If you read to the end of the article that you cited, you'll find that IQ scores are now dropping in socialist European countries that reward baby farmers. Social mobility is also steady or dropping, and the number of working-age people dropping out and living off of benefits continues to rise - sponging off the State is increasingly an inherited career of choice rather than a last resort.
Idiocracy isn't a citation, it's a warning. Of course, I understand you not having the time to ponder that, since OW MY BALLS! was on.
He'd say "Jones was being a dick. Don't be a dick." Then he'd get paid to wear a kilt and make out with Felicia Day. See, that's why you should always listen to Wil Wheaton.
While you were typing all that, I just lied my way into dates with three banging hot chicks who are into long walks and pilates-skydiving or whatever the hell it was that I ticked. Now, which of us has fitted genes, Poindexter?
Don't care about this story about an alleged report about an unconfirmed rumour about something that may or may not, possibly, be happening that might or might not involve whomever her, she or it is supposed to be.
The only training domestic IT workers need is how to bullshit on their resumes like offshore workers do. I have yet to encounter anyone east of Belgium who ever admitted that they didn't know how to do a (paying) job.
Funny you should mention DX3. Microsoft actually removed some surface caps flags in the transition from DX3 to DX5, and silently flipped the orientation that.BMP files were loaded (i.e. loaded them 'right way up' rather than 'upside down' as they're stored in the file). I know that was like three ice ages ago in Dev Years, but it still hurts when I think about it.
I realise that TheFineSummary talks about Windows 7, but there's still a fair number of XP boxen out there, for which Direct2D isn't an option. That said, I'd guess (as the article is down) that it's more of an ideological position, or - given that it's clearly a hobby project - just what the author is familiar with, or enjoys using. Given that we're talking about playing games here, I'd go with the latter explanation.
I do intend to RTFA when it recovers, since I find replacing/subverting dlls quite fun. I kludged up some code a while back to create a shim dll that can be used as the basis for selectively replacing functions in dlls, while calling through to the 'real' one for the other functions, so you can easily hack some functionality without having to re-implement the whole thing.
Most of the time, vehicle noise is a distraction. There's nothing that you can do about traffic coming from behind, and fixating on it distracts you from paying attention to hazards ahead that you can deal with.
And there's the issue that if you get used to listening for hazards, you can get caught out by silent traffic like electric cars and other cycles. Yes, I know, you should always look anyway, but there's a difference between making a lifesaver to see traffic, and a quick cursory glance to confirm a presumption that there isn't any traffic to see. If you don't expect to see it, then you really might not - I'm sure you're aware of the problem of cagers looking right through two-wheel traffic.
Don't get me wrong, I personally prefer to hear other traffic, but I can understand why some quite serious cyclists actively prefer not to.
Bookmarked, so that I can link a "told you so" post when he sets up RealWikiLeaks. You can get ahead of the grovelling and post your pre-emptive apologies here.
flock() isn't POSIX, doesn't have a standard behaviour across Linux/Unix/BSD platforms, can and will deadlock a process against itself, doesn't play well with either fcntl() or lockf(), doesn't work on NFS mounts, but does work on o2cb-based ocfs2 clusters, and God alone knows what the version(s) of Python / Perl / Java on your target system(s) are using to do locking under the hood - and He sure won't have documented it for you.
Doing it the easy way works 95% of the time, but if you don't take the time to find out what's inside that handy black box, you'll have a hard time putting it all back together (often on a customer site, and always at 11pm at night) when it does finally explode on you.
There will be WikiLeaks, and lo, there will be whatever splinter group Saint Assange sets up in order to keep himself relevant. Are you the WikiLeaks People's Front? Fuck off, we're the People's Front of WikiLeaks. Plus ça change.
How many people who have proactively shown an interest and put in the work to pass an advanced driving qualification would drive a vehicle with "no tread, bad shocks, bad brakes"? Education really is the silver bullet.
That seems consistent with Shatner viewing Trek as another here-today-forgotten-tomorrow show. Might as well get as much screen time as possible. What's surprising isn't that he did that, it's that the other cast members didn't - or at least aren't admitting to it now.
