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And even if they do standardize on micro-USB, which version? 2.0 is the most common one right now, but micro-USB 3.0 is starting to see adoption, despite the fact that if we asked the average Slashdotter to design a port that was ideal for use by everyday users on mobile devices I'd expect them to do a better job than that thing.

I was surprised that the UK gets BB just hours after it airs. It's not misinformation because I don't watch it on AMC - I watch the next day via iTunes - it's NOT available after it airs. you have to wait a day. (due to the time difference, I guess technically, the UK gets it the next day too - 2200 PST is 0600 GMT, right?)

it's not geolocation shite either.

there was an exclusive deal announced in July (before E1S6)
http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/26/4559132/breaking-bad-netflix-uk-final-episodes-exclusive

this might be a sign of things to come (near instant availability after the premiere - perhaps to stem piracy?)

The average thief won't have the amount of acumen necessary to lift a fingerprint off of the phone and transfer it onto something that will pass the sensor. The police, on the other hand, already fingerprint suspects and have a history of wanting to access the information stored in your iPhone. Allowing an iPhone to be unlocked with a fingerprint seems like a gift to police departments around the country.

Your loss. Its the best mobile OS on the market right now. If you don't know if anybody that owns one, you should try reading a review or two.

Except its not. Android is the most advanced OS by a large margin although that might change (completely?) with iOS 7. Windows Phone 7 was limited at launch and lacked features both the OS it was meant to replace symbian and windows mobile. The internet responded by creating famous lists like this one http://my-symbian.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44034 . It did get a free pass by reviewers by with reservations...two years after launch http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/3/2921472/lumia-900-review the reviewers stopped http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/3/2921472/lumia-900-review . Then Microsoft threw its userbase away with Windows 8 two years after Windows Phone 7, but people have stopped caring.

The main problem with windows phone is you. Windows Phone has had some success right at the bottom end of the market, because of Nokias hardware...and price with realistic expectations. At the top end its a different story...from the latest RMC rebort "Nokia's latest Lumia 928 and 925 appear to be "compromise devices", whose specs don't measure up to Samsung's flagship Galaxy S4 and HTC's One. Another problem Nokia is facing, according to RBC, is higher than normal return rates for its Lumia devices."

Your loss. Its the best mobile OS on the market right now. If you don't know if anybody that owns one, you should try reading a review or two.

Except its not. Android is the most advanced OS by a large margin although that might change (completely?) with iOS 7. Windows Phone 7 was limited at launch and lacked features both the OS it was meant to replace symbian and windows mobile. The internet responded by creating famous lists like this one http://my-symbian.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44034 . It did get a free pass by reviewers by with reservations...two years after launch http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/3/2921472/lumia-900-review the reviewers stopped http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/3/2921472/lumia-900-review . Then Microsoft threw its userbase away with Windows 8 two years after Windows Phone 7, but people have stopped caring.

The main problem with windows phone is you. Windows Phone has had some success right at the bottom end of the market, because of Nokias hardware...and price with realistic expectations. At the top end its a different story...from the latest RMC rebort "Nokia's latest Lumia 928 and 925 appear to be "compromise devices", whose specs don't measure up to Samsung's flagship Galaxy S4 and HTC's One. Another problem Nokia is facing, according to RBC, is higher than normal return rates for its Lumia devices."

Huh, Google spends the most on lobbying among tech firms.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/4/4394234/google-eight-biggest-record-lobbying-washington

Its going to use VP8 over H.264 too the reasons. " Chew says that VP8 will be able to deliver HD video to up to 10 people at a time, which is something H.264 couldn't handle. VP8 will also take up less bandwidth than H.264, allowing Hangouts to deliver better looking video at lower bit rates. And VP8 will also allow Google to begin transitioning Hangouts over to WebRTC, an emerging set of video and audio standards" http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/28/4668326/google-hangouts-getting-720p-hd-video-upgrade

His overlap between Burning Man and startups is not really that supportable.

