If you think domestic code monkeys fuck everything up, what makes you think the result from remote managed foreign ones will be any better? Usually the remote management coupled with language and cultural barriers makes it nearly impossible to corral them to do quality work ON TIME. I'd rather have to communicate with an inept monkey that at least speaks my language and has the same cultural background than one I can barely communicate with. Also, having control over his salary helps keep motivation and priorities in-line.
Just religion? I'd say there are plenty of secular ideologies that fit too. Swapping out jesus or mohammed for marx or nietzsche isn't an improvement. It's a lateral shift. The problem is radical, dogmatic thinking mixed with authoritarianism. Reality doesn't matter to these people and they want the state to enforce their irrational views and behavioral expectations on everyone else.
Because someone is claiming that basic "human rights" are being violated and the kid is being oppressed. I want to know what "human right" we're talking about. Can you tell me? Is there a basic "human right" to send pictures of your willy to any girl you know? What has the world come to when we make such nonsense a "human right"?
He was put on a registry without trial. As an american looking at this, that is a violation of his liberty. It may not be a 'human right' to send a pic, but it's not an affront to anyone's rights to receive one either. What has the world come to when we insist on breeding oversensitivity into whole generations, then enact crazy punishments on those who 'trigger' them? I also find it interesting that she wasn't charged for 'distributing child pornography.' We've already had a few kids here in the states trampled by those laws..laws that were meant to protect them. I guess now we know the true intentions of the advocates who pushed for them.
You don't know this, and it isn't your place to judge on her behalf. Nobody was thrown into a gulag over this.
It isn't her 'human right' to expect everyone else to give a shit about her feelings over such trivial events either. Despite what happened here, there are plenty of men out there who were thrown into both figurative and literal gulags over shit far less. A registry listing is no minor matter.
But that's not a valid argument for saying that burglary isn't wrong, just as you not minding if people send you naked pictures of themselves is an argument against it being wrong when others are the recipients.
Stealing a tv != sending a picture. One is theft of property, the other is ???
Wait a minute. He can't be expected to "know better" when it comes to whether it is appropriate to send the picture in the first place, but he is supposed to "know better" that the girl would know how to bypass the "delete automatically" feature of snapchat? "Should have known better" is a two-edged sword here.
He should have known the natural consequences of distributing a nude picture of himself over to someone else, yes. Your 'appropriateness' is merely something imposed by people who obviously want others to conform to their moral expectations.
It wasn't a lasting mark on a predator list.
Yes it is. For 10 years. Did you read the article? It's a list that will inform any employer of this incident, so it's close enough.
I have a "crush" on your teenage daughter. You won't mind if I send her naked pictures of myself, then? She can just delete them if she doesn't want to see them, and it won't cause her any harm, right? It's harmless fun.
If that's all you're going to do, go ahead. If she doesn't like it, she'll delete it. If she doesn't know already, I'll explain to her how she shouldn't trust random strangers and how to put you on ignore. Since she's my daughter, she'd hopefully have had that sensibility since childhood. Anyway, this example is not valid either. This issue concerns two adolescents. There's no mention of persistent behavior, which is why I don't agree with him being treated as a predator into his 20s for some stupid impulsive thing he did over an adolescent crush.
That's why he got such a light slap on the wrist and isn't standing in a dock facing a judge. And nobody is saying he should be.
No, but being placed on that list is effectively treating him as someone who has, and was found guilty.
Why are you confused? The issue's simple once you toss aside the legal pedantry. Before we send 14 yos to the gulag (or add them to scarlet letter 'lists') over a picture, there should be responsibility for showing how harm was done. I know if I received a picture of a naked human, I'd laugh and delete. It might be unwanted, yes, but that's not the same thing as harm. I won't be scarred for life and neither will this girl. Now, if the kid didn't want the picture distributed by her, he should've known better.
Who cares what the lawyers/politicians think. They're only interested in looking like bastions of morality they can't possibly be living up to just to keep their jobs. You have a brain, use it. Justify why you think such a lasting mark like a predator list is warranted for 'a' picture sent probably to a crush. I think a talking to is all that's needed. His pic being spread around is a natural consequence of his choice, and is punishment enough. This seems like a case of 'stupid kid' not a case of a hardened pervert, and should be treated as such.
One of them is reported to have been put on the list of people who have been accused of crimes.
Societies with 'lists' like this hardly have good track records for justice of any sort. So much for responsibility, right?..and it looks like the girl wasn't listed for spreading the pic. So much for consequences if you've got the right genitalia, right?
As far as I can see, the only serious consequences are those that people who think like you chose to impose. Perhaps you should consider the consequences of that.
Except that no it's not because your hand is on the mouse. Spamming search boxes over a shitty UI doesn't make it better. A small menu with a list of commonly used programs (+hotkeys) is still faster than memorizing magic incantations that make the search engine bring up what you're looking for.
