Guys, please. This are facts. I did not troll. And I do not hate Americans per se... Because I'm not stupid. I hate criminal government people, like Cheney, Putin, SchÃuble, and their minions.
This shit really happened. My uncles were really tortured. The US really gave the Mujaheddin the weapons (eg Stinger rockets), and my father even made documentation movies about it.
Oh, and I really fear, that flying to the US will get me into trouble over nothing.
So, moderating me "Troll" is really insensitive! Especially since I really wish the best to the people (not the government) of the USA (or any other country for that matter).
Because US workers are way, wayyy more expensive. This is of course, because they have a higher living standard. And it it because of that crazy system, where everybody has to have as much loans as possible.
And most of all, it is, because neither customers nor companies seem to act on anything other than (very) short-term profit maximization. I think, anyone who thinks and acts in the long term nowadays, will rule them all in the future.
The worst thought is, that I once heard some expert say, that China is a slow giant, that does think in terms of 50 to 100 years. And that they don't care about the highs or lows of today.
Hmm... I have a completely different point of view. I program stuff *once*. Including all the things you mentioned above. I abstract them into levels where memory management, linkage, and threads do not matter anymore. That's why I'm programming in Haskell, O'Caml and Python. In my eyes, Haskell is the perfect middle point between machine code and human logical thinking. If I would have to write in C, the first thing I'd do, would be to write libraries that do the low-level stuff for me, so I can concentrate on the pure algorithms. But someone did this already. And they did it really well. So well that you lose no freedom, except when you *want* to interface with hardware (eg drivers/os).
So why reinvent the wheel... again... and again...?
And I really understand what I am doing, without knowing the low level stuff. Because I'm writing algorithms, and user interfaces, and data structures. Not drivers. So please stop being so arrogant.;) Your style has its place. But when you follow the whole philosophy of CS, it should be a minority by definition.:)
And that's one of the two reasons I don't fly (at least in the US). The other reason is, that I'm half Afghani, and I don't want to risk being detained at Guantanamo because they don't like my face.
The biggest joke is that my whole Afghani family fought the Russians, for the US, with US weapons (the same source that Osama has his weapons from). So we should be called freedom fighters, like the soldiers and firefighters of the US. But who cares if two of my uncles got tortured in Russian prisons because of that war? Right?
Many of those el-cheapo players support everything in Rockbox. Additionally, as another poster said, RockBox works only for the old (large) iPods. Who buys those bricks today?
Hmm... the iPod is probably the most expensive mp3 player that you can load Rockbox onto, isn't it? I know that Rockbox was created for many other players, and the iPod just got added to it. So I'd rather go with a player that does the same for less money.:) But I already have a mobile phone (one of those that are made to play music, and therefore have better a/d converters), and I have my own good headphones.
I never understood why anyone would want an overpriced, too large player, that can't be used as an USB-stick and has really crappy headphones. (I think they should stop selling headphones with the players. That way the players would look cheaper, and the people would buy better headphones [because you can't buy headphones that are *that* crappy and still look good that way])
Well, let me tell you something: People are retards. Apparently especially the ones that you know.;)
And additionally, I do not care what you think. Maybe you like not being the leader in things (Which is totally fine. The world needs both types of people to get things done.), but I like to lead to the right way. Even if I'm the only one and/or die from it. At least I can live/rot with myself.;)
The site (template) looks good. Clear, clean, with enough air.
The content just misses basic formatting. The pictures are not thumbnailed, but resized via html/css, which is very unprofessional. The text is formatted in the style of the last millennium. There are even <font> tags in it. A clear sign that the developer's skills are completely outdated. In fact the whole content misses any correctly used semantic markup, and uses no CSS. And I would recommend a non-serif font for the normal text (better to read on the screen), and the Georgia font for headlines, tough. Looks better.:) If someone gave me 50, I'd fix the whole markup mess in an evening. A complete redesign would cost 400 tough (but is not required).
Hey, I make programming look badass and cool! Do you want to know how?
By being the coolest most attractive guy on the party, and openly stating what I do for a living, and how cool the things are that I do.
