when I'm 45? Holy hell man, I can't even imagine how far I would have to fall professionally in order for something like that to be a highlight. But, there you are, laying out these "achievements" in some misguided attempt to prove that you are superior to me. It's a joke. You're a bullshit artist. Just like when you tried to misrepresent your relationship with Russinovich, now you're trying to claim someone else's program becoming a finalist as your own achievement. You're trying to show a $100 forum post at the age of 45 or so as a reason why I should look up to you. It is stunningly pathetic.
Hosts work on facebook (just tested it) too
So what? Facebook announced 2 days ago that they are going to change how their ads are shown. You're telling me they haven't made that change yet? Who fucking cares? You're the buggy whip manufacturer sitting there with your fingers in your ears refusing to acknowledge the force of progress, just being proud about how great your buggy whip is. Host-based blocking is on the way out. I didn't say that Facebook has already made the change, and I don't see a date for the switch either. I don't care when they make the change, it doesn't matter to me. It should matter to you and your claims of "host blocking is so much better than anything else", but I don't really care when they make the change.
Nope... 1st stri
I prove I am YOUR SUPERIOR, easily w/ verifiable proofs
No, APK, you are not my superior. Your "proofs" are $100 forum posts, suggestions on API calls, and out-of-print magazine citations. That is not the work of a superior anything. And you can't prove your relation to me in any case without knowing the first thing about me. You don't know my age, you don't know my name, nothing. You know nothing about me, and only slightly more than nothing about programming.
YOU can't prove you've done SQUAT
The awards are right there on the wall in the conference room for everyone to see. You obviously have to know who I am first, but that's more of a "you" problem instead of a "me" problem.
Hosts work FINE on facebook right now
Are you suggesting they haven't made the change yet? Because I don't know either way. In either case, so what? Change is coming, it's coming and you're going to be obsolete, once again left to show how great you are because you once got $100 for a forum post.
Hosts have been here since, oh, 73 iirc?
So what? What are you going to do when 25%, then 50%, etc of internet traffic is going to web sites that use same-domain ads?
I've been @ this longer I can show FAR MORE that way
Yes, I understand that you're well into your 50s, and yet you're still running around here trumpeting how you suggested a change to a program that almost won an award back in 2000, and how you got paid $100 for a forum post. You are the equivalent of the high school second-string quarterback sitting in a bar telling everyone about that one time you threw a touchdown, as if anyone gives a shit about what your old washed-up has-been ass did so long ago.
I CAN prove all I want. In fact, I AM proving all I want. The sum total of what I want to prove to you about my personal or professional life is exactly zero. Your opinion is as useless and worthless as your so-called "achievements". Of course, we both know that that simple fact isn't going to stop you from claiming victory, as if you're playing a game with me where the object is to prove how shit-hot you are. I'm not playing that game, I've never been playing that game, I have no desire to play that game, but we both know that you're going to continue to prove my predictions right by going around and claiming that I can't prove this or that. You're pathetic, man. Look at you, you're in your 50s crowing about $100 for a forum post, or showing a few lines about using the Win32 API and then not having your suggestions used. Go ahead, regale us all of the tale about when you were in your late 30s and you suggested a couple changes to an application, and then that application almost won an award but didn't. Because that totally makes it sound like you've lived an amazing life, and it totally makes everyone else so jealous of your abilities.
By the way, don't think that I don't notice when you ignore me poking all of the holes in your "achievements". I realize you're ignoring those, I realize you're trying to change the subject. You're about to do it again, you're probably about to try to steer the discussion back towards host files and away from the sad catalog of your life's "work". Your resume looks like that of a college-level intern trying to get real-world experience, but yet you're in your 50s and you're trying to go around here claiming how you're so superior. You are a walking, talking joke. The sad part is that, even though you're also laughing, you don't even get the joke. Everyone is laughing, but you're laughing for a completely different reason than everyone else. Everyone else is laughing at you, not with you. Maybe stop digging and get yourself out of the hole.
