Without it, there is a hell of lot we just simply cannot do anymore.
Right....it's totally impossible to implement a fucking "go to next page" hyperlink, or "submit form" button, or to display something other than a blank page, without using Javascript.
At least that's the impression I get from the 90% of trivial web pages which are broken by disabling Javascript.
Saying that 90% of websites should be redesigned in such a fashion is quite comical.
No, what's comical is 90% of websites, and the near-worthless lumps of human flesh who "designed" them.
Whether you like it or not we are going to continue moving towards browsers being merely dynamic front ends for applications and that simply requires client side code. Period.
Sure. And when that future arrives, it won't involve Javascript or (ugh) HTML.
The only "children" in this discussion are those who, rather than attempting to understand how others think, simply dismiss them as "childish." The rest of us understand that whining and crying and bitching and moaning about the fact that people don't like the name GIMP, and calling them names to boot......doesn't change the fact that they don't like it, and isn't going to make people want to use your product.
No, that 99% of geeks are so clueless about marketing that they don't even understand why it's desirable.
This isn't a business that's seeking to conquer the world and "gain market share", it's an open source project where people want to create a tool for others to use.
If they want others to use it........then change the fucking name. How difficult is this concept, really?
It's been extraordinarily successful in that regard.
No, it's been somewhat successful. It could have been and could still be extraordinarily successful, were the developers not clueless twits.
If some people can't get past a name just to use a product, then why is that the developers problem and not the people who choose to not use a product for childish reasons?
It's the developer's problem because the developers will go down in history as clueless twits who provided a marginally useful tool, rather than smart folks who genuinely "got it", understood their user base, and provided a seriously useful tool for them.
I mean, as another poster suggested, why not call it NIGGER? I'm sure there'll be leagues of those "childish" people flocking to it, right?
A good mechanic when shopping for used cars, can tell the difference between a car maintained by a fucking moron, and one by a person with half a clue. Guess which car he will gravitate towards purchasing?
A materials scientist who is a plastics expert isn't going to buy some cheap ass garbage plastic basket made out a material which he knows won't last 6 weeks; he's going to buy the one next to it that costs a dollar or ten dollars more. It's not even that the cheap one will break; it's the *knowledge* of it being a cheap piece of shit that would haunt him in his sleep if he knowingly bought such garbage.
So given all the above logical, reasonable statements, why the fuck would you assume that an artist is any different? Why would a person who is finely attuned to artwork and design sense gravitate towards a half assed graphics program so moronically designed that the very name gives it away?
I think it's a stupid name, but I also think if someone is that hyper-sensitive to a name, then perhaps they should fork over a few hundred bucks for photo shop so they won't be offended. I kind of like the idea that being hyper-sensitive to things costs people money.
No--being hypersensitive to things makes people money.....a concept the "GIMP" developers might have half a hope of understanding, were they actually artists rather than your average geeks with zero artistic sense. It is precisely because the GIMP geeks aren't anything like their ideal user base (you know....artists) that their tool is nowhere near as good and as popular as it could be.
Isn't there anything they might have done recently that might earn them a little karma? Like say, pulling out of China when every other corporation is busy sucking Comrade Dick for the mere hint of market access.
No, not really.
After years of sucking Chinese cock....when you suddenly decide to stop sucking cock, you are still a cock sucker.
Are you sure that the real morons aren't the ones who try to use an appeal to emotion?
No, they're the ones who get so caught up in the books and legal fiction that they can't step back and look at the real world, and understand what's right and what's wrong, and what's effective police work and what's just plain old fashioned security theater.
You're not going to make a billion dollars, slow the fuck down.
Says who? Who are you again?
Also, genius, it's a spectrum disorder. Ranging from people who might have it, or are just using it as an excuse to be a dick, like you, to people who can not funtion.
.....and your point is?
You falsely link intelligent with autism.
Intelligence*
You have no clue what reasoning I've taken to come to my conclusion, because I haven't explained it to you..... nor do I feel any obligation to.
Not nearly as smart as you think you are, but that's the case now, so no change.
You just love saying that, don't you? I wonder why you feel so driven to insult me?
IF someone made it so you were comfortable around people, you would still be just as smart as you atr.
are*
What makes you ASSume "being uncomfortable around people" is my definition of "autistic"? That's a simplistic definition invented by a simpleton.
