Other famous Microsoft Moments In Time (MMITs) that were not Actual Problems:
= 8.3 filenames
= Microsoft Bob
= Windows XP security
= Microsoft Windows Vista, *.*
= Microsoft advertisement in which Seinfeld asks Bill Gates to "adjust his shorts"
= Microsoft Zune, whether brown or not
= Chief Executive Orificer, Squirts Ballmer, *.*
= Microsoft advertisement for the Surface tablet in which ungraceful, robotic people coordinate senseless movements that no one would ever do in reality... if anyone bought a Surface tablet in reality
Demon-Haunted World - Sagan
Portable Atheist - Hitchens
Unpopular Essays - Russell
Once a mind has escaped ignorance, there are plenty of laughs to be had at the expense of tribalism and tradition. There's your whimsy, too. (o;
at this point it may not matter. microsoft may already be mortally wounded like Motorola was a couple of years ago.
I don't love Microsoft, its tools, its "solutions", its idiotic advertising, or Squirts Ballmer, but you need to evaluate reality more accurately.
Microsoft is a large, rich, powerful company with a MONOPOLY. They have a pinhead for a Chief Executive Orificer and they are having difficulty finding new successes in a difficult economic climate. They are not alone. BUT... It would take catastrophic global circumstances on a scale yet unseen to wound Microsoft mortally.
And because I'm dragging it out for another week, I'm going to be
*very* bitter if anybody sends me pull requests this late in the game
that aren't for major issues. If you send me small irrelevant stuff
that doesn't fix major issues (oopses, security, things like that),
I'm going to curse at you
In the spirit of forgiveness and magnanimity, Linus has offered not to call anyone a "fucking moron who should kill himself" this Christmas.
Don't screw up the peace and goodwill, people, or there will be hell to pay!
It seems likely that you're American (Walmart, "frickin'", dollars) so I know reading comprehension isn't your strong point
He could be Canadian, you insensitive clod!
No wonder 7 billion simians just throw more poo.
Ageism is based on two things:
= Old Person wants a quality of life and stability
= Old Person is expensive in both salary and benefits
If you want quality of life, you are too old.
What HTML5 giveth, hath not yet arrived.
Research opportunities -- maybe at the PhD level, but the private sector doesn't like to hire software PhDs for a good reason.
Highly skilled mentors and teachers -- who are counting on their university pensions instead of learning what's happening in the real world of software development. I don't blame them for seeking safety, but let's not pretend that 90% of professors are "highly skilled mentors and teachers".
Real-world community -- of people who are just as lost. Might as well used Reddit.
Regular social contact with relatively capable people -- Based on statistical understanding alone, I must declare this point to be bovine excrement.
Oh, so the villain in this movie goes *further* than creating a monopoly, using its power to force suppliers to put competitors out of business, using a file-system hack to implement long filenames, having Notepad write a BOM to UTF-8 files, and, finally, choosing Ballmer to run the business into the ground?
How will Bond ever defeat a villain with such technical skill?
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
