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Comment They've almost driven it into the ground (Score 1) 147

Microsoft has just about destroyed skype, so don't worry. They're keeping with their business model. Their latest version on android introduced numerous device and app breaking bugs making the software nearly unusable. The inability to make a useful bug report really shows us what Microsoft brings to the table.

Comment Re:NO NO NO (Score 1) 687

There is nothing that says condescending douchebag more than starting your reply with "took like 30 seconds of googling". But hey pointing out that said colossal douchebag provided out of date irrelevant information in a fast changing industry and did so in a douchbaggy manner is somehow the one who deserves to be chastised.

Comment Yahoo has a thing against Dead people (Score 1) 403

This is just a phase Yahoo is going through. Yesterday they informed me, like it was a good thing, that they had gone in and edited my address book without my permission and deleted an entry belonging to a friend who passed away many years ago. I think it's pretty clear that Yahoo seems to have some kind of hate on for dead people and legacy accounts. Thanks yahoo! I'll be sure not to die while using your service.

Comment The limits of Google’s openness (Score 3) 629

Speaking of openness,
hey microsoft, whose leg do I have to hump to get through to someone who speaks passable english and can address bug reports?
Your android version of skype is completely and utterly broken and has been for weeks.
From a complete lack of a button to get into an existing call that hasn't been picked up. skype inexplicably dumps you from the call screen while it's ringing with no way to get back in if you want to hang up prior to it being answered or say if you reach an elderly person who doesn't believe in voicemail which means the voice just rings forever)
to ghost rings which simply refuse to stop ringing even after you've signed out of and terminated the skype app. Not only do they continue during your call making it impossible to talk to the other person, after you sign-out, terminate the app from memory, your phone is still somehow still ringing requiring your to actually restart your device to make it stop.

Maybe if you got your act together people might be more willing to cut you some slack, but lets face facts. You're a shit company, with shit methodologies, and nobody really cares about your struggles.

Comment Korea (Score 1) 892

In Korea, employees are not legally required to give notice to quit, most places try to put clauses in requiring 30 days notice, but they're not legal and aren't enforceable.
Employers are required to give extensive notice before letting someone go except in rare circumstances where they can prove they had to let that person go that very minute.

and Korea has extensive defamation laws so employers really have to think twice about bad mouthing a prior employee.

Comment Kickstart for TV (Score 1) 304

Why not a model like this:
Organization wants to create a TV show,
they create a budget
they crowd-fund it using a kick starter style method
All the people who support it get first access on air date. It's released to the general public 1 week/1 month later/3 days earlier on the pirate bay
Each season they fund again.

TV becomes democratic. TV shows which flounder are unlikely to get funded for another season, we find out what people really want to watch.

Comment Re:indictable offense? (Score 1) 510

That's not what it is. It says they sent warnings to the companies, not the individual users of the app. How would the airport know if someone is there to pick up their friend or picking up someone via a rideshare app anyway?
In order to arrest someone for trespass, they'd have to be personally notified prior that they weren't welcome on the property.

Comment Re:stupid (Score 1) 558

purging the spam comments isn't even half the problem. I recently set up a site for a small hobby group here using Joomla with K2. As they only had a few members and were migrating people from a facebook group to their site, they didn't really feel the need for a lot of things, like captchas on the blog comments. 2 months after we set it up, I get a panicked text about how it isn't working and the hoster had shut down their site. After getting access to site, I found there were hundreds of thousands of blog comments which had basically been posted at once by some spam bot.

Captchas enabled, no problem since. Screw blind people. If they want a site to even use, they'll just have to deal with it. not that I think they'd be much for a bike club..but I could be wrong..

Comment Re:The benefit is in custom parts (Score 1) 322

How detailed are these things? Can they print really fine detail?
If they could.. they might be useful for say a table top DM. Rather than running out and trying to buy miniatures, baddy of the week could be printed up, a coat of primer and slap some paint on him. there might be an application in certain hobbies.

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