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Jesus christ no, it's already nerve-wracking having to post one's unimportant sorrows below someone's cancer.

Sad is actually one of the few emotion threads where I'm fine having a "mildly sad" thread for things that just get you slightly down and a "major sad" thread for more serious woes/support. I mean just because someone has cancer doesn't necessarily invalidate your suffering due to the AC being out and your ice cream melting, but you might not necessarily need the same level of support, if you catch my drift.

To me C seemed like a show that could have been a really cool shonen-esque show but was kinda ruined by a lack of delving into the ideas behind the concepts and a vastly rushed pace due to the fact that there were only 11 episodes. I mean it was still definitely an okay anime, but the fact that they decided to go the "character-driven story route" rather than the "Pokemon: Wall Street Edition" route pretty much just meant that the very short number of episodes hit them for a double whammy.

In short, it was a nice time filler that I think could have really been a very cool character-driven show if they had of done 24 episodes or so, but with only 11 it isn't much more than just a time waster show to watch when you don't really have something better IMO.

Classic Shell isn't a necessity like with was with 8, but it still makes it more functional and less space-wasting. I was laughing "No" all the way to the download page as soon as I saw the tiled start menu.

Or you could just, you know, right click the starting tiles and unpin them from the start menu and then click+drag the right side to make it the width that you want. Honestly I find my the current start menu after I put a tiny bit of work into it slightly more useful than classic shell is right now; the left side is still essentially identical to the classic shell, while the right side actually let me remove the bits of the classic shell menu that I don't often use and replace them with larger bits that I do use.

It still doesn't go quite as skinny as the classic shell implementation would, but it's close enough for me to not really make a difference and the easy button clicking and customization of the right side stuff makes it just as good in my opinion.

And yeah, the current version of Windows Defender is right up with the top AV programs in terms of protection efficiency. If you really needed another than Avast works just fine, just throw it a tosser email once a year to stop it from bugging you for a subscription and turn on gaming mode to stop the annoying popups and it works just fine. (As always note that while having two antiviruses might be useful in the event you need to scan your computer, you should never have more than one real time protection running at a time. Having multiple real-time protections turned on at the same time, in addition to slowing down your computer even more, can cause clashes between the two and actually cause them to miss real problems due to the conflicts that they otherwise would have caught.)

It also cuts off some jobs as you become 'overqualified' (see: We think you'll bugger off to a better job first opportunity), but the ones that open up are better in general usually.

For what it's worth a side effect of the whole "college degree required to even look at you" type of certificate inflation combined with the fact that the labor market didn't exactly rebound as hard as many people thought it was going to have meant that employers are much less likely to reject you for being "overqualified" now than they were in the past. It still happens occasionally and in extreme cases, but a lot of companies have been taking advantage of the worse market to get lots of experience/education for what is, from their point of view, a cheaper price. (Course that's kinda bad for us, ideally we would have enough positions at the levels of education we actually have and get paid the amount that we deserve, but hey, you still gotta eat ).

That said yeah, network network network. Getting a job is, as mentioned before, mainly based on who you know, and only then based on what your skills are. Obviously you need to have some qualifications (though how much you actually need depends heavily on the field/etc.), but get to know your professors; they're the ones who will be writing you reference letters that will help you land the good positions later.

CIS in particular, while not quite as high-end aimed as a more theoretically-focused pure CS degree, still has a very large amount of things that can be done with it, ranging from being the "tech guy" at a smaller company to working as part of a large team in one of the big software names. You don't necessarily need to pick now, but I'd suggest by the time that you near the end of your Bachelor's degree that you try to narrow down a bit what exact fields you particularly enjoy (or hate less), and possibly use that to determine if you want to go for a job right then or shoot for higher education. Some fields (like AI development, for example) tend to require higher levels of education for a lot of their "entry-level" stuff, while in other fields (web development) you can pretty much jump straight in with just a bachelors and be just fine (and salaries are exceptionally good right now in a lot of places).

My last piece of advice is to code up some stuff on somewhere publicly accessible like Github and use it as a sort of "portfolio". Employers will look at that stuff, and it's not totally unheard of for some of the more employer-focused job searching stuff to actually contact people based on their personal projects. It's always good to have some work showing that you do know how to code, or even better that you know how to work as part of a larger open-source team.

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Ah fair point, missed that.

Going from vista to 10 won't help things though. It might even make them worse.

Eh, 10 has been improved so much now that it's actually pretty decent. Still not better than 7 yet, but it's at the point where I'd recommend it for people who have no clue how to use a computer since it takes a fair bit of work to stop it from forcing you to do updates/etc.. And it has the advantage of still being a free switch for the next month or so, while 7 and older are no longer receiving improvements at this point (just security patches or nothing).

Onions are good, but bell peppers and mushrooms both trump them in my opinion (and meat is really good too). Personally I'm the type of person who goes "lets put more toppings on it!" all the time with supremes or supremes+other stuff.

Are patents necessary? Yes, because they protect smaller companies. Is the current system highly open to abuse due to the incredibly long durations of many patent types? Yes. The funny thing is that we actually raised the duration of patents in the last 11 years; it was 17 year durations up until the year of 1995.

Honestly what I would like to see is a system of "usage patents", where if you were making an effort towards developing on and producing an item then you could have a long patent term (like the current 20 years), while if you are just sitting on the patent without making any effort towards production then your patent lifecycle is greatly shortened down to like 5 years or something similar. That seems like it would still give smaller companies (that are much more likely to have a small number of patents they are actively working on) protection while stopping larger companies from filing or obtaining a huge number of patents only to sit on them for the next 20 years suing anyone who looks cross at the, all while preventing anyone else from developing said technology.