Comment Re:BS Detectors at Maximum, Mr. Sulu (Score 1) 433
The Neanderthals were there first. I, for one...
The Neanderthals were there first. I, for one...
No matter what you say, they'll take the most insignificant thing and say "See! See! This tiny little bit right here is wrong! You spelled the product name wrong! That means everything you said must also be wrong!"
Half of your post in #44780265 is wrong, and basically all of your post in #44780073 is wrong, except the parts where you start making your own opinions based on the wrong information. Is it not fair for people to point that out? If I made a post that was half full of misinformation, I would expect to be called out for that.
Perhaps you would like to think that although all your premises (the most insignificant thing!) are wrong, your conclusions (the important part, yea?) are still correct. But if that is so, why bother to attempt to make an reasoned argument in the first place? Just click the "Post Anonymously" button and flame away!
Samsung demonstrated what a complete and utter fallacy it was to for companies like Nokia and RIM not to use Android with the argument "you can't differentiate in the Android ecosystem", quite obviously Samsung proved you can very much differentiate pretty much on hardware alone.
They apparently didn't only differentiate on hardware alone:
Objective C is actually a great language. It combines the speed of C with the dynamism of the Objective C runtime, and you can mix C++ into it if you want. That gives you a *lot* of options, when you need to balance performance vs type safety vs speed of development, etc.
The foundation libraries may be a bit wordy for some people's tastes, but the language itself is quite solid.
If you meant to talk about the downsides of Xcode, well, that's totally another story...
Succinct proof.
So instead of fearing snipers, it is better to fear the rockets from fighter jets miles up in the sky?
Or, is it better to fear various curable diseases from killing your child instead of the snipers? I don't see the US spending trillions of dollars on these causes. Given the track record in Afghan and Iraq, it's pretty obvious that spending a few trillion on curing diseases like malaria, HIV, etc, even if unsuccessful, is probably better than spending trillions to make bad political situations worse.
Hong Kong native here. I'd be pretty shocked if the average person here does not know what a Key Lime Pie is (if translated to Cantonese, the local dialect here) . Most people probably tried it before. People here dig western desserts. The existence of a (stub) wikipedia entry of key lime pie in Cantonese (as opposed to standard Chinese) corroborates my claim.
I personally avoid desserts (and sweet things in general, because I prefer savory foods), but I think I tried some key lime pie before.
Your general point probably holds though, but I'm not sure KitKat has better penetrated those markets compared to the Floridan pie...
"KitKat" does sound much more catchy though.
I wonder why this news never made
In some languages the getopt() equivalent is pretty readable.
It's sort of unfortunate that after so many years, plain C is still the de facto standard language for Unix-alike systems. The limitations of the language (that it is designed with machine implementations in mind, instead of with human readability) makes it necessary to document more things than otherwise would have been in an ideal (/perfect) world.
I'm sure I've broken at least your copyright laws
It already happened. It's not exactly news.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._ElcomSoft_and_Sklyarov
I remember seeing this on Slashdot many years ago. It was quite a big news back then, and there were multiple articles and commentary on this (just search).
What the US does to other people in other countries is another matter, ranging from droning people we can't otherwise reach to the Gitmo.
As far as GITMO goes, what we have going on there are people , only some of whom WERE dangerous when we picked them up but many of whom ARE NOW dangerous (uh..duh.) and therefore are being detained. It's truly Kafakaesque but then that's what fascists like the above listed names inevitably create in their wake.
Hmm, I dunno.... This does seem to prove TFA's point....
If you are considered a threat to national security, you can be taken off the street in pretty much any nation. The only thing that's unusual about the US is that this didn't use to happen here. And the sooner we return that exceptional status among nations, the better.
In most civilized nations, they have to provide a fair (and open) trial, observe due process, and basically respect basic human rights, even if you're a threat to national security. There are international treaties on this. It is not exceptional.
the definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make"
It depends. If I knew a person will actually stick fingers in his ears and not listen, it's almost certainly childish behavior on his part. People with better people skills and *finesse* would have much better ways to handle the situation.
Or maybe he intended to just cash out and leave without putting up with the bullshit, and still not be seen as breaking the terms of the deal....
As for new CEOs, well, supposedly the CEO can change the corporate culture and it's "song", but sometimes it takes great effort to do so, and when they fail, they get replaced. It's easier to work against the rules when you're at the top, but it's not necessarily a trivial task.
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