Why do the police not move in and beat the shit out of those assholes? Rioting over a god damn hockey game, seriously? The second one of those assholes throws a rock or turns over a car, you beat the piss out of them. Otherwise you're just inviting this idiocy.
Yeah, because now that we're in "Obama's America" there are no poor people, right? Rank idiocy. Your problem is you think government can solve everyone's problems. They can't - some people will just always be dirt poor and that's reality.
I can tell you that from personal experience as I used to use an AlphaServer with four 667MHz CPUs and 8 GB of RAM, it could beat the pants off of our 32 CPU Intel P4 cluster with each of those CPUs running at 2GHz.
Bulllshit. The P4 was shit, but for any parallelizable load an 8:1 ratio of P4s to Alphas would crush the Alpha. Ergo: you were doing it wrong.
So tell me - how many years after the death of a failed and obsoleted architecture will the Alpha fanbois continue to bloviate about it? Alpha was an untenable architecture, and it failed because of that. But people have this weird proclivity to romanticize it for some reason, like if we'd only kept Alpha alive we'd have 1Thz computers that were 100 times faster than what we have today. Well, no. We wouldn't.
Nobody needs to, these idiots will be caught and it won't be long. It amazes me that time after time some punk who watched Hackers a few too many times thinks he's going to be able to do something like this and that the (grown up) professionals who have worked in the field for 30 years, are paid $100k-$250k a year, and who have huge resources behind them somehow magically _won't_ be able to track them down. Rank idiocy.
I absolutely 100% disagree. I think it's absolutely irresponsible for you to claim that he is to be pitied as much as he's to be mocked. He deserves far more mocking than pity.
Umm, yes? Your point is silly. She presented anectdotal evidence, so he did as well. Hers is thereby nullified. Now, if he claimed Windows WM7 is therefore massively promoted, you might have a point.
It is, the other thing Windows 7 Mobile has going for it is the development tools. Second to none, way out ahead of anything else. I wish we had an ecosystem where I could buy the phone hardware, pick an OS, and then it could run apps written in Java, C#, native, etc... Instead, to get that awesome dev environment I have to try to use a (currently) marginalized phone.
I'm going to talk with my money, though, and buy a WP7 later this year.. if a good enough one with NFC capabilities exists then.
It was a combination. Dubya had turned people off so much that really anyone else might have won, too. But if you listen to people breathlessly ascribe all these ridiculous qualities to Obama, to this day, it's clear there is also some kind of doltish ego gratification going on. It makes people feel really good about themselves to tell everyone else how post racial they are by ascribing all these wonderful traits to Obama. They also enjoy attributing any kind of attack on him as "racism", because, well, other people are racist, not them by golly! Nevermind the fact that Dubya got the same treatment from his enemies, Clinton sure took a lot of shit from Republicans, etc...
Lol. "Again". Like they're not in charge now. The stupids have been in charge since Clinton left office, frankly. Clinton was an asshole in some ways and I never vote Democrat, but at least he wasn't stupid.
Her bullshit does nothing. ~80% of this country are blathering idiots, she is just one of their more outspoken representatives. She never even says anything original, every phrase out of her mouth is a trite talking point.
The problem is that she probably represents ~25% of America's idiots. The rest of them voted in Obama, a junior senator and community organizer, because it made them feel good about themselves. We really are doomed.
Does "at cost" include the amortized cost of building up the infrastructure? If not, it would be silly for any large telco to build any new deployments. They would spend millions laying cable, setting up infrastructure, etc.. only to have to let some asshole ISP come in and use it for whatever the ongoing maintenance costs are.
UNIX hasn't won anywhere, and UNIX has nothing to do with mobile application development. Android could be running on Plan 9 and the iPhone on Windows CE and it wouldn't affect Joe Application Developer.
Same on the server side - nobody serious uses bullshit UNIX Sysadmin cum developer tools to develop enterprise apps. They either use Java (which works same on UNIX/Windows) or they use.NET.
Ahh yes, VB6 - that technology with a mere 10 year support cycle and which was part of a family of development platforms that lasted 17 years.
People are seriously whining about VB6? The entire VB language line, including VB.NET, is shit - anyone who uses it should be drummed out of the software world. It exists for no reason and is inferior to C# in every meaningful way.
Huh? First, the quality and maintainability of a good Silverlight app will always be higher than some kludged together markup hack using HTML and javascript. The web is a shit platform for development, period. It's all a big hack to do highly interactive applications over HTTP.
Second, the cost of developing and supporting something is a huge part of how you decide what you're going to develop and is part of the ROI decision.
