I think, for me at least, having edit capability within, say 10 minutes of hitting the post button would be an acceptable compromise.
I'd be fine with that, even as a default option, but only if your post didn't appear to anybody else until the grace period expired. If being able to edit your fuckups is that important to you, then you should be willing to wait, right?
Personally, I'm glad Slashdot has maintained its no-edit policy. Now unicode, on the other hand...
No, not having to lock my door with the key every time you leave is convenient, at the risk of once in a while locking yourself out. I know a strawman when I see one.
Oh noes, I used a no longer politically acceptable word for the latest "progressive" cause du jour. I better report myself to the nearest re-education center. I'll take that time to practice my preferred pronoun list, too. Thanks so much, AC!
So the TIOBE index is "how much has been written online about "
And even that simple measure is subject to false positives (like "C" being a common letter), and the results are "tuned" by TIOBE in an undisciplined manner to try to overcome this and other various problems with using "number of hits".
There are other measures of language popularity, including job offers, books, forum messages, etc. Using TIOBE as a single source and not trying to correlate with these other measures is a waste of time.
That depends on how one defines "powerful", does not it?
You didn't define it in any way. You referenced Moore's law, but that only talks about transistor density and not "power". Lacking any specifics at all, it's only fair to compare it with traditional improvements in "power" that everybody recognized as going along with Moore's law -- those that occurred for decades before the 2002 wall.
But the improvements, which we continue to get, can still be put to a good use improving usage.
You made the hefty claim that computers today are 1,024 times more powerful than 15 years ago, and placed blame on software for not following along. That's bullshit.
For one example, try make -jN â" Unix kernel and make really scales with the number of CPUs. A build will finish about N times faster â" provided, you have N CPUs.
So where is your desktop with 1,024 cores? Oh that's right, you have nothing close to that. And even if you did, you'd be severely limited by Amdahl's law, which you should spend some time to figure out the significance of it. Unless your task is embarrassingly parallel, even a small amount of required serialization will catch up with you sooner rather than later.
But that does not mean, there is no one to blame...
It's not about being nice. It's about recognizing the reality of the situation instead of just saying that somebody else should make everything work like I want it to.
And your point is wrong. Moore's Law never promised serial speed-ups. It promised greater number of elements (transistors) on the same-size chip â" and that keeps working, according to TFA. We just don't feel it like we used to.
No, my point is perfectly on target. You are the one who brought in performance. While Moore's law is technically about transistor density, it so happens for a very long time, many other things went along for the ride, resulting in exponential serial performance that lasted for decades.
But when the advances provide for larger caches, RAM, new processor-instructions, more and wider IO-pipes, and multiple threads of execution, a rewrite may be necessary.
Bits and pieces have been made faster or grown in size. Your general claim that "computers are 1024 times more powerful today, than they were 15 years ago" is bullshit. Not that we have 1000 core desktops anyways, but even if you did, you ignore the theoretical limits placed by Amdahl's law.
Today's computers are a pale joke if you compare them to how they used to improve. And unlike you, I'm not blaming anybody. It was a good ride while it lasted.
Few tasks require serial performance â" most desktop stuff is, in fact, parallelizable.
It's much harder to write concurrent code, and there's also Amdahl's law. It really would be amazing if trends had kept up and my computer ran 1,000 times faster for the general purpose serial case. Sadly, it did not.
We've been telling people for decades that Microsoft cannot be trusted
They took it to a whole 'nother level with Windows 10 fuckery. Honestly, while Microsoft has always been ruthless against competitors, they generally used to treat their customers with at least some modicum of respect.
Things started going downhill as the computing landscape opened up to more aggressive tactics driven by software that treated their users as the product.
You can run virtual machines on a modern desktop so that you've got a whole cluster of 2002 era desktops at your fingertips.
As I said, we have more cores and obscene amounts of ram. That's good for parallel computing and doing stuff like running a bunch of VMs (talk about software bloat). It's not the same as the exponential general purpose sequential computing we had experienced up till then.
According to this law, our computers are 1024 times more powerful today, than they were 15 years ago. And they are.
Bullshit. I lived through the exponential increases before the 2002 wall, and it was glorious. If that had continued, it would make today's computers look like ancient relics.
Sure, today we have more cores, obscene amounts of ram, and you can fit a decent computer in a mobile phone, but when it comes to general purpose computing the exponential increases in performance died a long time ago. There are young adults alive today that will never have experienced what it was like.