Parents of Kids that rock back in forth all day, drool on themselves and can't communicate would probably love to cure the disorder.
Sure. And I bet parents of kids who "don't listen", who forget things they're told verbally, who have strange habits like skipping up and down the house excitedly and flapping their hands, who are willful and impulsive, etc, would love to cure their kids of this "disorder" as well.
Which is why I'm well and fucking glad mine weren't able to.
Exactly. This sort of thing doesn't happen in a vacuum; it has a real and tangible negative effect on the economy. These leeches have built up such a web of institutionalized parasitism dragging the whole economy down, which is exactly why we remain in this same mess today with everyone struggling just to get by. We the People need the chains unclasped from our ankles so that we can fulfill our potential.
How about it? Clearly their genes were not actually identical (do you think our sequencing abilities today are perfect?), OR there is more complexity in the genetic mechanics than you and every other short sighted scientist knows or believes (not just likely--TRUE.)
I am autistic (Central Auditory Processing Disorder, with autism), and I am quite certain in my case it's inherited.
My daughter is autistic and to any parent that thinks it's special and thinks it's what makes their kid, their kid, "fuck you!"
This condition IS a huge part of what makes me special, bro. I will make billions of dollars in my lifetime thanks to this condition. Yes it has given me challenges, but you know what, I have benefited from learning to overcome them.
Your ignorance and stupidity is disgusting and revolting. Look in the mirror. Animals like you are driven by your fear, not facts and reason. You are so busy stampeding towards a "cure" for "autism" (who can say with certainty what the fuck autism even IS, anyway?) to fix your OWN problems (YOUR daughter and HER condition), that you would gladly, willingly, happily, ignorantly run right over and fuck over others like me in the process.
If it were up to stupid assholes like yourself, people like me would be identified at 3 years old as "autistic", then immediately put on prescription meds to "cure" us. Whole generations of minds would be fucked over and ruined thanks to the ignorance and just plain inability to think of normal simpletons with their average intelligence and average stupidity.
So as a person who is autistic, and fucking proud of it....let me the one to say: No, Anonymous Asshole.....Fuck YOU.
Are you completely insane? Reread what you wrote. Classifying people into subspecies and "Walmart people"...not to mention your very own genetic sister is somehow below the level of acceptable human standards to reproduce????
Maybe if you had used fewer question marks here, and less appeal to emotion, I might have actually read and considered your comment.
The original post was full of logic and wisdom. Yours is an irrational rant.
Yeah but will all those children survive to produce offspring of their own? Exponential math and the competition of life tells us they won't.
I just recently traced my family tree and discovered a fucking shitload of royalty, nobility, and other "high class" figures. (This explains a lot, actually.) I'm guessing just as we breed plants, and get better plants, and breed animals, and get better animals, the selection and breeding of humans with other superior humans often results in better humans, too.....Habsburgs excepted of course.
Of course it's we who are doing the judging, so it's a bit difficult to be unbiased. (Cue the haters in 3...2...)
I don't recall the exact wording as it's been a while since I read the transcript, but the Captain had gone off to sleep before this whole thing started, and came back in while it was falling out of the sky. After a little while he made a comment about the control stick, and Junior says something like "...but I've been pulling back the whole time." And the captain says no, no, push forward. That's when Junior lets up, and they start to recover, then crash a few seconds later.
You wouldn't be. I have the misfortune to own a place with a great view over a convention center often used for various government meetings. Since two of my balconies overlook their terraces and hall windows from above, every fucking time they have some diminutive French, Italian or Russian head of state I have to remove my flowers and my telescope tripods from the balcony, keep the windows closed, get a badge from the security scum that infests the stairwell, endure their cheap cigarette smoke, bad breath, awful manners, atrocious looks and general incompetence.
You do? Because I would tell them to go fuck themselves. What country do you live in? I'm guessing it's NOT the United States.
Yes. Again--time and time again, I've preached it. Google is evil. This is only another in a long list of examples illustrating it. Do not trust this company.
Please tell me where this is. I think I'd like to live there. I've heard Alabama, but I've not found corroborating evidence to make that more than speculation.
Nope, not Alabama.
