Yup. On the money. HP Stream is my next laptop as well. Any serious work needs a desktop in my experience. You could certainly get by on a Macbook Retina, but I wouldn't want to have to unless I traveled for work. Tablet that lets you install standard programs and has a keyboard is basically what I think the market wants. Chromebook almost hit the mark, but not quite there.. a little too Google-oriented with their services push for most people's taste.
I almost always vote for the Green Party, independents and anyone but the D's and R's. To vote for one of the two main parties I need to know who they are before I cast the vote and feel they're something worthwhile... or I'll just pick whoever else is on the ballot. Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul would come to mind to being from the mainstream parties that I would cast a ballot for, not that I agree with the latter's ideas in all cases.. but either of them would shake things up.
I am well-versed in C, I have thus-far avoided C++, C# and Java
If you've successfully avoided anything except for C, it doesn't sound like you're too ambitious to pickup much new. I can't say I blame you. I'd skip both ObjC and Swift.
I don't see you actually learning 3 new languages and 3 new frameworks if you've stuck with C and avoided nearly everything in the past 30 years. Look into Xamarin (C#) or Cordova (JS), depending if you need more native-level performance or can get by on a webapp.
It just seems hypocritical to let you kids watch the 'Simpson's' with 'Itchy and Scratchy', then claim FPS are too violent.
Also, his post mention Duke Nukem, but he doesn't seem to know you can turn off the gore.
In short: It sounds like he is making it up. In fact, I hope he is because otherwise he is sending very mixed messages to his kids, as well setting them up to rebel in a violent manner. you know, based on his 1 post:)
My stance is less to avoid violence, just to teach that violence is never an answer outside of self-defense. You can teach this though without avoiding everything violent.
The absolute worst case-scenario though, are the modern wargames. That's the only genre I personally refuse to take part in (I'm in my 30's), and also for my children. It's DoD brainwash, who funds and aids games who paint the US military in a positive light. It's war propaganda, no way around it. It's not a hypothetical goal for the DoD. It's purposefully meant to get you to actually pickup a gun and go kill your fellow man, in the name of the flag.
As long as this also have a simultaneous effort to promote opportunity for whites in the NBA, then I'm all for it.
Also, I like the cut of his anti-H1B jib. But as long as we're identifying areas where the white community is under served as well. I'd recommend starting with the NBA. It's not a lack of talent, it's a lack of opportunity.
I'm 41, and I've also been wearing glasses since I was 6. However, I don't like them, even though I always wear them. The recent invention of soft toric contacts saved me from ever having to consider Lasik, though.
I'm 32, and wore glasses since around 9 years old. What pushed me to get Lasik 6 years ago was that one day my eyes simply did not tolerate contact lenses of any type in my eye anymore. I probably would've never gotten it had that not happened.
That said, since I did it, the feeling is amazing to wake up and see perfectly. Also, the benefits of being able to work outside no matter what. On the hottest days of summer, I had issues with my contacts. Looking back, had I known what this was going to be like, I would've done it even without the issue I came into with my contacts. Like you, I probably couldn't have been easily convinced. If the choice was between glasses vs Lasik it is an absolute no-brainer though.
Outside of my education, it's the best investment I've ever made.
Teens who do not consider religious beliefs important are almost three times more likely to drink, binge-drink and smoke, almost four times likelier to use marijuana and seven times likelier to use illicit drugs than teens who believe that religion is important.
Unfortunately, stepping in the realm of irrationality is not worth that.
Once you willingly open your mind to irrational thought, you're introducing possibilities much worse than drinking and smoking.
Can the students even install and use a proper compiler or something like AutoCAD? Photoshop?
How many school kids have a daily need for AutoCAD or Photoshop? I'd imagine only a tiny percentage. So why should a school district equip elementary and middle school kids with a computer powerful enough for tasks that only a small minority of their high-school students need? Would it not be better to give something more powerful (and much more expensive) to just those with the specialist need for something more powerful?
No. That's exactly the problem. These things are only used by a 'tiny percentage'. It needs to be the majority if we're going to succeed as a society. I never have and never will support Apple tablets and Google terminals in an educational environment.
