If you bothered to read my other response to the first person who corrected me, you'd see that this comment was unnecessary. Please satisfy your desire to be right on the internet somewhere else.

I stand corrected then.

He'd have had a great deal more credibility (and thus have a greater impact) had he gone through proper channels first and gotten no satisfaction. He'd be able to say "I tried to do this the right way, hoping that the system would correct itself, but it didn't, so I decided that the people should know about this by other means."

I feel like the 4-year curriculum doesn't prepare you too well for that kind of work, as they spend more time on big-picture concepts than on applicable practices; in contrast, my time at a 2-year institution primed me with the actual technologies (SQL, Java, HTML, etc.)

The problem is that the C students in HR can't understand how someone with a 2-year degree can be better qualified than someone with a 4-year degree. It's too hard for them to actually think or look beyond the education line on a resume, so the 2-year folks get binned. Then HR complains that there are no qualified candidates - when all they have to do to find them is look in the bin under their desk.

Do you, now.

If it's a for-profit company, it's nearly certain that something screwy is going on. Profit is more important than ethics.

Or you could rent it for $1.50.. Anything that I bought really only got watched once anyway.

Again, just because it's popular (owing to the marketing machine, not the quality of the product) doesn't mean it's good. It's become a standard despite its cost because of lock-in.

I didn't say that cost and convenience don't mean anything to me. What I'm saying is that I'd like to have the ability to watch high-quality video at home, and if the format dies because people don't give a shit about what they watch (because they're lazy, stupid, and cheap, in that order) then I can't do that until the streaming formats improve - which they're not going to if the content companies know they can put total shit in front of the mouth breathers and they'll still pay for it.

The geek is only fooling himself when he claims that Microsoft isn't consistently delivering top-tier marketing and salesmanship.

FTFY.

Just because something is popular doesn't make it any good. See Apple products, Wal-Mart, etc. All are wildly popular, despite some obvious shortcomings.

My argument stands. If people gave a shit about quality they'd overcome those issues.

The reason nobody's buying Blu-Ray isn't soley because of the annoying DRM and non-skippable content and other generally user-hostile 'features' of the format. The average consumer doesn't give a shit about that (and will have no idea what DRM even is.) The reason is that they don't care about the quality loss in streaming content. How they can't see (on a big TV anyway) that the Blu-Ray looks 100% better than what you get from Netflix streaming boggles my mind, personally. When there's a movie that I want to see in good quality (think Man of Steel, Frozen, etc, just to name a couple recent ones) I go to Redbox to get the Blu-Ray. It looks better. Unfortunately, people don't give a shit.

The war on picture/sound quality has, sadly, been won by the apathetic side. (Witness the demise of multichannel audio, DVD-Audio and SACD. Most people think a stereo 128-bit .mp3 file sounds fine. It doesn't.) I'll be renting Blu-Rays until streaming formats (and the necessary bandwidth) are available at the same bitrate as a Blu-Ray. But, the way things are going, BD will die and we'll be stuck with streaming movies that look like Tetris on a big screen. Another case of the consumer wanting 'cheap/convenient' over 'good', aka the Wal-Mart effect.

Sounds like nobody wants to live there. Wonder why that is..

Rather than actually deal with the truth, you just accuse the man of unethical conduct.

Percentage-wise, it's a pretty safe assumption.

That makes you a lying piece of fanboy shit.

Not if he's right.

With MS, they can go to MS and MS will bend over backwards to help them.

What color is the sky on your planet?

Well, they can try to find someone who is competent, but who do they go to and how do they find out?

You imply it's easier to find someone to support your MS stuff than it is to find someone to support your FLOSS stuff. I am skeptical of that; there's a lot of MS support out there, true, but the vast majority of it sucks in my experience.

And, I know this is going to get modded down by FLOSS fanboys and I don't care. You fuckers need to hear the truth.

Your version of it, probably not.

Go fuck yourselves.

Hypocrisy. Complain about someone being a troll by trolling yourself. Shouldn't you be in math class?

How dare they compete so unfairly! It's like they think the quality of the product matters.

The quality of the product only matters until they achieve lock-in. After that, they don't care if the program even runs.