Uhm, our diet has consisted of primarily of grains (which would be what you refered to as 'breads' and 'starches') for pretty much our entire recorded history and longer from what we've discovered.
I'm fairly sure you don't understand nutrition if you think foods we've been eating for the last 100k years are now in the last 20, a problem.
Uhm, first off, it was the lawyers son, not the defendants.
Second, I promise you any time I have to fight a legal battle, I make sure I'm armed with the most information I can possibly find.
IF you AREN'T digging up information on the people you're fighting against, you are an idiot and deserve what you get.
The fact that the lawyers son was doing it, to me, means the lawyer was doing his/her freaking job.
You know how you don't give away information on the Internet... you don't fucking put it there. When you plaster yourself all over the Internet by putting yourself on Facebook you deserve to be euthanized if you don't realize what that means... that EVERYONE IN THE WORLD, GOOD OR BAD MAY SEE IT.
Let me say it one more time. If you don't want information to fall into the worst possible hands... DON'T PUT IT ON PUBLIC COMPUTERS AND WAVE YOUR RIGHTS TO EVER HAVE IT TAKEN DOWN.
Yes, and statistics prove that its safer to ride a bicycle on the street than it is on the side walk.
Statistics can prove the Earth is flat, and that you have a large penis.
Whats that mean? Anything can be warped to the point that its wrong, even if you can seemingly 'prove' it.
Any thing you through out there with 'proof' I can find proof of the exact opposite, doesn't make either one of us right, it just makes you stupid for believing retarded statistics without thinking for yourself about how illogical they are and trying to determine why logic and reality don't align.
I for one am very happy to not have the mind of Hawking. I've very happy to be sane. I don't need to make up shit about things that I really don't understand.
Anyone who actually knows anything about astrophysics knows that in reality, we have no fucking clue how most of it works, gravity bring a great example.
Right, because what Wikileaks does can be called journalism rather than a source of sensationalised attention whoring for Assange.
You should be ashamed of yourself, it really is unfuckingbelievable how you can be so against the crap journalist do and be so fucking stupid to not realize that you're just worshiping Assange like Fox news worships republicans and CNN worships democrats.
You really need to pull your head out of your ass and get some unfuckingbelievable perspective so you don't sound so unfuckingbelievably stupid.
I realize that most of slashdot hates 'journalists' these days, understandable, many of them (journalists) are just paid by various companies to report favorable things or whatever promotes their political agenda. You're right, thats not good journalism.
However, how the fuck you can think Wikileaks can be considered journalism is beyond my imagination. Assange is a worthless attention whore who doesn't give a flying fuck about anything other than how much attention he can get for himself. He uses sensationalism to garner attention from idiots who are too stupid to bother to look at what he's actually done rather than read the headline on some fucking blog. Wikileaks is nothing more than Assange's pulpit for pushing his agenda, and you're too fucking stupid to realize it.
Be pissed off about crappy news outlet quality these days, you're right, it sucks, but if you think Wikileaks is 'journalism' or 'news' or 'reporting' then you have absolutely no fucking clue what journalism and reporting is supposed to be. He is EXACTLY, 100%, like the very people you're bitching about and you're too fucking stupid to realize it because your hormones and angst rule your life.
Wikileaks is not a good thing, the idea is, the implementation and the man behind it are fucking trash. By workshiping Wikileaks and Assange like some super hero, you are infact, just another one of the idiot dulls worshiping mass consumer journalism. You fell for the exact thing you rant about and think Wikileaks is protecting you from.
As I said, if you think Wikileaks is a good thing, you are a fucking idiot. Yes, the word fucking is required to get the point across. You won't get it I'm sure, but thats because you have mental defects. Learn to think for yourself instead of being a tool, your so worried about being a tool for the man, that you just end up being a tool of the other man. Again, LEARN TO THINK FOR YOURSELF, NOT BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE TELLS YOU TO THINK THAT WAY. Slashdot is supposed to be a place visited by educated people, every time one of these idiotic Assange cock sucking fest posts come I can't help but think ignorant the slashdot crowd really is.