In mitigation, it's clear that even though he viewed it as a throwaway role, he took it seriously enough to actually work on the character himself. And boy, did he nail it, and crank it up to 11. It's easy to dismiss 'method', but I have the strong suspicion that when the camera was rolling (at least on the takes that he wanted kept), we weren't watching Bill Shatner, we were watching James T. Kirk, the captain of the starship Enterprise. Even among a cast as strong as Trek, Shatner pwned, and that is a pretty amazing achievement.
Plus, if it were any good (and it weren't) then those sharers would have become evangelists for seeing it at the theatre.
FFS, studios actually give free screeners to generate buzz. 3000+ people saw Scott Pilgrim for nothing, said great things about it, and then it totally crashed and burned at the box office anyway before it even had a chance to leak online. So, what, it failed to make money because the screener audience stole all the potential gross, with their filthy thieving eyes?
Go after filesharers, fine with me, the law's on the books. But trying to blame the failure of your theatrical release on them? Grow up and admit that the FAGs giving out smug awards to each other in Hollywood aren't an indicator of what Joe Popcorn wants to watch, any more than us nerds are.
Yes, and it collapsed because their warrior class spent all their time playing "oil the spear" with young boys. See? Kids destroyed ancient Greece. Q.E.D.
Good point. Being able to make an unlimited number of flawless copies of any number of works for essentially no cost or effort all, without even having to shift your arse off of the sofa is exactly like standing over a hot photocopier for hours, feeding it coins in order to produce one crappy facsimile of one book. You've really helped to put the problem in perspective!
In 2015, maybe he'll figure out that you give the bits away free - heck, you encourage fans to share them - and make your money from tangibles: posters, shirts and plushies.
If you're an author whose work isn't easily translatable to posters, shirts and plushies, well, sucks to be you, but railing about it isn't going to put the genie back in the bottle. Either add some sparkly emo vampires, or get a day job lined up. That's the way it's going to go down.
Your statements, your burden of proof, Dr Quackadoodle. "Widely known" within the crystal-hugging moonbat community doesn't constitute compelling evidence for us rational beings.
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To avoid the problems of local cultures building up resistance, I like to pee on other people's feet as well. You're welcome!
If you read to the end of the article that you cited, you'll find that IQ scores are now dropping in socialist European countries that reward baby farmers. Social mobility is also steady or dropping, and the number of working-age people dropping out and living off of benefits continues to rise - sponging off the State is increasingly an inherited career of choice rather than a last resort.
Idiocracy isn't a citation, it's a warning. Of course, I understand you not having the time to ponder that, since OW MY BALLS! was on.
And the Bitch-O-Meter went off the scale. That's not ironic, just a salient observation.
WWWWD? (What Would Wil Wheaton Do)
He'd say "Jones was being a dick. Don't be a dick." Then he'd get paid to wear a kilt and make out with Felicia Day. See, that's why you should always listen to Wil Wheaton.
While you were typing all that, I just lied my way into dates with three banging hot chicks who are into long walks and pilates-skydiving or whatever the hell it was that I ticked. Now, which of us has fitted genes, Poindexter?
Seriously, even "idle" has limits.
Yeah, I thought not.
The only training domestic IT workers need is how to bullshit on their resumes like offshore workers do. I have yet to encounter anyone east of Belgium who ever admitted that they didn't know how to do a (paying) job.
Thanks, those are good tools. I present my kludge merely as a novelty, to illustrate how trivial it is to produce a shim dll.
Funny you should mention DX3. Microsoft actually removed some surface caps flags in the transition from DX3 to DX5, and silently flipped the orientation that .BMP files were loaded (i.e. loaded them 'right way up' rather than 'upside down' as they're stored in the file). I know that was like three ice ages ago in Dev Years, but it still hurts when I think about it.
I realise that TheFineSummary talks about Windows 7, but there's still a fair number of XP boxen out there, for which Direct2D isn't an option. That said, I'd guess (as the article is down) that it's more of an ideological position, or - given that it's clearly a hobby project - just what the author is familiar with, or enjoys using. Given that we're talking about playing games here, I'd go with the latter explanation.
I do intend to RTFA when it recovers, since I find replacing/subverting dlls quite fun. I kludged up some code a while back to create a shim dll that can be used as the basis for selectively replacing functions in dlls, while calling through to the 'real' one for the other functions, so you can easily hack some functionality without having to re-implement the whole thing.
Most of the time, vehicle noise is a distraction. There's nothing that you can do about traffic coming from behind, and fixating on it distracts you from paying attention to hazards ahead that you can deal with.