Apparently, it's only replacing a culture that stereotypes 'young single males' negatively. Unhappy people lash out, regardless of skin color and genitalia.
No, actually it's more about keeping a high enough minimum framerate so that the game doesn't hitch, while having as much eye candy as possible. Benchmarks are done with vsync turned off to see comparative results of how much headroom is available, which is why you see comparisons done at high framerates. It is also done to reduce lagtime between screen and input updates, depending how the game in question renders. There are also those of us who aren't blind and can see a noticeable difference between 16 and 8ms frames and build accordingly. This is why you see bitching when a game is framerate capped. There's a much larger contingent who wants high resolution over framerate, and as benches show, even 3 of the best gpus can't guarantee 16ms frames at those resolutions.
Gaming machines draw more than the $1500 laptop, but they can also do a lot more, too. They also do a great job doubling as workstations for those of us who can't afford $5000 cpus and overpriced 'workstation' class hardware. The gaming box, especially with judicious overclocking, fills the middle ground between data entry secretary boxes and $10k autodesk workstations, making high performance accessible to those with relatively limited funds.
Your analogy is shit. Yes, a good player can play on a shit system and score, but he'll do far better on a modern system and have a much better time doing so. Of course, the type of game, its engine, and its assets, matter greatly as well.
Another notable enhancement was the linking prefetcher. This substantially sped up booting and application start. It's still used today, supplemented with superfetch.
Successful? Yes. Significant for microsoft? Yes. A diabolically twisted ingenious kludge between real mode and v86 mode? Hell yes. It's amazing it worked at all.
A win95 machine would have most of the software on local disk, a vast improvement over the 'software-as-a-shackle' that would replace it. The only online services were those that actually needed connectivity by nature (such as chat) were a free download away.
Sure, using 8 with a few hacks to make it usable. This doesn't change the fact that the interface on windows 8+ needs a lot of patching to make usable on a desktop...not unlike some linux distros.
Yeah.. and canadians probably get their own propaganda. So do the russians and europeans. The reason your friend noticed a difference was that he had a basis to compare on.
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If you think domestic code monkeys fuck everything up, what makes you think the result from remote managed foreign ones will be any better? Usually the remote management coupled with language and cultural barriers makes it nearly impossible to corral them to do quality work ON TIME. I'd rather have to communicate with an inept monkey that at least speaks my language and has the same cultural background than one I can barely communicate with. Also, having control over his salary helps keep motivation and priorities in-line.
Just religion? I'd say there are plenty of secular ideologies that fit too. Swapping out jesus or mohammed for marx or nietzsche isn't an improvement. It's a lateral shift. The problem is radical, dogmatic thinking mixed with authoritarianism. Reality doesn't matter to these people and they want the state to enforce their irrational views and behavioral expectations on everyone else.
Because someone is claiming that basic "human rights" are being violated and the kid is being oppressed. I want to know what "human right" we're talking about. Can you tell me? Is there a basic "human right" to send pictures of your willy to any girl you know? What has the world come to when we make such nonsense a "human right"?
He was put on a registry without trial. As an american looking at this, that is a violation of his liberty. It may not be a 'human right' to send a pic, but it's not an affront to anyone's rights to receive one either. What has the world come to when we insist on breeding oversensitivity into whole generations, then enact crazy punishments on those who 'trigger' them? I also find it interesting that she wasn't charged for 'distributing child pornography.' We've already had a few kids here in the states trampled by those laws..laws that were meant to protect them. I guess now we know the true intentions of the advocates who pushed for them.
You don't know this, and it isn't your place to judge on her behalf. Nobody was thrown into a gulag over this.
It isn't her 'human right' to expect everyone else to give a shit about her feelings over such trivial events either. Despite what happened here, there are plenty of men out there who were thrown into both figurative and literal gulags over shit far less. A registry listing is no minor matter.
But that's not a valid argument for saying that burglary isn't wrong, just as you not minding if people send you naked pictures of themselves is an argument against it being wrong when others are the recipients.
Stealing a tv != sending a picture. One is theft of property, the other is ???
Wait a minute. He can't be expected to "know better" when it comes to whether it is appropriate to send the picture in the first place, but he is supposed to "know better" that the girl would know how to bypass the "delete automatically" feature of snapchat? "Should have known better" is a two-edged sword here.
He should have known the natural consequences of distributing a nude picture of himself over to someone else, yes. Your 'appropriateness' is merely something imposed by people who obviously want others to conform to their moral expectations.
It wasn't a lasting mark on a predator list.
Yes it is. For 10 years. Did you read the article? It's a list that will inform any employer of this incident, so it's close enough.
I have a "crush" on your teenage daughter. You won't mind if I send her naked pictures of myself, then? She can just delete them if she doesn't want to see them, and it won't cause her any harm, right? It's harmless fun.
