And sometimes its precisely the response you have to give or become a victim yourself. If all the sociopaths and psychopaths in the world could be defeated just by pointing and laughing then the world would be a lot more peaceful place. But they can't.
You're not going to get away with a fatuous statement like that. The communist idea that all should work for the good of the state and put the good of the state above their own wellbeing is indelibly part of the way places such as North Korea work.
The long term damage done to the world by Marx's The Communist Manifesto and Capital probably far outweigh anything hitler wrote. Their legacy is still oppressing people today in places such as North Korea. Meanwhile Mein Kampf is now just a historical curiosity.
Except that Boost is an unholy mess designed by students who threw in everything they thought would be cool without a decent overall approach. If it disappeared overnight I wouldn't shed any tears.
When Drebin pulled the plug for the nuclear device out of the wall socket and it shut down. Fact following fiction I guess which would be funny if it wasn't so worrying.
You'd think the IT people who work in these sorts of critical installations whever in the world they are would have some vague clue about security. But I guess if there were no internet access they wouldn't be able to spend all day on social networks or surfing p0rn and clearly that takes priority over doing what they're fscking paid to do which is keep major infrastructure running.
For simple textual information teletext works fine. You don't need 32 bit colour graphics and a 1Ghz processor for that sort of thing. You might call people who understand that concept luddites, they'd probably call you one of the Ooo shiny! crowd and laugh.
Any non flying bird is at a serious competetive disadvantage to birds that do fly unless its some niche ecosystem such as new zealand with few competitors or they've learned to "fly" underwater , eg penguins. Sure, ostriches are fairly big , but they haven't exactly taken over the world have they?
"Computer technology changes because it's supposed to."
Technology does, however despite the best efforts of marketdroids to convince people otherwise, software isn't technology. Software changes simply to keep programmers in jobs. There's nothing from a coders point of view (proper win32/MFC coders, not.NET monkeys) that Win8 can do that XP can't.
"Having been the only woman in a CS class, I can assure you that it's not fun"
Oh please. There were some girls on my course and they had a great time.
"It doesn't help that many women do not feel safe in the computer lab at night."
What sort of lab is this? Do they make crack alongside the computers? Or have you just been smoking some?
"f you think that tech is a meritocracy, you're not paying attention. If you think everyone has the same opportunities, and the same encouragement you do, you're not paying attention. If you think that there isn't discrimination against women, you're not paying attention."
I'm male and I work as a programmer. I never had encouragement to do it from anyone , in fact my parents wanted me to go into the family business and didn't understand computers at all. But guess what - I didn't start feeling sorry for myself , start making pathetic excuses for why I couldn't do it and blaming everyone else for my inadequacies like you clearly do, I just did the career I wanted to do. Period.
You're trying to argue with politically correct liberal idiots with facts. And as we all know facts and reality in general are something that they despise. In their world women and men all have the same wants and desires and behave and think in exactly the same way and all have the same interests.
Of course you never hear them whining about why there are so few men in pre school teaching or nursing or babysitting but then they are such well practised hypocrites.
But then with a lot of supposed "realtime" and "safety critical" systems, those goals only apply so long as it doesn't affect potential profits. "Whats this? Writing our own kernel would cost $$$?? To hell with that , just grab a copy of Windows and we'll work from there!"
These days however with the linux kernel being easily modifiable they have no excuse unless they're simply afraid of the GPL.
Then they discover there was usually a good reason for something being done the way it was in the past. Eg local echo was very useful for line buffered programs such as MUDs and chat servers or even talking to SENDMAIL or an FTP server directly. It was easier to write the server to cope with just line by line rather than character by character and it used up less network resources in the process.
"Don't stop at just being nose-touching close. Let's go closer. All the way to the surface of my eyeball, in fact. When you can make the pixels so small that I cannot resolve them when attached to my eye itself... then I'll concede that resolution is high enough."
Your eye already wouldn't be able to resolve them because it wouldn't be able to focus that close.
"Why? Because augmented reality contact lenses, that's fucking why."
And there was me thinking the discussion was about monitors. Are you planning on wearing a pair of them on your face?
"I'm just surprised we seem to have stopped at 1080p as a standard just when LCD manufacturing reliability got to the point where we could produce much higher resolution monitors quite easily. "
Whats the point? Its already impossible to resolve individual pixels on a 1080 unless your nose is right up against it or the display is something like 40+inchs in size.
"In 1928, RAF College Cranwell cadet [8] Frank Whittle formally submitted his ideas for a turbo-jet to his superiors. In October 1929 he developed his ideas further.[9] On 16 January 1930 in England, Whittle submitted his first patent (granted in 1932).["
1932 is earlier than 1935. The british invented the jet , end of discussion.
Umm , not it wasn't. Frank Whittle invented the turbojet which is the jet engine everyone knows today. The germans used the pulse jet in the V1 if thats what you're thinking of and they didn't even invent that.
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"or that's precisely the response they hope for."
And sometimes its precisely the response you have to give or become a victim yourself. If all the sociopaths and psychopaths in the world could be defeated just by pointing and laughing then the world would be a lot more peaceful place. But they can't.
You're not going to get away with a fatuous statement like that. The communist idea that all should work for the good of the state and put the good of the state above their own wellbeing is indelibly part of the way places such as North Korea work.
The long term damage done to the world by Marx's The Communist Manifesto and Capital probably far outweigh anything hitler wrote. Their legacy is still oppressing people today in places such as North Korea. Meanwhile Mein Kampf is now just a historical curiosity.