Thats because you have a different meaning for the word Freedom.
You think of freedom as basically being able to live like you do in your 'free' country.
I assure you though, freedom has mean different meanings, and there are many different perspectives on the situation at hand.
Anyone who walks into a civilian hotel full of every day normal people and blows them up isn't a freedom fighter.
If however, a Sunni from Iraq walked into the white house and blew himself up, along with a bunch of government drones, I'd be more inclined to call him a 'freedom fighter'.
Neither of them is 'right', both are clearly wrong, murder never is, but its not like we're doing anything different than they are, with the exception that we do not INTENTIONALLY target their 'civilians', they do seem hell bent on targeting 'ours'. Both sides are murders though.
If RIM used 'industry standard' protocols then they just wouldn't be in business.
Their servers and lockin to that network is the only reason they are still in business.
If Android or iPhone had the full suite (and they are getting pretty close) of features that RIM offers than they simply wouldn't exist.
If there was a true open standard to do what RIM does... and by open standard I mean an open to all standard that is actually implemented completely by more than one vender. That does not mean no cost, simply open (don't get your GPL undies in a confused uproar). than people would already be using that.
Nope, take away the fact that BlackBerry's depend on that server and you might as well just shut the door for RIM.
You might as well shut the door for them anyway. The only reason to own a RIM went away when Google started using ActiveSync to allow things like PUSH to the iPhone without any Apple involvement. Assuming they've rolled it out to others by this point then you have the option to use WinMo or the iPhone with full calendar, contacts, and mail PUSH sync that will also sync cleanly with your Mac or Windows machine...
My iPhone doesn't seem that it has any connection to anywhere but Google and I seem to get Push working fine with them./me shrugs. Maybe they are in the middle but I can't see it over wifi with the phone radios turned off so it'd have to be a cell only thing.
continuing education (they have to do this to maintain certification).
My wife is a doctor. The 'continuing education' requirements are at BEST, a joke. They are nothing more than excuses to go to Vega or other vacation spots while claiming it as a business expense.
No one is discounting your skills as a programmer, mostly because you aren't yet to the point where you really know how to do anything impressive.
Its not like you're doing anything that hasn't been done, you may think what you do is new and unique but its just a rehash of something thats already been done.
I'm sure you're proud of your penis too, and think you're impressive because you get raging boners so you can hump for hours. The difference is, you still won't please your women, and us old geezers will be done in 5 minutes, both parties actually satisfied rather than just raw and bored.
The fact that you don't give a shit about the respect of those who have far more experience indicates your exact problem and why you actually still suck at what you do. I don't have to see you or your product to know that, and one day you'll realize why.
And that will never happen because cleartype is only a tiny subset of functionality built on top of the more important bits.
Freetype has the same functionality as cleartype tacked on to the end.
Cleartype can't load and render fonts on its own, it depends on other functionality of the OS to load and render the fonts, it just fixes the sub pixel rendering on the end to make it look nice. Take cleartype out of the equation and you still get font rendering, its just not as nice on an LCD.
Take freetype out of the question and you get no ability to load a TrueType font, so the ability to do sub pixel rendering is irrelevant.
It would be retarded to port ClearType to OSX because it would be missing prerequesits and... OSX already has a TrueType rendering library with sub pixel precision... its free type.
You don't understand what FreeType and ClearType actually do.
Of course the summary is overblown. MS products running on the Mac generally do use the native features rather than reinventing the rule. Look at the dependancies for Office 2008 and the MS RDP client for OSX. Its fairly clear they don't just 'port code' blindly, they actually use the system libraries when and where they should... They even support native features that don't exist in Windows, such as the Mac OSX Keychain for storing passwords. MS's Mac group does this as SOP, so its certainly not newsworthy.
The irony is that you're too stupid to realize TrueType was an Apple invention. Using the platform native and preferred library is generally the right thing to do from a developer perspective.
The only exception to that is when GPL morons like yourself seem to think the most important thing about software is the license it carries rather than how well it actually accomplishes some task.
What he speaks of is a problem for some Microsoft IDEs.
