VisualStudio [...] is a shitty fucking IDE, whatever it's cadre of loyal adherents say about it
Compared to what, and in what ways? I'm not sure what your practical objections are to it, at least to the Express versions.
I find that I'm at least as productive writing C++ in Visual Studio as in Eclipse, Code::Blocks or NetBeans. Is this some "ZOMFG learn GNU/Emacs or GTFO, luser" zealotry, or do you have some objective issues with Visual Studio that you'd like to share?
When the nuTories have their turn, they'll be just as bad (given a little time to get their feet under the table). The issue isn't with the current regime per se, it's that the IWF is unaccountable, un-overseen, and (I'll type this slowly so that you understand) that it could be done away with in an instant if the regime-de-jour found it more expedient or convenient to replace it with a statutory body under more direct control.
The IWF is only as independent as it's allowed to be. It's completely vulnerable to coercion, or if you like, persuasion.
How would we know that this case isn't the result of one of Mandelson's creatures finding something incriminating about him in Wayback and deciding to have the plug pulled on it? Until you can prove otherwise, I'll continue to assume the worst.
Censorship is just splitting information into that which is deemed acceptable for grown civilised adults to view/read without losing their minds, vs. that which only the extra-grown, extra-civilised censors can view/read without losing their minds.
That's a charitable assumption. This censorship could also be political, malicious, or for that matter completely random. Note that the IWF refuse to discuss details of what specifically led them to blacklist Wayback, other than the usual non-answer of "think of the children".
If (correction, when) the nuLabour regime feel like making any particular group unPersons, they could pick up the phone to the IWF, remind them that regulation is better than legislation, and have anything they like censored, opaquely and without oversight or appeal. Anyone who questions the IWF axiomatically likes kiddie porn, remember.
Then we'd go back to making decisions based on gut instinct, rather than what we do now: have beancounters revise their assumptions until the spreadsheet confirms our gut instinct.
Mmm. I like you when you try it with Firefox, it doesn't detect the browser, warn you that it won't download, or, you know, do anything other than sit there indefinitely doing absolutely fuck all. I guess they subscribe to the "Pain is a great teacher" theory. Windows gets more like Linux every day.
Question: if you're presented with two TVs with otherwise identical specifications, but one is A-rated and the other is B-rated for efficiency, which one do you buy?
That's right: you buy the one with the glossier black surround.
I'd expect that it's been infested with middle management idiot-cousin fuckknuckles who attempt to justify their pitiful existence by proactively leveraging synergies to facilitate win win scenarios across all core competencies.
Presumably the NSA's owners (the USian taxpayers) will get a good return on their investment.
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Compared to what, and in what ways? I'm not sure what your practical objections are to it, at least to the Express versions.
I find that I'm at least as productive writing C++ in Visual Studio as in Eclipse, Code::Blocks or NetBeans. Is this some "ZOMFG learn GNU/Emacs or GTFO, luser" zealotry, or do you have some objective issues with Visual Studio that you'd like to share?
Not even remotely, but thanks for asking. That's right neighbourly of you.
Well, I can see merits in both alternatives.
Excuse me, sir. I very clearly libelled them.
When the nuTories have their turn, they'll be just as bad (given a little time to get their feet under the table). The issue isn't with the current regime per se, it's that the IWF is unaccountable, un-overseen, and (I'll type this slowly so that you understand) that it could be done away with in an instant if the regime-de-jour found it more expedient or convenient to replace it with a statutory body under more direct control.
The IWF is only as independent as it's allowed to be. It's completely vulnerable to coercion, or if you like, persuasion.
How would we know that this case isn't the result of one of Mandelson's creatures finding something incriminating about him in Wayback and deciding to have the plug pulled on it? Until you can prove otherwise, I'll continue to assume the worst.
That's a charitable assumption. This censorship could also be political, malicious, or for that matter completely random. Note that the IWF refuse to discuss details of what specifically led them to blacklist Wayback, other than the usual non-answer of "think of the children".
If (correction, when) the nuLabour regime feel like making any particular group unPersons, they could pick up the phone to the IWF, remind them that regulation is better than legislation, and have anything they like censored, opaquely and without oversight or appeal. Anyone who questions the IWF axiomatically likes kiddie porn, remember.
Well, Raph Koster defines "fun" and "automatically" as the same thing, since in Star Wars Galaxies he designed in support for AFK macroing your way right up to the end "game".
Let me synopsise that a bit: "It's open, if Adobe decide not to sue you."
Get your Daddy to buy you a personal fucking satellite, you Trustafarian parasite.
REDUNDANCY DETECTED. Everything after your first sentence is padding.
Probably because Canadian politicians don't intone "Freedom" every time they exhale.
Then we'd go back to making decisions based on gut instinct, rather than what we do now: have beancounters revise their assumptions until the spreadsheet confirms our gut instinct.
By weedy nerds descended from poop flinging monkeys though, not some Invisible Beardy Sky Giant.
I agree. People that use hyperbole are worse than Hitler.
Let me Google that for you.
The people on the ground are poor though, so who cares?
Could a brain scientist figure it out?
Mmm. I like you when you try it with Firefox, it doesn't detect the browser, warn you that it won't download, or, you know, do anything other than sit there indefinitely doing absolutely fuck all. I guess they subscribe to the "Pain is a great teacher" theory. Windows gets more like Linux every day.
Yeah... but posted by kdawson?
Thanks for being the first commenter to add some actual content to this story.
Question: if you're presented with two TVs with otherwise identical specifications, but one is A-rated and the other is B-rated for efficiency, which one do you buy?
That's right: you buy the one with the glossier black surround.
Memcopies? Fuck, I don't know, 64 is twice 32. Chicks flip for numbers, is all I know.
Pfft, you don't need much of a framerate to run WOWGlider on your dupes.
Thanks for the information. Of which Bar are you a member?
And a bit shout out to the lads and lasses working in the field of logical fallacies. False analogies FTW!
I'd expect that it's been infested with middle management idiot-cousin fuckknuckles who attempt to justify their pitiful existence by proactively leveraging synergies to facilitate win win scenarios across all core competencies.
Presumably the NSA's owners (the USian taxpayers) will get a good return on their investment.