They do. I was cycling not very long, and going up the wrong side of the street as I had just left where I was at and getting on to the main road, and it was more convinient to peddle on the wrong side for a block. I don't know if that was the problem, but a guy in a car started yelling at me. Fortuneatly I was on the other side of a frontage road, so the guy couldn't get at me, and I really didn't understand what he said. But people in cars tend to feel empowered, I've felt it myself in my own car. In other words, its easy to get mad for stupid reasons in a machine that can kill people.
Apple are not stupid, they didn't become the #1 market cap company (now #2 I think, but still) for being stupid. I do think however that not every move is a winner (keeping AD2P out of their bluetooth stack in ALL of their products becuase they make more selling earbuds, for example), including suing anyone who breathes one of their more generic trademark phrases, and their Chinese slave labor camps. Still, people are willing to pony up for their products.
Its bloated and slow to parse becuase we've needed to add additional aritfacts to it (like numerous video formats, bytecode, and whatever else) that it was never intended to deal with. Adding a newer version of the protocol MAY aliviate some of that overhead, at least on the processing side.
But a sword problem is less deadly than a gun problem...
Good, then police should be happy to use swords in their work, right? Oh, no, that's a rediculous notion. Cops will keep their guns, and we'll encourage ordinary citizens to limit their violence tools to guns. Is that how it should work?
Guns can be removed from a society. Ask Australia.
Ok, noted, but I would point out that while not a homogenious society like Japan or Iceland, it is like those two other countries remote enough to make it a bit more homogenized in its politics, at least more than the US. And you can't just "discount" those politics, guns aren't going to be outlawed by decree, its not going to happen. Again bringing us back to the reality that "guns are here". There also, it seems to me, is a prevalance of citizens trusting their government that doesn't exist here. People here, especially the under 50 crowd, by and large do not trust the federal or even the state government, wheres people in Europe and other Anglo countries appear to be more accepting of a large government. And you have to be pretty trusting to listen to a government that tells you to give up your guns.
Your opinion implies a laudible goal; the removal of guns from society. But there is a glaring error in the arguments that you and your crowd continually ignore that I would like you to address. Guns are here, that particular geinie is out of the box. You want everyone to nod in agreement that corking a tidal wave is a good idea. Just as communism attempts to remove an aspect of human nature from the equation of economics (if everyone has what they need to live a comfortable life the profit motive should be moot), your suggesting that if no one has guns, then violence will be a thing of the past. Or are you limiting your argument to gun violence? If so that suggests other types of violence are OK to you.
People often crave power over others to induce them to do something that would be beneficial to the one seeking power. Some one's always going to decide that a gun will be nessessary, and they will obtain one. And they will. I don't see simply villifying gun ownership keeping the status quo.
Respect does go both ways, but you guys should demonstrate it first, because all we know is the douchebaggery that you've shown us.
Was in a bridal dress shop once; don't ask why. As I enter a 17 year old girl is dressing down her mother for the dress she is wearing, acting very "douchie" & snotty. Seems she didn't like the dress. I felt very badly for the mother. You, young sir, are the 17 year old girl.
Never heard of "Gondwana", kind of sounds like a bad joke. I thought the proto-continent was called "Pangea". Or is that everything, including the Americas and the kitchen sink?
Knowing that the language is in constant decline and today's young IT workers won't be happy until it devolves into a series of gutteral sounds and nonsenical crayon marks, no.
Why? Its an API. Stiil, that said, it makes more sense to me than others, GTKMM included. Even though similar I tend to remember Qt apis better for some reason.
A lot of people here (I live in the south bay) are sympathetic until they find out the average pay for a BART worker. One thing they are protesting is that the BART Board wants the workers to start contributing to their retirement funds. Been in IT for 25 years and I've never been offered a completely free retriement fund.
IF the Atom processor is the wrong processor for Apple, regardless of the market Intel curently demands, Intel will correct any problems. They're big, but not too big to listen to their biggest customers.
The point isn't that we don't figure these things out for ourselves.
The point is; that employers and banks aren't giving us a choice.
Look, I'm as anti-establishment as the next guy, but when you make blacket statements like that you just look stupid. In THIS particular argument you're out of line. The Gov and big business don't want me to be able to balance my checkbook? You're rediculous. The reason schools (by the way, THAT is the topic at hand, just trying to keep you centered) don't teach essential life skills such as check books and the other topics I've mentioned is becuase for the last 40 years the emphasis by liberal educators has been to teach "tolerance", "winning isn't everything", and other bleeding heart nonsense. Do you really believe that such feelgoodism crap is emphasized in Asian schools? As far as banks and employers not "giving us a choice", I'm curious to know what choices my employers aren't giving me? They make me unable to balance a checkbook (I can), or understand the implecations of choosing not to follow certain rules of civil conduct (I do, by the way), or what an happen if I refuse to pay back a loan or not maintain my credit? I'm not saying the system is perfect, it isn't, but choosing to live a life that's out of control and devoid of thrift or legal hassle is a choice denied me by the man? You're off your rocker.
Hell, the State of California practically does that now.
Practically? In some parts of S. California I could walk outside my front door and not be able to read the commercial signs. You'd never know the official langauge of the country was English.
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They do. I was cycling not very long, and going up the wrong side of the street as I had just left where I was at and getting on to the main road, and it was more convinient to peddle on the wrong side for a block. I don't know if that was the problem, but a guy in a car started yelling at me. Fortuneatly I was on the other side of a frontage road, so the guy couldn't get at me, and I really didn't understand what he said. But people in cars tend to feel empowered, I've felt it myself in my own car. In other words, its easy to get mad for stupid reasons in a machine that can kill people.
