Sgt_Apone

Yes, it's a very common design that many switching building incorporated in that era. They're all over Canada as well.

Completely agreed. Speaking of Microsoft, I wonder how the touch bar will operate in Boot Camp. I would hope that they'll at least leave the default F keys on there.

4 USB-C ports. Kind of a bummer that I have to get a dongle to charge my iPhone SE with this thing.

I'm really bummed that this thing is $899 in Canada. I wish they would have actually competed on price with the iPhone...

Not as far as I could tell. I'm sure they would have included it in their ad copy if it is.

That statement is a case study in poor corporate communications. It would have been way more elegant if they said something along the lines of:

'We thank the 20 persons affected by this change for their contributions and we are committed to doing as much as we can to provide them with a respectful exit from our company.'

Not perfect, but at least this way it doesn't seem like like they're trying to minimize those who are affected. But, I'm a technical writer and my hobby is to make fun of the material folks in the communication and advertising departments churn out.

This is bad history. The Nazis who emerged in power had no ties to socialism. By this logic, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a purely democratically run country.

I think that realistically it would only come up as an issue if you were looking a c-suite position. For joe or jane programmer, I doubt they would go through the effort of taking you to court in the unlikely event that they found out about it.

If they include world-wide users, I can see 35 million users being a reasonable statistic. If we're talking about just the USA though, depending on the definition of "blind and low-vision," I found figures between 8 million [1] and 22.5 million [2].

[1]- https://nfb.org/blindness-statistics [2] - http://www.afb.org/info/blindness-statistics/adults/facts-an...

It sounds like I have the same injury as you do. Five years ago I broke the olecranon in my left elbow and had to get it all screwed back together. To echo other suggestions, I would say swimming is definitely the way to go if you want to improve upper body fitness. Everything else I've found to be too high-impact and causes discomfort. Also keep up the running.

Yeah, that is pretty obnoxious. Doesn't work with Microsoft Edge or Explorer 11.

Agreed. This has so many possible applications for me and it could only get more interesting when color e-ink finally arrives.

For what its worth, the Spacehelmet button that points to http://spacehelmet.info also 404's. Otherwise a neat portfolio site.

Most banks have Visa or MC debit cards available now. You can use them online for most things, but at a PoS it defaults back to the Interac network.

I've seen some gas stations do this. Usually 3 cents off a litre if you pay cash or debit.

A real subscription fatigue is already setting in for me and others that I know. I really don't want to add to that list...

It also doesn't even open in Edge.

Completed nuked FF for me and for what its worth it doesn't even load in Edge. Just throws up a "This page is having a problem loading" page. Works fine in IE 11...

The people who are moving away are doing so because they can't participate in the housing market in the first place. I don't see how people who can't buy houses and are leaving the area will drive down housing costs.

$399 in Canada before sales tax. At that price they'll sell dozens if they're lucky.

Simple Tax is great. I've been using it for the past few years and it has worked flawlessly despite a relatively complicated tax situation. Kudos!

From a CBC radio program that aired a weeks ago, they interviewed a facial recognition expert who typically work with law enforcement that confirmed it to be Billy the Kid.

Apparently four people in the photo have also been identified as those known to associate with Billy the Kid, including Sally Chisum. Her diary seems to confirm this event taking place - which was a cattle drive and the wedding of Charlie Bowdre (on the horse).

We could do that all day. For example, it's "non-English" not "non English." I don't think anyone expects perfectly refined grammar in one-off comment on the Internet.

I'm sure you can write English very well and there are probably many people like you (maybe even yourself) who can write far better than I can. It's just in my experience such people are few and far between where outsourcing is concerned.

> If you're going to write on the web to make money, make it something worthwhile to a million people. Not three or four thousand. If you are just passionate about something feel free to spend all your time writing about it, that is its own reward and any remuneration is just bonus.

Wouldn't that just create more content that appeals to the least common denominator? Why would you want to focus the efforts of a professional writer toward creating that?

So, that will never happen. The quality of writing coming out of wherever is not going to be the same as that of a native English speaker. I've seen many documentation projects outsourced to non-english speaking countries and the quality is consistently awful. The product that comes out of there is worse than nothing because its completely incomprehensible. My last quarter was entirely devoted to rewriting examples of such documentation.

Exactly. I used to be a journalist but now work as a technical writer. Wages for content writers are already in the basement, with such a low compensation scheme it would kill online journalism entirely.

For reference, that's roughly the height of Glacier Peak in Washington.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_Peak#/media/File:Glaci...

His early stuff is excellent, but the last Crichton book that I enjoyed was Timeline. I found Prey to be disappointing and State of Fear was just about unreadable with its complete misrepresentation of climate change science.

Wasn't Bing Ads just sold to AOL a month ago?

Ah, you are correct. I mixed up the dates with IE 10 for some reason.