I don't consider pressing a button a precise movement. I consider moving a mouse/analog joystick "precise movements". The on/off nature of the WASD keys isn't precision in my mind, but timing.
Interestingly, it's also just as easy for a Linux user to never upgrade their system and still run self-contained binary packages. That doesn't change that it's absolutely retarded to do so. Grats on never upgrading your shitty OS: that strategy is a real winner.
Why assume that being honest means being a dick? Perhaps it's really a dick move (aka selfish) to look out for only your own best interest and ignore what would be best for your friends/ex-coworkers. What if it would be better for everyone else if you did the tough thing and professionally and honestly voiced what's "really going on"? Being professional is simple and being honest is easy; pulling both off at the same time is challenging. I believe that's why so many managers are akin to the devil. Like many others have pointed out, it is almost never advisable from a selfish standpoint to do such a thing: It almost certainly can't help you--but it can hurt you.
I'd like to think that there is a time and a place for a voice of reason. I fully realize that being truthful in my pending exit interview* likely will not help me in the future, but I do hold out hope that it will help someone else.
* The pending exit interview shall happen when I find a new job, which has not happened yet.
Sure, it depends on the caliber and the distance. No question about it. But even with your.32, he's gonna have bruised ribs from every bullet he takes or perhaps even broken ribs. It's not like he can just shrug it off like nothing happened. Besides, someone doing something as cowardly as what he did deserves to be shot in the nads, anyways.
I know, right? If only it were socially acceptable for me to carry my AK with me... dang. Wait, if I used a trench coat, could conceal carry it. And interestingly enough, it is legal for me to do so in my state. Hmm, but once again, social stigma.
Unfortunately, you are right that many who conceal carry do not put in the time required to be decent with their weapon. That is not the only "defense" though to having a well-armed populace.
If it were the "norm" for a large number of people to carry, and such a thing was common knowledge, it might have made him think twice about performing his cowardly act to begin with. If everyone and their dog carried a gun, would he really have felt that much more powerful walking in with a couple rifles and body armor, knowing that perhaps 50-60 of those that he was terrorizing carried?
I mention Microsoft because they are 99% of the time chosen instead of open source competitors. Yes, that really is the case in real world.
First of all, that "stat" is inherently false. Second, such decisions are almost always made managers. Managers in most organizations are not technical; they are easily convinced by the pretty marketing pictures. Microsoft is very good at such things, which likely has more merit to their success than the product itself (in the corporate world, anyways).
I'm no Internet Explorer fan, but let's be fair here... The statistics are from visitors of w3schools.com, a site that people go to for web development. How many web developers or people interested in web development use Internet Explorer? I imagine it would be an easy point to argue that most of these individuals decidedly do not tend to use Internet Explorer. Claiming IE use is down to "almost 15%" sourcing nothing but a single web site's logs seems hardly trust worthy.
Not to mention in most regions of the United States, it is illegal to lie to a police officer and perfectly legal for them to lie to you. I realize this doesn't fit perfectly into a list of 'privileges', but it certainly puts one at a disadvantage when interacting with officers. Never talk to cops without a lawyer.
They are *supposed* to have a warrant or probable cause for such things. Unfortunately, in the US, we like to surrender our rights when faced with an authority figure and say, "Yes, it's all right if you search my car." I am not so ignorant as to think that these things don't happen outside of what is allowed, though, and I think it's fairly self evident these days that some officers will break/bend the rules and likely receive a very minor discipline for it, if any.
You're correct. He has applied a bandaid to all of the points that you mentioned... which will almost surely cause greater collapse than had he just let it be. The exception being that of the auto industry, which will very likely just be another complete waste of our tax dollars. It used to be that the only type of organization that could run continually in the red was a publicly funded one. That just doesn't seem to be the case any more. Pathetic.
And the American people buy into the FUD, once again... why am I not surprised?
Unfortunately, very few on here get what you're on about. Everyone's too caught up in "Democrats Good! Republicans Bad!" or the equally worthless vice versa. It seems most are still being manipulated by thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
Dude, PHP is an interpreted language. Apparently your definition of a compiled language is that the interpreter is compiled, in which case all interpreted languages are compiled languages.... lolwut? PHP runs as a module inside the web server, just like Python Server Pages, Java Server Pages, etc. Wow, I can't believe I'm replying to this. Not to mention, it is also an awful language with no consistencies even between what seem like similar functions. It plain sucks and suggesting it as a "starter language" for a programmer-to-be is both irresponsible and mean.
In contrast to WAMP, download Python, load a couple of modules (CherryPy + Jinja2 come to mind) and you're all set. It's its own web server. How simple is that? These are tools that greatly encourage MVC development. Learning Python or Ruby has the advantage of teaching someone how to program as opposed to how to make stuff show up on a web page. PHP encourages messy, unmaintainable code, which is the opposite of languages like Python and Ruby.
Lastly, Facebook uses PHP because it just happened to "start out" as a PHP site, not because it was the right tool for the job. As such, their performance and no doubt, their maintainability, has been a huge issue as they've been growing.
This shouldn't be rated Troll... Just way too many "Hey wait, I use and like PHP" folks out there who haven't actually used a real language. I would say Python is easier for a non programmer to pick up than Ruby, though. That's not to say Ruby isn't fantastic.
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I've only run it in a VM, but it looks quite decent.
I don't consider pressing a button a precise movement. I consider moving a mouse/analog joystick "precise movements". The on/off nature of the WASD keys isn't precision in my mind, but timing.
I received very little public education. Do I get to pay less taxes?
Wait, you have to aim and perform other precise movements with the WASD keys? Wow, it sure has been a long time since I've played a shooter.
