When arguing that you acted in self-defense in the first place, you first argue that you had a belief that you were being unlawfully threatened. You then argue why that belief was reasonable.
To argue why fleeing would be unsafe, you first argue that you had a belief that fleeing was unsafe. You then argue why that belief was reasonable.
Says who? I live in a left-wing politically correct state and I'm still allowed to respond with physical force to the threat or use of physical force.
Says people who don't understand the law. That's allowed basically anywhere in the US. Even deadly force in retaliation for deadly force (or serious-injury-causing force) is allowed anywhere, with the exception that in some places you're required to attempt to de-escalate the situation by leaving, but only if it is safe to do so.
However, I have spent a bit of time playing around with C & C++ coding in Eclipse, older versions (e.g. 3.stuff) of KDevelop, and trying to get the various IDE-like features of Emacs working (the CEDET stuff), and I'll take Visual Studio over any of them almost without question for most development, Express Editions or no, and keep a SCons script going for the actual building.
This is a terribly-written sentence.
What I meant was that I would use Visual Studio for most actual code editing, but I would maintain a parallel SCons build. The purpose of the Visual Studio build would be to get all of the Intellisense and code navigation features going for the editing. (I don't know if I'm just stupid or if I'm picky or just have different tastes or what, but people say Emacs & CEDET can do that stuff and I just haven't been able to get anything that works anywhere close to as good.) The purpose of the SCons build would be for other platforms.
Oh, not quite half a decade. (First release was Oct. 2005.)
Of course, the Platform SDK first saw release in mid-2002, and while I can't establish that the early versions included their compilers, I wouldn't be surprised.
However, the 64-bit compilers are included in the Platform SDK. It's possible, though cumbersome, to set up Visual Studio Express Editions to use them. (See here.)
Or, you can just install the Platform SDK itself and use the command-line tools like so many Unix people seem to like....OpenMP, profiling, and remote debugging...
It really is too bad about OpenMP, though it's possible that doing something like the trick above will work. (Maybe this will help?)
Profiling is probably a bit harder, though that could be one of those cases where not everyone needs it. So a couple VS Pro licenses might be enough there.
For remote debugging, you can use the Debugging Tools for Windows, which MS also gives away for free.
Compared to the tools available on Linux, BSD, and MacOS X, VS EE is quite lacking.
To each his own. I haven't used XCode so I can't speak to the OS X situation. However, I have spent a bit of time playing around with C & C++ coding in Eclipse, older versions (e.g. 3.stuff) of KDevelop, and trying to get the various IDE-like features of Emacs working (the CEDET stuff), and I'll take Visual Studio over any of them almost without question for most development, Express Editions or no, and keep a SCons script going for the actual building. (In fact, I know firsthand of one company that does most of their development this way: most people use the Express Editions, but the VS projects are set up to actually call SCons to do the real building. It still uses the MS compilers on Windows. I'm not sure how it affects the code browsing and intellisense stuff.)
And regardless, between the different tools I've mentioned (the Express Editions, Platform SDK, and Debugging Tools for Windows), saying that "the Microsoft developer tools aren't free" I still think is a quite dishonest statement on its own.
And unless you want to write commercial software, or use more than a handful of APIs available on Windows...
Huh? I know of a couple companies firsthand that use the Express Editions for at least most internal development.
What APIs can't you use with the Express Editions? Remember that the Platform SDK is free as well, and works fine with them. (Oh, and comes with 64-bit compiles I believe.)
It's true that there are people and companies for whom the Express Editions won't be sufficient, but I suspect that you overestimate that group. This is especially true if you allow for most people on a team using the Express Editions, and a couple people with the full editions who can do stuff like the final builds with profiling data and whatnot.
To be fair, the developer tools on the Mac are free, unlike Microsoft's developer tools...
The Express Editions of Visual Studio are pretty darn usable; they're free. While what you said is not technically incorrect, it's also not being entirely honest IMO.
I wasn't claiming that Office was innovative, just that it's a "major piece of software developed by MS in-house."
Another poster corrected me about Word specifically, and it looks like PowerPoint was originally developed by Forethought, Inc., but Excel seems to have its roots firmly in MS.
I wasn't claiming that Office was innovative, just that it's a "major piece of software developed by MS in-house." Another poster corrected me about Word specifically, and it looks like PowerPoint was originally developed by Forethought, Inc., but Excel seems to have its roots firmly in MS.
