Yea, no degree and I'm a Sr Unix Admin. I am investigating pursuing a degree, more for personal education than career advancement though. At this point, I can't see how a degree would improve my chances of keeping my job or getting a different one should this one fail :)

[John]

We need an 'Anonymous Idiot' user for some folks apparently.

Post the links to proof or STFU.

Google search showed 81 people killed by vaccines in a year but hundreds of thousands are killed by Malaria in a year. Polio killed thousands of people a year. The Spanish Flu killed about 30,000,000 people.

Herd Immunity: When the English and Spanish came to 'The New World', the native populations were wiped out by Small Pox laden blankets.

Honestly, just STFU.

[John]

Or engineering or development.

[John]

Hey just as long as you are considered part of the Majority you are perfectly fine to be discriminated against.

Sorry, but women are 51% of the US population. They're the Majority. Unless you're talking about IT of course :)

[John]

Don't have any of those so I don't have a vampire attached to my phone or tablet. I do buy the occasional app though. Most recently Carmageddon from a referral from here in fact.

[John]

As someone up thread said, if your model depends on ad revenue (in app ads), then Android. If it's app purchase revenue, then Apple.

Which also makes your statement true. If you're not buying apps for the Android, you have nothing tying you to the platform. If something new comes along, you'll jump to the new sparkly because you have no money invested. With Apple, you're buying apps. So you're throwing away the money you've paid.

I have quite a few apps on my iPhone that I would have more of a problem bailing on because I've paid for them vs my Android phone that I'd punt in a hot second and without a second thought. Same as the Blackberry I used to have. The benefit was the physical keyboard but other than that, no reason to keep the BB around once I got the iPhone.

[John]

Yea, my volume is now off on my laptop. Where's the checkbox to disable it?

[John]

You need to stop watching Big Bang Theory :D

[John]

I lost a good 30 lbs when I went to Athens for a month to work (270+/- to 241). The change in timezones messed up my feeding time so I wasn't hungry during meal times. Plus hiking all over or taking metro in my off hours. Add in the number of folks who smoked (which also kept my appetite down) and it's not hard to lose a few lbs.

[John]

A previous girlfriend of mine had bailed on her ex when she caught him chasing the neighborhood 15yo girls. She took her kids and cat (Morgan) and moved in with her sister. But she couldn't have cats in the house so she left Morgan with her other sister. Unfortunately she left Morgan on the back porch for a year. Never brought her in and being a dog person, never paid any attention to her. When we went to get her, she had pulled tufts of fur from about half way down her back to the end of her tail (she was a longer hair tuxedo cat). We took her to the vet to have her checked and nothing was found wrong with her. After having her at my place with the other cats I already had (my daughters both bailed on their cats when they moved out so I had three, then four with Morgan), she recovered however was pretty looney for the rest of her life (the awesome kind of looney; old lady looney :D ).

[John]

You must have missed the automatic assumption by some airlines that men are molesters.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/14/...

[John]

Well shit. Then this is a news for everyone on the planet. I expect everyone is nerdish about some things. How about an article on the proper methods of making moonshine.

Dumbass.

[John]

I'm not sure that the FDA recalling a Homeopathic "remedy" that claims to hold no antibiotics which actually does due to the manufacturing process, and could kill people who are allergic to penicillin is really a technical article that "nerds" would be all that interested in.

Well other than the numerous chuckles at 'homeopathy' :shrug:

[John]