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  1. Re:Probably Xamarin on Visual Studio 2015 Can Target Linux; Android Apps Anywhere Chrome Can Run · · Score: 1

    "And because these JavaScript APIs"... does that mean that the idiotic and uninformative anonymous coward with the initial reply was correct?

    If so, these two things do not go together. And I need to nerd rage on social.msdn.microsoft.com instead of here.

    • C#, Visual Basic, F#, C++, Python, Node.js and HTML/JavaScript
    • Build for iOS, Android, Windows devices, Windows Server or Linux
  2. Re:It means... on Visual Studio 2015 Can Target Linux; Android Apps Anywhere Chrome Can Run · · Score: 1

    For iOS, supporting PhoneGap and random WebKit for Linux makes sense.

    With open sourcing of the .NET framework, Linux C# makes sense.

    I'm not sure how the Javaness of Android might be tamed, other than processing .NET bytecode to Java bytecode.

    I'm not sure how C++ would work. Considering Corona uses Lua to Objective-C, and Marmalade is kind of an anything goes, there are possibilities way beyond an uninformed anonymous coward.

  3. Re:More BS blaming 'the system' for bad parenting on Poverty May Affect the Growth of Children's Brains · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are you statistically the same as the studied subjects?

    I did it because I'm smart, reasonably personable, and have a strong work ethic that makes it easy for me to do just about any job my company asks for, yet strong enough to go look elsewhere when the time is right.

    Nope, you are an outlier. Thanks for your Republicanism, but try actually understanding things.

  4. Re:Would We Even Want That? on Poverty May Affect the Growth of Children's Brains · · Score: 1

    No. We want to get everyone to the bare minimum of being a complete person. After that, the amount of money doesn't matter.

    If nutrition is the problem, let's pledge to make sure everyone has the minimum money to make sure their children have the minimum amount of nutrition.

    If something else is the problem, let's understand that, and then make sure that's at minimum levels for everyone.

  5. Re:Brain size? on Poverty May Affect the Growth of Children's Brains · · Score: 1

    The researchers chose to measure cortical surface area because previous research had shown that it increases throughout childhood and adolescence as the brain develops, thus making it a potentially sensitive indicator of intellectual abilities.

    I can read it to you, but I can't understand it for you. If you have questions, please read the article before wasting our goddam time.

  6. Re:Correlation is not Causation on Poverty May Affect the Growth of Children's Brains · · Score: 1

    Should science be based on what is intuitive for Archangel Michael (180766), or peer reviewed step by step understanding?

    Alternatively, can you back up your statement with a peer reviewed study?

  7. Re:software dev vs programmer on IT Jobs With the Best (and Worst) ROI · · Score: 0

    If you read the fucking article you would know.

    Also, Dice is about job postings, so they search for keywords and crunch the numbers.

    It's all about statistics and averages, and every programmer or developer or engineer I know thinks they are above average, so they are not going to agree. They are going to read 3 words and think they know the end of the paragraph.

    Idiot.

  8. Re:*sigh* on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: 1

    In spite of all this, Centers continues to insist that Branstad does not use e-mail. But checking your e-mail on your phone counts as using e-mail. Receiving e-mails from your staff counts as using e-mail. Sending accidental e-mails with your Blackberry counts as using e-mail.

    Checking a group distribution list because that's how you get news is not really "using" e-mail.

    Checking a group mail is not checking "your" e-mail.

    Sending e-mails which demonstrate that you have no idea what you are doing does certainly not count as "using" "e-mail".

    Obviously, this craptastically ignorant fuckstain is not tech savvy. Just as obviously, he is in no way "using" e-mail. Certainly not the way anyone, including 70+ year old relatives and everyone else in the world that I know, literally every single person, in the world, that I have ever met, uses e-mail. He is not doing that.

    Because he is not using e-mail. And he is a complete fucktard. Not an incomplete one. A complete fucktard. An ignorant one. And that's worse.

    Why do we elect such stupid people? Because using e-mail doesn't seem to be on any platform, nor any sort of anything ever. Is he stupid? Sure, but ignorance of technology isn't really part of it.

    Plus, old people vote, and young people don't. So maybe if I had a plank involving telegraphs and being against tomatoes, I'd win all the votes.

    Now, go tell young people to vote. And don't screw any of them in the process. Just stick to voting related conversation.

  9. Re:Awful, awful science reporting on Dark Matter Is Even More of a Mystery Than Expected · · Score: 1

    âoeA previous study had seen similar behavior in the Bullet Cluster,â said co-investigator Richard Massey of Durham University in the UK. âoeBut itâ(TM)s difficult to interpret what youâ(TM)re seeing if you have just one example. Each collision takes hundreds of millions of years, so in a human lifetime we only get to see one freeze-frame from a single camera angle. Now that we have studied so many more collisions, we can start to piece together the full movie and better understand what is going on.â

    Is that not new?