There was literally nothing stopping them keeping Muslims out before.
And now they can do so without worrying about EU freedom of movement rules and any EU dictates about countries doing their "fair share" to deal with the new horde that has most recently and continues to arrive on Europe's shores, or having to worry about what happens if/when Turkey becomes a member of the EU.
Bangladesh and Pakistan are not in the EU.
As I said, "it also requires electing politicians who will stop crying about "xenophobia" and "Islamophobia" or listening to those who do".
Like I said, the Brexit vote was driven entirely by ignorance and lies.
I gave an example of the statistical lies told by the Remain crowd, give referenced statistics that shows real problems, and describe how voting to Leave offers real solutions, and yet you still say shit like this.
So, Brexit voters didn't like Muslims coming here and not contributing, so they voted to keep out Europeans who do contribute.
By voting Brexit, they have control of their borders and can let native Europeans in and keep the Muslims out, unlike the rest of Europe that is going to suffer the result of the Muslim horde. Of course, it also requires electing politicians who will stop crying about "xenophobia" and "Islamophobia" or listening to those who do.
They were given the figures on immigrants being less likely to claim benefits then natives, but ignored them.
Figures I've seen were largely based on Eastern European immigration. What you're ignoring is the relatively recent massive influx of Muslims, and any statistics I find on that group are appalling. The most unemployed, the most claiming disability, the most on public housing, the most in medical costs. And this is hardly unique to the UK.
"The high proportion of the Muslim prison population (13%) and the proportion of Muslims in social housing (28%) is also a "cause for concern", the report's author said."
Here's an older source, and things have surely gotten worse since then:
"Muslims households were the least likely to be homeowners (52%) and are the most likely among all religious groups to be living in accommodation rented from the council or housing association (28%); 4% live rent-free. [..] 63% contained at least one dependent child, and 25% contained three or more dependent children. [..] Muslims between the ages of 16 and 24 had the highest unemployment rates at 28%; 11% of Muslims over the age of 25 were unemployed. [..] Muslims were most likely to be unavailable or not actively seeking work due to reasons such as disability, being a student, or looking after the family and home. 31% of working-age men were economically inactive, as were 69% of working-age women."
Not only is the massive Muslim immigration into the West a security risk, it's a massive failure economically.
Jack Thompson was actively pursuing legislation [..] Sarkeesian was espousing her feminist viewpoint
Yes, but that's not the whole story, and you know it. His message was completely rejected by the gaming industry, including the press. Then "Saint Anita" comes along to sock puppet for McIntosh, and she's given awards, donations, and taken seriously by the industry, and given the full damsel-in-distress treatment.
And again, what did she have to do with "integrity in the gaming press"? She never represented herself in that way.
Not much, outside of her treatment by the press as I just described. However, GamerGate was more than just ethics in journalism, as you've probably heard before. GamerGate was a growing vortex that sucked a lot of things in on the periphery, though I also think Sarkeesian was just as opportunistic as Wu.
But why are you so concerned about these damsels-in-distress? Have you seen the threats and hate Thunderf00t got, several of them in video form? Did you see the attempt to get him fired? Do you know what his "crime" was? He made videos critiquing (and mocking) Sarkeesian. Meanwhile, Sarkeesian was complaining to the UN because people said "she sucked" or "she was a liar".
Did you see the tweets directed at TotalBiscuit when he retweeted a charity event, because the pinheads who asked for a retweet thought he was trying to send a horde of ebil gamergoobers to ruin his charity event? Lots of hateful messages and some wishing his cancer would kill him.
But that's the story of GamerGate. People who can't look beyond their damsels-in-distress instinct.
I cut off my local DNS service? I literally HAVE the same whitelisting you do
Huh? Any site I intentionally click is "whitelisted". If you cut off your DNS, then you can't get to that site unless it's in your local cache. Not the same, and I highly doubt you operate that way.
Anyways, apk, as usual your idiocy is plain for all to see, and I tire of responding to your bullshit. You may again have the last word and continue to be a legend in your own mind.
Even with all that, nope, still no excuse for death threats or other hateful messages.
It's the Internet. Anybody can send death threats and hateful messages, including people who fake these threats themselves (has there been a single instance of a "Trump" supporter committing a "hate" crime that hasn't been proved to be a hoax or false flag yet?) And clearly Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu did not take these threats seriously.
