As much as I agree with you about religion, I have a better idea. How about people get to choose who they interact with without the state nannying them? After all, no one gives a shit when a white straight male is turned down at the welfare office.
Because the federal government wants compromised equipment distributed throughout the market just as much as america's political enemies wish to distribute such equipment (for profit or surveillance)? Anything for a short term anvil to hold over citizens who might dare question their actions.
I think the point was that there's something to be learned from writing code in an editor that doesn't offer any handholding whatsoever. I don't think anyone is advocating doing this in production scenarios.
Ugh.. One of the great things about ghostbusters was that it came out at a time when accepted humor wasn't limited by this kind of PC garbage. The social(ist) reconstructionists didn't get to video entertainment en-masse in this country until the end of the 80s. If that's not what you want, go watch one of those effeminate vampire movies.
You know, it's ok to tell a story without bolting PC narratives onto the side, or worse, squeezing all of them within those limitations ("I've seen shit that'll turn you white!"). Frankly, movies and tv are inundated with it now, to the point of absurdity. It's almost like the script writers and directors are screaming "I CARE MORE ABOUT NONWHITES, WOMEN, AND GAYS THAN YOU!" at each other and their audience with their stories. By the early 90s, it was already cliche (the "empowered 90s woman"), and by the end of the decade, it was boring and predictable. Today, it's cranked up to 11 and downright condescending. Enough already.
In free countries the press is supposed to fill the function of wikileaks. Of course, today's 'journalists' are too busy 'making a difference' to do their damn jobs.
Sweden is the feminist and PC capital of the world. The definition of rape there is so broad, and the people so indoctrinated into the victim complex inherent in identity politics, that the probability of false accusations is very high. The fact this accusation came out only after wikileaks makes it even more suspect. What better way to both discredit someone, globally, and deny him asylum in a crazy pc, yet otherwise politically ideal (asylum wise) place like Sweden than with false accusations of sexual misconduct? I think this was done under pressure (or via a cia OP) from the us government because, otherwise, Sweden would've been an ideal candidate for asylum.
Not that any of this is relevant to the ramifications of what he exposed.
and you appear to fail reading comprehension. If anything, you support my position. It's true, any group of humans with sufficient power is subject to excessive bouts of self-interest. If you read the anon I responded to, you'll see that it is him who is biased. I was pointing that out to him.
Mmm.. no. it's not that simple. When you give ANY entity dominating control, it gets lazy. The government is a prime example of this, not an exception. They're no better than a corporate oligarchy cornering the market. The only way for private enterprise to buy up regulations is if the government offers them for sale in the first place.
No thanks. I want a choice in paying for it, and I don't want the government to have any more reason/opportunity to sniff packets than they already have.
So, as corporate policy becomes more like that of highschool, and highschool policy becomes more like prison, we're all kept in adolescent, fear-driven hell just a little more, already well past the sell-by date. Meanwhile, lawyers and software vendors write laws and software to profit from this stunting of society. More at 11.
haha, MY attitude was rude? I suggest you reread your post. I simply responded in kind. Yes, of course, you should always assume people who disagree with you are trolls. That way, in your own mind at least, you won't have to face whatever challenges were brought against your views. While it denies you the chance to learn something new, at least you can stay in that nice self-absorbed realm of petty narcissistic solipsism. You do realize this attitude lives up to that negative liberal stereotype I mentioned?
It's quite easy to tell the difference between useful innovation and when someone kills needed/useful functionality to hop on a bandwagon. Grafting tablet interfaces onto desktop systems is definitely an example of the latter. The change brought about all kinds of grief for people who actually do more with their computers than use them as facebook terminals. You shouldn't hate them so much for their attitudes, because they're the ones who make the content for you to consume on your tablets (or tablet-interface addled computers).
He's welcome to have a different view and do what he wants with his company/money. Only spineless fairies like you would rush to silence criticism of yourself or others, in order to avoid feeling bad (or having others feel bad), truth be damned. This is that special snowflake syndrome that is dissolving the spine of western culture. To hell with that. I do use something else, but, I have a right to state my views, too. I realize this right offend people like you who can't handle criticism, but that's not my problem. Of course, that's why you elect politicians who'd love to stamp out free speech, right? To make it my problem, and make up for the fact your arguments are without merit?
Not if you like low latency mouse input in games and desktop applications without hacks, functional file managers, program menus, and a lack of widgets that belong on tablets.
As it is, it's bad enough that cars are overengineered. Adding computer software between me and critical functionality (like acceleration and braking), and then adding the ability for someone to update it over the cellnet whenever, is unacceptable. If I ever do buy a modern car, the first things to go are any radio transceivers.
Yes, because anyone who questions your viewpoint and politics is obviously an ignorant luddite...and liberals wonder why others perceive them as arrogant, totalitarian, histrionic, narcissists. Tolerance and diversity only applies to their own viewpoints and protected castes, I guess.
Global menus work ok for small desktops (1024x768 tops), but with huge desktops that have multiple windows side by side, having to select the window and move the mouse to the top of the screen to use the menu for it is a pain.
