Take a class in logic sometime and think about what you're saying before reflexively typing comments that don't make any sense. Then again this is Slashdot, I'm hoping for too much.
So much anger. And reflexively replying without thinking.
The comment was clearly a joke. It was based on a cultural reference to an Indiana Jones film that the poster clearly (from the context) didn't think was an accurate representation of the people involved.
You either missed the joke/ironic cultural reference (read: don't know enough about the culture you're ridiculing, i.e. unexposed and/or myopic), or your own agenda is so strong (read: you are bigoted) that it over-rode any acceptance that the poster could be joking.
Hence my comparison.
I'll also add that voice_of_all_reason claims to made his comments as a joke. So I suppose the people he offended by that are supposed to say its okay. Well it doesn't quite work that way.
The poster clearly doesn't seriously hold such views on the people of India, so why is it offensive? They were essentially saying "Well, it can't be for this reason (i.e. India is backward - this is ludicrous), so why is it?"
Try this: I was using a self-service checkout once, when a woman asked me if I could scan her items for her. I pointed out that then I'd have to pay for them, and she said "Oh, I'll give you the money."
I told her to just do it herself after I had finished, but she wanted me to stay there and do it for her.
Now, I'm a helpful person usually, but if I'm in the self-service "get the hell out quickly" queue, why would I want to help someone else clog up the queue when I could be gone?
I should point out that there were about 10 other checkouts staffed by human cashiers open at the time. But then, of course, she would have had to queue. Much better to waste my time rather than hers if she has to queue or learn how to use the self-service checkouts.
See, it started off as a fairly good point about some things being free, but then it just got silly.
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I think the OP meant that someone has made a mod for Prey using the Prey portals to re-create the portal weapon seen in Valve's Portal. At least, that's how I read it.
(I assume Prey supports mods as it uses the Doom 3 engine.)
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On a related note, at my current job I teach elementary and junior high kids English. The kids are fantastic, and my other coworkers are fun to talk to as well;
You know it's possible that when they go home, those junior high kids play online games and behave like complete dicks?:-)
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Hear, hear.
Whenever I read a book or see a movie these days, all I'm thinking is "Where are the innovations?"
See, that's why in the UK we tend to smile at jokes about us having lots of weird small cars.:-)
Where I live in the US, regular gas (I think it's 87? 88?) is $2.89/ gallon on a good day, up to about $3.05. My car's pretty gas efficient, and I get 300 miles on about $35.
My maths may be off, but that means your car gets 25 mpg. When that answer appeared on my calculator, I literally laughed out loud. In the UK we'd refer to that as rubbish efficiency (trends for ludicrous urban SUV usage notwithstanding). 15 years ago I had an ancient piece of crap Morris Minor that did 35+ mpg, ffs.
My mother's car costs closer to $60 for the same distance.
14 mpg?! Holy crap. What is it, a Chieftain tank?!
Never mind game console standby power usage, get your car manufacturers to sort out their fuel efficiency. If you had to pay UK prices at the pump, I'm guessing that might accelerate the process:-)
Of course, in the UK, the cost of petrol is largely taxation. It's something like 75% of the price, which usually gets people going.
If there are useful tasks a console can perform while in standby mode, incorporate a "standby mode" state into the machine's design, separate from "off".
This new mode - can we call it 'Mode Execute Ready'?
Well, I believe the 6 fonts thing usually refers to the 'old fashioned' concept of a font (i.e. a tray of metal type of a specific typeface and size/weight), as opposed to font in the sense of a typeface such as Palatino or Times Roman, etc.
In other words, if you have more than 6 combinations of font typeface, size and weight used in a document, you probably have too many.
The reasons universities don't teach people to most effectively code for a given platform is because it will be next to worthless 10 years down the road.
I think you underestimate the longevity of computer architectures. Look at Intel x86 - basically, the code has got cleaner (no horrible segmenty stuff) and some new instructions, wider registers, but essentially it's the same basic model as the clunky PCs that were knocking around when I went to university nearly 20 years ago.
I also remember being really interested in a new CPU that came out around the time I went to Uni, and had bought a book to learn about it - the ARM CPU. That was 20 years ago. But guess what I'm doing at work at the moment? I'm examining the output of a C++ compiler generating machine code for an ARM target to see how I can optimise the results/replace specific parts of C++ with assembler routines.
As an aside, I'm also using C#/Windows Forms to write a GUI application, so I don't stay stuck in assembler land all day/all of my career.
But as a general rule of thumb, I've noticed that the less a programmer knows about the underlying architecture, the less good they are at programming. YMMV.
C compilers can and do store intermediate forms in "object" files such that the linker can do final inter-procedural optimization at link time or even dynamic load time. The SGI Irix compiler did this, for example.
And Microsoft's tools do this too. It's no longer an "I heard about some research that..." area anymore.