    Very few things in real research are genuinely new, but confirmation of prior examples, often in greater numbers, bolsters the field in general.

    Is there something you can point to that already did this : "focused on 72 galactic cluster collisions from all angles and at different times during their collisions"?

  10. Re:WIMPs on Dark Matter Is Even More of a Mystery Than Expected · · Score: 3, Informative

    You didn't like the Wikipedia article for WIMPs. But since you put the other two as Wikipedia articles, I assume you consider it a valid source.

    However, recent null results from direct detection experiments including LUX and SuperCDMS, along with the failure to produce evidence of supersymmetry in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment[2][3] has cast doubt on the simplest WIMP hypothesis.[4]

    The answer isn't just "WIMPs", but a special kind of WIMP, or not one at all.

    What's new?

    The results, published in the journal Science on 27 March 2015, show that dark matter interacts with itself even less than previously thought, and narrows down the options for what this mysterious substance might be.

    I don't have the article in the mail yet, but I'm guessing that's new. At the very least, Weakly Interacting is now Really Weakly Interacting.

  11. Re:Certainty in Science on Dark Matter Is Even More of a Mystery Than Expected · · Score: 2

    Dark matter is stuff that behaves like matter but isn't visible. Dark energy is stuff that behaves like energy, but isn't visible. When you know that, it makes sense.

    "Dark Matter" is a placeholder for "whatever the hell is causing this".

    There is more "whatever the hell is causing this" than visible matter.

    That is so matter of fact, and it leaves no room for... wait, it leaves a lot of room for a description of "whatever the hell is causing this".

    This article shows yet another data point indicating that dark matter may not exist, because of how it continues to not react with stuff, just as it would if it weren't there at all.

    Nope. The images contain evidence of dark matter, because the matter we *can* see doesn't behave the way it should if there were nothing else that we *can't* see.

  12. Re:Then again, if all was well why would they resi on GAO Denied Access To Webb Telescope Workers By Northrop Grumman · · Score: 1

    You're right, there is nothing at all complicated about this situation, and intuition will answer all questions, no need for details. /sarcasm

  13. Re:Still not as bad as Perkin-Elmer... on GAO Denied Access To Webb Telescope Workers By Northrop Grumman · · Score: 1

    First time I heard of this. Care to elaborate for us stupid retarded ignorant plebians?

  14. Re: 9 whole billion? OUTRAGEOUS! on GAO Denied Access To Webb Telescope Workers By Northrop Grumman · · Score: 2

    Look, I'm on your side in the sense that science is worth dollars. At least I think I am, but I feel confused.

    I have no idea how much it costs to make, launch, test, or do anything to a telescope other than break it with a hammer, which costs zero dollars and might be largely ineffective.

    So you are going to claim that retention is behind the cost increase? You said $6b, with another $2B, citing retention. What about the other $1B to add up to the $9B cited directly twice, and indirectly once, in the summary?

  15. Re:flawed approach on Amazon Robot Contest May Accelerate Warehouse Automation · · Score: 1

    Seems clear they are focusing on the after part of "sending it to an AZ warehouse".

    Are they still taking a flawed approach?

    What about by using "the latest computer-vision and machine-learning algorithms" to avoid having standard size and shape boxes?

    Still flawed?

  16. New APIs introduced on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 SDK · · Score: 2, Funny

    New APIs introduced, from

    #if(WINVER >= 0x0600)

    WINBASEAPI
    BOOL
    WINAPI
    SwitchToMetro(
        );

    #define SwitchToDesktop()

    #define IsUserAPirate() (false)

    #ifndef _NTOS_
    #if defined(_M_IA64) && !defined(RC_INVOKED) // #define LinuxIsStupid() (true) // issue 872354,
    caution, Kurt got fired for this.
    #endif
    #endif

    LONG
    __cdecl
    MakeTheUserAcceptMetro (
            __inout LONG volatile *Penor
            );

    #endif

  17. Re:Why is this unexpected? on UK Government Admits Intelligence Services Allowed To Break Into Any System · · Score: 1

    Maybe one or two, you wishful thinker, but that is way larger than the number of people impacted by these violations.

    When the number of violations is greater than the number impacted, something is wrong.

    When the number impacted is greater than the number of violations, that's still not a good sign - there are still violations.

    I can't support your hypothetical bullshit, and the I assume 4 idiots who did should share the shame.

