You mean he's a natural crook?

Do a Google search for Jerry Pournelle - I don't have to spoon feed you.

Trouble is it's not all in the past. Microsoft is still up to the same old tricks and continues to be as much of a blight on the computing world as ever.

So Paterson claimed - I guess it was never definitively proven to be stolen but we have an eye witness account of Kildall demonstrating QDOS used CPM code.

QDOS code was copied from early versions of CPM

You need BASIC to steal someone else's operating system and run a company based on illegal anti-competitive business practices?

Oh, just tell them to stop and that will solve the problem. How little some people know of human nature.

Yes both "PC loser" and "SJW" are ad hominem but they're insults not arguments. An ad hominem attack is a response to a person based on them rather than the content of their argument. This was not a response to his argument, please note he's the one that started throwing insults around.

Your claim of "Tu Quoque" is also wrong, I objected to him telling everybody who disagreed with him not not say anything "ever", but never suggested in my response that he should remain silent.

On a personal note: the "no you are!" defence? Really? I haven't seen heard that since I was six. What a pitiful attempt at rational argument.

Typical SJW if you disagree with him you're a fathead who doesn't know anything about the subject and should just STFU. The only thing that surprises me about this PC loser is he didn't say "check your privilege". Come on AC, report me for "abusive" posting - trying to silence any dissenting opinion is the modern feminists movements stock in trade.

Yes, yes, yes, shift those goalposts! We all know we were talking about a modern western society not the "dozens of countries" you bring up. And as for CEOs - ever think that maybe that's because of the choices women make, maybe they choose not to have that sort of career. You're not against women having choices are you . . . sexist pig.

No, with most bosses it's what the words sound like.

It's not even good animatronics.

Because if they don't want the recording being seen they can claim it was "off" or "broken" at the critical moment. So it only really records footage that's in their favour.

That's the card I used to use for business expenses. Claim it back from the company and pocket the 1.5%. I've changed jobs and no longer use expenses much so I cut the card up.

Just as an aside - it's also worth joining hotel "clubs" and picking up free weekends away which are untaxable too.

A big part of the problem is that any change to the UI inevitably causes a lot of complaining - often times not really justified because it's simply a matter of people getting used to the new.

Unfortunately these "hipsters" (as you call them) extrapolate this to the assumption that *all* complaints about a new UI are unjustified and would go away if users would just take the time to become accustomed to it.

This and (as others have pointed out) the inexplicable compulsion they feel to "tabletize" every UI.