Specifically, I have to work on a VB6 project at the moment until it can be killed. The VB6 IDE is a massive pile of crap:) It does everything in memory which means if it crashes... and it does... you lose your changes unless you have clicked 'save' recently, even if you've built the project and/or debugged it.
When you go to exit it will prompt to save, and it will be happy to overwrite something thats changed on disk without warning. It certainly won't warn you at any point during its run that a file on disk has changed and needs to be reloaded.
Now... considering thats the only MS IDE that does that, and every version of Visual Studio since 6.0 has been more or less a great IDE (except for when they dropped makefile exports) and do not suffer from such trivial problems... I would have to agree with your statement in principle. MS did however produce a shitty IDE or two.
Or they isoltated the problem to.Net and couldn't do anything about it.
Uhm, you have access to the same API that every application that runs on Windows has access to via P/Invoke.
If it can be fixed outside of.NET, it can be fixed inside of a.NET language as well. The.NET CLR is built on top of the standard Windows API and as such, code within the CLR can use could from outside the CLR, and likewise code outside the CLR can use code from inside the CLR.
You could ignore any broken.NET libraries and use P/Invoke or override them with your own replacements. Also, you could just look at the source to the.NET framework which is easy enough to buy if you're willing to pay for it, find the bug, fix it, and use a patched framework until MS fixed it properly.
Its really no different than patching any other bug in the MS runtimes, it can be done, even if you don't realize it or know how, I do.
The reality of it is, by most peoples definition of 'real work', its true.
You aren't writing photoshop in C#, too much abstraction to write fast filters when you're talking about many millions of pixels to process, unless you send it off to a GPU... where again, you're not doing it with C#.
For writing almost any normal application, it would be fine. Most developers don't consider most applications to be doing 'real work' on a computer.
Of course if you actually want to maintain portability, you'd use C++, even if you use managed code, as its far easier to wrap it in some ifdefs/macros and use it as standard C++ and C.
The windows dynamic loader pretty much speaks the format used by C as its interface between modules, and the.NET CLR is written in... C/C++.
C# is a slightly better VB, claiming it can do anything is retarded. While you may be technically correct, that doesn't mean its a good idea or the only way to do things.
While I agree with you in principle, as the Indian government said, they do things differently there.
One of my other principles is to let others live their lives the way they want to. If India wants to revolt against its government to change the rules, I'll support them. However, if they aren't willing to change their governments rules or if they want the rules that way for some reason, then thats their problem not mine.
Who are you to impose you particular view of how the world should work on others? What if they are happy with their situation, even though you and I think its a raw deal?
The power of an explosion in open air falls of ridiculously fast with distance from it.
When you drive over a bomb, you're pretty much directly in contact with it, or within a couple feet at most.
Fly even 10 feet over the road and the energy you are exposed to is cut down to something somewhat manageable by current standards.
Remember, the energy transferred to you by the explosion falls of RAPIDLY with distance. Exponentially I think?
This vehicle doesn't need to leave ground effect, where the cost of generating lift is substantially lower than normal flight, so the energy required to power the craft is also considerably less than actually flying.
There are already civilian car/planes that do this sort of thing and almost anyone can fly them with a little training, certainly a military training program could get them in the air safely.
Finally, the bombs they are trying to avoid are bombs designed to blow shrapnel across an area where people/equipment is on the ground. Its blast is directed at ground level. So now they have to aim it in the air, which again losses power as they don't have the ground helping to concentrate it for them.
Slashdot Mirror
Uhm, our diet has consisted of primarily of grains (which would be what you refered to as 'breads' and 'starches') for pretty much our entire recorded history and longer from what we've discovered.
I'm fairly sure you don't understand nutrition if you think foods we've been eating for the last 100k years are now in the last 20, a problem.
I don't think so.
Yea, you could also blame salt the same way.
Its fairly ignorant to blame HFCS like most, youself included, do
There are plenty of things that are in EVERY THING WE EAT that weren't there just a few years back.
If you blame HFCS for the problem then you're just in denial. People are fat because they consume more calories than they are burning. Stop.
