ISIL are the modern Nazis. Will the world rise up against them and storm them on the ground as our forefathers did, or will it sit back and play remote control bomb games with ineffective drones that take out civilians as well as enemy troops?
If possible, it would be interesting to cross compile the code to a modern processor and see how fast it would fly, given the limited capabilities of hardware at the time. Remember, we're talking about 1MHz 16-20 bit processors at the time the project started, if that.
Then they were fools. The whole point of buying an established company is to buy the brand as well as the factories. Anyone can build a factory, usually for no more than it would cost to buy someone else out.
I don't understand the hatred. All I can think is that it's anti-Chinese bigotry.
I've had ZERO problems with my Lenovo laptop, and it is one of the cheapest i7 models they make. It's a year and a half old at this point.
The HP I used to have, on the other hand, was a total lemon. Within six months the wifi blew out so the motherboard blew out. Nine months later it blew out again but was no longer under warranty, so it had no wifi. By 18 months old, the hard drive had failed.
No matter what brand you buy, the odds are it's "Made in China" from the cheapest parts the vendor could source. So who cares whether the brand is Chinese, European, UK, Canadian, Australian, African, or American owned save for racist bigots?
A troll is someone who posts a clickbait message designed not to inform or educate or share an opinion, but for the sole purpose of starting an argument. I despise them as much as I despise the people you claim I'm "confusing" them with. Starting arguments for the sake of having an argument just because you're in a pissy mood is childish and stupid behaviour.
But it's not something you should spend 2 years in jail for.
Unfortunately an awful lot of so-called "parody" posts and sites are just people being mean-spirited and cruel and using the age old bully's line when called on it -- "Can't you take a joke?"
So before you go hunting for an ISP, do a little soul searching and above all else, ask yourself if anyone but you is going to find it funny.
Apple does not design "for the future". They design for future purchases.
They drop support for older hardware to force you to upgrade, not because there is a technical problem mandating it.
I'm running Debian on a 12 year old box. It's had a CPU upgrade (to a whopping 3.8 GHz single core) and some extra RAM installed (4G total.) It's perfectly usable, and fully patched.
Had I bought a Mac, I'd have an unsupported paperweight years ago.
...we don't have a way to ignite and sustain that reaction without needing to input more energy than we can extract in a usable fashion from the fusion that occurs
Bollocks. The break-even point was passed this year. Sure it's not reached a point of economy-of-scale, but it was a critical change in the fusion story.
Why so popular? Because the storyboarding and visuals are already sketched out by the original issues of the comics themselves.
Adapting a novel requires an imaginitive F/X team to create the F/X from mere text descriptions of the scenes and items to be depicted. Having existing pictures makes it cheap and easy to skip that creativity in the process.
There is also the fact that an awful lot of movies adapted from novels just tank at the box office because they don't express a vision that the readers of those novels had in mind. Even short stories tank. Take, for example, "Enemy Mine." It was a great short story, but kind of sucked as a movie.
I'd like to believe that a better job could be done by a competent team with a good budget, but then along comes something like "Ender's Game", which was so bad I gave up on watching it less than half an hour in. Yet I'd devotedly read the entire series of novels set in that world in my high school days, and enjoyed them thoroughly.
I've often wished they'd get around to adapting some of C. J. Cherryh's universe to a movie format, but I fear they'd butcher her excellent writing and characterization and leave us with yet another F/X fest that tanks at the box office and loses all the appeal of the novels.
Wireless bandwidth is limited by the allocated spectrum. With landlines, you can always drag more fiber or copper, hook it up, and expand your bandwidth. You can't do that with wireless.
But I expect to be modded down because I'm not jumping on the "everything should be unlimited" bandwagon.
Parents are and have always been responsible for the behaviour and expenses incurred by their children. If they go on a rampage of vandalism, the parents are responsible for the damages. If they steal a car and wreck it, the parents are responsible for the damages.
This is no different. The parents are being held responsible for the damages done by their children.
To hell with absentee parenting that lets children do whatever the hell they want with no restrictions or monitoring.
You bred your rug rats -- now bloody well take responsiblity for the results of your actions: raising and training your children!
Had the goobernmint not let the NSA run roughshod over the constitution and the rights of people both foreign and domestic, the general public would not be baying for the means to keep them out.
The goobernmint brought this upon themselves through their abuses.
The idea that there are few women gamers has always been a myth in the first place. Sure there are certain genres where men and boys dominate the demographic, but there are also genres where women dominate the demographic.
The idea that women "don't belong in gaming" or are "under-represented in the gaming community" is a myth perpetrated by the same kind of childish mentality that thinks "l33t speak" makes one cool and special.
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You have got to be shitting me. Comparing ISIL to the Nazis and demanding troop deployments gets voted down by some ISIL-loving nancy boys?
The world has truly gone to fucking hell. Cowards and sympathizers for the most atrocious acts in the modern world everywhere.
Sickening.
ISIL are the modern Nazis. Will the world rise up against them and storm them on the ground as our forefathers did, or will it sit back and play remote control bomb games with ineffective drones that take out civilians as well as enemy troops?
If possible, it would be interesting to cross compile the code to a modern processor and see how fast it would fly, given the limited capabilities of hardware at the time. Remember, we're talking about 1MHz 16-20 bit processors at the time the project started, if that.
Not much of an "open" source project if you can't even name it, is it?
