Comment Re:Let's get this out of the way... (Score 1) 74
So, what you're saying is that you need spinning magnets?
So, what you're saying is that you need spinning magnets?
It's comments like this that make me think the tech community isn't a completely lost cause.
I don't think it's more of a lost cause than the general population. Once I'd have thought it would be less, but these days I no longer believe that, either. The real difference is that modern communications methods make it easier for you to see who's an asshole. Before, it was entirely possible for someone to be a vicious asshole their whole lives and yet go unnoticed.
You must travel in some fucked up social circles. I do not see this type of behavior at all. Maybe Colorado is just full of nicer people? You people seem to live in some seriously fucked up sections of the planet.
Yes, I live in California. You know, the state with more residents than anywhere else in the country. But we're also talking about online, which makes geography irrelevant.
To conclude, women are not being held down by men everywhere
You can surely find limited localities where there is less repression, but frankly I do not believe that there is no sexism in Colorado, and further that your assertion that it does not exist there (that's what sexism does, after all, hold women down) only illustrates your blindness to the problem.
It doesn't show them 'by default'. The opening page is a list of games for your platform
If that's true, it's new. Last time I launched Steam on Linux, which was at least well after the launch of big picture mode, the default was still to just show all titles.
Only you normally don't need to be online, as Steam has an offline mode?
FFVII for Steam refuses to launch if you're not online, at least the first time. This ties into my prior complaints about Steam "backups", which cannot be played until Steam is installed and blessed by Valve, and then the game titles themselves are blessed by Valve.
If you want what the devil has, you get to deal with the devil, like it or not.
I don't like it. I decided not to buy Portal 2 for just $5. The only Steam games I buy any more are indie titles. I did buy FFVII on Steam, because it was on sale, but then I torrented the non-steam version because fuck having to be always online to play a console game of yore.
Steam is shit.
Since the games say what they run on when you buy them, I wouldn't give your blind ass a refund either.
The only reason Steam even shows you titles which won't run on your platform by default is to trick you into buying them. It's intentionally deceptive.
I predict that these will sell poorly because the people who can afford them want comfort, and room to fuck their secretary/mistress.
This is why we use the terms "Instruction Set Architecture" to define the interface to the (assembler) programmer,
No, no we do not. That is called the instruction set. The programmer does not use the instruction set architecture, they simply issue instructions which the processor then executes as it sees fit, especially in [OoO] architectures with branch prediction. The architecture is the silicon, and the programmer isn't sitting on the die flipping switches.
All these were made to make binary translation from x86 easy and reasonable fast.
And herein lies the proof that you know you are wrong, but are continuing to argue. Those things didn't make x86 translation possible, they made it easy and fast. Which is what I said previously. Thanks for the confirmation.
The problem was, what was said wasn't, it had nothing to do with it, it was completely off the cuff.
"Off the cuff" doesn't mean what you think it does, because it doesn't preclude racism or sexism. Indeed, it indicates it more strongly, where it appears to be present.
Obviously such behavior is abhorrent, but it doesn't do to claim that most people that fit in any category are psychos publicly
It seems more like she's criticized a segment of a category, and then people like you have promoted the idea that she's criticizing the entire category as a defensive reaction.
You just emphasized his point and gave it credibility.
What, by pointing out hypocrisy? Bullshit.
Some of what you said is legitimate. Most of it is irrelevant, since it does not speak to the postulate. You're speaking of issues which will affect performance. So what? You'd have a less-performant processor in some cases, and it would be faster in others.
"The Netherlands" is a country and it's correct to include the "The" (when naming it in English, at least).
Irrelevant, because we are not talking about The Netherlands
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I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
