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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio Code Preview For Linux, OS X, and Windows 72

ClockEndGooner writes: Microsoft is still extending its efforts into cross platform development with the release of a preview edition of Visual Studio Code, "a lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications that will run on OS X, Linux and Windows." Derived from its Monaco editor for Visual Studio Online, the initial release includes rich code assistance and navigation for JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, ASP.NET 5, C# and many others.

Comment Re:A subset of first-world problems... (Score 1) 403

...hipster tragedy*:

"Oh no, my trendy tattoo is interfering with my Apple Smart watch! What ever will I do?"

*also called comedy by the rest of us.

I'd call it irony.

They threw away their watches because the iPhone freed them from wearing it and got sleeves because it was trendy to limit their employment options for the rest of their lives.

The irony is that a new trendy thing can only be worn by people who probably think tattoos are lame and don't really care about being an early iMustGetTheLatestTrendyAppleThing adopter. They're probably thinking 'my tattoos aren't so trendy anymore and it's all Apples fault because iWant an iWatch`.

Now if I could use a voice recognition system on it to link with a bash shell and actually want to spend that much money on a first generation device then this would actually be a selling point. Fortunately idon'tCareAbout iWatch or iTattoos.

The irony is actually delicious from many perspectives. I shall savour it!

Comment Re:Intimidated by the power of the vag? (Score 1) 494

Yea, because it's the women who drag them off to jail when they try to marry little girls as is allowed in their holy books. Lolz!

Well their customs allow them to take a little boy as a plaything as well, to rape as they please and they custom has a name. What's your point? A human rights abuse is a human rights abuse, it doesn't matter if it is a male, female, adult or child.

There's these things called "States" And they have laws. And the laws are made to benefit women and take away any reason for men to draw another breath.

awwww somewon got der lil heart broken and hates women. If you had picked a specific part of the law, I may have been inclined to agree, however you just blame everything which is not only moronic but lame. Here is some valuable advice for you:

Get over yourself, the world isn't going to say sorry.

Comment get em young, get em forever (Score 1) 352

I describe what I think the public-school classroom will look like in 20 years,

A grab bag for corporate interests to get the advertising message right into classrooms and capture the market at its youngest and most impressionable through a hodgepodge of incompatible proprietary technologies put there by uninformed school departments and selected from a pork barrel of suppliers who paid the biggest lobbying fees to the politicians responsible for ensuring the "very best for growing young minds".

DRM

Microsoft, Chip Makers Working On Hardware DRM For Windows 10 PCs 304

writertype writes: Last month, Microsoft began talking about PlayReady 3.0, which adds hardware DRM to secure 4K movies. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Qualcomm are all building it in, according to Microsoft. "Older generations of PCs used software-based DRM technology. The new hardware-based technology will know who you are, what rights your PC has, and won’t ever allow your PC to unlock the content so it can be ripped. ... Unfortunately, it looks like the advent of PlayReady 3.0 could leave older PCs in the lurch. Previous PlayReady technology secured content up to 1080p resolution using software DRM—and that could be the maximum resolution for older PCs without PlayReady 3.0." Years back, a number of people got upset when Hollywood talked about locking down "our content." It looks like we may be facing it again for 4K video.

Comment Old vs Young (Score 3, Insightful) 349

This conversation always seems to forget that everyone who is old was young and that everyone who is young will be old. It's in young peoples interests to make sure older people are respected for what they have learned as much as it is in older peoples interests to help make sure younger people can establish careers.

What we should be criticizing is the myopic view of companies that devalue the experiences of older people to exploit the energies of younger people. It robs younger people of the opportunity to access the experiences that made older people's brains more efficient for problem solving - that is what experience is. It not only robs older people of work opportunities, it also robs them of seeing ideas built on and evolved. That denial of perspective is what holds back the evolution of ideas.

If this is true within Google then it renders their motto 'Don't be evil' hypocritical. The denial of wisdom and experience is a recipe for fragility for companies who don't have access to key knowledge at key times required for them to survive. That is why you pay more for experience, the ROI on youth.

In reality ageism is discrimination against anyone subject to the progression of time.

Comment Nervous Breakdowns (Score 1) 407

People won't be able to cope with being smarter from a drug because they can't cope with naturally smart people enough in the first place, how will they cope actually *being* smarter?

They think they will be taking a drug to make them smarter (actually: "Not distracted by their *phone long enough to actually get some fucking work done") and trade off their ability to socialize for a perceived benefit that they already have were they to take responsibility for their own education, exercise, sleep and state of mind.

Coupled with the increased ability to recognize what people are thinking through an unwanted enhanced understanding of body language, they will quickly understand that additional I.Q is as much a burden as it is a blessing. Worse still they may become voracious readers for a while and start to know a few things they don't want to know once they become dis-satisfied with the droll drivel that is supposed to be 'entertainment' on TV. For a while they may even get shocked out of their ignorance and question everything while they ruminate on solutions. They will push harder and then need more drug.

They won't exercise or sleep any more than they used to, if they use to, even though their enhanced 'brain' screams at them to do so and they will continue to abuse whatever else it is they abuse that held their intelligence back in the first place.

What is the withdrawal symptom? You become so stupid you can't tie your shoelaces and so apathetic that you become a cognitive burden on society (as if there wasn't enough of that already).

Why? Because they need a drug to make them smarter - that's why.

Comment Re:Gameplay is king (Score 1) 150

the gameplay, that's what I'm really into. And this has some good stuff.

Battlefront has never been disappointing in that regard and the previous 2 versions are still worth getting on a LAN and playing with friends. Hopefully this version of BF will allow the type of gameplay that has been available in the past to continue, instead of forcing you to be online like many games are now.

After all the gameplay has to be good AND it has to be fun to play.

Comment Re:How many other flaws (Score 1) 173

What if justice and truth don't actually benefit society?

That's an interesting question. I think that depends of if you believe it's is supposed to. Law replaced belief systems as ways to maintain reasonable behaviour to build society, like 'I won't kill and eat my neighbour if I am starving' all the way through to 'if you make a contract with someone, it's binding'.

Personally I think it does when it is given the resources to function properly which means it should be malleable enough to adapt and improve to the needs of changing human civilization. I think that the benefit it provides to society is that civility is enforced so that other more constructive things can occur. Justice is the balancing act that settles disputes and truth (via learning as is the case with this) is the 'ah-ha' moment that allows lessons to be learned about things that caused a problem for people to be codified into law to prevent/resolve the problem in the future.

Civil, being the key word, for people often are not, which is why laws were necessary in the first place to build a civilization. I think there are plenty of places around the world where it doesn't function properly so it's possible to experience life without justice or truth.

Overall though I think that societies with high levels of justice and truth in their legal systems have higher standards of living for their participants because corruption, that brings down a society, is minimized.

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