Yes, if you are searching for "Britney Spears". If you are remotely interested in searching for something not mundane, guess what? Google owns Bing. Sorry.
I only occasionally try Bing, but from what I've seen, it's true. (That's why I only occasionally use Bing.)
I really wish that there were a second roughly-Google-quality search engine out there, but I haven't seen one. (I'm also not predisposed to wish that MS wasn't it, unlike many/.ers.)
I like Bing maps more than Google maps in a few respects, but that's about the only thing I go to Bing for.
Why is everything always like a movie? Does "the bus driver accidentally took some kids a few miles down the turnpike" sound like an interesting plot to you?
Take texting while driving. The claim is 900 deaths a year. How do they come at that number? Even better, how big is that number? 900 sounds like a lot.. However... its less than the estimated number of serial murder victims in the US. Overall driving deaths are more like 40,000 a year. Context is everything. If I said "about 1 driving death in 40 is related to txting while driving" thats suddenly a lot smaller, yet, represents the same data.
Just to play devil's advocate, "1 in 40" sounds like a lot bigger number than "900" to my ears without knowing how many total driving deaths there are. There's a whole crapload of things that can go wrong when driving, and having one thing be a substantial contributor to the fatality rate like that strikes me as pretty significant.
I have a ~2 year old Thinkpad tablet. I'll rave about it to anyone who'll listen, but it's probably not what you'd need for graphics/photo editing, though it's certainly fine enough for taking notes with OneNote in reasonably small handwritten text.
The biggest problem for graphicas work I suspect is that there's a fair bit of parallax between the digitizer surface and the display surface, so moving your head or turning the tablet alone will "move" the cursor several pixels.
how do you think it knows to install the windows version over the linux or OSX version (ie installing java)
Being able to tell what OS you're running is a far cry from being able to basically personally identify you. The former is probably present in your browser's useragent; the latter requires for more than just your useragent. But of course you know that, because you read TFA, right?
For somebody who is already very fit it might be of no benefit at all.
That depends on what game you're talking about. I'm sure DDR is probably about as far to the "good workout" end of the spectrum as you can get, so this is probably an extreme example, but you could give Lance Armstrong a DDR mat and copy of the game and after going through a little learning curve I almost guarantee he'd be getting a good workout with it.
People get good exercise with a good exercise DVD and they're just sitting in front of the TV; why can't you get good exercise if you replace the DVD with a video game?
Hare dare you mock the original - Kick could totally kick Picard's ass.
Yeah, if they ever got into a fight. Picard would outwit, intimidate, or placate Kirk before that happened though.;-)
Actually, about half of the original series were pretty epic, and still stand up as top-drawer television SF writing today, while the bad ones were pretty amazingly bad.
You can say the same thing about TNG, though they had a bunch of "all right" episodes. TNG's first season was almost universally awful (writers must have been on acid when writing "Where no man has gone before", or else it was the winning episode in the competition amongst writers to see who could come up with the worst episode), and there were some pretty spectacular duds in later seasons too. But there are also so many episodes that are just stupendous.
(I need to watch more TOS; I've only seen a couple episodes. All the movies though... and #6 is my favorite of all 11.)
Alternately, you could consider using ZFS if you can live with the uncertainty of the opensolaris project. The major plus is that all the functionality is already there.
Don't forget that FreeBSD has a native implementation of ZFS as well. (You can also get ZFS for FUSE, but as such it's probably not suited for a main file system.)
Oh, I can't store 144, that's where my speech processor is at.". The reference (of course) is the 220h default address of the Sound Blaster (220 hexadecimal = 144 decimal).
This may be a flawed analogy, but wouldn't it be akin to a company releasing a car that only ran on diesel? That impedes all the companies that sell only "normal" gasoline. They're stifling competition! If you want to use "normal" gasoline, buy a car that runs on that. If diesel usurps gasoline as the standard fuel of choice, maybe it's because it's better.
Except that, as I understand it, there are good technical reasons why you can't make a car that runs on both diesel and gasoline. There are no such technical restrictions on why you can't run Flash or Flex-compiled programs on the iPhone, as evidenced by the fact that Adobe had the iPhone compiler for Flex working and it's only because Apple changed its SDK terms that you can't use it.
