I wonder how many slashdotters still have their Ti-8x calculator from their university/college period? I know I still have it somewhere on the shelf.
And mind you, these calculators are not "outdated". They are designed to do very specific things, no less and no more. Latter is exceptionally important in testing process, where it's crucial that it's the student is tested for his knowledge of the subject, rather than his knowledge of how to program his calculator to solve the problem for him.
I'm pretty sure that of people running away from the browser, almost none are running away because they can't have a stable firefox with 150 tabs open. That's an extreme case if I ever saw one.
And quite a few of us that left firefox because we like having a firefox instead of chromefox have simply migrated to pale moon.
Absolutely do not, ever, try x64 version of any firefox sourced browser. They are utterly horrible and serve no meaningful purpose other than early testing and satisfying masochists.
Use x86 version and you'll find it to be actually functional. I don't know about "awesome", but pale moon is basically firefox base with stripped out UI destruction that occurred since transition from 3.6 and some small changes to make it faster.
I may have. I typically post on slashdot before going to bed, or during insomniac period. At that point, I have in the past confused different posters. If so, I apologise.
Regardless, Sarkeesian, and a couple of others are know to be scam artists preying on gullible people. If you are looking for a debunking of a specific claim in a specific video of this particular scam artist, you can search youtube for a dosen. There are quite a few people, men and women alike who spent a significant amount of time debunking her arguments through use of logic and research.
I will readily admit that I simply don't want to bother to do the same just to participate in the discussion. I apologise if that feels like a cop-out on my part - it probably is. But making arguments that others already made for me does sound like a waste of time.
That's not going to happen fast enough. Our hearing is exceptionally sensitive to timing, far more so than sight. As a result, the only way you get this is with speakers.
I strongly recommend getting a good 5.1 speaker setup if you're into gaming and enjoy positional audio. Vast majority of games nowadays have a proper directional sound implementation in software, so you'll get what you pay for.
To be fair, EAX, while not actually calculating sound based on geometry, approximated close enough. I tested both Aureal's and Creative's cards back in early 2000 and difference was only noticeable if you really, REALLY focused on it in games that supported both A3D and EAX.
And most modern games use a full 3D positional audio with echo, reverb and other functions in software that sound almost as good as real ray traced sound on almost any decent sound codec. Though I still run audigy2 in all my gaming rigs (it keeps migrating into new one as I upgrade and the card is still supported drivers wise!) which still supports EAX in games that use hardware sound over software sound.
Sarkeesian doesn't cite "things". She cites "feminist research". Which in turn cites her as she also qualifies. As a result, the entire thing makes for a nice echo chamber of shills citing one another as evidence.
You'll have to explain that one. I missed how "failing to notice the obvious feature that turned my entire argument upside down" equals "understanding how to construct a critical piece".
In a logical view, that would mean the exact opposite.
She even called out one game "misogynist" when game's ending was about a huge muscular guy falling down and landing on a female character executing a punch upwards. She nails him straight in the balls. Instead she spent about half an hour droning about muscular men dominating women in that game.
Must've taken quite a bit of effort to conclude her work quickly enough to miss moment like that in the game.
Considering that this woan is known for using internet trolls to get a lot of money from well-intending donors and then delivering jack shit in spite of promising a "huge project", I'd say that she's probably in need of money again.
You find pictures and videos of the said floods, hurricanes and so on, dead and displaced people and comparisons made by scientists to be inadmissible as evidence?
Exactly what it says. "Catastrophies are increasing on global scale as well".
I'm not sure where you're looking for evidence either. We already know that there are more catastrophic floods such as recent ones in Central Europe, more extreme winds such as typhoons and hurricanes and so on, and those that appear are getting more powerful. Those things are directly tied to warmer water surface of the oceans.
On your first point, actually it was. Japan is extremely well developed due to being a relatively small island in comparison to its population.
Also, your second sentence is a strawman argument. No one besides you talked about a "global catastrophe". I was talking about "catastrophies are increasing on global scale". If you do not understand the obvious difference, may I suggest lessons in English language before proceeding with this discussion?
Damage isn't repaired to this day in many places. Infrastructure outside large cities an major pathways is still in a bad shape. Catastrophies are increasing on global scale as well, as they are not localized so a single region.
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I wonder how many slashdotters still have their Ti-8x calculator from their university/college period? I know I still have it somewhere on the shelf.
And mind you, these calculators are not "outdated". They are designed to do very specific things, no less and no more. Latter is exceptionally important in testing process, where it's crucial that it's the student is tested for his knowledge of the subject, rather than his knowledge of how to program his calculator to solve the problem for him.
I'm pretty sure that of people running away from the browser, almost none are running away because they can't have a stable firefox with 150 tabs open. That's an extreme case if I ever saw one.