I've never understood the rage directed at her, other than that she was a convenient target.
The same reason Jack Thompson was raged against. He was trying to fuck with a hobby that gamers loved. It's just that the gaming industry rightfully rebuked him.
Even if GamerGate were originally about a lack of integrity in the gaming press (and yes, I do believe there were probably some shenanigans at Kotaku), the message was completely overshadowed by a very real phenomenon, which is the incredible amount of verbal abuse women tend to receive online.
Actually, statistics show that men get more abuse, though women get particular kinds of abuse more often. It's just that men tend to shrug it off and wouldn't get mass media attention anyways.
Do you know Jack Thomson also claimed to have gotten death threats over his crusade against violence in gaming? How much time do you think the media spent on that, versus being critical of his views? Did he get a police escort? Awards from the gaming industry? Tons of donations?
See, his problem was that he wasn't a damsel-in-distress. He should have found a woman spokesperson like McIntosh did.
And frankly, compared to that, even as a gamer, that seems a lot more important than the original story.
No, it's just a way to claim victimhood and shutdown a movement. Of course, the same media that tried to paint GamerGate as a harassment movement was a propaganda arm for Black Lies Matter, which ended up with dead cops, lives ruined, assaults against white people, and looting. How many people were actually hurt as a result of GamerGate: 0.
I don't need a hard number, as I'm not trying to sell shit on a stick. You offer no numbers, but make claims. I notice no slowdowns. In fact, web is very fast without all the extra crud, including no scripts on the main page (another thing your hosts method doesn't fix).
Hosts do a form of it
Pathetic. Ads and malware hosts are constantly shifting. You offer no solution to this except as an after-the-fact reaction. Whitelisting stops all of them, by default. Hosts is inferior.
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Nobody has debunked the gender pay gap
They debunked the myth that women were getting paid less than men for doing the same job.
I think, for me at least, having edit capability within, say 10 minutes of hitting the post button would be an acceptable compromise.
I'd be fine with that, even as a default option, but only if your post didn't appear to anybody else until the grace period expired. If being able to edit your fuckups is that important to you, then you should be willing to wait, right?
Personally, I'm glad Slashdot has maintained its no-edit policy. Now unicode, on the other hand...
No, not having to lock my door with the key every time you leave is convenient, at the risk of once in a while locking yourself out. I know a strawman when I see one.
There's just no reason
Convenience.
Oh noes, I used a no longer politically acceptable word for the latest "progressive" cause du jour. I better report myself to the nearest re-education center. I'll take that time to practice my preferred pronoun list, too. Thanks so much, AC!
So the TIOBE index is "how much has been written online about "
And even that simple measure is subject to false positives (like "C" being a common letter), and the results are "tuned" by TIOBE in an undisciplined manner to try to overcome this and other various problems with using "number of hits".
There are other measures of language popularity, including job offers, books, forum messages, etc. Using TIOBE as a single source and not trying to correlate with these other measures is a waste of time.
transphobic
Figured it would be tranny drama when I saw the phrase, "her decision to make".
That depends on how one defines "powerful", does not it?
You didn't define it in any way. You referenced Moore's law, but that only talks about transistor density and not "power". Lacking any specifics at all, it's only fair to compare it with traditional improvements in "power" that everybody recognized as going along with Moore's law -- those that occurred for decades before the 2002 wall.
But the improvements, which we continue to get, can still be put to a good use improving usage.
You made the hefty claim that computers today are 1,024 times more powerful than 15 years ago, and placed blame on software for not following along. That's bullshit.
For one example, try make -jN â" Unix kernel and make really scales with the number of CPUs. A build will finish about N times faster â" provided, you have N CPUs.
So where is your desktop with 1,024 cores? Oh that's right, you have nothing close to that. And even if you did, you'd be severely limited by Amdahl's law, which you should spend some time to figure out the significance of it. Unless your task is embarrassingly parallel, even a small amount of required serialization will catch up with you sooner rather than later.
But that does not mean, there is no one to blame...
It's not about being nice. It's about recognizing the reality of the situation instead of just saying that somebody else should make everything work like I want it to.
And your point is wrong. Moore's Law never promised serial speed-ups. It promised greater number of elements (transistors) on the same-size chip â" and that keeps working, according to TFA. We just don't feel it like we used to.