Now, go ahead, prove that you have no argument by once again claiming that I can't prove anything about myself.
You're illustrating what I find so funny about you, APK. Look at that list, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001. The only thing you cite since 2001 is a forum post that you got paid $100 for. That's still 8 years ago, you're citing a $100 forum post from 8 years ago, you think that's noteworthy enough to include on your resume. Due to how many times you bring it up, clearly your most valued achievement happened in 2000. That's 16 years ago.
And, are you even going to those links you post, or do you just hope no one will click on them? The first one goes to a page which shows your $100 award, and links to a protected page. Your "article" isn't publicly viewable. Your second link goes to a page asking if I want to buy the domain. Yeah, great reference, man. Make sure you hang onto that one.
in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too)
Yeah, it's so good that they haven't implemented it, and a follow-up later said that they will never implement it. Another great item for your resume, a suggestion you made 6 years ago that got turned down. What was your amazing suggestion? How to make a few Win32 API calls. Truly, that's groundbreaking work.
You apparently have some shareware that got occasionally mentioned in the late 90s, you once wrote a forum post that you got paid $100 for, you made some suggestions which got turned down (and an icon, I don't want to forget the icon and rob you of one of your "achievements"!), and then you wrote a glorified text sorting program which you decided to spam endlessly for some reason. This is your contribution to computing which you think is so shit-hot, you love talking about what a great programmer you are but your achievements over the past decade apparently amount to making HTTP requests, getting a response, sorting some text, and writing a file. This is year 1 computer science work, but that doesn't stop you from repeating over and over how this one time in 2000 you made a contribution to someone else's product which almost won an award at a Microsoft conference. Not your work that almost but didn't win, but their program which you probably contributed to by showing them how to make a few API calls. And you use all of this crap to portray yourself as some genius programmer. It's a giant shit facade APK. You're not fooling anyone other than yourself. Meanwhile, in that time the projects I've worked on have also been submitted for awards. We submitted in a smaller custom software category, and the judges decided to move it into the largest general technology category and then award us a gold. They awarded multiple golds, but we got one of them, and companies like Microsoft, Adobe, Intel, Cisco, etc got silvers and bronzes. But you don't see me shitting all over Slashdot trying to point out stuff like that, and you know why? Because that happened 10 years ago, I've done a lot of stuff since then and I'm not dwelling on all these old awards or whatever focusing on how great I think I am. I'm worried about the work I'm doing now, not what all I've done in the past. But hey man, you keep telling everyone about that time you got paid $100 for a forum post, because that's totally impressive to people who definitely aren't first-year computer science students. Seriously though, if you want to find people who are impressed by your "achievements" then you should really consider becoming a teacher at your local community college. You may actually be able to impress the people who show up for their intro classes. I'm not going to guarantee it, but it's at least possible.
This is what you work so hard to prove, the only thing you've proven is that you're nothing more than a paper tiger. And you probably still wonder why I refuse to identify myself and my work to you. Your opinion of me means nothing because you don't know who I am or what I work on. You talk out of your ass and act like what's coming out is pure brilliance. You're
I don't know anyone who has or needs anywhere close to this amount if storage.
An enterprise SSD drive is not targeted at individuals, it is targeted at companies. Hence the "enterprise" designation. A single drive that large would potentially replace an entire RAID array, although you're obviously going to trade some performance and reliability, but it's a great place for storing large long-term backup images.
You're a funny guy, APK, back again with all of your posts posing as a third party. Yeah man, no one can tell that's you at all, you're just that clever.
Maybe one day I'll tell you about the deal that sees my software running on every ship in the US Navy fleet, as well as shore installations. Until then, have fun with your text management algorithms.
you'll NEVER be in my league
I know, I've already graduated from college. It's pretty hard to un-learn everything that would be required to drop me back down to your level.
as far as I'm concerned
This should be appended to all of your statements. "As far as I'm concerned". In other words, "in my opinion", which is worth precisely nothing.