As soon as Microsoft announced they were buying Skype, I knew it would turn into a steaming pile of shit, and I was right. They've ruined it, utterly ruined it.
Now Skype takes forever to load, doesn't show updates, doesn't alert on background communication events, and sometimes it just wants to reinstall over and over and over and over and over.
It is the duty of all good Citizens to be terrorized by the urge to buy newer, shinier gadgets when your Corporate Masters decide they need another yacht.
Which is not completely different to trivially slaying mobs in order to see an XP bar increase tiny bit by tiny bit, or any other kind of senseless grinding.
No, it's not the same. The people playing the slot machine simulators aren't getting any increase in anything, nor are they gaining any skill, experience, nothing.
Lots of people think playing slot machines is fun. In fact, this belief is so prevalent that you can actually download slot machine games you play at home. There's no chance at getting money out of them, and there's zero skill involved, but some people will still sit there and hit the spin button for hours.
I too, have marveled at this behavior. "Marvel" might not be the right word, lol, but they must be getting something from it. I have no idea what that is, maybe it's a kind of self-calming or self-hypnosis, or maybe they're reliving memories of being lab rat in a past life. .
Then again I have a friend who, when he's bored, will go drive a cab around in GTA for a couple hours. He doesn't play the game, he just drives around picking people up and dropping them off.
Writing grants and contract proposals so that they exclude everyone but the vendor you want is dead simple; my clients used to do it all the time when they wanted a new high-end scientific gadget or piece of expensive gear.
You just write the grant so that it specifies as "mandatory" one or more features that disqualify all the other entries. It's pretty easy to do.
In my client's case they just wrote that one of "must-have" items was a "sample exchange airlock" mechanism for any new electron microscope they were going to buy. Ours was the only one that had such a feature (because we patented it) and so our company always "won" the grant. (And a sample exchange airlock *is* a valuable feature, make no mistake.)
Based on an in-depth analysis of this code and its many unique "signature" elements, I can state with 100% certainty that it was written by a programmer named "Anonymous Coward".
If you choose to keep a gun in your home, you should choose a rifle or shotgun (I own one of each), not a handgun. Keep it locked.
I'm with you up to the "keep it locked" bit...keeping it locked up slows your access to it, and that delay could be critical or even fatal.
Rifles and pistols can be a real problem when used for home defense- they have waaaaaay too much penetrating power and even if you hit Mr Bad Guy with a perfect shot, there's a very good chance that the round will go right through him and end up in your nieghbor's house, and possibly inside your neighbor. Not a big deal out in the country but in the suburbs or a city....
A shotgun is probably the best choice in home defense weapons for most folks. They're simple, pointable, and are much less likely to take out a neighbor by accident.
You claim that the second amendment specifically states the right to bear arms is for use in a militia.
No it doesn't, it uses the necessity of a militia as a reason justify why the people (not "the militia") have the right to bear arms. Take the following hypothetical statement:
"Proper sanitation, being necessary to the preparation of healthy food, the right of the people to wash their hands, shall not be infringed."
Would you interpret that statement to say that only people who prepare food are allowed to wash their hands?
I stopped when I saw the Microsoft logo. Some of their hardware is okay, but the Surface has always been an overpriced dog in which I have zero interest.
If it fits someone else's use case, great, but I'd never buy one even with deep, deep discounts.
I frequently see reviews for completely different products, so they'll stuffing a (possibly) good product with great reviews and then they switch it to a completely different product, like from a pair of binoculars to a powerbank. I see this alllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the fucking time.
And then you'll see something loads of 5-star reviews that consist of nothing more than "Great product!", "I love it!!!!!", "Works great!", "Wife loves it!!"...and so on. It's obvious they don't even know what the fuck the review is for since they *never* mention the actual item, just "It's great!" and shit like that.
Sometimes they fuck up and you'll see a wall charger with lots of reviews saying stuff like, "Easy to focus, great clarity!"
The answer is "maybe". Use the language that makes sense for the project.
PHP lets you write awesome stuff easily, and PHP lets you write hideous stuff easily. I promise you that I can write shitty, buggy, insecure code in any language you want, not just PHP. Or C++. Or Javascript. Or Python.
It's not the fault of the language- you can say "Me so hungry want eat" in any language.
You elites with your fancy gold coins and ammo; when I was a kid we used Monopoly money and rusty BBs and we were happy to do so. And it was uphill both ways wherever we went.
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As soon as Microsoft announced they were buying Skype, I knew it would turn into a steaming pile of shit, and I was right. They've ruined it, utterly ruined it.
Now Skype takes forever to load, doesn't show updates, doesn't alert on background communication events, and sometimes it just wants to reinstall over and over and over and over and over.
If you need to explain a joke, it's probably not funny.
If you need to explain a joke, it's definitely not funny.
You're a dick. Yes, let's let millions of people suffer needlessly while we pontificate about whether or not helping them is the "right thing" to do.
Who can afford such life-giving changes?
We can.
Where do we stop with the ability to decide life or death for millions of people en masse?
I suspect you'd see this differently if you or your child had a crippling condition that this could technology be used to mitigate or cure.
What ethical background do you base your simplistic "we must help" dogma upon?
I would ask you the same. What kind of "ethical background" allows a person to blithely ignore the suffering of millions of people?
It is the duty of all good Citizens to be terrorized by the urge to buy newer, shinier gadgets when your Corporate Masters decide they need another yacht.
Which is not completely different to trivially slaying mobs in order to see an XP bar increase tiny bit by tiny bit, or any other kind of senseless grinding.
No, it's not the same. The people playing the slot machine simulators aren't getting any increase in anything, nor are they gaining any skill, experience, nothing.
