After three years of being a video game tester, I became a lead tester and I spent the next three years going to back to school to learn computer programming. Despite working 80 hours a week for two to four weeks at a time, I was branded as not a "team player" by management because I had an exit strategy.

Zig Ziglar used to say, "the only thing worse than training an employee and having him leave, is not training him and having him STAY!" Employers who push an employee out for enriching himself, especially at his own expense, deserve to fail.

I agree with your assessment of its lack of popularity, but the very performance of the game proved your claim that it didn't have the hardware to do what an NES could do is wrong. Carmack figured out how to do it with EGA, and my personal experience was that the game was just as smooth as Super Mario. He even made a demo of SMB3, but Nintendo rejected it not because of its accuracy or performance, but because they were not interested in anything but their own platforms.

They'll be right down the hall from where quaint notions like the rights to life, liberty, and property are exhibited.

Well, you'll have to excuse anyone under 40 for having grown up in a world where it's settled that inexpensive handguns were outlawed because they were being used mostly by criminals, though in reality they were in the hands of poor urbanites. It made the ruling elite nervous that large numbers of their subjects were mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, so they created the narrative that gun dealers were cranking out cheap guns for murderers, robbers, and drug dealers. This allowed them to create a climate of fear and get their laws passed without objection-- even though the police have established that they have no obligation to defend these defenseless people.

He's a kiddie scripter.

The proper usage cycle for NiCd actually REQUIRES that you drain them completely to avoid memory effects.

I recall an article on Obama winning the election back in 2008. That was the last time a pro-Obama article made the front page of slashdot. Since then it has been a regular parade of how evil he - and everyone in his administration - is.

Because he hasn't done anything to warrant the admiration of the "News for Nerds" community.

The USA Patriot Act is (mostly) still in place.

Gitmo still holds people without charges.

Cannabis is still illegal.

Civil forfeiture still exists.

The IRS is (still) going after people the administration doesn't like.

Obama promised the most transparent administration, yet it's probably the most secretive one since FDR's WWII administration.

The world, especially the Middle East, still hates us, yet he has the gall to claim that they love us now because of him.

What positive "News for Nerds" are we supposed to report, again? Obamacare?

These strange creatures who claim Slashdot is right-wing amuse me.

It's clear that Capone did violate tax laws. He had undeclared income. Even if what he'd done was legal, he hadn't paid tax on it and the amount of tax in arrears was documented. It isn't the same. It would be similar if, say, the statute of limitations on tax evasion was 10 years and the IRS tried to go after him 11 years later for hiding the money.

Until it's you, right?

If someone tinkered with MySQL, that would indicate personal interest, which I would probably take over someone who worked at eight different McJobs over 3 years before getting a diploma from ITT Tech.

That's not statistics at all, but a logical fallacy.

I guess what we're proving here is that people who don't understand statistics can be easily fooled when they're given information that is derived from them.

Unless PayPal is OK with a class action lawsuit involving millions of customers, they will not be robocalling anyone who opts out. The Do Not Call statutes say that companies with which you have done business in the last 18 months can call you, but they must allow you to opt out of these communications. I think there is a distinction between human and robocalls that might make this even tougher for PayPal to pull off. So this is not worthy of concern.

I'm more concerned about the quality of PayPal's lawyers, that they seem to be totally oblivious to a law that was put in place in 2004.

Meanwhile I get nothing in Windows 10 other than an interface I don't care for.

You also get virtual desktops, Cortana, a new browser (Spartan), and new mail and calendar apps.

Any policy against printing it all out? How about duplexed, in a microtext font...