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Comment Re:Fuck You (Score 1) 222

From my OSX shell, result of "uptime":

22:14 up 29 days, 18:22, 4 users, load averages: 0.15 0.15 0.10

Hardly even trying. Last reboot was probably a result of an upgrade from Apple. System crashes are so rare I can't even recall one. App crashes, yeah, sometimes, perhaps once every couple months or so. Depends on the app.

Comment Re:Enough already! (Score 4, Insightful) 222

Any "computer art professor" that teaches which style is "superior", as opposed to "how to do" any style you are tasked to implement, isn't worth the time spent with them.

The issue of replicating physical interfaces is not, and never will be, cut and dry. Some physical interfaces are highly refined and functional, and abandoning them leads to problems (look at a modern audio system as compared to, for instance, a late 1970's Marantz. Now try to turn up the midrange, or route one recording input to a recording output, assuming your modern hardware even has them.)

There are some excellent UI design guidelines out there. Like, don't constantly show and hide interface elements, it fouls up muscle memory. But "bury everything in menus" is a total newbie suck move, and "remove all familiarity" (which is what the rabid anti sku folk are saying, really) is also a suck move.

Change and so forth in moderation, see?

Comment Cellular contracts (Score 1) 127

And how do you switch to another cellular provider without incurring penalties?
Actually, I'm wondering if this could be used as a basis for terminating contracts. I'd love to dump my provider (Virgin, a subsidiary of Bell) if I could due to this bullshit.

I've heard that when services are greatly changed the ability to terminate a contract is possible. Anyone know if this counts?

Comment Not only offshore (Score 1) 361

But in general boycott U.S. products/infrastructure. Much like how the U.S. is supposedly avoiding Huawei, other countries will avoid U.S. hosting, and quite possibly technical equipment as alternatives become available (not to mention, working on their own alternatives). It's probably a good push for Linux/BSD/etc adoption too.

The big thing is, there is *NO* going back now. Even if they the NSA et al ceased all the spying and backdoor crap today, nobody would believe them due to the terrible track-record of lies and false promises.

Comment Re:Stop all AIDS/Cancer research now (Score 1) 232

Who knows, one might be related to another - or at least come up research results pertinent to another - especially when you start talking about things like cell growth, etc.

I'd always heard rumour that a particularly popular libedo-enhancing product was the result of a side-effect in researching other blood-flow related topics (instant-tan or something like that)?

Comment Re:Wow, glad we solved that! (Score 3, Insightful) 232

I shaved my head down once, and it looked *terrible*, especially compared to when I just kept my hair long. Not everyone has a nice clean shiny skull to show off. Some of us have scars, discolorations/birthmarks, that can be nicely covered up with a full (or even partial) head of hair. Add to that various things that are more likely to show up with a shaved head and too much sun (such as said discolorations, or even melanoma) and there are plenty of reasons to keep ones hair beyond simple vanity.

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