Lots of people think playing slot machines is fun. In fact, this belief is so prevalent that you can actually download slot machine games you play at home. There's no chance at getting money out of them, and there's zero skill involved, but some people will still sit there and hit the spin button for hours.
I too, have marveled at this behavior. "Marvel" might not be the right word, lol, but they must be getting something from it. I have no idea what that is, maybe it's a kind of self-calming or self-hypnosis, or maybe they're reliving memories of being lab rat in a past life. .
Then again I have a friend who, when he's bored, will go drive a cab around in GTA for a couple hours. He doesn't play the game, he just drives around picking people up and dropping them off.
Writing grants and contract proposals so that they exclude everyone but the vendor you want is dead simple; my clients used to do it all the time when they wanted a new high-end scientific gadget or piece of expensive gear.
You just write the grant so that it specifies as "mandatory" one or more features that disqualify all the other entries. It's pretty easy to do.
In my client's case they just wrote that one of "must-have" items was a "sample exchange airlock" mechanism for any new electron microscope they were going to buy. Ours was the only one that had such a feature (because we patented it) and so our company always "won" the grant. (And a sample exchange airlock *is* a valuable feature, make no mistake.)
So again, this is nothing new.
One time I forgot to take my homeopathic medicine and I overdosed.
Am I the only one who's exhausted by all this winning?
We need new tool to parse code, create syntax tree, transform in ways to do same tasks but masks the ident of the authors, and re-emits, anonymized.
Pffft, just copy someone else's code, problem solved. If anything happens it'll get blamed on them.
10 print "Hello"
20 goto 10
Based on an in-depth analysis of this code and its many unique "signature" elements, I can state with 100% certainty that it was written by a programmer named "Anonymous Coward".
If you choose to keep a gun in your home, you should choose a rifle or shotgun (I own one of each), not a handgun. Keep it locked.
I'm with you up to the "keep it locked" bit...keeping it locked up slows your access to it, and that delay could be critical or even fatal.
Rifles and pistols can be a real problem when used for home defense- they have waaaaaay too much penetrating power and even if you hit Mr Bad Guy with a perfect shot, there's a very good chance that the round will go right through him and end up in your nieghbor's house, and possibly inside your neighbor. Not a big deal out in the country but in the suburbs or a city....
A shotgun is probably the best choice in home defense weapons for most folks. They're simple, pointable, and are much less likely to take out a neighbor by accident.
You claim that the second amendment specifically states the right to bear arms is for use in a militia.
No it doesn't, it uses the necessity of a militia as a reason justify why the people (not "the militia") have the right to bear arms. Take the following hypothetical statement:
"Proper sanitation, being necessary to the preparation of healthy food, the right of the people to wash their hands, shall not be infringed."
Would you interpret that statement to say that only people who prepare food are allowed to wash their hands?
Well said, and spot-on.
Not being able to edit is quaint, but it makes Slashdot feel like AOL.
There may be other discussion sites on the web that don't let you edit comments, but I'm not aware of any.
Early CSS didn't let you do a lot of the stuff it can do today.
Javascript was pretty much the only practical way to do effects like highlighting or reveals. I'm amazed at the stuff that pure CSS can do now.
I stopped when I saw the Microsoft logo. Some of their hardware is okay, but the Surface has always been an overpriced dog in which I have zero interest.
If it fits someone else's use case, great, but I'd never buy one even with deep, deep discounts.
This is just one more reason I rarely install apps on my phone.
It seems as if most apps do suspicious shit in the background, and/or harvest your data, display ads, drain your battery, etc etc etc.
I mean seriously- why does a flashlight app need access to my contacts or my location information?
I frequently see reviews for completely different products, so they'll stuffing a (possibly) good product with great reviews and then they switch it to a completely different product, like from a pair of binoculars to a powerbank. I see this alllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the fucking time.
And then you'll see something loads of 5-star reviews that consist of nothing more than "Great product!", "I love it!!!!!", "Works great!", "Wife loves it!!"...and so on. It's obvious they don't even know what the fuck the review is for since they *never* mention the actual item, just "It's great!" and shit like that.
Sometimes they fuck up and you'll see a wall charger with lots of reviews saying stuff like, "Easy to focus, great clarity!"
Yeah, Amazon needs to get their shit together.
"Help us rename this bloated pile of shit that used to be a great browser."
Sure, here are a few of my suggestions:
FireSlug
Pile-O-Worthless-Trinkets
MemoryHog
Frozen Dogshit (but with new themes!)
They kept the program secret because they knew that if you found out, you'd just spend time fretting about it.
Keeping it secret just shows that your happiness is their primary concern.
"Should I swap using a hammer for a screwdriver?"
The answer is "maybe". Use the language that makes sense for the project.
PHP lets you write awesome stuff easily, and PHP lets you write hideous stuff easily. I promise you that I can write shitty, buggy, insecure code in any language you want, not just PHP. Or C++. Or Javascript. Or Python.
It's not the fault of the language- you can say "Me so hungry want eat" in any language.
I have a 2015 MBP and I'm sticking with that as long as I can for exactly the reasons you stated
I rest my case. :)
I really don't see any benefit(s) in buying a Macbook, but if someone else wants one then have at it.
Lol, when will you learn that Facebook doesn't give a shit about its users.
You elites with your fancy gold coins and ammo; when I was a kid we used Monopoly money and rusty BBs and we were happy to do so. And it was uphill both ways wherever we went.
"Venmo, the mobile payments app, won't say why it exposes users' data to the world whenever they make a transaction"
I'll tell you why....the reason is because they don't give a shit about you or your privacy.
You're welcome.