Of course Silverlight isn't going anywhere, it's the basis for application development for Windows mobile 7 and for LOB business apps. This whole hubbub is just a bunch of fodder for angry Slashdot dweebs to baselessly gloat over.
No, they're against it for profit reasons obviously. And if they can't make the profit by making deals with the content providers they'll just go after the end users. People won't think "Net Neutrality" is so great when ISPs just dump uncapped bandwidth and charge by the gigabyte instead.
Bull. The Wii is dead, nobody(*) wants one or plays the one they have. That's why Nintendo is hurrying out with a new console while the Xbox/PS3 have been around much longer and will continue to be around for a few more years.
Gameplay _and_ graphics matter.
* - Yes, I know there are a few wierdos out there who do still play their Wii.
Telecom companies will just move to charging by bandwidth if they need to. Telecom companies should just give up fighting net neutrality here in the US too and just say "OK, fine. We'll just raise prices considerably."
Rubbish. Corporate taxation is a scam anyway, you tax the _people_ who end up taking the profits. Ranting about corporate taxation is just something stupid people do to try to seem all edgy and anti-corporate. Corporations do only a few things with profit. Among these are R&D (good), spending on jobs (good), and giving the money to _people_ who then pay taxes on that profit. The only gap is CEOs and VPs who spend corporate money on personal shit, and they should be declaring that as profits, that they're not is a crime.
But I think California _should_ raise corporate taxes (on those "fat cats", no less). That way those corporations will start putting their new growth in my state instead.
Easy - transparency and at least an attempt to adhere to the scientific method. If Paris Hilton did a special on how homeopathy is bunk and did it using facts, reason, and evidence she'd be credible (on that matter).
Yeah, and we shall call that brand of fucktard "correct". Maybe you should think about the difference between slow growth in e.g. defense spending and the out of control growth in entitlements that we are on the cusp of.
I'd also _love_ to hear exactly where California blew its money, since it's not social spending. It must be all those wars California is involved in, eh?
Defense spending needs cut too, probably about 25% or more but good luck with that. Republicans are big-government fans too.
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Why do the police not move in and beat the shit out of those assholes? Rioting over a god damn hockey game, seriously? The second one of those assholes throws a rock or turns over a car, you beat the piss out of them. Otherwise you're just inviting this idiocy.
Yeah, because now that we're in "Obama's America" there are no poor people, right? Rank idiocy. Your problem is you think government can solve everyone's problems. They can't - some people will just always be dirt poor and that's reality.
I can tell you that from personal experience as I used to use an AlphaServer with four 667MHz CPUs and 8 GB of RAM, it could beat the pants off of our 32 CPU Intel P4 cluster with each of those CPUs running at 2GHz.
Bulllshit. The P4 was shit, but for any parallelizable load an 8:1 ratio of P4s to Alphas would crush the Alpha. Ergo: you were doing it wrong.
So tell me - how many years after the death of a failed and obsoleted architecture will the Alpha fanbois continue to bloviate about it? Alpha was an untenable architecture, and it failed because of that. But people have this weird proclivity to romanticize it for some reason, like if we'd only kept Alpha alive we'd have 1Thz computers that were 100 times faster than what we have today. Well, no. We wouldn't.
Nobody needs to, these idiots will be caught and it won't be long. It amazes me that time after time some punk who watched Hackers a few too many times thinks he's going to be able to do something like this and that the (grown up) professionals who have worked in the field for 30 years, are paid $100k-$250k a year, and who have huge resources behind them somehow magically _won't_ be able to track them down. Rank idiocy.
Why would Apple pay anyone more than they're willing to work for? It makes 0 sense. You pay people according to the market for labor.
What's the next bit of nonsense, should Apple charge 20% less for their products so everyone can afford their products (out of fairness, natch).
I absolutely 100% disagree. I think it's absolutely irresponsible for you to claim that he is to be pitied as much as he's to be mocked. He deserves far more mocking than pity.
Umm, yes? Your point is silly. She presented anectdotal evidence, so he did as well. Hers is thereby nullified. Now, if he claimed Windows WM7 is therefore massively promoted, you might have a point.
It is, the other thing Windows 7 Mobile has going for it is the development tools. Second to none, way out ahead of anything else. I wish we had an ecosystem where I could buy the phone hardware, pick an OS, and then it could run apps written in Java, C#, native, etc... Instead, to get that awesome dev environment I have to try to use a (currently) marginalized phone.
I'm going to talk with my money, though, and buy a WP7 later this year.. if a good enough one with NFC capabilities exists then.
