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Comment Re: Programmers are not Engineers (Score 2) 43

Actually I have a master's degree in computer engineering and my job (I say it without shame because I love it) is programmer, with some incursion in real software engineering (UML and things like that).
But I agree, for some reason, actual titles of a degree (engineer, architect) have been put in software for some reasons.

FWIW you can call me a software MD.

Comment Re:The question ... do gamers want this service? (Score 1) 11

We are racing toward a world of "dumb terminals" - almost a complete 360 back to the old days of the mainframe and terminal - where the end user has absolutely zero control of their purchase - and worse still, is shelling out monthly payments.

Probably you meant 180 degrees.

Comment Re:Stamina therapy? (Score 1) 141

In Italy a similar treatment ended up with being declared as a fraud:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

However, that wiki article for the Stamina therapy used in Italy says: "It was found that the cell preparations did not contain any relevant quantities of mesenchymal stem cells". So the stamina therapy didn't actually contain what it was supposed to contain.

I bet that it will end up the same way. The Stamina therapy also has been associated with the hospital of Brescia. The theorist was not, indeed, a doctor, but he graduated in journalism. So in the North Carolina case it is much different but...
Don't you think that they will take this umbilical cord not to cure people or do real research, but to sell it, a thing that cannot be done? In Italy umbilical cord is donated, not sold, voluntarily and only in certain hospitals.
So I think that they may end up in selling water and, as such, a fraud.

Comment Trivial? (Score 1) 151

But despite having a three and a half years heads-up, SARS did not choose to port its Flash widgets to basic HTML & JS forms, a process that any web developer would describe as trivial

Ok for the time, however porting from Flash+ActionScript to HTML and JS does not seem like a trivial task to do.

Comment Re:This is why I switched to Epson EcoTank (Score 1) 143

Well the nozzles sometime clog, but the internal procedure to clean them up works great.
The ink is very durable, if you don't print much (like me) you don't have to worry about drying of ink.
There is also aftermarket ink that costs less than the original (although I never tried it).
So if you want to print on the cheap, the EcoTank is the way to go. Laser printer is great for its quality though.

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