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Comment Re:Yes! (Score 1) 470

Programmers don't really understand good design and usability.

This statement is absurd. Do you think all programmers are identical and have identical skillsets?

without resorting to reading manuals and other crap like that.

Having to do some work? Shocking! CLIs are actually a faster and more productive method of working once they have been mastered.

That's because programmers cannot think logically like most people do.

Oh, good grief! Or are you trying to be funny? And the rest of your post is also worthless drivel.

Comment Re:Ken Murray's blog (Score 2) 646

Cold turkey, whether cigarettes or caffiene is murderously stupid.

Nonsense. As a smoker for 41 years, I tried almost every conceivable method of quitting: slow withdrawal, NRT, other drugs. Nothing worked. Then I read Allen Carr's book in which he recommends cold turkey as the most effective method of quitting, so I tried that. I had a few days of quite severe discomfort, followed by a week or two of intermittent cravings, but I was able to get through that, and I have now been smoke free for three years. It's a question of mental preparation.
As for coffee addiction, I don't have it. I drink 4 cups of Italian roast every working day because I like the taste and the ritual. On weekends or vacations I don't drink it at all, and have never experienced any discomfort. I suppose it's a matter of individual metabolic idiosyncracy.

Comment Re:proprietary? (Score 3, Funny) 277

Most of the footage we see follows the ball. But every so often, when there's a break in play, the camera zooms in on chicks in the crowd with great hooters, or players picking their noses, spitting or scratching their crotches. Could these folk not get something for their extra performances?

Comment Re:Nukes (Score 1) 118

I don't understand the connection between the Freedom of Information bill and nuclear weapons; either it's a non seqitur or too subtle for me. This bill may have passed through parliament, but it will encounter a rocky road when it comes up against the inevitable constitutional challenges (Moegoeng Moegoeng notwithstanding). South Africa also has a freedom of speech clause which this law attempts to trump. In any case, if the ANC government continue to behave with the arrogance and stupidity they have been displaying of late, they will be out of government at the next election, and a DA-led coalition will lose no time repealing this Act.

Comment Re:Can't they tie them down? (Score 1) 236

Wow, 10,000? Why don't they use chains or something to hold those bad boys down in choppy waters? Or, I don't know, built steel railings along the perimeters? Or inter-locking Lego-like attachments between containers?

They do. The two lower tiers are held down either by chains and turnbuckles or lashing bars; subsequent tiers are secured to the lower tiers by twist locks. These things don't fall overboard in "choppy" waters--they fall overboard in much worse sea conditions. Wave heights in force 12 can reach 60' (~20m) and no stabilizers can deal with the violent movement of the ship in those conditions. Weather routing is improving all the time, though, so ships find themselves in those conditions far more seldom.

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