Yes, in quite a few states. But you must first pass a rigorous test
Not in Alabama you don't. You fill out a sheet of paper with some basic info, name, SSN, make/model/SN of weapon, etc, and submit it to the sheriff. He will look over your conviction history, if any, and make sure there isn't any disqualifying offenses listed, then issue the permit.
are still held ultimately responsible for murder if you use too much force in a situation
The stupidest thing was, the whole thing was avoidable. The reason they stalled out to begin with is the junior pilot decided to begin a long climb, for absolutely no reason, losing airspeed all the while. Then they got into the storm and couldn't see anything, as the aircraft began to stall. Junior pulled back on the stick and kept it pulled back hard until 5-10 seconds before impact.
They fell out of the sky for minutes on end while the other pilot had his stick pushed forward, desperately trying to nose it down and gain some airspeed, perplexed as to what the hell was going on and why the damn thing wouldn't respond.....as the computer system averaged the two inputs, giving a neutral control surface orientation. (What kind of fucking moron designs an aircraft control system like this?)
A few times Junior let up on his stick and the aircraft corrected enough for the stall warning to begin buzzing, then in terror he yanked it back again. Only at the very end did he finally let up and the aircraft began to recover, just as they belly flopped onto the ocean at 90 MPH.
No, that's not what happened at all. It's quite clear what happened. The one pilot was a fucking moron, and he had the stick pulled back the entire goddamn time they were stalled out and falling out of the sky. The other pilot had his stick pushed forward, trying to nose it down and gain some airspeed. The piece of shit computer system on the Airbus averaged the two inputs, finally concluding that keeping the control surfaces level was a good compromise. Only seconds before impact did the junior pilot (who should have never been behind the stick of a Cessna, let alone a commercial aircraft) release his control stick, allowing the aircraft to begin recovering, but by then it was too late.
This was the exact problem the English had after they invaded Ireland, then tried to survey all the lands and document everything. They quickly found that the Irish notion of property rights and ownership of land varies considerably from the neat, tidy, regimented, calculated Norman English system (which in turn was inherited from the Roman Empire.)
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Without it, there is a hell of lot we just simply cannot do anymore.
Right....it's totally impossible to implement a fucking "go to next page" hyperlink, or "submit form" button, or to display something other than a blank page, without using Javascript.
At least that's the impression I get from the 90% of trivial web pages which are broken by disabling Javascript.
Saying that 90% of websites should be redesigned in such a fashion is quite comical.
No, what's comical is 90% of websites, and the near-worthless lumps of human flesh who "designed" them.
Whether you like it or not we are going to continue moving towards browsers being merely dynamic front ends for applications and that simply requires client side code. Period.
Sure. And when that future arrives, it won't involve Javascript or (ugh) HTML.
The only "children" in this discussion are those who, rather than attempting to understand how others think, simply dismiss them as "childish." The rest of us understand that whining and crying and bitching and moaning about the fact that people don't like the name GIMP, and calling them names to boot......doesn't change the fact that they don't like it, and isn't going to make people want to use your product.
What, that geeks don't value marketing?
No, that 99% of geeks are so clueless about marketing that they don't even understand why it's desirable.
This isn't a business that's seeking to conquer the world and "gain market share", it's an open source project where people want to create a tool for others to use.
If they want others to use it........then change the fucking name. How difficult is this concept, really?
It's been extraordinarily successful in that regard.
No, it's been somewhat successful. It could have been and could still be extraordinarily successful, were the developers not clueless twits.
If some people can't get past a name just to use a product, then why is that the developers problem and not the people who choose to not use a product for childish reasons?
It's the developer's problem because the developers will go down in history as clueless twits who provided a marginally useful tool, rather than smart folks who genuinely "got it", understood their user base, and provided a seriously useful tool for them.
I mean, as another poster suggested, why not call it NIGGER? I'm sure there'll be leagues of those "childish" people flocking to it, right?
A good mechanic when shopping for used cars, can tell the difference between a car maintained by a fucking moron, and one by a person with half a clue. Guess which car he will gravitate towards purchasing?
A materials scientist who is a plastics expert isn't going to buy some cheap ass garbage plastic basket made out a material which he knows won't last 6 weeks; he's going to buy the one next to it that costs a dollar or ten dollars more. It's not even that the cheap one will break; it's the *knowledge* of it being a cheap piece of shit that would haunt him in his sleep if he knowingly bought such garbage.
So given all the above logical, reasonable statements, why the fuck would you assume that an artist is any different? Why would a person who is finely attuned to artwork and design sense gravitate towards a half assed graphics program so moronically designed that the very name gives it away?
