Why bother asking a question if you're already sure your answer is correct?

Saying men make better engineers because women cannot focus as well due to a alleged increase in multitasking ability sounds like nonsense to me.

I happen to agree with you, although next time try saying it in a less arrogant way. Just a tip.

It's because the dictionary guys are wrong. Literally has been used as an intensifier since the time of Shakespeare.

It literally makes my jaw drop that those "dictionary guys" , and you, don't understand why they are wrong.

That's generally not true.

Women make less money than men *on average*.

For the same jobs, they tend to make the same as a man with the same amount of experience.

There are quite a few laws mandating that.

raises and ability to negotiate are a separate issue.

Generally female to male transsexuals are wired almost exactly like males, while male to female transsexuals are about 50% female wired...

http://www.medicaldaily.com/brain-mapping-gender-identity-what-makes-boy-girl-247122

No it doesn't. You utterly fail to understand what the octane rating means. The engine in your saturn would in no way benefit from the higher octane rating. It could in fact run without noticing a problem with a significantly lower octane rating. Octane ratings matter in high compression engines or turbo/supercharged engines, not in econobox.

I think that would be an example of security like a sieve actually. Its an exploit, but it was there by design.

People sharing something they like, promoting and advocating it which leads to new sales? Nothing groundbreaking here.

Piracy is a net benefit for society. Piracy leads to an increase in sales. Piracy is unstoppable and inevitable, as it should be.

Tired of people who don't get that, and are only narrowminded and can only be concerned of their potentially lost sales.

It also means that at least 1/3rd of the population is some kind of royalty, possibly 2/3rds or all of them!

A better example would be the 9/11 attacks on NYC that took out large swaths of Internet and cellular service ... yet POTS still worked, occasionally in an island, but it worked none the less.

The Internet was designed to work in unreliable conditions, which coincidently is how it turns out working.

The POTS was regulated into having a certain level of reliability. It is considered by the US government as critical infrastructure, and has legally required SLAs attached to it. This is why a REAL T1 (not some other circuit with 1.5Mbs of data), carrying 24 DS0 channels still costs $1500/month, but you can get 10Mbs for a couple hundred. The T1 can carry voice, so its regulated as such, and thats why you'll have the AT&T guy at 1am in your data center trying to resolve issue with the circuit without sen asking them to. The phone company sees that it works or they get the shit fined out of them.

This happened because it turned out that once everyone got phones, we realized how awesome they were in emergency situations and how many resources could be saved thanks to being able to communicate with anyone in the country quickly and reliably.

I'm fine with dumping POTS, but I want the Internet to have that same sort of regulation behind it to ensure that it works far far better than it does now.

We also need to switch to PoE if we're going to dump POTS and supply power from the CO so at least ONE device in the home can stay powered on from offsite power if the mains fail.

Apparently you did not. You still seem to think ActiveX is magically evil when you couldn't be any further from the truth. ActiveX is nothing more than a plugin system. A plugin system that has provisions built in from the start to prevent all the security issues that came with IE ... but between stupid developers who marked any ActiveX they made as 'safe for remove scripting', which then created all sorts of exploits. Had they simply left the flag unset, most of IEs issues wouldn't have existed.

But the real flaw in the system was IE, which was initially configured to install ActiveX components from anyone without prompting.

ActiveX is the exact same thing as Mozilla/Firefox extensions made with DLLs, you know, the good ones ... They work EXACTLY THE SAME as ActiveX ... they just use a different name for the same tech, CORBA instead of DCOM. Functionally, they are identical.

And thats what the registry does. You just talk to it, and the system stores the data where it wants, even going so far as to sync it between multiple machines automatically.

So you want to use a 3rd party database not intended for storing configuration information instead of the OS provided database designed to store configuration information with a far simpler API to use than a bunch of SQL queries? Thats pretty dumb.

You seem to want to reinvent the wheel because you're too ignorant to use the existing solution, or just too much of a fanboy to see the forest for the trees.

Effectively making it impossible to actually sell GPL'd software.

Sure, technically you can, but no one is going to buy it cause some other dude will buy one copy and then distribute it to everyone else.

You do yourself no favors and win over no hearts by trying to play that card. Everyone knows its bullshit, no matter how loud RMS screams.

I've never in my life ran into a license that required me to license my software under the same license. I've never heard of anything like that, unless you mean that it doesn't let me give out their code with mine since it isn't open source? No, I doubt that, you're just making up stupid shit.

And again, from a practical perspective, theres no way you can charge shit. Someone else will pay once and redistribute your crap for less or free. Just because you repeat it doesn't make it true

As opposed to yours, which is entirely based on broken presuppositions.

The problem is that you're stuck on the rounded corners and just being to ignorant to see the innovation. Your personal bias abounds.

It wasn't that any one thing was 'new' it was that they made something that wasn't a piece of shit. They made it work. They made it work WELL. And then they made AT&T give unlimited data for $40/month rather than $30 per kilobyte they were doing previously. And then they took control of all the crapware on phones out of the phone companies hands ...

Basically Apple came alone and fixed all the shitty parts of using a smart phone, and then all of the sudden the rest of the world looked like douche bags. The previous industry dominator is going out of business in 6 years because of their simple changes. Everyone else had to copy them, its 6 years later, and Android still suffers from stupid shit that plagued phones before the iPhone.

They did like the BASF tagline. We don't make the things you use, we make the things you use BETTER.