I'm going to guess that you're a useless MBA trying real hard to justify your existence from the sound of your post.
Uhm, first off, it was the lawyers son, not the defendants.
Second, I promise you any time I have to fight a legal battle, I make sure I'm armed with the most information I can possibly find.
IF you AREN'T digging up information on the people you're fighting against, you are an idiot and deserve what you get.
The fact that the lawyers son was doing it, to me, means the lawyer was doing his/her freaking job.
You know how you don't give away information on the Internet ... you don't fucking put it there. When you plaster yourself all over the Internet by putting yourself on Facebook you deserve to be euthanized if you don't realize what that means ... that EVERYONE IN THE WORLD, GOOD OR BAD MAY SEE IT.
Let me say it one more time. If you don't want information to fall into the worst possible hands ... DON'T PUT IT ON PUBLIC COMPUTERS AND WAVE YOUR RIGHTS TO EVER HAVE IT TAKEN DOWN.
Facebook users are retarded anyway.
You do realize you can just google it right?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=jury+nullification
Yes, I can think of lots of things. Murder of even a single person being the top of my list.
Stop being such a pussy.
Yes, and statistics prove that its safer to ride a bicycle on the street than it is on the side walk.
Statistics can prove the Earth is flat, and that you have a large penis.
Whats that mean? Anything can be warped to the point that its wrong, even if you can seemingly 'prove' it.
Any thing you through out there with 'proof' I can find proof of the exact opposite, doesn't make either one of us right, it just makes you stupid for believing retarded statistics without thinking for yourself about how illogical they are and trying to determine why logic and reality don't align.
I'm fairly sure you have no clue what most Christians think.
I for one am very happy to not have the mind of Hawking. I've very happy to be sane. I don't need to make up shit about things that I really don't understand.
Anyone who actually knows anything about astrophysics knows that in reality, we have no fucking clue how most of it works, gravity bring a great example.
Right, because what Wikileaks does can be called journalism rather than a source of sensationalised attention whoring for Assange.
You should be ashamed of yourself, it really is unfuckingbelievable how you can be so against the crap journalist do and be so fucking stupid to not realize that you're just worshiping Assange like Fox news worships republicans and CNN worships democrats.
You really need to pull your head out of your ass and get some unfuckingbelievable perspective so you don't sound so unfuckingbelievably stupid.
Yes, because Wikileaks is different and isn't a sensationalist blog of some moron attention whore who can't be bothered to do any real journalism.
Wait ... what? Did you really pretend that Wikileaks did something different than sensationalism and push Assanges personal political agenda?
What the fuck are you smoking? I want some.
I realize that most of slashdot hates 'journalists' these days, understandable, many of them (journalists) are just paid by various companies to report favorable things or whatever promotes their political agenda. You're right, thats not good journalism.
However, how the fuck you can think Wikileaks can be considered journalism is beyond my imagination. Assange is a worthless attention whore who doesn't give a flying fuck about anything other than how much attention he can get for himself. He uses sensationalism to garner attention from idiots who are too stupid to bother to look at what he's actually done rather than read the headline on some fucking blog. Wikileaks is nothing more than Assange's pulpit for pushing his agenda, and you're too fucking stupid to realize it.
Be pissed off about crappy news outlet quality these days, you're right, it sucks, but if you think Wikileaks is 'journalism' or 'news' or 'reporting' then you have absolutely no fucking clue what journalism and reporting is supposed to be. He is EXACTLY, 100%, like the very people you're bitching about and you're too fucking stupid to realize it because your hormones and angst rule your life.
Wikileaks is not a good thing, the idea is, the implementation and the man behind it are fucking trash. By workshiping Wikileaks and Assange like some super hero, you are infact, just another one of the idiot dulls worshiping mass consumer journalism. You fell for the exact thing you rant about and think Wikileaks is protecting you from.