Apple are not stupid, they didn't become the #1 market cap company (now #2 I think, but still) for being stupid. I do think however that not every move is a winner (keeping AD2P out of their bluetooth stack in ALL of their products becuase they make more selling earbuds, for example), including suing anyone who breathes one of their more generic trademark phrases, and their Chinese slave labor camps. Still, people are willing to pony up for their products.
Its bloated and slow to parse becuase we've needed to add additional aritfacts to it (like numerous video formats, bytecode, and whatever else) that it was never intended to deal with. Adding a newer version of the protocol MAY aliviate some of that overhead, at least on the processing side.
to swords. Shit, sorry.
But a sword problem is less deadly than a gun problem...
Good, then police should be happy to use swords in their work, right? Oh, no, that's a rediculous notion. Cops will keep their guns, and we'll encourage ordinary citizens to limit their violence tools to guns. Is that how it should work?
Guns can be removed from a society. Ask Australia.
Ok, noted, but I would point out that while not a homogenious society like Japan or Iceland, it is like those two other countries remote enough to make it a bit more homogenized in its politics, at least more than the US. And you can't just "discount" those politics, guns aren't going to be outlawed by decree, its not going to happen. Again bringing us back to the reality that "guns are here". There also, it seems to me, is a prevalance of citizens trusting their government that doesn't exist here. People here, especially the under 50 crowd, by and large do not trust the federal or even the state government, wheres people in Europe and other Anglo countries appear to be more accepting of a large government. And you have to be pretty trusting to listen to a government that tells you to give up your guns.
Your opinion implies a laudible goal; the removal of guns from society. But there is a glaring error in the arguments that you and your crowd continually ignore that I would like you to address. Guns are here, that particular geinie is out of the box. You want everyone to nod in agreement that corking a tidal wave is a good idea. Just as communism attempts to remove an aspect of human nature from the equation of economics (if everyone has what they need to live a comfortable life the profit motive should be moot), your suggesting that if no one has guns, then violence will be a thing of the past. Or are you limiting your argument to gun violence? If so that suggests other types of violence are OK to you.
People often crave power over others to induce them to do something that would be beneficial to the one seeking power. Some one's always going to decide that a gun will be nessessary, and they will obtain one. And they will. I don't see simply villifying gun ownership keeping the status quo.
Respect does go both ways, but you guys should demonstrate it first, because all we know is the douchebaggery that you've shown us.
Was in a bridal dress shop once; don't ask why. As I enter a 17 year old girl is dressing down her mother for the dress she is wearing, acting very "douchie" & snotty. Seems she didn't like the dress. I felt very badly for the mother. You, young sir, are the 17 year old girl.
Never heard of "Gondwana", kind of sounds like a bad joke. I thought the proto-continent was called "Pangea". Or is that everything, including the Americas and the kitchen sink?
Happy now grammar Nazi?
Knowing that the language is in constant decline and today's young IT workers won't be happy until it devolves into a series of gutteral sounds and nonsenical crayon marks, no.
He may not be a native speaker.
Or one of those young workers.
The tips are clearly damaged. I guess he meant the tips or something becuase you are clearly correct. Except for the tips.
Personally I hate the Qt APi
Why? Its an API. Stiil, that said, it makes more sense to me than others, GTKMM included. Even though similar I tend to remember Qt apis better for some reason.
I'd like to see all Linux projects standardize on Qt as a their Gui toolkit. I understand why everyone has their own but the war is won and Qt won it.
...sarcasm detection...
What could go wrong?
A lot of people here (I live in the south bay) are sympathetic until they find out the average pay for a BART worker. One thing they are protesting is that the BART Board wants the workers to start contributing to their retirement funds. Been in IT for 25 years and I've never been offered a completely free retriement fund.
...the boot of the upper class on your throat...
Did you type that on your iPad, AFTER a hard day in the mines? With a strait face?
IF the Atom processor is the wrong processor for Apple, regardless of the market Intel curently demands, Intel will correct any problems. They're big, but not too big to listen to their biggest customers.
First XPlant of a wrestler's head to a geek's body, who want to place their bets?
... is an arrogant dick, hence why Zynga is perfect for him...
LOL!!! No doubt. Zynga was a hell pit according to an ex-zyngaite friend of mine.
The point isn't that we don't figure these things out for ourselves.
The point is; that employers and banks aren't giving us a choice.
Look, I'm as anti-establishment as the next guy, but when you make blacket statements like that you just look stupid. In THIS particular argument you're out of line. The Gov and big business don't want me to be able to balance my checkbook? You're rediculous. The reason schools (by the way, THAT is the topic at hand, just trying to keep you centered) don't teach essential life skills such as check books and the other topics I've mentioned is becuase for the last 40 years the emphasis by liberal educators has been to teach "tolerance", "winning isn't everything", and other bleeding heart nonsense. Do you really believe that such feelgoodism crap is emphasized in Asian schools?
As far as banks and employers not "giving us a choice", I'm curious to know what choices my employers aren't giving me? They make me unable to balance a checkbook (I can), or understand the implecations of choosing not to follow certain rules of civil conduct (I do, by the way), or what an happen if I refuse to pay back a loan or not maintain my credit? I'm not saying the system is perfect, it isn't, but choosing to live a life that's out of control and devoid of thrift or legal hassle is a choice denied me by the man? You're off your rocker.
So, you're illiterate and proud of it. Cool.
So, you're a dick, and don't know it. Awsome.
Hell, the State of California practically does that now.
Practically? In some parts of S. California I could walk outside my front door and not be able to read the commercial signs. You'd never know the official langauge of the country was English.
lol!
Solidly? Were my schoolbooks in error when they made claim of an American victory during that war?