You were "flouting" social norms, not "flaunting" them. Unless of course you liked to drink because it made you dress in modest attire, speak quietly and respectfully, and engage in politeness and courtesy.;-)
Your point is valid, but what I'm pointing out is that it's likely some existing hardware, and not just the code, will still be in use. There are still mainframes that have been grinding along since the 1970s, sometimes running binaries for which there is no longer source code, and they just keep those machines chugging along until the whole system can be replaced... and those kinds of projects are often given low priorities.
So yes, everything that is ported to a 64-bit architecture should be cool, but I have no doubts at least a few extant 32-bit systems will still be creaking along in 2038.
Furthermore, it's a fairly safe assumption that by 2030, all computers still functioning will use 64 bit ints, and your code will have been recompiled and debugged for 64 bit, which will incidentally remove the 2038 issue.
Funny, all the people in the 60s and 70s who were using two-digit years thought exactly the same thing about the year 2000, and a lot of those systems were still around and still in production and had to be fixed.
People have been trying to regulate RMS volume for years, but that just makes him louder. Besides, there's that whole Free Speech thing. Still, I'm not going to call it "GNU/Linux".
The difference of course is that for China you are describing the norm while for the U.S. what you are describing is essentially the exceptions. But feel free to draw a moral equivalence if it makes you feel better.
I'll one up that. My wife got a PowerPoint 95 document last year, which nothing could open. Not even OpenOffice. And no, Microsoft does not provide a viewer for that format any longer. I had to do some Deep Googling to find someone hosting a copy of the PowerPoint viewer that was old enough to still support the '95 version.
I'm so glad Microsoft is making a point of supporting their own legacy apps... NOT!
I see it also as a friendly reminder of what Microsoft can do if you piss them off. Remember, Microsoft has always acted as if they own your computer.
"Just remember... if the 800-pound monkeyboy gets upset, he can make all your files go bye-bye. You never know when we might 'forget' to renew our certificates. Now pay up real nice and no one gets hurt."
Although I've never played WoW and have no interesting in MMO games, I definitely do like a lot of similar stuff and see the appeal of, and have played many games, where the "level grind" is an element. There is something that seems to appeal directly to the Upper Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherer element of our minds in games with these kinds of progressions. I can see how people get addicted even though I've never had that problem.
Well, if you read it literally then I guess that's a reasonable interpretation. It's just that people usually speak in those terms when talking about these kinds of things. I guess the original person would have to speak up to settle the issue.
I would suspect that it wasn't literally luck (i.e., just by random) that the person quit his addiction. Maybe something random inspired him, like a comment from someone or reading an article about addiction or some other random inspiration, but quitting any addiction is usually a difficult process, and not something that is going to happen without a whole lot of effort and suffering on the part of the person doing it.
I definitely have an addictive-type personality although I've never had any problem per se with addictions. There's a fine line between the kinds of obsessions that can undergird real accomplishments and the kind of obsessions that cause harm. I've certainly been "addicted" to reading TVTropes.org lately, but that doesn't mean I've neglected other things to do so, it's just taken up a large chunk of my free time that perhaps could be spent better, but isn't being excessively wasted either. After all, it's important to know such deep narrative concepts as "Mary Sue" and "Lampshade Hanging".;-)
Given that predilection, I am perhaps a little less critical of people who genuinely succumb to harmful addictions, at least when they are able to overcome them successfully. There but for the grace of God go I, I sometimes wonder.
And in terms of the language he used, I certainly consider myself lucky to have had a good job that hasn't laid me off in almost 3 years (as opposed to the 3 before... stupid volatile software industry...). I consider myself lucky to have a wonderful wife and 4 great kids. None of these things however, happened by chance.
Similarly, while this person considers himself lucky to have defeated his addiction, unless it was something as extreme as being forced to quit because he was in prison, or lost his job and literally couldn't afford the fees, there is little doubt in my mind that there wasn't a significant effort on his part to do so.
