Hey, all you terrorists out there! Looking for a new kind of attack? Want to freak out a good part of the US population? Here's a little tip: just go and get yourselves accounts on all major blogging sites and start posting about bomb making and stuff...

It gets better:

"The mom was no longer dating Cesmat but he continued to live with them."

How do you cross the street?

I disagree with your conclusion. Although it is correct that Patient dead => won't buy other products, it doesn't follow that Patient alive => will buy other products.

Even though your actual statement was less strict ("more likely to buy"), I still doubt that it would make sense economically to reason that way. You don't invest large amounts with vague expectations for ROI which would - if at all - only occur with a substantial delay. Also, how do you know that the patient is going to buy those other products from you and not from your competitor?

Hey, that's just for Americans to get a feel for what it is like to live in the Old Europe, trying to access hulu.com, pandora.com, great deals of youtube.com, heck even goodies like dexter's lab episodes on cartoonnetwork.

Of course there's nothing more Linux about them than the kernel - since Linux is nothing more than a kernel.

...certainly not in Germany.

See - people are different and one person's preference will be very different from the next one's.

First, which side of the window, and for that matter the screen, are all of the menus on? That's right, the left-hand side. So why would you want to have to move your mouse a thousand pixels to close a window?

To make it harder to accidentally close a window if all you want to do is access the menu.

Second, what is the most destructive operation you can perform on a window? Closing it. Why on earth are you beating your users over the head by putting the most destructive operation that close to the corner? When it's on the corner, it's much easier to hit by accident, for example when reaching to resize the window. This has happened time and again with me on Windows to the point of absolute fury

Interesting. I personally have never tried to resize a window by grabbing the top right corner - and especially if I knew I could hit the close button by mistake, I'd probably use one of the other corners and reposition the window if necessary.

Every Mac user can immediately appreciate the position of the window controls, if they use them at all. They are clearly colored for improved accuracy, they're out of the way, and what's even better, you usually don't have to use them, since OS X's Expose is so much more convenient, even more so than Compiz, anyways

I don't find a lot of relevant and/or accurate observations in that last part of your rant. For instance, why would color coding improve accuracy? Why would Expose be relevant here, since it serves a totally different purpose than the window buttons? But in the end, I guess, most of what goes in this whole thread is a matter of taste and, as they say, de gustibus non est disputandum.

You have a college education?

Yeah, but we already have access to the oil in the country of the scientologists.

...especially since Mitterrand died in 1996.

Oh, right, good point - even simple things as "start date, end date" where you wanna make sure that the end date is _after_ the start date wouldn't be possible with regular expressions alone.

...or any other programming language for that matter? If the functionality is indeed only needed for checking that form input adheres to a specific format, should not a regular expression mechanism be enough in 99% of the cases? As in: if you design a form, you'll get the ability to specify a regex for each field and the PDF renderer will check new input against each field's regex. Less powerful, but also less likely to be exploitable, I would assume.

> This all sounds like a troll but it's more bitterness seeing complete idiots making 6 and 7 figure salaries while the
> "intelligent" folks are working as slaves.
>
> How did it come to this?

Perhaps the idiots' definition of "intelligent" is different from yours.