Well, this research proves that you obviously can make shit appetizing. What kind of meat do you think is in that burgers? Highly processed, mechanically separated crap that wouldn't be considered fit for human consumption if you'd see it in its pure form. Fast food pisses me off for aesthetic reasons, first and foremost, not for health reasons. I love burgers. Decent burgers. What most of the fast food joints make out of them is a travesty.
Agreed. Find a decent local takeaway that uses fresh ingredients and real quality mince, instead of a horrible hamburger chain and you will find burgers to die for. Sadly not something I can eat often anymore...
I generally tend to think that people who find fast feed appealing have no sense of taste or smell. Grease and salt does not make for an appetizing platter. Shit burgers could be prepared the same way and no one would be worse off for it. The foods nutritional value might even increase
How sad that you should not appreciate a good burger. Don't go to the crappy chains. Find a good local takeaway food place that uses wholesome fresh ingredients. The burgers can be amazing and not nearly as greasy as you suggest.
It's not all that much more disgusting than fast food as is.
Okay either your fast food is a lot worse than what it is like here, or you have no sense of taste or smell. The fast food might not be good for you, but it shouldn't be so bad as to make you ill the way poo does, and it is designed to be appetizing despite being bad for you.
So screwing over WOW players trying to get customer support is now "justice"? What a bunch of wankers.
Can we stop giving these jokers the attention they crave for every little idiotic stunt they pull? Every 10th story seems to be about LulzSec. I'm not really sure it's even news anymore. These guys are like internet trolls and will continue until they either don't get the attention they want or they get their asses arrested.
Or why not become a "financial engineer". You get to use your brain, you get paid massive bonuses for creating zero wealth, and you don't get treated as a second class citizen.
Amen to that. I'm handing back my masters degree in IT plus a lifetime of experience in order to start in B-school to become a quant. I'm tired of taking it up the ass.
You want to become a (quant) cunt because you're tired of taking it up the ass. I like it. But at some stage you're realise whether you're a dumb quant or not, you'll still find you have take it up the ass. It's called work, not fun. If work were fun, no one would be paid to do it.
if microsoft flight simulator community kicked the hell out of any other modding community, they wouldnt be too naive as to rely on microsoft, which, not surprisingly and habitually, killed off microsoft flight simulator community.
the fact that microsoft flight simulator modding community not existing today, is proof that they didnt kick the hell out of any other modding community.
Actually the community still exists, and companies still make new MSFS addons. Don't let reality get in the way of a good rant.
There are very few truly independent and open source games around. Certainly in flight simulation, the leading contender - flight gear - doesn't come close. Which is why it has not attracted as many modders. However X-Plane, another commercial offering has gathered some of the momentum MSFS lost...though not as much as the eccentric author would like.
The problem I have encountered is that bad C++ programmers are a dime a dozen. I don't think I've ever had any co-workers who would understand my previous paragraph.
No one? Really? You're alone in the world in your unique understanding of C++ are you? Either you're a freaking genius, or you're never had the good fortune of working with competent people, or you highly overvalue yourself. Guess which one I'd be banking on. You are sounding like a cartoon super-villan: "I'm surrounded by idiots!". Oh and if NO ONE else understands what you're saying, it's because you can't communicate well, not because they're all stupid.
'...it also required the most extensive tuning efforts, many of which were done at a level of sophistication that would not be available to the average programmer.'
I think that's the problem in a lot of systems today. Too many "average" programs are being written by too many "average programmers" - and this is why there are the problems such as memory leaks, etc.
I feel too many have been spoilt by the ridiculous memory and processing speeds available in todays computers. What ever happend to understanding how functions perform and refining code to be lean and mean?
People needed to get stuff done quickly and cheaply. That's what happened. Hey they spent a small fortune landing on the moon using less memory and CPU than today's desktop calculators. But a business running a web shopfront or a bank doing transaction processing doesn't have those kinds of resources. So they cut corners. If you can buy a cheap machine that does things 1000x more quickly it makes no sense to spend 100x as much for a team of programmers who understand the code well enough to get a 50-100% improvement on code speed. You just buy the "ridiculous memory and processing speed available in today's computers" and move on!