As I said, if you think Wikileaks is a good thing, you are a fucking idiot. Yes, the word fucking is required to get the point across. You won't get it I'm sure, but thats because you have mental defects. Learn to think for yourself instead of being a tool, your so worried about being a tool for the man, that you just end up being a tool of the other man. Again, LEARN TO THINK FOR YOURSELF, NOT BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE TELLS YOU TO THINK THAT WAY. Slashdot is supposed to be a place visited by educated people, every time one of these idiotic Assange cock sucking fest posts come I can't help but think ignorant the slashdot crowd really is.
Thats because you have a different meaning for the word Freedom.
You think of freedom as basically being able to live like you do in your 'free' country.
I assure you though, freedom has mean different meanings, and there are many different perspectives on the situation at hand.
Anyone who walks into a civilian hotel full of every day normal people and blows them up isn't a freedom fighter.
If however, a Sunni from Iraq walked into the white house and blew himself up, along with a bunch of government drones, I'd be more inclined to call him a 'freedom fighter'.
Neither of them is 'right', both are clearly wrong, murder never is, but its not like we're doing anything different than they are, with the exception that we do not INTENTIONALLY target their 'civilians', they do seem hell bent on targeting 'ours'. Both sides are murders though.
If RIM used 'industry standard' protocols then they just wouldn't be in business.
Their servers and lockin to that network is the only reason they are still in business.
If Android or iPhone had the full suite (and they are getting pretty close) of features that RIM offers than they simply wouldn't exist.
If there was a true open standard to do what RIM does ... and by open standard I mean an open to all standard that is actually implemented completely by more than one vender. That does not mean no cost, simply open (don't get your GPL undies in a confused uproar). than people would already be using that.
Nope, take away the fact that BlackBerry's depend on that server and you might as well just shut the door for RIM.
You might as well shut the door for them anyway. The only reason to own a RIM went away when Google started using ActiveSync to allow things like PUSH to the iPhone without any Apple involvement. Assuming they've rolled it out to others by this point then you have the option to use WinMo or the iPhone with full calendar, contacts, and mail PUSH sync that will also sync cleanly with your Mac or Windows machine ...
My iPhone doesn't seem that it has any connection to anywhere but Google and I seem to get Push working fine with them. /me shrugs. Maybe they are in the middle but I can't see it over wifi with the phone radios turned off so it'd have to be a cell only thing.
Right up till we stopped actually getting warrants before the wiretapping started.
In principle you are correct, in reality, warrants aren't really a requirement to wiretap in the US.
My wife is a doctor. The 'continuing education' requirements are at BEST, a joke. They are nothing more than excuses to go to Vega or other vacation spots while claiming it as a business expense.
No one is discounting your skills as a programmer, mostly because you aren't yet to the point where you really know how to do anything impressive.
Its not like you're doing anything that hasn't been done, you may think what you do is new and unique but its just a rehash of something thats already been done.
I'm sure you're proud of your penis too, and think you're impressive because you get raging boners so you can hump for hours. The difference is, you still won't please your women, and us old geezers will be done in 5 minutes, both parties actually satisfied rather than just raw and bored.
The fact that you don't give a shit about the respect of those who have far more experience indicates your exact problem and why you actually still suck at what you do. I don't have to see you or your product to know that, and one day you'll realize why.
And that will never happen because cleartype is only a tiny subset of functionality built on top of the more important bits.
Freetype has the same functionality as cleartype tacked on to the end.
Cleartype can't load and render fonts on its own, it depends on other functionality of the OS to load and render the fonts, it just fixes the sub pixel rendering on the end to make it look nice. Take cleartype out of the equation and you still get font rendering, its just not as nice on an LCD.
Take freetype out of the question and you get no ability to load a TrueType font, so the ability to do sub pixel rendering is irrelevant.
It would be retarded to port ClearType to OSX because it would be missing prerequesits and ... OSX already has a TrueType rendering library with sub pixel precision ... its free type.
You don't understand what FreeType and ClearType actually do.
Of course the summary is overblown. MS products running on the Mac generally do use the native features rather than reinventing the rule. Look at the dependancies for Office 2008 and the MS RDP client for OSX. Its fairly clear they don't just 'port code' blindly, they actually use the system libraries when and where they should ... They even support native features that don't exist in Windows, such as the Mac OSX Keychain for storing passwords. MS's Mac group does this as SOP, so its certainly not newsworthy.
