Ahh I was (incorrectly) presuming you were talking about offshoring.

I agree that more first gen. immigrants are coming into software within the US.
As long as they are truly competing on an actually level playing field (i.e they don't get concessions over locals and any other artificial advantages in the hiring decisions) I don't actually see that in itself as a bad thing. The real question is, is it actually level?

Don't forget that the US was built by and is mostly comprised of families that were themselves immigrants only a few generations ago.

>> in the future, it will be done by 'cheap world labor'. ie, NOT YOU.

I call bullshit. I've worked in several comapnies that have each tried outsourcing software development projects and without exception they've ALL failed due to bad quailty. Thankfully many if not most US companies are finally deciding that outsourcing software development as a cost-cutting exercise just doesn't work.

I think they all would if they thought they could get away with it.

If you run doxygen on an existing codebase that was developed without doxygen support already built-in, all you get is a giant list of classes and member names, and empty spaces where any descriptions would go.
This has little to no value in trying to understand existing architecture or functionality.

I'm thinking that no company is really any better than Sony in actually caring about their customers rights and privacy. Its just that Sony and Microsoft are incompetent enough to make it obvious, while companies like Google and Apple have smarter PR people and a larger marketing budget.

If 2 years of CS is actually equivalent to a "World Lanuage" (whetever that is), since I can speak 3 langauges, where do I collect my free (2nd) CS degree?

Motive and cause.

In the case of Sandy Hook, it seems clear that the perpitrator was actually mentally ill, so was literally malfunctioning mentally.

The terrorists not only clearly knew what they were doing and chose to do it anyway, but had planned it beforehand, and then further used it to try to incite mass terror on a wider scale. Unlike the Sandy hook perpitrator, their intention was to not just kill the victim(s), but to make him suffer in the worst way possible before he died, and then also publicise it as a sick and callous attempt at prmoting their own political agenda.

There is no way that the perpitrators of these two events can be considered morally equivalent.

>> Terrorists should be dealt with the same way other criminals are dealt with.

Tell that to the family that watched a video of their son being burnt to death in a iron cage yesterday.

http://freedomoutpost.com/2015...

>> In December 2011, Hammond stole roughly 5 million confidential emails and thousands of credit card numbers

I think the problem in labelling every cyber criminal a terrorist is that it dilutes the whole importance of the label when you're dealing with actual terrorsts.

It seems that its not unlike being an ex-con in the US. So many people in the US get locked up for even relatively trivial offences that having served time doesn't carry half the social stigma in the US that it does in other countries. Therefore encarceratiion in the US is probably less effective as a deterrent than in other countries.

Jeremy Hammond? They'll be going after James Clarkson next.

These show the frightening level of ignorance about science in the general US population:
http://news.nationalgeographic...
http://www.pewinternet.org/201...
Depending on which study you look at, apparently only 40% - 66% of Americans even believe evolution is real. What are you guys smoking over there?

That would automaitcally solve itself if most American voters would stop voting from partisan habit and against the party they least want, to actually voting for the person they do want.

possibly but if so its still a stupid thing to say as its obviously going to confuse meaning.

...Which again makes no mention at all of crashes occuring as he stated several times.
Seems he's just trolling with no actual evidence. Probably just another rabid ATI fanboi.

Yeah I know. Its basicaily what I meant when I listed bitmaps.

The whole point of using mipmaps is as a strategy to reduce GPU memory/bandwidth usage. Consequently I don't think differentiating between bitmaps and mipmaps is actually relevant to the larger discussion here.