Why do people keep reinventing the spoon? Is it all CS-majors that feel they need to make a mark on the world?
So that they can delude themselves that their also-ran game programming language is going to catch on and become all the rage, as if all the big game developers are going to throw away their uber-expensive proprietary development environments and rewrite their engines in some shitty new open-source language that has shit for documentation, a billion bugs, no IDE support, and a micro-fraction of the libraries available for even the lamest existing language.
Throw enough shit at a wall and eventually something will stick. I'm pretty sure that's how PHP got any use at all.:)
Is compiler design still part of a healthy CS diet? That means thousands of languages are being pumped out every semester. It takes a special kind of ego to think any of them are worth a damn.
Actually, the wide variety of commercial home-use 3D printers out there seems to follow this model pretty closely. Get smart enough to make one and all of a sudden they think their version is so relevant that they'll be the next Makerbot (incidentally, also stuck to the wall)
Communist barbarism, Capitalism barbarism... both the Soviets and America have demonstrated that eventually you get fucked by either system of government
Capitalism is not a system of government. It is an economic strategy. Autocratic and democratic governments alike can make use of capitalism.
As implemented today in the US, Capitalism is a system of government. Croney capitalism, bailouts, guaranteed loans, QE, tax loopholes big enough to let a multi-national corporation through.... we're seeing it in action.
I do want to point out that Assange is not facing U.S. justice. What he is "uninterested in facing" is a return to Sweden to be questioned on rape charges.
He says that if he's sent to Sweden, Sweden will extradite him to the U.S.. There's no actual evidence for that, and no real reason to believe it.
Considering the rape charges magically appeared after he was identified as a US VIP (Very Interrogate-able Person), the writing on the wall certainly indicates his stay in Sweden would be rather short indeed.
I'm pretty sure the limos are not considered part of the embassy. However, the diplomats themselves usually have diplomatic immunity. They could try to smuggle him out, but constant survelance makes that difficult.
Why can't they just appoint Assange a diplomat, travel to the host country, then strip him of diplomatic status?
The difference between 1984 and Brave New World is dystopia by oppression versus dystopia by apathy.
The true dystopian future is going to wind up being a little of both. Oppressive regimes that are impossible to overthrow, and apathy by those under their thumbs to actually do anything about it because they're living comfortable lives as long as they keep their heads down and try not to shake the tree too hard.
"Those murderers of YOU are not my problem to deal with."
That's a great point. After you die, you really don't care about why. You have no problem with killers running loose as long as they don't kill you. If they do kill you, then you don't really care.
Brilliant I say.
The sad truth is that relatively few murders actually get enough police interest to get solved. As long as the "you" is not a government official or fellow policeman. If they stumble onto the killer, sure, they'll lock him up. If the media makes notice because it's a pretty white girl or a compelling story, they might add an extra banana to the bounty and see if it encourages the monkeys to work harder. But usually not.
Oh? Do you expect more from your tax money fueled police force? Funny you should mention that, there's a tax increase on the ballot, this time we really really promise it'll go towards service and not our pension.
What I take exception to is, if the gaming industry is SOOOOO sexist and SOOOOO anti women, why are the percentages of female gamers increasing year over year? We're on course to hit natural gender distribution in only a few years.
It's clear targeting a male audience is netting them a bonus female audience. They, like many male gamers, I would reckon care more about the gameplay than gender depictions. It's the true sexist that sees the male player and the female object when the gamer just cares about the PC and NPC.
Given the upward trend, why would anyone in the industry want to change the formula and upset it?
The PS4 and it's seemingly gamer-friendly features are a result of them putting aside their arrogance ("We're Sony so you have to buy it at 599 US dollars giant crab etc").
An interesting contrast can be made with Nintendo at the dawn of the DS and the Wii. Both systems did more than just promise to have the next Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon. They actually offered something new and different and captured the imagination.
Then Nintendo's arrogance returned. With brisk sales they happily accepted licensing fees for shit shovelware while denying developer kits to smaller development studios, which PSN and Xbox Arcade happily courted.
Sony would do well to learn how Nintendo's story shook out. Wii-U sales are miserable, 3DS sales are well below expectations given the DS's market saturation. Lamenting squandered opportunities and gamer goodwill won't change any of that, so the lessons are there to be learned.
And if you're weak enough to fall prey to taking your own life over a goddamn electronic vote, then maybe you shouldn't be playing in the deep end of social networking without your fucking swimmies on.
