Who cares how? The better question is why the bias
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Wikileaks lost a lot of respect from me. Instead of actually, you know, leaking the video, they are using it as a campaign with bias.
I fully support the idea of wikileaks. I fully look down on them for the way they released this with an opinionated campaign. They should not be in the job of interpreting their leaks. They should not be in the job of making sites like collateralmurder.com to publicize their leaks. They should be in the business of actually leaking newsworthy items with confidentiality.
Having looked a little deeper, the patent claim is all about those items in regards to the Xbox, which they hold patents for. Not just a controller with lights. But one for their system. This is basically, "If you want to build stuff for the system we patented, you need to license that from us".
I think LINQ is a biggest game changer out there right now. It's the biggest thing I've seen in a while. Querying your own object collection is extremely powerful.
Really? Reason #4 is enterpise adoption rate. That's changed as.NET is growing.
#6 is an opinion with no factual basis backing it up. Having done both Java and.NET web development, I strongly disagree with it. But still, it was nothing more then an unproven assertion.
#7 is false.
#8 is another unproven assertion.
#11 is another unproven assertion.
#14 is false.
#16 is complete garbage. Collections and true generics are superior in.NET
#17 is unproven assertion.
#20 neglects.NET development work in government Federal and State and local.
#21 unproven assertion.
#22 is crap. O/R mappers are huge in.NET land. Your claim that Java's are better is, shockingly, an unproven assertion.
#23 is an unproven assertion. And you're going against one of the best IDE's ever that many love in this one.
OK, I got bored and stopped. And most of the other ones on the list I think are crap to. You're talking about programming languages, why even tout such a superficial list that amounts of nothing but sticking out your tongue and going "na-na na-na"?
The Android has a great market place. One on par with Apples, and in some ways better because there's more alternatives. It's really a consumer choice. More locked down vs more open. There's a give and take there.
Yeah, if only NASA had some autonomous vehicles on the Moon or Mars or something. Then they'd be really cool.
I'm as disappointed with the lack of progress in the space program as anyone because I think we could do more. But I'm not going to support a sensationalist headline that craps on the agency that currently has the most advanced program and greatest achievements. And that includes the current as well as the past.
Really? So NASA can't send an unmanned lander to the lunar surface?
First of all, NASA has done this several times. Second of all, NASA is great at seeking proposals to do things they won't do, which is all the story from the ESA side is at this point. And lastly, I want do to do things NASA can't, who doesn't? You know, like, get/. to stop posting shitty stories.
and unplugging. Not even worth going on the web at this point. All news is crap jokes that are fooling no one. Part of the 4/1 joke should be that it might fool someone.
LOL. Go preach that junk to a college kid. They might buy it. Outside of not running by admin as default (which has been on MS OS's for like 5 years now so get with the times) is the user based is culled by default.
If your typical dumbass uncle was running Linux and installing crap, their computer would be infested too. Well, except for the crap that nothing he wants to install actually runs on Linux.
"Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice."
Apple won't even let you install another web browser on the iPhone period unless it's based on their own webkit. And plenty of other apps they just won't allow.
Anyways, I don't think stole is the right word. Xerox gave it away. Jobs was 100% obsessed with it. Gates saw it as the wave of the future. The GUI wasn't a secret by the time it got to Gates. But it was done by Xerox who was too busy worrying about laser printing (which oddly is the main reason the Macs survived at all through the late 80's) to care.
It's still an IT shop. If I had made choices in my job (which I run a large section of IT where I am so I do) and some young dude was going around undermining my decisions (like say telling the customers how my choices suck and there's better stuff out there) I might send an email like that as well.
Not everyone agrees with everyone. But there is still a food-chain at most jobs. And you might not agree with management, but it doesn't give you the right to undermine them either. Not saying that happened here, but it looks like a good possibility.
I just did it. Searched for "linux" on Bing. No, the results are fine. www.linux.org is the first result and even has a list of subcats for it.
There's even a learn about linux section on the bottom with the cute liddle fuzzy wuzzy penguin.
I can't find anything you're talking about on either google or bing. The only rant I found from back when Bing first came out is the auto-completion at bing for "linux" brings up "linux vs windows". Which might seem odd unless you actually view the results to it which certainly aren't overly flattering to windows so it hardly seems like something shady.
It's/. the home of rational people acting like complete idiots over their MS-anti-idol.
Right, because making people healthy instead of letting them die to decrease population is a bad way to get a culture on it's feet. We all know that a sick and small population is the way to a stable future.
