It's not just that but the point of an OS is to offer APIs so programming is easier.
It is much much much easier to write quality programs for Windows than Linux. This is why all the game platform is dominated by Windows, so is office software.
Windows API's and quality programming should never be in the same sentence. Both OS's require a learning curve to understand their perspective API's, so if you started learning to code in Windows, that will be more familiar to you. However, there is an awful lot of crap code that comes out with the Windows API's. At least with Linux, there is an entire community to check your code and help improve it. As far as gaming, the main reason has more to do with marketing and not the API's. The simple economics of scale is why the gaming industry shy's away from Linux in favor of Windows. Unfortunately, is a chicken vs. egg situation. We need good Linux games to get people interested in the OS, but we need a lot more people using Linux before the game developers will give it serious consideration.
Hell, some of his supporters want him to take over and become a dictator.
Odd, I try to watch both side from multiple news sources. One doesn't really hear this kind of rhetoric from the conservative side. However, I have recently heard this multiple times from the left. Does spreading this FUD really make you feel better about the fact that your side didn't win the election?
Not convinced the FCC has overstated the availability of broadband. Looking at the definition of broadband by the FCC... Unless you live in a cave, there is always satellite internet that fits the definition. It may not have the best ping times, but ping times are not included in the definition.
This is not a case of free market failure. This is a case of local government putting restrictions on building affordable housing. You got the NIMBY part correct, though.
Yes, you can have freedom of speech and hate speech laws, because all rights are limited against each other. Where speech is proven to be a contributing factor in violence with that intent, it's illegal. Your false dichotomy doesn't apply.
The problem here isn't the banning of people trying to start violence. The problem is the banning of people who just have differing opinions than those of the social media corporations. For instance Prager University has had more than 30 videos pulled for so called "hate speech". They were nothing of the sort, but wrongly labeled as such. The true problem is that the definition of hate speech is so nebulous that it becomes impossible to actually define it. Best to let free speech be the default, and provide a better argument for that which you don't agree with.
Solyndra failed because of a piss poor business model, not because China subsidized cheap pv panels. Other markets must also contend with cheap imports from China, and do just fine. Remember that Solyndra was also heavily subsidized from the US government.
Net neutrality doesn't relate to cable investment. I get that people hate the lack of net neutrality and the cable co.s are everybody's whipping boys, but come on... You really have to do some mental gymnastics to correlate the the two subjects.
Democratic socialist states, where the government stands up for its citizens, do rather well from a quality of life perspective.
Do you mean states like Sweden, where the government let in thousands of muslim immigrants creating zones where even the police say they have difficulty operating. Or maybe you mean Germany where they let muslim men get away with rape on new year 2016, simply because they didn't want to seem racially insensitive.
You may like their health care system, but to insinuate that democratic socialist states stand up for their citizens is a bit naive.
Just because some species can coexist compatibly with human agriculture doesn't mean that it's "great for ecosystems". Quite the opposite in most cases.
The beautiful thing about nature; that which does survive the change in ecosystems, becomes the new ecosystem. Good, Bad, indifferent... doesn't really matter.
The challenged raised was: Is there ANYTHING the 5 paragraph essay is good for. So far I haven't heard anything. It is an intermediate step at best before writing something useful.
It's good for education. Most people will never utilize any real writing skill beyond what is taught in school. For those who are not good at essays, it gives them a good starting point. To me, the whole point of the article, is to have something to complain about. Nothing more.
People should absolutely read Karl Marx, but also read opposing views like Milton Friedman or Thomas Sowell. If one just reads Marx, one will remain ignorant of why he was so wrong on economics.
As a noun, a cue is either a signal or a piece of sporting equipment. As a verb, it refers to the act of signaling someone, or the act of striking a ball in billiards games. As a noun, a queue is a lineup of people or other things. As a verb, queue means to line something up or to form a line.
The GP's use of queue seems quite apropos. Though both are acceptable.
it doesn't really affect the rich at all. But it can be the difference between eating or not for the poor.
Most state sales taxes in the USA are set up such that groceries and medicine are not taxed for this very reason. However, if you want that million dollar yacht, you can expect to be taxed on it. Is it still a loophole if it only benefits the poor? Either way, regressive it isn't.
The neat thing about time... when a model predicts a temperature outside of what actually happens, it's proven false. Even worse is when a computer model continues to run the same failed equations while being fed the current climate information in order to keep it updated, all while making the claim that computer models are constantly improving and getting better. They aren't really, they just continue to show doom and gloom while continuing to be inaccurate. Not all climate computer models are wrong, but the vast majority of the spaghetti string graphs you see show the majority of the models to be inaccurate over time. Do people not find it odd that as they update their graphs they only show actual readings for historical data and not what they predicted in the past? If you have a climate model that is accurate, you should be proud to show how accurate it has been over time. It would go a long way to improve integrity in the science of climatology.
Are you aware of the challenge put forth by James Randy for $1 million to prove the viability of such a claim? It does require you to pass a double blind test to prove it works.
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It's not just that but the point of an OS is to offer APIs so programming is easier.
It is much much much easier to write quality programs for Windows than Linux. This is why all the game platform is dominated by Windows, so is office software.
Windows API's and quality programming should never be in the same sentence. Both OS's require a learning curve to understand their perspective API's, so if you started learning to code in Windows, that will be more familiar to you. However, there is an awful lot of crap code that comes out with the Windows API's. At least with Linux, there is an entire community to check your code and help improve it. As far as gaming, the main reason has more to do with marketing and not the API's. The simple economics of scale is why the gaming industry shy's away from Linux in favor of Windows. Unfortunately, is a chicken vs. egg situation. We need good Linux games to get people interested in the OS, but we need a lot more people using Linux before the game developers will give it serious consideration.
