I think I just had a stroke...
I'm pretty sure that about the only thing he won't fuck-up about SW is turning it into the same "teenagers in space kaboom" that he made ST into, because he can't - that's what it was from the word "go".
a 50/50 chance that star wars VII could be pretty good...
For some extremely generous value of "pretty good" that can coexist in a context that contains JJ Abrams, maybe.
Actually, it was the GIMP team themselves broke saving in 2.8. (If they've since fixed it, then sourceforge probably just doesn't have the updates).
Their GNOME-like "reasoning" was that "professional" users wanted to save in XCF, and that amateurs should just use something else. It rang pretty hollow when the gold-standard Photoshop didn't behave the same way.
Leave the 1970s food pseudoscience where it belongs, in the 1970s.
Yeah, this is the age of the 21st Century food pseudoscience, damn it!
Why wouldn't you use broccoli to lose weight? It's one of the few healthy sides that even seem worth the trouble of eating, for me.
What percentage of current-generation iPhones will be able to get the next 2-3 major releases?
~100%.
How many of those phones, after receiving 2 or 3 major releases, will be so buggy or sluggish as to be unusable? Considering the amount of bitching every time it happens, I'd say non-zero.
Sanitize a language people use for actual communication?
Yeah, not so much. It's bad coding because of a lack of sanitizing.
It's easy to design something that people can do. It's tough to design a system that people can't fail at. And that's where there's a big, soft, squishy line that divides what people can generally keep up with and the things that people have to work at to get wrong.
As a software engineer, I require the first, and aim for the latter. It's tough.
My uncle was an BART engineer. He controlled BART ([San Francisco] Bay Area Rapid Transit) trains in the SF Bay Area for a living. The train had doors on both sides of the train and some stations opened on one side, or the other.
BART trains are frequently "up in the air" as much as 50 feet, where the expectation is that you climb a flight or two of stairs to the BART station and board the train. And, for passengers, the doors automatically opened on the correct side so that nobody got hut.
For passengers. But the engineers were expected to manually open the doors on the appropriate side when leaving their station. Now, it's not particularly difficult to look outside the door and see which side the station is on, and the doors for passengers automatically opened on the correct side.
This is where that big, squishy line starts to rear its ugly head. Because while passengers weren't expected to remember which side to get off, engineers were. And my poor uncle made a mistake one day, and opened the wrong side. It was a fatal mistake.
Answer me this: Why would we expect that passengers would never get it right, but engineers would never get it wrong?
Intelligently designed systems that account for and prevent common human mistakes is a design goal. It's tough to do because you have to predict what the end user will likely get wrong and account for that. Nonetheless, it's a hallmark of engineering advancement that we've designed something so safe and resistant to human error as a car that casually travels 100 MPH with as low a death toll as we see today.
Having never left the RedHat fold, (I'm typing this on a Fedora 21 Laptop) I can't say with any honesty that I've missed them. At all.
Red Hat has been very, very good to me! My business is based on RHEL/CentOS and since Red Hat is quite profitable, I have a simple, economic assurance that my technology base won't disappear.
Feel free to use Ubuntu/Mint/Whatever as your hip distro; but Red Hat has carried a solid, economically potent and robust distro for decades.
And that must be why there are more battered husbands shelters than battered wives shelters
Nah, that's just because feminists threaten violence and murder the dogs of people who try to open them
There also aren't any feminists...in burning buildings.
If the universe's well-noted sense of irony holds out, there may soon be.
Because, about 60 years ago, Cornell had the brilliant idea to offer a degree in "Women's Studies", so that college could be both expensive *and* useless. The recipients thereof have since spent better than half a century driving the point that a vagina is a suitable substitute for competence.
Don't use Ghostery: They sell data to ad companies
Disconnect is one alternative.
And I bet they have vending machines full of broccoli that tastes like Snickers bars, give you plenty of time to spend your lunch hour petting the unicorn in the lobby, and have weekly employee poker games with Santa.
Lucky bastard.
I immediately thought one of the intelligence orginizations, US, British, or Australian.
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. -- Mickey Mouse
