There's an invite-only group of very rich people meeting every now and then in the (not-quite-)secret and deciding about international politics called the Bilderberg Group.
Corporate "donations" are the main income of both parties, and most large corporations donate to both parties (red flag right there).
Many politicians are heavily invested in some of those companies (see GWB and Haliburton for example), thus creating a conflict-of-interest nobody seems to care about.
Policies don't seem to change, even though a major switch from Republicans to Democrats happened in recent years. A similar switch happened in the UK recently, and there laws get repealed left and right, and they're even setting up a way for people to vote on what laws should be removed. In Germany, a recent government switch caused the new internet site blacklist law to be effectively repealed. In the US, Obama continues to invest heavily in GWB's war he said he'd move out of just before the elections.
These are all known facts. There doesn't need to be a deep-set conspiracy to point to the conclusion I gave. US policy is decided by very rich people and large corporations, both of which don't change when the elected officials change.
All the abuses of King George III on America are very similar to the abuses we suffer under our recent presidents and congresses.
That's because the government structure is very similar. Back then, you had a king appointed by nobody that did whatever he wanted. Nowadays, you have two puppets up for a pseudo-election, while the real legislative power is directed by people most citizens don't even know about (see Bilderberg Group for example). Since they're operating in the dark and are not elected, they also can do whatever they want.
Maybe that sounds a little bit tinfoil-hattish, but that's the most straight-forward way I could think of to explain the US government's behavior in the last decade.
Just last week, we learned that once you have a stack of enough semi-transparent layers (combination of PNGs with alpha channels coupled with DIVs with various opacity CSS settings), IE fails to render the top-most layers. This doesn't happen after 20-30 layers. This happens after 5-7 layers.
You're right that this is a bug. However, please also consider that your workaround has an additional bonus: Even when it works, drawing so many layers on top of each other ("overdraw" in computer graphics lingo) is a great performance strain. You might not notice it on your superfast gaming PC, but please also consider slower devices like netbooks, mobile phones and tablets. The iPad would probably render it correctly, but I guess at a single frame per second, maybe even less.
All the computer science uber-gods were mathematicians, physicists and engineers by training anyway.
From personal experience (FYI I'm one of those CS guys) I can tell you that those are the worst programmers you can find. They do know their stuff and are able to implement it so that it runs, but the code is absolutely unmaintainable.
I just inherited a 1661 line C file written by a mathematician implementing a very sophisticated calculation. It doesn't use any proper indentation and variable names that are character combinations that only make sense to the author (like "trsAcc", "wtrPOI" and "fmew"). It works fine, but he asked me to throw it all away, rewrite it from scratch with a proper API and readable code. Well, that's what I'm here for. It took me a while to salvage the algorithm from the old file though (had to translate it line by line to proper mathematical formulas).
If someone with such a low UID (well, not really *that* low, but still that account has to be more than 10 years old) hasn't hit the karma cap yet, there's something seriously wrong.
Well, taking your estimate, that's still in my lifetime (assuming that I don't meet an untimely demise).
Concerning usage scenarios, I can think of some. For example, I'm working on fluid simulations where you can easily generate a GB of data per second even today. Those will become pretty popular once the hardware limitations (RAM and processing power) aren't that much of a concern any more, and this technique scales up endlessly.
One additional use case would be using CT-like scans for movies. Then you could watch it in any angle you'd like. That's also a huge dataset.
There's a huge difference between having the option and whether the number of men actually doing it is statistically significant.
I don't have any statistics, but in my culture here in central Europe, it's pretty much unthinkable that the man stays at home raising the child while the mother is out earning the money. That's not even considered by anybody (except in hypothetical discussions), even though the laws are there.
And no, that's not sexist, that's just perceiving and analyzing the culture.
If you'd read the article, you'd know that they were talking about merging UIKit into AppKit, not the OS as a whole (bad summary there, though).
A lot of stuff in UIKit is done the way it'd be done in AppKit were it created today. For example, in UIKit every view is automatically OpenGL-backed (via Core Animation). In AppKit, you have to enable that on a per-view basis, because it can cause problems (for example, WebViews always stay blank that way). Further, the Obj-C 32bit runtime on Mac OS X is the old one from the NeXTSTEP days. In 64bit and on iOS (which is 32bit), they're using a completely rewritten and not backwards-compatible one that allows many nice things like automatically generated instance variables, better exception handling and a few more things since iOS4 that are covered under their NDA (they're explained in the WWDC videos).
I deal with some people who would rather wait a week to have a 30min phone call than have a short conversation over the course of a day via email between three people. Not for lack of trying, some people simply seem incapable and stuck in their old ways.