Children think that the school yard is their entire life (because at that point of their life it is their entire life). When they feel that everyone in their school hates them they get the very real feeling that their life is pointless. You are blaming infants that haven't had enough life to gain experience for being inexperienced.
Bullying is not new. It's cruel, yes, and feelings get hurt, but it's been around for as long as there has been a pecking order. Animals even exhibit bullying behavior. The alpha male in a pack will pick on others, steal their food, have sex with many females, etc. This is a natural state. But from this natural state, intelligence can emerge.
Take Capuchin monkeys. They forage in groups and they're always on the lookout for predators. If one finds food, the bullies will beat him up and try to take the food from the weaker. So what is a hungry monkey to do? Lie. After spotting some food, weak monkeys will cry out indicating a predator is around and all the other monkeys will take cover, while he can eat the food himself. Of course, if he's spotted, he winds up getting beat up WORSE by the bullies and some peers, because he has stolen from the group and, hell, why not, everyone's ganging up.
Perhaps bullying emerged out of this, and there's no doubt it's part of the individual maturing and joining society because it's been around forever. It's a very natural thing and it's pretty reasonable to expect it to occur and play out. Like watching a lion rip a zebra to shreds, it's presumptuous to think you know better than what is natural. Without bullying, who knows what kinds of problems we're breeding into the future. What kinds of mental illnesses or inabilities to cope we are introducing into our society 20 years down the road? Teen suicide isn't new either. Those who commit suicide, even if they were stopped from doing so, probably wouldn't have been very effective adults if we were to consider them logically instead of emotionally.
The one thing that IS different now is that kids no longer have a sanctuary from the judgment of their peers. That's not the problem of being judged poorly, that's the problem of (surprise!) parenting. Giving kids cell phones to get ugly words and disgusting pictures sent to them 24/7 is a mistake. Unsupervised access to social media is a mistake. If there is one thing that needs a tighter grip these days are sites like Facebook. I'd really like to see it treated the same way we treat gambling. It's just not appropriate for children to be gambling, and it's not appropriate for children to be so social.
Professors too have the right to be scaremongered into an unrealistic fear of terrorism.
Occam says they're better at math than that. However, they can be bought or threatened easily enough.
Professors have much to lose from revolution and societal upheaval. Publicly defending the status quo is the only correct action for them to take for their sake and the family and lifestyle they support with their income.
Yes, avgas is illegal on the street. The FBO that fills you car tanks with avgas is in for one hell of a fine if he gets caught. And for the record, old VWs really love that stuff. I used to full up my old '69 VW camper with it all the time - ran effing great!
Did you old '69 VW camper benefit in any way with higher octane gas? Unless it had significantly higher compression ratios, that it ran great was all in your head.
Actually, burning your coffee is the one thing that will result on a pretty standard flavor profile. This allows them to blend beans from multiple sources to meet demand. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to secure the volume of coffee required for the one-store-every-quarter-mile operation.
Being able to shift the focus of their drinks to the cream, caramel, and other adulterants also provides an easily accepted method to extract additional money out of [foolish] customers, because they see value in "more is better". (compare and contrast to the topping-ization of national pizza chains)
I think with all the drone strikes in the world you would realize the US has jurisdiction where ever it fucking feels like.
While the US has no problem sending drones in through Pakistan and other sovereign nations, it doesn't take a military historian to guess what would happen if it sent one through the airspace of a nation that could match the superpower, like China.
I'm certainly rooting for AMD, but this part looks like a failure.
Keep in mind in addition to providing up to that 220W of power you also have to provide 220W worth of cooling. If that's really how hot this part is going to run then it's gonna need a *HUGE* heatsink, or high end watercooling setup to keep it at acceptable temps (Which at least for me is 30-40C, not the 50-70C all the manufacturers seem to accept nowadays.)
Just curious, why is 50-70C not acceptable to you? If the whole system is designed to live happily at that range, what does it matter?
If you can't trust somebody to use contraception when they claim to, then you should probably use a condom - and also consider, really carefully, if fucking them is such a bright idea. Would you trust them to be open about STDs?
Are you confusing one-night-stands to long term relationships?
The fact is, trust can be -- and is often -- misplaced. Are you willing to bet the next 18 years of your income on this trust?
Seriously, the argument "women don't deserve reproductive arguments because bitches be lying" is just shit on several levels.