And, while C++ will always necessarily be faster to execute, there's no question that the other three languages will be faster and more straightforward to develop in.
No, sir. Not Java. When you do Enterprise Java you learn a new flavour of the month framework every 18 months for each facet of your project (Struts to Spring MVC and Acegi to Spring Security totally reworked, every realse of Hibernate is different etc.) The code is never mature and the bugs really really suck. The language spec itself keeps changing and while the new features can be useful they are almost always misused. It becomes impossible to debug anything without spending days in the framework source. It's a fucking mess!!! The worst thing is it seems like nothing actually fucking improves. It's just rework and a new "best practice" methodology, religion and framework every year. Heaven forbid you don't comply! FUUUUCCCCKKKK!!!!!
Yes its true that C/C++ is generally faster than other languages, but when it comes to writing bug proof code, its not so good. Its very easy to write past the end of arrays and use bad pointers amongst other things.
From a career point of view, C/C++ is bad. I should know, my main expertise is in it and I am struggling to find a job. There seems to be way more jobs for Java and C# programmers.
Well then, don't be a one-trick pony. Learn another few languages.
I use both Java and C in my current role, and move between code bases as needed. My C skills are more valued because they are becoming scarce and people are trying to avoid C work. If the C code dries up, I still have my Java experience (and have fiddled with several other languages). I speak from experience. My previous job was Smalltalk and Java. Believe me when I say Smalltalk jobs have pretty much dried up.
Fallout 3 modding community comes to mind. those people have really made games out of the game with their mods.
The Microsoft Flight Simulator kicks the shit out of any other modding community. Entire companies set up to provide aircraft, scenery, utils and airports. Literally tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands of free addons. Whole boards full of dedicated content.
Pity the idiotic management at Microsoft decided to bastardise it with FSX and then kill it off altogether. Oh but there's apparently a new Windows Live "Microsoft Flight" game coming out "any time soon" with screenshots appearing every 2-3 months.
I have had the Indian MS helpdesk ring a few times about the viruses of my Windows PC, surely there has to be a way of "honey potting" them to shut them down?
If I have time, I like to play with them. i use to put the phone down while they were talking and walk away but I worry they'll take silence as consent to switch my phone or do something else. So you egg them on. Keep saying "Sorry I don't understand" and "Could you explain a bit more?". Then agree to nothing. If you don't have time you just hang up.
it's more likely that the kind of person who'll pick up a phone...
Will be the average guy/gal in your area. I don't know where your from, but in my area I'd say 80% would return it if it was easy and a small fraction of the remaining 20% would be criminal enough to do anything more than attempt to e-bay it.
Your confusing people who will find a dropped phone with people who would steal a phone.
Nope. Where I live, if you lose your phone you better make tracks and report it ASAP. Many horror stories about lost phones.
Maybe simulators can train you for the real thing, but a case where a video game improved your ability to fly a model airplane does not in any way support your claim, as a model airplane is still just a simulation. So, in short, you merely provided evidence that practice with a simulator can improve your skill with another simulator.
A model airplane is a real physical object you're manipulating. It's a very real skill and considered a sport by some. It is no less real than shooting a rifle at clay targets. The r/c aircraft simulators can do well but aren't perfect at modeling all the variables. I can also attest to them allowing me to fly for years with 1 hard landing and 1 total crash.
. Whatever they're taught, unlike English or math, will be obsolete inside a decade. I'd be thrilled if Mom knew that USB ports were pretty much interchangeable
1. I hope your mom is out of middle school. She belongs to a different generation which did deal with equipment that broke easily if you experimented without knowing what you're doing. She is not the intended audience.
2. General programming and logic skills are no different to math and English. The underlying language with it's syntax and semantics may change, but the basic concepts of logical operators, iteration, conditional statements etc. apply to all procedural and object-oriented languages. Being able to follow through a logical set of steps is useful in just about any endeavor and profession - from baking a cake, to woodwork, to gardening to any trade or profession I can think of. Desk checking your code may not be quite the same as following a recipe but the ideas and discipline required are similar and that skill does transfer. Computing is a great way to get kids thinking about such things.
Why lock the iPhone? If you lose it and it is unlocked maybe someone will try to contact someone on your list and return it.
