No frakkin' way that would happen!

I was using scp mostly. Even ten years ago, I think I only ever used floppies for the stupid firmware update boot thing.

Yeah...when I cleaned out my attic five years ago, I tossed a bunch of never used 3.5 floppies.

The engine doesn't fall off of a plane of Boeing's colo burns down.

When I was 20, I would program 8-10 hours a day, then go home and code for 4-6 hours into the night.

Now I get distracted before an hour's coding is up. That's why I moved into management.

Personally, I use lastpass to do most of my logging in so I rarely type passwords. I have a screensaver set so that I never leave my machine unlocked. I use a Das Keyboard, which makes shoulder surfing difficult as does the fact that my password is well ingrained in finger memory, which means I can type it extremely quickly. And yes, I am very cognizant of who is around me when typing passwords...

Expiring a password in 30 days does fuck all for over the shoulder attacks because anyone who wants to do that is going to compromise your machine at the first opportunity. It's like assuming that sending people a new credit card every 30 days will somehow prevent identity theft.

So you are safe, unless the former coworker is quick enough to do his damage before the password expires. Fortunately, he wouldn't know when that is. Oh wait...he would.

The question should be asked: *How* did that former coworker get the password? From a sticky note on someone's computer because they kept forgetting their latest password, perhaps?

They don't. What they give a damn about is Microsoft's reputation as a lame, stodgy computer company that looks like that dork John Hodgeman. (As opposed to that other, cool company.)

Won't knock you over, assuming you're braced to take the impact.

Your analogy isn't quite right. It's more liking that you aren't allowed to use any cross-platform development tools when creating XBox games. If XBox had the requirement that Apple is attempting here, it would be impossible to develop a cross-platform game.

FYI: IL*Surmovik is available for the PS3, and you can get a USB flight stick control. It's not perfect, but it does mostly work. (It's unplayable without the flight stick.)

1) You can hook up a PSP to a television.

2) You can play all large number of PS One games on the PSP.

3) Some PSP games (Like "God of War: Chains of Olympus" or "Super Stardust HD") are very close to their console equivalents, differing mostly in handling the lack of a second analog stick.

They are talking about genetic differences in gut bacteria, not genetic differences in people. This has nothing at all to do with genetic differences between Europeans, Native Americans and Japanese. It has to do with the bacteria currently living in the guts of those born in Japan vs. those born in the US. Thus they really do mean "North Americans" as in "people currently living in North America", a set that includes people of European, Native American, African and presumably even Japanese ancestry.

The point, other then to be snarky, is that while C and C++ aren't as transparently portable out of the box, they are available on far more platforms than Java. Too many people throw out "Java is more portable than C", which is only really the case if you are porting between PC platforms.

In many ways, Java's "portability" is overblown as pretty much any VM based or interpreted language is equally portable. I'd be willing to bet that JavaScript is available on more platforms.

Java is extremely portable. A Java application can be run anywhere someone wrote a VM for it in C or C++.