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  1. Re:Frost piss. on PC Shipments Hit the Lowest Level In a Decade (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is crappy graphics on OS X?
    Eve Online looks on OS X the same as on Windows, so does world of warcraft.
    Neither my Mail.app nor Safari.app need a special graphics card.

    Never saw crappy on any computer since 20 years anyway, in what strange world do you live?

  2. There are plenty of secretaries that hate their boss and their job and sent out letters with a sinister smile that contain: "We have to dismiss your application because of (pregnancy, being gay, jewish, black, your last facebook post)" (pick one)
    And they will attest in court that the boss said so (obviously they were not supposed to put that into the letter).
    And you can not even fire the secretary for attesting in court against the boss.
    You can only "urge her to leave" and give her/him a nice payout.

  3. Because both have nothing to do with each other?

  4. Then you are an idiot.

    99% of my friends have none. Unless you consider soundcloud a social media site.

    We are all to old.

    I use facebook to be in a big Aikido community. 90% of my facebook connections are Aikidoka like I am. Except for the occasional party picture after an Aikido event, most posts are about seminars of teachers we find interesting.

    If I would not practice Aikido, and Sailing, i would not be on facebook.

    There is no single photo of me on FB that I have posted myself. I'm only posted and tagged by other Aikidoka ... and lately my girl friend.

  5. My facebook posts only my friends see or members of the group in which I post.
    You must have a weird idea how facebook works.

    OTOH plenty of facebook users have "wrong privacy settings".

  6. The "shortness of summer" is bounded by temperature, not sunlight
    Wrong.

    This will happen earlier, and it will stay thawed later.
    How many days? 1or 2? Before there is not enough sun, it won't thaw. Plain and simple. And that is depending on the length of the day, not on a magic temperature that comes from somewhere. (where should it come from? Hu? Polar night is polar night and everything is frozen ... )

  7. Re:I wonder what's going to happen to the mid east on France Set To Ban Sale of Petrol and Diesel Vehicles By 2040 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I consider ISIS to be a religious war (and little else).
    But it is not, it is only a conquest in a vacuum of power
    ISIS's justification for existing is that it''s the modern Caliphate, to which all Muslims owe loyalty.
    Why would muslims owe loyalty to a caliphat? Caliphat is the arab word for kingdom. A Caliph is a king. A caliphat put up by power is a dictatorship, why do you think a muslim would "owe" loyalty to a invading force setting up a kingdom is beyond me.

    It doesn't matter that most of the victims are Muslims, because they're not the right type of Muslims.
    Look on a damn map. They are same branch of muslims.
    The other branch lives in Iran/Persia, thousands of km away.

    The ISIS huys want slaves and like rape victims, plunder the inhabitants, for greed and power, nothing less. Religion is completely irrelevant, except for the fact that the people living there are muslims by inheritance.

  8. Re:A photon is not an "object" on First Object Teleported From Earth To Orbit (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Depending where your ctrl or caps lock key is you could remap one of them to command, btw. All easy done in the keyboard control panel.

    I have usually deactivated caps lock, or mapped it to ctrl.

  9. Re:Easily sorted in Firefox on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Nevertheless you should be able to bind the key you want to the command you want ...
    I'm happy with my mac keyboard, though :D

  10. Re:Unlike web apps, client apps are OS-specific on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, that was not really obvious (to me) that you where talking about Web applications.

    Anyway, web and desktop applications are completely different beasts, even with HTML5 local storage etc.

  11. Re:Pascal vs. C on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    Most call it "arrow" or "arrow operator".

  12. Re:Iteration over a loop, wtf? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1


    for (final Item item : itemList) { ....
    }

    When I see people making loop variables final I always wonder if they are retarded.
    WHO did ever modify a loop variable? I never saw a bug or problem from that.
    Those modern "clean code" style is just bollocks.

    Anyway, does not bother me anymore as I change the layout and colours in the IDE, so that every thing except comments is black, and keywords are bold. Just annoys me that modern languages still consider int/long etc. keywords instead of types from a standard library, so annoying ...

  13. Re:most can't read on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    Reading is a recent technological development, and only a fraction of the population is truly proficient.
    Well, worth than bad reading are people who know nothing

    The oldest writing systems we know about are 5000 years old, and there is no reason to believe that there are not older ones that got lost.

    The oldest stone buildings are from 10k before common age, recently discovered in north Irak and eat Turkey. There are whole villages with fortifications. It is extremely unlikely that the inhabitants had not script. (Recently as in over the last 2 decades)

    Most people read barely above a elementary school level.
    If your elementary school makes any sense, then they have a decent reading skill ... unless working in law or special sciences where "what is written" has a "codified meaning" that is a perfect level.

    I could read perfect with age of 7 ... before I came to school. I learned nothing special about reading in school at all. And I know no one or ever have hearer about anyone who made a "special reading progress" after elementary school, what should that even be? Acquiring more words? What is the difference in reading a word versus hearing it? For me there is none.

  14. Re:Relevant in an intro programming course on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    Most programmers I know come from Pascal and later jumped on C/C++/Java etc.
    So we simply pronounce the operators in normal english/german:

    a = 3; A becomes three
    a++; a increment
    ++a; increment a / and for the -- versions decrement
    !; not
    a += b; increment a by b

    bumb and unbumb what the fuck is that?