Then they were fools. The whole point of buying an established company is to buy the brand as well as the factories. Anyone can build a factory, usually for no more than it would cost to buy someone else out.
Would the courts even accept "evidence" gathered in such a manner? Doesn't it constitute entrapment? Isn't that illegal?
Nokia has more brand name recognition, so of course we won't use that.
Idjits.
I don't understand the hatred. All I can think is that it's anti-Chinese bigotry.
I've had ZERO problems with my Lenovo laptop, and it is one of the cheapest i7 models they make. It's a year and a half old at this point.
The HP I used to have, on the other hand, was a total lemon. Within six months the wifi blew out so the motherboard blew out. Nine months later it blew out again but was no longer under warranty, so it had no wifi. By 18 months old, the hard drive had failed.
No matter what brand you buy, the odds are it's "Made in China" from the cheapest parts the vendor could source. So who cares whether the brand is Chinese, European, UK, Canadian, Australian, African, or American owned save for racist bigots?
Maybe slashdot needs a <joke> tag so all you wankers can tell the difference.
Awww, the poor butthurt emacs fans can't take a joke.
What a shock. I mean really, I'm stunned.
People with no sense of humour seem to abound at slashdot lately.
Using emacs to edit code is like using Eclipse to edit a text file. :P
A troll is someone who posts a clickbait message designed not to inform or educate or share an opinion, but for the sole purpose of starting an argument. I despise them as much as I despise the people you claim I'm "confusing" them with. Starting arguments for the sake of having an argument just because you're in a pissy mood is childish and stupid behaviour.
But it's not something you should spend 2 years in jail for.
Microsoft is testing a release candidate and is informing users of what they're monitoring.
So far no one has complained about onerous licensing agreements with Yosemite, which seems to imply that Apple is not informing users about it.
Until Microsoft has a production release, it's not even fair to compare the two.
As much as I despise trolls, I despise heavy-handed government censorship even more.
Unfortunately an awful lot of so-called "parody" posts and sites are just people being mean-spirited and cruel and using the age old bully's line when called on it -- "Can't you take a joke?"
So before you go hunting for an ISP, do a little soul searching and above all else, ask yourself if anyone but you is going to find it funny.
Apple does not design "for the future". They design for future purchases.
They drop support for older hardware to force you to upgrade, not because there is a technical problem mandating it.
I'm running Debian on a 12 year old box. It's had a CPU upgrade (to a whopping 3.8 GHz single core) and some extra RAM installed (4G total.) It's perfectly usable, and fully patched.
Had I bought a Mac, I'd have an unsupported paperweight years ago.
Bollocks. The break-even point was passed this year. Sure it's not reached a point of economy-of-scale, but it was a critical change in the fusion story.
http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/news/story/1.2534140
Why so popular? Because the storyboarding and visuals are already sketched out by the original issues of the comics themselves.
Adapting a novel requires an imaginitive F/X team to create the F/X from mere text descriptions of the scenes and items to be depicted. Having existing pictures makes it cheap and easy to skip that creativity in the process.
There is also the fact that an awful lot of movies adapted from novels just tank at the box office because they don't express a vision that the readers of those novels had in mind. Even short stories tank. Take, for example, "Enemy Mine." It was a great short story, but kind of sucked as a movie.
I'd like to believe that a better job could be done by a competent team with a good budget, but then along comes something like "Ender's Game", which was so bad I gave up on watching it less than half an hour in. Yet I'd devotedly read the entire series of novels set in that world in my high school days, and enjoyed them thoroughly.
I've often wished they'd get around to adapting some of C. J. Cherryh's universe to a movie format, but I fear they'd butcher her excellent writing and characterization and leave us with yet another F/X fest that tanks at the box office and loses all the appeal of the novels.
Berating the stupid is being "professional" in my books.
Molllycoddling the incompetent just leads them to think they're better than they are.
Wireless bandwidth is limited by the allocated spectrum. With landlines, you can always drag more fiber or copper, hook it up, and expand your bandwidth. You can't do that with wireless.
But I expect to be modded down because I'm not jumping on the "everything should be unlimited" bandwagon.
Parents are and have always been responsible for the behaviour and expenses incurred by their children. If they go on a rampage of vandalism, the parents are responsible for the damages. If they steal a car and wreck it, the parents are responsible for the damages.
This is no different. The parents are being held responsible for the damages done by their children.
To hell with absentee parenting that lets children do whatever the hell they want with no restrictions or monitoring.
You bred your rug rats -- now bloody well take responsiblity for the results of your actions: raising and training your children!
Gates and his ilk want consumption taxes instead of capital taxes because they don't spend anywhere near as much as they have consuming things.
As per usual, it's the rich trying to protect their ill-gotten gains.
Let me guess: "This content is not available in your region" messages for anyone outside the US. :(
Had the goobernmint not let the NSA run roughshod over the constitution and the rights of people both foreign and domestic, the general public would not be baying for the means to keep them out.
The goobernmint brought this upon themselves through their abuses.
Screw 'em.
The idea that there are few women gamers has always been a myth in the first place. Sure there are certain genres where men and boys dominate the demographic, but there are also genres where women dominate the demographic.
The idea that women "don't belong in gaming" or are "under-represented in the gaming community" is a myth perpetrated by the same kind of childish mentality that thinks "l33t speak" makes one cool and special.