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  1. Stop pissing everyone off to the point they want to attack you! It's not rocket science, if you keep walking into other countries ( or flying ) and pushing them around like the bully at school, then one day someone will come to school with a gun and your going to pay.

    So you want the solution, just admit you've been a complete ass-hole to everyone, take what's coming and what you deserve and then play nice.

  2. The staff should be making food that when people see it, it pops in there face! Great food will lead to job security, if your not going to make good food then don't make food at all!

  3. Re:Lots of changes! on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    I really hope so, Windows 7 was a decent OS, if they can just come out with something on par then they can retain there "name" or "rank" within the OS community.

  4. Steam Cells :-) on Vein Grown From Her Own Stem Cells Saves 10-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    This is why Steam Cell research and Steam Cell usage is a good thing! So to all the opposition to it, how about you walk up to this girl and tell her that she should be dead because it's bad!

  5. Lots of changes! on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    I tried the Release Preview they put out the other week and it was a train wreck, the list of things wrong with it are below:

    1. No easy cascading windows
    2. No start menu on the desktop
    3. No way to change an existing users email account to a hotmail account
    4. No clear way to change all the settings
    5. Bulky and very poorly designed UI
    6. No intuitive use
    7. No access to a terminal from Metro
    8. ...

    I can keep going and going, it was the worst Windows release ever! If they want to win back customers they have A LOT of work left to do.

  6. It's about time! on Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax · · Score: 1

    I'm glad IE users are having to pay, it's time for IE users to move on to a better web experience.

  7. Random Idea on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 1

    Maybe limits how you get a gun and who can get a gun, just an idea. No other country has even CLOSE to the amount of gun related violence as the USA. So take a tip from everyone else that might be a good first step.

  8. WHAT! on NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop · · Score: 2

    Linux breaks notebooks! I've heard of other company's trying to claim this but here's something to ask them, "Prove it!". Is it the better security that breaks the notebook? Is it the better memory and CPU management that breaks the notebook? Is it the better fundamental design from the ground up which breaks the notebook? I'm really confused on what it is that breaks the notebook, or could it just be that NO one in tech support understands Linux enough to get past grub! So because they don't understand it's your fault.

    I'm more worried about leaving my notebook in the hands of a shitty tech support worker then installing Linux, Tech Support breaks notebooks, not Linux!

  9. Job Prospects? on 2013 H-1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted · · Score: 0

    The best person for the job will still get the job. It sounds to me like lazy amercians who don't want to apply effort to there jobs are worried that they might be out of work or not get the job they want because people who will actually give a crap will come into the USA.

    If you can't stand up again competition for a job then don't complain, it means your not ready to wear the "big boy pants". So don't blame the immigrants because you want to sit on your ass and not try!

  10. Re:Visual Studio and Usable? on Microsoft Ignores Usability With All-Caps Menu in Visual Studio · · Score: 1

    I know they have different forms, I actually didn't know Visual Studio didn't support 99 or 11 but thats not a good thing so thats now another reason I don't see it's value. In either case to each there own.

  11. Re:Visual Studio and Usable? on Microsoft Ignores Usability With All-Caps Menu in Visual Studio · · Score: 1

    Hey if it works it works :-) Some people can fly in terminal faster then a GUI, others can't. If your comfy using it then it's all up to you.

  12. Re:Visual Studio and Usable? on Microsoft Ignores Usability With All-Caps Menu in Visual Studio · · Score: 1

    C standard flag as in -c89, -c99, c11 or what ever the compiler wants. I tried renaming it once and Visual Studio was pissed. I've never had luck using it so I gave up, everytime I try to use it there is some issue in the way and it's not worth my time or engery to change.

  13. Re:Visual Studio and Usable? on Microsoft Ignores Usability With All-Caps Menu in Visual Studio · · Score: 1

    You might be right, how ever the last time I tried that ( last week ) it would not let me use a .c extention or provide C standard flags.

  14. Re:Visual Studio and Usable? on Microsoft Ignores Usability With All-Caps Menu in Visual Studio · · Score: 1

    How is C and ASM dinosaur development? C is still one of the most widely used developmentt languages.

  15. Re:Visual Studio and Usable? on Microsoft Ignores Usability With All-Caps Menu in Visual Studio · · Score: 1

    I can sounds ridiculous, doesn't matter to me. I don't need an IDE to do my development, I've writen an entire control systtem using Vim and Gcc and that was it, it was a massive code project for the college I'm at. ( Massive on the order of 100 000 lines of code )

  16. Re:Visual Studio and Usable? on Microsoft Ignores Usability With All-Caps Menu in Visual Studio · · Score: 1

    I still say no, what Visual Studio has done is created to many modern day programmers who can't use a terminal and have no efficency. I only focus in C and ASM programming and the last thing I would ever use is Visual Studio, in fact is passes it's C through a C++ compiler which works but it a really really bad idea because it allows weak programming. Eclipse is okay and if you wanted a feature to auto refactor just write it and build it in, That way your editor has all the feature you want and nothing more. There are also many good GUI's to gdb if you want to go that way.

