@scottalanmiller said:

@handsofqwerty said:

Wasn't that basically WWII with Hitler?

No, Hitler was one of the most admired people in the world at the start of the war. The US entered the war primarily against Japan, not Germany, and not until after the war was Hitler a hated figure. Remember that Hitler was Time's Man of the Year and was implementing policies that came from the US, not from Germany, and many Americans thought very, very highly of him even during the war. The impression that you have of the American impression of him is a product of history books and doesn't reflect the time period.

Admired amongst anti-Semites and fascists maybe. Hated by democrats and liberals. We were fortunate that Roosevelt was one of the latter. Time's "award" was because he was the most influential person in the world, not because they admired him in any way.

@thecreativeone91 said:

I've never been in a one man shop but, was always required to check email, and phone messages and have VPN access if available at every job I've had while on vacation.

I think you can read more about one man shops in the Divine Comedy

@scottalanmiller said:

Mine has already updated. But I didn't look to see if it was running any faster.

Yeah I didn't notice any difference... However, I use Steam as a gateway to my game library, so I'm not sure how you can make that go noticeably faster.
Perhaps, the improvements were in the areas of the client that I don't use... i.e. the other 90% of the Steam Client

Soooooo, will it play Crysis?
 
 
 
 
 
 
lol 😛

@tonyshowoff said:

@Dashrender said:

Kind of on a rant today, aren't you @tonyshowoff ?

Not really, my wife said she was tired of hearing me complain about things on the Internet, so now I'm just typing what I used to sit here and say outloud, shouting across the room.

LOL - I know that feeling...

Yeah I can't recall when I started using it either. At least 4 years, but probably more.

I've been talking to my boss about it for use in our office for years, but she says she doesn't trust the technology - i.e. passwords stored on the computer in general.

Recently she while she won't use it, I'm welcome to get others to try it. Of course we all know that without management buy in, software like this rarely takes off due to originating start up cost (time to learn it - sadly no password manager is truly easy to use, especially when websites don't conform).

That said I will be trying to make a better push.

I don't see kids liking this thing. This will be mainly for those who played them when 8 bit games were originally out.

Good news since the performance of it in a VM was so-so before. Kinda surprised they are charging for it. I don't see a EULA or anything for it is the Pricing per install or just a one time fee to download then you can use as much as you want?

@nadnerB said:

Plus, there's no need for long term support as 99% of users stop using it as soon as something new comes along 😉

Cloud@Cost..

.NET is great as a platform and C# is great as a language. F# is really sweet too. Microsoft has great language tools, in general. Since MS started off pretty much as a language company before anything else this is a bit of their wheelhouse.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@Dashrender said:

@thecreativeone91 has an idea there Scott...

For now you could have paid the fine, and then sought out your own non compliant insurance for probably less, unless there was a state law preventing even that option.

Scotts "fine" would be much more.

$695 for each adult and $347.50 for each child, but no more than $2,085 per family
Or 2.5% of your family yearly taxable income (which ever is more is what they use)

Well the 2.5% for Scott for sure then!

@IRJ said:

The Sony Hack was good in general for IT awareness in most industries. Sure, you could say everyone should have already known, but we know non - IT never fully understand the risks. Seeing an attack like this is a good way for them to realize SOME of the risks.

Sadly it wasn't close enough to home to effect change around me.

@dafyre said:

I will have to concede that point to you, because as you said, it is working for Microsoft... Guess they are adhering to the if it ain't broke don't break it policy

FTFY.

Playing with licensing could mean going out of business almost overnight. That's very dangerous stuff to try to tweak. A major change means major risk. And honestly, after decades of messing with it and thinking about it, their model is actually really clean, simple and mostly obvious for a large software vendor with a large array of interrelated products that are used in nearly every combination possible that isn't open source.

@scottalanmiller said:

@handsofqwerty said:

You aren't allowed to be scheduled at a place of work for less than four hours....

In NY you can, you just have to negotiate it. Both parties have to agree that the compensation is enough to justify the commute. It is designed to protect employers from forcing an employee to quit by making it impossibly expensive to work after they have started working.

Ok, yes, that's true. My retail job can't schedule me normally for less than four hours, but if I ask if I can work for two hours some night, they are allowed to let me.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Amazon for some reason said they were never vulnerable to this attack.

Likely they removed that code as it was unnecessary.

@scottalanmiller said:

So you have to remember that most firms have a big pool of people who leave in less than a year because they figure out that they can't do the role or don't like the company or just don't fit well or whatever - then the people who fit tend to stay a few years at least. That high turnover for people who don't fit make the attrition rate seem alarming more than it really is.

So you're saying the difference is that my friends are mostly good at their jobs and your friends are mostly useless? That makes sense 😉

2010 was the Open Storage talk at the Alamo Drafthouse.