    &&; "and" or "logical and"
    ||; "or" or "logical or"

    &; "binary and"
    |; "binary or"

    Pronouncing like people do it here in the threat makes only sense if the listener can not program (literally: if he does not know what the stuff he is typing is supposed to mean)

    I guess no one who is here answering ever pair programmed ... no one says: and and ...

    E.g. none of my friends would follow the chorus here when it goes to "speak":
    #include <stdio> // pound include less than S T D I O greater then -- what nonsense is that?
    We simply say:
    "Include standard I O" // we are talking to people who know what an "#include" is and that you need less and greater signs around "standard includes" because they are searched in the INCLUDE PATH.

  15. Re:Relevant in an intro programming course on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    That was super funny ;D

  16. Re:That's how "Look-Say" made illiterate generatio on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that is all bollocks.
    Learning languages, reading and writing: is EASY.

    Teaching it is what is hard, e.g. teaching correct spelling, grammar etc.

    If you would not force people to learn and would not grade them, but had an environment where they had fun and time and intention to learn, they would learn basically automatically.

    There are no special neurons required to learn a language ... it is hard wired in the brain to do so.

  17. Re:Wrong! on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    Actually all people I know do in fact have a mental voice, and it is extremely difficult to get rid of it. (I actually doubt it is really possible, but there are training courses offering to help learning that).

    Your idea that people like me who use a mental voice while reading are poor readers is utterly idiotic. I actually don't know anyone who is reading faster than me and comprehends what he is reading.

    Mental voice or not ...

  18. Re: I don't read the code on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    I don't "read" code. I parse it with my eyes, and visualize in my mind what it does and how it will execute. As I look through each code file and put the pieces together I can see the bigger picture and how all of the code interacts.
    Same for me.

    When I'm building an application, I do the reverse. I "see" what I want the outcome to be, and build the code to make it happen. Sometimes mulling the structure for days, weeks, months before actually writing any code.
    Same again.

    I usually know a reference architecture, a set of patterns, that elegantly fit for the problem, then I work my code toward that "reference architecture".

    I'm being quite serious about this... is there a term for this? It's quite difficult to explain to people who don't understand what I mean, and so far the majority of people I've spoken to about it look at me like I'm a nutcase.
    Visualization perhaps? Nothing wrong with that :D in sports the reverse process is called "mental training" but in fact it is only a variation of visualization.

  19. They might need less fuel for heating .... and that was it.
    Vegetation, harvest etc. ist mostly bound by the shortness of the summer, not by temperature.
    Plenty of roads are perma frost crushed rock roads. In muddy times they are hard to use. So the longer they stay muddy instead of freezing over again, the longer transportation is more difficult/slow.

  20. Re:Easily sorted in Firefox on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Under OS X it might be command-shift-C.
    And bottom line it is the developers fault anyway and not OS X, they can make the Browser react to any hotkey they want. Most likely they simply did not assign one.
    However: with the keboard control panel and some googeling you can assign any hotkey you want to any menu item of any application, even if the developrs where to dumb to do that for you.

    Instead of ditching OS X, learn to use it properly.

  21. Re:Unlike web apps, client apps are OS-specific on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    What is your point?
    Why would you not want to test macOS software on a Mac?

  22. Re:Probably not on World's Cheapest Energy Source Will Be Renewables Within Three Years (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the vast majority flooding in are economic migrants. There is a difference, legally and sensibly.

    If that was provable, they would be sent back.

    You seem to have no clue how Europe Asylum politics is working.

    But instead, you see the story of one dead child on a beach propagated by the leftist, "progressive" media and you think that represents the whole story.
    Actually I know enough refugees in person, and enough people in person that are working in refugee camps in Italy or Greece.

    As I said before: you are an idiot. Painting the helpers above s "lefties" while they come from all political fractions is completely idiotic.

  23. Re:A photon is not an "object" on First Object Teleported From Earth To Orbit (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    As I said before: in typical text books, the term "mass" in respect to photons is basically always written as "resting mass", in other words, no one talks often about the moving mass.

    Momentum/Impuls is calculated (or defined by) p = h/lambda. The mass is calculate as m = (h*ny)/(c^2).

    And that is in most textbooks clearly written, with an calculation example why m0 (resting mass) is 0.

    So far I only encountered americans that try to claim that every mass (dynamic mass and resting mass) of an photon would be zero, which is clearly wrong.

    So nitpick as much as you want :D If you want tI sent you some german links abut it ...

  24. Re:A photon is not an "object" on First Object Teleported From Earth To Orbit (technologyreview.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So please, can we stop accusing people who assert that the photon is massless of being ignorant or stupid or not understanding physics. If anything, quite the contrary.
    No we can't.
    Because those stupid ignorant people are the guys who write the wikipedia articles you are citing.
    And you belong to those stupid ignorant people because you follow that wikipedia article instead of simply opening a physics book. Perhaps you have none?

  25. Re:A photon is not an "object" on First Object Teleported From Earth To Orbit (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    All particles, electrons, protons, neutrons etc. p.p. behave like a wave in the right context.
    And yes, photons have mass. They simply have no mass at speed 0.