It really can't be if you follow the convention of using spaces. But any incorrectly indented code to me is considered 'wrong', with or without whitespace delimiting. May as well use it.
If you want something used as a web language + more, I think the obvious go-to is Python. I'd personally pick that over PHP, Ruby, Perl etc, IMO it just has longer legs than anything else.
AMD made about $1.4 billion off the Radeon division. For the same period, NVIDIA made more than $4.2 billion. Some of that was Tegra-related and it's a testament to AMD's hardware engineering that it competes effectively with Nvidia with a much smaller revenue share, but it also means that Team Green has far more money to spend on optimizing every aspect of the driver stack.'"
While that's true for revenue, the difference in profits between AMD and NV are very close.
This has never happened once to AMD cards, because they're more conservative with their optimizations. NV isn't even the price/performance leader and rarely is. So you get to spend more, and they optimize the crap out of your drivers and card until they break it. They're almost averaging once a year in killing cards. No thanks. While both have bugs, I prefer AMD's superior driver support that doesn't kill your card.
We need more whites/asians (and latinos, which are typically white and asian) in the NBA! I'm down with this hiring practice discrimination against the best-candidate-for-the-job, when the NBA starts blocking the best black athletes for whites and asians.
"If you wish to live in community that heavily regulates firearms, then band together and do so - nothing restricts a locality/city/region from banning the things of their own initiative "
Again for those that aren't Americans, and apparently some that are... The above statement is WRONG. Local laws MAY NOT supersede the constitution.
I've always been surprised at people who give consideration to the simulation argument, but none to God. If we're living in a simulation (which I think is decently probable, relativity and wave/particle duality being emergent properties of programming kludges to save cycles), then this simulation was created by someone. That someone would be omnipotent and omniscient with regards to this reality, exists outside of this reality, and created this reality. That's the definition of God. God is the Programmer.
Because the implication of a simulation is that 'god' is more Steve Wozniak than Yahweh. That's why.
This troubles me as well. I'm to the left of Eich, but I'm definitely bothered seeing this play out. I'm not on the side of the anti-Eich crowd and I have very little in common with his political views. Liberals, who I don't really consider leftists per se as they're more mainstream in their views, seem to be big on thought discrimination. Yet another reason on my list why I'm having serious doubts about raising children in this country. You see in Europe the political winds and views varying dramatically rather than having 1 accepted viewpoint like here. They have true socialist parties and also have far right parties that have meaningful differences of opinion. Not so much with D's and R's. This place is very tightly controlled.
Yup, they had two chances to make a move into the realm where they could've made an impact (desktops) but failed to sign on with enough major deals with hardware vendors. Vista and now 8 were golden opportunities but they chose to chase some pipedream mobile fantasy instead. It won't work, and the market they're going for appears to be just as well served by FirefoxOS.
Their mobile strategy, other than the slightly-neat idea of a mobile phone as your dockable desktop (which anyone could do, including MS), really doesn't make sense to add them into the market.
Call the heads of the departments for the associates degrees you hold, and ask them if they've signed any articulation agreements with any state universities. You're going to get a horrible transfer deal otherwise, and spending closer to 3 years to get your degree. I started off by getting an Associates of Applied Science for Local Area Network Management. I ended up being limited to 1 school choice and 1 major, which was very disappointing but I did get a nice deal on the transfer saving a lot of time and money.
If I could go back to 18 again and be starting school over again, I probably would have just gotten an AA in Liberal Arts to save money, and then transfer wherever and for whatever I felt. But that's not the situation for me or you.:) You should be ok if they have any sort of articulation agreements though, and good luck!
I thought that net neutrality was going to be the status quo but it seems the tide has turned.
Companies like Google are in big danger with this and should start a 'grassroots' resistance campaign as with SOPA. This type of stuff isn't probably going to cost the consumer more cash, just webservice companies.
We're going to get a lot less choices online. But perhaps the big boys like Google and Netflix prefer it this way, keeps competition out as well.
Not breaking backwards compatibility is a feature of C++, not Java. The problem here is that he has code on 1.5, written 10 years ago. You're going to have deprecated features in that timeframe. If unmaintained you'll end up with a mess. I can't think of many languages meeting your requirements, just C++ for mainline work, or something esoteric.