Now for the first thing: I don't look that great. I'm overweighted by 30 kg. And I am a half-foreigner. But I noticed that it does not matter much. As long as you have the most fun, look interesting, and have a "strong reality", you have so much value, that they are getting dragged to you like flies to a lightbulb.
The second thing is simple: Just be confident (the "strong reality" part), no matter what you do or like. I was ashamed people would not like me because in the summertime, I run around barefoot more than other people. You know what? I got friends and "you're cool" statements because of it, and the confidence that comes with it.:D
to show that it was (at least partially) meant as a joke.:) And a pretty good one actually.:P
I like good products. It does not matter where they come from, as long as the morality of the company is at least halfway ok. But some products... well... read this for a whole lot of fun.:D
The best experience ever, relating R*, was when a friend bought GTA San Andreas.
It did not run. And there was no patch. Even days after the release. I took a quick look on gamecopyworld, and there were already patches avaliable for at least five different bugs! The crackers fixed the bugs for R*, before they even could react
There were four points where the game could die. Before the intro, after the into, in the menu and while loading the city. The fifth bug was that polygon points could be randomized all over the place for nVidia graphics cards. It looked horrible.
After that, he never bought something from R* again. I just pulled it straight from a Torrent tracker.
Unfortunately, R* does not seem to learn from this. I bet they will still make others responsible when they don't exist anymore. And I hope I can buy the game designers and developers out for my company by then, for they are truly rock stars.:D
[...] your typical hyper-complicated (to make it seem intelligent when it is in fact simply ridiculous) anime[...]
- hyper-complicated: What idiots say when they are unable to understand things that go a bit over the average Joe's head. - ridiculous: What idiots say when they lack the phantasy to understand how this is possible.
Seriously. How many great movies god destroyed by retarded critics and watchers who did not get it? "Revolver" is one example. It's a brilliant movie. But you require a brain for it. And it did not even made it to german cinemas, because most british people did not understand it and therefore hated it (instead of themselves). Or Ju-On (1&2). You have to have phantasy to feel the horror in it. Someone with a numb mind (like a friend of mine) hated it. He told me that "nothing was happening", while in fact tons of shit was happening just above the subconcious level. He's more of a gore type.
And then they praise total "explain everything and show it right in your face so you fuckin' get it" trash like Hellboy and Saw. Good thing you at least hated the Saw sequels
.
Let me make a quick judgement: From my standpoint and the information you gave me about you, you seem to be trash yourself.:P
What you did not mention was, that the cracked (actually decrypted/compiled are better words for it) version ran much faster. What they did was crazy. They decrypted the whole GUI code and only encrypted it right before use. Even the mouse was sluggish in the "original" version. After cracking it, it ran nice and smooth.
This is easy to crack as soon as you know how to call the decryption for every piece of code needed. You have to follow the calls down, until you have a decrypted version of everything.
It's so stupid that it hurts: The CPU has to execute it in a un-encrypted form. So it has to lie in ram in that form some time in the execution. So you will always be able to get the raw machine code. But tell that to a PHB who can't tell the difference between 0.002 dollars and 0.002 cents... *sigh*
Note/Disclaimer: I'm not going to pirate or buy this game, I'm nowhere near the minimum system requirements, and I don't generally pirate stuff anyway.
I could not imagine a Slashdotter coming out of his basement, buying a corvette, conquering ships and stealing shit on the high seas anyway.
Or in other words: Please hand in your geek card right now, or we have to take your internets away. (= Sudden death)
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Guys, please. This are facts. I did not troll. And I do not hate Americans per se... Because I'm not stupid.
I hate criminal government people, like Cheney, Putin, SchÃuble, and their minions.
This shit really happened. My uncles were really tortured. The US really gave the Mujaheddin the weapons (eg Stinger rockets), and my father even made documentation movies about it.
Oh, and I really fear, that flying to the US will get me into trouble over nothing.
So, moderating me "Troll" is really insensitive!
Especially since I really wish the best to the people (not the government) of the USA (or any other country for that matter).
Interestingly, for most humans you could also say "just got attacked with humans".
Most people are such drones, zombies and bots nowadays.
Because US workers are way, wayyy more expensive.
This is of course, because they have a higher living standard.
And it it because of that crazy system, where everybody has to have as much loans as possible.
