Desktop memory is cheap but ECC server memory can be very expensive

I had a similar experience with theological articles I kept attempting to keep NPOV (Neutral Point-of-View) in regard to the way some denominations interpret certain scripture in their doctrine but my edits kept getting reverted and modified by some Southern Baptist and Quaker church members (Their usernames clearly identified them as such) who insisted their point of view was the end-all and be-all and that other major points of views didn't deserve to be even mentioned in an encyclopedia.

I remember informing Wikipedia's administrative staff of the problem but I don't think anything ever came of it.

Long story short I've tried to contribute to Wikipedia on a number of occasions but self-proclaimed editors and people insistent on pressing their philosophy and ideas on others make it very difficult to be a contributor.

What really bothered me was that I wanted to be part of the beta (I seem to participate in lots of beta stuff) but unfortunately to be considered you had to play a game for 10 minutes with a controller or something like that to get the Steam badge that would throw you in the candidate pool.

Unfortunately I did not have a controller that I could get to work with my PC and I couldn't get the PS3 controller I had on hand to communicate with my PC.

So I'm kinda bummed out about that.

There is no shortage of stupid when it comes to big companies due to bureaucracy and those being in management being disconnected from their customers and employees.

I used to work for a small software company of no more then maybe 120 people tops.
It was great; the benefits were great, the people were great and the work was not only great but deeply rewarding and even us low level developers got to have input on the product and even on occasion make design decisions.
Even the top management worked with us on such menial lowly tasks as coding and testing.

Then we got acquired...

The new company is multinational, employs people well into the thousands, and the new management seems to be obsessed with reports and numbers all the way up the chain to the CEO so consequently development has slowed down to a snail's pace.
My job no longer feels rewarding and I feel like an exhausted code monkey and the management continues to add more official procedures we must do to accomplish anything and they've even gone so far as to change the way we track changes in the source control system by eliminating bug items and stuffing everything into these gigantic user stories so the numbers look better for management.
As a result keeping track of everything is really difficult and non-uniform; every developer and tester writes something in a slightly different format inside text fields instead of keeping everything linked and individually documented as their own items like we did before.
To make matters worse they'll eventually retire our product and force our customer base to move over to their main flagship product so those of us at the bottom of the corporate food chain feel really discouraged and pessimistic about the future.

We were a market leader before and the reason was because we had everything down to a science and could adapt really quick to customer needs and input but now all that is gone.

It's a job and I'll do whatever they tell me to but still its not fun to work anymore and the management feels disconnected from those who they manage.

I have a younger friend who raves on about the Chromebook and how its superior to a PC (Along with the usual lines like "No viruses") but what he doesn't understand is that Chromebook is a glorified web browser masquerading as an operating system.
These machines are built for content consumption rather then creation, sure you might be able to type up an essay or ruin your pictures with filters through some kind of crappy $5 photo manipulation app, but for serious content creation the desktop is far from dead.

In many cases, in the real professional world, the tablet or phone is just a thin client if not a mere tool for something larger controlled, developed and otherwise managed by the desktop workstation.
I feel the newer generation fails to understand just how significant the desktop workstation environment is.

O'Connor v. Donaldson was a landmark case in 1975 where the Supreme Court ruled that commitment to a mental institution is the same as imprisonment in a criminal penitentiary therefore the state has a burden of proof to prove to a Judge that the subject is a harm to society or himself and that there is no alternative, and consequently anyone subjected to being committed is entitled to legal representation.

Even if you're voluntarily committed you should be able to leave at any time but if they force you to stay then you are being unlawfully imprisoned unless they have gone through the whole process I just mentioned, and you are entitled to an attorney even if it's just a public defender.

IANAL but I have done research on the subject and IMHO this is one of the best rulings SCOTUS has ever made.
Obviously none of this is relevant to your situation if you were confined before 1975 but it would be handy to keep in mind should it happen again.

As someone who has been harassed for photography I make a personal note of places that post signs prohibiting photography and remain aware of my surroundings should I engage in photography. There seems to be this strange unspoken paranoia in society about cameras and law enforcement usually has the worst attitude about it let alone private persons.

The uphill challenges that photographers face in regard to people's attitudes and misinformed ideas about the law reminds me of the same challenges and misinformed ideas and attitudes that those who carry of firearms (or other defensive tools such as tazers) often have to face.

Unfortunately photographers don't have as much case law and legislative code to defend themselves with unlike those who lawfully carry firearms but this site is a great place to start on the subject and of course the EFF usually has some good material in relation to this subject.

Anyone else remember the good old days when NewEgg did three day shipping as a standard? Now they only offer relatively slow 5-7 day shipping and expensive 2 day shipping.

I loved the TV show! Unfortunately anything remotely good on TV these days always gets the axe while atrocious shows (I'm looking at you Modern Family) continue to live on.
I saw that Scott Adams has animated shorts on his Dilbert site but they're nowhere as good as the TV series.

Check Craigslist; I got a PS3 with a controller and six games for $100 on there. I use it mostly for streaming media and watching blu-rays. I refuse to give any money to Sony though on account of their anti-consumerism so I'll buy used for the right price if I can help it.

Its amazing how much older hardware seems to outlast newer hardware by decades. It almost makes me (jokingly) wonder if newer hardware has a built-in time bomb!
Routers have to be the worst offenders when it comes to this.

One alternative would be to buy a car wash

That would actually be rather funny if they did

I'm also a professional software developer but if you stop to think about it I think that you'll find MSVCRT (Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime) is significantly smaller then the .NET Framework that MSIL applications can't run without. I'm not sure about the size of the Mono runtime in comparison.
Most of the time this won't be important, especially given that .NET framework is pre-installed on Windows, but depending on your project and targeted runtime environment it could be a factor.

Holy crap I didn't realize Texaco still existed. I haven't seen a Texaco station in years and I thought they had been consumed entirely by Shell but your post prompted me to look it up and apparently Chevron (Texaco's owner) had ceased all retail operations in the southern states on the east coast around 2010.