I think it's a stupid name, but I also think if someone is that hyper-sensitive to a name, then perhaps they should fork over a few hundred bucks for photo shop so they won't be offended. I kind of like the idea that being hyper-sensitive to things costs people money.
No--being hypersensitive to things makes people money.....a concept the "GIMP" developers might have half a hope of understanding, were they actually artists rather than your average geeks with zero artistic sense. It is precisely because the GIMP geeks aren't anything like their ideal user base (you know....artists) that their tool is nowhere near as good and as popular as it could be.
Isn't there anything they might have done recently that might earn them a little karma? Like say, pulling out of China when every other corporation is busy sucking Comrade Dick for the mere hint of market access.
No, not really.
After years of sucking Chinese cock....when you suddenly decide to stop sucking cock, you are still a cock sucker.
Are you sure that the real morons aren't the ones who try to use an appeal to emotion?
No, they're the ones who get so caught up in the books and legal fiction that they can't step back and look at the real world, and understand what's right and what's wrong, and what's effective police work and what's just plain old fashioned security theater.
You're not going to make a billion dollars, slow the fuck down.
Says who? Who are you again?
Also, genius, it's a spectrum disorder. Ranging from people who might have it, or are just using it as an excuse to be a dick, like you, to people who can not funtion.
.....and your point is?
You falsely link intelligent with autism.
Intelligence*
You have no clue what reasoning I've taken to come to my conclusion, because I haven't explained it to you ..... nor do I feel any obligation to.
Not nearly as smart as you think you are, but that's the case now, so no change.
You just love saying that, don't you? I wonder why you feel so driven to insult me?
IF someone made it so you were comfortable around people, you would still be just as smart as you atr.
are*
What makes you ASSume "being uncomfortable around people" is my definition of "autistic"? That's a simplistic definition invented by a simpleton.
Parents of Kids that rock back in forth all day, drool on themselves and can't communicate would probably love to cure the disorder.
Sure. And I bet parents of kids who "don't listen", who forget things they're told verbally, who have strange habits like skipping up and down the house excitedly and flapping their hands, who are willful and impulsive, etc, would love to cure their kids of this "disorder" as well.
Which is why I'm well and fucking glad mine weren't able to.
Exactly. This sort of thing doesn't happen in a vacuum; it has a real and tangible negative effect on the economy. These leeches have built up such a web of institutionalized parasitism dragging the whole economy down, which is exactly why we remain in this same mess today with everyone struggling just to get by. We the People need the chains unclasped from our ankles so that we can fulfill our potential.
No, it's more like the U.S. Government is enemy #1 to the people.
How about it? Clearly their genes were not actually identical (do you think our sequencing abilities today are perfect?), OR there is more complexity in the genetic mechanics than you and every other short sighted scientist knows or believes (not just likely--TRUE.)
I am autistic (Central Auditory Processing Disorder, with autism), and I am quite certain in my case it's inherited.
My daughter is autistic and to any parent that thinks it's special and thinks it's what makes their kid, their kid, "fuck you!"
This condition IS a huge part of what makes me special, bro. I will make billions of dollars in my lifetime thanks to this condition. Yes it has given me challenges, but you know what, I have benefited from learning to overcome them.
Your ignorance and stupidity is disgusting and revolting. Look in the mirror. Animals like you are driven by your fear, not facts and reason. You are so busy stampeding towards a "cure" for "autism" (who can say with certainty what the fuck autism even IS, anyway?) to fix your OWN problems (YOUR daughter and HER condition), that you would gladly, willingly, happily, ignorantly run right over and fuck over others like me in the process.
If it were up to stupid assholes like yourself, people like me would be identified at 3 years old as "autistic", then immediately put on prescription meds to "cure" us. Whole generations of minds would be fucked over and ruined thanks to the ignorance and just plain inability to think of normal simpletons with their average intelligence and average stupidity.
So as a person who is autistic, and fucking proud of it....let me the one to say: No, Anonymous Asshole.....Fuck YOU.
You're just as "narcissistic" and "psychopathic" as anyone, buddy
Are you completely insane? Reread what you wrote. Classifying people into subspecies and "Walmart people"...not to mention your very own genetic sister is somehow below the level of acceptable human standards to reproduce????
Maybe if you had used fewer question marks here, and less appeal to emotion, I might have actually read and considered your comment.
