Wrong. The feminist community invented the term 'political correctness' as an internal jibe. It was a term used by more moderate feminists to criticize (in a friendly fashion) the more strident amongst their community. The term was latched onto by the political right and it's meaning changed. If you were around the left in the early 80's you would know this stuff. Apparently you were sleeping through 'the birth of PC.'
Not hardly. My favorite peanut butter these days is Smuckers Natural Chunky. It has salt in it, but otherwise just peanuts. And Smuckers is most definitely not an 'indy' peanut butter producer.
Years ago I liked the bulk peanut butter at food co-ops but I no longer live in a city with food co-ops, and there was always the risk with the bulk peanut butter that you'd get there after someone had scooped without stirring enough and you'd get very dry peanut butter minus most of the oil.
Wrong. There were HP calculators before the HP35. HP made desktop calculators that sported a small CRT display. I used to have one. It had core memory in it. It had no ICs at all. Hundreds and hundreds of diodes.
Will the hardware be open? That's the important question and we should be able to find that out almost immediately. The early stages of this will be: how open the thing is to firmware upgrades. Will there be robust hardware documentation, a JTAG connector or equivalent, etc?
It's also highly unlikely, though, that anybody will get the chance again to code to bare metal the way the Doom coders did. They did all that coding in the void years, when powerful 386 computers were vacant and readily available because they booted MS-DOS, and the 'operating system' was something a game programmer could pretty much flush out of RAM and replace. Those days are long gone. Everything is much more complex now, and almost nobody gets close to bare silicon anymore. I personally think that sort of coding is cool, but I'm an old hardware guy with my own biases. The world has changed.
I hate to break it to you but such a persecution complex is nothing but a sign of mental illness.
In the days of the USSR, the ruling political leaders often labeled their opponents as 'mentally ill.' A lot of people ended up in the Gulag that way. Do you really want to start that shit up?
The official North Korean news website is: Naenara. It's quite interesting in a way. It reminds me of news services from China or the USSR in the height of the cold war.
Some of us have a dream of software convergence. Where software 'improves' over time by getting better and better, until almost all the bugs are found and removed.
Sadly, this can only occur in an Open Source world, and not the one we presently have. It has to be a world where programming fads don't replace consistency. Where the latest hot dog volunteer programmer doesn't rip out an old section of code and replace it wholesale with something completely new.
Still, the idea that if software continually improves, new versions of software based on the same code base should run faster and faster on the same hardware isn't out of reach. It's just out of mind, sadly.
Everyone's hardware is slightly (or greatly) different with PC Gamers. It's not like Consoles, where everybody has the same standard proletarian hardware.
Because Facebook is a huge conglomerate. The kind of corporate fucks who always climb aboard when a tech company grows the way Facebook has are firmly in control. The Zuck can sport about in his hoodie, but there are shits in the next room wearing wingtips. That's always how it works. And that sort of operation ain't gonna change because they acquired something 'cool.' Never has. Never will.
To my way of seeing it, when you plunge your head into a facemask that by design blocks out the real world, you take considerable risk in referring to somebody else as the ostrich.
The idea of a pocket computer sounded awesome 15 years ago, but they're so wrapped up with the carriers and walled gardens that the appeal is lost to me.
You should go out right now and buy a good used or non-contract cellphone, then, and never connect to a carrier with it. If you pick, for instance an inexpensive Virgin Mobile Android phone you can just pay the retail price for it and never 'hook it up' using the cellular radio. Use it with your local and any public wifi you have access to and it's yours and relative detached. If you're worried about being spied on by advertisers don't use a google branded browser with it. Firefox for Android is perfectly usable. If you don't want to 'hook up' with Google, there are other app stores you can get your andoid apps on. You can go to Amazon and download the.apk file for their app store and never connect your new pocket computer to Google at all. Right now there are low to medium-end Android phones from the Virgin Mobile brand at WalMart (that you can buy with cash) for $40.
You're correct. Facebook is nothing better than any other faceless media conglomerate, and worse than a considerable number of them. There's nothing 'cool' and seldom anything interesting about Facebook.
When I run into that level of incompetence at a fast food joint I start murmuring to myself about that whole $15 an hour deal. In that: fire these fuckers and get the quality of worker that $15 an hour would attract. The world will always have stupid fuckups. They don't need to be the ones taking my order. Almost always they don't have to be.stupid fuckups, they just get away with it because it's allowed.
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Wrong. The feminist community invented the term 'political correctness' as an internal jibe. It was a term used by more moderate feminists to criticize (in a friendly fashion) the more strident amongst their community. The term was latched onto by the political right and it's meaning changed. If you were around the left in the early 80's you would know this stuff. Apparently you were sleeping through 'the birth of PC.'
It sounds to me like you're quite tolerant of blatant stupidity. You even harbor a certain amount of it yourself.
What does it represent? Various democracies but also a lot of monarchies and even some significant tyrannies.
Not hardly. My favorite peanut butter these days is Smuckers Natural Chunky. It has salt in it, but otherwise just peanuts. And Smuckers is most definitely not an 'indy' peanut butter producer.