No? http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/21/4643668/startups-are-invading-burning-man

"So many venture capitalists attend the festival that it's said to be the worst week of the year for startups to try to fundraise."

"Both Sergey Brin and Larry Page are avid Burners, and they've joked about hiring Eric Schmidt as CEO because he was the only candidate who'd been to the festival."

"Keen.io is an app analytics company that's taken in nearly a million dollars in funding from valley players like Techstars and 500 Startups — but next week they'll be setting up shop as "Amazecamp," with a walk-through aquarium and solar-powered speaker cart. Last year, they were right next to the Facebook camp, and saw when Zuckerberg helicoptered in for a day to help fry some artisanal grilled cheese sandwiches. "They had a really nice setup. You can tell they're well funded," says Michele Wetzler, engineer for Keen.io. "There was a piano."

Yep, no real evidence whatsoever that self-important tech investors are shitting up Burning Man even more with their faux hipster bullshit. It was bad enough when it was REAL hipster bullshit. Faux hipster bullshit just takes it to a whole new level.

Or, maybe they realised they made a mistake after the purchase.

LG seems extremely hesitant, and even confused about its future plans for the OS. Asked how webOS could be used to create "disruptive" smart TV products absent any of the content deals that have thus far stunted TV innovation, LG CTO Dr. Skott Ahn simply said that he believes "the environment will change from an app environment to a web environment." Further asked to name the core benefit of the webOS platform for smart TVs, Dr. Ahn simply remained silent for 10 seconds, prompting LG's North American VP of smart TV Samuel Chang to add that "we're at the nascent stage" of smart TV development.

Granted this is all hearsay and subjective. But if LG bought webOS and found that it did not suit their needs, and their mobile strategy requires a separate platform from iOS and Android, that might push them towards early adoption of FirefoxOS.

I think that this has changed:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/2/4174204/solar-panels-finally-generate-more-energy-than-they-consume

They says it will make that energy within a year. with 50% certainty.

Before I buy one even for $100 I'd need proof that this could be done.

What's truly bizarre is that Nokia is planning to release a locked-in high-end WinRT tablet next month, presumably for not much less than an order of magnitude more than their customers want to pay...

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/16/4627220/nokia-windows-rt-tablet-pictures-leak-rumor

Of course, Slashdot does not consider this to be news.

If Google stopped working, I wouldn't suffer very much, I think. (When Gmail crashes, I think that for gmail users this is another issue... but I use alternative email).

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/17/4631622/microsoft-apologies-for-outlook-and-activesync-downtime-says-error Your email could be out three days not one minute.

Well, every major version of Windows going back to 1.0 has come out around 3-4 years apart (except XP->Vista, which took 6+ years). So it's likely that Windows 9 would come out in in the beginning of 2016 or 2017

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/28/3693368/windows-blue-update-low-cost I thought the plan was to keep the Windows 8 Numbering for now, and then push towards yearly updates for Microsoft’s OS. In fact I thought that is what 8.1 was. I thought it was a great idea.

A copy of the story from The Verge.

Interestingly, Samsung paid out $200,000 in 2011 to Brazil for working conditions as well.

And China Labour Watch also has citations to Samsung.

I'm not familiar with the US law, but the Ministry of Labour in Canada will take a company to court if they believe the company to be violating worker safety laws.

In other words, it's great to see that Brazil is enforcing labour laws... but not particularly surprising. As countries move to establish and enforce workers rights (and move away from manufacturing our junk), more lawsuits will occur.

It's how workers rights are enforced, and it isn't news in a developed country ... (and brazil is far more developed than many people think).

A copy of the story from The Verge.

Interestingly, Samsung paid out $200,000 in 2011 to Brazil for working conditions as well.

