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Comment Re:Maybe there is hope (Score 1) 745

It is. I work a lot with Americans (I'm from Europe) and we keeping dropping our jaws when we interact with our US colleagues. It's not only that they sometimes do stupid things, it's also that they are downright patronizing (as if Americans know better - they don't) and get very easily offended. It's not great to work with them.

Comment Maybe (Score 1) 754

Maybe if most of the money didn't go to people who already have enough money to spend their whole life without working, we wouldn't be expected to work 5 days a week. I know it sounds crazy, but if we are evolving to a point where we don't need to work 5 days a week, maybe it's time to work less and get the same income. There's enough money to everybody. It's not being communist or anything, because I think it's fine that some people who take risks or are very smart make more money. It's just that it seems that it's got out of proportion. When people start building Yachts made out of gold, I'd say they have enough money to have more people employed who work less hours than they do today.

Before I'm called stupid, keep in mind that in Medieval times, and until quite recently, people had to work 7 days a week, 12 hours a day. Now we are down to 5 days a week, 7 or 8 hours a day (in the west anyway). Who's to say it can't come down to 3 days a week, 5 hours a day, or two days a week, 8 hours a day?

Comment Re:Good long term support = $$$ (Score 1) 230

Well if you can tell me where to find the firmware image for my old Galaxy Tab 10.1, first version, I'd be glad. Because as far as I'm concerned, Cyanogenmod didn't support it much longer than Samsung. Even though the device is listed and stable snapshots for stable versions are available, the actual page is empty.

Comment Re:Microsoft is in trouble (Score 2) 369

I think I'm a good example. My main desktop OS is Windows. For a server I'll install CentOS 6.4 without even thinking twice, but for desktop, I use Windows. Windows 8, at that. There are two reasons: On Windows I can install a game without having to manually change any file (which by itself would require to read 3 or 4 threads on some obscure board, if I was using Linux). I just double click the installer, and It Just Works. The second reason is Visual Studio.

I have no passion about open software, even though I try to favor those as much as I can (mostly because they are free, and more and more of greater quality). So I won't be using Linux by 'political choice.' For now Windows is just a superior desktop experience for the two things I like most: games and C#. Make games and C# development as good on Linux as it is on Windows, and I'll switch overnight.

Comment Re:This is why I have a 1 week delayed install pol (Score 1) 254

It's effective at getting hacked. "Patch Tuesday" is always followed by "Hack Wednesday" when "security researchers" all over the world make a diff to see what was patched, and start writing exploits. If you delay the update by one week, that's one week where you are more vulnerable than you should. So for the 98% of the time it works, it's safer to update asap.

Comment Full HD (Score 1) 244

Could somebody please explain to me why on earth you need a Full HD (1080p) resolution on a 5-11" screen? That's the resolution of my 57" TV. Besides costing a lot of battery life, I don't get it. Could people see the difference between a 1080p 5" screen vs a 720p or even 480p 5" screen? To me it just sounds like Marketing teams are pushing for this, so they can put the "Full HD" logo on the slides.

Comment Re:Same in Mexico. (Score 1) 226

The problem, I find, is that most people look only at the last ~20-40 years of history. I guess it's human, your scale is your own lifetime. But if you take the Catholics, they probably created more wars and dead people than _anyone_ in the world with the Crusades alone. One could argue that this is ancient history, but my opinion is that _maybe_ we (the West) learned from that. Islam is a much more recent religion so maybe they need to make their own mistakes to realize you can't let religion dictate your politics because it makes people irrational and you can't base your politics on irrational people.

This is why, when everyone was freaking out that Islamic parties were being elected left and right following the Arab Spring, I didn't. People quickly come to realize that this doesn't work, and now the people in Egypt overthrew their Islamic president. More will follow I hope.

There's a reason people separate State from Church/Mosque/Synagogue, and people need to learn this.

Comment Re:It's really about multiplexing (Score 1) 566

You can't change TCP because of the myriads of network equipments that implement it. It's too low (4) on the OSI layers to be changed without breaking a lot of stuff. It was a good idea from Google to make it layer 6, just below HTTP. TCP isn't broken, so let's not try to fix it.

Also, HTTP 1.1's main problem is that it's sequential - you can't get the next resource unless the current one is done - and that is its main flaw (just like the main flaw of 1.0 was the one transaction per connection default behavior that Netscape patched and made its way to 1.1). HTTP 2.0 seems to fix that, so this is good.

Comment Re:simple (Score 1) 381

DLP is made to prevent accidental leakage. You'd be surprised how many people mistype the name of the people they want to contact (or make a mistake when the email program auto-fill the names based on the input characters). One day my company received the full bookings spreadsheet of our main competitor, because our Sales Director's first name is the same as the competition. The guy just typed it and didn't read the last name and we received all the data.

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