I got a little further thru this guy's video before I gave up at the part where he starts ranting about how on a touch screen device like the Ipad you always touch a particular spot and never swipe... I don't know what touch device he uses, but I swipe on my ITouch ALL the time.
You do understand that I'm being sarcastic, right? I'm saying that having something go full screen isn't some horrific Win 8 bug, it's a common occurrence in a lot of O/S's.
I managed to watch about 2 minutes of his poorly done video. Apparently 5 or 6 years ago he wrote a couple of free lance articles, which makes him an O/S guru. Now he's out of work again and sounds like he's trying to make a name for himself by riding the anti-Win 8 band wagon. Hope he finds a good day job because he's not going to make it free-lancing.
You mean sort of the way I accidently hit something on my Mac and Firefox went full screen? Or you run a game on pretty much any computer and it goes full screen? Sounds like a horrific bug.
Well, here's the deal... the FAA DOESN'T KNOW. Got that? There's a chance that consumer devices interfere, so the FAA imposes an incredibly minor inconvenience on people. They take the position that it's better to be conservative than to just have an "anything goes" policy and see what happens.
Vietnam was MUCH tougher than Japan at the end of the war. Vietnam had one of the most sophisticated air defense systems in the world, courtesy of the Soviet Union.
Good lord, not the "omg the Chinese are better in space than us" line again.
The Chinese are slowly repeating what the USA and Russia did in the '60s. In the meantime, the USA has explored most of the solar system. Let me know when China has 2 probes entering interstellar space.
Japan's industrial base was destroyed, they didn't have defense against air attacks, they no longer had any source of raw materials (one of the main reasons that they had gone to war)... they would have had to just hunker down and accept being destroyed from the air, without any way of fighting back. Do you really think that 6 years after Pearl Harbor, the USA would have given up the war when the enemy was down and out?
And pretty unlikely Japan and Russia would end up as allies. Russia was interested in grabbing territory, not forming an alliance.
The war would have continued until Japan surrendered. Certainly the war in the Europe continued until the Germans surrendered, even though Hitler hoped until the end that the rather weird alliance between Stalin & the western powers could be broken. Also, Russia had it's eye on Japanese territory and was entering the war, and the Japanese knew (like everyone else) that they'd rather surrender to the Americans than the Russians.
I think the reality would have been that that USA would have used conventional weapons to firebomb Japanese cities, getting to the same result as nuclear weapons but more slowly. The "shock & awe" of nuclear weapons made it clear that Japan didn't have a choice... they could surrender, or be annihilated.
In other words, it's the same as the current civilization? If I want to use knots in rope as money and can find someone who accept them as currency, I can do so right now.
Having worked for a company whose head of software was a psychopath (and yes, I am not using the word loosely), YES, it's a problem. Being absolutely sure you are right and not caring about or enjoying the suffering of others may allow you to get things done, but those things are often utterly destructive.
It just sounds like he, in fact, got pissed off and pulled the plug, and is now trying to justify the decision. Unless he has some sort of contract that says that he is personally guaranteeing appearance fees, travel costs, etc, it's hard to believe that he was particularly endangered by a Twitter controversy.
Isn't an organizer on the hook for the costs? If one or more participants pulled out, wouldn't he risk coming up short and having to personally eat whatever shortfall resulted?
I wouldn't blame him for a "rage quit" in any case. It must be hard enough to organize something like this without having diversity hustlers horn in, saying that you have to have a certain number of people with the right look (external appearance being what's used to classify race).
Well, there are lots of reasons why a conference might fall through. For example, if even one of the major sponsors is a company that has a bad quarter and decides to pull the funding. I would assume that if there are significant expenses there would be legal agreements in place that the organizer is not personally responsible for all of the conference expenses.
And yeah, I would blame him for a "rage quit" if he got annoyed at a Twitter discussion and cancelled a conference that a bunch of people were invested in. That's just not very mature.
Are people really buying the "big discussion on Twitter so we have to cancel the conference" explanation? The official explanation from the organizer says "This was by no means a ‘rage quit’ and I had every intention to continue and address these issues. However, I was not prepared to put myself in the position of legal liability and cost ramifications if a sponsor were to pull out under social media strain."
It just sounds like he, in fact, got pissed off and pulled the plug, and is now trying to justify the decision. Unless he has some sort of contract that says that he is personally guaranteeing appearance fees, travel costs, etc, it's hard to believe that he was particularly endangered by a Twitter controversy.
Well, Hamas doesn't acknowledge Israel's right to exist on any borders, and I'm not sure Abbas could "crush" Hamas. He didn't do so well the last time the two clashed.
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I got a little further thru this guy's video before I gave up at the part where he starts ranting about how on a touch screen device like the Ipad you always touch a particular spot and never swipe... I don't know what touch device he uses, but I swipe on my ITouch ALL the time.
You mean the way I accidently hit a key on my Mac and it pops over to the next desktop? That kind of thing?
