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Comment Re:Apple is what MS always wanted to be (Score 3, Interesting) 327

It always amazes me that people still try to bash Microsoft over the (bad) things they did in the 90s.

Let me state this yet again for the business concepts challenged. Apple is NOT A MONOPOLY. When Apple gets to the point that 90% of all devices run their OS, then we can talk. Until then, there is no comparison.

Comment Re:Doesn't solve the problem (Score 1) 136

Ice is handled by studded tires
Darkness is handled by lights
If you can dress up to do any outdoors activity in winter you can also dress to ride a bike.

Really, weather is not a problem.

Really, that is wishful thinking. If you wear glasses, they always fog up. Face protection is paramount, leaving you looking like a serial killer. Massive gloves are required, since they are the most exposed. Then there's fumbling with the bike lock and key while wearing massive gloves, trying to fit your helmet over your hat, baggy snow pants caught in the gears, decreased visibility when in snow, ... They are all small things, but weather certainly IS a problem.

Comment Re:Huge setback (Score 1) 445

If everyone had given up on airplanes in the early days because of a few deaths, then we'd all be taking the train today.

We gave up on zeppelins because of a few deaths. :)

But we did not give up on zeppelins BECAUSE of a few deaths. We were already abandoning the technology for sea planes.

Comment Re:Good luck with that. (Score 1) 558

And worse than simply not accepting it, they did so because they plan to come up with their own competing product??? WTF, Rite Aid, do you really think people will rush to use yet another crappy store-specific solution, rather than look confused at the cashier for a few seconds before walking away, leaving their stuff at the register?

The three main drug stores in my area are Rite Aid, CVS, and Walgreens. Each requires you to have a card in order to get their regular pricing, as opposed to penalty pricing. Each thinks that they are locking you into using their store exclusively, whereas everyone just has all three annoying cards. They are just pissing off all their customers. It's a cold war to failure, just like green stamps and toasters at the savings and loan. Your grand parents can tell you about those.

Comment Re:1..2..3 before SJW (Score 2) 786

It's the SJW ninnies that are trying to pretend that nerds are the perpetrators here when they are generally powerless and denigrated.

I find the idea that nerds would ever chase off women particularly amusing. Hell, most of us would KILL to have women around. If women are electing to not pursue the field, it's certainly not because they're unwelcome. On every team that I've ever been on with women, the guys went out of their way to be nice to them.

Replace the word "nice" with "creepy." The problem with the unwashed coding masses is that they have no idea how to treat women as people, learn how to communicate in the their language, show any interest in what they like, etc.. Instead they try to find women who are just fantasy versions of themselves, but with boobs.

Comment Re:Hope! (Score 2) 522

Personally I want a hackers OS that I can play with and tweak as I feel like, but I accept that many people basically want open source windows or even just zero cost windows (i.e. free as in my wallet).

How about neither? I want a rock solid OS that can scale to N processors, allows hot swapping of hardware, allows the admin to spin up CPUs and memory on a live system, and has drivers that can be added and removed on the fly. That is, all the things that any enterprise level server OS has.

Comment Re:First taste of Mac OS X (Score 1) 305

I recently started a new role, where we predominately use Macs. As a long-term Linux user, I thought this would be a good opportunity to try out Macs, in case one day I decided to switch. Initially, I was very impressed, but after a few days, I find the whole thing to be dumbed down, unnecessarily.

  • Compared to Dolphin, I find Finder far too limited, especially the inability to show hidden files. I've got no idea why there is no such menu toggle built into it. What are Apple afraid of? This is especially annoying when I have to look for .m2 and .git files. Sure, I can use the command line, but it's not as intuitive.

A little googling would help you with all these issues.

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES

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