Because it's more likely that the kind of person who'll pick up a phone that doesn't belong to them will run up a huge bill calling a foreign country and buy lots of apps if you don't have that locked down?
This just in: 15% of developers steal the passwords of 80% of all (stupid) users!
Seriously...isn't this just a tad "evil" behavior? Even if its done to prove a point, surely this guy shouldn't be stealing his users passwords?
'A tad' evil like smoking 3 packs of cigarettes is 'a tad' bad for you or coke has 'a tad' of sugar. This is spyware plain and simple.
I would not do this myself, but if the data's already out there I have no ethical qualms discussing and analysing it. I find it interesting that 2580 popped up. I would not have guessed that. Lots of users into kittens and ponies I guess?
I lost a son to suicide in 2009. It brought unbelievable pain and suffering to our family. My son was suffering from schizophrenia and I don't think that he had the "courage" to hang himself. He was just suffering too much with his treatment and his life. It would've been much better if he had waited and he had prepared us for such a thing.
Terry is not a coward. He wants to go with dignity and he is thinking about the ones who love him too.
With all respect, and as a father of 2 young children who does not wish to even try to imagine your pain.
I don't think it would have been easier on you if he had waited. Assuming lucid rational thought (which may not be a valid assumption for schizophrenia) If someone is at the point where they wish to end their life, their own perceived quality of that life is usually so low that each day is an unrelenting struggle. It's very hard to live your life for other people, even when you love them very much.The only comfort I imagine you can take is that your son is no longer in pain.
Though I don't know you, I'm very sorry for your loss.
It's really cool, and I bow to his technical prowess for getting it working, but I have to ask why anyone in their right mind would choose HTML5 and Javascript to implement a Gameboy emulator???
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Well, this research proves that you obviously can make shit appetizing. What kind of meat do you think is in that burgers? Highly processed, mechanically separated crap that wouldn't be considered fit for human consumption if you'd see it in its pure form. Fast food pisses me off for aesthetic reasons, first and foremost, not for health reasons. I love burgers. Decent burgers. What most of the fast food joints make out of them is a travesty.
Agreed. Find a decent local takeaway that uses fresh ingredients and real quality mince, instead of a horrible hamburger chain and you will find burgers to die for. Sadly not something I can eat often anymore...
I generally tend to think that people who find fast feed appealing have no sense of taste or smell. Grease and salt does not make for an appetizing platter. Shit burgers could be prepared the same way and no one would be worse off for it. The foods nutritional value might even increase
How sad that you should not appreciate a good burger. Don't go to the crappy chains. Find a good local takeaway food place that uses wholesome fresh ingredients. The burgers can be amazing and not nearly as greasy as you suggest.
Scientist's Advertisement on Google, "EAT SHIT" or wait.. "Check This Shit Out!". OK, someone had to say this.
I'll [bet] that scientist wants to charge as much as a T-bone or Prime Chuck! He's in this shit up to his knees for what, notoriety?
Waiter!!! There's a fly in my excrement!
It's not all that much more disgusting than fast food as is.
Okay either your fast food is a lot worse than what it is like here, or you have no sense of taste or smell. The fast food might not be good for you, but it shouldn't be so bad as to make you ill the way poo does, and it is designed to be appetizing despite being bad for you.
Well, this is simply soylent brown.
I'm sure I saw this story a few years ago. They were making burger patties out of recycled excrement. I joked about the MacShit(TM)
So screwing over WOW players trying to get customer support is now "justice"? What a bunch of wankers.
Can we stop giving these jokers the attention they crave for every little idiotic stunt they pull? Every 10th story seems to be about LulzSec. I'm not really sure it's even news anymore. These guys are like internet trolls and will continue until they either don't get the attention they want or they get their asses arrested.
Or why not become a "financial engineer". You get to use your brain, you get paid massive bonuses for creating zero wealth, and you don't get treated as a second class citizen.
Amen to that. I'm handing back my masters degree in IT plus a lifetime of experience in order to start in B-school to become a quant. I'm tired of taking it up the ass.