Your points are valid, more or less. But honestly I'd rather have unions in our world than not. I'll take a leech here and there if that's what is required to not go back to the days before unions.
shut the fuck up asshole. we all know english people won't make any efforts to learn french even if the live in france directly.
I am Canadian, I live in Ontario, I am an anglophone, and I went to french immersion school for 4 years, with about 90 other students in my class, and studied with Rosetta Stone for two, but I live in an almost exclusively english area.
I can read french pretty well, but I can't really speak it well due to lack of practice. So anyways, english people do make efforts to learn french. It's usually the French people who put us off of it with attitudes like yours.
Which is why most of us learn Spanish instead. Yo siempre quiero hacer en un otra idioma. There's no attitude from the worldwide hispanic culture when you make a mistake. Very welcoming, very friendly culture that I embraced because it embraced me. I've worked for French companies, and I've lived in France for 6 months (Lille). I like French, and France is my favorite country in the world.
I speak a little French, enough to function there, but overall I chose to abandon them and their language in favor of Spanish. It's a better language anyway from an orthographical standpoint. I have friends in France, but they do have one of the largest shares of twits per capita.
Alpha Centauri was a 'new' game for me, and was mostly burned out on that formula after countless hours in Civ1 and 2. A strategy based game only goes so far till you burn out (though I may need to revist AC, as 15 years is healthyI still fire up mostly 90's games but also some 80's adventure games. Namely the Quest for Glory series and Space Quest, both of which I feel held the test of time a little better than their contemporaries (from Sierra that is, the LucasArts games hold up as well). I also revisit Heroes of Might and Magic 1 once in a while. It's simplicity and graphical style appeals to me.
What's missing from modern games is good storytelling that doesn't read like many RPGs do (Planescape Torment, BG etc). I like to be able to be immersed in the story and environment without reading a book's worth of text. I read books but like to keep the mediums separate methods of story-telling.
The success to Half Life is because it tells a story without turning your computer into a book. That's what I feel people are looking for, at least I am.
And it's a lot harder IMO to write a good story than action based game, and to a lesser extent a deep strategy based game.
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Yup. On the money. HP Stream is my next laptop as well. Any serious work needs a desktop in my experience. You could certainly get by on a Macbook Retina, but I wouldn't want to have to unless I traveled for work. Tablet that lets you install standard programs and has a keyboard is basically what I think the market wants. Chromebook almost hit the mark, but not quite there.. a little too Google-oriented with their services push for most people's taste.
I almost always vote for the Green Party, independents and anyone but the D's and R's. To vote for one of the two main parties I need to know who they are before I cast the vote and feel they're something worthwhile... or I'll just pick whoever else is on the ballot. Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul would come to mind to being from the mainstream parties that I would cast a ballot for, not that I agree with the latter's ideas in all cases.. but either of them would shake things up.
I am well-versed in C, I have thus-far avoided C++, C# and Java
If you've successfully avoided anything except for C, it doesn't sound like you're too ambitious to pickup much new. I can't say I blame you. I'd skip both ObjC and Swift.
I don't see you actually learning 3 new languages and 3 new frameworks if you've stuck with C and avoided nearly everything in the past 30 years. Look into Xamarin (C#) or Cordova (JS), depending if you need more native-level performance or can get by on a webapp.
It just seems hypocritical to let you kids watch the 'Simpson's' with 'Itchy and Scratchy', then claim FPS are too violent.
Also, his post mention Duke Nukem, but he doesn't seem to know you can turn off the gore.
In short: It sounds like he is making it up. In fact, I hope he is because otherwise he is sending very mixed messages to his kids, as well setting them up to rebel in a violent manner. you know, based on his 1 post :)
My stance is less to avoid violence, just to teach that violence is never an answer outside of self-defense. You can teach this though without avoiding everything violent.
The absolute worst case-scenario though, are the modern wargames. That's the only genre I personally refuse to take part in (I'm in my 30's), and also for my children. It's DoD brainwash, who funds and aids games who paint the US military in a positive light. It's war propaganda, no way around it. It's not a hypothetical goal for the DoD. It's purposefully meant to get you to actually pickup a gun and go kill your fellow man, in the name of the flag.