And there's the issue that if you get used to listening for hazards, you can get caught out by silent traffic like electric cars and other cycles. Yes, I know, you should always look anyway, but there's a difference between making a lifesaver to see traffic, and a quick cursory glance to confirm a presumption that there isn't any traffic to see. If you don't expect to see it, then you really might not - I'm sure you're aware of the problem of cagers looking right through two-wheel traffic.
Don't get me wrong, I personally prefer to hear other traffic, but I can understand why some quite serious cyclists actively prefer not to.
Bookmarked, so that I can link a "told you so" post when he sets up RealWikiLeaks. You can get ahead of the grovelling and post your pre-emptive apologies here.
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Please note that the recipient has delivered the reply from Arkell v. Pressdram. How much lawyer time does it take to draft two words?
flock() isn't POSIX, doesn't have a standard behaviour across Linux/Unix/BSD platforms, can and will deadlock a process against itself, doesn't play well with either fcntl() or lockf(), doesn't work on NFS mounts, but does work on o2cb-based ocfs2 clusters, and God alone knows what the version(s) of Python / Perl / Java on your target system(s) are using to do locking under the hood - and He sure won't have documented it for you.
Doing it the easy way works 95% of the time, but if you don't take the time to find out what's inside that handy black box, you'll have a hard time putting it all back together (often on a customer site, and always at 11pm at night) when it does finally explode on you.
There will be WikiLeaks, and lo, there will be whatever splinter group Saint Assange sets up in order to keep himself relevant. Are you the WikiLeaks People's Front? Fuck off, we're the People's Front of WikiLeaks. Plus ça change.
How many people who have proactively shown an interest and put in the work to pass an advanced driving qualification would drive a vehicle with "no tread, bad shocks, bad brakes"? Education really is the silver bullet.
What's Kristy Swanson doing these days?
That seems consistent with Shatner viewing Trek as another here-today-forgotten-tomorrow show. Might as well get as much screen time as possible. What's surprising isn't that he did that, it's that the other cast members didn't - or at least aren't admitting to it now.
In mitigation, it's clear that even though he viewed it as a throwaway role, he took it seriously enough to actually work on the character himself. And boy, did he nail it, and crank it up to 11. It's easy to dismiss 'method', but I have the strong suspicion that when the camera was rolling (at least on the takes that he wanted kept), we weren't watching Bill Shatner, we were watching James T. Kirk, the captain of the starship Enterprise. Even among a cast as strong as Trek, Shatner pwned, and that is a pretty amazing achievement.
Plus, if it were any good (and it weren't) then those sharers would have become evangelists for seeing it at the theatre.
FFS, studios actually give free screeners to generate buzz. 3000+ people saw Scott Pilgrim for nothing, said great things about it, and then it totally crashed and burned at the box office anyway before it even had a chance to leak online. So, what, it failed to make money because the screener audience stole all the potential gross, with their filthy thieving eyes?
Go after filesharers, fine with me, the law's on the books. But trying to blame the failure of your theatrical release on them? Grow up and admit that the FAGs giving out smug awards to each other in Hollywood aren't an indicator of what Joe Popcorn wants to watch, any more than us nerds are.
... wait, Discovery? Where Kari Byron works? KILLLLLLLLLLL HIIIIIIMMMMMMMM!
Yes, and it collapsed because their warrior class spent all their time playing "oil the spear" with young boys. See? Kids destroyed ancient Greece. Q.E.D.
Good point. Being able to make an unlimited number of flawless copies of any number of works for essentially no cost or effort all, without even having to shift your arse off of the sofa is exactly like standing over a hot photocopier for hours, feeding it coins in order to produce one crappy facsimile of one book. You've really helped to put the problem in perspective!
In 2015, maybe he'll figure out that you give the bits away free - heck, you encourage fans to share them - and make your money from tangibles: posters, shirts and plushies.
If you're an author whose work isn't easily translatable to posters, shirts and plushies, well, sucks to be you, but railing about it isn't going to put the genie back in the bottle. Either add some sparkly emo vampires, or get a day job lined up. That's the way it's going to go down.
Your statements, your burden of proof, Dr Quackadoodle. "Widely known" within the crystal-hugging moonbat community doesn't constitute compelling evidence for us rational beings.
[citation needed]. Really, really needed.