Did I make that argument? AC posted that men lie. I counter that men who lie face all the consequence, while women who lie do not. You don't see the inequity?
The question in the story asks, "Are you willing to give up some personal privacy," and that question is too broad. I am willing to give up some personal privacy if it saves lives, for example, I am more than happy to tell you the color of my carpet is red and my walls are white, and my carpet is blue. I am annoyed, but willing to have my bags searched at airports if it helps. So saying 'some privacy'.......well that doesn't tell you anything about the NSA listening to phone calls.
Whatever. They're still going to vote Democrat/Republican in the next election.
However, it would be too radical (not to mention ironic) to disqualify sections of the electorate on the basis of stupidity or lack of values.
No Joke! I would love to see voters required to pass a basic test before being allowed to vote. And I mean something very basic like "Name one right protected by the Bill of Rights", or "True or False, The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed""
We don't even have to be particularly nasty about it. The first few options on the ballot could be these test questions. The following questions are votes. When counted, the ballot of anyone who misses the test questions are ejected. Idiots still feel their voices were heard, those who care and have vested time into learning about the way things are going and where we were have their voices amplified.
I mean, we can all have differing opinions on how to make things better going forward, left or right, but if you don't know who James Madison was you simply shouldn't have a say.
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Why do people keep reinventing the spoon? Is it all CS-majors that feel they need to make a mark on the world?
So that they can delude themselves that their also-ran game programming language is going to catch on and become all the rage, as if all the big game developers are going to throw away their uber-expensive proprietary development environments and rewrite their engines in some shitty new open-source language that has shit for documentation, a billion bugs, no IDE support, and a micro-fraction of the libraries available for even the lamest existing language.
Throw enough shit at a wall and eventually something will stick. I'm pretty sure that's how PHP got any use at all. :)
Is compiler design still part of a healthy CS diet? That means thousands of languages are being pumped out every semester. It takes a special kind of ego to think any of them are worth a damn.
Actually, the wide variety of commercial home-use 3D printers out there seems to follow this model pretty closely. Get smart enough to make one and all of a sudden they think their version is so relevant that they'll be the next Makerbot (incidentally, also stuck to the wall)
Perl is very easy to understand.... if you wrote it.
Communist barbarism, Capitalism barbarism ... both the Soviets and America have demonstrated that eventually you get fucked by either system of government
Capitalism is not a system of government. It is an economic strategy. Autocratic and democratic governments alike can make use of capitalism.
As implemented today in the US, Capitalism is a system of government. Croney capitalism, bailouts, guaranteed loans, QE, tax loopholes big enough to let a multi-national corporation through.... we're seeing it in action.
"Uninterested in facing U.S. justice..."
I do want to point out that Assange is not facing U.S. justice. What he is "uninterested in facing" is a return to Sweden to be questioned on rape charges.
He says that if he's sent to Sweden, Sweden will extradite him to the U.S.. There's no actual evidence for that, and no real reason to believe it.
Considering the rape charges magically appeared after he was identified as a US VIP (Very Interrogate-able Person), the writing on the wall certainly indicates his stay in Sweden would be rather short indeed.
The indoor lifestyle has taken its toll on Julian, and it led to his contracting a chronic lung condition last fall
Is he really the geek we all assumed? A year in an embassy should be a cakewalk after 18 years in your mom's basement..
Well, he's actually gotten laid before so it's easy to see why he'd miss it.
I'm pretty sure the limos are not considered part of the embassy. However, the diplomats themselves usually have diplomatic immunity. They could try to smuggle him out, but constant survelance makes that difficult.
Why can't they just appoint Assange a diplomat, travel to the host country, then strip him of diplomatic status?
The difference between 1984 and Brave New World is dystopia by oppression versus dystopia by apathy.
The true dystopian future is going to wind up being a little of both. Oppressive regimes that are impossible to overthrow, and apathy by those under their thumbs to actually do anything about it because they're living comfortable lives as long as they keep their heads down and try not to shake the tree too hard.
"Those murderers of YOU are not my problem to deal with."
That's a great point. After you die, you really don't care about why. You have no problem with killers running loose as long as they don't kill you. If they do kill you, then you don't really care.
Brilliant I say.