If a manufacturer made a diesel car and artificially prevented it from using gasoline even though many other cars on the market could use either, then it would make perfect sense to complain about it.
So what happens when the industry moves on and CD drives are no longer available, and future optical drives do not support the bastardized CD copy protection used? Before you laugh - it already virtually happened with floppy drives (certainly 5 1/4" floppies already).
As I mentioned in another reply saying something similar, if I had to bet on whether I could read my CD-based games in a decade or whether Steam would be around at that time (at least giving access to my current Steam games), I'm betting on the CDs without much hesitation.
5 1/4" drives are hard to find, but you can still easily find 3 1/2" ones. You can get a USB-based floppy drive off Newegg for $25. Game companies more-or-less ceased distributing games on floppies over a decade ago; given that they're still distributing games on DVDs, it seems likely that CD drives will still be easy to come by a decade from now.
That's true, but I would consider stuff like that beyond "you must have the CD" DRM. Once you get into stuff like SecuROM and StarDock the win of CDs definitely decreases if it isn't overtaken by Steam.
Think i'm off in fantasy land? Go find me a 5 1/4" floppy drive for a laptop....
I'll grant you that you can't find a 5 1/4" drive any more. However, you can easily find a 3 1/2" drive around, including USB versions for your laptop. It's been way more than 5 years since games more or less ceased to be distributed on floppies; games on CDs were common even 15 years ago. If CDs follow the same pattern, "I can't find a drive to read this" will become a problem somewhere around, let's say 2020. (And that's being generous. Games are still coming on DVDs, and I seriously doubt you'll ever see a lot of DVD drives that don't read CDs.)
Basically what it comes down to is if I have to bet whether my CDs will be readable in 2025 or Steam will be around in 2025, I'm betting on the CDs.
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The same way you prove you were being threatened.
When arguing that you acted in self-defense in the first place, you first argue that you had a belief that you were being unlawfully threatened. You then argue why that belief was reasonable.
To argue why fleeing would be unsafe, you first argue that you had a belief that fleeing was unsafe. You then argue why that belief was reasonable.
Says who? I live in a left-wing politically correct state and I'm still allowed to respond with physical force to the threat or use of physical force.
Says people who don't understand the law. That's allowed basically anywhere in the US. Even deadly force in retaliation for deadly force (or serious-injury-causing force) is allowed anywhere, with the exception that in some places you're required to attempt to de-escalate the situation by leaving, but only if it is safe to do so.
However, I have spent a bit of time playing around with C & C++ coding in Eclipse, older versions (e.g. 3.stuff) of KDevelop, and trying to get the various IDE-like features of Emacs working (the CEDET stuff), and I'll take Visual Studio over any of them almost without question for most development, Express Editions or no, and keep a SCons script going for the actual building.
This is a terribly-written sentence.
What I meant was that I would use Visual Studio for most actual code editing, but I would maintain a parallel SCons build. The purpose of the Visual Studio build would be to get all of the Intellisense and code navigation features going for the editing. (I don't know if I'm just stupid or if I'm picky or just have different tastes or what, but people say Emacs & CEDET can do that stuff and I just haven't been able to get anything that works anywhere close to as good.) The purpose of the SCons build would be for other platforms.
How new are the Express Editions?
Oh, not quite half a decade. (First release was Oct. 2005.)
Of course, the Platform SDK first saw release in mid-2002, and while I can't establish that the early versions included their compilers, I wouldn't be surprised.
The Express Edition lacks a 64-bit compiler...
However, the 64-bit compilers are included in the Platform SDK. It's possible, though cumbersome, to set up Visual Studio Express Editions to use them. (See here.)
Or, you can just install the Platform SDK itself and use the command-line tools like so many Unix people seem to like. ...OpenMP, profiling, and remote debugging...
It really is too bad about OpenMP, though it's possible that doing something like the trick above will work. (Maybe this will help?)
Profiling is probably a bit harder, though that could be one of those cases where not everyone needs it. So a couple VS Pro licenses might be enough there.
For remote debugging, you can use the Debugging Tools for Windows, which MS also gives away for free.
Compared to the tools available on Linux, BSD, and MacOS X, VS EE is quite lacking.