And China Labour Watch also has citations to Samsung.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/25/4365726/daniel-dennett-explains-how-to-reprogram-your-brain
http://youtu.be/4Q_mY54hjM0

I seriously doubt there is an ISP in the world that would dare charge Google to send data to their customers. The negotiations would be swift: "OK, we won't."

Google is more than google.com. The ISPs want to force them to pay for Youtube traffic whilst getting free access to the search engine.

There is a whole world of hurt coming for someone.

It seems that you disagree not only with what I said, but with the staff of the Washington Post. See the WP's own article. They don't look happy.

You said, "Bezos lacks an understanding of how the world works? ... his company has operations in over 80 countries, is at the leading edge of the cloud computing revolution, has created several different markets for goods and services that never previously existed, has a logistics system that spans the planet, and generates more profit than the tax revenue of most countries."

Everything in that is Amazon's core business, very different from running a news organization. Whoever runs Amazon seems to be doing quite well. But Jeff Bezos is, more and more, distracting himself. Did you know that Bezos has a spaceflight company? Quoting: "Blue Origin ... has dealt with some difficulties in recent years -- the company hasn't yet put a ship in orbit and suffered a serious setback after a prototype spacecraft crashed in August of 2011."

Another quote from the article: " In the past two years, the Post's uncertain future has led to an exodus of many of its top writers." The Washington Post is doing very badly with its present management, and that management is rapidly becoming worse.

Quoting that article again: "Last week, the Washington Post Company reported an operating loss of $49.3 million in the first six months of 2013, compared to a $33.2 million loss for the same period a year earlier..."

And... Jeff Bezos won't be running the Washington Post. Quoting Jeff Bezos: ' "I won't be leading The Washington Post day-to-day. I am happily living in 'the other Washington' where I have a day job that I love. Besides that, the Post already has an excellent leadership team that knows much more about the news business than I do, and I'm extremely grateful to them for agreeing to stay on." '

Jeff Bezos says the Washington Post "already has an excellent leadership team..." That team is losing HUGE amounts of money.

Continuing, Jeff Bezos says: "... that knows much more about the news business than I do."

That was my point.

You have disagreed not only with me, but with Jeff Bezos himself.

It seems that you disagree not only with what I said, but with the staff of the Washington Post. See the WP's own article. They don't look happy.

You said, "Bezos lacks an understanding of how the world works? ... his company has operations in over 80 countries, is at the leading edge of the cloud computing revolution, has created several different markets for goods and services that never previously existed, has a logistics system that spans the planet, and generates more profit than the tax revenue of most countries."

Everything in that is Amazon's core business, very different from running a news organization. Whoever runs Amazon seems to be doing quite well. But Jeff Bezos is, more and more, distracting himself. Did you know that Bezos has a spaceflight company? Quoting: "Blue Origin ... has dealt with some difficulties in recent years -- the company hasn't yet put a ship in orbit and suffered a serious setback after a prototype spacecraft crashed in August of 2011."

Another quote from the article: " In the past two years, the Post's uncertain future has led to an exodus of many of its top writers." The Washington Post is doing very badly with its present management, and that management is rapidly becoming worse.

Quoting that article again: "Last week, the Washington Post Company reported an operating loss of $49.3 million in the first six months of 2013, compared to a $33.2 million loss for the same period a year earlier..."

And... Jeff Bezos won't be running the Washington Post. Quoting Jeff Bezos: ' "I won't be leading The Washington Post day-to-day. I am happily living in 'the other Washington' where I have a day job that I love. Besides that, the Post already has an excellent leadership team that knows much more about the news business than I do, and I'm extremely grateful to them for agreeing to stay on." '

Jeff Bezos says the Washington Post "already has an excellent leadership team..." That team is losing HUGE amounts of money.

Continuing, Jeff Bezos says: "... that knows much more about the news business than I do."

That was my point.

You have disagreed not only with me, but with Jeff Bezos himself.

Google has specifically stated on the Google Glass blog that it will not put ads on Glass, in the same post where it was announced that third party apps will not be allowed to show ads on Glass. Google it.