You're talking about the 360 right? Are you saying you don't know anyone that would admit to owning a 360? And you're in the US?
That's ass backwards. The PS3 is the embarrassing little box that comes with the owner disclaimer of "Oh, well I bought it for a blu-ray player".
Worldwide Xbox 360 sales are just ahead of the PS3. In the US it more then doubles them, and is the defacto gaming console of the gamer type (note console, computers let out of this comparison). Your own link showed that, not sure how/why you ended up writing what you did when your own evidence clearly contradicts your statement.
Furthermore, for video game sales the 360 the biggest sellers of all the consoles (meaning a lot of people that own Wii's don't really buy games for it, and there are few blockbusters for the Wii, but in its defense when a blockbuster comes along it sells very very well).
Re:And the zombification of our children continues
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To me? One. And it's ongoing. And I don't want my child to have wifi on a bus. Kids are too "plugged-in" today. They're plugged in at school. They have to be plugged in at home, though that can and should be moderated. And now they're plugged in on long bus rides to and from school? And the real reason is behavioral? That's insane.
Ignoring the semantics about what I'm about to say, I think the internet is the greatest *invention* of all time. I think kids should be exposed to it (and obviously almost all are). But it needs to be moderated with our children. They need to learn without the magic answer button, and they need to learn to coexist with each other IRL:)
Re:And the zombification of our children continues
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They are using wifi as a distraction to modify behavior. These are kids. They should be able to behave without a electronic distraction. Yes, kids can be mean. Kids can bully. The solution is not to give those causing problems a shiny object to distract them. The solution is to actually teach kids to be responsible.
This isn't an either/or situation where the kids will misbehave or have wifi. It's using wifi instead of correcting the underlying issue. Kids can be taught to behave. But here is another situation with electronics are parenting, not the parents. There was a time where a kid misbehaving was reported to the parent and the situation was corrected except in the most drastic of situations that usually was medical at its root.
But now we give them wifi.
Disclaimer. I am a parent. I used to ride the bus to school.
And the zombification of our children continues...
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Just like good parenting...
Stick a TV/DS/Xbox infront of your kid and they act all perfect.
Can't wait for the virtual elementary school. Just strap your kid to the gurney and put the goggles on 'em.
If you're asking that question it makes me think you're not very versed in using a telescope. Which has some problems.
4" lens is pretty much meaningless as far as getting help. Is this an APO refractor? Newtonian? What kind of mount and is it motorized (I wouldn't want an adult to see through very high magnification on a non-motorized mount let alone a kid) ? These variables really change what I would try to view.
There are tons of sites/programs that will map out a viewing session for you for a given location and date. And as mentioned the Moon is usually worth watching in any situation.
Past that, you need to practice finding things in a scope. It's not as easy as many think. The moon most people can get, but beyond that it gets tricky and a lot of would be backyard astonomers give up. Even a planet you can see with your eye can be frustrating to find in a scope. The one piece of equipment most people with telescopes need, but don't have, is a zero reflex finder like a telrad. This will make finding things with your scope *much* easier. Those little spotting scopes that comes with most telescopes are worthless for most backyard uses unless you have a lot of practice using them. A telrad lets you point your scope with both eyes open with good precision. There's even charts for finding things specifically with a telrad..
It's not overly daunting. But you have to take this seriously to give the kids a good show. If you're willing to put in 10 hours of so of work, you can show them some cool things. It's won't be the best time of the year to view Orion (one of the cooler things to look at and easier things to find). But there will be things out there worth seeing.
Sorry bud. They didn't retard a fucking thing. Back when they really took over with Windows 3.1 there wasn't anything out there better that was as easy to use for most people. 95 was a great OS. NT was a great server OS for it's niche (easy to set up and install for non mission critical servers), 2000 was a great server OS. XP was a great OS. 7 is a great OS. 2003 is a great server OS.
There's some clunkers in there. ME. Vista gets a worse rap then it is.
Outlook is the best mail server there is. VS is the best IDE there is and usually has been.
You know who retarded things? IBM and Apple. Fucking the kings of control. Where is there constant bashing? Oh that's right. Not on/.
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And wikileaks is playing up the part that it was cold blooded murder. http://blog.ajmartinez.com/2010/04/05/wikileaks-collateral-murder/
Wikileaks lost a lot of respect from me. Instead of actually, you know, leaking the video, they are using it as a campaign with bias.
