Although you have a good point, his point is still valid.

... and I HATE it. It's inferior in every way regarding usability as compared to Outlook.

E-mails are more difficult to compose. There's only very basic formatting options. No format paster. In the world of browser tabs, it's very annoying that I now have to find the e-mail tab as opposed to switching between active programs to get my e-mail and calendar.

The calendar is harder to use. It keeps moving the start of the 5 day week to the current day, making it hard to use. (On a more positive note, I like the temperature forecasts built in)

The notifications suck. Suck suck suck. I tried the standard Google Notifier and the messages were left too long in the upper-right hand, blocking important information up there which lasted too long. They aren't customizable. And I've already missed so many meetings because the calendar reminders don't stay on the screen! You have to be actively watching for those reminders to do anything.

I know it's fashionable to hate Microsoft and love Google, but come on. Outlook was a great product, and I was just forced to return to a technology that is 5 or 10 years behind.

I am considered a pretty good developer (the word "rockstar" is stupid to me - maybe I am, maybe I'm not). I came in at a startup almost 2 years ago, and to this day I am still fixing problems that the original developers left.

If the code had been written correctly in the beginning, we would have saved millions in man-hour-dollars. Millions.

No, you don't need them all the time, but when you are building a foundation, you need it done right.

Wrong. They don't think that. You can imagine that people who run a business have heard of the idea that they can hire anywhere, can't you?

Well, what that is meant to mean is that it's not a church to teach you about how to reach God, Jesus, the afterlife, etc., but it does use spirituality/religion in its function. It is worded funny, I'll give you that.

For many addicts, that's true. But I agree with you on this, that the converse is not necessarily true. Some problem drinkers may drink safely again. Sorta like how some food addicts CAN eat candy bars if done in moderation - in fact 200 calorie eating candy bars are a good way to keep cravings down so you don't eat 2000 calories.

Why? I've always thought more descriptive names are self-documenting, which is better than comments.

So you're saying that Windows is a better OS than Linux, and since you use the inferior Linux, you have a better social life? Eh, I don't think this argument holds water.

Please explain what the **** you just said. Who uses the term "algos"? Do you mean "algorithms"? And exactly how do you open up "HTML" to do spreadsheet work? How do I just write data in HTML? What do you mean that Windows isn't needed because OSX is around, does that mean you can pay for other proprietary software?

You've written a lot of stats. But none of that makes Microsoft Office not the best productivity software that exists. No, I don't work for MS, but I do work on a Mac at work and trust me, all of the free and even Mac MS stuff SUCKS compared to Office on a PC.

I can attest to this. I HATE MACS. I love Windows (fuck you /.! :) And I and every engineer at my work use Macs.

Americans for the last 20 years haven't drunk Budweiser or Fosters. We have the best beer in the world here now. Anyone who thinks we all drink Budweiser is either an American over 40, not an American, or poor (college students, like me when I was in college 10 years ago, included).

He didn't do anything illegal.

Even if he did knowingly and intentionally contribute to illegal drug trade, do you think he should be put in jail for 24 fucking years? Murderers servoe on average 12 years.

Fuck that system.

According to the Slashdot FAQ, this is an American forum. American English is used. This is not a tribal issue of we're better than you. It's just a question of language, which has many different dialects. The dialect used here is that America refers to the USA.

There's no such thing as the "US definition of America" because America has no official language or governmental entity to define such things (unlike other countries, such as how the government of France defines the language of French). But there is such a thing as American English (a dialect of English), and in American English, America refers to the USA.

According to the Slashdot FAQ, this is an American forum. This is not a tribal issue of we're better than you. It's just language, which has many different dialects. The dialect here is that America refers to the USA.

Ugh I just read that diatribe from the URL you posted. It was exactly the worst example you could possibly have chosen - the copyright of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of 0's and the idea of someone else having a "copy" of those 0's.

In a society without intellectual property, the painting/songs/bits you created and physically held are not yours and they are not protected from copying by someone else. In a society with intellectual property, the paintings/songs/bits you created and physically held by someone else are not yours but they ARE protected from copying by someone else without your permission. If someone held the copyright of 0101 and there was the intellectual copyright of 0101 in that society's laws, then by those laws someone else cannot copy 0101 illegally without the permission/payment of the copyright holder.

You are trying to conflate your world views and the reality of laws. Listen, I'm not disagreeing with your world views. But I'm telling you the reality of the laws of the U.S. are factually not what you are saying. You say it's a illogical disagreement with reality. Well, it's not a disagreement with reality - Lady Gaga can create the song which can be represented by millions of certain bits, and those millions of bits can be copyrighted by Lady Gaga. You simply disagree that the copy on someone's harddrive without permission should be illegal, but the law says otherwise. The reality of the copy of those bits is real - but the reality of the law is also real.