If that's all you're going to do, go ahead. If she doesn't like it, she'll delete it. If she doesn't know already, I'll explain to her how she shouldn't trust random strangers and how to put you on ignore. Since she's my daughter, she'd hopefully have had that sensibility since childhood. Anyway, this example is not valid either. This issue concerns two adolescents. There's no mention of persistent behavior, which is why I don't agree with him being treated as a predator into his 20s for some stupid impulsive thing he did over an adolescent crush.
That's why he got such a light slap on the wrist and isn't standing in a dock facing a judge. And nobody is saying he should be.
No, but being placed on that list is effectively treating him as someone who has, and was found guilty.
You do not revere the Ori? They ask nothing from us, only that we follow the path set out for us in Origin.
Those who are prideful and refuse to bow down shall be laid low and made unto dust.
Why are you confused? The issue's simple once you toss aside the legal pedantry. Before we send 14 yos to the gulag (or add them to scarlet letter 'lists') over a picture, there should be responsibility for showing how harm was done. I know if I received a picture of a naked human, I'd laugh and delete. It might be unwanted, yes, but that's not the same thing as harm. I won't be scarred for life and neither will this girl. Now, if the kid didn't want the picture distributed by her, he should've known better.
Who cares what the lawyers/politicians think. They're only interested in looking like bastions of morality they can't possibly be living up to just to keep their jobs. You have a brain, use it. Justify why you think such a lasting mark like a predator list is warranted for 'a' picture sent probably to a crush. I think a talking to is all that's needed. His pic being spread around is a natural consequence of his choice, and is punishment enough. This seems like a case of 'stupid kid' not a case of a hardened pervert, and should be treated as such.
One of them is reported to have been put on the list of people who have been accused of crimes.
Societies with 'lists' like this hardly have good track records for justice of any sort. So much for responsibility, right? ..and it looks like the girl wasn't listed for spreading the pic. So much for consequences if you've got the right genitalia, right?
As far as I can see, the only serious consequences are those that people who think like you chose to impose. Perhaps you should consider the consequences of that.
Except that no it's not because your hand is on the mouse. Spamming search boxes over a shitty UI doesn't make it better. A small menu with a list of commonly used programs (+hotkeys) is still faster than memorizing magic incantations that make the search engine bring up what you're looking for.
No, it's not just dosshell.exe with a GUI.
Apparently, it's only replacing a culture that stereotypes 'young single males' negatively. Unhappy people lash out, regardless of skin color and genitalia.
The primary reason is lack of sane hours. Period. Most of the ailments they have can be traced to lack of good sleep and exercise.
No, actually it's more about keeping a high enough minimum framerate so that the game doesn't hitch, while having as much eye candy as possible. Benchmarks are done with vsync turned off to see comparative results of how much headroom is available, which is why you see comparisons done at high framerates. It is also done to reduce lagtime between screen and input updates, depending how the game in question renders. There are also those of us who aren't blind and can see a noticeable difference between 16 and 8ms frames and build accordingly. This is why you see bitching when a game is framerate capped. There's a much larger contingent who wants high resolution over framerate, and as benches show, even 3 of the best gpus can't guarantee 16ms frames at those resolutions.
Gaming machines draw more than the $1500 laptop, but they can also do a lot more, too. They also do a great job doubling as workstations for those of us who can't afford $5000 cpus and overpriced 'workstation' class hardware. The gaming box, especially with judicious overclocking, fills the middle ground between data entry secretary boxes and $10k autodesk workstations, making high performance accessible to those with relatively limited funds.
Your analogy is shit. Yes, a good player can play on a shit system and score, but he'll do far better on a modern system and have a much better time doing so. Of course, the type of game, its engine, and its assets, matter greatly as well.
Another notable enhancement was the linking prefetcher. This substantially sped up booting and application start. It's still used today, supplemented with superfetch.
I did run winxp x64 for awhile which is based on the same arch (NT 5.2) as 2k3. Best windows experience for me.
There were some interesting additions to xp, like better 802.11 support..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, until the cpu was kicked into v86 mode..
Sure if what you're looking for is a glorified list of apps you'd find on a cellphone..
Successful? Yes. Significant for microsoft? Yes. A diabolically twisted ingenious kludge between real mode and v86 mode? Hell yes. It's amazing it worked at all.
A win95 machine would have most of the software on local disk, a vast improvement over the 'software-as-a-shackle' that would replace it. The only online services were those that actually needed connectivity by nature (such as chat) were a free download away.
I would say xp (with luna turned off) was the pinnacle of underlying tech and UI layout for microsoft.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/d...
Sure they do. It's just that their closed driver is shit too.
Sure, using 8 with a few hacks to make it usable. This doesn't change the fact that the interface on windows 8+ needs a lot of patching to make usable on a desktop...not unlike some linux distros.
Buying a gpu and expecting quality drivers for supported OSs (open or closed) is hardly 'freetard entitlement'.
Yeah.. and canadians probably get their own propaganda. So do the russians and europeans. The reason your friend noticed a difference was that he had a basis to compare on.