You don't need to bother. Just overvolt and breach the cells. BANG!
The difference between a Li-Po battery exploding and the same size bit of semtek exploding is several orders of magnitude.
. Even if you shoot them, you have to dispose of the bodies.
Body disposal... Oh, look a new job created that some people can then become productive members of society.
Hell, some of his supporters want him to take over and become a dictator.
Odd, I try to watch both side from multiple news sources. One doesn't really hear this kind of rhetoric from the conservative side. However, I have recently heard this multiple times from the left. Does spreading this FUD really make you feel better about the fact that your side didn't win the election?
Not convinced the FCC has overstated the availability of broadband. Looking at the definition of broadband by the FCC... Unless you live in a cave, there is always satellite internet that fits the definition. It may not have the best ping times, but ping times are not included in the definition.
This is not a case of free market failure. This is a case of local government putting restrictions on building affordable housing. You got the NIMBY part correct, though.
Yes, you can have freedom of speech and hate speech laws, because all rights are limited against each other. Where speech is proven to be a contributing factor in violence with that intent, it's illegal. Your false dichotomy doesn't apply.
The problem here isn't the banning of people trying to start violence. The problem is the banning of people who just have differing opinions than those of the social media corporations. For instance Prager University has had more than 30 videos pulled for so called "hate speech". They were nothing of the sort, but wrongly labeled as such. The true problem is that the definition of hate speech is so nebulous that it becomes impossible to actually define it. Best to let free speech be the default, and provide a better argument for that which you don't agree with.
A quick google search... https://www.realclearpolitics....
Solyndra failed because of a piss poor business model, not because China subsidized cheap pv panels. Other markets must also contend with cheap imports from China, and do just fine. Remember that Solyndra was also heavily subsidized from the US government.
Net neutrality doesn't relate to cable investment. I get that people hate the lack of net neutrality and the cable co.s are everybody's whipping boys, but come on... You really have to do some mental gymnastics to correlate the the two subjects.
The idiots were the leaders of the DNC who decided to run the most corrupt candidate possible.
Democratic socialist states, where the government stands up for its citizens, do rather well from a quality of life perspective.
Do you mean states like Sweden, where the government let in thousands of muslim immigrants creating zones where even the police say they have difficulty operating. Or maybe you mean Germany where they let muslim men get away with rape on new year 2016, simply because they didn't want to seem racially insensitive.
You may like their health care system, but to insinuate that democratic socialist states stand up for their citizens is a bit naive.
Just because some species can coexist compatibly with human agriculture doesn't mean that it's "great for ecosystems". Quite the opposite in most cases.
The beautiful thing about nature; that which does survive the change in ecosystems, becomes the new ecosystem. Good, Bad, indifferent... doesn't really matter.
Bacon without nitrates isn't bacon, it's just pork belly.
The challenged raised was: Is there ANYTHING the 5 paragraph essay is good for. So far I haven't heard anything. It is an intermediate step at best before writing something useful.
It's good for education. Most people will never utilize any real writing skill beyond what is taught in school. For those who are not good at essays, it gives them a good starting point. To me, the whole point of the article, is to have something to complain about. Nothing more.
what you recommend then?
Not the gp, but I will take a stab at it.
People should absolutely read Karl Marx, but also read opposing views like Milton Friedman or Thomas Sowell. If one just reads Marx, one will remain ignorant of why he was so wrong on economics.
Ah, I fondly remember the MySpace days.
Turn in your nerd card.
Wouldn't that be Turn in your Geek card? Nerds tend to be less interested in DS-9 trivia.
From a quick google search...
As a noun, a cue is either a signal or a piece of sporting equipment. As a verb, it refers to the act of signaling someone, or the act of striking a ball in billiards games. As a noun, a queue is a lineup of people or other things. As a verb, queue means to line something up or to form a line.
The GP's use of queue seems quite apropos. Though both are acceptable.
I could swear that people are just looking at http://tylervigen.com/spurious... for ideas to make new headlines with.
If the self driving AI is having to pick who lives and who doesn't, then it has already failed.
it doesn't really affect the rich at all. But it can be the difference between eating or not for the poor.
Most state sales taxes in the USA are set up such that groceries and medicine are not taxed for this very reason. However, if you want that million dollar yacht, you can expect to be taxed on it. Is it still a loophole if it only benefits the poor? Either way, regressive it isn't.
There is no such thing as a model being proven.
The neat thing about time... when a model predicts a temperature outside of what actually happens, it's proven false. Even worse is when a computer model continues to run the same failed equations while being fed the current climate information in order to keep it updated, all while making the claim that computer models are constantly improving and getting better. They aren't really, they just continue to show doom and gloom while continuing to be inaccurate. Not all climate computer models are wrong, but the vast majority of the spaghetti string graphs you see show the majority of the models to be inaccurate over time. Do people not find it odd that as they update their graphs they only show actual readings for historical data and not what they predicted in the past? If you have a climate model that is accurate, you should be proud to show how accurate it has been over time. It would go a long way to improve integrity in the science of climatology.
Are you aware of the challenge put forth by James Randy for $1 million to prove the viability of such a claim? It does require you to pass a double blind test to prove it works.
It's not like they have a history of posting fake news or anything.
http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/0...
https://www.godsavethepoints.c...
https://donsurber.blogspot.com...