And most of all, it is, because neither customers nor companies seem to act on anything other than (very) short-term profit maximization.
I think, anyone who thinks and acts in the long term nowadays, will rule them all in the future.
The worst thought is, that I once heard some expert say, that China is a slow giant, that does think in terms of 50 to 100 years. And that they don't care about the highs or lows of today.
I for one, will not welcome them. ;)
I input the data straight into the bus, by using eight Morse keys at 4 Hz.
Now get off my lawn!
Hmm... I have a completely different point of view.
I program stuff *once*. Including all the things you mentioned above. I abstract them into levels where memory management, linkage, and threads do not matter anymore.
That's why I'm programming in Haskell, O'Caml and Python. In my eyes, Haskell is the perfect middle point between machine code and human logical thinking.
If I would have to write in C, the first thing I'd do, would be to write libraries that do the low-level stuff for me, so I can concentrate on the pure algorithms.
But someone did this already. And they did it really well. So well that you lose no freedom, except when you *want* to interface with hardware (eg drivers/os).
So why reinvent the wheel... again... and again...?
And I really understand what I am doing, without knowing the low level stuff. Because I'm writing algorithms, and user interfaces, and data structures. Not drivers. ;) :)
So please stop being so arrogant.
Your style has its place. But when you follow the whole philosophy of CS, it should be a minority by definition.
And that's one of the two reasons I don't fly (at least in the US).
The other reason is, that I'm half Afghani, and I don't want to risk being detained at Guantanamo because they don't like my face.
The biggest joke is that my whole Afghani family fought the Russians, for the US, with US weapons (the same source that Osama has his weapons from). So we should be called freedom fighters, like the soldiers and firefighters of the US. But who cares if two of my uncles got tortured in Russian prisons because of that war? Right?
Unfortunately, good audio quality does not seem to matter for most people. ;)
Oh, and "good audio quality" and "mp3" are direct opposites.
Many of those el-cheapo players support everything in Rockbox. Additionally, as another poster said, RockBox works only for the old (large) iPods. Who buys those bricks today?
Hmm... the iPod is probably the most expensive mp3 player that you can load Rockbox onto, isn't it? :)
I know that Rockbox was created for many other players, and the iPod just got added to it.
So I'd rather go with a player that does the same for less money.
But I already have a mobile phone (one of those that are made to play music, and therefore have better a/d converters), and I have my own good headphones.
I never understood why anyone would want an overpriced, too large player, that can't be used as an USB-stick and has really crappy headphones. (I think they should stop selling headphones with the players. That way the players would look cheaper, and the people would buy better headphones [because you can't buy headphones that are *that* crappy and still look good that way])
Well, let me tell you something: People are retards. Apparently especially the ones that you know. ;)
And additionally, I do not care what you think. Maybe you like not being the leader in things (Which is totally fine. The world needs both types of people to get things done.), but I like to lead to the right way. Even if I'm the only one and/or die from it. ;)
At least I can live/rot with myself.
It seems, that in the above post, the Euro sign was eaten by Slashdot's outdated, non-Unicode-compatible system.
It's 50€ and 400€. And this time I'll preview and use €. :)
The site (template) looks good. Clear, clean, with enough air.
The content just misses basic formatting. :)
The pictures are not thumbnailed, but resized via html/css, which is very unprofessional.
The text is formatted in the style of the last millennium. There are even <font> tags in it. A clear sign that the developer's skills are completely outdated.
In fact the whole content misses any correctly used semantic markup, and uses no CSS.
And I would recommend a non-serif font for the normal text (better to read on the screen), and the Georgia font for headlines, tough. Looks better.
If someone gave me 50, I'd fix the whole markup mess in an evening. A complete redesign would cost 400 tough (but is not required).
There was not a single case of a shipping of that game being stolen on the high seas.
Oh, you mean people shared the files? Well, here's a handy guide for you.
Arrrr!
I want a huge dong to play with!
Perfect proof that I'm straight, ...right?
I rest my case. :P
...FOR THE WIN! :D
No, I will not explain this! :P
Is ja interessant. Das wusste ich nicht. (Krass, ich kann grad voll schwer auf die deusche Satzstrukturierung und deutsche Ausdrücke umschalten.)
