Bingo. When I read the headline, I said "4.7 BILLION??? That's crazy!!" - but for an Apple, a Microsoft, a Google, a portion of that $4.7B is cheap insurance to keep those BlackBerry patents off the street and in the hands of other Mutual Assured Destruction patent players.
Sure, all you have to do is collect it, transport it and store it. And I'm SURE companies will be *lining up* to take on the extra expense. Easy peasy.
I've had the same kind of feelings for computers I've owned; some you like (or dislike) more than others, even the ones you've built yourself. Even cars have their own personalities, even if they're ostensibly identical.
Are you kidding? It is riotously funny that *anyone* could, with a straight face, begin a sentence with "The banking system is closely regulated and monitored...".
Other than the tens of millions who are upside-down on their house loans, or who have already lost them; other than the entire middle class, who have had stagnant wages for the last 40 years, no, no-one at all. Everything is lollipops and unicorns when the 0.1% are allowed to "trickle down"* on the rest of us.
Think of it more like a "the murdered woman was pregnant" headline. Actually, that's a pretty good analogy. Certainly closer to the truth than Balmer would like to admit.
If this (limited amount that we know of) is what the NSA is doing with Facebook and email, can you imagine what they're up to with spying on IRC channels? I'll bet even using IRC is enough to get you on a list.
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Bingo. When I read the headline, I said "4.7 BILLION??? That's crazy!!" - but for an Apple, a Microsoft, a Google, a portion of that $4.7B is cheap insurance to keep those BlackBerry patents off the street and in the hands of other Mutual Assured Destruction patent players.
Because the managers who select databases are buying ass-coverage. Performance and cost are secondary considerations.
Bring the main hyperbole cannon on line! Maybe you could dial back the rhetoric to 11.
I'm pretty sure this one ends with Gilligan's hat floating on a pool of quicksand.
Sure, all you have to do is collect it, transport it and store it. And I'm SURE companies will be *lining up* to take on the extra expense. Easy peasy.
No, that's Republicanism.
OK, that's 273.15 Kelvin. Feel better?
It makes me wince when I hear "low hanging fruit" and "Brazil wax" in the same context.
John Dvorak, is that you?
I've had the same kind of feelings for computers I've owned; some you like (or dislike) more than others, even the ones you've built yourself. Even cars have their own personalities, even if they're ostensibly identical.
Are you kidding? It is riotously funny that *anyone* could, with a straight face, begin a sentence with "The banking system is closely regulated and monitored...".
Other than the tens of millions who are upside-down on their house loans, or who have already lost them; other than the entire middle class, who have had stagnant wages for the last 40 years, no, no-one at all. Everything is lollipops and unicorns when the 0.1% are allowed to "trickle down"* on the rest of us.
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AHAHAHAHA Stop it! Yer killing me!
Well, there was that bit about "reconfiguring the main deflector dish"...
Someone's been spending too much time reading "The Big Book of Star Trek Technobabble".
I was only kidding! Everyone knows that the Mennonites are still using S100 bus machines.
Only Mennonites do that any more.
Mmmmmmm. Branes.
Think of it more like a "the murdered woman was pregnant" headline. Actually, that's a pretty good analogy. Certainly closer to the truth than Balmer would like to admit.
Did you miss the "giga" that came after the 2.99? So that would be 2,990,000,000 Joules. Roughly.
You got that backwards, sonny. And get off my lawn.
Why not teach them Perl and make 'em Cubs fans too, as long as you're about to fuck 'em up for life?
Well, DONTGIVEAFUCK is one of the statuses on their Bugzilla. Just sayin'.
I assumed they used it in their hollow-point ammo buy quantities.
If this (limited amount that we know of) is what the NSA is doing with Facebook and email, can you imagine what they're up to with spying on IRC channels? I'll bet even using IRC is enough to get you on a list.