Comment Re:Understand why people buy things (Score 5, Funny) 401
A lot of people buy stuff as a replacement of their personalities.
FTFY
A lot of people buy stuff as a replacement of their personalities.
FTFY
This is similiar to obtaining technical certifications for factory jobs. Americans simply do not do them anymore in a global economy.
The very idea of this comparison makes me sad about the state of modern software.
we do need a source of cheap labor.
If CEO's knew what seasoned developers know about Microsoft, they would run away in fear.
If normal people knew what developers know about software, civilization would collapse.
That's why they're out buying iPads and that's where this CromeOS thing is aiming for also.
Selling bicycles is not the way to help drivers fix their car.
I thought this was about Anonymous, not Wikileaks. Anonymous in particular and 4chan in general has not brought to light anything I'm aware of except tentactle porn torrents.
That's it, I've had it with this thread. Read this whole discussion again, but with "Allah" instead of "Anonymous". They're equally real.
Since I know Microsoft well, that is all the reason I need to avoid Mono now and forever.
You know Bill doesn't work there anymore, right?
Geek alert! Geek alert! Geek alert!
Congratulations, you have detected a geek on a website that labels itself "News for nerds".
For a better deal, say that they can have their required materials sold in electronic format for half the cost, but they're only tied to the registered account of the device?
For an even better deal, put all the material on it, up to and including some college level stuff, for free. Keep them learning when the teacher is boring.
Isn't that what school is supposed to be about?
Flick off is the universal gesture for sudo.
So that's why that sentence didn't parse... I kept thinking about what that "shiny new one" was and where did they "replace" it for her.
"You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it."
-- Robert Anton Wilson
If we make it a matter of a soldier (cyber or otherwise) going "Well if you want to take that risk, sir" rather than "Fuck you, sir" - it makes it that much easier for the government to be corrupt.
Keep in mind that those people who casually order you to commit crimes, may also casually order other people to commit crimes against you. I would certainly take this into account when dealing out sentences.
Seems like government agents breaking laws like these (theft and fraud) should be subject to harsher penalties to the people who ordered them.
No, it shows how people can be productive programmers with only one limb functioning. Meanwhile, we're reading Slashdot...
What is research but a blind date with knowledge? -- Will Harvey