In my experience, that's actually something else. Some people simply are unable to express themselves in writing. They rather prefer to babble on via the phone for hours instead of stopping to reflect on what they're trying to say and write it down in a single easy to understand sentence.
It's not the technology itself. I have a co-worker who is like that, and we're even having these conversations via VoIP right there in a chat program. After such a conversation (the record duration was around 2.5h I think), I'm usually so tired that I can't do any more work, so lose the rest of the day. I've resigned to not picking up the phone when he calls due to that.
The only Thai PM to complete his term was Thaksin Shintrawa (sp) and he was ousted for corruption in his second term by a military coup
So their political system actually works better than the ones in the so-called first-world nations?
In the US, corruption is actually legal and ok ("donations", and see GWB and Halliburton).
In Italy, the whistleblower Gaspare Spatuzza who outed Berlusconi's connections to the Cosa Nostra is now a dead man due to the political powers.
ACTA is a treaty against the very people the politicians are supposed to represent.
The media industry is buying several laws in many countries (like the USA, Australia, GB) that could ultimately end the Internet as we know it.
This list could go on and on and on... Removing a politician by the military due to corruption is actually how it's supposed to work. Corrupt politicians aren't the problem, they're the symptom of a broken political system.
Surely Sony could've integrated the glowing part into the controller itself? Perhaps like a lighted end cap or something? Sony's got the design skills to make it look all high-tech and cool, but the best they can do to an ergonomic controller is to stick a ball onto it?
I think it has to be round by design. The idea is that the camera has to capture the round ball to know where it is (X/Y position in the image and its size defining the position on all three axes). Additionally, the more it sticks out, the less it will be obstructed (by the player's hand for example).
No, it's only illegal for the police. They just have to outsource this task to a private company, which supplies them with the chat logs afterwards, and they're fine.
Flash mixes MovieClips with vector and timeline content, all with z-axis alpha-blended content. It must transfer video into RGB in order to mix it with the bitmap data from vector sources, bitmap sources and from the font renderer.
Besides the fact that you could do all that via OpenGL nowadays, it'd be easy to detect a simple situation (no overlays etc) and provide an optimized code path for those situations. Just like in Windows XP, where you could boost your 3D performance by going fullscreen.
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I am eager to hear about your own conclusions instead of your ad-hominem attacks without substance.
Well, what do we know about US politics?
These are all known facts. There doesn't need to be a deep-set conspiracy to point to the conclusion I gave. US policy is decided by very rich people and large corporations, both of which don't change when the elected officials change.
All the abuses of King George III on America are very similar to the abuses we suffer under our recent presidents and congresses.
That's because the government structure is very similar. Back then, you had a king appointed by nobody that did whatever he wanted. Nowadays, you have two puppets up for a pseudo-election, while the real legislative power is directed by people most citizens don't even know about (see Bilderberg Group for example). Since they're operating in the dark and are not elected, they also can do whatever they want.
Maybe that sounds a little bit tinfoil-hattish, but that's the most straight-forward way I could think of to explain the US government's behavior in the last decade.
Just last week, we learned that once you have a stack of enough semi-transparent layers (combination of PNGs with alpha channels coupled with DIVs with various opacity CSS settings), IE fails to render the top-most layers. This doesn't happen after 20-30 layers. This happens after 5-7 layers.
You're right that this is a bug. However, please also consider that your workaround has an additional bonus: Even when it works, drawing so many layers on top of each other ("overdraw" in computer graphics lingo) is a great performance strain. You might not notice it on your superfast gaming PC, but please also consider slower devices like netbooks, mobile phones and tablets. The iPad would probably render it correctly, but I guess at a single frame per second, maybe even less.
All the computer science uber-gods were mathematicians, physicists and engineers by training anyway.
From personal experience (FYI I'm one of those CS guys) I can tell you that those are the worst programmers you can find. They do know their stuff and are able to implement it so that it runs, but the code is absolutely unmaintainable.
I just inherited a 1661 line C file written by a mathematician implementing a very sophisticated calculation. It doesn't use any proper indentation and variable names that are character combinations that only make sense to the author (like "trsAcc", "wtrPOI" and "fmew"). It works fine, but he asked me to throw it all away, rewrite it from scratch with a proper API and readable code. Well, that's what I'm here for. It took me a while to salvage the algorithm from the old file though (had to translate it line by line to proper mathematical formulas).
Yes, I'm all for Microsoft dropping this stupid software business stuff and fully invest into battery container research!
They're in the process of switching to LLVM, so keeping up to date on gcc isn't really necessary any more.
I'm not aware of any way. Back when karma was still written as a number, I knew mine, and just kept count after the switch to the unspecific words.
If anyone is interested, the reason they switched was because people complained about the following scenario:
This most likely still happens, but you can't see it any more.
