So do I. Have a few games that I have installed while still keeping them in their original shrink-wrapping, using an advanced distributed method of installation and auto-improvement.
Don't kid yourself, large US based companies doesn't pay tax either. Tax heavens are just an easier way to avoid paying tax, it is saving the companies money on the payroll to accountants and number magicians, but no not on the tax bill. Only people and small companies pay tax.
I had the same experience. I installed Ubuntu on a machine I didn't care to configure as I would my regular machine, but after battling with Ubuntu for several weeks; I apt upgraded to something sensible: Debian. Ubuntu was getting in my way more often than it was helping. Maybe it is because I have previous expectations of what a Linux box can and should do, and Ubuntu just didn't act as I expected.
Ehmm.. Not only are there EU-skeptic and even EU-hostile parties in the EU parliament, they even have their own group. If you don't like the EU there are parties to vote for, and they are large enough to stall and generally make things worse.
And unless you want to do IO which is a very common thing to offload to other threads. I still program multithreaded Qt today, but it is not something I would recommend to most developers. It is quite tricky, and requires a lot more insight that you normally need to program with Qt.
Multithreaded programming is always hard, but while Qt has tried to simplify it, it is actually very very tricky. Many things simply doesn't work in other threads than the main thread. The most obvious is all graphics due to X11 limitations, but also IO uses a handler that have to be installed in the correct main-loop, which means objects using IO can only be accessed from the thread that created them. Signals are really clever between threads, but behaves differently than normal which you have know. All in all you have to understand pretty much everything about the Qt loop engine to do multithreaded Qt programming.
Can you email pictures to all 98.5% of worlds population that doesn't have iPhones? If 98,5% of devices does something in a certain way, it is not broken, it may be inefficient or silly, but it is the standard. Doing something else makes you non-compatible, and for a communications device, that means useless.
Because the classic iPhone is huge heavy brick that many potential customers would be embarresed lugging around. By going down a size the new iPhone nano might be the size of a mobile phone.
RPGs?? I don't so, maybe action RPGs like the japanese ones, but classic RPGs requires better interfaces than a console provides. The few RPGs, like Oblivion that have been on both Console and PC have had an absolutely horrible and useless user-interface.
LCDs are locked to 60Hz and they are the only ones using response-time as measurement. So either get yourself a nice good CRT or just limit yourself to 60Hz, because your screen won't show anything more.
Private support for political parties exists in most place. Many, like the US, have laws trying to control it, but many countries don't have any control at all, because it simple isn't a problem. In this respect the US just seems to have a very unfortunate and difficult to fix tradition.
I am not afraid of the city. I live in the middle of one of the ten largest cities in Europe. I am not afraid of "the wild" either, but given the choice I would feel more safe falling a sleep in a Savannah in the middle of Africa than on the streets of any major city. I would give myself better than 99.9% chance of getting out unharmed in both cases, but in the city only just so.
The UK doesn't have a constitution either. That's a feature of common law countries. Only the US has both common law and a constitution. I would be surprised if Australia or Canada have constitutions.
Of cause a private company or person is legally allowed to censor as they like, but that does not make it morally acceptable.
With your odd idea that censorship as something that only applies to the government I assume you are an American, so let me explain it in terms you understand; The US constitution is based on the morals of you founding fathers, and they knew and understood that censorship was bad, and forbid the government from restricting the freedom of speech. The idea that other entities could grow large enough that they could make a censorships systems like those of the medieval European kings never crossed their mind. However any form of censorship is still morally questionable to anyone who shares the liberal values that the US and the modern western democracies are founded on. It doesn't matter if it is a democratically elected government, a king or a corporate warlord like Google or FCC that does the censorship, it is all bad.
Sure I can go to other websites, I can also move to another country, but the first step is always to protest the wrong actions of the place you are at, and try to improve it.
Dijkstra's quote "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes" is in my opinion just wrong. Astronomers need to use a telescope and understand its operation.
The tools of the trade is not the trade. Computer Science is not about computers, but they are an important tool in exercising much of the field. Just like telescopes in astronomy. We are talking about separating, what is merely "tools" and what is the central knowledge of CS. Using emacs and latex is tool knowledge, so is any knowledge of any specific computers. The central knowledge is the abstract knowledge that applies to all computers.
Depends on the country and how snobby the company is. There are plenty of smart companies hiring autodidact people, but they just have to prove their credentials through other means, and will be tested harder at interviews.
Personally I work as CDO without any degree, but that is because I've studied at the highest IT education in Denmark where it is common for students to quit before finishing the degree because they are offered 6 figured salaries (in dollars).
On the other hand, I turned down a job offer from Google, because their mentality there is such that you can't have a career there without a Ph.D.
So if you want to get hired as an autodidact, either work you way from the bottom, or get involved in open source and write some really awesome code that proves your proficiency.
Yes, they are. Private schools are under even higher pressure to pass all students, because they have payed for the education. They also have to have higher average scores as the parents are more selective, if funds are limited (if it isn't an elite private school), then they have to cheat just like the public schools do.
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So do I. Have a few games that I have installed while still keeping them in their original shrink-wrapping, using an advanced distributed method of installation and auto-improvement.
Don't kid yourself, large US based companies doesn't pay tax either. Tax heavens are just an easier way to avoid paying tax, it is saving the companies money on the payroll to accountants and number magicians, but no not on the tax bill. Only people and small companies pay tax.