Anyhow, I guess I'm just giving the poor dope the benefit of the doubt. Maybe you are right and I'm being too nice.
You also get built-in integrity testing when you unzip. I prefer everything to be zipped (or gzipped or bzipped, etc) even if it doesn't make it smaller for that reason.
I don't see where the parent was blaming the game. He said he beat the addiction and was glad to do so, and gave details on how strong the addiction could be.
How is that blaming the game?
If anything he owned up to it. It seems to me you're being very mean to person simply because he succumbed in the past to an addiction. There, but for the grace of God, go a lot of people. Having a predilection to weakness is called being human, and if you are going to bash someone who is willing to expose a weakness that he _overcame_ then perhaps you are the one who should seek personality training.
Since you're not a botanist (nor am I) how do you know what garlic looked like 600 years ago? When corn was first cultivated, it looked like what we call "baby corn" today. It wasn't until centuries of selection and cross-breeding that we got the much larger corn that everyone knows.
That said, I agree with your premise that this is a shaky "solution", but I wouldn't rule it out based on that evidence.
On a serious note, I just wanted to comment on this article. I think consolidation has ruined commercial radio. The average radio station has a smaller playlist than my 4GB Sansa MP3 player (without the 8GB SDHC Micro card in it!). Why allow myself to be smothered in commercials just to hear the same crap over and over. If it's not classical or talk radio, I just don't bother. I carry a perfect music selection that's much broader and commercial free... and for long trips, I break out the big ol' ugly 80GB Neuros!
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You were "flouting" social norms, not "flaunting" them. Unless of course you liked to drink because it made you dress in modest attire, speak quietly and respectfully, and engage in politeness and courtesy. ;-)
Your point is valid, but what I'm pointing out is that it's likely some existing hardware, and not just the code, will still be in use. There are still mainframes that have been grinding along since the 1970s, sometimes running binaries for which there is no longer source code, and they just keep those machines chugging along until the whole system can be replaced... and those kinds of projects are often given low priorities.
So yes, everything that is ported to a 64-bit architecture should be cool, but I have no doubts at least a few extant 32-bit systems will still be creaking along in 2038.
Furthermore, it's a fairly safe assumption that by 2030, all computers still functioning will use 64 bit ints, and your code will have been recompiled and debugged for 64 bit, which will incidentally remove the 2038 issue.
Funny, all the people in the 60s and 70s who were using two-digit years thought exactly the same thing about the year 2000, and a lot of those systems were still around and still in production and had to be fixed.
How about you prepare it once and throw it on a torrent?
People have been trying to regulate RMS volume for years, but that just makes him louder. Besides, there's that whole Free Speech thing. Still, I'm not going to call it "GNU/Linux".
The difference of course is that for China you are describing the norm while for the U.S. what you are describing is essentially the exceptions. But feel free to draw a moral equivalence if it makes you feel better.
People who need govt to enforce their religion must not have much faith in the power of its message.
Wow. I've never heard the current Global Warming situation described so succinctly. Thanks.
Well, I knew I was getting near trouble when the search came up with links to rlyeh.com.
Really! It takes longer for MS Word to load now than it did 15 years ago because it's more than a thousand times more powerful, right?
I'll one up that. My wife got a PowerPoint 95 document last year, which nothing could open. Not even OpenOffice. And no, Microsoft does not provide a viewer for that format any longer. I had to do some Deep Googling to find someone hosting a copy of the PowerPoint viewer that was old enough to still support the '95 version.
I'm so glad Microsoft is making a point of supporting their own legacy apps... NOT!
I see it also as a friendly reminder of what Microsoft can do if you piss them off. Remember, Microsoft has always acted as if they own your computer.
"Just remember... if the 800-pound monkeyboy gets upset, he can make all your files go bye-bye. You never know when we might 'forget' to renew our certificates. Now pay up real nice and no one gets hurt."
