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Comment Visual Studio 2015 (Score 0) 115

Its sad that this took so long that even Visual Studio will support Android and NDK development in its next release and Google is JUST NOW releasing real tools for one of its flagship data collection platforms.

Android users (meaning both owners of devices and device makers) - You are the product, not the customer. FFS do you not understand the saying 'You get what you pay for'

Comment Re:What's wrong with emacs and make ? (Score 1) 115

IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment.

There is no requirement that it be 'graphical', both yourself and the original poster are wrong in that presumption.

The original IDEs were ALL text based.

IDEs are simply a suite of tools that work together (in a convenient way) to make developing software easier, all other constraints you add are not actual constraints.

Emacs is fully capable of functioning as an IDE and in fact part of the reason it is what it is happens to be because a certain GNU fanboy used it as his IDE and he happens to be its author.

Those of us who don't still live in the stone age don't really think of it as an IDE, but it most certainly is a very capable one.

Oh, and it works in a GUI too, just put an X in front of its name, and as if by magic, you have a gui wrapper around it.

Comment Re:Drat! (Score 1) 46

Not really, Catholics believe in evolution and have nothing against this theory. Catholics have contributed a great deal to science since science has absolutely no impact what so ever on religious beliefs. They are not in competition and can not be used for or against each other by definition.

Only raving nutters try to mix science and religion. Raving nutters on BOTH sides of the God vs No God debate.

Comment Re:why is it always comets and asteroids? (Score 1) 46

They don't think that it 'had' to come from there, they are proposing a possible place that it started and showing that the conditions made it possible to happen. They aren't saying 'this is what happened', they are saying 'The conditions make it possible that it may occur during these types of events'.

Astrophysicists don't (generally) know jack shit about hydrothermal vents, they know about things in space so they can't comment (reliably) on life in pools of chemicals or at the bottom of the oceans, but they can comment on asteroid and comet impacts.

Marine biologists can also show that the conditions make it possible that it might have started near hydrothermal vents.

In reality, its possible life thrives given the opportunity and it occurs at BOTH, as well as many others we haven't begun to think of yet.

Comment You aren't motivated, certs aren't going to help (Score 1) 317

In your case, certifications won't likely help you much.

I would say, that since you're asking the question, you probably are in the wrong field.

You're in a field with many bright, observant people and you haven't really bothered to pay close enough attention to the field around you but you call yourself an IS manager. I would say your problem is not certifications, its that you're just not that good or at a bear minimum, you aren't trying very hard and thats why your career is stalled.

With 15 years 'experience' you should know the answer to this sort of generic question.

The actually answer is 'yes, no, maybe, both, sometimes and never'. It depends on what you're trying to accomplish and who you're trying to get hired by or who you are trying to impress for a promotion or raise. You haven't bothered to consider what you're trying to accomplish but instead you've just come to slashdot expecting an easy answer. Certain companies will require certifications. Some will know that most are stupid. Certain certs are actually meaningful, and certain certs just mean you paid the right 'training provider' the right amount of money (i.e. took their training courses)

Comment Boy who cried wolf (Score 1, Troll) 163

So how many times are we going to go through this same alarmist, the world is going to end because of ... the flu thing?

I started paying attention to this crap in the late 90s when I realized 'it seems like every year we're going to have a horrible flu outbreak' ... then they started naming the flu for the year, which meant my drama queen sister in law seemed to get 'deadliest flu strain ever' every year ... and saying things like 'I have H1N1, its the deadly one!!!!!' except of course ... H1N1 isn't a specific strain, its a class of strains ... and its the most common one for all time, which pretty much everyone gets.

Every year, some news station will show someone from the CDC talking about how much more dangerous this year is ... and they'll throw out numbers ... and then when you go compare those numbers with the CDCs website of ACTUAL statistics ... you see that the numbers they are saying are bullshit ... and that the numbers for this year are actually pretty much average and right down the median of the range from previous years.

Now they've changed the data they display. They no longer display historical data, now they display what they call the seasonal baseline, which is essentially the lowest year ever recorded, and an epidemic threshold, which is exceeded EVERY SINGLE YEAR except extremely rare ones ... and no longer do they show that this year looks exactly like last year, and the previous 20 all look almost identical.

Scaremongering

And while we're on the subject of the flu ... why is it that I'm the only one in my family that doesn't get a flu shot and I'm also the only one who has managed to not get the flu every year except for the year before last ... when doctors convinced me to get the flu shot because I had a newborn son ... ironic that I GOT THE FLU THAT YEAR.

Just fucking stop.

The flu is scary for immunocompromised hosts, which is basically no one other than HIV/AIDS carriers and older people. Even freaking kids have an immune system that does well against it.

Comment Re:ipads, chromebooks: the real lesson (Score 0) 229

They were OPEN systems, fully and 100% controlled by the student at the keyboard

No they weren't. You're just ignoring the fact that they weren't, nor has there ever been an electronic computer such as that for a multitude of reasons. But hey, you keep pretending that you have some fantasy 100% open computer that you use by ignoring all the parts of it that are in no way open because your preference suits your agenda so you want to pretend its something its not.

Comment Re:5th Admendment? (Score 4, Informative) 446

Uhm, no.

Mutations happen all the time in every cellular organism on the planet. There are mechanisms in place to deal with those mutations and squash them in many cases, but not all, this is part of the way evolution works. It does not have to occur only in the initial cellular division or zygote. Even 'identical twins' can have minor cellular differences due to mutations that happen in the process of gestation after the eggs are split into two distinct units.

Cancer is a very specific group of extremely rare of mutations that isn't detected and stopped by the normal methods cells use to protect themselves. It is in fact a mutation that prevents the mechanism which stops out of control cell growth.

Comment Re:One very simple solution (Score 1) 256

Stop being an idiot. More people are killed by people fucking with their phones than people who are counted as over the limit.

The limit is ridiculously low, and no where near unsafe in 99.999% of the population.

You effectively want to ruin someones life for no actual reason, just because you've listened to MADD too fucking much.

If they get into an accident BECAUSE they were intoxicated, sure, thats another story. If they are repeat offenders, SURE.

First time? No, you're just an ignorant moron.

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