This whole Apple V samsung debate really bothers me. Everyone here knows we need (proper) patent reform across the board. I hate trivial patents, patent trolling, and software patents....but there's just something about Apple being able to keep samsung from selling tablets because their tablet is, *gasp* a rectangular touch screen. Why aren't LCD monitor companies fighting each other in court? Many monitors look the same with trivial differences. All these tablets are are screens with a little computer on the back. I mean jesus christ, what a fucking waste of time and effort.

just to clarify, I know you can't just 'switch to classic' as mentioned in TFS, but installing a new window manager is almost as simple. If you can install anything on ubuntu, you know enough to install a new window manager. Also, you can always switch to kubuntu, lubuntu, xubuntu, etc, and have someone else do this step for you. (I'm a fan of xubuntu btw, xfce is snappy).

I love how more and more 'power users' start complaining about Unity and how ubuntu is becoming such a 'mainstream' OS, so they all switch to other distros. You DO know you can easily install a different window manager? Granted, I'm not a fan of Unity and I don't think it should be the Ubuntu default, but I'm not about to switch distros when I can switch to gnome in a minute and be done with it.

I need to make my girlfriend wear one of these made from my face. I'm VERY narcissistic .

no moon!

government wants the camera back because it has undeniable proof that the landings were a hoax. or maybe footage of our dealings with secret aliens to acquire microchip technology....

If this new job is on either the gov or contractor side of the DoD, this is more than normal (did my time in that setting, never want to go back). This sort of development setting is also commonly found in larger companies outside of DoD. I've only been out of school a few years, but I've already learned a valuable lesson: bad development environments are caused by lack of caring from the dev team which leads to a horrible working environment if you actually care about programming. Unfortunately these bad settings tend to pay the most, but I assure you that working in a company surrounded by people who know and stay current in their field who are also passionate about the work being done (professionally and personally) is worth more than any amount of hard currency.

I mostly use AWS, but have tried app engine a while back. I get the feeling that if you're trying to do something that app engine supports, it is easier to do it there instead of rolling everything together on your own from the various AWS offerings. Basically AWS = many more options, App Engine = better support/interfacing for a smaller subset of functions.

." Book editors, journalists, video store clerks, musicians, novelists without tenure". A lot of the 'jobs' he's talking about are radically changing or weren't worth anything to begin with. The article doesn't really have a concrete, well laid out argument. It sounds like yet another generalized complaint I've kept hearing for the past couple years: the elite are taking all my money and I'm a poor starving average joe. Except here it is some ill defined "creative class". Adapt to the world around you and use your money wisely. Same age old problem, same age old solution.

Some really terrible articles get through sometimes. Articles from some no-name person's blog that contain no or very few external links to anything to back up the crap put forth on their site.

Every time I have a complaint against a company, I know my best recourse is to go elsewhere. Many people think/say this, but reality is that the convenience (or in most cases the lack of inconvenience) of staying with some company goes a looong way to keep us from putting our money where our mouth is. My BofA accounts are my oldest because I was a naive 16 year old boy who didn't know anything about banking, so I went with the most convenient. Many years have passed and I have multiple credit union accounts with most of my money. The problem is, these credit unions don't have very good ATM/physical locations, especially outside of where I live. For this reason I have kept my BofA account, because there is one everywhere. FYI: Nobody, NOBODY should be using BofA savings/cd etc and thinking you're doing good with your money. They have the most abysmal APY of any bank I have ever seen. Get a credit union account, please. Their customer service is horrible, I have spent almost an hour on hold before. I have had problems with my debit card randomly being declined places, and magically working again (not a strip error or anything). I have had problems with their automatic shutoff protection flagging my accounts when I'm spending the exact same amounts of money at the exact same places I do every week, forcing me to call them and turn my accounts back on. They even bait-and-switched me on a credit card. They advertised some no maintenance fee card, I wanted a low limit card 'just in case', so I signed up for it. At the end of the year, I get charged a service fee on it. I called them up, asking why my no-fee card was charged one, and they said "details of the card can differ between the advertisement and the agreement you actually signed." So i check my the papers I signed, and sure enough, in the details there is a fee (which I skipped over because the advertisement for this exact card said otherwise, no stipulation) Shame on me for not being more careful, but a dirty trick regardless. Even through all that I have kept my old accounts for the 'convenience'. Now with the debit card fees and this recent outage, I am done. It has taken a long time, but they have tried their best to completely drive me off. So I ask all of you, stop and REALLY think if shitty service (from any company!) is worth their 'convenience'. I think if more people realy started voting with their wallets, we would stop getting abused so much by large corporations. Just take your business elsewhere.

Whenever I am on W7 I always use the windows key which launches the start menu and puts the cursor in the search box (which can be used to launch applications). So, for example, if I want to launch chrome I just hit windows key then 'c' then enter. This is also useful for finding and opening specific files very quickly. If this functionality remains, where windows key basically launches search, then I am perfectly happy.....I never use the rest of the start menu (why would you when it is faster to just start typing what you want after hitting the windows key)

I agree! I currently use a micro ec2 instance for just this. I'm often logged into public wifi so I route as much traffic as possible through an ssh tunnel attached to the instance. This way I can control as much of the proxy as possible.

Just another attempt in the modern crusade to make everything Not Our Fault. Push the blame to someone else and sue when things go awry. Lovely.

I can finally go back to sharing needles. I gotta save money, what with the economy in the gutter.