Interestingly, it's also just as easy for a Linux user to never upgrade their system and still run self-contained binary packages. That doesn't change that it's absolutely retarded to do so. Grats on never upgrading your shitty OS: that strategy is a real winner.
Why assume that being honest means being a dick? Perhaps it's really a dick move (aka selfish) to look out for only your own best interest and ignore what would be best for your friends/ex-coworkers. What if it would be better for everyone else if you did the tough thing and professionally and honestly voiced what's "really going on"? Being professional is simple and being honest is easy; pulling both off at the same time is challenging. I believe that's why so many managers are akin to the devil. Like many others have pointed out, it is almost never advisable from a selfish standpoint to do such a thing: It almost certainly can't help you--but it can hurt you.
I'd like to think that there is a time and a place for a voice of reason. I fully realize that being truthful in my pending exit interview* likely will not help me in the future, but I do hold out hope that it will help someone else.
* The pending exit interview shall happen when I find a new job, which has not happened yet.
Linux has not won any kind of OS battle, much less on phones or tablets.
Linux is the OS of choice in many different areas. A more accurate statement would be: "Linux has won almost every kind of OS battle."
Sure, it depends on the caliber and the distance. No question about it. But even with your .32, he's gonna have bruised ribs from every bullet he takes or perhaps even broken ribs. It's not like he can just shrug it off like nothing happened. Besides, someone doing something as cowardly as what he did deserves to be shot in the nads, anyways.
I know, right? If only it were socially acceptable for me to carry my AK with me... dang. Wait, if I used a trench coat, could conceal carry it. And interestingly enough, it is legal for me to do so in my state. Hmm, but once again, social stigma.
Oh please, that's far from bullet proof.
Unfortunately, you are right that many who conceal carry do not put in the time required to be decent with their weapon. That is not the only "defense" though to having a well-armed populace.
If it were the "norm" for a large number of people to carry, and such a thing was common knowledge, it might have made him think twice about performing his cowardly act to begin with. If everyone and their dog carried a gun, would he really have felt that much more powerful walking in with a couple rifles and body armor, knowing that perhaps 50-60 of those that he was terrorizing carried?
This is probably true for a lot of us. I know it is me. :)
Get yourself a new government can also mean move somewhere less restrictive.
Right... which is why he included:
If your government tells you that you can't defend yourself, get yourself a new government.
I mention Microsoft because they are 99% of the time chosen instead of open source competitors. Yes, that really is the case in real world.
First of all, that "stat" is inherently false. Second, such decisions are almost always made managers. Managers in most organizations are not technical; they are easily convinced by the pretty marketing pictures. Microsoft is very good at such things, which likely has more merit to their success than the product itself (in the corporate world, anyways).
Well yeah, during testing... but not for daily browsing.
I'm no Internet Explorer fan, but let's be fair here... The statistics are from visitors of w3schools.com, a site that people go to for web development. How many web developers or people interested in web development use Internet Explorer? I imagine it would be an easy point to argue that most of these individuals decidedly do not tend to use Internet Explorer. Claiming IE use is down to "almost 15%" sourcing nothing but a single web site's logs seems hardly trust worthy.
Not to mention in most regions of the United States, it is illegal to lie to a police officer and perfectly legal for them to lie to you. I realize this doesn't fit perfectly into a list of 'privileges', but it certainly puts one at a disadvantage when interacting with officers. Never talk to cops without a lawyer.
They are *supposed* to have a warrant or probable cause for such things. Unfortunately, in the US, we like to surrender our rights when faced with an authority figure and say, "Yes, it's all right if you search my car." I am not so ignorant as to think that these things don't happen outside of what is allowed, though, and I think it's fairly self evident these days that some officers will break/bend the rules and likely receive a very minor discipline for it, if any.
You're correct. He has applied a bandaid to all of the points that you mentioned... which will almost surely cause greater collapse than had he just let it be. The exception being that of the auto industry, which will very likely just be another complete waste of our tax dollars. It used to be that the only type of organization that could run continually in the red was a publicly funded one. That just doesn't seem to be the case any more. Pathetic.
And the American people buy into the FUD, once again... why am I not surprised?
Unfortunately, very few on here get what you're on about. Everyone's too caught up in "Democrats Good! Republicans Bad!" or the equally worthless vice versa. It seems most are still being manipulated by thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
Dude, PHP is an interpreted language. Apparently your definition of a compiled language is that the interpreter is compiled, in which case all interpreted languages are compiled languages.... lolwut? PHP runs as a module inside the web server, just like Python Server Pages, Java Server Pages, etc. Wow, I can't believe I'm replying to this. Not to mention, it is also an awful language with no consistencies even between what seem like similar functions. It plain sucks and suggesting it as a "starter language" for a programmer-to-be is both irresponsible and mean.
In contrast to WAMP, download Python, load a couple of modules (CherryPy + Jinja2 come to mind) and you're all set. It's its own web server. How simple is that? These are tools that greatly encourage MVC development. Learning Python or Ruby has the advantage of teaching someone how to program as opposed to how to make stuff show up on a web page. PHP encourages messy, unmaintainable code, which is the opposite of languages like Python and Ruby.
Lastly, Facebook uses PHP because it just happened to "start out" as a PHP site, not because it was the right tool for the job. As such, their performance and no doubt, their maintainability, has been a huge issue as they've been growing.
This shouldn't be rated Troll... Just way too many "Hey wait, I use and like PHP" folks out there who haven't actually used a real language. I would say Python is easier for a non programmer to pick up than Ruby, though. That's not to say Ruby isn't fantastic.
Or if one can only use a console: VIM is fantastic, especially when syntax highlighting is turned on. :)
But... it does have a learning curve.
Please explain what he said that indicates that he's a pathetic little coward that is afraid of boogeymen?