To each his own. I haven't used XCode so I can't speak to the OS X situation. However, I have spent a bit of time playing around with C & C++ coding in Eclipse, older versions (e.g. 3.stuff) of KDevelop, and trying to get the various IDE-like features of Emacs working (the CEDET stuff), and I'll take Visual Studio over any of them almost without question for most development, Express Editions or no, and keep a SCons script going for the actual building. (In fact, I know firsthand of one company that does most of their development this way: most people use the Express Editions, but the VS projects are set up to actually call SCons to do the real building. It still uses the MS compilers on Windows. I'm not sure how it affects the code browsing and intellisense stuff.)
And regardless, between the different tools I've mentioned (the Express Editions, Platform SDK, and Debugging Tools for Windows), saying that "the Microsoft developer tools aren't free" I still think is a quite dishonest statement on its own.
And unless you want to write commercial software, or use more than a handful of APIs available on Windows...
Huh? I know of a couple companies firsthand that use the Express Editions for at least most internal development.
What APIs can't you use with the Express Editions? Remember that the Platform SDK is free as well, and works fine with them. (Oh, and comes with 64-bit compiles I believe.)
It's true that there are people and companies for whom the Express Editions won't be sufficient, but I suspect that you overestimate that group. This is especially true if you allow for most people on a team using the Express Editions, and a couple people with the full editions who can do stuff like the final builds with profiling data and whatnot.
To be fair, the developer tools on the Mac are free, unlike Microsoft's developer tools...
The Express Editions of Visual Studio are pretty darn usable; they're free. While what you said is not technically incorrect, it's also not being entirely honest IMO.
I wasn't claiming that Office was innovative, just that it's a "major piece of software developed by MS in-house."
Another poster corrected me about Word specifically, and it looks like PowerPoint was originally developed by Forethought, Inc., but Excel seems to have its roots firmly in MS.
I wasn't claiming that Office was innovative, just that it's a "major piece of software developed by MS in-house." Another poster corrected me about Word specifically, and it looks like PowerPoint was originally developed by Forethought, Inc., but Excel seems to have its roots firmly in MS.
What about Office?
Skimming over Wikipedia page doesn't show anything about them buying another product or anything.
Yes, if you are searching for "Britney Spears". If you are remotely interested in searching for something not mundane, guess what? Google owns Bing. Sorry.
I only occasionally try Bing, but from what I've seen, it's true. (That's why I only occasionally use Bing.)
I really wish that there were a second roughly-Google-quality search engine out there, but I haven't seen one. (I'm also not predisposed to wish that MS wasn't it, unlike many /.ers.)
I like Bing maps more than Google maps in a few respects, but that's about the only thing I go to Bing for.
One possible contender is the XMLHttpRequest object in Javascript, which led to the possibility to make rich web applications.
Ironically enough, without that Google probably wouldn't be much more than a search engine.
Why is everything always like a movie? Does "the bus driver accidentally took some kids a few miles down the turnpike" sound like an interesting plot to you?
Take texting while driving. The claim is 900 deaths a year. How do they come at that number? Even better, how big is that number? 900 sounds like a lot.. However... its less than the estimated number of serial murder victims in the US. Overall driving deaths are more like 40,000 a year. Context is everything. If I said "about 1 driving death in 40 is related to txting while driving" thats suddenly a lot smaller, yet, represents the same data.
Just to play devil's advocate, "1 in 40" sounds like a lot bigger number than "900" to my ears without knowing how many total driving deaths there are. There's a whole crapload of things that can go wrong when driving, and having one thing be a substantial contributor to the fatality rate like that strikes me as pretty significant.
I have a ~2 year old Thinkpad tablet. I'll rave about it to anyone who'll listen, but it's probably not what you'd need for graphics/photo editing, though it's certainly fine enough for taking notes with OneNote in reasonably small handwritten text.
The biggest problem for graphicas work I suspect is that there's a fair bit of parallax between the digitizer surface and the display surface, so moving your head or turning the tablet alone will "move" the cursor several pixels.
how do you think it knows to install the windows version over the linux or OSX version (ie installing java)
Being able to tell what OS you're running is a far cry from being able to basically personally identify you. The former is probably present in your browser's useragent; the latter requires for more than just your useragent. But of course you know that, because you read TFA, right?
For somebody who is already very fit it might be of no benefit at all.