You do understand that I'm being sarcastic, right? I'm saying that having something go full screen isn't some horrific Win 8 bug, it's a common occurrence in a lot of O/S's.
I managed to watch about 2 minutes of his poorly done video. Apparently 5 or 6 years ago he wrote a couple of free lance articles, which makes him an O/S guru. Now he's out of work again and sounds like he's trying to make a name for himself by riding the anti-Win 8 band wagon. Hope he finds a good day job because he's not going to make it free-lancing.
You mean sort of the way I accidently hit something on my Mac and Firefox went full screen? Or you run a game on pretty much any computer and it goes full screen? Sounds like a horrific bug.
Cue the "the Chinese are way ahead of NASA" posts.
Two IPads. TWO. Not 200. Got it?
I think you missed a couple of anti-American slams, try again.
Well, here's the deal... the FAA DOESN'T KNOW. Got that? There's a chance that consumer devices interfere, so the FAA imposes an incredibly minor inconvenience on people. They take the position that it's better to be conservative than to just have an "anything goes" policy and see what happens.
Wow... 10 minutes when I can't use my iPad. If this is your biggest problem in your life, celebrate like there's no tomorrow.
Vietnam was MUCH tougher than Japan at the end of the war. Vietnam had one of the most sophisticated air defense systems in the world, courtesy of the Soviet Union.
Good lord, not the "omg the Chinese are better in space than us" line again.
The Chinese are slowly repeating what the USA and Russia did in the '60s. In the meantime, the USA has explored most of the solar system. Let me know when China has 2 probes entering interstellar space.
Reasonable doubt is the level of proof in criminal cases. In civil it's preponderance of evidence.
Have you read anything at all about World War II?
Japan's industrial base was destroyed, they didn't have defense against air attacks, they no longer had any source of raw materials (one of the main reasons that they had gone to war)... they would have had to just hunker down and accept being destroyed from the air, without any way of fighting back. Do you really think that 6 years after Pearl Harbor, the USA would have given up the war when the enemy was down and out?
And pretty unlikely Japan and Russia would end up as allies. Russia was interested in grabbing territory, not forming an alliance.
The war would have continued until Japan surrendered. Certainly the war in the Europe continued until the Germans surrendered, even though Hitler hoped until the end that the rather weird alliance between Stalin & the western powers could be broken. Also, Russia had it's eye on Japanese territory and was entering the war, and the Japanese knew (like everyone else) that they'd rather surrender to the Americans than the Russians.
I think the reality would have been that that USA would have used conventional weapons to firebomb Japanese cities, getting to the same result as nuclear weapons but more slowly. The "shock & awe" of nuclear weapons made it clear that Japan didn't have a choice... they could surrender, or be annihilated.
In other words, it's the same as the current civilization? If I want to use knots in rope as money and can find someone who accept them as currency, I can do so right now.
Having worked for a company whose head of software was a psychopath (and yes, I am not using the word loosely), YES, it's a problem. Being absolutely sure you are right and not caring about or enjoying the suffering of others may allow you to get things done, but those things are often utterly destructive.
Apparently so is Slashthink
It just sounds like he, in fact, got pissed off and pulled the plug, and is now trying to justify the decision. Unless he has some sort of contract that says that he is personally guaranteeing appearance fees, travel costs, etc, it's hard to believe that he was particularly endangered by a Twitter controversy.
Isn't an organizer on the hook for the costs? If one or more participants pulled out, wouldn't he risk coming up short and having to personally eat whatever shortfall resulted?
I wouldn't blame him for a "rage quit" in any case. It must be hard enough to organize something like this without having diversity hustlers horn in, saying that you have to have a certain number of people with the right look (external appearance being what's used to classify race).
Well, there are lots of reasons why a conference might fall through. For example, if even one of the major sponsors is a company that has a bad quarter and decides to pull the funding. I would assume that if there are significant expenses there would be legal agreements in place that the organizer is not personally responsible for all of the conference expenses.
And yeah, I would blame him for a "rage quit" if he got annoyed at a Twitter discussion and cancelled a conference that a bunch of people were invested in. That's just not very mature.
Are people really buying the "big discussion on Twitter so we have to cancel the conference" explanation? The official explanation from the organizer says "This was by no means a ‘rage quit’ and I had every intention to continue and address these issues. However, I was not prepared to put myself in the position of legal liability and cost ramifications if a sponsor were to pull out under social media strain."
It just sounds like he, in fact, got pissed off and pulled the plug, and is now trying to justify the decision. Unless he has some sort of contract that says that he is personally guaranteeing appearance fees, travel costs, etc, it's hard to believe that he was particularly endangered by a Twitter controversy.
thirded... FINALLY someone grasps the idea that people with different backgrounds might have different things to contribute.
Well, Hamas doesn't acknowledge Israel's right to exist on any borders, and I'm not sure Abbas could "crush" Hamas. He didn't do so well the last time the two clashed.
They aren't hombrew. The ones they are using now are military missiles from Iran.