I had the same experience. I installed Ubuntu on a machine I didn't care to configure as I would my regular machine, but after battling with Ubuntu for several weeks; I apt upgraded to something sensible: Debian. Ubuntu was getting in my way more often than it was helping. Maybe it is because I have previous expectations of what a Linux box can and should do, and Ubuntu just didn't act as I expected.
Ehmm.. Not only are there EU-skeptic and even EU-hostile parties in the EU parliament, they even have their own group. If you don't like the EU there are parties to vote for, and they are large enough to stall and generally make things worse.
And unless you want to do IO which is a very common thing to offload to other threads. I still program multithreaded Qt today, but it is not something I would recommend to most developers. It is quite tricky, and requires a lot more insight that you normally need to program with Qt.
Multithreaded programming is always hard, but while Qt has tried to simplify it, it is actually very very tricky. Many things simply doesn't work in other threads than the main thread. The most obvious is all graphics due to X11 limitations, but also IO uses a handler that have to be installed in the correct main-loop, which means objects using IO can only be accessed from the thread that created them. Signals are really clever between threads, but behaves differently than normal which you have know. All in all you have to understand pretty much everything about the Qt loop engine to do multithreaded Qt programming.
Well, they could, but they don't.
Can you email pictures to all 98.5% of worlds population that doesn't have iPhones? If 98,5% of devices does something in a certain way, it is not broken, it may be inefficient or silly, but it is the standard. Doing something else makes you non-compatible, and for a communications device, that means useless.
Because the classic iPhone is huge heavy brick that many potential customers would be embarresed lugging around. By going down a size the new iPhone nano might be the size of a mobile phone.
RPGs?? I don't so, maybe action RPGs like the japanese ones, but classic RPGs requires better interfaces than a console provides. The few RPGs, like Oblivion that have been on both Console and PC have had an absolutely horrible and useless user-interface.
It is the same power the prime minister of Britain has, or the president of Russia, or the president of France for that matter.
You don't need an intelligent designer.
By pure "evolution" of religions the people with benificial rules would be more succesfull and more likely to outcompete others.
LCDs are locked to 60Hz and they are the only ones using response-time as measurement. So either get yourself a nice good CRT or just limit yourself to 60Hz, because your screen won't show anything more.
Private support for political parties exists in most place. Many, like the US, have laws trying to control it, but many countries don't have any control at all, because it simple isn't a problem. In this respect the US just seems to have a very unfortunate and difficult to fix tradition.
No deciding that before the trial is very very easy. Everybody is innocent until convicted otherwise.
I am not afraid of the city. I live in the middle of one of the ten largest cities in Europe. I am not afraid of "the wild" either, but given the choice I would feel more safe falling a sleep in a Savannah in the middle of Africa than on the streets of any major city. I would give myself better than 99.9% chance of getting out unharmed in both cases, but in the city only just so.
Touché - I didn't think of Detroit or Philadelphia as wild rural areas.
There are more dangerous animals that would hunt and kill you in the middle of New York city than any wild area in the world.
Please try to go outside once in a while, and don't believe the scaremongering.
The UK doesn't have a constitution either. That's a feature of common law countries. Only the US has both common law and a constitution. I would be surprised if Australia or Canada have constitutions.
Of cause a private company or person is legally allowed to censor as they like, but that does not make it morally acceptable.
With your odd idea that censorship as something that only applies to the government I assume you are an American, so let me explain it in terms you understand; The US constitution is based on the morals of you founding fathers, and they knew and understood that censorship was bad, and forbid the government from restricting the freedom of speech. The idea that other entities could grow large enough that they could make a censorships systems like those of the medieval European kings never crossed their mind. However any form of censorship is still morally questionable to anyone who shares the liberal values that the US and the modern western democracies are founded on. It doesn't matter if it is a democratically elected government, a king or a corporate warlord like Google or FCC that does the censorship, it is all bad.
Sure I can go to other websites, I can also move to another country, but the first step is always to protest the wrong actions of the place you are at, and try to improve it.
The picture is not even a tree, it is some kind of Christmas bush, probably made of plastic, and very common in large parts of North America.
The tools of the trade is not the trade. Computer Science is not about computers, but they are an important tool in exercising much of the field. Just like telescopes in astronomy. We are talking about separating, what is merely "tools" and what is the central knowledge of CS. Using emacs and latex is tool knowledge, so is any knowledge of any specific computers. The central knowledge is the abstract knowledge that applies to all computers.
Depends on the country and how snobby the company is. There are plenty of smart companies hiring autodidact people, but they just have to prove their credentials through other means, and will be tested harder at interviews.
Personally I work as CDO without any degree, but that is because I've studied at the highest IT education in Denmark where it is common for students to quit before finishing the degree because they are offered 6 figured salaries (in dollars).
On the other hand, I turned down a job offer from Google, because their mentality there is such that you can't have a career there without a Ph.D.
So if you want to get hired as an autodidact, either work you way from the bottom, or get involved in open source and write some really awesome code that proves your proficiency.
Yes, they are. Private schools are under even higher pressure to pass all students, because they have payed for the education. They also have to have higher average scores as the parents are more selective, if funds are limited (if it isn't an elite private school), then they have to cheat just like the public schools do.
Any hardware maker _except_ the market leader, who loves DRM because they can use it to enforce their monopoly.