He's one of the assholes who make the problems. Probably lost a lot of lunch money on the playground, so now it's time to WIN via a collective power to irritate.
Every language named is Turing-complete and has the capability of implementing any algorithm you might wish. The whole argument is meaningless since the nascent developer will have to learn multiple languages across a career developing software. The language police are very boring by this point. I remember Pournelle arguing about what language was best in the 70s and I know the argument was happening before that.
Umm, isn't Australis the Chrome-copying interface?
Nice astroturf for FF. Too bad no one cares, no tears for those assholes. The project is badly managed and will suffer the fate of those who are serving a niche audience. Who knows - maybe there is more of a market for a LGBT browser than I think.
Yup. Which can be almost immediately reversed by an incoming administration with differing objectives. As can the flood of EOs and regulatory actions going on lately.
There's a reason why these things generally didn't happen in past administrations at the six plus year mark, and the reason why was that they didn't want to salt the fields for their party's next nominee and the assorted congressional candidates who'd have to run on this record. It appears the current occupant doesn't care about that.
I'm serious. This is happening because of Democrats being in control of the regulatory apparatus of the federal government. No shocker there. If you want to stop being harassed about identity politics issues, elect Republicans. You get a different basket of annoyances there, but you'll stop hearing about this, at least.
ATI used to include floppies with their cards. Some of them were mode setting programs. Some of them were diagnostics. And some were drivers for particular DOS applications to allow their use with the advanced features of the ATI cards. The VGA Wonder even included full technical specifications.
That said, I never got any of their drivers to even work except the Mach32 driver on Windows.
Diversity is discrimination, period. Dance around the issue and wave your hands all you want, doesn't change that it's discrimination. Saying it is a good thing in any venue at any time is saying that you believe in gender, ethnic and racial set-asides which are by their nature discriminatory.
It just preserves the issue for another generation. Yay, great progress. Until it boomerangs back. Dividing people like this is never a good thing.
ATI's hardware was fine hardware back in the day, but their software was regrettable. My first card was an ATI EGA (!) Wonder 800 back just before third-party VGA hit the streets. Then I had a VGA Wonder. Both were fine cards. The 8514/A compatible ATI card was also delicious. Then things headed downhill.
OK, let's be clear about something here. Hirohito was not an absolute ruler, but he had a lot of clout and the people in the Japanese council were eager to spare him the task of making decisions. Also, they feared for their own status after a surrender. It is of note that ultimately, he was the one who announced to the Japanese people that it was time to lay down their arms. So he did have authority and could have chosen to wield it at any time. It is clear that the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima shocked the Japanese, but only the second strike at Nagasaki caused them to sue for peace. In this, both the ruling clique and Hirohito himself can be blamed for sitting on their asses and letting their people get firebombed (whether conventionally or atomically) for too long.
That said, the bombs came along with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and Korea...never forget that that happened almost simultaneously. Truman's decision to drop bombs when he did was partially politically motivated inasmuch as there was an imminent plan for the Soviets to invade Hokkaido, the most northerly Japanese home island. This would have entitled the Soviets to an occupation zone in Tokyo and Japan, and we might have spoken later of "communist North Japan" and "South Japan".
Then, there was the lack of desire to let MacArthur wrap himself in glory in the invasion of Japan itself. Never mind the hundreds of thousands (or millions) of casualties expected.
It was important to the US for Japan to surrender exactly when Japan did, and no later. The answer is never as simple and black and white as we would like.
They'll keep doing it till they're kept so busy at home that they don't have time for this foreign adventurism. It's an asymmetric war. You can choose to ignore it and the murders, or you can fight it. Staying neutral isn't an option.
And you, dear sir, are purely astroturf. Doesn't play well here. The BB is dead as a doornail. Even in its last stronghold, the USG, it's being discarded at the speed of government. Slow, but sure.
The BlackBerry resistance to being bought out deserves a good Downfall video parody. Seriously. They're about as close to death as Hitler was in the Chancellery bunker.
And the above deserves an upmod, since I did the same freaking thing. "Virtual 8086" mode on the 386 and the EMS 4.0 hardware capability for certain cards on the 286 were virtual machines in all but name.
It was a woman. I doubt she watched WarGames. I got the impression she was upset that I got the computer to do that and about the subject matter. She called it "disgusting".
That said, the subject of nuclear annihilation was something that bothered me even when I was a little kid, with all the fallout shelter signs and talk about SALT treaties in my youth. The more realistic depictions of nuclear war from the 80s just exacerbated the issue for me.
More's the pity. I think I was just trying to illustrate that "education" is more about forcing minds into a particular thought process rather than "education". What I did could easily be interpreted as an anti-nuclear statement, which it essentially was. That didn't occur to the thoughtless instructor.
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He's one of the assholes who make the problems. Probably lost a lot of lunch money on the playground, so now it's time to WIN via a collective power to irritate.
Really, who the fuck wants to read this? If the objective was to make this profession as sucktastic as the rest of them, mission accomplished.
Every language named is Turing-complete and has the capability of implementing any algorithm you might wish. The whole argument is meaningless since the nascent developer will have to learn multiple languages across a career developing software. The language police are very boring by this point. I remember Pournelle arguing about what language was best in the 70s and I know the argument was happening before that.