No, my point is perfectly on target. You are the one who brought in performance. While Moore's law is technically about transistor density, it so happens for a very long time, many other things went along for the ride, resulting in exponential serial performance that lasted for decades.
But when the advances provide for larger caches, RAM, new processor-instructions, more and wider IO-pipes, and multiple threads of execution, a rewrite may be necessary.
Bits and pieces have been made faster or grown in size. Your general claim that "computers are 1024 times more powerful today, than they were 15 years ago" is bullshit. Not that we have 1000 core desktops anyways, but even if you did, you ignore the theoretical limits placed by Amdahl's law.
Today's computers are a pale joke if you compare them to how they used to improve. And unlike you, I'm not blaming anybody. It was a good ride while it lasted.
And my point is that the hardware advances didn't keep up the way they used to. It really isn't a difficult or controversial point.
Few tasks require serial performance â" most desktop stuff is, in fact, parallelizable.
It's much harder to write concurrent code, and there's also Amdahl's law. It really would be amazing if trends had kept up and my computer ran 1,000 times faster for the general purpose serial case. Sadly, it did not.
We've been telling people for decades that Microsoft cannot be trusted
They took it to a whole 'nother level with Windows 10 fuckery. Honestly, while Microsoft has always been ruthless against competitors, they generally used to treat their customers with at least some modicum of respect.
Things started going downhill as the computing landscape opened up to more aggressive tactics driven by software that treated their users as the product.
You can run virtual machines on a modern desktop so that you've got a whole cluster of 2002 era desktops at your fingertips.
As I said, we have more cores and obscene amounts of ram. That's good for parallel computing and doing stuff like running a bunch of VMs (talk about software bloat). It's not the same as the exponential general purpose sequential computing we had experienced up till then.
According to this law, our computers are 1024 times more powerful today, than they were 15 years ago. And they are.
Bullshit. I lived through the exponential increases before the 2002 wall, and it was glorious. If that had continued, it would make today's computers look like ancient relics.
Sure, today we have more cores, obscene amounts of ram, and you can fit a decent computer in a mobile phone, but when it comes to general purpose computing the exponential increases in performance died a long time ago. There are young adults alive today that will never have experienced what it was like.
You are ignoring the fourth dimension, time. Those statistics are easily explained by controlling for "date of immigration to the UK".
Then do so, or cite somebody who has, instead of claiming it can be done.
in another generation or so the picture will be quite changed
I don't think it's the obligation of the UK to wait a "generation or so" to see if that happens, and there's still plenty more coming.
There was literally nothing stopping them keeping Muslims out before.
And now they can do so without worrying about EU freedom of movement rules and any EU dictates about countries doing their "fair share" to deal with the new horde that has most recently and continues to arrive on Europe's shores, or having to worry about what happens if/when Turkey becomes a member of the EU.
Bangladesh and Pakistan are not in the EU.
As I said, "it also requires electing politicians who will stop crying about "xenophobia" and "Islamophobia" or listening to those who do".
Like I said, the Brexit vote was driven entirely by ignorance and lies.
I gave an example of the statistical lies told by the Remain crowd, give referenced statistics that shows real problems, and describe how voting to Leave offers real solutions, and yet you still say shit like this.
Bigoteer.
So, Brexit voters didn't like Muslims coming here and not contributing, so they voted to keep out Europeans who do contribute.
By voting Brexit, they have control of their borders and can let native Europeans in and keep the Muslims out, unlike the rest of Europe that is going to suffer the result of the Muslim horde. Of course, it also requires electing politicians who will stop crying about "xenophobia" and "Islamophobia" or listening to those who do.
I'm going to translate your post: Wah, wah, Clinton lost. Racists!
They were given the figures on immigrants being less likely to claim benefits then natives, but ignored them.
Figures I've seen were largely based on Eastern European immigration. What you're ignoring is the relatively recent massive influx of Muslims, and any statistics I find on that group are appalling. The most unemployed, the most claiming disability, the most on public housing, the most in medical costs. And this is hardly unique to the UK.
Here's a recent left-wing source:
"The high proportion of the Muslim prison population (13%) and the proportion of Muslims in social housing (28%) is also a "cause for concern", the report's author said."
