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This is probably due to incompetence, not malice. Bugfix a'hoy?

They probably meant "It is our intention not to collect information..." rather than "Microsoft does not collect information..."

If you make a mistake which contradicts something you've said in a formal contract, is there any way to basically say "Whoops, my bad, yo. We're pushing out a bugfix ASAP"? Would that even 'matter'? I guess it depends entirely on the exact contract, so there's probably no way to answer that.

I mean, people make mistakes. It's life; it happens. I'm just wondering if the legal system reflects that fact at all, or whether it's a hardcore stonefaced slavedriver that laughs at how naive you are for thinking you get a second chance.

In OpenGL 3+ you can use something called a 'geometry shader'.

Execution flow looks like:

1. application renders a list of points

2. those points are transformed by the Vertex Shader

3. the output of [2] is fed into the Geometry Shader.

(and the output of [3] is additional geometry, created "on the fly", which is then rasterized.)

As a simple example, a geometry shader could turn each point into a square. For each input point, it outputs the four corners of the square: [[ptX-1,ptY-1] [ptX+1,ptY-1] [ptX+1,ptY+1] [ptX-1,ptY+1]]

But yeah that's not coming to GLES anytime soon.

Thank you for the info! Much appreciated.

Thank you very much!

"content spam the holy hell out of the Internet"

How? (In what way would you go about doing that?)

Wow.

You have a lot of determination! Kudos.

Yes. At my last job, they had 200+ servers, all Windows.

When I tried to bring up Linux as an option, they sort of winced and said "Linux... ehhh... it's hard to get Linux doing what you want."

That's correct.

Ever seen Mythbusters? Think Jamie.

Oh, sod off. Some people simply can't. I know, because I'm one. We're still excited -- we just don't show it.

Literally, we can't. You may as well be asking us to detach our arm.

Oh, yep. That's correct, thanks.

Those are very good points.

So what do you think should be done about the present situation, if anything? I have no idea.

Yep, that's correct. I wish "thing.Length - 1" were as clear as "0", but it's not.

Besides, if you really cared about efficiency, you wouldn't be using growable containers... =)

You're missing the point.

1) Money exists to serve humans. It doesn't exist for money's sake. The end goal is to help people. The airline helped people get from A to B. Dropbox helps people send files.

2) The people holding the bonds are still gamblers. Your example consists entirely of gamblers!

No, I pretty much just recoiled in horror immediately.

Even if I had to avoid .Clear(), there are immediately-obvious, better ways.

  while ( !thing.Empty() )
    thing.Remove( 0 );

In fact, the code isn't just bad; it's risky. What if someone changes "int" to "uint"? It wouldn't even infinite loop / crash... It would remove exactly one element!

So... How is humanity better off by investment banking?

What I mean is, that airplane example consists entirely of gamblers.

Are you saying "humanity is better because people can continue to fly with the airline"? Then why not use a different airline?

So I'm struggling to see why the world wouldn't be better off letting the airline fail, as opposed to risking a bunch of other people's money.

C'mon. You've been on Hacker News three years. We're not like the rest of the internet.

Let's try this again. Pretend you're trying to convince Feynman that investment banking is a Good Thing. What specific points would you raise?

(No one would disagree that iPads / streaming video are good. We would, however, disagree on how much "investment banking" has contributed to their existence.)

The relevance is: "investment banking" may have done more harm than good. (As in, consider their whole existence. What might the world have been like without investment banking?)

Have you heard Knuth speak? He's full of "um's" and "ah's".

(Neil is fantastic; I only brought it up because I'm someone who uses a lot of "um's" and "ah's", which tends to give people the impression that I'm dim. So it gave me hope to find out that even the great Knuth suffers from it too.)

Thought about it.

(Different topic, out of curiosity.) Why bother protesting anything at all?

I mean, we're both smart people. Surely we agree that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aT9p36fgHU#t=3m35s indicates the police can do whatever they want, and nobody really cares except the victim.

And there's really nothing to do about it, or any way to change it. Nobody cares about protests except the protesters.

I wish it weren't that way, but, given that things are that way, then why bother fighting?

Just curious, how did you get a videotape?

I wish I had an "Oh boy, here comes a police officer" button, which records the entire event. But obviously there is no such device.

I'm terrified at the idea of pulling out a cameraphone during any police interaction, due to the possibility of being prosecuted / imprisoned for violating their expectation of privacy. I'm relatively poor, and no one really cares what happens to me, so I wouldn't be able to fight the courts.

Then you'll love http://www.viemu.com/ .... There are so many good things to say about ViEmu that it's hard to know where to begin. I've been a happy ViEmu customer for about three years now. Best $99 I've ever spent, hands-down.

Maybe it will suffice to say: "VisualAssist + ViEmu = <3". They synergize so incredibly well together.

Someday I should record a video of me coding C++ in Visual Studio. In the last 4 days alone, I've written 8,700 lines of C++. No way could I have done that without my precious ViEmu / VAX templates / custom hotkeys. (It's rare to ever need to touch the mouse, which is pretty fabulous.)

At this point, I write systems as fast as I can think, not type.

Wait, wait... "texture cache corruption", and "null pointers in the scene tree"?

Edit: It's both scary and awesome that you rigged a game engine to manage a music library a-la iTunes. Are you profitable?

Pssh, whatever man. My happiness can be modeled as: enum Boolean { TRUE, FALSE, SOCKS_NOT_FOUND };

Well, for what it's worth, I think you're 100% correct.

What shocked me was...

1) it's almost impossible to talk with someone about themselves, about mistakes they've made or about things they could do better (unless they brought it up).

2) almost nobody cares about "the truth". They only care about what makes them happy.

Those two may as well be laws of nature.

That game is hilarious!

Doom 3 is going to be open-source before the end of the year. I can't wait!

vectormath.zzz.yyy.xxx

I think this is the start of a beautiful collaboration, you two.

'twas a joke bro. If I found a laptop, I'd do everything in my power to return it to its owner.

And people wonder why there aren't more women in computer science...