I propose mirroring this text onto the following websites:

• SCO
• RIAA

Anyone has better ideas?

*unable to utter a sound*

Rebutted on Slashdot, humbled again! Oh well.

Question 1: My hard disk can sustain between 30MB/sec to 80MB/sec sequential transfer, while my competitor's can sustain up to 286MB/sec. Which will you buy?

Question 2: My laser printer can sustain 1.5 ppm, while my competitor's up to 10 ppm. Which to recommend?

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Hint 1: 286MB/sec is the upper limit for SATA 2.

Hint 2: "My" measurements are inclusive of "cooling breaks between prints" during high volume prints, and includes a medium-resolution graphic (30MB size perhaps).

Um, no. For using the other two companies' libraries, they are supposed to write those docs, so that he can use them.

Also, it has absolutely nothing to do with documenting his device's interfaces.

I have the feeling I'm about to eat a really, really huge humble pie, though.

+10 Insightful.

On an off-topic note, I just spent 1.5 hours walking through the local Muslim temporary night market. They're having sales and discounts, being the last day of sales (since tomorrow is their huge celebration). The festive mood is infectious.

Fighting? What fighting? They're too busy doing sales / preparing to celebrate!

This is supposed to be funny, mods!

I used to work in Engineering -- this takes me back. Who owns those building now? Celestica? The new Cray spin-off?

Back when I was an intern with SGI, we took a day off* to visit the Chippewa Falls Museum**, which has a good-size collection of Control Data and Cray Supercomputer relics along with other items relevant to my interests***.

I got to poke around inside of an original Cray-1. To me, the most interesting thing about it was just how insanely packed the internal wiring was; I'd been expecting the intricate plumbing, but the sheer volume of wires running from Point A to Point B was really impressive. I mentioned this to the guy giving the tour, who turned out to be a retired manufacturing supervisor -- he told me that the hardest part of his job was finding women with both enough skill and small enough hands to handle the internal wiring jobs. The thing had been assembled *by hand*, every connection in this crazy bulk of wired clipped or soldered into place one after another.

Anyhow, after that I sat on the couch. It was not comfy.

* My boss was *pissed* about this -- she went around telling anyone that would listen that "interns are here to work, not go sightseeing". This marks the one and only time in my career that anyone in HR has ever done anything worthwhile, calling her up and telling her this was part of the program and she didn't get a vote.
** Seymour Cray moved to Chippewa Falls, his hometown, when he was still with Control Data because he felt most middle managers wouldn't want to drive that far just to bother him. Visionary man, that Seymour Cray.
*** Stuff from Leinenkugals.

I don't like the tone of my voice. Please mod me down.

You're so lucky to be surrounded by good people. But still, I can't help feeling you're blind to reality in the world. In particular, some things are nagging at my mind.

A) "motivated / months of planning", "you haven't seen the really good ones"

B) "self-centered", "not wanting to risk myself / let other people take the risk"

But I'm not smart like you, so what can I say?

TFA didn't link to the original Reddit article. The original one is here.

And that thread's comments have multiple serious discussions going on.

1. Caring / not caring about people pirating your work, and the emotions you go through.
2. How much of that are/are not lost sales, and how many of them wouldn't have bought the software anyway.
3. The practicality of spending time coding copy protection/checking, and the returns, and how much of them pisses off users.
4. That it's better to spend time developing features that paying users want instead.

And the discussions rival the quality found in Slashdot.

Probably developed in-house.

A company with an IT department that instantly shows up when you plug an USB drive ... is a rich company. Probably with in-house apps.

The easiest way to distribute/update apps in the company is to literally copy the EXE file onto the desktop (as vs deploying it using Active Directory).

Thanks. :) Found it.

I've searched using Google for quite a while, with search phrases like "I would do anything to pass this exam", "I will give you a good grade", "movie quote", and so forth. I still can't find the movie title.