Years ago I liked the bulk peanut butter at food co-ops but I no longer live in a city with food co-ops, and there was always the risk with the bulk peanut butter that you'd get there after someone had scooped without stirring enough and you'd get very dry peanut butter minus most of the oil.
The HP35 was HP's very first calculator
Wrong. There were HP calculators before the HP35. HP made desktop calculators that sported a small CRT display. I used to have one. It had core memory in it. It had no ICs at all. Hundreds and hundreds of diodes.
Put more correctly: if you put a cup of cherries into a mixing bowl with a quart of dog turds and stirr.....
Okay, maybe they're right. Maybe the Facebook deal is a snow crash of the Metaverse. But really, we should have built the Metaverse first.
All the dazed developers staring at random bitmaps when they've been snow crashed isn't pretty to look at.
Will the hardware be open? That's the important question and we should be able to find that out almost immediately. The early stages of this will be: how open the thing is to firmware upgrades. Will there be robust hardware documentation, a JTAG connector or equivalent, etc?
If land usage becomes more sensible, though, it might just be re-used as an alligator preserve. Where the land value is significantly lower.
It's also highly unlikely, though, that anybody will get the chance again to code to bare metal the way the Doom coders did. They did all that coding in the void years, when powerful 386 computers were vacant and readily available because they booted MS-DOS, and the 'operating system' was something a game programmer could pretty much flush out of RAM and replace. Those days are long gone. Everything is much more complex now, and almost nobody gets close to bare silicon anymore. I personally think that sort of coding is cool, but I'm an old hardware guy with my own biases. The world has changed.
The horrors! You mean it won't be a wedge issue any longer? It won't be an opening for loud public advocacy and promotion of a lifestyle?
I hate to break it to you but such a persecution complex is nothing but a sign of mental illness.
In the days of the USSR, the ruling political leaders often labeled their opponents as 'mentally ill.' A lot of people ended up in the Gulag that way. Do you really want to start that shit up?
The official North Korean news website is: Naenara. It's quite interesting in a way. It reminds me of news services from China or the USSR in the height of the cold war.
Some of us have a dream of software convergence. Where software 'improves' over time by getting better and better, until almost all the bugs are found and removed.
Sadly, this can only occur in an Open Source world, and not the one we presently have. It has to be a world where programming fads don't replace consistency. Where the latest hot dog volunteer programmer doesn't rip out an old section of code and replace it wholesale with something completely new.
Still, the idea that if software continually improves, new versions of software based on the same code base should run faster and faster on the same hardware isn't out of reach. It's just out of mind, sadly.
Everyone's hardware is slightly (or greatly) different with PC Gamers. It's not like Consoles, where everybody has the same standard proletarian hardware.
Which suites of applications from Microsoft can only be installed on the boot (C) drive?
You forgot "biomass digesters conveniently located near the bird carcass piles surrounding wind farms."
Wait, you're saying that any election where a third party candidate wins a significant number of votes is a screwy and weird aberration?
Because Facebook is a huge conglomerate. The kind of corporate fucks who always climb aboard when a tech company grows the way Facebook has are firmly in control. The Zuck can sport about in his hoodie, but there are shits in the next room wearing wingtips. That's always how it works. And that sort of operation ain't gonna change because they acquired something 'cool.' Never has. Never will.
To my way of seeing it, when you plunge your head into a facemask that by design blocks out the real world, you take considerable risk in referring to somebody else as the ostrich.
The idea of a pocket computer sounded awesome 15 years ago, but they're so wrapped up with the carriers and walled gardens that the appeal is lost to me.
You should go out right now and buy a good used or non-contract cellphone, then, and never connect to a carrier with it. If you pick, for instance an inexpensive Virgin Mobile Android phone you can just pay the retail price for it and never 'hook it up' using the cellular radio. Use it with your local and any public wifi you have access to and it's yours and relative detached. If you're worried about being spied on by advertisers don't use a google branded browser with it. Firefox for Android is perfectly usable. If you don't want to 'hook up' with Google, there are other app stores you can get your andoid apps on. You can go to Amazon and download the .apk file for their app store and never connect your new pocket computer to Google at all. Right now there are low to medium-end Android phones from the Virgin Mobile brand at WalMart (that you can buy with cash) for $40.
You're correct. Facebook is nothing better than any other faceless media conglomerate, and worse than a considerable number of them. There's nothing 'cool' and seldom anything interesting about Facebook.
When I run into that level of incompetence at a fast food joint I start murmuring to myself about that whole $15 an hour deal. In that: fire these fuckers and get the quality of worker that $15 an hour would attract. The world will always have stupid fuckups. They don't need to be the ones taking my order. Almost always they don't have to be.stupid fuckups, they just get away with it because it's allowed.
I cannot imagine seeing Gravity or The Hobbit any other way.
Your loss. I can imagine seeing The Hobbit by simply reading a book.
The Zuck isn't. any kind of geek. He's more the fratboy type.