Exactly.

I've read too many comments where people deride 'cleverness' as if they don't want their programmers to think and the ones that can and do are bad programmers. It all seems like overcompensation by the PHBs for the glut of programmers that came in during the DotCom era out of Community College or a Programming for Dummies book. Programmers became a commodity, and the level of ability, knowledge and expertise dropped accordingly. Managers dealt with it by making this the norm and making it a crime to be a smart programmer.

Up-to-date documentation and well-commented code is good. Code clarity is also good. That is not in dispute, but that has always been the case. This is all about accommodating the off-the-shelf programmer at the expense of the ones with experience and know-how.

I was thinking more along the lines of a Wood Chipper. Turn it on, toss it in and watch the little pieces fly through the air.

Personally, I haven't had to print anything in months, so my printer's almost never powered up. Fortunately, it's a laser printer. If it was an inkjet, I'd get maybe a couple of uses out of it before letting it idle and the cartridges dry up.

Thanks to products like VMware, Virtual Box and Boot Camp, Mac and Linux users can be just as vulnerable as Windows users to viruses, bots and malware. Even though it's in its own virtual environment, if you have something like FUSE running within it to make your host filesystems available, anything infecting the guest OS can access files on the host. Make sure the VM software runs as a non-privileged user to mitigate these problems.

If you're on an IT managed PC at work, where you're not allowed to install software, get a thumb drive, go to PortableApps.com, download Firefox Portable Edition or Google Chrome Portable, install it (not in the Windows Installer sense) to your thumb drive and use it for web browsing on the Internet. Only use IE for web browsing on your corporate intranet or if you really, really, really, really, really have to for a site on the Internet that you trust.

So OS X can only be installed on Apple-branded hardware? What's Apple-branded hardware? Hardware with the Apple logo on it?

Every copy of OS X comes with about four stickers with the Apple logo. Take one, slap it on your PC and enjoy.

Problem solved.

Because you never paid for any software. You paid for a license to run the software. The company you bought the software from still owns it. Their software, their rules.

You can sell a license to read your book just as easily, or at least try to. Good luck with that.

Two problems with laws written in 6th grade English:

• People who actually graduate from high school and can't read even that level of English.
• People for which English is their second language, if any.

I don't know what you can do about the former. People who want to be ignorant, will be ignorant.

For the latter, you could have translations in their native language. Hope you get it right. Case in point, one of the ten commandments is "Thou shalt not kill". Actually, it was translated wrong all those years ago. The original writing is "Thou shalt not murder". Quite a difference, dontcha think. The former literally says I can't take the life even of a mosquito for any reason, whether my life is in danger, or not. The latter says I can't intentionally plan and take the life of anyone; swatting a fly doesn't count.

What would that spending have gone towards if it hadn't been directed at grown men playing children's games?

Grown women play them, too, you sexist pig.

I say "Good" to the Olympics not coming to the US, we don't deserve them. Maybe our political system can be fixed, but until then let the camps on either side of the aisle drool in hunger as the big ticket items of the world go elsewhere.

If political systems had anything to do with it, they never would have been held in China, Russia, Yugoslavia or Nazi Germany.

The other interesting point worth noting is that the 32-bit upgrade is faster on a clean install than a 64-bit upgrade,

Is this an upgrade or a clean install? Which is it?

• This is a legitimate threat, and they're truly against full disclosure.
• Or they're using reverse psychology and are for full disclosure.
• Unless they're using reverse-reverse psychology and are really against full disclosure.
• But maybe they're using reverse-reverse-reverse psychology and are really for full disclosure.
• ...
• Or they're just a bunch of script kiddies trying demonstrating their "l33t 5k1lz".