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Re:Today was the last day of Nokia as we knew it on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:37PM (#7649495)
Nokia has sold many products in it's life including toilet paper. I don't think Nokia as a company is going away soon.

As a former employee at the end of it's heyday it continues to be the best company I have worked for. They paid fairly and treated us fairly when it was time to part ways.

It sucks that the management could never grasp what the Iphone was. There were no shortage people trying to tell them.

If my employer requires me to come and ask about compensation it means one of two things.

a) They don't value the work I am doing.

b) I am not doing work that is valuable enough to be noticed.

Both options mean it is time to look elsewhere.

Re:Only 30% of Americans Out of Comcast Reach After Deal on Monday February 17, 2014 @03:44PM (#7254380)
I believe Comcast can only service 30% of households in the US by FCC mandate. As part of this deal it's likely they are going to have to sell off some regions. Not have access to 70% of the US.
Re:Vintageous: Vim emulation for Sublime Text 3 on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @06:05PM (#6137134)
If you are just looking for a Vim replacement don't.

If you want to code faster and easier and are willing to spend a couple of hours learning sublimes shortcuts, then you will like it.

Sublime's autocomplete and plugins can reduce your errors and clean up your code. (Linters)

It's cross platform and runs the same pretty much on any OS.

I don't use ST3 much but for remote editing with ST2 http://log.liminastudio.com/writing/tutorials/sublime-tunnel.... it works well enough for most cases. Where it doesn't I just mount an sshfs and work from there.

Re:Has Ubuntu lost it? on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @10:43AM (#6052182)
I also come from a windows background and I love unity. To me the stale concept of drop down/up menuing systems has always been less than usable.

They work ok for individual applications but for running a desktop, it's a lot of wasted effort. I much rather just type the first few letters of an app and go.

I do not get why the big desktop distros are just supposed to repeat M$ style menus. It seems a lot to me that people just want to stay stuck in the past using a less optimized system because it feel comfortable.

Unity is hardly metro.

Re:NSA leaker Edward Snowden: U.S. targets China with hackers on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @05:29PM (#5870889)
If you are a showtime subscriber check out Oliver Stone's untold history of the United States. From his point of view the reaction we get from the rest of the world should be expected. He goes into great detail about why.
Re:The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @03:20PM (#5864112)
You seem to have selectively omitted "shall not be infringed." from the rest of your statement.

What part of that is hard to understand. If you don't like the amendment then get rid of it. If you can't do that stop trying to work around it. The constitution is not there to be worked around and every time someone does "work around it" it becomes that much more of a worthless document.

There is away to change the document. Use it or live with it. It is there for a reason.