CommentWhoosh (Score 2)511
No need to check your DNS history to tell you haven't visited OhNowIGetTheJoke.net
CommentRe:How Tragic (Score 0)422
Don't they have a right to an opinion.
Everybody has a right to their own opinion. What they don't have is a right to their own facts.
CommentRe:Old school (Score -1, Flamebait)90
It's a figure of speech. But please, don't stop being a pedantic asshole.
CommentRe:Congratulations R Team (Score 1)75
Also, there's Julia (http://julialang.org/), and I recently came across at least one IDE for it (although I haven't tried it yet): Julia Studio.
CommentRe:Slavery? (Score 2, Insightful)215
Well, I guess it voluntary.
CommentRe:VPN not a requirement for doing useful work (Score 1)529
a) I wasn't trying to. (b) it was a joke.
CommentRe:VPN not a requirement for doing useful work (Score 1)529
I'm not saying don't use VPN. I'm saying you don't need the VPN all the time. If you've got all the material you need to write a report in Word, then you don't need to be on VPN the entire time you are typing.
CommentVPN not a requirement for doing useful work (Score 2)529
Sure you need to be on the VPN to see your e-mail (that notorious destroyer of productivity), but there's a lot of stuff you can be doing offline (or at least off the VPN) that is still productive work. For example, if I'm writing code, it's not always the case that I have to be on the company network to do it.
Also, my VPN software seems to be the only common element in the rare blue-screen crashes I get on my work laptop - so it's usually a lot less frustrating to leave it off.
In fact, if I am goofing off, I'm much more likely to log into the VPN and open my e-mail so that others can see that I'm "online" and working. I like to sit my laptop next to my gaming desktop while I do this!
CommentRe:Mac Whitelist (Score 1)884
Yeah, sure is a pain when you add new device, especially since it's completely ineffective at keeping anybody out.
CommentRe:Not necessarily (Score 0)257
And if you want to do iOS apps, you need a Mac to even get started.
CommentRe:My experience with the GIMP (Score 1)197
Again...it depends on how much you value your time. Doing something "easy" saves time, whether or not the time saved over the lifetime of the product adds up to $200 - $600 depends on your situation.
CommentRe:My experience with the GIMP (Score 1)197
Some people attach a value to their time, you apparently do not.
CommentRe:Why? (Score 1)212
According to one report I read, he had a particularly rare mutation in his mitochondrial DNA. So no, there aren't too many people who share it.
CommentRe:Why? (Score 2)212
Really, the natives were the real villains here. They had no concept of how anybody could "own" land and yet the happily took 60 guilders of some poor Dutch traders anyway.
CommentRe:Reburial Where? (Score 1)212
They didn't have Google Maps then.
Also, it seems unlikely that the current or future government of England will actively try and erase him from history again.
