No, not really. You either like a city like New York or you don't. Most people don't. That why they avoid such megacities.

The whole lot of them are like that (SFO,LA,London,NYC,DC). They are nice to visit but you probably wouldn't want to actually live there.

Glamour cities just get a lot of attention because of media concentration.

Security that can't meet real world usability requirements is ultimately useless. It doesn't matter how much contempt you show for the end user.

No. Microsoft just sues companies over nonsense like VFAT.

> If our legislation allows a company to claim copyright on an API, then it is the law that is wrong and not that company. Isn't it?

Nice diversion there. It's specifically Oracle that's trying to push this atrocity. The fact that they can find civil servants stupid enough to go along with them glosses over the fact that they are the prime mover here.

The proof is in the pudding. If Mono were such a great thing for Linux users and Linux developers then it would already have some nice EXAMPLES to point to as to why you would want to use it. There would be apps out there saying "install Mono so you can run me".

It would be much like WINE.

A lot of droning on about rhetoric and marketing bullet points is really quite irrelevant.

For what Mono is being overhyped over, it should sell itself easily.

I've never had any problems with "fake" power supplies EVER, or anything attached to them.

On the other hand, I do actively avoid Apple products.

No. He just has a realistic understanding of the Cult of Ayn Rand and what that means for corporate governance.

Sure... it's "stealing" despite the fact that you never actually "stole" anything and have actually paid for it too.

It's not "piracy". It's a violation of the DMCA.

Amazon sells a competing product.

Amazon also sells speciality Android hardware with XBMC preloaded.

Don't try to kid us. In all likelihood you are a worthless nobody that has no ability to touch the kernel code anyways. You are most certainly an "acceptable loss". You simply don't matter here.

That's the key thing here. What's an acceptable loss? What's a good tradeoff?

In this regard, project management is very much governed by the same concerns that the engineering is.

The BMI is only valid even for a subset of Northern Europeans. For people that are taller it's invalid. It's also invalid for other ethnic groups.

Peformance is a far more useful metric. It also separates out the anorexics from those that are genuinely fit.

Those BMI numbers also originally arose from a time of global economic catastrophe. Their value should be doubted simply for that.

No. It's about having better impulse control.

Poor people are also much more likely to have 5 children each with a different person. Maintaining a healthy weight requires some degree of effort and discipline. People that never adequately prepared for their future are simply demonstrating the same faults in their eating habits as they have done in other things.

Being poor doesn't eliminate the possibility of doing better. People like that are just less likely to stay poor (been there, done that).

They already did apparently. They just wanted to charge more than one person for the same "performance".

Yes. Quite. One of the neighbors is the equivalent of the "Two Bobs" from a well known megacorp. His job is to flush employees when things are slow and then try and hire people back on when the business cycle moves the other way.

I've always wondered how you manage to not burn all of your bridges doing crap like that.

In my own organization, the most important aspect of a new hire is "teachability". This is why we like new graduates over "senior" people. Tech is a rapidly moving area. Even if your degree from n+1 years ago was a finely tuned vocational program, chances are that it quickly became irrelevant because the industry simply moved on.

So depending on an IT degree to be a vocational training program is remarkably stupid.

Although some of the "academic nonsense" from a CS degree can be quite useful and applied to whatever the flavor of the month happens to be. Being able to do that is what separates the real talent from the pretenders.