  17. Re:Can someone clarify on Classroom Clashes Over Science Education · · Score: 1

    I totally agree with you.

  18. Visual Studio and Usable? on Microsoft Ignores Usability With All-Caps Menu in Visual Studio · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe I'm missing something here but I've never considered Visual Studio to be any kind of usable or even semi decent IDE. Whats wrong with a strong text editor ( Vim, Emacs ) and a good compiler like gcc? All the same function, a fraction of the foot print and actually higher overall productivity. This combo works for serious programmers, but if you want someone to hold your hand and treat you like a 5 year old then sure Visual Studio works just fine, just not very well.

  19. Only Major Bugs on Ask Slashdot: How Long Should Devs Support Software Written For Clients? · · Score: 1

    You should only support major bugs. If the client wasn't clear on what they wanted then it's not your problem. Only offer them a free fix on a major issue and all other issues they have to pay for.

  20. Can someone clarify on Classroom Clashes Over Science Education · · Score: 1

    How can a school teach religion? I've never understood this. Isn't the purpose of school to teach fact and progress the logical and physical abilies of kids?. When you teach religion you basically saying, "We have this book that someone wrote and lets just agree because we can".

    I'm NOT anti religion, people can worship and pray to who ever they want, that could be God, Muhammad, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Harry Potter or even a toilet seat. There in lies the issue, to teach religion you rightfully have to teach about every religion and uphold every religion's beliefs and you can't do that.

    The point of school is to prepare children for the real words and religion doesn't do that, it fills there head with the answer that if you can't answer the question jesus did it. It laughs in the fact of evolutionary FACT! It completely disregards proven universal time lines and it just doesn't fit in to what we know to be true. If you want to force your kid to go to sunday school and pray before dinner then go ahead, I think thats great. However lets leave the fact for the classroom and not the poorly performed magic show.

    Religion has NO place in school. If your going to teach religion then your saying logic means nothing, you saying proven scientific discovery's are false and you just laughing at actually having to engage you brain and think.

  21. Re:There's no negative ot cheathing. on Students Looking For Easy A Target Online Courses, Where Cheating Is Easier · · Score: 1

    Don't get me started on networking classes. I've been in 4 networking classes from college to university and so far I've re-learned that there are two kind of switches and there are packets. Thats literally it, luckally I already studied computer networking and got ready to take my CCNA, The networking education we get at school is beyond rediculous.

  22. There's no negative ot cheathing. on Students Looking For Easy A Target Online Courses, Where Cheating Is Easier · · Score: 1

    Okay so a student wants to cheat, so what? Generally if a student is cheating it steams from two main reasons:
    1. The course is taught HORRIBLY which I blame 30% + of the time
    2. The course material isn't interesting

    In the first case the issue is actually serious, we pay massive amounts of money to have someone stand infront of us and just blab on and on and usually not in any kind of actual english. These kind of profs should be fired because there not actually relying the information to the student. As a good rule of thumb for undergrad. If you need to read the text book to learn the material the prof isn't teaching it properly. Profs love to blame the system, the amount of time they have and 100 other things but it doesn't matter. Bad teaching will lead to kids needing to cheat to make it through the course.

    In the second case, a lot of students just don't give a rats ass about what there learning, if they don't so what. There not going to learn anything and they'll get a nice high mark and no one actually suffered. If a student wants to cheat then let them, who care's if they get an A and never open a text book, If the imformation was important then when hey have to actually apply it they'll be called out and fired from a job and yet again no harm done to the school.

    Over all if a student wants to cheat let them, it doesn't matter. When it comes time to apply the knowledge they don't know, that is when the true justice will be preformed. Once they get fired or demoted for being a smart ass with no real knowledge then I'm pretty sure the college will sit back, smile and just not care.

  23. Linux for another win! on US Warns Users of Child-Porn Blackmail Ransomware · · Score: 1

    Sucks to be anyone running Windows, I guess now all Windows users are pedo's, good job Gates!

  24. The word of god! on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 0

    The Bible is the world of god, spoken from his lips directly! ( Just not writen by him, not able to proven in anyway, not produced in it's native lanugage and globably accepted to be stories about how to live life ). But it's his word! how can you argue that? ( Minus all the clear proof of evolution ).

  25. Is there a concern? on Can Windows 8 Succeed In a Cloud-Based World? · · Score: 1

    Even if Windows doesn't fit nicely into the cloud based world it will still be the king of the desktop. The buisness computer model wont change where you need Windows to be compatiable. The user computer model wont change where most users are unwilling to try something new. The big box store model wont change, there not going to start stocking Linux based boxes.

    Microsoft has nothing to worry about, even Windows ME sold! They have the monopoly on the market, there going to live out to another relase, and a another relase and etc... If they don't support the cloud on release they will in an update and an update to that update to the update that installed the update for the cloud. Microsoft is a long way off from dying. Which isn't a good a thing!