You want to become a (quant) cunt because you're tired of taking it up the ass. I like it. But at some stage you're realise whether you're a dumb quant or not, you'll still find you have take it up the ass. It's called work, not fun. If work were fun, no one would be paid to do it.
if microsoft flight simulator community kicked the hell out of any other modding community, they wouldnt be too naive as to rely on microsoft, which, not surprisingly and habitually, killed off microsoft flight simulator community.
the fact that microsoft flight simulator modding community not existing today, is proof that they didnt kick the hell out of any other modding community.
Actually the community still exists, and companies still make new MSFS addons. Don't let reality get in the way of a good rant.
There are very few truly independent and open source games around. Certainly in flight simulation, the leading contender - flight gear - doesn't come close. Which is why it has not attracted as many modders. However X-Plane, another commercial offering has gathered some of the momentum MSFS lost...though not as much as the eccentric author would like.
The problem I have encountered is that bad C++ programmers are a dime a dozen. I don't think I've ever had any co-workers who would understand my previous paragraph.
No one? Really? You're alone in the world in your unique understanding of C++ are you? Either you're a freaking genius, or you're never had the good fortune of working with competent people, or you highly overvalue yourself. Guess which one I'd be banking on. You are sounding like a cartoon super-villan: "I'm surrounded by idiots!". Oh and if NO ONE else understands what you're saying, it's because you can't communicate well, not because they're all stupid.
'...it also required the most extensive tuning efforts, many of which were done at a level of sophistication that would not be available to the average programmer.'
I think that's the problem in a lot of systems today. Too many "average" programs are being written by too many "average programmers" - and this is why there are the problems such as memory leaks, etc.
I feel too many have been spoilt by the ridiculous memory and processing speeds available in todays computers. What ever happend to understanding how functions perform and refining code to be lean and mean?
People needed to get stuff done quickly and cheaply. That's what happened. Hey they spent a small fortune landing on the moon using less memory and CPU than today's desktop calculators. But a business running a web shopfront or a bank doing transaction processing doesn't have those kinds of resources. So they cut corners. If you can buy a cheap machine that does things 1000x more quickly it makes no sense to spend 100x as much for a team of programmers who understand the code well enough to get a 50-100% improvement on code speed. You just buy the "ridiculous memory and processing speed available in today's computers" and move on!
And, while C++ will always necessarily be faster to execute, there's no question that the other three languages will be faster and more straightforward to develop in.
No, sir. Not Java. When you do Enterprise Java you learn a new flavour of the month framework every 18 months for each facet of your project (Struts to Spring MVC and Acegi to Spring Security totally reworked, every realse of Hibernate is different etc.) The code is never mature and the bugs really really suck. The language spec itself keeps changing and while the new features can be useful they are almost always misused. It becomes impossible to debug anything without spending days in the framework source. It's a fucking mess!!! The worst thing is it seems like nothing actually fucking improves. It's just rework and a new "best practice" methodology, religion and framework every year. Heaven forbid you don't comply! FUUUUCCCCKKKK!!!!!
Yes its true that C/C++ is generally faster than other languages, but when it comes to writing bug proof code, its not so good. Its very easy to write past the end of arrays and use bad pointers amongst other things.
From a career point of view, C/C++ is bad. I should know, my main expertise is in it and I am struggling to find a job. There seems to be way more jobs for Java and C# programmers.
Well then, don't be a one-trick pony. Learn another few languages.
I use both Java and C in my current role, and move between code bases as needed. My C skills are more valued because they are becoming scarce and people are trying to avoid C work. If the C code dries up, I still have my Java experience (and have fiddled with several other languages). I speak from experience. My previous job was Smalltalk and Java. Believe me when I say Smalltalk jobs have pretty much dried up.
Fallout 3 modding community comes to mind. those people have really made games out of the game with their mods.
The Microsoft Flight Simulator kicks the shit out of any other modding community. Entire companies set up to provide aircraft, scenery, utils and airports. Literally tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands of free addons. Whole boards full of dedicated content.
Pity the idiotic management at Microsoft decided to bastardise it with FSX and then kill it off altogether. Oh but there's apparently a new Windows Live "Microsoft Flight" game coming out "any time soon" with screenshots appearing every 2-3 months.
My kingdom for some points to mod you up, sir!
