> And most importantly, don't give anyone a pass/handycap based on race; for that in of itself is racism!

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/1...

https://www.ussc.gov/research/...

Boy, those were easy to find.

I feel like the next hundred comments could each mention a different issue that played "a role" in google+'s demise.

I'll start: Invite-only rollout.

Who would buy into a Google "smart home" after the Nest Hub?

> "Scientific" types already knew, or at least valued, Arts and Literature.

He must not have read this thread.

It's in the EU's best interest to make leaving it an unpleasant process.

Many of mine did not. For that matter, neither did any of my UI tweaks.

Anyway, since I'm everybody, clearly the update is unusable.

This. Anybody watching 6.9 fold into 7 fold into 8 would be a fool to think microsoft would support a physical device.

I liked my windows phone, while it was supported.

They both are.

Mike was head writer even before he took over as host. Joel picked him as his successor.

Both sides have made clear their goodwill to the other. Some of the mads have done rifftrax. They all got together for rifftrax live recently to promote the new season.

The real villain of the story is Jim Mallon.

When it comes to government, never ascribe to stupidity that which can be explained with kickbacks.

> Oxygen levels can't go up, where would the oxygen come from?

"Oxygen levels can't do down, where would the oxygen go?"

You sound like this.

You have completely missed the point of this entire discussion.

Of course you don't think coding should be taught to children. You think coding begins at C. These are related.

Boolean algebra? Coding isn't being taught in schools because they need elementary schoolers to build them a new email client. Coding is moving into the classroom because it's an effective way to teach logic and problem-solving. Coding can help teach concepts like algebra, even.

I learned coding messing around with trivial, forgiving programs on simple interfaces. The first code I ever "wrote" was graphical building blocks in lego mindstorms. Later, I graduated to coding my calculator in its BASIC variant. I basically skidded into "big boy" programming off the inertia of trial and error with loops until I figured out what I was supposed to be doing. Me and my friends had optimization competitions. We built games. We started long before we knew algebra or boolean logic... formally, at least. I've heard plenty similar stories on this website.

Here you go. This is how to teach a child to code: https://lightbot.com/

Here you go!

I much prefer D&D 3.5e to Pathfinder. Mostly because Pathfinder has crappy flavor, discourages interesting builds, and (most importantly) heavily nerfed optimized martial/mundane characters while doing essentially nothing about the 3.X magical superiority.

So as long as wizards win the same either way, I'll take the system where I can build a barbarian that can fight effectively, rogues/factotums have a purpose, and I can build a Shugenja 5/Dracolyte 1/Singer of Concordance 1/Seeker of the Misty Isle 1/Hexer 4, and that character is 100% different from the next guy's Shugenja 5/Divine Oracle 1/Paragnostic Apostle 4/Contemplative 2.

I was having an issue connecting to a wifi network last week. Just got "Sorry, we can't connect to that." every time. The troubleshooters were useless - "Have you tried setting your computer to autmagically connect to Starbucks_WIFI?" "Have you tried plugging in an ethernet cable?"

After I (manually) Toggled wifi, toggled my router, restarted, reinstalled drivers, set my card to never turn off due to power concerns (who knew that was default?) and failed to find any form of error message in event viewer, I started getting into the CMD. Surely, I reasoned, I can get an error if I connect in a CLI.

The first problem was that I wasn't already set up with that connection. I don't know how the profile XMLs are set up so I had to export my Wifi profile from another computer with netsh and throw it on using a flash drive. After I'd imported that - which is TERRIBLE, why can't I just give it the network and pass? - I tried connecting. Once, trice, three times.

Every time I used Netsh connect the response was "Connection successful!" Obviously it never was. I threw some pings to see if my UI was lying, but no, it just failed to connect every time. Who knows why?

I'm getting angry again just thinking about it. I even asked microsoft tech support. After about an hour the response was "I have nothing else for you to try, I have no way to find out the error, but if you pay us money we can set up a remote session." Yeah, that will help me get online.

I tried being a microsoft apologist from around 2009 to mid-2013. It wasn't for me.

Woah woah woah. Superior to 7? Have you tried group policy editing? Turning off skydrive? How about figuring out why a wifi connection failed? They scrubbed the diagnostic messages so hard I couldn't find one in CLI or event viewer.

The reason that I wanted to turn off Skydrive was because the app version has settings independent of the actual in-desktop process. So when I set it up, it brought me to the app, and I disabled "keep all my files off of my hard drive because that's the purpose of sync programs, right?" only I found out later, when I tried to run a program out of my directory, that the actual files didn't obey the global setting and my programs started suffering data corruption.

Basically, every change windows 8 made has screwed power users. I'm lucky I've only run into 3 or 4. Then there's the minor gripes, like how action center always displays "virus database expired!" even though it updates itself whenever it runs a scan. I have the same setting on W7 and it never yelled at me about it. Or how it won't let me pin more than 3 explorer locations to my taskbar. Or how they removed access to Desktop Window Manager (DWM). Or, or, or...