It draws fucking menus wrong. So does Audacity, BTW.

I need to find out where they got their UI widgets and slap whoever provided them... drop down menus aren't goddamned hard, they've been perfected for 30 years at this point.

My issue is projects that ask for the public to submit bug reports. But when the public does, they get either:

1) Completely ignored for years on end (1)

2) A snide, "if you want it fixed, fix it yourself" response.

3) A snide, pass-the-buck response. "That's not our bug, that's a bug in Java, tell them to fix it."

It's irritating. I've learned to never bother putting in bug reports, even if the project asks for them.

(1) Not even triaged in the worst cases-- Chromium, I'm looking at you. I finally got someone to look at it after 2 weeks by grabbing an email address off the bug tracker and nagging them to do so. By that time it'd turned out some dev has stealthily fixed it without even consulting the bug database first, apparently.

(2) Why do these projects ask for bug reports from the public if they don't want them? Just put up a message that says, "hey we don't WANT you to put in bugs, either write code or go away" and at least they'd be honest with their users.

(3) Yeah, well Java hasn't fixed it in 15 years, and there's an easy workaround you could apply, but if you're ok having shitty software because Oracle doesn't give a crap, I'll just use something else.

The Xbox 360 controller also has analog face buttons. And no, I don't know of any games that actually use them.

I guess the controller makers figure "better more data than less, even if the data is practically useless." Or something.

They also don't work (in gaming specifically) because 80% of gamers who claim they're boycotting something are hypocrites who end up buying it anyway. (See this oft-linked image.)

As long as those hypocrites exist and in such huge numbers, there's no way people boycotting the game will make a difference.

Without knowing what you're actually doing it's kind of hard to make any recommendation.

Where I work, we find Tableau to be a good middle-ground between Excel and full SQL environments. It's not really a spreadsheet perse though.

Cite?

I've never seen Microsoft talk about piracy at all. At least not since they added the activation system.

In a lot of cases you don't have permission to post "the original" without a corresponding copyright notice on the page. In that case, linking directly to the image without displaying the copyright notice is a copyright violation on Google's part. Even most Creative Common licenses have that particular term.

Google's doing this because they know they can get away with it. But until copyright reform is enacted, however, they're violating the copyright of thousands of artists at this very moment.

That's not right.

I know this is Slashdot and so I probably won't get a satisfying answer to this question, but I have to ask...

What right of yours, exactly, is being taken away?

What law was purchased, exactly? This program is being implemented voluntarily by the ISPs involved, as far as I'm aware there's no legal framework backing it.

How's the weather up there in Waterloo?

Selling it as a phone that combines the security and safety of an enterprise phone with the features an fun of a "home" phone is the right approach.

It was the right approach 3 years ago when everybody else did it, too: iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 & 8 have that already.

They need to move beyond "enterprise", because what was previously their selling point is now just another bulletpoint feature all smartphones have.

Cubby is awful though, it polls your disk instead of registering with the OS for change notifications-- meaning if your Cubby is on an external HD, it never goes to sleep.

The "gold master" in this space is Windows Live Mesh. Microsoft is (stupidly) closing that down, and there's no replacement anywhere of equivalent ease and quality.

Hopefully Bittorrent's new product will become that replacement. Or Microsoft will pull their head out of their ass and turn the servers back on.

But they don't seem to follow their own rules. PowerShell has a Wikipedia page, why isn't it listed?

More confusingly, if you code in VBScript are you included in the classic VB bucket? What about JScript and JavaScript? If so, fine. But if not, than there's two other languages they're excluding despite their own rules.

Since VBScript and JScript aren't listed individually, I assume that JScript queries are all counted as JavaScript. Ok fine. But wait... ActionScript does not! What's the difference between JScript and ActionScript? Both are based on the ECMAScript standard, but use their own unique API (not DOM, like JS in the browser world). Why does one have its own ranking when the other does not?

How come BATCH (.BAT) isn't on there, then?

Presumably because it's been deprecated for like 15 years.

VB comes in at number 7, and JavaScript comes in at number 10. Since this index doesn't list VBScript and JScript separately, you can assume that VBScript queries are some proportion of those VB queries, and JScript queries are some proportion of those JavaScript queries. But it's hard to be sure with the way the list is presented.

Also they don't seem to be counting PowerShell at all.

it would take me all of one day at most to find over 1000 movies just with the search "full movie", each of which has a view count of 10,000+.

You own the copyright of 1000+ movies? You must be the most powerful man in Hollywood.

Google could too, but they have no interest in this.

Seriously? Google will pull that in a heartbeat if the copyright owner complained. Their system is freakin' militant. It's actually MORE aggressive than the legal DMCA process calls for, with less room for reprieve.

The problem you're having is that you're not the copyright holder, so you really have no right to ask for a video to be taken down and You Tube has no reason to listen to you.

Hell, for all you know, all those movies are on YouTube on purpose with full knowledge of the copyright holder. Prove they aren't.

Space: 1999 had a tendency to come up with great ideas for episodes, then screw up the execution.

One of my favorites was the episode where they entered orbit around a planet whose technically-advanced occupants didn't want them to land. To prevent them from landing, they decided to give the Alpha crew "what they wanted" and terraform the moon to be like the Earth...

Of course what happens is, first the Eagles can't fly in the dust-filled atmosphere, stranding some of the crew on the surface. Even worse, once they start adding water, the moonbase begins to flood because it was build on the bottom of a crater (soon to be a lake). The Alpha crew has to contact the aliens and explain that their good intentions are going to kill the entire colony.

That was a great premise for a episode!

The problem was, they then had to add this stupid sub-plot about how the food crops the aliens sent made people crazy for no reason. That subplot took up a large portion of the runtime and basically ruined the other, much better, plot of Moonbase Alpha suddenly having to deal with the changes. I'm sure the entire point of that subplot was to give Barbara Bain her contractually-obligated number of lines of dialog.

Oh well.