LOL! Google it? You must be joking. Duck Duck Go.

What you don't know is this:

Update: Google confirms that Glass developers will not be able to charge or advertise for their early creations, but that might change in the future. "The API is still in a limited preview," a representative tells The Verge. "Developers are crucial to the future of Glass. The focus during the Explorer Program is on innovation and experimentation, but it's too early to speculate how this will evolve."

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/15/4228962/google-glass-mirror-api-documentation

Google isn't even promising that third parties won't be allowed to advertise in future, let alone themselves.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/15/4228962/google-glass-mirror-api-documentation

Do you believe that the Google search engine will be accessible with Glass. Do you really believe that the ads that are on the service on every other platform will be removed from it on Glass? You're deluding yourself. And they'll find plenty of other opportunities to advertise to you. Just as they have done elsewhere - gmail, etc.

Google IS an advertising company, everything follows from that. Just as Apple is a design company, and everything they do follows from that.

Google has specifically stated on the Google Glass blog that it will not put ads on Glass, in the same post where it was announced that third party apps will not be allowed to show ads on Glass. Google it.

LOL! Google it? You must be joking. Duck Duck Go.

What you don't know is this:

Update: Google confirms that Glass developers will not be able to charge or advertise for their early creations, but that might change in the future. "The API is still in a limited preview," a representative tells The Verge. "Developers are crucial to the future of Glass. The focus during the Explorer Program is on innovation and experimentation, but it's too early to speculate how this will evolve."

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/15/4228962/google-glass-mirror-api-documentation

Google isn't even promising that third parties won't be allowed to advertise in future, let alone themselves.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/15/4228962/google-glass-mirror-api-documentation

Do you believe that the Google search engine will be accessible with Glass. Do you really believe that the ads that are on the service on every other platform will be removed from it on Glass? You're deluding yourself. And they'll find plenty of other opportunities to advertise to you. Just as they have done elsewhere - gmail, etc.

Google IS an advertising company, everything follows from that. Just as Apple is a design company, and everything they do follows from that.

While I agree that college athletes should get paid when products use their likeness (their main "salary" is a free ride at the college, from my understanding,) and that EA in general is an evil company, I believe the EFF's stance here is proper on a broader scale (I haven't RTFA; this is Slashdot, after all.) What if the person in question was, I don't know, a film actor?

Granted, EA's likeness is far, far more specific, and the team at Naughty Dog did change Ellie's likeness away from Ellen Page and closer to that of Ellie's voice actress before release, but a lot of the same general ideas are at use here. While I believe that everyone should have control over the use of their own likeness and person, there does have to be a limit or any two-bit actor (assuming we limit it to "public figures") could start suing companies because the main character in Modern Shooter 8 sounds like them and uses their catch phrase "Whoop-de-nany." From the summary, EA's use may overstep that boundary, but the EFF may still have the right idea here.

A UK court recently ruled that Microsoft's SkyDrive name infringed on a trademark owned by British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB), and the software maker has agreed to change the name of its cloud-based service worldwide as a result. In a settlement issued on Wednesday, BSkyB notes that Microsoft will not appeal the court ruling and that the company will allow Microsoft to continue using the brand "for a reasonable period of time to allow for an orderly transition to a new brand."

The agreement includes financial and other terms, but neither BSkyB or Microsoft will disclose the details as the agreement is confidential. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the name change in a statement to The Verge.

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/31/4574878/microsoft-skydrive-name-change-bskyb

So there you go.

Or it could be the fact that 'streaming' media via browser has already been reported to have serious sync issues with this pseudo dongle. You know, tiny usability features that hardly anyone would ever notice.

Care you remove your head from Google's ass long enough to smell the shit?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/24/4553368/hands-on-googles-35-chromecast-a-streaming-tv-stick

Google says it uses WebRTC, so it's basically online video chat repurposed to display anything you can see in a browser frame. Video plays with only a bit of chop and stutter, and lips don't quite sync up with the audio, which could be maddening for some. Don't expect this to be a surefire solution for watching Hulu without a subscription.