If someone with such a low UID (well, not really *that* low, but still that account has to be more than 10 years old) hasn't hit the karma cap yet, there's something seriously wrong.
Well, taking your estimate, that's still in my lifetime (assuming that I don't meet an untimely demise).
Concerning usage scenarios, I can think of some. For example, I'm working on fluid simulations where you can easily generate a GB of data per second even today. Those will become pretty popular once the hardware limitations (RAM and processing power) aren't that much of a concern any more, and this technique scales up endlessly.
One additional use case would be using CT-like scans for movies. Then you could watch it in any angle you'd like. That's also a huge dataset.
I'm sure that 2TB also seemed "near infinite" when that standard was defined...
There's a huge difference between having the option and whether the number of men actually doing it is statistically significant.
I don't have any statistics, but in my culture here in central Europe, it's pretty much unthinkable that the man stays at home raising the child while the mother is out earning the money. That's not even considered by anybody (except in hypothetical discussions), even though the laws are there.
And no, that's not sexist, that's just perceiving and analyzing the culture.
Apple's spec page disagrees (for the 3G model), but what do they know?
If you'd read the article, you'd know that they were talking about merging UIKit into AppKit, not the OS as a whole (bad summary there, though).
A lot of stuff in UIKit is done the way it'd be done in AppKit were it created today. For example, in UIKit every view is automatically OpenGL-backed (via Core Animation). In AppKit, you have to enable that on a per-view basis, because it can cause problems (for example, WebViews always stay blank that way). Further, the Obj-C 32bit runtime on Mac OS X is the old one from the NeXTSTEP days. In 64bit and on iOS (which is 32bit), they're using a completely rewritten and not backwards-compatible one that allows many nice things like automatically generated instance variables, better exception handling and a few more things since iOS4 that are covered under their NDA (they're explained in the WWDC videos).
Now, the iPad is *not* a suitable desktop replacement [...] there's no really useful document processing
There's Pages. That should be enough for all of the basic needs. You'll probably have to hook up a real keyboard though.
no ability to hook up their TomTom
TomTom offers a fully-featured iPhone app, so no need to hook anything up.
no easy printing
Sure there is one way. ;)
Let me try:
It's a real-time communication system that combines the good parts of IRC, Mail, Wikis and IM.
I deal with some people who would rather wait a week to have a 30min phone call than have a short conversation over the course of a day via email between three people. Not for lack of trying, some people simply seem incapable and stuck in their old ways.
In my experience, that's actually something else. Some people simply are unable to express themselves in writing. They rather prefer to babble on via the phone for hours instead of stopping to reflect on what they're trying to say and write it down in a single easy to understand sentence.
It's not the technology itself. I have a co-worker who is like that, and we're even having these conversations via VoIP right there in a chat program. After such a conversation (the record duration was around 2.5h I think), I'm usually so tired that I can't do any more work, so lose the rest of the day. I've resigned to not picking up the phone when he calls due to that.
And minus the software, which is kinda the most important thing (of the Courier and touch devices in general).
The only Thai PM to complete his term was Thaksin Shintrawa (sp) and he was ousted for corruption in his second term by a military coup
So their political system actually works better than the ones in the so-called first-world nations?
This list could go on and on and on... Removing a politician by the military due to corruption is actually how it's supposed to work. Corrupt politicians aren't the problem, they're the symptom of a broken political system.
[]remove the one advantage the other two have.
That's going to be easy, since the two are just copying the Wii right now.
Surely Sony could've integrated the glowing part into the controller itself? Perhaps like a lighted end cap or something? Sony's got the design skills to make it look all high-tech and cool, but the best they can do to an ergonomic controller is to stick a ball onto it?
I think it has to be round by design. The idea is that the camera has to capture the round ball to know where it is (X/Y position in the image and its size defining the position on all three axes). Additionally, the more it sticks out, the less it will be obstructed (by the player's hand for example).
Entrapment is illegal.
No, it's only illegal for the police. They just have to outsource this task to a private company, which supplies them with the chat logs afterwards, and they're fine.
the wind doesn't blow every day
I see you're not living in the same place I am :)
Flash mixes MovieClips with vector and timeline content, all with z-axis alpha-blended content. It must transfer video into RGB in order to mix it with the bitmap data from vector sources, bitmap sources and from the font renderer.
Besides the fact that you could do all that via OpenGL nowadays, it'd be easy to detect a simple situation (no overlays etc) and provide an optimized code path for those situations. Just like in Windows XP, where you could boost your 3D performance by going fullscreen.
Input Managers can just mess around willy-nilly in your application (in any Cocoa application), how do you suppose that this could be "supported"?