I fully support the idea of wikileaks. I fully look down on them for the way they released this with an opinionated campaign. They should not be in the job of interpreting their leaks. They should not be in the job of making sites like collateralmurder.com to publicize their leaks. They should be in the business of actually leaking newsworthy items with confidentiality.
Having looked a little deeper, the patent claim is all about those items in regards to the Xbox, which they hold patents for. Not just a controller with lights. But one for their system. This is basically, "If you want to build stuff for the system we patented, you need to license that from us".
I think LINQ is a biggest game changer out there right now. It's the biggest thing I've seen in a while. Querying your own object collection is extremely powerful.
Really? Reason #4 is enterpise adoption rate. That's changed as .NET is growing.
#6 is an opinion with no factual basis backing it up. Having done both Java and .NET web development, I strongly disagree with it. But still, it was nothing more then an unproven assertion.
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.NET development work in government Federal and State and local.
.NET land. Your claim that Java's are better is, shockingly, an unproven assertion.
#7 is false.
#8 is another unproven assertion.
#11 is another unproven assertion.
#14 is false.
#16 is complete garbage. Collections and true generics are superior in
#17 is unproven assertion.
#20 neglects
#21 unproven assertion.
#22 is crap. O/R mappers are huge in
#23 is an unproven assertion. And you're going against one of the best IDE's ever that many love in this one.
OK, I got bored and stopped. And most of the other ones on the list I think are crap to. You're talking about programming languages, why even tout such a superficial list that amounts of nothing but sticking out your tongue and going "na-na na-na"?
The Android has a great market place. One on par with Apples, and in some ways better because there's more alternatives. It's really a consumer choice. More locked down vs more open. There's a give and take there.
Yeah, if only NASA had some autonomous vehicles on the Moon or Mars or something. Then they'd be really cool.
I'm as disappointed with the lack of progress in the space program as anyone because I think we could do more. But I'm not going to support a sensationalist headline that craps on the agency that currently has the most advanced program and greatest achievements. And that includes the current as well as the past.
Really? So NASA can't send an unmanned lander to the lunar surface?
/. to stop posting shitty stories.
First of all, NASA has done this several times. Second of all, NASA is great at seeking proposals to do things they won't do, which is all the story from the ESA side is at this point. And lastly, I want do to do things NASA can't, who doesn't? You know, like, get
and unplugging. Not even worth going on the web at this point. All news is crap jokes that are fooling no one. Part of the 4/1 joke should be that it might fool someone.
Your dad's garage has friends? And they were broken into? Who'd have thunk it?
LOL. Go preach that junk to a college kid. They might buy it. Outside of not running by admin as default (which has been on MS OS's for like 5 years now so get with the times) is the user based is culled by default.
If your typical dumbass uncle was running Linux and installing crap, their computer would be infested too. Well, except for the crap that nothing he wants to install actually runs on Linux.
Yes, but the abacus isn't a very practical computing device.
From Wiki on the anti-trust:
"Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice."
Apple won't even let you install another web browser on the iPhone period unless it's based on their own webkit. And plenty of other apps they just won't allow.
You could choose to not buy Windows. But for some reason they were forced to not strongly couple their web browser with the OS. And /. applauded.
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/part3.html
It's a bit old by now, but the history is still interesting and meaningful.
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/part2.html
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/part1.html
They can really be read in any order.
Anyways, I don't think stole is the right word. Xerox gave it away. Jobs was 100% obsessed with it. Gates saw it as the wave of the future. The GUI wasn't a secret by the time it got to Gates. But it was done by Xerox who was too busy worrying about laser printing (which oddly is the main reason the Macs survived at all through the late 80's) to care.
It's still an IT shop. If I had made choices in my job (which I run a large section of IT where I am so I do) and some young dude was going around undermining my decisions (like say telling the customers how my choices suck and there's better stuff out there) I might send an email like that as well.
Not everyone agrees with everyone. But there is still a food-chain at most jobs. And you might not agree with management, but it doesn't give you the right to undermine them either. Not saying that happened here, but it looks like a good possibility.
I just did it. Searched for "linux" on Bing. No, the results are fine. www.linux.org is the first result and even has a list of subcats for it.
/. the home of rational people acting like complete idiots over their MS-anti-idol.
There's even a learn about linux section on the bottom with the cute liddle fuzzy wuzzy penguin.
I can't find anything you're talking about on either google or bing. The only rant I found from back when Bing first came out is the auto-completion at bing for "linux" brings up "linux vs windows". Which might seem odd unless you actually view the results to it which certainly aren't overly flattering to windows so it hardly seems like something shady.
