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Comment Innovation! Except... (Score 1) 132

Except that Qualcomm Eudora had this exact feature for email back in the 90's. It was called 'MoodWatch', depicted by varying amounts of chili peppers.

It would either warn you or delay sending of the message when queueing/sending.

1 Chili: Message seems it might be offensive.
2 Chilis: Message is probably offensive.
3 Chilis: Message is on fire!

Comment Why is this a thing? (Score 1, Interesting) 115

Why is this even a thing? So what? China, Hong Kong, etc. gathers the materials, manufactures it, and sells it in the US. We in the US buy it, use it, and when we're done with it, we send it back. If it's such a problem, they should figure out how to deal with it, since it's all going back from whence it came anyway.

Comment Common Knowledge (Score 5, Insightful) 185

It has been common knowledge that millions of comments were forged and faked from day one. An estimated 2 million American's stolen identities to post fake comments on an incredibly important issue doesn't matter -- until it's just 2 American Senators? What's wrong with this picture?

Comment No one wants to see a Winamp Four-skin! (Score 1) 332

Winamp is installed standard on every Windows machine I use. Winamp v5.666, the Final Nullsoft Release, without the Media Library. This version has ALL of the AOL bundled streaming junk removed, as well as any mention even of AOL. No 'Modern' skins, just good old Winamp 2. Works perfectly for me.

Comment Free is free (Score 1) 137

FB shouldn't be held accountable to this ruling - there's no such thing as 'differential pricing' when there's no price at all. If you get what you pay for, be thankful you get *something* when you're paying nothing.

Free is free, take it or leave it, no one's forcing anyone. And government be damned if they try to tell me I can't give something away for free if I choose to.

Comment Re:Java won't die. (Score 1) 577

If you just look at languages that either have enthusiastic big money backers or importance due to legacy, you are generally limited to C/C++, C#, and Java. Companies like IBM, Microsoft, Sony, Google, Oracle, Facebook, or even Amazon don't put an effort behind a language like ruby, which is at least one reason it's more niche. And if you look at what's out there, most of those companies are wedded for one reason or another to one of the languages already in broad use.

Now, if Google ever made a serious effort to push go, perhaps it would gain traction in a serious enterprise kind of way. Likewise, if Facebook were to ever decide to push a language, they might have the clout.

You may be surprised if you actually looked it up at how much Google and YouTube use Python. Here, let me do that for you: http://www.python.org/about/quotes/. Facebook is built on PHP, a language designed to solve the same types as Ruby. Other than Oracle and IBM, none of those companies make much if any use of Java as a core language for any of their products.

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