But do your kids?
Funny, all my kids' games have parental control? Don't everyone's?
Yeah, but your barber will have a better haircut.
Although I've never played WoW and have no interesting in MMO games, I definitely do like a lot of similar stuff and see the appeal of, and have played many games, where the "level grind" is an element. There is something that seems to appeal directly to the Upper Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherer element of our minds in games with these kinds of progressions. I can see how people get addicted even though I've never had that problem.
Well, if you read it literally then I guess that's a reasonable interpretation. It's just that people usually speak in those terms when talking about these kinds of things. I guess the original person would have to speak up to settle the issue.
I would suspect that it wasn't literally luck (i.e., just by random) that the person quit his addiction. Maybe something random inspired him, like a comment from someone or reading an article about addiction or some other random inspiration, but quitting any addiction is usually a difficult process, and not something that is going to happen without a whole lot of effort and suffering on the part of the person doing it.
I definitely have an addictive-type personality although I've never had any problem per se with addictions. There's a fine line between the kinds of obsessions that can undergird real accomplishments and the kind of obsessions that cause harm. I've certainly been "addicted" to reading TVTropes.org lately, but that doesn't mean I've neglected other things to do so, it's just taken up a large chunk of my free time that perhaps could be spent better, but isn't being excessively wasted either. After all, it's important to know such deep narrative concepts as "Mary Sue" and "Lampshade Hanging". ;-)
Given that predilection, I am perhaps a little less critical of people who genuinely succumb to harmful addictions, at least when they are able to overcome them successfully. There but for the grace of God go I, I sometimes wonder.
And in terms of the language he used, I certainly consider myself lucky to have had a good job that hasn't laid me off in almost 3 years (as opposed to the 3 before... stupid volatile software industry...). I consider myself lucky to have a wonderful wife and 4 great kids. None of these things however, happened by chance.
Similarly, while this person considers himself lucky to have defeated his addiction, unless it was something as extreme as being forced to quit because he was in prison, or lost his job and literally couldn't afford the fees, there is little doubt in my mind that there wasn't a significant effort on his part to do so.
Anyhow, I guess I'm just giving the poor dope the benefit of the doubt. Maybe you are right and I'm being too nice.
You also get built-in integrity testing when you unzip. I prefer everything to be zipped (or gzipped or bzipped, etc) even if it doesn't make it smaller for that reason.
They stopped doing that a long time ago. Now it seems that the stable and development versions are the same.
I don't see where the parent was blaming the game. He said he beat the addiction and was glad to do so, and gave details on how strong the addiction could be.
How is that blaming the game?
If anything he owned up to it. It seems to me you're being very mean to person simply because he succumbed in the past to an addiction. There, but for the grace of God, go a lot of people. Having a predilection to weakness is called being human, and if you are going to bash someone who is willing to expose a weakness that he _overcame_ then perhaps you are the one who should seek personality training.
Since you're not a botanist (nor am I) how do you know what garlic looked like 600 years ago? When corn was first cultivated, it looked like what we call "baby corn" today. It wasn't until centuries of selection and cross-breeding that we got the much larger corn that everyone knows.
That said, I agree with your premise that this is a shaky "solution", but I wouldn't rule it out based on that evidence.
Armed revolt isn't called for... yet. I called for legged revolt... kick their asses out of office.
Depends who's got the arm...
You mean Homer Simpson?
I use apt-get, you insensitive clod.
On a serious note, I just wanted to comment on this article. I think consolidation has ruined commercial radio. The average radio station has a smaller playlist than my 4GB Sansa MP3 player (without the 8GB SDHC Micro card in it!). Why allow myself to be smothered in commercials just to hear the same crap over and over. If it's not classical or talk radio, I just don't bother. I carry a perfect music selection that's much broader and commercial free... and for long trips, I break out the big ol' ugly 80GB Neuros!