The sad truth is that relatively few murders actually get enough police interest to get solved. As long as the "you" is not a government official or fellow policeman. If they stumble onto the killer, sure, they'll lock him up. If the media makes notice because it's a pretty white girl or a compelling story, they might add an extra banana to the bounty and see if it encourages the monkeys to work harder. But usually not.
Oh? Do you expect more from your tax money fueled police force? Funny you should mention that, there's a tax increase on the ballot, this time we really really promise it'll go towards service and not our pension.
What I take exception to is, if the gaming industry is SOOOOO sexist and SOOOOO anti women, why are the percentages of female gamers increasing year over year? We're on course to hit natural gender distribution in only a few years.
It's clear targeting a male audience is netting them a bonus female audience. They, like many male gamers, I would reckon care more about the gameplay than gender depictions. It's the true sexist that sees the male player and the female object when the gamer just cares about the PC and NPC.
Given the upward trend, why would anyone in the industry want to change the formula and upset it?
The facts are that Sony isn't doing well. At all.
The PS4 and it's seemingly gamer-friendly features are a result of them putting aside their arrogance ("We're Sony so you have to buy it at 599 US dollars giant crab etc").
An interesting contrast can be made with Nintendo at the dawn of the DS and the Wii. Both systems did more than just promise to have the next Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon. They actually offered something new and different and captured the imagination.
Then Nintendo's arrogance returned. With brisk sales they happily accepted licensing fees for shit shovelware while denying developer kits to smaller development studios, which PSN and Xbox Arcade happily courted.
Sony would do well to learn how Nintendo's story shook out. Wii-U sales are miserable, 3DS sales are well below expectations given the DS's market saturation. Lamenting squandered opportunities and gamer goodwill won't change any of that, so the lessons are there to be learned.
And if you're weak enough to fall prey to taking your own life over a goddamn electronic vote, then maybe you shouldn't be playing in the deep end of social networking without your fucking swimmies on.
Children think that the school yard is their entire life (because at that point of their life it is their entire life). When they feel that everyone in their school hates them they get the very real feeling that their life is pointless. You are blaming infants that haven't had enough life to gain experience for being inexperienced.
Bullying is not new. It's cruel, yes, and feelings get hurt, but it's been around for as long as there has been a pecking order. Animals even exhibit bullying behavior. The alpha male in a pack will pick on others, steal their food, have sex with many females, etc. This is a natural state. But from this natural state, intelligence can emerge.
Take Capuchin monkeys. They forage in groups and they're always on the lookout for predators. If one finds food, the bullies will beat him up and try to take the food from the weaker. So what is a hungry monkey to do? Lie. After spotting some food, weak monkeys will cry out indicating a predator is around and all the other monkeys will take cover, while he can eat the food himself. Of course, if he's spotted, he winds up getting beat up WORSE by the bullies and some peers, because he has stolen from the group and, hell, why not, everyone's ganging up.
Perhaps bullying emerged out of this, and there's no doubt it's part of the individual maturing and joining society because it's been around forever. It's a very natural thing and it's pretty reasonable to expect it to occur and play out. Like watching a lion rip a zebra to shreds, it's presumptuous to think you know better than what is natural. Without bullying, who knows what kinds of problems we're breeding into the future. What kinds of mental illnesses or inabilities to cope we are introducing into our society 20 years down the road? Teen suicide isn't new either. Those who commit suicide, even if they were stopped from doing so, probably wouldn't have been very effective adults if we were to consider them logically instead of emotionally.
The one thing that IS different now is that kids no longer have a sanctuary from the judgment of their peers. That's not the problem of being judged poorly, that's the problem of (surprise!) parenting. Giving kids cell phones to get ugly words and disgusting pictures sent to them 24/7 is a mistake. Unsupervised access to social media is a mistake. If there is one thing that needs a tighter grip these days are sites like Facebook. I'd really like to see it treated the same way we treat gambling. It's just not appropriate for children to be gambling, and it's not appropriate for children to be so social.
Professors too have the right to be scaremongered into an unrealistic fear of terrorism.
Occam says they're better at math than that. However, they can be bought or threatened easily enough.
Professors have much to lose from revolution and societal upheaval. Publicly defending the status quo is the only correct action for them to take for their sake and the family and lifestyle they support with their income.
Because informed voters are extremely dangerous, keeping people uninformed is a top priority for any pseudo-democratic government.
I'll be honest and admit that Alex Jones seems a whole lot less delusional now than he did two weeks ago.
So then why aren't the same people trying to banning dashboard gauges, clocks and radios?
