That's a nice job. Of course, the only original part is the case. Coneniently, there's someone who sells a board with buttons designed to fit in a GameBoy case and bring out the buttons for emulation purposes.
If you 3D printed a new case, you would't need a Game Boy at all. I wonder if there's a decal set for that.
iDrive, which is supposed to be a remote backup service, has a similar problem. They used to be a honest remote backup service, with client-side encryption. (They didn't protect the client password very well on the client machine, but at least the server didn't have it.) File contents were encrypted, but filenames were not, so you could look at logs and the directory tree on line. Then they came out with a "new version" of the service, one that is "web based" and offers "sharing".
For "sharing" to work, of course, they need to know your encryption key. They suggest using the "default encryption key". Even if you're not "sharing", when you want to recover a copy of a file, you're prompted to enter your encryption key onto a web page. The web page immediately sends the encryption key to the server as plain text, as can be seen from a browser log. Asked about this, they first denied the problem, then, when presented with a browser log, refused to answer further questions.
They try real hard to get their hands on your encryption key. After you log into their web site, a huge pop-up demands your encryption key. Without it, some of the menu items at the top of the page still work, and with some difficulty, you can actually find logs of what you backed up. You can't browse your directory tree, though.
It's possible to use the service securely (maybe), but you have to run only the application for recovery, and never use the web-based service. They don't tell you that.
This isn't a free service. I pay them $150 a year.
Wait until you have to REMOTELY administer the beast.
The active areas in the corners of the screen function on the "Maybe" principle (Maybe it'll work, Maybe it won't.) So if you don't clutter up your desktop like thousands of idiots do, and stick umpty-bajillion shortcuts on your taskbar, there are times when, if the RDP+Metro session just "ain't feelin' it" and becomes a useless mess as you try to click around to get it to work.
So yourself a favor NOW and install a Start Menu replacement. You'll thank yourself later.
I've been steering clients clear of Windows 8 and Server 2012 for nearly 2 years now.
If Nadella fucks the next-gen stuff up and continues with "Tablet Interface 4 Every1", I'm going to be converting a bunch of clients off Windows and onto VMWare and Linux with some form of locked down VM solution. Because that'll be easier and cheaper than the Metro interface retraining costs for my clients.
As to ending up in jail or dead, nothing I did was illegal. He brandished a weapon at me and I showed him I had a bigger one.
Escalating a fight when you don't need to is stupid and, in most places, illegal.
As to your second point, I looked for a point in it... and couldn't see an actual argument in it. Please rephrase.
Nuclear war is a bad thing, since it'll kill you. Promoting behaviour that leads to it is stupid.
As to your third point, I have millions of years of natural selection humming in my veins. I am not some skittish herd beast. I not a rat. I am not a rabbit.
No, you're just some dude with serious impulse control issues and delusions of grandieur.
I am a homo sapian. A man. I'm the ape that cracks atoms and marks his territory on the moon.
Claiming credit for other people's achievements is not the least bit impressive.
Come at me.
Why?
Did he then post your home address online, and tell you he'd come over and assault you? That you're only use in life is as a pretty face to satisfy him?
That's not a very common workplace situation......
Searches for 'US total liability' will get you total debt, public and private. Which still isn't $150 trillion. Seriously; citation needed.
Then modify the search. I rather expect you understand how to use Google.
> If we're going to open up our southern border...
The problem with H1-Bs is not that they "feruhners". The problem with H1-Bs is that they are an underclass that's at the mercy of the company that imported them. They are even lower on the totem pole than underpaid undocumented Mexicans.
If you are an H1-B, ICE knows exactly where to find you if you get too "uppity".
Why do you assume Science is the _only_ way to acquire knowledge?
Assuming life favors a single-star system when in reality it favors a twin-star system.
I'm assuming you are a native of a twin-star system who happens to be doing anthropology work among the savages in this system.
Because otherwise, I can't figure out how you'd know that life favors a twin-star system, given that we know of zero twin-star systems that support life.
You consider a world where nobody has to work as a utopia. My observation is just the opposite. If you take effort away from people, they tend to become entitled, lazy, selfish, and (ironically, with more leisure time) miserable.
Where are you getting this from? I detect a very basic failure to either apply critical thinking or reading comprehension.
From your constant insistence, over multiple comments, that under your proposed system nobody would "have" to work. I consider it a privilege to be able to work to provide for myself and my family, not a burden to be cast off at the first opportunity. My ideal world is one where everybody has the ability and opportunity to work for a living wage, not one where everybody gets free stuff.
You are of the opinion that nothing bad happens to men and it always happens to women.
Nope. I'm just doubting the OP.
You are doubting the OP solely on the basis that the OP is a male, since that's the only information you have about him. That only makes sense if you're of the opinion that nothing bad ever happens to men.
The author has a point. At one time, there were development tools, which cost money, were relatively static, and which were expected to work correctly. Then there were applications, which relied on the development tools.
We now have a huge proliferation of tools, many of them open source, poorly integrated with each other, and most badly maintained. Worse, because everything has a client side and a server side, there are usually two independent tool chains involved.
Web programming is far too complex for how little most web sites do. (And the code quality is awful. Open a browser console and watch the errors scroll by.)
Joe Biden knows less about coding than my daughter.
Hell, he probably knows less about coding than he knows about guns...
Hint, Joe: firing a shotgun THROUGH your front door violates pretty much every rule about target identification that there is.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
