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  1. Re:Amusing on Break Microsoft Up · · Score: 1

    You should look up what de-facto means.

    The fact they got their abusing their monopoly powers is a different matter.
    I'm just going to assume the rest of you post is based on the same level of ignorance and not bother to read it.

  2. Knee jerk much? on Break Microsoft Up · · Score: 1

    First off, you can still play ANY media. One developer can't use one method thatw asn't even official in an unreleased API.
    Just use file://blargh

  3. Re:What's good for others apparently is no good fo on Break Microsoft Up · · Score: 2

    They only need to first create the universe.

    ALl the hard ware and parts of the Kinect that make it the Kinect where bought.
    the iPod was built in house. Yes, it was a clever assembly of things, most of which already existed. But it was design in house. MS bought all the key Kinect tech after years of failing to be able to do it themselves.

  4. Re:What's good for others apparently is no good fo on Break Microsoft Up · · Score: 1

    Natal team could not figure out gesture technology. Could get IR to work to be hands free. And they worked on in for well over a decade, so real genius there~
    anyways, they bought it from primesense, who developed it on 2005.

    I speculate that project Natal was failure, and they through the name at this new products so they didn't have to tell the stock holders Natal wasn't going anywhere.
    which is very Ballmer.

  5. Re:What's good for others apparently is no good fo on Break Microsoft Up · · Score: 1, Funny

    Or you could understand windows 8?
    There is no need for a start button becasue the desktop IS the start button.
    What it needs is better Conveyance and Continuity.

    Don't know what I am talking about? then STFU about UI.

    Don't forget everyone told MS what was wrong when the changed from Dos 2 to 3, and again when they went from 4 to 5*. 3.11 to 95. AND when they changed from 2000 to XP, and so on.

    *yes there where peopel writting about the mistakxe completely ignoring what a pile of crap DOS 4 was.

  6. Re:Break it up into what? on Break Microsoft Up · · Score: 1

    OS/Studio, OFFICE, XBOX/Hardware.

  7. Same ol' management BS on Break Microsoft Up · · Score: 1

    Company not doing well? Are you a bad manager? then break it UP. unless you did that all ready then CONSOLIDATE.

    The don't need to be broken up, they need a driver. Ballmer has been asleep at the wheel. He is clueless about how to create products consumers want, he has no style, and he won't listen to people who do.

    The moment he help up a brown product and used the word 'squirt' he should have been fired.
    I could, literally, do a better job then he has. I would wager I could double the stock price in 2 years.

  8. Re:Why so few women sanitation engineers? on Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 0

    IT's 9.6% and that number has been steadily increasing, unlike women in IT.

    So shut you pie hole and learn something before yapping off.

    Frankly, I know what nurses do, and I can make the same money writing software, having weekends off, and hardly seeing anyone die.

  9. Re:Unlikely on Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    I do not tolerate that. If someone stinks, I will anonymously let them know, and the escalate from there all the way up to..is that your car that's on fire?

    well, not that far, it usually takes 1 email and they are putting deodorant on and refreshing it at lunch

  10. Re:Female programmers on Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 0

    And I would STILL rather have her working with me then the rest of these louts!
    At least she would be quite and do nothing.

  11. Re:More complicated than that on Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    Really? Are you really the ignorant?
    You couldn't do accounting. You wouldn't last a week.

    Girls are pressured way from hard math and engineering courses. I have had to fight surprisingly hard throughout my daughters school career to get her into math course when there are other traditional girl course available.
    There is a lot of documentation to support that, not just my anecdotes.

  12. Re:Of the Women I have interviewed on Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    You're interview process is horrible, and it has laser like focus on just some very specific abilities and completely disregards the best people to hire.

    People who can work together and understand their is a variety of ways.
    You are a douche on a power trip looking for people to answer things in a way the satisfies your ego.

  13. Yes, because on Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    by that time she had created a huge body of work, and new many industry leaders.

  14. Re:If you have to have cell service on The Big Hangup At Burning Man Is Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Enjoy you're expression like I do or you're a poser!
    WHAAA WAAAAAaaaa. whine!

  15. Re:Huh? What? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    ah, well if YOU have been doing it, then clearly everyone knows about it.

    Not that it's worthy of an article, but your 'logic' is annoying.

  16. Re:Let me get this straight on Goldman Suspends 4 Senior Tech Specialists After Trading Glitch · · Score: 1

    No. Their was a software glitch that halted trading.

    I mean, they're out to get YOU, man.

  17. Re:Corzine is a special case, close ally of Obama on Goldman Suspends 4 Senior Tech Specialists After Trading Glitch · · Score: 1

    Because no one in Congress wants to get Obama?

    are you high?

  18. You should fire manamgment on Goldman Suspends 4 Senior Tech Specialists After Trading Glitch · · Score: 1

    for not have a redundant system to test on.

  19. Re:hidden smoldering man on The Big Hangup At Burning Man Is Cell Phones · · Score: 2

    That happened over 15 years ago.

  20. Re:In on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    Are you saying we will need a drift partner?

  21. Re:In on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    I expect a decrease in traffic. The vast majority of traffic issues would be solved with fewer accidents, smarter acceleration, and smarter route mapping.

  22. Re:No, there's a specific freedom in mind here... on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    ", they're afraid that if everyone's got self-driving cars, they won't be allowed to be assholes anymore."
    brilliant.

  23. Re:Amusing scenario... on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    Yeah that's what they thought about searching the internet intelligently, then Google did it. I remember when search the internet meant getting an alphabetic list.

    The problem with AI is the bar of what is AI keeps getting moved.

    Lane splitting motorcycles are just an object like any other.

  24. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    So you don't fly? use a microwave? drive?

    None of that code is OS now.

  25. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    They aren't cheaper,. stop spreading the lie.
    And there will be places for you to drive just like there are place to go ride a horse.

    The fact tat you like to drive illegally doesn't really matter.