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So much anger. And reflexively replying without thinking.
The comment was clearly a joke. It was based on a cultural reference to an Indiana Jones film that the poster clearly (from the context) didn't think was an accurate representation of the people involved.
You either missed the joke/ironic cultural reference (read: don't know enough about the culture you're ridiculing, i.e. unexposed and/or myopic), or your own agenda is so strong (read: you are bigoted) that it over-rode any acceptance that the poster could be joking.
Hence my comparison.
The poster clearly doesn't seriously hold such views on the people of India, so why is it offensive? They were essentially saying "Well, it can't be for this reason (i.e. India is backward - this is ludicrous), so why is it?"
But, you know. Whatever.
Well, that explains BitTorrent, I guess.
Compare:
with:D'oh!
Sheesh
Kids today.
But apart from that, the original comment was a fine job!
Try this: I was using a self-service checkout once, when a woman asked me if I could scan her items for her. I pointed out that then I'd have to pay for them, and she said "Oh, I'll give you the money."
I told her to just do it herself after I had finished, but she wanted me to stay there and do it for her.
Now, I'm a helpful person usually, but if I'm in the self-service "get the hell out quickly" queue, why would I want to help someone else clog up the queue when I could be gone?
I should point out that there were about 10 other checkouts staffed by human cashiers open at the time. But then, of course, she would have had to queue. Much better to waste my time rather than hers if she has to queue or learn how to use the self-service checkouts.
See, it started off as a fairly good point about some things being free, but then it just got silly.
I think the OP meant that someone has made a mod for Prey using the Prey portals to re-create the portal weapon seen in Valve's Portal. At least, that's how I read it.
(I assume Prey supports mods as it uses the Doom 3 engine.)
You know it's possible that when they go home, those junior high kids play online games and behave like complete dicks? :-)
Hear, hear.
Whenever I read a book or see a movie these days, all I'm thinking is "Where are the innovations?"
'Nerd' is not a synonym for 'Linux user'. This may be a surprise to you; for many others it is not.
As the AC pointed out, I was being ironic.
For future reference, another good comeback is "So why do we have a secret ballot for elections?"
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I like it!
Sheesh, you go away for hours and come back, and nobody has done the Abe gag yet. :-)
Rookie mistake, guys.
Pipe down, junior.
My maths may be off, but that means your car gets 25 mpg. When that answer appeared on my calculator, I literally laughed out loud. In the UK we'd refer to that as rubbish efficiency (trends for ludicrous urban SUV usage notwithstanding). 15 years ago I had an ancient piece of crap Morris Minor that did 35+ mpg, ffs.
14 mpg?! Holy crap. What is it, a Chieftain tank?!
Never mind game console standby power usage, get your car manufacturers to sort out their fuel efficiency. If you had to pay UK prices at the pump, I'm guessing that might accelerate the process :-)
Of course, in the UK, the cost of petrol is largely taxation. It's something like 75% of the price, which usually gets people going.
I don't get all this obsession with wifi security and encryption. I mean, why do we, as the average citizens, need encryption?
I mean, if we haven't done anything wrong, then we have nothing to hide, surely?
The only people who would want wifi encryption are criminals, because they have something they don't want the authorities to see.
This new mode - can we call it 'Mode Execute Ready'?
The long winter evenings must just fly by.
Well, I believe the 6 fonts thing usually refers to the 'old fashioned' concept of a font (i.e. a tray of metal type of a specific typeface and size/weight), as opposed to font in the sense of a typeface such as Palatino or Times Roman, etc.
In other words, if you have more than 6 combinations of font typeface, size and weight used in a document, you probably have too many.
I think you underestimate the longevity of computer architectures. Look at Intel x86 - basically, the code has got cleaner (no horrible segmenty stuff) and some new instructions, wider registers, but essentially it's the same basic model as the clunky PCs that were knocking around when I went to university nearly 20 years ago.
I also remember being really interested in a new CPU that came out around the time I went to Uni, and had bought a book to learn about it - the ARM CPU. That was 20 years ago. But guess what I'm doing at work at the moment? I'm examining the output of a C++ compiler generating machine code for an ARM target to see how I can optimise the results/replace specific parts of C++ with assembler routines.
As an aside, I'm also using C#/Windows Forms to write a GUI application, so I don't stay stuck in assembler land all day/all of my career.
But as a general rule of thumb, I've noticed that the less a programmer knows about the underlying architecture, the less good they are at programming. YMMV.
And Microsoft's tools do this too. It's no longer an "I heard about some research that..." area anymore.
Yay! JPI TopSpeed :-)
I used to use that to annoy people who used to explain to me that C was significantly faster than Modula-2.
The debugger (VID?) was awesome for the time, too, iirc.
Agreed, and furthermore, to quote Dale Rogerson:
Can't you just prove that it does exist? :-)
You're right. That's lame.