Fortunately for me, I decided 2 things a few years ago:

1) There is nothing worth watching on Cable/Satellite, and nothing on broadcast TV that justifies the endless advertising torture perpetrated against its viewing audience.

2) The Olympics has long since forgotten why it exists, and is now nothing more than a shell game.

I can now feel sympathy and sorrow for those who are still chained to the Olympics addiction. Once you view television and the Olympics from the correct perspective, you can laugh at moves like the one perpetrated by NBC.

No, you don't. I'm not going to speculate on their actual profession, but it isn't "scientist".

You linked to a site which specializes in fictional writing. It's like quoting Star Trek as an authority on real faster than light travel. Think of fosspatents as a site that recommends reversing the polarity on the deflector dish to fix legal problems.

This is what Psychology calls, "Projection."

Let's assume, for the same of argument, that RSA is being completely honest and sincere: their product is not compromised by the U.S. Government. Given that the U.S. Government can just slap any company in the U.S. with a National Security Letter; the violation of which comes with prison time, and which prohibits the recipient from even saying they got one; we can't trust any U.S. (or U.K., for that matter) company's word that they haven't been compromised by the Government.

So as our computer security companies start to decline, and our economy (which has a huge computer company component to it) declines even further, we can all tip our hats to the corrupt polititians that gave our three-letter agencies the power to deal a body blow to the very country they are supposed to be protecting; and to the agencies that use that power to harm us more than any terrorist plot ever could.

So an organization whose existence is predicated on lying, and whose employees, from the top of the food chain to the bottom of the food chain, have done nothing but lie to their country, from the top of the food chain to the bottom of the food chain, goes on a national TV show and says stuff that we are supposed to believe?

Either the NSA is staffed by utter morons, or they think we are the utter morons. There is a huge believability deficit in that agency, and an enormous cognitive disconnect among its leaders. It's yet another federal agency that needs a large funding reduction, and whose leaders need many years of therapy.

Speak for yourself. You're assuming that a lack of women programmers is a bug rather than a feature. I left my lower paying job at a place with no women programmers for a 60% pay increase at a company with women programmers. Before the week was over, I was calling my previous employer to ask for my old job back. The caustic, catty, backstabbing, childish environment created by women was so bad, I was willing to take a 60% pay cut to get out of it.

Now I'm happy at my job again, and running a small business on the side to make up the difference in pay. The single best way to ruin a satisfying career is to add women to it. I hope more women and young girls think that computers are just not for them.

More than that: after the OOXML ECMA debacle, no one takes ECMA seriously anymore. Submitting a standard to EMCA now is like announcing that your blue-chip company is selling penny stocks.

I think you've just confirmed the reasons why so many people see broadcast TV as "old-school", and those who flagellate themselves in front of it as slightly north of insane.

I wish I could mod you higher than +5. The title of this article could be accurately rewritten as, "45% of All the Server purchasers are complete, unmitigated, fucking morons."

Yet the NSA still lets them run the House, Senate, and White House. Talk about sleeping at the wheel.

I agree, which is why I dumped Microsoft in 1999 and switched to Linux. Even back when Linux was "hard" to use, it still worked better than any version of Windows -- then and now. I don't see that changing any time soon.

I started reading the article linked to in, "start counting at zero", and stopped halfway through. I feel sorry for anyone who reads that article, but isn't a programmer (hell, even if they are programmers), as it is self-contradictory crap:

From the article:

Then the father of zero-index arrays said:

He then goes on to admit that zero-index arrays are the most efficient means of calculating memory addresses, and brushes aside his self-contradictions by saying that the "why" is more important than the "how".

Which means, as should be obvious to everyone, that zero indices are the most natural way to express pointer arithmetic; internally to your language runtime if your language doesn't support pointers, or externally if pointers are programmer-facing.

The author of this article needs to brush up on computer fundamentals before self-publishing his absurd opinion pieces on computer fundamentals. Zero-index arrays are "conventional programming wisdom" because they have always been the easiest way to calculate memory addresses.

Obligatory: You must be new here.

If I could moderate you above 5, I would. I bought a cheap color laser printer (Samsung CLP 550N) several years ago, (eight, I think) and printed many pages on the starter cartridges that came with the printer. My printing was sporadic, though, so the starter cartridges lasted me for years before I had to replace them.

Color laser is the way to go. Ink jets need to be trashed.