As long as this also have a simultaneous effort to promote opportunity for whites in the NBA, then I'm all for it.
Also, I like the cut of his anti-H1B jib. But as long as we're identifying areas where the white community is under served as well. I'd recommend starting with the NBA.
It's not a lack of talent, it's a lack of opportunity.
I'm 41, and I've also been wearing glasses since I was 6. However, I don't like them, even though I always wear them. The recent invention of soft toric contacts saved me from ever having to consider Lasik, though.
I'm 32, and wore glasses since around 9 years old. What pushed me to get Lasik 6 years ago was that one day my eyes simply did not tolerate contact lenses of any type in my eye anymore. I probably would've never gotten it had that not happened.
That said, since I did it, the feeling is amazing to wake up and see perfectly. Also, the benefits of being able to work outside no matter what. On the hottest days of summer, I had issues with my contacts. Looking back, had I known what this was going to be like, I would've done it even without the issue I came into with my contacts. Like you, I probably couldn't have been easily convinced. If the choice was between glasses vs Lasik it is an absolute no-brainer though.
Outside of my education, it's the best investment I've ever made.
Teens who do not consider religious beliefs important are almost three times more likely to drink, binge-drink and smoke, almost four times likelier to use marijuana and seven times likelier to use illicit drugs than teens who believe that religion is important.
Unfortunately, stepping in the realm of irrationality is not worth that.
Once you willingly open your mind to irrational thought, you're introducing possibilities much worse than drinking and smoking.
How many school kids have a daily need for AutoCAD or Photoshop? I'd imagine only a tiny percentage. So why should a school district equip elementary and middle school kids with a computer powerful enough for tasks that only a small minority of their high-school students need? Would it not be better to give something more powerful (and much more expensive) to just those with the specialist need for something more powerful?
No. That's exactly the problem. These things are only used by a 'tiny percentage'. It needs to be the majority if we're going to succeed as a society. I never have and never will support Apple tablets and Google terminals in an educational environment.
It really can't be if you follow the convention of using spaces. But any incorrectly indented code to me is considered 'wrong', with or without whitespace delimiting. May as well use it.
If you want something used as a web language + more, I think the obvious go-to is Python. I'd personally pick that over PHP, Ruby, Perl etc, IMO it just has longer legs than anything else.
AMD made about $1.4 billion off the Radeon division. For the same period, NVIDIA made more than $4.2 billion. Some of that was Tegra-related and it's a testament to AMD's hardware engineering that it competes effectively with Nvidia with a much smaller revenue share, but it also means that Team Green has far more money to spend on optimizing every aspect of the driver stack.'"
While that's true for revenue, the difference in profits between AMD and NV are very close.
Nvidia has been into the driver optimisation business *FOR AGES*, and they are already very good at it.
So good they've been killing their own cards for years now.
2010 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hard...
2011 http://forums.guru3d.com/showt...
2013 http://modcrash.com/nvidia-dis...
This has never happened once to AMD cards, because they're more conservative with their optimizations. NV isn't even the price/performance leader and rarely is. So you get to spend more, and they optimize the crap out of your drivers and card until they break it.
They're almost averaging once a year in killing cards. No thanks. While both have bugs, I prefer AMD's superior driver support that doesn't kill your card.
We need more whites/asians (and latinos, which are typically white and asian) in the NBA! I'm down with this hiring practice discrimination against the best-candidate-for-the-job, when the NBA starts blocking the best black athletes for whites and asians.
That's not true, I work in the (relevant) industry to this topic. Intel will phase out PCIE.
"If you wish to live in community that heavily regulates firearms, then band together and do so - nothing restricts a locality/city/region from banning the things of their own initiative "
Again for those that aren't Americans, and apparently some that are... The above statement is WRONG. Local laws MAY NOT supersede the constitution.
Yes we do this is an issue of STATES' RIGHTS!!
