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  1. If that happens (fat chance unless MS decides corporate suicide is a good plan) then Windows will be dead. Unlike many Linux fanatics like to claim there plenty of Windows software with no equivalent on other platforms (and not working in Wine), much of that is in daily use for real corporations making real money. But those are Win32 software - not metro (whatever) ones. So if MS would decide to stop supporting "desktop" programs they would alienate a huge portion of their commercial users and probably lead to a mass exodus to Linux or other alternative platforms for both users and (previously) Windows-only software creators.

  2. That is very common in white* racists, guess they automatically assume something unusual == must be Muslim? However most black-and-white (view of the world - not skin color) people don't do too much thinking...

    (* and perhaps among other racist groupings, I don't know)

  3. Re:"Police found Purinton 80 miles away at Applebe on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Some Indians are even Aryans (or so I heard)!

  4. Re:tee hee "fasting diet" on Fasting Diet 'Regenerates Diabetic Pancreas' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In trolling mode today?

  5. Re: Baseline for zero activity on Fasting Diet 'Regenerates Diabetic Pancreas' (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

    Appropriate energy intake for critically ill mechanically respirated patients ~1900kcal/day. That is adjusted for the body weights etc.

    https://health.gov/dietaryguid...

    Shows that 1000kcal is appropriate for a sedentary 3 year old, 2400kcal for an average 18 year male and 2000kcal for average 18 year female. That is for moderately active people, sedentary people need less and those with high activity need more.

  6. Re:Research was already classified on World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yes it can be used in e.g. explosives. No it isn't secret at all.

  7. Re:And they called me crazy. on World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    You haven't been proved right and you had an extremely bad knowledge of material science in the linked post. Given that you don't attempt to backtrack now I assume you still are proud to be clueless? And you are also a liar as nobody called you crazy for the linked (still clueless) post.

    But I have to admit you are beginning to look like a crazy guy that just "know" that hydrogen can't be metastable while material scientists have good reasons to believe it probably is.

  8. Re:Convenient on World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    They have tested it before, this was yet another test. And if you had spent some time reading about the problems the team faced (pressures being so high that it can shatter diamonds easily) you'd not be surprised the diamond cell was destroyed - as (again from the problems documented) shining a laser at a diamond under that kinds of pressure makes it even more fragile.

    So instead you wrote some shit based on nothing. Time well spent? Nah.

  9. Re:Wait a sec... on World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nobody sane claimed a second sample can't be created?

  10. Re:Difficult material remains difficult on World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They did as did many other people that worked on the idea of metallic hydrogen. Which would be trivial to check using google. Just saying...

  11. Re:Fake News on World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    We do use diamonds even though they are created requiring high pressures and heat. Metallic hydrogen is expected by many to be stable at normal pressures once created. The problem is creating them to verify this.

  12. Re:Left and right on Tech Reporting Is More Negative Now Than in the Past (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like you just made that up. Oh you did!

  13. You are entitled to get the fuck off the Internet. Nothing else.

  14. The one actively ensuring that exploitation isn't allowed of course.

  15. Exactly. The same of course applies to most other political philosophies including pure capitalism.

  16. Because the systems that called themselves communistic didn't follow any of the basic definitions of the term.
    Marx: the natural consequences are that workers will rise up and revolt, take over the means of production and spontaneously self-organize into a distributed state.
    Soviet union etc.: intellectuals will create a revolution, take over the the means of production and forcefully create an authoritarian state lead by the intellectuals as workers are dumb.

    There's a slight difference...

  17. You really have no fucking clue. Given the moderation there are obviously many with no fucking clue on here.

  18. Re: "Former" engineer - tells you all you need to on Former Engineer Says Uber Is a Nightmare of Sexism; CEO Orders Urgent Investigation (susanjfowler.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah... And here you are posting as an AC on /. when you could instead write a book (as it's so trivial right?) and earn some cash.

    While anybody with some clue do know that the points above _do_ indicate competence unlike being an anonymous poster writing illogical shit.

  19. I normally don't answer Nazi-sympathizers* however the word is used in all sorts of cases, like creating correct and fast implementations of some algorithms are problematic. And there's no social justice involved.

    (* see above post and /s)

  20. Only Nazis use the "term" SJW as we all know.

  21. Of course it can be problematic _however_ if problematic things didn't happen we would be living in a real world shangri-la. But linking a simple question to "a nightmare of sexism"? Bullshit. Reporting the advance to HR should have been enough.

  22. Many marriages wouldn't have happened if that was the case... How about having some fucking perspective (pun partially intended)?

  23. No an unwanted advance is an unwanted advance. How can one know if it is unwanted until one asks? This is basic logic but some people here fail to see that...

  24. Isn't it? How many days is required before it is okay then? Is text worse than verbally asking? I'll give you the subordinate argument, not because it is always a problem but it is a _potential_ problem.

    You could say that one shouldn't discuss sex at all in the workplace but IMHO it isn't sexual harassment nor sexism to say something like: "I find you attractive, would you like to have sex with me?". Is it sexism to say that one finds a person of the opposite gender attractive? Nope, but it may be a bad idea to bring it up. Is it harassment? Not unless one keeps asking, hinting etc. after getting a "I'm not interested thank you" as response.

    In real life in real workplaces talk about sex do come up. Prudes may not like it but that's a fact. Women like to joke around that subject too. Even with men.

  25. Re:I'm not surprised. on Former Engineer Says Uber Is a Nightmare of Sexism; CEO Orders Urgent Investigation (susanjfowler.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The real problem is those that think sexism is acceptable. And I mean that from both sexes - the things I've heard women say about men... Bah.

    I've not read the linked article (standard operating procedure, right?) however IMHO asking someone if they want to have sex isn't sexism nor harassment. It is sexism if it is assumed they will have sex to get promoted etc. and harassment if they can't take a no. But just asking?