That is a very poor workaround, that plays the video locally then does some messy screen casting to give you compression artifacts/chop/stutter and lip sync issues:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/24/4553368/hands-on-googles-35-chromecast-a-streaming-tv-stick

Perhaps most interesting of all, we got to try a new beta feature of Chrome that lets you stream the contents of a web browser tab itself to your TV via the Chromecast. It's not particularly impressive yet: scrolling doesn't come close to keeping up with your finger, and there's visible compression artifacts whenever there's rapid motion: it's a lot like streaming game services like OnLive and Gaikai, but with a lot more delay. ... Video plays with only a bit of chop and stutter, and lips don't quite sync up with the audio, which could be maddening for some.

WD TV, Roku aren't that expensive and handle local streaming flawlessly.

Adblock Plus isn't catching them now, as they're randomizing the tag identities and refreshing periodically.

Because of obnoxious ads I abandoned Yahoo ages ago, this could drive me away from fb.

Great, they have to make their money on ads, I don't have to like it and if I can work a way to block them I will.

Are you sure Facebook didn't pay off the the ABP folks like Google did?.

Yes, Google paid ABP to whitelist their ads. And since they take payments to be put on their whitelist... it's conceivable other ad networks are there as well. And who knows where Google will go next - considering they own the vast majority of advertising companies out there, who knows if Google is pushing for their other companies to be added...

They haven't been able to keep up with demand for the One because their component suppliers looked at their past performance gave them a low priority, so they literally couldn't make them.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/19/4122798/htc-one-delayed-because-of-component-shortage

Yeah. And it's "selling better than their previous tablets", but this is their first one. Right...

Sure they tried to push Windows onto other people's tablets before with things like XP Tablet Edition, but they haven't made their own tablet until the Surface. And it's a bomb, just like the Zune.

The Verge currently has an article running on how similar the failure of the Surface RT is to the Zune: http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/19/4537944/surface-rt-mistakes-look-like-zune-2

My understanding is that the PA system has only been around for about two years. I don't think that's enough time to write it off as something that won't be misused, especially since T-Mobile already did so.

Sounds like you want a modern Nokia... but the TRUE Nokia, how it would be now if the Microsoft plant hadn't destroyed the company. So, you want a Jolla.

campaign against Google, attacking Google for "reading your email" for putting ads on the screen.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/7/3962794/microsoft-revives-anti-google-scroogled-campaign-to-attack-gmail

Julie Larson-Green, also in charge of Surface and games.

Mother of Metro.

Champion of Ribbon.

I don't know how many millions this project cost, but come on, we have rapid prototyping tools so it could've at least been made looking better than a high school science fair project.

Add to that the fact that people refuse to wear their 3d tv glasses. Or glasses in general.

Points to this being a smart executive decision to cut losses and move on.

30% - 70% Windows patches might be NSA directed? Well, Heaven knows Windows has no legitimate bugs to fix . But that does help me understand something. I've been puzzled by your sig for some time since I can't say I know anyone that actually lives in fear. Now it is clearer. You probably bitch when Microsoft doesn't fix something, but are too terrified to use it when they do. That explains a lot. Especially if you aren't applying patches and get pwned.

Your views are simple: It's all a plot. Windows is complex. Complex software has bugs: The danger of complexity: More code, more bugs

I'm reasonably certain that NSA isn't behind all the bugs and all the fixes.

Windows 2000 was released with 20,000 bugs

PS - I hope you do read the response I made to your post, and watch at least the first video. You will be better informed.

Samsun Exec. David Eun survives, posts pic. Then proceeds to teach CNN some manners.

