I'm nearing 60 and have a vast experience programming all kinds of stuff, especially control systems, including satellite and other very critical ones, and the only reason I can keep programming is because I know obscure proprietary systems like AMX, Crestron, Alcorn McBride and so on. I often get offered system administration and similar jobs but programming in C, Java and so on never, ever. And it's not money as I'm ready to program for 1000 euros a month, even less than younger people.

As someone else has already pointed out, the problem is top management that, at least here in Spain, are completely ignorant of technological issues and believe everything they see in crappy movies. They are not even capable of using Internet: they have a secretary to do this for them.

Exactly.

As a matter of fact part of the problem is that the bullying of a kid by another is often considered "kid's business" in which adults don't have anything to do. And if they do something, often both kids, the bully and the bullied are punished equally.

Blaming the victims is not going to help...

It's not the victims who have to correct their social behaviour, it's the bullies.

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The solution is easy: don't buy ebooks from extremely greedy publisher like this one. Even if you can afford it. Just say no. I don't.

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So you educate yourself watching mainstream news of sports, gossip, "faits divers" and political squabbling. Maybe good enough for you but not for me.

I prefer other things like reading books. Or even reading Slashdot as lots of posters are not anonymous cowards only interested in trolling like you. It's often funny too despite troll droppings like yours.

And, remember, "La baba del sapo no alcanza la blanca paloma". Insults only qualify those who utter them. So thanks for describing yourself so well kido. Keep up the good work :-)

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How can we get the bright publishing industry captains to understand that an ebook *must* cost less than books made of dead trees if they want to get to mass public? When they're going to learn that nobody pays more for less (except the filthy rich like themselves maybe)?

The reason why ebooks are not popular is that they are more expensive than paperbacks. Until ebooks get less expensive than paperback, if will stay a thing for early adopters and geeks like me. And I only buy e-books that are cheaper than their paperback because I'm not dumb and don't want to pay for the next luxuries of fat executives.

Seem that all publishers are the same: music, film, books, whatever... Do they learn to think?

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I don't like sports, I don't like gossip, I don't like "faits divers", I don't like political squabbling. I don't care for most mainstream media "news".

Thus I'm ignorant because I don't care about this crap? So be it.

I need the time for the stuff I like and care about. For instance science, technology, entertainment, computing, bikes, etc. And all the stuff mainstream media usually don't report due to their political allegiance and political correctness. I'll leave to the "gurus" like the one who pontified about this the job to know all the mainstream media junk if that's so important for them.

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Well, just that.

We all know that the anti-RPG hysterical craze was based on fundamentalist religious craziness. And now they call it "rational"? Yeah, right, just as creationism, geocentrism, flat-earthism, homophobia,etc.

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Yet another one these dummies...

Why don't they try to know what's the game about and its mechanisms instead of listening to the ill-advised advice of other dummies like themselves?

If they had did that they would have realized that the DM has absolutely *nothing* to do with a gang leader, being more like the god of the imaginary world where the game takes place. Thinking about it, it could be that their god is like a gang leader and thus... Oh well...

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You've just described conservative and progressive (liberal for US) types.

That's why equilibrium is in the middle. Or a bit of both.

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...as examples of what to avoid...

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> I guess you did Juan Antonio Roca's house then.

Just fixed some glitches in his (crappy) home cinema room when I was free-lancing.

It was decorated just like a gypsy drug-dealer home except that the stuff was authentic. But the taste was awful, the worse I've seen in decades. Priceless (in many senses...) the Greek Bible in the hall...

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As I'm into house automation and such, I mostly work for filthy rich people. And those people really buy lots of incredibly expensive unuseful crap like hand-made custom choppers to display in their living room (I'm a biker and that pains me), castles as country house, Juan Miró paintings for the crapper and such.

If I was that rich, I'll *ride* the chops and I'll certainly never miss the opportunity of having my own space shuttle on my back yard. Don't you too?

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When reading code speed is not the most important thing. Here quality is more important.

And the quality of alignment brought to you by fixed-length fonts is more important than any marginal gain in reading speed.

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