Bullshit. Trolls are an important part of why anonimity is needed. They pull out and open up the issues. They show us our emotions, and what we react to. Without them we lose a big part of our ability to derive truth.

Except you're not getting a new president. You're getting a copy of an old one.

It's bipartisan. The thing is, they will let it expire, use that to get into office, stage or provoke another major incident, then reinstate the patriot act, only tougher. Using the excuse that getting rid of it made the country vulnerable to terrorist attack. Later the skeptics, and anti war protesters will group together and fight to stop whatever insane killing is going on. The Democrats will take credit for this and use it to get back into office. It's a tag team match between big oil and the motion picture and movie industry.

I've read a lot about this, and this guy broke the law, knew he was breaking the law, and got caught. He, pretty much, told them who he was - openly. They caught him red handed with all the evidence he could ever need. The legal system isn't acting in any way that isn't legitimate. Plus, he probably did hire people to kill people. Which, no matter how I feel about draconian drug laws, I will never get behind or agree with. I'm as anti establishment as the next guy, but there is a point where you have to say, lets look at another case...

I'm sorry, but iOS really has very little to offer a power user. How many custom Roms can it run? What can you do with it? What kind of other devices run iOS? It's, pretty much, the most boring piece of crap on the planet. People who don't have time to fiddle with their phones tend to get iPhones because of this. I know a lot of tech people who use iPhones so they can avoid the temptation of hacking their Androids. Or they will have one as a second phone in case they blow the Android up and need a phone. No, the world didn't suddenly flood with mentally challenged 'power users'.

Entry level C++ developer is kind of like an entry level bull fighter.

LOL, it's always been classified as a mid level language. I came from an assembler background, so this is something that just went without saying for me. But with all these coders coming from high level scripting language backgrounds, it has to be useful to point this out. C/C++ are designed to be able to allow the programmer to get closer to the hardware level while still maintaining it's status as a programming language, as opposed to assembler. Because of this it's more portable. But, it was always a mid level trade off.

Nice :D. It's more than that, but that's a clear and clean method using terms most programmers understand. If they can think their way through that one a bit, they have a chance :D.

Huh. It's not about knowing templates or overloading operators, or virtual this or that. It's about knowing when those things are necessary, and how they should be used. Know your way around pointers and memory management, and know how to avoid memory leaks and corrupting the whole system with them. Know the difference between a memory leak and every other kind of bug that can show up in code. It, really, is a specific thing and it doesn't just describe everything. This is why coding in C++ is looked at as hard, I think. it's not about knowing this and doing that. There's no formula. You actually have to be able to think and react accordingly. Seeing people overuse templates when they're unnecessary is worse than people who under use them, for example. I've seen coders rewrite C++ so it will read like Pascal, because that's what they're used to. I want to rip their guts out and kick them back to whatever hell they came from.

Actually, no. Those 'EXTRAS' fox news throws in are called lies. Other news outlets tend to add spin to capture audiences. For the full story, talk to people that are there, go there, or do some thorough research on the internet. Fox will never bring more truth to the situation.

Wouldn't it be easier just to have a girlfriend who had one too?

Hrm, there's no indication any of those responses came from astroturfers. Your comments are shit. That's all. You're a sad, angry human who doesn't have the money to buy a half decent pc, so you're taking it out on an innocent /. forum. Get over it. The specs aren't that harsh, I have 2 pcs that will be fine. Otherwise, if you don't like it, don't buy it.

Hrm, because it's not the 90's? The VR being made now is nothing like the stuff they were building in the 90's?

I dunno, 8.1 is pretty good with Command Shell. I like it better than 7, at least as long as I avoid the sides of the screen and metro apps. It's so much crisper than 7, the file operation dialog boxes are immensely better than 7's, and the performance charts are better and easier to get to. I do feel like I'm going backwards when I use a Windows 7 machine. *but this is with Command Shell installed, only. Using Windows 8 without it is just stupid and annoying.

Maybe? But this is more about the Farmers going after Monsanto and trying to blame them for CCD because they're butthurt about not being able to save off their seeds at the end of the year. The farmers pushing that are, for the most part, conservative. Their propaganda tents to be directed at Liberals, oddly enough.