Ok I will switch to the format of my other reply on the other thread which seems to finally have gotten into your head since you haven't even replied to it yet.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3929159&cid=44180905

I said this

No employment contract in the US can force anyone to show up to the office and do work. Slavery is not legal anymore.

An "employment contract" that forces people to show up at work and actually do work against their wishes(under threat of arrest, criminal charges or physical punishment) is what slavery is. Q1 Agreed?

The thread came out like this.

I effectively said "Employment is at the will of the employee. MS cannot force him to work if he does not want to."

You came out with: "First, at-will employment only applies when there is no contract:"

Second, you do understand that top level executives often sign contracts which companies can dictate terms like term of employment. Often the exec and the employer agree on when they can leave; however, it can get contentious if there is no agreement. In this case, it points more that the exit was unexpected but MS let him go.

Did MS even have an option to not let him go? You bring up non-compete, but they're not enforceable in many states. Look at Steven Sinofsky's agreement where they had to pay him a ton to keep him out of competitors' hands. http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/3/4491560/steven-sinofsky-microsoft-retirement-agreement-deal-shares-nda

Why would they waste so much money if noncompete agreements were workable? Microsoft's lawyers known way more than you about this stuff. Q2 Agree?

I effectively said "No contract can force people to work against their will since slavery is no longer legal. The only way out is monetary punishment which Zynga likely bought out."

And guess what? I was right.

http://microsoft-news.com/don-mattrick-to-make-over-50-million-at-zynga/

Also what does non-compete agreements have to do with anything in this topic at all? It's another irrelevant topic that you brought up.

No, you bought this up by saying this upthread:

Or better yet, have Mattrick stay until the re-org is announced in a few days.

I brought up contracts etc. to counter that point
And now you argue against yourself and agree with me and don't even remember that you started this line of argument. Nice 360.
Q3 agree?
Also, another quote from you:

What the hell? You are the only that keeps insisting that this was all a part of the re-org yet "plans change". That makes absolutely no sense.

From a news report the next day http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/microsoft-ceo-said-to-give-bates-mergers-role-in-revamp.html

The restructuring isn’t finalized and Ballmer may still shuffle roles around up until it’s officially announced, the people said. Xbox head Don Mattrick had been a contender for the hardware post before left the company to become CEO of Zynga Inc. (ZNGA), a move announced July 1.

See how it makes sense? Q4 Agree?

Look, I understand you're not a MS watcher and you probably follow a lot of iNews, and that's good for you and I don't think that's a bad thing in itself at all. People have different interests and they should. But you come off trying to argue from a position of ignorance trying to show MS in bad light with flimsy and broken logic while lacking real information that is out there if you really wanted to grab it instead of

I refer you to the Nuremberg Principle IV

Principle IV states: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him".

This principle could be paraphrased as follows: "It is not an acceptable excuse to say 'I was just following my superior's orders'".

There is always a choice not to follow. One could take the courageous example of acting attorney general James Comey, FBI director Robert Mueller and others in the Bush era :-

Nine years ago, top officials in the Justice Department and FBI threatened to resign over then-President George W. Bush's sweeping domestic surveillance policy, which they believed to be illegal. As the Washington Post reports, acting attorney general James Comey, FBI director Robert Mueller, and top leadership in the Justice Department began drafting resignation letters in March of 2004, after the National Security Agency (NSA), at Bush's direction, began collecting metadata on emails and Skype calls sent and placed within the US.

Comey and Goldsmith found the NSA's argument tenuous, and threatened to resign over it. Bush at first pushed forward with the program, even after Comey ordered a halt to it, but ultimately reversed course after Mueller threatened to resign.

What if the patent is entirely worthwhile and then sold to a troll?...All patents = bad is not driving the conversation forward.

Wow. Did you even read? My argument was, in bold mind you, "...right now it is too easy to file for and obtain frivolous, undeserving, non-novel or obvious patents...Cut down on the number of patents issued and you cut down on the abuse that follows." Show me where it says all patents are bad.

