As noted elsewhere: This was a pull that added nothing to the code except for changing comments. Ben Noordhuis initially and rightly rejected this change as it added nothing of value. Isaac Schlueter then did an override and made the commit. This sent out two very strong messages that should give project contributors pause and was likely the reason for Noordhuis' attempt to revert the commit: (1) The project leads put high value in making political statements over only allowing quality commits on every commit that improve the actual software; and (2) the project leads put low value in the time of their developers who have to read over these essentially non-functional commits as now they have shown that minimally functional changes are all that's needed to get a submission into code. For these reasons I can completely understand Noordhius' desire to revert...but of course, the SJW megaphones were turned all the way up. "Death to efficiency, long live our political butthurt! We are the victims, hear us roar as we trample our message all over your passion!"

Now I'm not at all saying that the change to the comments for gender shouldn't or couldn't have been made...but don't expect a commit only on changing some comments that don't matter to the functionality of the code...that's wasting time for a political statement that has no real value. If the change included some bug fixes or a solution to a functional problem, then by all means, the commit should have been allowed including the gender change. That was sorely not the case here.

maybe... but you seem to be thinking that a black hole is a disk. Super-massive gravity wells, as with other gravity wells, are most likely spherical. If there's matter close enough that are within the galactic plane tolerances, but a bit above or below the well relative to our perspective, there's nothing that says the orbital decay pattern couldn't be in a rotation that we'd see like soap being pulled down a drain as opposed to streaks going across the well's equator.

Anita isn't going to take our games away. Try as she and her SJW force might, they'll never succeed... particularly because Anita is ignorant of the messages delivered in the games she criticizes (particularly Bayonetta, in which this link is actually a teardown of her review and illustrates every point she's wrong about and how she's wrong about it). And there will always be Rockstar Games or a company/indie like them who are willing to build a game that rubs against the grain of censorship to put their message out there...and who actually make use of the waves of censorship as propellant for free advertising for their product. These are the games that I'm willing to support, because they so willingly take the ugliest parts of human nature and throw it up as a mirror for the world to see itself... and the denialists are the ones to protest loudest.

Some other countries use points like we in the US use commas, and vice versa. For instance in France 100.534,67 is our 100,534.67 read One hundred thousand, five hundred thirtyfour and sixty seven (or Cent mille cinq cent trente-quatre et soixante-sept in French).

Especially when it's said with the contraction: should've.

Whoa... they're doing it wrong, and if I worked in that company I'd give the ultimatum of fix this policy or I walk -- actually, more like conclude the interview process all together so we're not wasting eachother's time ("But Raven Lord, jobs are so hard to come by!" yeah yeah yeah... different rant for a different thread that would amount to "Not a valid reason to wipe your ass with your personal integrity" with supporting ideas -- if I were more like Haselton, I'd probably type up a submission about it.). There is no reason for an admin to ever have to access an individual profile beyond initial setup. That's the employee's job, even with Windows. What's supposed to happen is when a computer is being set up, all the applications that the user needs is to be installed by the administrator/root account and the user account/profile is given permission to use these applications. Then the new computer is installed at the user's desk and the first time he logs into his new machine, his roving profile is downloaded to it and everything looks more or less just like it did on his old machine...with maybe a few app changes.

If a new user account is created, the account is given a temp password and flagged for change on next login. Also, installing a software policy enforcing program along with the standard anti-virus/malware suites can make administration helpful by minimizing or eliminating the need for administrators to have to go in and fix crap the user did.

I'm running Win7 64 Bit on an Intel i7-4770k 3.5Ghz Quad and an nVidia GTX 760. Not latest-greatest but it's chewed up everything else I've thrown at it so far without a hicup... except for DA: I. If I have all the graphic settings set to their maximum values I'm guaranteed that at some point either within a cutscene or a few seconds after, my screens will both go completely black for a few seconds, and then recover with an error on the screen stating that an instruction passed by the software (Dragon Age) had disconnected my video card and caused it to no longer respond. My research into the error indicated that BF4 is recorded to cause the exact same error in many cases on nVidia hardware (I don't have BF4 to confirm). I'd have to double check which three settings I changed that fixed the issue and allowed me to play for hours straight without anything save for the occasional stutter in the cutscene video (Anti-Aliasing was one of them that I had to turn off completely, the other two was setting values to mid while everything else remained at their maximum).

I'm gonna take a leap here, but I believe the previous AC meant to say that it would take NASA at least 30 years to launch its first probe mission to the planet... which would subsequently be defunded by Congress before the craft even makes it out of the heliosphere 30 years later.