I have had the Indian MS helpdesk ring a few times about the viruses of my Windows PC, surely there has to be a way of "honey potting" them to shut them down?
If I have time, I like to play with them. i use to put the phone down while they were talking and walk away but I worry they'll take silence as consent to switch my phone or do something else. So you egg them on. Keep saying "Sorry I don't understand" and "Could you explain a bit more?". Then agree to nothing. If you don't have time you just hang up.
69 is the new 42
Maybe if you're Hugh Hefner.
it's more likely that the kind of person who'll pick up a phone...
Will be the average guy/gal in your area. I don't know where your from, but in my area I'd say 80% would return it if it was easy and a small fraction of the remaining 20% would be criminal enough to do anything more than attempt to e-bay it.
Your confusing people who will find a dropped phone with people who would steal a phone.
Nope. Where I live, if you lose your phone you better make tracks and report it ASAP. Many horror stories about lost phones.
Maybe simulators can train you for the real thing, but a case where a video game improved your ability to fly a model airplane does not in any way support your claim, as a model airplane is still just a simulation. So, in short, you merely provided evidence that practice with a simulator can improve your skill with another simulator.
A model airplane is a real physical object you're manipulating. It's a very real skill and considered a sport by some. It is no less real than shooting a rifle at clay targets. The r/c aircraft simulators can do well but aren't perfect at modeling all the variables. I can also attest to them allowing me to fly for years with 1 hard landing and 1 total crash.
Why?
. Whatever they're taught, unlike English or math, will be obsolete inside a decade. I'd be thrilled if Mom knew that USB ports were pretty much interchangeable
1. I hope your mom is out of middle school. She belongs to a different generation which did deal with equipment that broke easily if you experimented without knowing what you're doing. She is not the intended audience.
2. General programming and logic skills are no different to math and English. The underlying language with it's syntax and semantics may change, but the basic concepts of logical operators, iteration, conditional statements etc. apply to all procedural and object-oriented languages. Being able to follow through a logical set of steps is useful in just about any endeavor and profession - from baking a cake, to woodwork, to gardening to any trade or profession I can think of. Desk checking your code may not be quite the same as following a recipe but the ideas and discipline required are similar and that skill does transfer. Computing is a great way to get kids thinking about such things.
No 4242?
Or 6969
Why lock the iPhone? If you lose it and it is unlocked maybe someone will try to contact someone on your list and return it.
Because it's more likely that the kind of person who'll pick up a phone that doesn't belong to them will run up a huge bill calling a foreign country and buy lots of apps if you don't have that locked down?
This just in: 15% of developers steal the passwords of 80% of all (stupid) users!
Seriously...isn't this just a tad "evil" behavior? Even if its done to prove a point, surely this guy shouldn't be stealing his users passwords?
'A tad' evil like smoking 3 packs of cigarettes is 'a tad' bad for you or coke has 'a tad' of sugar. This is spyware plain and simple.
I would not do this myself, but if the data's already out there I have no ethical qualms discussing and analysing it. I find it interesting that 2580 popped up. I would not have guessed that. Lots of users into kittens and ponies I guess?
Sounds like they are launching a new apple product to bring fine design into your death experience.
My favourite Apple product is iMaLittleTeaPot
I lost a son to suicide in 2009. It brought unbelievable pain and suffering to our family. My son was suffering from schizophrenia and I don't think that he had the "courage" to hang himself. He was just suffering too much with his treatment and his life. It would've been much better if he had waited and he had prepared us for such a thing.
Terry is not a coward. He wants to go with dignity and he is thinking about the ones who love him too.
With all respect, and as a father of 2 young children who does not wish to even try to imagine your pain.
I don't think it would have been easier on you if he had waited. Assuming lucid rational thought (which may not be a valid assumption for schizophrenia) If someone is at the point where they wish to end their life, their own perceived quality of that life is usually so low that each day is an unrelenting struggle. It's very hard to live your life for other people, even when you love them very much.The only comfort I imagine you can take is that your son is no longer in pain.
Though I don't know you, I'm very sorry for your loss.
It's really cool, and I bow to his technical prowess for getting it working, but I have to ask why anyone in their right mind would choose HTML5 and Javascript to implement a Gameboy emulator???