It was a combination. Dubya had turned people off so much that really anyone else might have won, too. But if you listen to people breathlessly ascribe all these ridiculous qualities to Obama, to this day, it's clear there is also some kind of doltish ego gratification going on. It makes people feel really good about themselves to tell everyone else how post racial they are by ascribing all these wonderful traits to Obama. They also enjoy attributing any kind of attack on him as "racism", because, well, other people are racist, not them by golly! Nevermind the fact that Dubya got the same treatment from his enemies, Clinton sure took a lot of shit from Republicans, etc...
and the stupids are in charge again.
Lol. "Again". Like they're not in charge now. The stupids have been in charge since Clinton left office, frankly. Clinton was an asshole in some ways and I never vote Democrat, but at least he wasn't stupid.
Her bullshit does nothing. ~80% of this country are blathering idiots, she is just one of their more outspoken representatives. She never even says anything original, every phrase out of her mouth is a trite talking point.
The problem is that she probably represents ~25% of America's idiots. The rest of them voted in Obama, a junior senator and community organizer, because it made them feel good about themselves. We really are doomed.
Does "at cost" include the amortized cost of building up the infrastructure? If not, it would be silly for any large telco to build any new deployments. They would spend millions laying cable, setting up infrastructure, etc.. only to have to let some asshole ISP come in and use it for whatever the ongoing maintenance costs are.
Silverlight isn't going anywhere. We get this scary FUD every 6 months or so that Silverlight is going away, but it's not.
Arrogance department will only support C++ and then, only because their own software is coded in it
WTF are you blathering about? C/C++/C#/F#/Javascript/DLR and other shit are supported.
UNIX hasn't won anywhere, and UNIX has nothing to do with mobile application development. Android could be running on Plan 9 and the iPhone on Windows CE and it wouldn't affect Joe Application Developer.
Same on the server side - nobody serious uses bullshit UNIX Sysadmin cum developer tools to develop enterprise apps. They either use Java (which works same on UNIX/Windows) or they use .NET.
Ahh yes, VB6 - that technology with a mere 10 year support cycle and which was part of a family of development platforms that lasted 17 years.
People are seriously whining about VB6? The entire VB language line, including VB .NET, is shit - anyone who uses it should be drummed out of the software world. It exists for no reason and is inferior to C# in every meaningful way.
Huh? First, the quality and maintainability of a good Silverlight app will always be higher than some kludged together markup hack using HTML and javascript. The web is a shit platform for development, period. It's all a big hack to do highly interactive applications over HTTP.
Second, the cost of developing and supporting something is a huge part of how you decide what you're going to develop and is part of the ROI decision.
Of course Silverlight isn't going anywhere, it's the basis for application development for Windows mobile 7 and for LOB business apps. This whole hubbub is just a bunch of fodder for angry Slashdot dweebs to baselessly gloat over.
No, they're against it for profit reasons obviously. And if they can't make the profit by making deals with the content providers they'll just go after the end users. People won't think "Net Neutrality" is so great when ISPs just dump uncapped bandwidth and charge by the gigabyte instead.
Bull. The Wii is dead, nobody(*) wants one or plays the one they have. That's why Nintendo is hurrying out with a new console while the Xbox/PS3 have been around much longer and will continue to be around for a few more years.
Gameplay _and_ graphics matter.
* - Yes, I know there are a few wierdos out there who do still play their Wii.
Telecom companies will just move to charging by bandwidth if they need to. Telecom companies should just give up fighting net neutrality here in the US too and just say "OK, fine. We'll just raise prices considerably."
Rubbish. Corporate taxation is a scam anyway, you tax the _people_ who end up taking the profits. Ranting about corporate taxation is just something stupid people do to try to seem all edgy and anti-corporate. Corporations do only a few things with profit. Among these are R&D (good), spending on jobs (good), and giving the money to _people_ who then pay taxes on that profit. The only gap is CEOs and VPs who spend corporate money on personal shit, and they should be declaring that as profits, that they're not is a crime.
But I think California _should_ raise corporate taxes (on those "fat cats", no less). That way those corporations will start putting their new growth in my state instead.
Easy - transparency and at least an attempt to adhere to the scientific method. If Paris Hilton did a special on how homeopathy is bunk and did it using facts, reason, and evidence she'd be credible (on that matter).
Yeah, and we shall call that brand of fucktard "correct". Maybe you should think about the difference between slow growth in e.g. defense spending and the out of control growth in entitlements that we are on the cusp of.
I'd also _love_ to hear exactly where California blew its money, since it's not social spending. It must be all those wars California is involved in, eh?
Defense spending needs cut too, probably about 25% or more but good luck with that. Republicans are big-government fans too.