And I fscking hate it.
Thanks for playing.
"Switch to Windows. C# and .NET do in fact run at least "half way as fast" as C and integrates with the rest of the OS fine."
Does it? Well good luck writing a low level device driver in C# in that case,.
Except that Boost is an unholy mess designed by students who threw in everything they thought would be cool without a decent overall approach. If it disappeared overnight I wouldn't shed any tears.
When Drebin pulled the plug for the nuclear device out of the wall socket and it shut down. Fact following fiction I guess which would be funny if it wasn't so worrying.
You'd think the IT people who work in these sorts of critical installations whever in the world they are would have some vague clue about security. But I guess if there were no internet access they wouldn't be able to spend all day on social networks or surfing p0rn and clearly that takes priority over doing what they're fscking paid to do which is keep major infrastructure running.
For simple textual information teletext works fine. You don't need 32 bit colour graphics and a 1Ghz processor for that sort of thing. You might call people who understand that concept luddites, they'd probably call you one of the Ooo shiny! crowd and laugh.
... you'll be able to recreate your favourite graphics on your PC desktop soon!
"Yes, it is a pain to learn all the symbols."
And its impossible to enter a lot of them on most keyboards. That makes the language useless for almost everyone.
Any non flying bird is at a serious competetive disadvantage to birds that do fly unless its some niche ecosystem such as new zealand with few competitors or they've learned to "fly" underwater , eg penguins. Sure, ostriches are fairly big , but they haven't exactly taken over the world have they?
"Computer technology changes because it's supposed to."
Technology does, however despite the best efforts of marketdroids to convince people otherwise, software isn't technology. Software changes simply to keep programmers in jobs. There's nothing from a coders point of view (proper win32/MFC coders, not .NET monkeys) that Win8 can do that XP can't.
"WinRT being the APIs used to develop Metro applications"
Oh right, so the x86 version doesn't have these APIs then?
Thanks for playing...
After all, its been such a success in the past .. oh , wait...
Braindead socialists , don't they ever learn?
"Having been the only woman in a CS class, I can assure you that it's not fun"
Oh please. There were some girls on my course and they had a great time.
"It doesn't help that many women do not feel safe in the computer lab at night."
What sort of lab is this? Do they make crack alongside the computers? Or have you just been smoking some?
"f you think that tech is a meritocracy, you're not paying attention. If you think everyone has the same opportunities, and the same encouragement you do, you're not paying attention. If you think that there isn't discrimination against women, you're not paying attention."
I'm male and I work as a programmer. I never had encouragement to do it from anyone , in fact my parents wanted me to go into the family business and didn't understand computers at all. But guess what - I didn't start feeling sorry for myself , start making pathetic excuses for why I couldn't do it and blaming everyone else for my inadequacies like you clearly do, I just did the career I wanted to do. Period.
Grow up.
You're trying to argue with politically correct liberal idiots with facts. And as we all know facts and reality in general are something that they despise. In their world women and men all have the same wants and desires and behave and think in exactly the same way and all have the same interests.
Of course you never hear them whining about why there are so few men in pre school teaching or nursing or babysitting but then they are such well practised hypocrites.
But then with a lot of supposed "realtime" and "safety critical" systems, those goals only apply so long as it doesn't affect potential profits. "Whats this? Writing our own kernel would cost $$$?? To hell with that , just grab a copy of Windows and we'll work from there!"
These days however with the linux kernel being easily modifiable they have no excuse unless they're simply afraid of the GPL.
Then they discover there was usually a good reason for something being done the way it was in the past. Eg local echo was very useful for line buffered programs such as MUDs and chat servers or even talking to SENDMAIL or an FTP server directly. It was easier to write the server to cope with just line by line rather than character by character and it used up less network resources in the process.
"Don't stop at just being nose-touching close. Let's go closer. All the way to the surface of my eyeball, in fact. When you can make the pixels so small that I cannot resolve them when attached to my eye itself... then I'll concede that resolution is high enough."
Your eye already wouldn't be able to resolve them because it wouldn't be able to focus that close.
"Why? Because augmented reality contact lenses, that's fucking why."
And there was me thinking the discussion was about monitors. Are you planning on wearing a pair of them on your face?
"Or you are using a computer monitor. Or a laptop."
Sorry, but unless you have the eyesight of a bird of prey then you won't be seing the pixels on a 1080 computer monitor from normal working distance.
"Much more on the screen at one time"
That has nothing to do with the pixel density and everything to do with the applications. You could fit 100 apps on a VGA if you wanted.
"and everything is clearer and sharper."
Can't say I'd ever noticed.
"I'm just surprised we seem to have stopped at 1080p as a standard just when LCD manufacturing reliability got to the point where we could produce much higher resolution monitors quite easily. "
Whats the point? Its already impossible to resolve individual pixels on a 1080 unless your nose is right up against it or the display is something like 40+inchs in size.
"In 1928, RAF College Cranwell cadet [8] Frank Whittle formally submitted his ideas for a turbo-jet to his superiors. In October 1929 he developed his ideas further.[9] On 16 January 1930 in England, Whittle submitted his first patent (granted in 1932).["
1932 is earlier than 1935. The british invented the jet , end of discussion.
Umm , not it wasn't. Frank Whittle invented the turbojet which is the jet engine everyone knows today. The germans used the pulse jet in the V1 if thats what you're thinking of and they didn't even invent that.
Being russian the driver was obviously drunk - he was supposed to stay in the warehouse.