I've always been surprised at people who give consideration to the simulation argument, but none to God. If we're living in a simulation (which I think is decently probable, relativity and wave/particle duality being emergent properties of programming kludges to save cycles), then this simulation was created by someone. That someone would be omnipotent and omniscient with regards to this reality, exists outside of this reality, and created this reality. That's the definition of God. God is the Programmer.
Because the implication of a simulation is that 'god' is more Steve Wozniak than Yahweh. That's why.
This troubles me as well. I'm to the left of Eich, but I'm definitely bothered seeing this play out. I'm not on the side of the anti-Eich crowd and I have very little in common with his political views. Liberals, who I don't really consider leftists per se as they're more mainstream in their views, seem to be big on thought discrimination. Yet another reason on my list why I'm having serious doubts about raising children in this country. You see in Europe the political winds and views varying dramatically rather than having 1 accepted viewpoint like here. They have true socialist parties and also have far right parties that have meaningful differences of opinion. Not so much with D's and R's. This place is very tightly controlled.
Yup, they had two chances to make a move into the realm where they could've made an impact (desktops) but failed to sign on with enough major deals with hardware vendors. Vista and now 8 were golden opportunities but they chose to chase some pipedream mobile fantasy instead. It won't work, and the market they're going for appears to be just as well served by FirefoxOS.
Their mobile strategy, other than the slightly-neat idea of a mobile phone as your dockable desktop (which anyone could do, including MS), really doesn't make sense to add them into the market.
If I could go back to 18 again and be starting school over again, I probably would have just gotten an AA in Liberal Arts to save money, and then transfer wherever and for whatever I felt. But that's not the situation for me or you. :) You should be ok if they have any sort of articulation agreements though, and good luck!
We're going to get a lot less choices online. But perhaps the big boys like Google and Netflix prefer it this way, keeps competition out as well.
Not breaking backwards compatibility is a feature of C++, not Java. The problem here is that he has code on 1.5, written 10 years ago. You're going to have deprecated features in that timeframe. If unmaintained you'll end up with a mess. I can't think of many languages meeting your requirements, just C++ for mainline work, or something esoteric.
Your points are valid, more or less. But honestly I'd rather have unions in our world than not. I'll take a leech here and there if that's what is required to not go back to the days before unions.
ya and, they chose to purchase it. This isn't MS making the call to close down Interstate 80.
shut the fuck up asshole. we all know english people won't make any efforts to learn french even if the live in france directly.
I am Canadian, I live in Ontario, I am an anglophone, and I went to french immersion school for 4 years, with about 90 other students in my class, and studied with Rosetta Stone for two, but I live in an almost exclusively english area.
I can read french pretty well, but I can't really speak it well due to lack of practice. So anyways, english people do make efforts to learn french. It's usually the French people who put us off of it with attitudes like yours.
Which is why most of us learn Spanish instead. Yo siempre quiero hacer en un otra idioma. There's no attitude from the worldwide hispanic culture when you make a mistake. Very welcoming, very friendly culture that I embraced because it embraced me. I've worked for French companies, and I've lived in France for 6 months (Lille). I like French, and France is my favorite country in the world.
I speak a little French, enough to function there, but overall I chose to abandon them and their language in favor of Spanish. It's a better language anyway from an orthographical standpoint. I have friends in France, but they do have one of the largest shares of twits per capita.
Alpha Centauri was a 'new' game for me, and was mostly burned out on that formula after countless hours in Civ1 and 2. A strategy based game only goes so far till you burn out (though I may need to revist AC, as 15 years is healthyI still fire up mostly 90's games but also some 80's adventure games. Namely the Quest for Glory series and Space Quest, both of which I feel held the test of time a little better than their contemporaries (from Sierra that is, the LucasArts games hold up as well). I also revisit Heroes of Might and Magic 1 once in a while. It's simplicity and graphical style appeals to me. What's missing from modern games is good storytelling that doesn't read like many RPGs do (Planescape Torment, BG etc). I like to be able to be immersed in the story and environment without reading a book's worth of text. I read books but like to keep the mediums separate methods of story-telling. The success to Half Life is because it tells a story without turning your computer into a book. That's what I feel people are looking for, at least I am. And it's a lot harder IMO to write a good story than action based game, and to a lesser extent a deep strategy based game.