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  1. Re:Oracle: on What If Oracle Bought Sun Microsystems? · · Score: 1

    IBM: Computer Associates of the 20th-22nd centuries.
    (buying troubled software companies and running them into the ground).

    Fixed.

  2. Re:SparcStations on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 1

    AmigaDOS FTW.

  3. Re:Why? on Gmail Marks Five Years In Beta · · Score: 1

    Outlook has numerous settings to control where data is stored, regardless of the backend being exchange IMAP or POP.(note: IMAP and POP - open standards - are actually supported by outlook and have been since gmail was a sperm in a google dev's eye!)

    GMail doesn't work so well when your company of 400k+ people cannot access it through the company firewall and frankly yes, that is Google's fault. It's Google's fault that fanboi's don't realize that there are overwhelming reasons why a provider that has free services should not share a network with proprietary data. It's google's fault that every hack that can make a gmail account now doesn't know anything better than to think their new account is the k-rad 31337.

    You don't make a single substantial point. Browsers should NOT be virtual machines. If you want to write an application, write an application. If you want to navigate data and present it, you use *HTML.

  4. Re:Hiesenberg says.... on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: -1, Redundant

    What a Bohr.

    I see what you did there.

  5. Re:What an IBM-Sun Merger Might Mean on What an IBM-Sun Merger Might Mean For Java, MySQL, Developers · · Score: 1

    At first I lulz'd, then I wept.

    Schwartz please, for the love of god, don't let this happen.

  6. Re:*mods article -1, Flamebait* on "Slacker DBs" vs. Old-Guard DBs · · Score: 1

    Cloud Zealots(google employees, amazon EC2 developers, Wall St. analysts that are trying to attach their name to the "Next Big Thing", etc.) tend to have an insulting tone to their rhetoric.

  7. Re:Easy workaround on Intel CPU Privilege Escalation Exploit · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your lulz make my Sparcstation weep....

  8. Re:Not really a "Flying Car" on Flying Car Passes First Flight Test · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We needed a starting-point. This is it.

  9. Re:Nightmare on Sun In Talks To Be Acquired By IBM · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. Sun has more innovation then IBM. Sun's openstorage stuff is stellar - with ZFS/iscsi/nfs/ldap/ftp/cifs/webdav goodnesss....

    God I hope this doesn't happen.

  10. Re:Dangerous on Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    Killer filesystem you-say?

  11. Re:Well, statistics says this must be true, but... on Outliers, The Story Of Success · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Plenty of people have a killer business instinct. Few are in the position to capitalize on it the way Gates did.

    Gladwell never claims that it's all blind luck for guys like Gates and Joy. Rather, it's talent PLUS practice PLUS temperament PLUS blind luck.

    As a business owner, I can authoritatively say you are full of it and your statement sounds like a way you justify why people don't succeed.

    It doesn't take blind luck - luck is useless because if you have "good" luck, then it clouds your understanding of why you were successful, nevermind that you were.. I built my business by being patient and creating successful opportunities. When my company was in its early stages I didn't get a list of 1000s of potential clients and cold-call them all until I got a hit: I did what I enjoyed and built the services my business provides, then bided my time until I got wind of a client that would be a good fit for us.

    There is one single trait that all successful business people share: they are able to be successful. They make opportunities come to them. They bide their time. They constantly learn and are not career students. They build quality relationships.

    Regards,

  12. Re:There was a bigger mistake: on Null References, the Billion Dollar Mistake · · Score: 1

    Not a troll. C and ASM devs know what my comment meant. It's not the strings themselves that are the problem, it's the bounds checking, or lack thereof by many OS's over the years.

    Stack Smashing/Buffer Overflows FTW.

  13. Re:Amiga Community on Amiga Community Collaborates On Restorative Gel To Brighten Your Old Plastic · · Score: 1

    I have the sidecar too, plus the 256k front plug-in.

    The golden age of personal computers......

  14. Re:Amiga Community on Amiga Community Collaborates On Restorative Gel To Brighten Your Old Plastic · · Score: 1

    amiga 1000 owner reporting.

  15. There was a bigger mistake: on Null References, the Billion Dollar Mistake · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Null-terminated strings. The bane of modern computing.

  16. Re:Fast-forward 100 years... on Google Blames Gmail Troubles On Maintenance Goof · · Score: 1

    We're 5 9s. If you think GMail is 4 9s I have a bridge you might also be interested in.

  17. Gattaca is a fantastic movie on Designer Babies · · Score: 0, Troll

    One of my top 10 favorites of all time; it still holds up.

    Download it now and get a glimpse of what we are getting ourselves in to.

  18. Re:chat still down on Outage Knocks Gmail Offline For Many Users · · Score: 1

    How much do you pay for google chat access?

    That's right..... ;) I don't know if the parent uses google/yahoo/etc for business, but I can't help but laugh when I hear about people doing business with these type of service providers. I always get some version of "well google has umpteen million servers and can do things better.." Yeah, well if something occurred that crippled any sizable amount of their infrastructure then They Are Doing It Wrong(tm), and continue to do it wrong.

    They have nice services for novelty use - sharing family photos, blogging about how your cat just used the toilet on it's own, etc. - never rely upon them for anything. Those that do rely on these types of ISPs are speaking volumes about their level of general business competence.

  19. Re:In related news ... on Outage Knocks Gmail Offline For Many Users · · Score: 1

    parent is funny, but should be modded insightful.

  20. Re:Unfortunately on Europa Selected As Target of Next Flagship Mission · · Score: 1

    The metric system strikes again!

  21. Re:stop the xenophobia on Rescued Banks Sought Foreign Help During Meltdown · · Score: 1

    If H1B employees are being paid less, then the company hiring them is in violation of the law. It's as simple as that.

    This is what is happening all over the IT industry in the Midwest US. I've also seen some spreadsheets from MS about their H1Bs - "senior" developers making 55k USD/yr in Seattle doesn't mesh with the info I have on the cost of living there.

  22. Re:...because H1Bs are forms, not people on Senator Prods Microsoft On H-1B Visas After Layoff Plans · · Score: 1

    They are not exactly rocket scientists. I've worked with many H1B workers and, to be blunt, they aren't anything special. Most of them I compare to people a few years out of college, only these workers are in their mid to late 30s. I've found that many are good at repetition or something they get form an O'Riely book , but ask them to figure a complex situation out or develop a system on their own and productivity slows to a crawl.

    Again, no troll, just my observations from 10 years doing system development.(java, web, C, architecture, etc.) Most of them are very nice people to work with. From the conversations I've had with them, the opinion I've formed is that their higher education systems, particularly in India, are much different in terms of content then they are in places like the UK or here in the US.

    Regards,

  23. Re:No supprise here on Microsoft Working On Its Own App Store · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the mouse came from Xerox PARC.

  24. Cogent is at fault on Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet · · Score: 3, Informative

    As always. They let so much garbage go through their network and don't maintain the throughput arrangements with other peers, which is why Telia kicked them off around a year ago.

    I get calls each month from Cogent reps trying to offer me $6/meg uplinks. Of course they can provide bargain basement pricing when they basically steal bandwidth from their peers. Good for Sprint.

  25. Re:This is EPIC because: on Mainframe OpenSolaris Now Available · · Score: 1

    Bingo.

    This is a way to migrate away from Z's - not to them.