Gibt es da was zum nachlesen? Z.B. warum er gerade diesen Begriff benutzte?
Hey, I make programming look badass and cool!
Do you want to know how?
By being the coolest most attractive guy on the party, and openly stating what I do for a living, and how cool the things are that I do.
Now for the first thing: I don't look that great. I'm overweighted by 30 kg. And I am a half-foreigner.
But I noticed that it does not matter much. As long as you have the most fun, look interesting, and have a "strong reality", you have so much value, that they are getting dragged to you like flies to a lightbulb.
The second thing is simple: Just be confident (the "strong reality" part), no matter what you do or like. :D
I was ashamed people would not like me because in the summertime, I run around barefoot more than other people.
You know what? I got friends and "you're cool" statements because of it, and the confidence that comes with it.
Maybe you should open it first. It's not monochrome. ;)
Bullshit. Even MacBook Pros ship with a 24-bit panel. There even was a story here on Slashdot about this.
Am I? I specifically added the
;) (Apple fans, stay with me! :)
to show that it was (at least partially) meant as a joke. :) :P
And a pretty good one actually.
I like good products. It does not matter where they come from, as long as the morality of the company is at least halfway ok. :D
But some products... well... read this for a whole lot of fun.
The best experience ever, relating R*, was when a friend bought GTA San Andreas.
It did not run. And there was no patch. Even days after the release.
I took a quick look on gamecopyworld, and there were already patches avaliable for at least five different bugs!
The crackers fixed the bugs for R*, before they even could react
There were four points where the game could die. Before the intro, after the into, in the menu and while loading the city.
The fifth bug was that polygon points could be randomized all over the place for nVidia graphics cards. It looked horrible.
After that, he never bought something from R* again. I just pulled it straight from a Torrent tracker.
Unfortunately, R* does not seem to learn from this. I bet they will still make others responsible when they don't exist anymore. :D
And I hope I can buy the game designers and developers out for my company by then, for they are truly rock stars.
Damn. I meant:
They (Steinberg) encrypted the whole GUI code and only decrypted it right before use.
Sorry for the confusion.
[...] your typical hyper-complicated (to make it seem intelligent when it is in fact simply ridiculous) anime[...]
- hyper-complicated: What idiots say when they are unable to understand things that go a bit over the average Joe's head.
- ridiculous: What idiots say when they lack the phantasy to understand how this is possible.
Seriously. How many great movies god destroyed by retarded critics and watchers who did not get it?
"Revolver" is one example. It's a brilliant movie. But you require a brain for it. And it did not even made it to german cinemas, because most british people did not understand it and therefore hated it (instead of themselves).
Or Ju-On (1&2). You have to have phantasy to feel the horror in it. Someone with a numb mind (like a friend of mine) hated it. He told me that "nothing was happening", while in fact tons of shit was happening just above the subconcious level. He's more of a gore type.
And then they praise total "explain everything and show it right in your face so you fuckin' get it" trash like Hellboy and Saw.
Good thing you at least hated the Saw sequels
.
Let me make a quick judgement: From my standpoint and the information you gave me about you, you seem to be trash yourself. :P
What you did not mention was, that the cracked (actually decrypted/compiled are better words for it) version ran much faster.
What they did was crazy. They decrypted the whole GUI code and only encrypted it right before use. Even the mouse was sluggish in the "original" version.
After cracking it, it ran nice and smooth.
This is easy to crack as soon as you know how to call the decryption for every piece of code needed. You have to follow the calls down, until you have a decrypted version of everything.
It's so stupid that it hurts: The CPU has to execute it in a un-encrypted form. So it has to lie in ram in that form some time in the execution. So you will always be able to get the raw machine code. But tell that to a PHB who can't tell the difference between 0.002 dollars and 0.002 cents... *sigh*
Note/Disclaimer: I'm not going to pirate or buy this game, I'm nowhere near the minimum system requirements, and I don't generally pirate stuff anyway.
I could not imagine a Slashdotter coming out of his basement, buying a corvette, conquering ships and stealing shit on the high seas anyway.
Or in other words: Please hand in your geek card right now, or we have to take your internets away. (= Sudden death)