Intelligent users like configurations that work for their workflows. When they are obviously changed out just for change's sake, they become irritated. This applies to any platform. Change for change's sake has become a fad in the last 5-6 years, and it's driving people nuts.
Define 'loser'. If 'loser' means, "never gets to touch genitals with another", then I suppose you're right, though maybe you can explain why anyone beyond the age of 16 should care. However, if 'loser' means "get raped by family court/false DV accusations/degenerate adult-age 'highschool' drama/STDs/divorce settlements", then I'd say the celibate nerds are the winners, especially the men.
Except that they don't necessarily offer the superior product, just the most expensive, trendy one. This actually appeals more to those 'sociable' people the gp refers to, because, for them, social acceptance is the most important factor in every decision they make. They buy apple because their rich friends did. Often, such people aren't very intelligent when it comes to technology, or even basic concepts like reason and logic, because, frankly, they haven't had to be in order to survive.. Often, these people being at the top of the social pyramid, do not have to interface with harsh realities all that often.
The world, today, is run by such people, and examples of their 'success' in doing so are everywhere.
Over the past 15 years or so, a lot of publishers have been licensing pop40 tunes instead of writing custom scores. As someone who likes music that fits the game and reacts with events and player performance, how can the publishers be motivated to do this more often?
titles with adaptive music that come to mind:
The early Need for Speeds (2,3,4). Mortal Kombat series Earlier Street Fighter titles (before 4). Descent Freespace series
Here are some games with great (imo) though mostly non adaptive soundtracks in no particular order: Actraiser (SNES) Contra (3, esp) (SNES) Super R-Type (SNES) Starfox (SNES) Early castlevania. Terminal Velocity (DOS) Doom (DOS etc) Descent (1,2,3) (DOS etc) Wipout/XL/2097/3 series (playstation) Unreal/Unreal Tournament Warcraft/2 The crysis 3/blood dragon campaign.
Obviously, there are plenty more examples, all subject to taste, but all of these titles had soundtracks that really fit the gameplay and/or story very well. I'd like to see more of this. I am getting tired of hearing generic hiphop or whiny 'alternative' college rock tracks in games, especially action titles.
FUCK PAT. It breaks too many protocols and gives ISPs and governments easy ways to damage the P2P aspect of the internet. The internet should not be cable TV 2.0.
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As much as I agree with you about religion, I have a better idea. How about people get to choose who they interact with without the state nannying them? After all, no one gives a shit when a white straight male is turned down at the welfare office.
Because the federal government wants compromised equipment distributed throughout the market just as much as america's political enemies wish to distribute such equipment (for profit or surveillance)? Anything for a short term anvil to hold over citizens who might dare question their actions.
and with federal expenditure.
It's one of many sanity checks. If non-ansi C is outdated, shouldn't it be checked for?
I think the point was that there's something to be learned from writing code in an editor that doesn't offer any handholding whatsoever. I don't think anyone is advocating doing this in production scenarios.
Ugh.. One of the great things about ghostbusters was that it came out at a time when accepted humor wasn't limited by this kind of PC garbage. The social(ist) reconstructionists didn't get to video entertainment en-masse in this country until the end of the 80s. If that's not what you want, go watch one of those effeminate vampire movies.
You know, it's ok to tell a story without bolting PC narratives onto the side, or worse, squeezing all of them within those limitations ("I've seen shit that'll turn you white!"). Frankly, movies and tv are inundated with it now, to the point of absurdity. It's almost like the script writers and directors are screaming "I CARE MORE ABOUT NONWHITES, WOMEN, AND GAYS THAN YOU!" at each other and their audience with their stories. By the early 90s, it was already cliche (the "empowered 90s woman"), and by the end of the decade, it was boring and predictable. Today, it's cranked up to 11 and downright condescending. Enough already.
In free countries the press is supposed to fill the function of wikileaks. Of course, today's 'journalists' are too busy 'making a difference' to do their damn jobs.
Sweden is the feminist and PC capital of the world. The definition of rape there is so broad, and the people so indoctrinated into the victim complex inherent in identity politics, that the probability of false accusations is very high. The fact this accusation came out only after wikileaks makes it even more suspect. What better way to both discredit someone, globally, and deny him asylum in a crazy pc, yet otherwise politically ideal (asylum wise) place like Sweden than with false accusations of sexual misconduct? I think this was done under pressure (or via a cia OP) from the us government because, otherwise, Sweden would've been an ideal candidate for asylum.
Not that any of this is relevant to the ramifications of what he exposed.
and you appear to fail reading comprehension. If anything, you support my position. It's true, any group of humans with sufficient power is subject to excessive bouts of self-interest. If you read the anon I responded to, you'll see that it is him who is biased. I was pointing that out to him.
Mmm.. no. it's not that simple. When you give ANY entity dominating control, it gets lazy. The government is a prime example of this, not an exception. They're no better than a corporate oligarchy cornering the market. The only way for private enterprise to buy up regulations is if the government offers them for sale in the first place.