Because they aren't new fangled technology and trying to blame them won't work because they're not new and scary.
Seriously, I don't know why people believe ACs who say they are coffee farmers for over 100 years. Coffee is grown in steppes? Really?
My family has breathed air for over 100 years. I suspect more but I can't prove it.
Yes, avgas is illegal on the street. The FBO that fills you car tanks with avgas is in for one hell of a fine if he gets caught. And for the record, old VWs really love that stuff. I used to full up my old '69 VW camper with it all the time - ran effing great!
Did you old '69 VW camper benefit in any way with higher octane gas? Unless it had significantly higher compression ratios, that it ran great was all in your head.
Actually, burning your coffee is the one thing that will result on a pretty standard flavor profile. This allows them to blend beans from multiple sources to meet demand. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to secure the volume of coffee required for the one-store-every-quarter-mile operation.
Being able to shift the focus of their drinks to the cream, caramel, and other adulterants also provides an easily accepted method to extract additional money out of [foolish] customers, because they see value in "more is better". (compare and contrast to the topping-ization of national pizza chains)
It won't be too much longer now before there is no one left who gets this joke.
Is there a text way to communicate the little green "internet" light on the router turning red?
I think with all the drone strikes in the world you would realize the US has jurisdiction where ever it fucking feels like.
While the US has no problem sending drones in through Pakistan and other sovereign nations, it doesn't take a military historian to guess what would happen if it sent one through the airspace of a nation that could match the superpower, like China.
So TFS is simultaneously using words that suggest causation, and words that literally depict correlation.
Is this how we become accustomed to doublespeak?
TDP for this amd part: 220W
I'm certainly rooting for AMD, but this part looks like a failure.
Keep in mind in addition to providing up to that 220W of power you also have to provide 220W worth of cooling. If that's really how hot this part is going to run then it's gonna need a *HUGE* heatsink, or high end watercooling setup to keep it at acceptable temps (Which at least for me is 30-40C, not the 50-70C all the manufacturers seem to accept nowadays.)
Just curious, why is 50-70C not acceptable to you? If the whole system is designed to live happily at that range, what does it matter?
I always wanted to have a computer running my freezer
With that kind of power consumption, I wouldn't expect it to stay being your freezer for very long.
Grilled bratwurst anyone?
If you can't trust somebody to use contraception when they claim to, then you should probably use a condom - and also consider, really carefully, if fucking them is such a bright idea. Would you trust them to be open about STDs?
Are you confusing one-night-stands to long term relationships?
The fact is, trust can be -- and is often -- misplaced. Are you willing to bet the next 18 years of your income on this trust?
Seriously, the argument "women don't deserve reproductive arguments because bitches be lying" is just shit on several levels.
Did I make that argument? AC posted that men lie. I counter that men who lie face all the consequence, while women who lie do not. You don't see the inequity?
There's another poll that says only 26% favor the government’s secret collecting of these phone records for national security purposes regardless of whether there is any suspicion of wrongdoing. Also, 56% of Likely U.S. Voters now consider the federal government a threat to individual rights rather than a protector of those rights. That’s up 10 points from 46% in December. So your suspicion is right, if you ask different poll questions, you get different results. (warning: those pages auto-play video with sound).
The question in the story asks, "Are you willing to give up some personal privacy," and that question is too broad. I am willing to give up some personal privacy if it saves lives, for example, I am more than happy to tell you the color of my carpet is red and my walls are white, and my carpet is blue. I am annoyed, but willing to have my bags searched at airports if it helps. So saying 'some privacy'.......well that doesn't tell you anything about the NSA listening to phone calls.
Whatever. They're still going to vote Democrat/Republican in the next election.
However, it would be too radical (not to mention ironic) to disqualify sections of the electorate on the basis of stupidity or lack of values.
No Joke! I would love to see voters required to pass a basic test before being allowed to vote. And I mean something very basic like "Name one right protected by the Bill of Rights", or "True or False, The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed""
We don't even have to be particularly nasty about it. The first few options on the ballot could be these test questions. The following questions are votes. When counted, the ballot of anyone who misses the test questions are ejected. Idiots still feel their voices were heard, those who care and have vested time into learning about the way things are going and where we were have their voices amplified.
I mean, we can all have differing opinions on how to make things better going forward, left or right, but if you don't know who James Madison was you simply shouldn't have a say.