Comment Just imagine the help at solitaire... (Score 1) 87
Move the 9, move the 9, undo so that you can move the 9. You will fail if you don't move the 9!
Comment Competitor is .NET (Score 1) 758
I work for a competitor of Expensify that built their system on the .NET platform. So there....
Comment Lesson Learned? (Score 1) 278
The lesson they learned is that the users like to use buggy versions of their software?
Sure blame your users...
Maybe the lesson to learn is not release buggy software!
Comment Re:That is just weird (Score 1) 468
Well, I am a tech, and much of my work comes through a job broker. My job offers come in by SMS message. Messages ding me at all hours of the day and night.
As for outbound messages, it is a great private medium. I am free to say something about someone/something without those close to me knowing what I am saying. It doesn't interfere with the other person if they are somewhere that they cannot answer, and you have a record of the conversation. This can be more effective for the old, "On your way home pick up, milk, bread and eggs." calls.
Comment Re:More importantly (Score 0, Troll) 654
The Communists got in on the last election, and we can see the results of that.
Comment Re:More importantly (Score 1) 654
This old story is rubbish. Allowing starter jobs to only go to adult illegal aliens who will stay in the starter jobs removes the bottom rungs of the job ladder from the next generation. Stop being so short sighted.
Education Official Says Bad Teachers Can Be Good For Students 279
Zenna Atkins, the chairman of the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted), has raised some eyebrows by saying that, "every school should have a useless teacher." She stresses that schools shouldn't seek out or tolerate bad teaching, but thinks bad teachers provide a valuable life-lesson. From the article: "... on Sunday Ms Atkins told the BBC that schools needed to reflect society, especially at primary level. 'In society there are people you don't like, there are people who are incompetent and there are often people above you in authority who you think are incompetent, and learning that ability to deal with that and, actually surviving that environment can be an advantage.'"
Comment Re:leisure suit larry (Score 2, Funny) 460
Do you want to play a game?
How To Vet Clever Ideas Without Giving Them Away? 539
Rival writes "As an inquisitive and creative geek, I am constantly coming up with 'clever' ideas. Most often I discover fundamental or practical flaws lurking in the details, which I'm fine with. As Edison said, 'I haven't failed; I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.' Other times, I discover that someone else has beaten me to the idea. I'm fine with that, too. At least I know that I've come up with a great idea, even if I'm not the first. There are times, however, when I can find no flaws with an idea and nobody else seems to have thought of it. I'm not conceited enough to think my idea is genius; I just assume that I'm not knowledgeable enough to see what I'm missing. In these times, I often want to ask a subject matter expert for their thoughts. On the admittedly long chance that an idea is genius, however, what is the best way to ask for another's insights while mitigating the risk of them stealing or sharing the idea? Asking a stranger to sign a contract before discussing an idea seems like a good way to get a door closed on my face. What are your experiences and suggestions?"
Comment What loons! (Score 0) 174
They CANNOT be serious!
Comment Re:I live in the southwest US (Score 1) 487
Well the houses are built much closer together, so a fire in wooden housing will (and has often enough in the past) spread to the entire neighborhood.
I live in an early 1800's urban, wooden home. Wooden beams, wooden floors, wooden siding, wooden lathe to hold the plaster. We have more fire houses than any other area I have ever seen. When these go up in flames, they do so in a dramatic fashion. I suspect that my 10"-12" ceiling joists would burn quite a while...
Comment Re:I live in the southwest US (Score 1) 487
While I am tall for a female, so, this is not my problem, but MANY females cannot reach the bottom of a chest freezer. Many books of tips include little things about putting upside-down milk crates in the bottom of the freezer, so that nothing gets out of reach. Doh! Why did you buy that size freezer, then block off 1/2 of it? People are more likely to lose things in the chest freezer than the upright. Things are more likely to get rotated. Design the product for the end user. Other than men who hunt, and prepare their own catch for freezing, I don't think that I know of many couples in which the man uses the freezer more than the woman.
I have an upright, partially, because it has shelves. I do bulk cooking, and I freeze things laying flat on cookie sheets, and then deal with them again once they are frozen hard. In a chest freezer, there are no shelves. It's one big garbage bin.
Comment Re:Attic (Score 1) 487
That trained him to be husband material!
Comment Re:Subject! (Score 1) 487
When I was a kid, we bathed in snow, and we were grateful!
Comment Re:Might sound like a troll but isn't intended as (Score 1) 487
This is because American women have not tried for equal rights, but superior rights. They want the perks without the responsibilities.
Think about the way that men get screwed legally with regretted sex, that the next morning gets reclassified as rape. A woman wakes up from her drunken stupor, and looks over, and thinks, "I did WHO!??!?!" All that she has to say is, "He bought me drinks. I was not in control of myself!" Even if he drank 5 to every 1 of hers, his impairment doesn't count, and he is accountable for his actions, whereas she, is not. (This does NOT include serious drugs like animal Rx's like the paralytic drugs slipped into a drink, I am talking normal alcohol with a presumed known content.) Calling regretted sex is an affront to women who actually ARE raped, and, obviously, to the men who are abused by the courts on these issues.