Here's an older source, and things have surely gotten worse since then:
"Muslims households were the least likely to be homeowners (52%) and are the most likely among all religious groups to be living in accommodation rented from the council or housing association (28%); 4% live rent-free. [..] 63% contained at least one dependent child, and 25% contained three or more dependent children. [..] Muslims between the ages of 16 and 24 had the highest unemployment rates at 28%; 11% of Muslims over the age of 25 were unemployed. [..] Muslims were most likely to be unavailable or not actively seeking work due to reasons such as disability, being a student, or looking after the family and home. 31% of working-age men were economically inactive, as were 69% of working-age women."
Not only is the massive Muslim immigration into the West a security risk, it's a massive failure economically.
They were offered six months positions in which to train their replacements, after which they'll obviously be fired.
Jack Thompson was actively pursuing legislation [..] Sarkeesian was espousing her feminist viewpoint
Yes, but that's not the whole story, and you know it. His message was completely rejected by the gaming industry, including the press. Then "Saint Anita" comes along to sock puppet for McIntosh, and she's given awards, donations, and taken seriously by the industry, and given the full damsel-in-distress treatment.
And again, what did she have to do with "integrity in the gaming press"? She never represented herself in that way.
Not much, outside of her treatment by the press as I just described. However, GamerGate was more than just ethics in journalism, as you've probably heard before. GamerGate was a growing vortex that sucked a lot of things in on the periphery, though I also think Sarkeesian was just as opportunistic as Wu.
But why are you so concerned about these damsels-in-distress? Have you seen the threats and hate Thunderf00t got, several of them in video form? Did you see the attempt to get him fired? Do you know what his "crime" was? He made videos critiquing (and mocking) Sarkeesian. Meanwhile, Sarkeesian was complaining to the UN because people said "she sucked" or "she was a liar".
Did you see the tweets directed at TotalBiscuit when he retweeted a charity event, because the pinheads who asked for a retweet thought he was trying to send a horde of ebil gamergoobers to ruin his charity event? Lots of hateful messages and some wishing his cancer would kill him.
But that's the story of GamerGate. People who can't look beyond their damsels-in-distress instinct.
I cut off my local DNS service? I literally HAVE the same whitelisting you do
Huh? Any site I intentionally click is "whitelisted". If you cut off your DNS, then you can't get to that site unless it's in your local cache. Not the same, and I highly doubt you operate that way.
Anyways, apk, as usual your idiocy is plain for all to see, and I tire of responding to your bullshit. You may again have the last word and continue to be a legend in your own mind.
Even with all that, nope, still no excuse for death threats or other hateful messages.
It's the Internet. Anybody can send death threats and hateful messages, including people who fake these threats themselves (has there been a single instance of a "Trump" supporter committing a "hate" crime that hasn't been proved to be a hoax or false flag yet?) And clearly Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu did not take these threats seriously.
I've never understood the rage directed at her, other than that she was a convenient target.
The same reason Jack Thompson was raged against. He was trying to fuck with a hobby that gamers loved. It's just that the gaming industry rightfully rebuked him.
Even if GamerGate were originally about a lack of integrity in the gaming press (and yes, I do believe there were probably some shenanigans at Kotaku), the message was completely overshadowed by a very real phenomenon, which is the incredible amount of verbal abuse women tend to receive online.
Actually, statistics show that men get more abuse, though women get particular kinds of abuse more often. It's just that men tend to shrug it off and wouldn't get mass media attention anyways.
Do you know Jack Thomson also claimed to have gotten death threats over his crusade against violence in gaming? How much time do you think the media spent on that, versus being critical of his views? Did he get a police escort? Awards from the gaming industry? Tons of donations?
See, his problem was that he wasn't a damsel-in-distress. He should have found a woman spokesperson like McIntosh did.
And frankly, compared to that, even as a gamer, that seems a lot more important than the original story.
No, it's just a way to claim victimhood and shutdown a movement. Of course, the same media that tried to paint GamerGate as a harassment movement was a propaganda arm for Black Lies Matter, which ended up with dead cops, lives ruined, assaults against white people, and looting. How many people were actually hurt as a result of GamerGate: 0.
Where are YOUR 'hard #s?
I don't need a hard number, as I'm not trying to sell shit on a stick. You offer no numbers, but make claims. I notice no slowdowns. In fact, web is very fast without all the extra crud, including no scripts on the main page (another thing your hosts method doesn't fix).
Hosts do a form of it
Pathetic. Ads and malware hosts are constantly shifting. You offer no solution to this except as an after-the-fact reaction. Whitelisting stops all of them, by default. Hosts is inferior.