The original post was full of logic and wisdom. Yours is an irrational rant.
Yeah but will all those children survive to produce offspring of their own? Exponential math and the competition of life tells us they won't.
I just recently traced my family tree and discovered a fucking shitload of royalty, nobility, and other "high class" figures. (This explains a lot, actually.) I'm guessing just as we breed plants, and get better plants, and breed animals, and get better animals, the selection and breeding of humans with other superior humans often results in better humans, too.....Habsburgs excepted of course.
Of course it's we who are doing the judging, so it's a bit difficult to be unbiased. (Cue the haters in 3...2...)
I don't recall the exact wording as it's been a while since I read the transcript, but the Captain had gone off to sleep before this whole thing started, and came back in while it was falling out of the sky. After a little while he made a comment about the control stick, and Junior says something like "...but I've been pulling back the whole time." And the captain says no, no, push forward. That's when Junior lets up, and they start to recover, then crash a few seconds later.
Nullifying this one example changes nothing. And how do you "prove" someone's evil, BTW? Trust Google at your own risk.
The American Javelin also has a surface to air mode as well. They can be used to take out helicopters and the like.
You wouldn't be. I have the misfortune to own a place with a great view over a convention center often used for various government meetings. Since two of my balconies overlook their terraces and hall windows from above, every fucking time they have some diminutive French, Italian or Russian head of state I have to remove my flowers and my telescope tripods from the balcony, keep the windows closed, get a badge from the security scum that infests the stairwell, endure their cheap cigarette smoke, bad breath, awful manners, atrocious looks and general incompetence.
You do? Because I would tell them to go fuck themselves. What country do you live in? I'm guessing it's NOT the United States.
Yes. Again--time and time again, I've preached it. Google is evil. This is only another in a long list of examples illustrating it. Do not trust this company.
That's why I'm glad to live in America....where I as an employer am free to hire or fire whomever I choose, for the best benefit of the company.
You really need to get a clue and stop apologizing for the government. They are not your buddies, and the War on Drugs is not just or justified.
Only in a fascist dictatorship
Please tell me where this is. I think I'd like to live there. I've heard Alabama, but I've not found corroborating evidence to make that more than speculation.
Nope, not Alabama.
Yes, in quite a few states. But you must first pass a rigorous test
Not in Alabama you don't. You fill out a sheet of paper with some basic info, name, SSN, make/model/SN of weapon, etc, and submit it to the sheriff. He will look over your conviction history, if any, and make sure there isn't any disqualifying offenses listed, then issue the permit.
are still held ultimately responsible for murder if you use too much force in a situation
Not in Florida, it appears..
The stupidest thing was, the whole thing was avoidable. The reason they stalled out to begin with is the junior pilot decided to begin a long climb, for absolutely no reason, losing airspeed all the while. Then they got into the storm and couldn't see anything, as the aircraft began to stall. Junior pulled back on the stick and kept it pulled back hard until 5-10 seconds before impact.
They fell out of the sky for minutes on end while the other pilot had his stick pushed forward, desperately trying to nose it down and gain some airspeed, perplexed as to what the hell was going on and why the damn thing wouldn't respond.....as the computer system averaged the two inputs, giving a neutral control surface orientation. (What kind of fucking moron designs an aircraft control system like this?)
A few times Junior let up on his stick and the aircraft corrected enough for the stall warning to begin buzzing, then in terror he yanked it back again. Only at the very end did he finally let up and the aircraft began to recover, just as they belly flopped onto the ocean at 90 MPH.
No, that's not what happened at all. It's quite clear what happened. The one pilot was a fucking moron, and he had the stick pulled back the entire goddamn time they were stalled out and falling out of the sky. The other pilot had his stick pushed forward, trying to nose it down and gain some airspeed. The piece of shit computer system on the Airbus averaged the two inputs, finally concluding that keeping the control surfaces level was a good compromise. Only seconds before impact did the junior pilot (who should have never been behind the stick of a Cessna, let alone a commercial aircraft) release his control stick, allowing the aircraft to begin recovering, but by then it was too late.
This was the exact problem the English had after they invaded Ireland, then tried to survey all the lands and document everything. They quickly found that the Irish notion of property rights and ownership of land varies considerably from the neat, tidy, regimented, calculated Norman English system (which in turn was inherited from the Roman Empire.)