That depends on what game you're talking about. I'm sure DDR is probably about as far to the "good workout" end of the spectrum as you can get, so this is probably an extreme example, but you could give Lance Armstrong a DDR mat and copy of the game and after going through a little learning curve I almost guarantee he'd be getting a good workout with it.
People get good exercise with a good exercise DVD and they're just sitting in front of the TV; why can't you get good exercise if you replace the DVD with a video game?
People are gaga over git. You shouldn't be. Git is a decentralized vcs... Use bzr or mercury if you like FREE software.
Let me translate: "Don't use git. Git is bad because it's a decentralized VCS. Use one of these other decentralized VCSs instead."
Troll.
Hare dare you mock the original - Kick could totally kick Picard's ass.
Yeah, if they ever got into a fight. Picard would outwit, intimidate, or placate Kirk before that happened though. ;-)
Actually, about half of the original series were pretty epic, and still stand up as top-drawer television SF writing today, while the bad ones were pretty amazingly bad.
You can say the same thing about TNG, though they had a bunch of "all right" episodes. TNG's first season was almost universally awful (writers must have been on acid when writing "Where no man has gone before", or else it was the winning episode in the competition amongst writers to see who could come up with the worst episode), and there were some pretty spectacular duds in later seasons too. But there are also so many episodes that are just stupendous.
(I need to watch more TOS; I've only seen a couple episodes. All the movies though... and #6 is my favorite of all 11.)
Alternately, you could consider using ZFS if you can live with the uncertainty of the opensolaris project. The major plus is that all the functionality is already there.
Don't forget that FreeBSD has a native implementation of ZFS as well. (You can also get ZFS for FUSE, but as such it's probably not suited for a main file system.)
Oh, I can't store 144, that's where my speech processor is at.". The reference (of course) is the 220h default address of the Sound Blaster (220 hexadecimal = 144 decimal).
You might want to check your math on that.
This may be a flawed analogy, but wouldn't it be akin to a company releasing a car that only ran on diesel? That impedes all the companies that sell only "normal" gasoline. They're stifling competition! If you want to use "normal" gasoline, buy a car that runs on that. If diesel usurps gasoline as the standard fuel of choice, maybe it's because it's better.
Except that, as I understand it, there are good technical reasons why you can't make a car that runs on both diesel and gasoline. There are no such technical restrictions on why you can't run Flash or Flex-compiled programs on the iPhone, as evidenced by the fact that Adobe had the iPhone compiler for Flex working and it's only because Apple changed its SDK terms that you can't use it.
If a manufacturer made a diesel car and artificially prevented it from using gasoline even though many other cars on the market could use either, then it would make perfect sense to complain about it.
So what happens when the industry moves on and CD drives are no longer available, and future optical drives do not support the bastardized CD copy protection used? Before you laugh - it already virtually happened with floppy drives (certainly 5 1/4" floppies already).
As I mentioned in another reply saying something similar, if I had to bet on whether I could read my CD-based games in a decade or whether Steam would be around at that time (at least giving access to my current Steam games), I'm betting on the CDs without much hesitation.
5 1/4" drives are hard to find, but you can still easily find 3 1/2" ones. You can get a USB-based floppy drive off Newegg for $25. Game companies more-or-less ceased distributing games on floppies over a decade ago; given that they're still distributing games on DVDs, it seems likely that CD drives will still be easy to come by a decade from now.
That's true, but I would consider stuff like that beyond "you must have the CD" DRM. Once you get into stuff like SecuROM and StarDock the win of CDs definitely decreases if it isn't overtaken by Steam.
Think i'm off in fantasy land? Go find me a 5 1/4" floppy drive for a laptop....
I'll grant you that you can't find a 5 1/4" drive any more. However, you can easily find a 3 1/2" drive around, including USB versions for your laptop. It's been way more than 5 years since games more or less ceased to be distributed on floppies; games on CDs were common even 15 years ago. If CDs follow the same pattern, "I can't find a drive to read this" will become a problem somewhere around, let's say 2020. (And that's being generous. Games are still coming on DVDs, and I seriously doubt you'll ever see a lot of DVD drives that don't read CDs.)
Basically what it comes down to is if I have to bet whether my CDs will be readable in 2025 or Steam will be around in 2025, I'm betting on the CDs.