Comment Re:Flogging a tired horse... (Score 1) 43
That's the problem, their customer base mostly doesn't want "ideas", they want "the same boring layer that goes between my apps and my hardware, but with fewer bugs than last year".
See, in Powershell the cmdlets do only one thing and they do it well. In other words, a command does not *both* retrieve the data/objects *and* format them. In powershell one command retrieves the objects, and another formats them.
Which sounds great until you try it, and find yourself always writing a novel in PS to replicate what would be a haiku in bash.
If it's less than 60% then there is something seriously wrong with this video.
Or it's good, but it pisses off someone unethical who buys thousands of dislikes to push it down in the rankings (happened to EEVBlog several times when he took on the right scammers)
That's my not quite a conspiracy theory: YouTube has some internal metrics that show a majority of likes are genuine but a majority of dislikes are coming from bots and click farms, and they chose the lowest-effort possible way to deal with it. Who cares if it annoys viewers and creators? We're Google and they're not.
This article is nothing but fodder for "anti-terrorism" budget building.
That's not true.
It also gets a lot of ads in front of the sort of people who are afraid of everything and want an authoritarian strongman to do take action against Them, right now, before Them's murderous drones destroy suburban civilization.
This has a lot of parallels to tobacco companies. It will hurt Facebook.
I admire your optimism.
It was like magic.
All you had to do was live next door to one of the developers to find out about it in the first place, and then buy exactly the same PC they had for hardware compatibility.
The gullibility one needs to think that anything substantial was said is almost beyond imagination.
They said a lot, all of it nothing but sound and fury and what was left was a pack of lies.
Anyone who would buy any of this would be eager to buy swamp land in Florida.
I'm guessing this makes transparent aluminum overrated.
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. - David Letterman