Dumb argument.
Umm, isn't Australis the Chrome-copying interface?
Nice astroturf for FF. Too bad no one cares, no tears for those assholes. The project is badly managed and will suffer the fate of those who are serving a niche audience. Who knows - maybe there is more of a market for a LGBT browser than I think.
Tired of updating every few days for guaranteed regressions.
Don't need the SJW crap.
Fuck Firefox.
Some poorly-made add-ons don't work with Firefox itself, either.
Seriously, it's better.
Yup. Which can be almost immediately reversed by an incoming administration with differing objectives. As can the flood of EOs and regulatory actions going on lately.
There's a reason why these things generally didn't happen in past administrations at the six plus year mark, and the reason why was that they didn't want to salt the fields for their party's next nominee and the assorted congressional candidates who'd have to run on this record. It appears the current occupant doesn't care about that.
About as effectual as that.
Didn't think so. That means the sanctions are still in effect...
I'm serious. This is happening because of Democrats being in control of the regulatory apparatus of the federal government. No shocker there. If you want to stop being harassed about identity politics issues, elect Republicans. You get a different basket of annoyances there, but you'll stop hearing about this, at least.
ATI used to include floppies with their cards. Some of them were mode setting programs. Some of them were diagnostics. And some were drivers for particular DOS applications to allow their use with the advanced features of the ATI cards. The VGA Wonder even included full technical specifications.
That said, I never got any of their drivers to even work except the Mach32 driver on Windows.
I never had one, but did it have the delicious CGA snow? (related to refresh)
Diversity is discrimination, period. Dance around the issue and wave your hands all you want, doesn't change that it's discrimination. Saying it is a good thing in any venue at any time is saying that you believe in gender, ethnic and racial set-asides which are by their nature discriminatory.
It just preserves the issue for another generation. Yay, great progress. Until it boomerangs back. Dividing people like this is never a good thing.
ATI's hardware was fine hardware back in the day, but their software was regrettable. My first card was an ATI EGA (!) Wonder 800 back just before third-party VGA hit the streets. Then I had a VGA Wonder. Both were fine cards. The 8514/A compatible ATI card was also delicious. Then things headed downhill.
I see no reason to buy their equipment anymore.
OK, let's be clear about something here. Hirohito was not an absolute ruler, but he had a lot of clout and the people in the Japanese council were eager to spare him the task of making decisions. Also, they feared for their own status after a surrender. It is of note that ultimately, he was the one who announced to the Japanese people that it was time to lay down their arms. So he did have authority and could have chosen to wield it at any time. It is clear that the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima shocked the Japanese, but only the second strike at Nagasaki caused them to sue for peace. In this, both the ruling clique and Hirohito himself can be blamed for sitting on their asses and letting their people get firebombed (whether conventionally or atomically) for too long.
That said, the bombs came along with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and Korea...never forget that that happened almost simultaneously. Truman's decision to drop bombs when he did was partially politically motivated inasmuch as there was an imminent plan for the Soviets to invade Hokkaido, the most northerly Japanese home island. This would have entitled the Soviets to an occupation zone in Tokyo and Japan, and we might have spoken later of "communist North Japan" and "South Japan".
Then, there was the lack of desire to let MacArthur wrap himself in glory in the invasion of Japan itself. Never mind the hundreds of thousands (or millions) of casualties expected.
It was important to the US for Japan to surrender exactly when Japan did, and no later. The answer is never as simple and black and white as we would like.
They'll keep doing it till they're kept so busy at home that they don't have time for this foreign adventurism. It's an asymmetric war. You can choose to ignore it and the murders, or you can fight it. Staying neutral isn't an option.
And you, dear sir, are purely astroturf. Doesn't play well here. The BB is dead as a doornail. Even in its last stronghold, the USG, it's being discarded at the speed of government. Slow, but sure.
Well, knowing the Pope is an enemy of human liberty is not all that surprising.
The BlackBerry resistance to being bought out deserves a good Downfall video parody. Seriously. They're about as close to death as Hitler was in the Chancellery bunker.
And the above deserves an upmod, since I did the same freaking thing. "Virtual 8086" mode on the 386 and the EMS 4.0 hardware capability for certain cards on the 286 were virtual machines in all but name.
It was a woman. I doubt she watched WarGames. I got the impression she was upset that I got the computer to do that and about the subject matter. She called it "disgusting".
That said, the subject of nuclear annihilation was something that bothered me even when I was a little kid, with all the fallout shelter signs and talk about SALT treaties in my youth. The more realistic depictions of nuclear war from the 80s just exacerbated the issue for me.
I'm sure you'd be downloading a graphical map with your 300 baud modem. ;-) Great story. We must've had the same instructors.
Nope, all As. It was an easy grade if you didn't offend the instructor, as I clearly did.
More's the pity. I think I was just trying to illustrate that "education" is more about forcing minds into a particular thought process rather than "education". What I did could easily be interpreted as an anti-nuclear statement, which it essentially was. That didn't occur to the thoughtless instructor.