In the State of Georgia, USA, it is actually codified that campus police (read security guards, College Police, or Board of Education Police forces), Municipal police (city Police), and Sheriffs (County Police), cannot issue an arrest (aka write an actual ticket) on anyone traveling 10mph or less above the posted speed limit. This is regardless of Construction or School Zones. This is not to say that they cannot pull you over for going above the posted speed limit and performing a spot check on insurance coverage and registration/license status below this limit and issue a verbal or written warning (no penalties); but they absolutely cannot write a ticket that incurs a fine lest the Department of Public Safety penalize the municipality through fines, withdrawal of Speed Detection Privileges, or in very severe cases of repeated violations and/or demonstrated corruption Complete withdrawal of the Municipalities police force license coupled with the complete disbandment of all officers (all of this has happened to several Municipal territories). Also, more unwritten, but if an officer gives a ticket for 11mph above the limit, DPS will not impose the penalties on the municipality, however, upon taking the matter the court the judge is under obligation of precedent to dismiss the case for reasonable doubt simply because of the +/-1mph margin of error that all detection devices have to claim (usually it doesn't have to go that far and one can simply call the procecutor/solicitor's office and have the case dropped over the phone).

Also note that State Police, a division of the above mentioned Department of Public Safety, are not under any obligation to follow the 10mph buffer rule and are legally able to ticket for someone going 1mph above the limit (however given the same reasonable doubt clause that accounts for the +/-1mph, they won't ticket anyone until at least 2mph over...and even then that's only if they're having a bad day. Also, since their pay is not in any way dependent on performance guidelines or how much revenue they generate a city (only local municipalities and/or county seats generate revenue from tickets, not the state), State Patrol is more likely to be reasonable and willing to negotiate a lesser charge on scene if the driver is respectful to the officer and wasn't operating a vehicle in any dangerous manner besides speeding (and wasn't speeding too excessively(usually 20-30mph above is too excessive) without a valid reason).

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer but I have played one several times for myself, friends, and family in traffic court against county level tickets or below. While I'm not always perfectly successful in getting dismissals, I've never completely lost, often saving them hundreds of $$ in insurance penalties and usually at worst getting reduced fines. They also don't have to shell out $300-$600 extra to a bar certified traffic lawyer to achieve same net result. If the person comes to me with a ticket issued by GSP or DPS I'll advise them to talk with an actual traffic lawyer because there are legal and political gambles involved at that level that a lawyer would be better equipped to negotiate (Is the officer's certification up to date and active at the time of the ticket? How likely is the officer to show up at a specific venue (Generally they're more likely to blow off a Municipal Court appearance as opposed to State Court.) (one case I've successfully had dismissed was specifically because the officer failed to show)?, How closely do your or your lawyer's of choice elbows rub with the Solicitor General or the Prosecutor of the case; or how personable is (this one can dictate what kind of deals can be agreed to before even getting to court)?)

I keep on trying...but I have yet to succeed, so I don't think I can help you much.

Hey, it could work in the people's favor though. What if thousands went on a campaign to click the "terr'ist" button on all the articles having to do with Cameron himself?

Both. I have a fairly modest build PC that severely outperforms either of the next-gen consoles. Granted the PC cost about 3 times as much as a console, but for having the added productivity benefit it was an investment rather than a money sink. That said, this debacle really exposes the shitty programmers that Ubisoft must have. Getting a PC game right is difficult just by the fact that there's such a wide range of hardware configurations that could create a support nightmare, so in this a rocky release can be forgiven...to a point. Once the bugs have been identified, ironed out, and fully patched, it should be able to run near perfect on most systems meeting recommended specs (imho, 3 months after release should be enough time to be able to fix issues on edge case hardware issues). But consoles are stationary targets where the performance is known and static from device to device across the same platform. With consoles, if your game will not run stable on a static platform by the time you're wanting to release the game: #1 you have no clue what you're doing; #2 You need to delay the release date until you learn wtf you're doing wrong with #1.

As a developer for a console, one should physically have the platform available to test on; have a spec sheet from the manufacturer outlining the details of what every single console of that model is capable of in terms of raw CPU clock speed, RAM space, VidRAM space, Video clock speed, along with guidelines on the minimum and recommended resources that need to be free for the system OS to keep the system stable; and one needs to perform their own benchmarks on the system to find out optimal performance levels as well as peak performance levels. Finally, if one extensively tests on the actual hardware and finds that it's not running anywhere close to optimally, the developers have done fucked up somewhere. It does not matter one iota if the console is underpowered. It's a given that they're going to be and blaming the fixed and stationary target that is a console platform is nothing but a strawman to distract away from the fact that the developers don't know what in the hell they're doing.

From game ticket revenue?