And as for those tech companies "abusing their patents" do you have a cite for abuse versus assert?

Sure. You only had to ask.

Motorola is guilty of patent abuse.

So is Apple.

So is Google.

Even Microsoft and Nokia are joining the bandwagon.

As an aside, I find it hilarious that someone posting as an AC is accusing others of being a troll. Man up and post under your own account.

RTFA.

It was misleading because the summary and headline intentionally left off and totally ignored the following line from the article so that it could have a better chance of getting posted on Slashdot.

There’s every chance this is a temporary solution until Microsoft completes its wider management restructuring.

So... what you're trying to do is deflect a bluntly stated fact by desperately clinging to speculation by TFA's writer? Funny, around these parts it's generally the other way around, where we use facts to shut down rampant, baseless speculation, but if that's the way you like to see it, I guess we can't stop you.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/23/4457082/microsoft-reorg-expected-by-july-1st-rumor

http://bgr.com/2013/06/24/microsoft-reorganization-2013-windows/

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/2/4486278/don-mattrick-microsoft-exit-major-reorg-rumor

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Microsoft-reorganization-may-lead-to-unified-Windows-department-finally_id44442

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=microsoft+reorganization&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

RTFA.

It was misleading because the summary and headline intentionally left off and totally ignored the following line from the article so that it could have a better chance of getting posted on Slashdot.

There’s every chance this is a temporary solution until Microsoft completes its wider management restructuring.

So... what you're trying to do is deflect a bluntly stated fact by desperately clinging to speculation by TFA's writer? Funny, around these parts it's generally the other way around, where we use facts to shut down rampant, baseless speculation, but if that's the way you like to see it, I guess we can't stop you.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/23/4457082/microsoft-reorg-expected-by-july-1st-rumor

http://bgr.com/2013/06/24/microsoft-reorganization-2013-windows/

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/2/4486278/don-mattrick-microsoft-exit-major-reorg-rumor

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Microsoft-reorganization-may-lead-to-unified-Windows-department-finally_id44442

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=microsoft+reorganization&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

A major reorg of MS is imminent,

While it's likely a good guess, as the end of major development cycle often brings big changes and most CEO's don't tend to collect direct reports, claiming that a reorg 'is imminent' is misleading and likely biased in itself. Are you afraid of competition?

Please RTFA or buy a fucking clue. I am so tired of stupid Slashdot stories and commeters who only get their Microsoft news from Slashdot and don't even RTFA. This is turning into something worse than reddit, same with the Secure Boot and Vista DRM FUD that was spread on here.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/23/4457082/microsoft-reorg-expected-by-july-1st-rumor

http://bgr.com/2013/06/24/microsoft-reorganization-2013-windows/

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/2/4486278/don-mattrick-microsoft-exit-major-reorg-rumor

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Microsoft-reorganization-may-lead-to-unified-Windows-department-finally_id44442

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=microsoft+reorganization&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

>claiming that a reorg 'is imminent' is misleading and likely biased in itself. Are you afraid of competition?

If that is misleading and biased, then what you said is just plain dumb and shows how Slashdot has declined into a sad circlejerk of deluded 14 year olds railing against M$ after reading made up stories to gather karma points. Point out a fact that's not anti-MS or is anti-Apple or anti-Google and get overrated mods for days. Last one out turn the lights off.

A major reorg of MS is imminent,

While it's likely a good guess, as the end of major development cycle often brings big changes and most CEO's don't tend to collect direct reports, claiming that a reorg 'is imminent' is misleading and likely biased in itself. Are you afraid of competition?

