I for one do not like the fact that the word "poor" means "bad". Poor people are not bad people, many of them were born into poverty with a very low chance of ever getting out of poverty (in many parts of the world). Why say "a poor replacement" when you can simply say "a bad replacement"? Why "poorly defined" when you can say "badly defined"?

How about, instead of auto-tagging flashing adverts to allow some people to opt-out of them, people can just not make annoying adverts, much like avoiding the <blink> tag even if it's still supported?

By the way, I've just googled 'blink tag' and the result is quite amusing (if you don't suffer from epilepsy, that is).

I wonder what made you post a reply that has nothing to do with the post you're replying to.
Is it just to hang your post high enough in the tree to get noticed?

I think the point is that you don't win a 100m race by running 90m and then arguing about the exact definition of a metre.

It's an incredible feat to squeeze any variant of chess into 487 bytes, but if you're going to compare apples to apples and maintain a record, the games should follow the same rules.

And I disagree with that. Why would the expectation be to work overtime? My expectation is not to work overtime. My expectation is to be paid for the time I work, and then go home and not work (and not get paid for that time). I think it's a reasonable expectation. If the result of such a law is that I earn less money, I'm allowed to accept that and settle for a lower salary in return for my personal time. Maybe many people think like you, and maybe many people think like me.

But such a law would give me a choice. Yes, I could decide to work overtime and make up for the lower salary (but at least get paid for my work), or I could decide not to. Currently it's either free overtime or no job.

If I understand correctly, what you're saying is "the industry is bad, but it couldn't exist otherwise".

Isn't that the same as a factory that uses slave labour? If it didn't have slaves, it wouldn't be profitable and would fold. If the factory folded, you wouldn't be able to buy the ivory chess sets it was making. Paying for the skill required to make the chess sets is too expensive for the factory. Therefore it's OK to have slavery.

Slavery is great, but it was outlawed. Any company that depended on slave labour - folded. And that's a good thing. And we're still here, and we can live without ivory chess sets made by slaves.

(Note: I wish slave labour was gone from the world - it's still used in many parts of the world. But I'm not sure "the company would fold" or "if you live in this country you can expect to be a slave" are good excuses for it).

In other words, personally I could live without AAA titles made by slaves. There are a few game companies that somehow manage to make good games without killing their staff.

I guess you only buy bug-free software, then.

But seriously, isn't it better to see what's wrong and ask how the worse-looking risks are mitigated?
I guess the answer is about the general business culture, i.e. whether you're more likely to lose your job when the shit hits the fan if you say "I made an information-based decision and unfortunately the risk materialised" than if you say "I know nuffin'... they said there were no bugs".

Personally I'd get rid of a buyer who gave me the second answer, but I that's just me.

There's no point in acting all surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years so you've had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaints and its far too late to start making a fuss about it now.

I have a really important question about a piece of string.

Absolutely! That's why Google named their programming language "Go". They clearly know a thing or two about name searching.

Funny how the link is a Google link. Even when you try to avoid Google, you still have to do it through Google.

Come on, can't you just let someone be condescending without replying with a perfectly reasonable explanation?
He gets to feel superior, you get to mumble something about idiots and reading comprehension, it's a win-win in my book.

But you can't play 8-bit crap from 1984 on a Nntendo DS. Definitely worth the extra $400.

(Don't get me wrong, I was the right age in 1984 to really enjoy that crap. But it's 2014 now and I'm older and wiser).

Symmetric?

Real nerds use HTTPS.