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  1. Re:glassdoor.com on Who is Winning the Web Talent War · · Score: 1

    Steve Ballmer (I honestly don't know the answer in his case...)?

    all i could find was

    He has headed several divisions within Microsoft including "Operating Systems Development", "Operations", and "Sales and Support."

    But im sure he was called in as a sales manager when windows x was released because sales of previous versions weren't good.

  2. Re:glassdoor.com on Who is Winning the Web Talent War · · Score: 1

    They still have to talk to you! If you dont have the required technical knowledge to speak to the enginiers in a language they understand if not you at best just pass on the same information the customer gave you or worse you pass on less information than the technically minded customer.

  3. Re:Serious flaw on Solar Power From Home Curtains · · Score: 1

    While the blinds do help, a lot of Spanish houses are built from materials more suited to the climate, i get the impression that most US houses are generic towerblocks or made of wood, neither being too good during heat.

  4. Re:Calling this AI is overhype... and its not new on Using AI With GCC to Speed Up Mobile Design · · Score: 1

    But all big blue does is iteratively try a bunch of chess moves and see which gives the best results. The goalposts for weak AI keep shifting, years ago something like the awesome would probably have been considered AI (it takes user input and learns what the user wants for next time)

  5. Re:Cooling the Roof. on Solar Power From Home Curtains · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    looks like their mod trolling today, no twitter to twitter convos today :(

  6. Re:We're running out of 'X'! News at 11... on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 2, Funny

    what happens when we run out of carbon?

  7. Re:Total ignorance of economics? on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 1

    or, like with oil the new price makes it economically viable to extract it from more rocks thus increasing the amount of mineral gallium.

  8. Re:Dont believe the hype on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 4, Informative

    no its not, there is no cycle for copper, zinc, etc they've just sat in rocks in mineral form since the earth was created and now are being used. If they are going to be recycled its got to be done by us!

  9. Re:Recycling on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think were all right with plastic we can always 'grown' it from biofeuls once we sort out this pesky demand for oil thing.

  10. Re:Slaughterhouse Cases on PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License · · Score: 1

    yeah because no law can ever make sense. Damn stupid non-libretarians not having complete trust in the free market and not realising that companies never do anything bad, get off my lawn!

  11. Re:I thought on The Scream Aliens Hear From the Earth · · Score: 1

    you were being pedant but you actually have a point he quantum effects would be symetric so they reduce the signal noise ratio but the signal would still be there.

  12. Re:Great on The Scream Aliens Hear From the Earth · · Score: 1

    But the first thing they'd do is abduct our leaders :D result!!!

  13. Re:"The internet has confirmed it" on TV Viewers' Average Age Hits 50 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    have you heard of these new fangled inventions called DVD-drives?
    aww i cant be botherd to continue this crap so ill cut to the chase...your an idiot.

  14. Re:"The internet has confirmed it" on TV Viewers' Average Age Hits 50 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I pay so I can skip the ads

    I torrent so I don't have to

  15. Re:GO USA!!! on Ebay Fined $61M By French Court For Sales of Fake Goods · · Score: 1, Funny

    OH my GOD a FREEDOM is INVOLVED!!! QUICK, hate speech!!!
    GO USA!!!!!

    fixed

  16. Re:Piracy is wrong - plain and simple on Beating Comcast's Sandvine On Linux With Iptables · · Score: 1

    I pirate mainly music because it allows me to sample alot more music and subsequently go to alot more gigs and that way the bands that produce good music get more of my money (money saved not buying 2/3 albums is the same as a gig ticket and 2/3 of the stuff i download i would probably not buy anyway).

    Im also a linux user so to play most games i have to see if they are worth playing on wine, i prefer to do this before i spend £20/30, and as I have to crack the copy protection anyway even for games i legally own I have to torrent them.

  17. Re:Short answer: no on Fresh Air For Windows? · · Score: 1

    Actually it only took about 3, after 3 years bill called them into the office and said "WTF have you done!? start again!" after 6 they were really starting to lose ground and so just pushed the thing out the door (probably Ballmer's choice more than Gates')

  18. Re:Anyone could prove on Al-Qaeda's Growing Online Offensive · · Score: 1

    Redundant? this post is the most insightful post ive seen in this story! seriously al-quaeda are not an organisation or company in the conventional sense of the word.
    1)There's a bunch of people who make fairly good rants about how the west is fucking with the middle east,...AND then goes on to say the only solution is to kill them all!
    2)people listen to this and think he has a point then they go blow shit up

    terrorist training camps? give me a break you don't need training to make a bomb and blow yourself up. hell if they were trained don't you think they would be better at it (blowing up a bus outside a medical centre means there are a lot of doctors around)

    there is nothing more than a few religious conversion camps, not too different from catholic summer camps I went to as a kid only they teach the extremist ideology that agrees with 1 to 2.

    Al-Quaeda are not a huge powerful multinational organisation
    Al-Quaeda do not have a huge secret mountain complex
    Al-Quaeda is not the Taliban
    Al-Quadea is not the Shia/Sunni militia in Iraq
    Al-Quadea is not the Iranian government

  19. Re:"Sorry, no Mac version yet." on A Video Game To Teach AP Level Immunology · · Score: 1

    no linux verison yet? Oh no what will 94% of the slashdot marketplace do?!

  20. Re:screen on Persistent Terminals For a Dedicated Computing Box? · · Score: 1

    Or for most distros just:
    screen
    I mean if ubuntu contains it you'd assume all the 'geekier' distros do too.

  21. Re:Point of failure on Working With 2 ISPs For Home Networking? · · Score: 1

    roughly unlimited (= 5GB)

    call yourself a geek and you cant even downlaod 5GB a month?
    5GB is only 25 DR who episodes or 7 distro install CDs.

  22. Re:"Not Invented Here" on MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates · · Score: 2, Funny

    wait did you say Microsoft or sun?

  23. Re:remember the OLD IBM? on MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you know the new required thought pattern? We aren't supposed to remember how nasty IBM were.....There was a time when Microsoft were the good guys,

    Wrong thread, we only remember microsoft as good guys when we talk about google.

  24. Re:remember the OLD IBM? on MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates · · Score: 1

    If an organism can't adapt to a changing environment it dies

    Unless they're power full enough to adapt^H^H^H fuck up the environment around them instead

  25. Re:In related news... on MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates · · Score: 1

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