The irony is that you're too stupid to realize TrueType was an Apple invention. Using the platform native and preferred library is generally the right thing to do from a developer perspective.
The only exception to that is when GPL morons like yourself seem to think the most important thing about software is the license it carries rather than how well it actually accomplishes some task.
What he speaks of is a problem for some Microsoft IDEs.
Specifically, I have to work on a VB6 project at the moment until it can be killed. The VB6 IDE is a massive pile of crap :) It does everything in memory which means if it crashes ... and it does ... you lose your changes unless you have clicked 'save' recently, even if you've built the project and/or debugged it.
When you go to exit it will prompt to save, and it will be happy to overwrite something thats changed on disk without warning. It certainly won't warn you at any point during its run that a file on disk has changed and needs to be reloaded.
Now ... considering thats the only MS IDE that does that, and every version of Visual Studio since 6.0 has been more or less a great IDE (except for when they dropped makefile exports) and do not suffer from such trivial problems ... I would have to agree with your statement in principle. MS did however produce a shitty IDE or two.
Uhm, you have access to the same API that every application that runs on Windows has access to via P/Invoke.
If it can be fixed outside of .NET, it can be fixed inside of a .NET language as well. The .NET CLR is built on top of the standard Windows API and as such, code within the CLR can use could from outside the CLR, and likewise code outside the CLR can use code from inside the CLR.
You could ignore any broken .NET libraries and use P/Invoke or override them with your own replacements. Also, you could just look at the source to the .NET framework which is easy enough to buy if you're willing to pay for it, find the bug, fix it, and use a patched framework until MS fixed it properly.
Its really no different than patching any other bug in the MS runtimes, it can be done, even if you don't realize it or know how, I do.
The reality of it is, by most peoples definition of 'real work', its true.
You aren't writing photoshop in C#, too much abstraction to write fast filters when you're talking about many millions of pixels to process, unless you send it off to a GPU ... where again, you're not doing it with C#.
For writing almost any normal application, it would be fine. Most developers don't consider most applications to be doing 'real work' on a computer.
Of course if you actually want to maintain portability, you'd use C++, even if you use managed code, as its far easier to wrap it in some ifdefs/macros and use it as standard C++ and C.
The windows dynamic loader pretty much speaks the format used by C as its interface between modules, and the .NET CLR is written in ... C/C++.
C# is a slightly better VB, claiming it can do anything is retarded. While you may be technically correct, that doesn't mean its a good idea or the only way to do things.
While I agree with you in principle, as the Indian government said, they do things differently there.
One of my other principles is to let others live their lives the way they want to. If India wants to revolt against its government to change the rules, I'll support them. However, if they aren't willing to change their governments rules or if they want the rules that way for some reason, then thats their problem not mine.
Who are you to impose you particular view of how the world should work on others? What if they are happy with their situation, even though you and I think its a raw deal?
The power of an explosion in open air falls of ridiculously fast with distance from it.
When you drive over a bomb, you're pretty much directly in contact with it, or within a couple feet at most.
Fly even 10 feet over the road and the energy you are exposed to is cut down to something somewhat manageable by current standards.
Remember, the energy transferred to you by the explosion falls of RAPIDLY with distance. Exponentially I think?
This vehicle doesn't need to leave ground effect, where the cost of generating lift is substantially lower than normal flight, so the energy required to power the craft is also considerably less than actually flying.
There are already civilian car/planes that do this sort of thing and almost anyone can fly them with a little training, certainly a military training program could get them in the air safely.
Finally, the bombs they are trying to avoid are bombs designed to blow shrapnel across an area where people/equipment is on the ground. Its blast is directed at ground level. So now they have to aim it in the air, which again losses power as they don't have the ground helping to concentrate it for them.
Its not hard, but it is idiotic to stand for a party rather than principles.
Anyone who votes based on party rather than principles deserves the America they get/have.