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I'm a SC guy, but upvote for any resurgence of the PC Space SIm.

What I want to know is, when/why did everyone stop referring to it as the x-BONE?! As a PC gamer, I was just happy that somebody was screwing up bad enough to get bad press and hopefully lead to some PC resurgence...

The heyllll you talkin' bout, can't flow together? The entire basis of "power moves" in breakdancing is being able to sustain rotational momentum while nearly seamlessly chaining them together. I would be of the opinion that is one form of flow.

Not trying to be a dick, but if you're really saying that nothing new has been invented in the past, I think you have to regain some perspective, and you're also missing a lot of nuance. 15 years ago people doing straight windmills would be somewhat impressive. It wasn't much more than five years ago that air tracks (0:38) became common. People were not doing that shit in the 90s. And certainly not doing it on just one elbow, while grabbing their other leg and sipping a cold Coke all at the same time.

People do moves, and then other people figure out ways to add a little something on top of those moves, and so on and so forth. I think there is definitely an artistic aspect to it, in that there's an exploration there of the limits of the human body, and dancers have taken things much further over time.

I think to some extent breakdancing has been played out, when it kind of resurged in the 2000s. It's also frequently taken out of its larger context of hip hop dance, where it's just one aspect of many different styles.

Anyway, yeah, I guess I'm kind of defensive about breakdancing.
/former breakdancer

As someone put it during the 2008 campaign, America is both the best and the worst country in the world when it comes to race.

The way I interpreted that was that we're probably the only country in the world where you could get a majority of the voting population to elect an ethnic minority for their highest political office. We're also one of the only places where people in Congress would pass around a picture of him photoshopped to look like a witch doctor, and insist he wasn't really born in America.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

On the one hand, Obama's election really put a stamp on how far the US has come in overcoming racism.
On the other hand, there's been a huge resurgence ever since or, at the very least, they've been emboldened somehow. I've seen and heard more racism in the last 4 years than in my previous 29 on the planet.

On the one hand, Obama's election really put a stamp on how far the US has come in overcoming racism.

On the other hand, there's been a huge resurgence ever since or, at the very least, they've been emboldened somehow. I've seen and heard more racism in the last 4 years than in my previous 29 on the planet.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Fuck this genocidal scumbag.


Dude, we all hate Friedman, and with good reason. However, I don't disagree with this line of argument. I think the resurgence of true libertarians in the republican party makes this one of the few issues we could get bipartisan agreement on. I'd just as soon pursue it than malign their ideologues.

Also, I think some of what happened in Chile is overly associated with Friedman. He wasn't Pinochet himself. I don't think he was "disappearing" women himself. While it was a horrible blemish on human history, it's hard to say what exactly his involvement was.

yeah it seemed all even-handed and what not, but at the end it was just an ad for Ron Paul.

The frustrating part is just...at the end of the day, you never have a guarantee. Let's argue for a moment that that somehow the far right makes a resurgence and a far right religious crackpot like Bachmann gets elected. Like the guy alludes to, I really don't think a whole lot would change. The nation just does not turn on a dime.

We've had 8 years of Bush and then we get Obama in and guess what. The nation did not turn on a dime. All those morons who went out and bought a ton of guns and ammo out of fear just wasted their money.

The same thing happened when Bush was elected. The far left was certain Roe v Wade would get overturned and abortion would become illegal. It didn't happen. All that panic and worrying for nothing.

Now i'm not saying that things wouldn't change over time if one party or the other would stay in office for a more sustained amount of time. So I'm not saying the presidency doesn't matter. But we as a nation, left and right, put way too much stock in the Office of the President. It's Congress that really has the power, but despite that, all the scrutiny goes to the President. Congress does not have their activities under a magnifying glass like the President does.

Anytime someone argues that something is going to cause a radical shift left or right, they're typically full of shit. If a change does occur, it's going to be slow and gradual. That's assuming they can even make the change.

And quite honestly, I don't mind that. It would be insanely chaotic if things shifted radically every time power changed hands. I'm OK with change being slow. It swings both ways, If we're changing for the worse, it gives us the chance to make changes before things get too bad and if we're changing for the better, then it gives a chance for the opposition to understand why it's better so that everyone can be on board.

He's funny, but I have a feeling if it were good they wouldn't be door to dooring it. Elbow grease is the catalyst there.

Door to door salesmen are like trolls, you don't want to feed them or they keep coming back. Massive resurgence of them these last two years, most don't bother knocking anymore.

A lot of the features people seem to think would improve C are the features that would completely defeat the purpose of the language. Adding object-oriented features would add overhead (and OO features can be imitated through coding techniques anyway). Adding exception handling adds HUGE overhead. Adding garbage collection, like Java? Ridiculous amount of overhead. Methods for catching dangling references: more overhead. Pretty much anything you do add is going to degrade the language for its specific purpose.

Now if you can afford to handle some of that overhead, you have C++ as an alternative, which was made to introduce some of those extra features, yet still maintain its speed. And this is what many projects do. The Linux kernel needs to be as fast and efficient as possible, and so it uses C. On the other hand, there are desktop environments like KDE that use C++ instead to take advantage of those extra features and aren't as concerned with raw speed considering the environment they run in. And this continues all the way up to higher level languages.

As for insecurities and bugs, there is no reason to blame the language. Even in the hands of a good programmer, any language is a liability. Java is the perfect example, due to its enormous adoption in the early 2000s. There are TONS of Java programs out there that are insecure, buggy, and error-prone, and yet one of the goals of the language was to minimize this. Is it easier to make these mistakes in C? Of course! But it's nonetheless a necessity in the programming world.

Just take a look at the Linux kernel. It's written ENTIRELY in C, and yet it's certainly more stable and secure than the Windows kernel, which is a combination of C and C++. (And go ahead and suggest to Linus Torvalds that it should be switched to C++ or some other "more modern" language. He'll give you a nice 10 page essay on why you're wrong.)

Oh, to add to that, most of the drivers written for your computer are written in C.

The point is that C is most definitely NOT past its prime, and in fact due to the embedded systems industry, it's getting a resurgence.

>> ^bamdrew:

80's electro pop had a resurgence, and since maybe 2004 can be regularly heard in the mix at clubs and 'cool' bars.
They keep on playing the entire Talking Heads 'Stop Making Sense' soundtrack at a bar I go to a lot... not that I'm complaining, but, I mean, there's new music thats drum-heavy, synth/electro-heavy, psychedelic-influenced stuff out there... was listening to the last Bear in Heaven and Deerhunter albums today at work, for instance. Same story with 80's electro pop.
... wow, wondering comment...


I wish Bear in Heaven's albums sounded a bit more like their live shows - they kick it up substantially in concert!

80's electro pop had a resurgence, and since maybe 2004 can be regularly heard in the mix at clubs and 'cool' bars.

They keep on playing the entire Talking Heads 'Stop Making Sense' soundtrack at a bar I go to a lot... not that I'm complaining, but, I mean, there's new music thats drum-heavy, synth/electro-heavy, psychedelic-influenced stuff out there... was listening to the last Bear in Heaven and Deerhunter albums today at work, for instance. Same story with 80's electro pop.

... wow, wondering comment...

This is clearly MW2 (missile strikes and AC gunships) and that is clearly a MW1 map titled Strike, which was repackaged and SOLD to MW2 users in the Resurgence map pack. Activision is grand.

Cupcakes must be making a resurgence, because I see them all over the place now.

Makes me want one...with a beer!