Posts by Zoopy

Re: Excellent

If the accountants are making this kind of decision, something's very wrong with the organization. This is a matter of business priorities, not book-keeping.

Re: What an absolute

In recent years I really haven't had to put much effort into buying / building a Linux-compatible computer. It's all pretty much just worked.

The only exceptions I can think of are: (a) needing a little 3rd-party magic to upload firmware to a USB WiFi adapter, and (b) very disappointing scanner drivers for a Brother all-in-one.

Re: Cross platform

It would take something extraordinary for me to consider using this stuff in my commercial Linux development work. Several reasons:

1. I have zero trust in Microsoft regarding sometime in the future tweaking this into a patent trap.

2. I have zero trust in them continuing to support any programming technology long-term.

3. I have zero trust in them not going after my customers for license / patent reparations, if I use this stuff in my commercial products.

Microsoft has repeatedly demonstrated that they're a trustworthy business partner in one and only one area of technology: they make decent mice.

Re: If any article, and it's comments,

Do you really want her working the graveyard shift in a dead-end job?

> Do MS not understand "NO!!!!!" ?

It's as with a rapist. The problem is not their failure to understand your wishes.

Re: Same old program, different name.

A better analogy might be like Hitler promising that he'd stop invading countries once he annexed Sudenten.

Because taking heroin (mostly) hurts only the person doing it.

I think at this point, people would prefer to just shoot Nadella in front of his successor, and then do what you suggested to his successor.

Re: Let me get this straight

" Most of the USians aren't even sure where the EU is"

What an absurd broad-brush insult to the typical American. Either you're a foreigner, in which case you're being an elitist jerk, or you're an American, in which you're self-flagellating in some embarrassing attempt to suck up to this sites non-US readers.

Re: How the FBI can fix their "talent" problem.

I"d need yet another bullet point to work for the FBI:

3) Add a 3000% "Do Evil" premium to base salary.

Re: More salary needed

"As is pointed out time and again, there is no shortage of people, just a shortage of people willing to work for what you want to get away with paying them."

I think that would be an open question. We know there's a shortage at, for example, £35k. But I'm not sure we know whether or not there would still be a shortage at £75k. At some point, everyone with the requisite skills is already working, and raising the offered wages won't (immediately) increase the pool of available workers.

Re: Robo-callers, from Florida, selling time-shares?

Because we seem to have an unacceptable (to me, anyway) rate of false convictions in death-penalty cases.

If we were certain beyond all shadow of a doubt, though, I'd definitely be in favor of some significant corporeal punishment.

<blockquote>All those "abstinence only" schools are clearly innocent of any culpability.</blockquote>

You mean, their advice was followed and yet the students got STD's anyway? If so, scientists need to know about this!

Re: ARRRRRGH!

"That connection is symbolic of the partnership we will forge with our customers, partners, and our employees – what we will do together to help drive your business forward,"

So is she saying that in the past, they *didn't* do that as well as that should have? Even under her recent stint as CEO?

Or have they always been doing that as well as they should have, in which case the new symbolism is mere jingoism?

Re: The people...

I'm not sure that's really libertarian. He wanted to let people kill innocent babies, but not kill willful criminals. He should have at least been consistent.

Re: "Hey, Camilla. What can I do for You?"

Or Photoshop and Lightroom?

Please don't say Gimp and Darkroom. Few professional photographers are willing to leave that walled garden, especially just because their (handsome) husbands are ideologically inclined towards FLOSS.

Showing nude pics of her is sleazy.

But there are plenty of missing and exploited children who need to be looked for; women forced into sex trafficking; drug dealers peddling to kids; heck even drunk drivers who are still on the road.

The FBI has no business pursuing silly crap like someone exposing Emma Watson's personal photos, when somewhere a child is working forced prostitution on American streets.

Re: Rational arguments

Wohoo! I'm awesome!