I am glad it hasn’t been hard for you. Pretty much everybody I know has moved to other states because of how bad the jobs are here. I would if I could afford it.

I wish I still had your optimism and naivety. Last time this happened to me I was let go for “not fitting in with the culture” (the aforementioned culture of working all day), which is a completely legal reason in my state. I was denied unemployment despite being able to prove that I had been told to work all night. 10 years earlier I was let go for the same reason after refusing to participate in prayer during a meeting.

There is no protection for employees in the manner you are speaking of, at least not here.

I think maybe you don’t understand the difference between exempt and non-exempt employees here in the US. The law absolutely backs employers up on this unfortunately. Especially if, like me, you live in an at-will state.

let’s ignore XP as a more glossy consumer version of 2000

That feels like a dangerous argument;

• 2000 = NT 5.0
• XP = NT 5.1
• XP x64 = NT 5.2
• Vista = NT 6.0
• 7 = NT 6.1
• 8 = NT 6.2
• 8.1 = NT 6.3
• 10 = NT 6.4 (Later NT 10.0 then 1507 for July 2015 when they made the switch to ‘agile’.)

Unless you are prepared to argue that everything since has just been an updated version of Vista.

I know, that was my point. The comment I was replying to said “all the other planets are named after Roman gods”.

It’s pronounced you-RON-us. Also, which Roman god is Earth named after?

I was literally told once “yes we can have meetings all day because you have all night to finish your code.” The same was expected when they had ‘team building’ outings.

I worked at a pizza buffet when I was in high school. The ranch dressing, made in 5 gallon buckets, called for multiple gallons of mayo and buttermilk. I too got far too skilled at getting it all out in one go.

The books, Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, are very good and very different from the movies. I also recommend Disclosure by the same author.

They were used in the Dell Latitude D400 series. As well as other pre-netbook era ultra-portables.

Not OP but just to hazard a guess:

Alcohol evaporates quickly. It’s probably there for the same reason it’s used in dry shampoos and antiperspirants; to make something that sprays but drys into a powder or thickens to a gel in a very short period of time.

There were even smaller hard drives. The iPod used a 1.8in drive.

That Xbox would become Microsoft’s Steam has been the prevailing prediction for the better part of 10 years. I am immediately dubious of anybody who’s opinion is that a more capable than the Xbox device (as far as availability of games) has no reason to be purchased.

Yeah, a little known fun fact about the Shuttle is that the radiators were on the inside of the bay doors. On achieving orbit they had 4 hours to get the doors open or they would have to scrub the mission before the electronics overheated. The doors never failed and no mission was ever scrubbed for this reason though.

As with a lot of 90s software, it’s a bit more complicated than which source code did they download (or, rather, mail order on floppy… because it was the 90s). Not the least of which is due to the fact that many of the projects don’t exist anymore and there weren’t that many copies to begin with.

However, they both embrace and extend LDAP and Kerberos among other open and not open projects of the time. Both choices were related to the results of the Protocol Wars and Microsoft’s attempts, in the 90s, to do to the Internet what Google is doing today.

Active Directory and Exchange were both based on open source projects. Embrace, extend, extinguish is Microsoft’s whole jam.

Probably;

Wood structures fair better in high wind and in earthquakes. Things we have far more of in North America.

I have a thermostat that looks just like that at home. It doesn’t go to 100°, like the other commenter said.

Baby steps. Epic originally sued Apple because they couldn’t sell access to Fortnight outside of the App Store.

My main point was that Sony shouldn’t get special treatment.

I mean… if Apple has to allow side-loading and alternative app stores then I think Sony should have to as well. It wouldn’t make sense to say that only Apple has dominion over the devices it makes and no other manufacturers operate the same.