HOW MANY YEARS have we been waiting for v5? I've HONESTLY lost count and any capacity to give a damn when we reached a decade -- Just looked it up, 12 years.
But HTML 5 is already here! It's just that it's not like the standards of old, it's a living standard. And if you don't like that, you're not agile enough.
So, if it takes thousand people to wear down the controller to the point that it no longer works, and I have the misfortune to be the thousandth one, I should be the one who pays the full price of the controller and the 999 people before me should pay nothing?
How far does that go? Can I invite all my friends into your house while you're at work? After all, why can't we use that empty house? It doesn't matter that it "belongs" to someone.
That's kind of what I was trying to point out in what you were saying. It doesn't make sense to switch because of a small problem, as you were advising. That's because all OSes (or distributions) have them.
Any time a system decides to make things more complicated for the end user with no benefits means its time to jump ship to a different system.
Really? So, if I don't like this problem with hosts file in Windows, I should switch to another OS, say Linux. Then Linux does some small change that makes it more complicated for me, so I should switch again? To what? Back to Windows? Am I supposed to switch OSes like this every few months?
Ehm, doesn't "more selective" imply "smaller"?
But it doesn't say which planet.
I'm curious, do you have any more information about the next versions of
I think he meant WPF. But that does not wrap Win32 or anything like that, it's a “clean API refresh”.
I think that says more about the quality of his high school education than about what universities should be teaching.
Here in Czech Republic, universities teach only the subject you're studying (so you don't need to study any history, literature or physics to get a CS degree). But that's because all those subjects were already taught in high school. And I believe if done right, that's more than enough.
University shouldn't be about general education, that's what the earlier stages are for.
Usually you can fire someone without any kind of a reason.
Well, if you do that in a civilized country, it also means you have to give the employee a severance package. Which is why companies don't like to do that.
Yes and people (at least the Slashdot crowd) would much prefer to have their CPUs at their full performance, not intentionally crippled so that they can be sold at a lower price.
But that's just how economy sometimes works. For the CPU manufacturer, it's cheaper to produce just one kind of CPUs and then cripple them to different levels and sold at a price based on that crippling. And in this case, everyone wins.
Isn't it possible the situation with cable is similar? If you had large price just for cable without any channels, less people would pay for cable and so it would be less feasible to film those expensive shows like Game of Thrones.
And then rip the CD? So, instead of having the music instantly in a format I want, I have to wait until it arrives through snail mail and then I have to work to get it in a format I want? Thanks, but no thanks.
So you're telling me I should pay for the privilege of paying for Netflix? Thanks, but no thanks. If they don't want my money, I won't force it on them.
Well, I could afford it, but they don't want my money:
> Sorry, Netflix is not available in your country... yet
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags. -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"
