First to File doesn't have anything to do with declaring something obvious, or anything having to do with prior art. First to File is simply a solution to the situation you get when two people claim to have invented the same thing at the same time, and both file patents on it.
The cool part about Capitalism, is the elaborate parade that makes the people actually THINK they are a part of the system by allowing them to vote.
Vote? Capitalism has nothing to do with Free Elections. You can have Socialism with Free Elections, hell, you can have Communism with Free Elections too.
That's because they're not really supposed to be science based. Any good science fiction is about the people involved, not the technology. The tech is just a backdrop.
Before you blow a gasket bitching and moaning about the price of Apple development, need I remind you that Microsoft has the exact same costs? So every one of your "Fuck Apple" statements should be a "Fuck Microsoft" statement too?
Maybe you should try to tone down the Android fanboyism a tad. It's not like Android, no. Who cares?
Its because Java, and to an extent Android are horrible platforms for writing any kinds of accelerated 3d graphics.
Not necessarily. Java isn't that bad of a platform for that, and besides, anyone who's serious about it would be using the Native development kit and writing the core of the game in C/C++ anyway.
Because Android runs on multiple different video chipsets, its impossible without a high quality API like directx to create games that run the same on all of them.
Android has OpenGL ES. Meaning you only have the one high quality API you have to target. And on the PC side of things, DirectX doesn't make sure that games run the same on all devices. Compare a game running on a high end, current GPU, and a game running on one that's a few generations out of date. You'll notice a big difference.
No, no, gold is special! It's shiny! People always want gold, despite the fact that it has no actual uses, aside from that as a conductor. When society collapses, everyone is going to want gold. Not food, or bullets, or medicine. Gold.
Nobody's been threatened. You agreed to follow the laws of this country when you took up residence here. Those include paying your taxes, and paying them in US Dollars.
Unless of course you don't believe that a people has the right to govern themselves, which is a downright retarded idea to hold.
If you buy something from an overseas website in Euros, you are supposed to assess the value of that in dollars, and pay the appropriate use tax to your state (if it has one, like say, California). Bitcoins would be no different.
This must be the source of most of the Bitcoin hate.
Not necessarily, but it is the source of why most people realize it is a scam.
To people who do not have any appreciable skills to sell on the open market would naturally see only this because the concept of being a producer of value that other people want to trade for just doesn't exist in their mental vocabulary
What? Being the creator of a scam now is something to be valued?
If the creators of Bitcoin truly wanted to create some kind of new currency, they should have set it up in such a way that they didn't get the lions share of the bitcoins right away, signalling to everyone else that it's a fucking scam.
Go fuck yourself with your overly macho "Real Languages" bullshit. There's no such thing. There are languages that are better suited to enterprise development. Then there are languages that are better suited to scripting tasks and web authoring. Neither case makes a language any more "real" than the other.
I think people need to learn that all languages just create a bunch of machine language and is mostly just statements, loops and branches so there isn't a great amount of difference between any language.
This is an incredibly incorrect statement. While the languages might eventually lead to being the same thing, the paths they take to get there can be vastly different. There are huge differences between the expressiveness and strengths of particular languages.
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First to File doesn't have anything to do with declaring something obvious, or anything having to do with prior art. First to File is simply a solution to the situation you get when two people claim to have invented the same thing at the same time, and both file patents on it.
The cool part about Capitalism, is the elaborate parade that makes the people actually THINK they are a part of the system by allowing them to vote.
Vote? Capitalism has nothing to do with Free Elections. You can have Socialism with Free Elections, hell, you can have Communism with Free Elections too.
That's because they're not really supposed to be science based. Any good science fiction is about the people involved, not the technology. The tech is just a backdrop.
Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, "Hey, this could be more sonic!"?
Yeah, no. Now you're just trending into the angry FUD and conspiracy theory territory.
And then there would be this huge fragmentation of compilers, making it even harder to write portable code. That's not necessarily a good thing.
Before you blow a gasket bitching and moaning about the price of Apple development, need I remind you that Microsoft has the exact same costs? So every one of your "Fuck Apple" statements should be a "Fuck Microsoft" statement too?
Maybe you should try to tone down the Android fanboyism a tad. It's not like Android, no. Who cares?
Its because Java, and to an extent Android are horrible platforms for writing any kinds of accelerated 3d graphics.
Not necessarily. Java isn't that bad of a platform for that, and besides, anyone who's serious about it would be using the Native development kit and writing the core of the game in C/C++ anyway.
Because Android runs on multiple different video chipsets, its impossible without a high quality API like directx to create games that run the same on all of them.
Android has OpenGL ES. Meaning you only have the one high quality API you have to target. And on the PC side of things, DirectX doesn't make sure that games run the same on all devices. Compare a game running on a high end, current GPU, and a game running on one that's a few generations out of date. You'll notice a big difference.
So you're just gonna throw out an assertion, with nothing to back it up, and with nothing to dispute his counterpoints?
So fucking what? There are several 3D game engines out there, use one of those. Or roll your own.
I don't think they have a 2D engine in there either.
Everyone who will be allowed by Sony to use it after beta, has to pay Sony.
This isn't any different than most of the other programs. You pay the same amount to Microsoft and Apple for developing on their devices.
That doesn't say that it requires a touchscreen. Just that it supports one.
The value of the government. Despite what you want to believe, that is actually quite valuable.
No, no, gold is special! It's shiny! People always want gold, despite the fact that it has no actual uses, aside from that as a conductor. When society collapses, everyone is going to want gold. Not food, or bullets, or medicine. Gold.
Nobody's been threatened. You agreed to follow the laws of this country when you took up residence here. Those include paying your taxes, and paying them in US Dollars.
Unless of course you don't believe that a people has the right to govern themselves, which is a downright retarded idea to hold.
If you buy something from an overseas website in Euros, you are supposed to assess the value of that in dollars, and pay the appropriate use tax to your state (if it has one, like say, California). Bitcoins would be no different.
No, it's not. I can actually hold it in my hands, and I can exchange it to someone else for goods and services.
Not only that, but the creators of these fake mines have found a way to extract the potential value from the mine without actually paying the miners.
I never said that bitcoin mining creates value.
Except, to everyone who uses bitcoin, it does.
This must be the source of most of the Bitcoin hate.
Not necessarily, but it is the source of why most people realize it is a scam.
To people who do not have any appreciable skills to sell on the open market would naturally see only this because the concept of being a producer of value that other people want to trade for just doesn't exist in their mental vocabulary
What? Being the creator of a scam now is something to be valued?
If the creators of Bitcoin truly wanted to create some kind of new currency, they should have set it up in such a way that they didn't get the lions share of the bitcoins right away, signalling to everyone else that it's a fucking scam.
Go fuck yourself with your overly macho "Real Languages" bullshit. There's no such thing. There are languages that are better suited to enterprise development. Then there are languages that are better suited to scripting tasks and web authoring. Neither case makes a language any more "real" than the other.
IF that happens, then you might be right. However, I wouldn't be willing to take that bet.
I do agree. However, I would also have to question whether C++ would be the right tool for doing web development, even with using these libraries.
I think people need to learn that all languages just create a bunch of machine language and is mostly just statements, loops and branches so there isn't a great amount of difference between any language.
This is an incredibly incorrect statement. While the languages might eventually lead to being the same thing, the paths they take to get there can be vastly different. There are huge differences between the expressiveness and strengths of particular languages.
When you write C++ as though it were C++, you get really bad, terribly inefficient code.
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