Exactly. Here is what happens to me in EVERY job with this review nonsense:
First year. Great review! You're a rock star. 5% bonus.
Next year: Good review. 4% bonus.
Third year: That guy's getting paid too much, find a way to screw him because he failed to read one e-mail, even though he saved the company millions. 1% bonus.
What we need is loser pays the winner the lowest of the 2 sets of legal fees. Let MegaCorp show up with 50 lawyers. If you have 1, that's all they're getting.
Double legal fees will be painful for the small guy, but small enough of a risk to give the right people hope if the case is strong enough.
Likewise, if small guy wins, you collect your legal fees and pay nothing to your lawyer. As it should be. Winning a court case should never be a Pyrrhic victory.
Windows 8 does NOT support XP drivers. The driver model was changed in Vista. Maybe XP64 was ahead of the curve on that one, because it had a ton of driver issues rendering it nearly unusable, but for your average person on XP32, 8 has no guarantees whatsoever.
I have also had quite a number of blue screens on my several computers upgraded to Windows 10. Not all the time, but I think all of them have blue screened at least once in the past year.
What this basically tells me is that unless I’m just a pure altruist and humanitarian and ready to give away all of my hard work for no reward, then I should just not do anything, because all my hard work is just going to be (legally) ripped off by some other company.
Maintain your copyrights instead of telling the world that they can freely use them. That's a start.
So...we're just waiting for GeoHot to put Wifi Sense back and then for Microsoft to accuse him of criminal activity and then for Microsoft to get hacked non-stop for the next 5 years?
"the phrase originally comes from Aristotle, where (in Greek) it would have been understood in context as meaning something like "assuming the conclusion," which is a pretty clear description of the philosophical fallacy"
This is exactly what everyone thinks it means today. So I'm failing to see the point of your rant.
You're right. I think each PC vendor should make a "luxury" label just like Toyota/Lexus and Honda/Acura. The luxury label would differentiate the high-end products where no corners were cut.
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No, but all BSDs will now try to get you to "upgrade" to BSD 10.4, now with Telemetry!
Exactly. Here is what happens to me in EVERY job with this review nonsense:
First year. Great review! You're a rock star. 5% bonus.
Next year: Good review. 4% bonus.
Third year: That guy's getting paid too much, find a way to screw him because he failed to read one e-mail, even though he saved the company millions. 1% bonus.
Find new programming job: 10% bonus.
What we need is loser pays the winner the lowest of the 2 sets of legal fees. Let MegaCorp show up with 50 lawyers. If you have 1, that's all they're getting.
Double legal fees will be painful for the small guy, but small enough of a risk to give the right people hope if the case is strong enough.
Likewise, if small guy wins, you collect your legal fees and pay nothing to your lawyer. As it should be. Winning a court case should never be a Pyrrhic victory.
If they suspected him first and got a warrant, then, yeah, it's OK.
Windows 8 does NOT support XP drivers. The driver model was changed in Vista. Maybe XP64 was ahead of the curve on that one, because it had a ton of driver issues rendering it nearly unusable, but for your average person on XP32, 8 has no guarantees whatsoever.
Windows 10 is the fastest OS of Vista/7/8/8.1/10.
I have also had quite a number of blue screens on my several computers upgraded to Windows 10. Not all the time, but I think all of them have blue screened at least once in the past year.
But it lacks the comedic timing to actually BE a joke.
I think a law outlawing over 40 hours per week unless you are a 1%+ owner of a company would work.
AKA this generation.
Actually, though, System Restore Points used to be great but now are completely useless as they hose your system beyond repair.
This has always been my experience with Linux.
While Paul T. does do some criticism, he even liked Vista and 8, so he's very biased in favor of Microsoft.
"Recent" history. IE post-2000.
People with iPhones get quotes for hotel reservations higher than Android.
Dude, that was in 2000. Sixteen years ago.
What this basically tells me is that unless I’m just a pure altruist and humanitarian and ready to give away all of my hard work for no reward, then I should just not do anything, because all my hard work is just going to be (legally) ripped off by some other company.
Maintain your copyrights instead of telling the world that they can freely use them. That's a start.
Which MIGHT be true, except Sun said they were open source and free to use. Calling backsies was garbage on the playground and it's still garbage.
Nice to know that the whole Sci-Fi Hugo Awards debacle is simply certain groups being "passive aggressive".
YouTube is guilty of the same "criminal" acts that Megaupload is currently accused of
Well, she managed to get one thing right.
You can right-click those Start Menu tiles and remove them. I make mine look like Windows 7.
So...we're just waiting for GeoHot to put Wifi Sense back and then for Microsoft to accuse him of criminal activity and then for Microsoft to get hacked non-stop for the next 5 years?
The parallel port support they removed for good in Windows 10 is more common than this.
"the phrase originally comes from Aristotle, where (in Greek) it would have been understood in context as meaning something like "assuming the conclusion," which is a pretty clear description of the philosophical fallacy"
This is exactly what everyone thinks it means today. So I'm failing to see the point of your rant.
Yeah, you can't even share contacts with other Android users, who all can with their 3rd party extensions.
You're right. I think each PC vendor should make a "luxury" label just like Toyota/Lexus and Honda/Acura. The luxury label would differentiate the high-end products where no corners were cut.