Please RTFA or buy a fucking clue. I am so tired of stupid Slashdot stories and commeters who only get their Microsoft news from Slashdot and don't even RTFA. This is turning into something worse than reddit, same with the Secure Boot and Vista DRM FUD that was spread on here.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/23/4457082/microsoft-reorg-expected-by-july-1st-rumor

http://bgr.com/2013/06/24/microsoft-reorganization-2013-windows/

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/2/4486278/don-mattrick-microsoft-exit-major-reorg-rumor

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Microsoft-reorganization-may-lead-to-unified-Windows-department-finally_id44442

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=microsoft+reorganization&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

>claiming that a reorg 'is imminent' is misleading and likely biased in itself. Are you afraid of competition?

If that is misleading and biased, then what you said is just plain dumb and shows how Slashdot has declined into a sad circlejerk of deluded 14 year olds railing against M$ after reading made up stories to gather karma points. Point out a fact that's not anti-MS or is anti-Apple or anti-Google and get overrated mods for days. Last one out turn the lights off.

Oh look. Yet another benchmark showing how superior a new handset is...yet every new handset is still laggy and jerky, including the S3

Actually the CPU allows you to run better(give it a name) programs at higher resolutions. Its why Flash was not the problem for Android that it is for Apple. Google put an awful lot of effort into improving things like responsiveness. Goolge finally managed to put this lie to sleep with Project Butter http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3118769/android-4-1-jelly-bean.

Google trying desperately to make Androids UI smooth is proof it always was. Yeah right.

Oh look. Yet another benchmark showing how superior a new handset is...yet every new handset is still laggy and jerky, including the S3

Actually the CPU allows you to run better(give it a name) programs at higher resolutions. Its why Flash was not the problem for Android that it is for Apple. Google put an awful lot of effort into improving things like responsiveness. Goolge finally managed to put this lie to sleep with Project Butter http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3118769/android-4-1-jelly-bean.

Here are a few links to fixes to make the iPhone and iPad a little less laggy http://www.imore.com/speed-laggy-ios-device

More speculation. When a similar rumor came out about Apple, all the haters here cried about how /. was reporting on imaginary hardware.

Except it wasn't a similar rumour; it just wasn't a console. http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/12/4421534/ios-7-to-include-standardized-game-controller-support iOS 7 to include standardized game controller support.

This is about the follow up to the never launched Nexus Q a media hub...which nobody really knew what to do with. Suddenly with Sony & Microsoft both pushing their game consoles as media hubs, and well a number of Android gaming consoles have already launched. I personally own two...OUYA and The PLAY.

Personally I can see the speculation why Google will do a console/media hub...but its nothing to do with Apple

But now, stupid Canonical had to decide to fragment things with Mir, which does mostly the same thing as Wayland but in an incompatible manner, so who knows what's going to happen.

All projects that have tried to replace X so far has failed miserably, so I'd say the odds are against both of them. If Ubuntu can do it as quickly and easily as they think then more power to them, but I'm not holding my breath. The Wayland people are mostly seasoned X.org developers, I think they know better how complicated it really is. Either way I'm curious to see what Android AIOs will do to the market, give it a big screen, keyboard and mouse then what happens? I'm not so sure X or Wayland or Mir is a requirement to winning the desktop, at least it didn't look that way for smartphones/tablets.

The concept in principle seems interesting, but are there modern examples of successful deployments of this kind?

OnLive?

Some would say it isn't successful but their issues were arguably more to do with Steve Perlman than the product itself.

The four major carriers this year got a common database for stolen phones. As far as how a phone gets onto it in the first place, I have no idea.

1. He's Australian not American
2. He's announced he hacked these people previously
3. He's already been raided
4. He wants more attention

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/24/4024062/the-secrets-of-hacker-and-xbox-durango-leaker-superdae

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Dropbox are now all denying providing direct access to PRISM surveillance program.

Apple spokesperson Steve Dowling flatly adding, "We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order."

Google: "From time to time, people allege that we have created a government 'back door' into our systems, but Google does not have a 'back door."

Microsoft: "We provide customer data only when we receive a legally binding order or subpoena to do so, and never on a voluntary basis.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4404112/nsa-prism-surveillance-apple-facebook-google-respond