  18. Re:Fake, not practical on Magic Leap's AR Demo Video · · Score: 1

    It's fake because my Xbox 360 can basically do the same thing, other than the dual display, which is supported in a few select games, so it basically can do all of that?

    My last generation, not current generation, non-upgradeable hardware, from 2010, can already do pretty much this.

    Remember, they are playing with this in the office. This isn't the 8-to-5 interface that they use to check e-mail. 15 minutes of physical activity every two hours is good for you, and slightly above that is better.

    I'm sure that I would enjoy this, if I were developing it, meaning I did hardware or software most of the day, or if I were testing, meaning I did a lot of documenting in addition to the physical interface.

    In 8 hour doses, this is going to get tiring, and they will refine it before release, or it won't be successful. Few people want AR/VR, and doing it wrong will kill the whole thing. When they get to alpha testing, the gestures or whatever will have to be refined.

    I expect some sort of neural supplement, so that a modified keyboard plus neural reading plus large gestures for the big things, along with head tracking and eye tracking, is going to kill every other everything.

  19. Re:Another contribution to peace. Thanks Islam. on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 1

    Another contribution to peace. Thanks Islam.

    Did you mean "Thanks, very small set of ignorant radicalists"? Because otherwise you think that 2 billion people somehow are incapable of taking over the entire planet - of fighting multiple wars on multiple fronts - of organizing some kind of world takeover.

    How could 2 billion people NOT take over the world in a small number of years?

    Unless maybe, just maybe, you don't understand what you are talking about?

  20. Re:Some loss already happened on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 1

    Says who, Zillow? Do you have some real estate sales to cite since, I don't know, yesterday? Or whenever the hell the news actually hit? Wednesday I assume. Are you a realtor?

    You made a claim. Based on what? Blind ass retarded assumption?

    How many Americans, who are actually going to buy a house any time soon, is this going to affect? Or are they going to be more influenced by 1) What they can afford 2) Where ISIS is, and isn't 3) Commute times 4) Distance from schools if applicable

    I heard you say "Something happened and everyone in the world is both knowledgeable and a pussy." Is that what you meant?

  21. Re:ISIS this! ISIS that! on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 1

    Jesus Christmas, what in the hell do you mean? Omitting the HTTP part, this is your link:

    img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_600w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/03/17/National-Security/Graphics/USYemen_graphicv2.jpg

    It's a graphic about the number of things... and no context. Did you have a point, or is this just free association?

    You said helicopters, but the picture shows an airplane. Does that cast doubt on the source?

    So no, you can't be right. Not at this point.

  22. Re:Kill them all. on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 1

    Your amygdala sounds fat. You should seek professional help to understand your body and the influences on it, especially the internal ones.

    http://www.salon.com/2013/02/2...

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

  23. Re:So Where Are You Now, NSA? on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 1

    It gets hard to figure out the location when the domain registrar is listed as "Muhammed, Dirt Hut, Off the Main Road to Kabul, Dirtmenistan."

    Where do you think they are coming from if not the publicly known geographical locations currently in the hands of ISIS?

    And now what, do we just blow up everyone in those areas, including the dirt farmers who don't give one shit about who is in charge as long as they can feed their villages?

    You are the worst part of those people who read any news story and immediately think "Yeah well, [thing that I don't like] must suck because it hasn't solve the problem." There are good reasons and bad reasons to object, and this is one of the worst I've read yet. I suppose I could help you out by enumerating the good ones, but we're going to take baby steps here.

  24. Re:Careful, they might shoot back on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 1

    Are you sure they are against news organizations? Because that's who gives them power, not capitalism.

    Capitalism is not the "the corporate misinfotainment industry". "[T]he corporate misinfotainment industry" is a very small part of capitalism. Or are you one of those people who believes that capitalists have enough money to buy a featured spot in every right-wing, left-wing, Libertarian, independent, and other news feed? Because if capitalists bought stories like people think they do, they would be able to afford first world countries by now.

    I could use smaller words, I guess, but I don't know that you are ready to think for yourself. Please ask for help before posting again.

  25. Re:Your government at work on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I think ISIS are ideological crazy bastards. And then I look a the American right, and see equally crazy bastards who want the world to reflect their religion and are more than willing to force their beliefs on power through force.

    And then I'm forced to conclude they're really both crazy and delusional, and view their own cause as somehow being different.

    Most of the USA does not agree with the American religious right, which is what you are referencing. Most of ISIS does not disagree with ISIS.

    What the religious right wants, they don't necessarily get. And that's because there are more opinions than assholes in USA.

    You pointed out less than 50 million people, as if they represent the rest of the 400 million population, said yeah that's basically the same. So you didn't even come close to making even a semi-coherent point.