No thanks. I want a choice in paying for it, and I don't want the government to have any more reason/opportunity to sniff packets than they already have.
Argument from authority and popularity are fallacies.
or in countries where the authoritarians demand an 'internet kill switch'.
How are you using twitter if you don't have internet access?
So, as corporate policy becomes more like that of highschool, and highschool policy becomes more like prison, we're all kept in adolescent, fear-driven hell just a little more, already well past the sell-by date. Meanwhile, lawyers and software vendors write laws and software to profit from this stunting of society. More at 11.
I don't know. Ask that AC.
haha, MY attitude was rude? I suggest you reread your post. I simply responded in kind. Yes, of course, you should always assume people who disagree with you are trolls. That way, in your own mind at least, you won't have to face whatever challenges were brought against your views. While it denies you the chance to learn something new, at least you can stay in that nice self-absorbed realm of petty narcissistic solipsism. You do realize this attitude lives up to that negative liberal stereotype I mentioned?
It's quite easy to tell the difference between useful innovation and when someone kills needed/useful functionality to hop on a bandwagon. Grafting tablet interfaces onto desktop systems is definitely an example of the latter. The change brought about all kinds of grief for people who actually do more with their computers than use them as facebook terminals. You shouldn't hate them so much for their attitudes, because they're the ones who make the content for you to consume on your tablets (or tablet-interface addled computers).
He's welcome to have a different view and do what he wants with his company/money. Only spineless fairies like you would rush to silence criticism of yourself or others, in order to avoid feeling bad (or having others feel bad), truth be damned. This is that special snowflake syndrome that is dissolving the spine of western culture. To hell with that. I do use something else, but, I have a right to state my views, too. I realize this right offend people like you who can't handle criticism, but that's not my problem. Of course, that's why you elect politicians who'd love to stamp out free speech, right? To make it my problem, and make up for the fact your arguments are without merit?
Not if you like low latency mouse input in games and desktop applications without hacks, functional file managers, program menus, and a lack of widgets that belong on tablets.
As it is, it's bad enough that cars are overengineered. Adding computer software between me and critical functionality (like acceleration and braking), and then adding the ability for someone to update it over the cellnet whenever, is unacceptable. If I ever do buy a modern car, the first things to go are any radio transceivers.
Yes, because anyone who questions your viewpoint and politics is obviously an ignorant luddite. ..and liberals wonder why others perceive them as arrogant, totalitarian, histrionic, narcissists. Tolerance and diversity only applies to their own viewpoints and protected castes, I guess.
Global menus work ok for small desktops (1024x768 tops), but with huge desktops that have multiple windows side by side, having to select the window and move the mouse to the top of the screen to use the menu for it is a pain.
Intelligent users like configurations that work for their workflows. When they are obviously changed out just for change's sake, they become irritated. This applies to any platform. Change for change's sake has become a fad in the last 5-6 years, and it's driving people nuts.
I'd rather avoid people who make baseless accusations than live in a police state.. It doesn't matter who does the recording.
Define 'loser'. If 'loser' means, "never gets to touch genitals with another", then I suppose you're right, though maybe you can explain why anyone beyond the age of 16 should care. However, if 'loser' means "get raped by family court/false DV accusations/degenerate adult-age 'highschool' drama/STDs/divorce settlements", then I'd say the celibate nerds are the winners, especially the men.
Except that they don't necessarily offer the superior product, just the most expensive, trendy one. This actually appeals more to those 'sociable' people the gp refers to, because, for them, social acceptance is the most important factor in every decision they make. They buy apple because their rich friends did. Often, such people aren't very intelligent when it comes to technology, or even basic concepts like reason and logic, because, frankly, they haven't had to be in order to survive.. Often, these people being at the top of the social pyramid, do not have to interface with harsh realities all that often.
The world, today, is run by such people, and examples of their 'success' in doing so are everywhere.
Over the past 15 years or so, a lot of publishers have been licensing pop40 tunes instead of writing custom scores. As someone who likes music that fits the game and reacts with events and player performance, how can the publishers be motivated to do this more often?
titles with adaptive music that come to mind:
The early Need for Speeds (2,3,4).
Mortal Kombat series
Earlier Street Fighter titles (before 4).
Descent Freespace series
Here are some games with great (imo) though mostly non adaptive soundtracks in no particular order:
Actraiser (SNES)
Contra (3, esp) (SNES)
Super R-Type (SNES)
Starfox (SNES)
Early castlevania.
Terminal Velocity (DOS)
Doom (DOS etc)
Descent (1,2,3) (DOS etc)
Wipout/XL/2097/3 series (playstation)
Unreal/Unreal Tournament
Warcraft/2
The crysis 3/blood dragon campaign.
Obviously, there are plenty more examples, all subject to taste, but all of these titles had soundtracks that really fit the gameplay and/or story very well. I'd like to see more of this. I am getting tired of hearing generic hiphop or whiny 'alternative' college rock tracks in games, especially action titles.
FUCK PAT. It breaks too many protocols and gives ISPs and governments easy ways to damage the P2P aspect of the internet. The internet should not be cable TV 2.0.