It's
Right, because making people healthy instead of letting them die to decrease population is a bad way to get a culture on it's feet. We all know that a sick and small population is the way to a stable future.
Not much meat to the article (*gasp* I read it).
I think a lot of people would agree with his statement, myself included.
I think the charitable donations for vaccines at the bottom of the article is more interesting, though that's been covered here already.
You're talking about the 360 right? Are you saying you don't know anyone that would admit to owning a 360? And you're in the US?
That's ass backwards. The PS3 is the embarrassing little box that comes with the owner disclaimer of "Oh, well I bought it for a blu-ray player".
Worldwide Xbox 360 sales are just ahead of the PS3. In the US it more then doubles them, and is the defacto gaming console of the gamer type (note console, computers let out of this comparison). Your own link showed that, not sure how/why you ended up writing what you did when your own evidence clearly contradicts your statement.
Furthermore, for video game sales the 360 the biggest sellers of all the consoles (meaning a lot of people that own Wii's don't really buy games for it, and there are few blockbusters for the Wii, but in its defense when a blockbuster comes along it sells very very well).
To me? One. And it's ongoing. And I don't want my child to have wifi on a bus. Kids are too "plugged-in" today. They're plugged in at school. They have to be plugged in at home, though that can and should be moderated. And now they're plugged in on long bus rides to and from school? And the real reason is behavioral? That's insane.
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Ignoring the semantics about what I'm about to say, I think the internet is the greatest *invention* of all time. I think kids should be exposed to it (and obviously almost all are). But it needs to be moderated with our children. They need to learn without the magic answer button, and they need to learn to coexist with each other IRL
They are using wifi as a distraction to modify behavior. These are kids. They should be able to behave without a electronic distraction. Yes, kids can be mean. Kids can bully. The solution is not to give those causing problems a shiny object to distract them. The solution is to actually teach kids to be responsible.
This isn't an either/or situation where the kids will misbehave or have wifi. It's using wifi instead of correcting the underlying issue. Kids can be taught to behave. But here is another situation with electronics are parenting, not the parents. There was a time where a kid misbehaving was reported to the parent and the situation was corrected except in the most drastic of situations that usually was medical at its root.
But now we give them wifi.
Disclaimer. I am a parent. I used to ride the bus to school.
Just like good parenting...
Stick a TV/DS/Xbox infront of your kid and they act all perfect.
Can't wait for the virtual elementary school. Just strap your kid to the gurney and put the goggles on 'em.
If you're asking that question it makes me think you're not very versed in using a telescope. Which has some problems.
4" lens is pretty much meaningless as far as getting help. Is this an APO refractor? Newtonian? What kind of mount and is it motorized (I wouldn't want an adult to see through very high magnification on a non-motorized mount let alone a kid) ? These variables really change what I would try to view.
There are tons of sites/programs that will map out a viewing session for you for a given location and date. And as mentioned the Moon is usually worth watching in any situation.
Past that, you need to practice finding things in a scope. It's not as easy as many think. The moon most people can get, but beyond that it gets tricky and a lot of would be backyard astonomers give up. Even a planet you can see with your eye can be frustrating to find in a scope. The one piece of equipment most people with telescopes need, but don't have, is a zero reflex finder like a telrad. This will make finding things with your scope *much* easier. Those little spotting scopes that comes with most telescopes are worthless for most backyard uses unless you have a lot of practice using them. A telrad lets you point your scope with both eyes open with good precision. There's even charts for finding things specifically with a telrad..
It's not overly daunting. But you have to take this seriously to give the kids a good show. If you're willing to put in 10 hours of so of work, you can show them some cool things. It's won't be the best time of the year to view Orion (one of the cooler things to look at and easier things to find). But there will be things out there worth seeing.
Sorry bud. They didn't retard a fucking thing. Back when they really took over with Windows 3.1 there wasn't anything out there better that was as easy to use for most people. 95 was a great OS. NT was a great server OS for it's niche (easy to set up and install for non mission critical servers), 2000 was a great server OS. XP was a great OS. 7 is a great OS. 2003 is a great server OS.
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There's some clunkers in there. ME. Vista gets a worse rap then it is.
Outlook is the best mail server there is. VS is the best IDE there is and usually has been.
You know who retarded things? IBM and Apple. Fucking the kings of control. Where is there constant bashing? Oh that's right. Not on