Heh heh. Now current workstation has the Monkey Virus!

Oh, I thought someone just took a shit on my Slashdot today. So... It's going to stay that way, huh? Huh...

I don't understand why people are expected to buy more software on their phone then on their PC

But they DO! For a majority of PC users software is scary, many worry about installing *anything* as it could "break" their computer. They lack the savvy to recognize fake vendors and malware apps. Also plain software incompatibility is a huge problem for them to understand. Even if they do buy something, many cant even find where their downloads go.

Now compare this to a smartphone App Store. Your CC goes to one place, Apple or Google who they already trust more than random developers. Installs are single click, generally can't mess up th system and are easily removed if you didn't like it.

All stores are MUCH safer and comfortable for general computer users. This is WHY there are millions of apps, finally non-technical folks are empowered to try out and explore software largely without fear. It's been a huge experience for them and finally showing them the potential of computers that WE have been claiming for decades.

So yes, people most definitely do pay more for apps on their phones than their computers, and they like it that way.

Meanwhile in Europe where one party's politicians don't spend as much effort trying to use global warming as a bludgeon against their political enemies (and an excuse to funnel public money to their friends) popular acceptance of "climate change is a real thing to worry about" seems to be higher. How about that, hmm?

It sounds like I haven't reached you. Insurance companies share some of the blame, but insurance is simply one way of paying for healthcare. The insurance will always be stratospherically expensive as long as the health care that it must pay for is expensive. In a way, the insurance companies enable the charging of high prices by not pushing back harder against unscrupulous providers who charge high prices.

I'm curious to see how often they have random people tell them they're their father, or ask them if they can lend a hand. It might not be that many, if they can also crush bone with their bionic hands.

I'd tell her to never apologize for who she is and never let anyone tell her she can't do something because she's a girl.

Also if you have an indoor skydiving facility near you, I'd take her to do that and spring for the video. I'd say 6-10 minutes each. You may as well keep experiencing new stuff up until you die, and it's quite memorable. Hell if I was you I'd go on a tandem skydive too. What have you got to be afraid of at this point? And maybe a hot air balloon ride, too. You'd be surprised how easy it is to find a hot air balloon pilot in a given area, and that's something you can take the entire family to do. Knock out that bucket list and make some memories for everyone!

I hope you're joking, I've known enough IT guys who intentionally used bad software for job security. Or allowed things known to be broken to catastrophicly fail so they could swoop in and be the "hero".

For those who seriously think that way....

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

The same amount of $$ and work would be much better off making things better.

This is a legitimate point of view that many of us are concerned about. They are about to impose a regulation that has been drafted in secrecy. Think TPP.

Have a nice day.

As someone who opposed the ACA, I would say that it is a huge failure because it did nothing to stop the increase of premiums to stratospheric levels. Today, I am paying nearly $700 per month for a family of three to have a policy with a $4000 per person, $8000 per family deductible, plus co-insurance.

That's right: I must pay over $12,000 in premiums and deductibles before my insurance will cover a single penny of my health expenditures, and my "patient responsibility" can reach up to $20,000 per year with co-insurance added on.

I wrote a bit about what I think is the best solution to the problem. You can see my remarks here: http://danielsadventure.info/P...

TL;DR; PPACA isn't working to make healthcare because it doesn't address the fact that unethical companies are charging inflated prices for healthcare products and services.

I absolutely hate this answer. I graduated from a school (Michigan) that had both EE, CE, and CS. That was 2004 (later went to Carnegie Mellon to do a Ph.D. cause it seemed like the "next thing"). Today I work for a large bay area software company and recruit from UM, amongst a number of other universities. In general, having done a few hundred interviews, I find that CE students (or CS students who tried to go the hardware route within the CS program) are a jack of all trades and master of none. They may have a decent understanding of computer architecture but since that was their major design class, they opted not to take neither an O/S nor a compilers class, so they really have no idea of what is running on top of that simplistic CPU they designed. They didn't take a software engineering class (sure, they did the intro programming but they have no idea what singletons or factories are) so their code sucks. They didn't do VLSI so they don't really know how that Verilog they wrote translates into silicon. They've heard of timing constraints but have no idea how to actually place/route so as to alleviate this.

I could hire one of these people and maybe they'd be able to figure things out. Or, I could hire someone who actually chose a specialty and attained something approaching mastery (relative for a student) of some area. Someone whom I'd actually trust to write good code, who understands threading, who understands the performance implications of what they're writing... or I could hire that guy who knows just enough in a lot of areas to be dangerous.

Can you speak to these parts? Maybe. Would I trust you to work on it? Probably not. Want to prove me wrong? Send me a message and a resume and I'll be happy to set up an interview.

Oh, Jesus... Jesus Christ!

I wonder if Grizzly Industrial runs into trouble with this; they explicitly advertise how you can use their machine tools to make guns, and in fact some SKUs are labelled as "gunsmithing lathes".

Last year I slipped on ice with my bike and broke my arm. Still hurts.
I was one the way do demo a software system to my boss. He said that usually the program crashes in a demo, not the programmer..

If criminals know their DNA will get a thorough health checkup while they can't personally afford such tests....

Some may feel that committing crimes and leaving DNA samples is the only way to get such quality information.

So then the police, in an effort to stop such medically motivated crimes decide to withhold the information which does not directly relate to identification... Leading said criminals to file Lawsuits demanding their own medical data.

Orrrr... The police just run it through the secret DNA database to identify the person and use parallel construction to explain how they found them.