Comment Re:Equal Rights Equal Results (Score 2) 593
I'd hire a woman over you. She's more likely to be a team player.
You have clearly never actually worked with a woman.
I'd hire a woman over you. She's more likely to be a team player.
You have clearly never actually worked with a woman.
...that's when we fired all the stoners and hired every Mormon coder we could find.
I knew porn was conducive to programming!
The gvfs way is better than the KIO way.
I started with GNOME way back when, but then switched to KDE at version 1.44.
I have a love/hate relationship with KIO. My biggest complaint is that KIO isn't a virtual file system, but rather is just a file copy mechanism. It works great for many uses, but completely falls flat when trying to perform an open/read/close sequence. It copies the entire file to a temporary location, then opens that temporary copy. This is asinine, and is the single largest failing of the IO Slave mechanism.
Even Windows' UNC handles remote files better in this regard, which is saying something since most of Windows networking is a painful joke.
You have a better chance of a wish for a flock of pink Unicorns to be granted than you have of a White House petition having any desireable effect. White House petitions exist solely as a feel good measure; nothing else.
If you want a better alternative, stop voting for Democrats and Republicans. While not a silver bullet (how apt a metaphor), it has a much better chance of evoking change. Vote for someone who usually wouldn't stand a chance against the RepubliCraps, and stop wasting your vote. Neither major party is the lesser of two evils.
Since nobody can tell what skills will be needed in the next decade, learning a particular coding language, the "learning to code" is almost certainly teaching the wrong language to children.
Teaching several languages is just a vehicle driving all of the things you mentioned; they are all the natural results of learning multiple programming languages. Each language contributes to a person's understanding of abstract terms. Teaching multiple languages will even mitigate against the stupidity of "teaching the keystrokes" that currently infests most "introduction to computers" classes.
You're in trouble for bragging about it.
âoeEssentially I am in trouble for posting all of the stuff on Twitter,â
And now you're going to prison because you just confessed to it all on public forums.
Again.
Your trial is going to be very short, and your sentence is going to be very long.
It's said that there is no accounting for stupidity, but this is natural selection at work.
Also keep in mind that Ballmer flew to Germany to personally offer HUGE discounts if Munich stayed with Windows. Microsoft was only cheaper because Microsoft was willing to do just about anything to prevent a high profile switch to Linux.
And the Microsoft experience is so bad that even that wasn't enough to sway Munich. And I wholeheartedly agree.
If this ruling doesn't get struck on appeal, IBM's lawyers should be drooling oceans as they warm up to sue Oracle for copyright infringement on SQL. Oracle owes IBM many billions of dollars in infringement, by Oracle's own logic.
This is yet another judge that is completely incompetent for the job.
You speak as someone who never had to guide an older family member/relative in how to use smart devices.
I have guided my fair share of older people through technology, but I wasn't thinking of them when I called people stupid. You're right that it makes a difference, so I shouldn't be so judgemental. I was thinking of the tech types who still think that it's safe putting important data on some stranger's Internet-connected server, unable to see the inevitable consequences of doing so.
A majority of the older generation, especially those in their 60s or 70s....
Thank you for the perspective check, though. I'll keep older people in mind when I'm raging against stupendously bad choices.
This will work itself out. Those people stupid enough to put important data on other people's servers, where the have no control over who sees them and now, after being warned time and time again that this very thing is inevitable, will find themselves devoid of a bank account eventually. At that point, they will:
1) Learn their lesson the hard way.
2) Not have enough money left to pay to host their data on other people's money siphon.
3) No longer have a need to host anything anywhere.
...the other half I do believe actually think what they are saying is accurate, because they don't associate with anyone who doesn't know the difference between SRAM and DRAM.
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[Linux is] for tinkerers and folks who want to spend as much time working on their OS as they do using the computer.
Hi, Pot. Kettle wants to meet at noon. Thanks.
One that sets many apart: learn to communicate in another language.
I communicate with C, C++, Java, Assembler, Python, BASIC, and others. You may begin sending me money.
There's a WhiteHouse.gov petition circulating that so far has surprisingly little support.
I think that's because most people have seen through the Emperor's new clothes, and have become dismayed with the "new", yet status quo, style he's wearing.
Let's rephrase your question, and you will see why Aero is going to lose this case:
"Suppose I rent an apartment in New York, and I setup an antenna to pick-up New York broadcasts. Then I stream those broadcasts to my paying customer. Have I illegally retransmitted the signal and I need to pay a licensing fee?"
Yes. You are now basing your revenue model on the transmission of someone else's copyrighted content.
It would be better to owe $2K each year than to expect refunds.
As part of a reasonably complete tax plan, yes. But the people who depend on refunds at the end of the year don't have the knowledge or ability to plan for a large (or even small) tax debt, and so won't have the $2000 available to pay those taxes. For the vast, vast number of people, overpaying their taxes is the only thing keeping them from ruin.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