And quite a few of us that left firefox because we like having a firefox instead of chromefox have simply migrated to pale moon.
Absolutely do not, ever, try x64 version of any firefox sourced browser. They are utterly horrible and serve no meaningful purpose other than early testing and satisfying masochists.
Use x86 version and you'll find it to be actually functional. I don't know about "awesome", but pale moon is basically firefox base with stripped out UI destruction that occurred since transition from 3.6 and some small changes to make it faster.
I may have. I typically post on slashdot before going to bed, or during insomniac period. At that point, I have in the past confused different posters. If so, I apologise.
Regardless, Sarkeesian, and a couple of others are know to be scam artists preying on gullible people. If you are looking for a debunking of a specific claim in a specific video of this particular scam artist, you can search youtube for a dosen. There are quite a few people, men and women alike who spent a significant amount of time debunking her arguments through use of logic and research.
I will readily admit that I simply don't want to bother to do the same just to participate in the discussion. I apologise if that feels like a cop-out on my part - it probably is. But making arguments that others already made for me does sound like a waste of time.
I did. You pointedly ignored it, and every single argument I made since and focused on Sarkeesian-style blamefest instead.
I'll just give you yet another "dude" instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Except that there are hundreds of "dudes" including woman "dudes".
Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If anyone ever needed evidence that excessive fanboyism is a destructive disease, I suppose this passes for evidence.
Then this is actually bad news. Samsung got android exclusivity according to some reports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's not going to happen fast enough. Our hearing is exceptionally sensitive to timing, far more so than sight. As a result, the only way you get this is with speakers.
I strongly recommend getting a good 5.1 speaker setup if you're into gaming and enjoy positional audio. Vast majority of games nowadays have a proper directional sound implementation in software, so you'll get what you pay for.
Actually it was originally Aureal's project back in the 1990s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
To be fair, EAX, while not actually calculating sound based on geometry, approximated close enough. I tested both Aureal's and Creative's cards back in early 2000 and difference was only noticeable if you really, REALLY focused on it in games that supported both A3D and EAX.
And most modern games use a full 3D positional audio with echo, reverb and other functions in software that sound almost as good as real ray traced sound on almost any decent sound codec. Though I still run audigy2 in all my gaming rigs (it keeps migrating into new one as I upgrade and the card is still supported drivers wise!) which still supports EAX in games that use hardware sound over software sound.
Sarkeesian doesn't cite "things". She cites "feminist research". Which in turn cites her as she also qualifies. As a result, the entire thing makes for a nice echo chamber of shills citing one another as evidence.
He was talking about warranty replacement choices. Those qualify as "major problems".
You'll have to explain that one. I missed how "failing to notice the obvious feature that turned my entire argument upside down" equals "understanding how to construct a critical piece".
In a logical view, that would mean the exact opposite.
You can disable Aero, which will result in most properly designed software to start looking like it looks on XP.
Just right click on desktop, choose "personalize" and then select "windows classic" theme.
To "Anita Sarkeesian is out of money, lies again to get more well-intended naive people to give her money for nothing".
http://i.imgur.com/zHPLIan.jpg
Several hours of work is more like it.
She even called out one game "misogynist" when game's ending was about a huge muscular guy falling down and landing on a female character executing a punch upwards. She nails him straight in the balls.
Instead she spent about half an hour droning about muscular men dominating women in that game.
Must've taken quite a bit of effort to conclude her work quickly enough to miss moment like that in the game.
Considering that this woan is known for using internet trolls to get a lot of money from well-intending donors and then delivering jack shit in spite of promising a "huge project", I'd say that she's probably in need of money again.
You just admitted that it doesn't, and then in the next sentence, you repeat the original claim.
I love denialist logic. Or lack of it.
Indeed. So has aggregate mortality from the main killers of such floods, known as "infectious diseases".
I'll let you figure out why.
You find pictures and videos of the said floods, hurricanes and so on, dead and displaced people and comparisons made by scientists to be inadmissible as evidence?
Exactly what it says. "Catastrophies are increasing on global scale as well".
I'm not sure where you're looking for evidence either. We already know that there are more catastrophic floods such as recent ones in Central Europe, more extreme winds such as typhoons and hurricanes and so on, and those that appear are getting more powerful. Those things are directly tied to warmer water surface of the oceans.
On your first point, actually it was. Japan is extremely well developed due to being a relatively small island in comparison to its population.
Also, your second sentence is a strawman argument. No one besides you talked about a "global catastrophe". I was talking about "catastrophies are increasing on global scale". If you do not understand the obvious difference, may I suggest lessons in English language before proceeding with this discussion?
Damage isn't repaired to this day in many places. Infrastructure outside large cities an major pathways is still in a bad shape. Catastrophies are increasing on global scale as well, as they are not localized so a single region.