I'm a software consultant. The difference is that I come to them.

But this one brings something new and interesting to the Super Mario franchise. They must cease & desist at once!

Good luck, CmdrTaco, and thanks for everything!

...indistinguishable from a CD.

They keep saying that CD's are going to be replaced by: DVDs, Blu-ray, HVDs, etc. But the moment any of these media are advanced enough to replace the compact disc they ARE the compact disc.

That's why in the end the only thing that will truly replace the CD is another CD. Doh.

(Just because PC is short for "personal computer" doesn't mean it's (commonly understood as) a catch-all term for personal computers. Dells are international business machines, but not IBMs. SSDs are random access memory, but you wouldn't count them as RAM. )

I did some research on this, namely read TFA. The summary is extremely misleading.

The actual story is "Old programmers have better reputions on stackoverflow. They don't write better posts, they just spend more time there."

The "study" says absolutely nothing about programming skill. Just stackoverflow profile statistics.

What struck me was that C++ got lambda expressions before Java did!

The quoted billion passwords per second was for ancient Zip 2.0 encryption.

The actual numbers for modern RAR encryption (from TFA) is 14605/sec.

That's an average of 4 years for a random 7 character alphanumeric password, or 200 years for a 8 character one.

The Nokia N900 came factory default with a text editor, xterm and a python runtime with sdl bindings.

I wonder if Anonymous will proceed with their anti-Sony campaign.

They're not too large to fail and if enough people say ENOUGH, they will either fail or they will change their ways and bring back the Sony we once knew.

Very true. I don't know about Anonymous, but I'm certainly keeping up my anti-Sony campaign.

I bet I could learn their history in a week. In fact I did, in the one week of high school history that wasn't about the world wars.

5) Profit!!! Well, maybe not "profit", but they stopped asking me for help, anyway :)

Time is money, and a penny saved is a penny earned.

But really though, what happens if it backfires, they install Linux, and you become their only contact for questions like "How do I install Counter-Strike on my lainucks?"

It can put Clippy into Eliza mode. "Looks like you find this document upsetting. Would you like me to set the font to Comic Sans?"

It can auto-like/dislike Youtube videos! Just put on a long cat video playlist, and you won't have to lift a mouse finger for the rest of the day.

It can be combined with people recognition and integrated in photo apps, to allow queries like "Find one where my damn ex-wife doesn't have that awful grin on her face".

It could be used by the Windows crash dialog to automatically assign priorities to bugs, based on how pissed off the user is about it!

The possibilities are endless!

that last show sucks gallons of ass

For those europeans too lazy to do the math, that's between 2.5 and 4 litres of bum.

Google's cache of the blog

The list you posted is a not a compilation of things she said about anyone, but a list she created of things she would want to put on unspecified people's report cards:

These comments, I think, would serve me well when filling out the cards. Only, I don't think parents want to hear these truths.

Thus, the old addage... if you don't have anything nice to say... ...say "cooperative in class."

The blog is otherwise a reasonably, fairly well written lamentation about students today.

No, it was not great judgement to post these things about her current class under her identifiable name, but it's not a mad woman posting nasty comments.

Microsoft is clearly doing that to push H264 on the internet, with the intent of hurting free software

Yes, and it's really very clever. They've already done this for firefox.

They have made a way of developing video web sites that work in ~all browsers: MSIE, Firefox and Chrome. This is basically the gold standard for freedom of choice on interoperable web sites -- but now you have to pay the Microsoft tax!

This is the most brilliant licensing trick I've seen since Qt went GPL.