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  1. Re:Can't figure out their plan here on How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business · · Score: 3, Informative

    Are you using "Google My Business" (http://www.google.com/business/)? It should stop your listings from being hijacked.

  2. Blu-ray? on The Energy Saved By Ditching DVDs Could Power 200,000 Homes · · Score: 1

    Interesting that mention of Blu-ray is only in passing in the original article. Once again raises the question of why did we even bother with the Blu-ray / HD DVD wars when video-on-disk is so close to being obsolete.

  3. "Survived"? on Extinct Species of Early Human Survived On Grass Bulbs, Not Meat · · Score: 1

    If they're extinct, can you really say they "survived"?

  4. Too busy learning new stuff at work on Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? · · Score: 1

    I joined [company with huge datacenters] just last year and so I'm still learning all the cloud/clustery technologies here. Every time I change jobs (every few years) I try to do something a little different. So my last gig was the first time I spent serious time using javascript and PHP (no I didn't like it much). Before that was a few gigs with J2EE and Oracle/DB2; before that was C++; before that was C# and WMI; etc. So if you're fortunate enough to get your employee to pay you to learn new stuff, that's the best way to go. Because then you can spend your time at home on slashdot, etc. :-)

  5. Re:Seriously? on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    Do you not use light bulbs in the summer? Or do you just not have summer in Wisconsin?

  6. Re:Real Unix makes the difference. on Google's Plan To Kill the Corporate Network · · Score: 1

    Well, based on Mach 2.5, which contained BSD 4.4 and Mach kernel code.

  7. Re:Real Unix makes the difference. on Google's Plan To Kill the Corporate Network · · Score: 1

    Google development is done on Linux but Mac laptops at Google run MacOS. Laptops (or chromebooks, there's a mix of both) aren't used for development (except via ssh, etc); they are used for email, web, etc.

  8. Re:Which supercomputer? on Google Supercomputers Tackle Giant Drug-Interaction Data Crunch · · Score: 2

    > IIRC Google has more of the latter and fewer of the former.

    Yes, you are correct. More details here:

    http://research.google.com/university/exacycle_program.html

    "The best projects will have a very high number of independent work units, a high CPU to I/O ratio, and no inter-process communication (commonly described as Embarrassingly or Pleasantly Parallel). The higher the CPU to I/O rate, the better the match with the system. Programs must be developed in C/C++ and compiled via Native Client. Awardees will be able to consult an on-site engineering team."

    Native Client: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client

  9. Re:web mail for enterprise? on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 1

    One area where gmail is infinitely better than Outlook is search speed. Which is important in an enterprise setting, e.g. when trying to find details about design discussions from months ago.

  10. Re:People use outlook? on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 2

    Most companies... except for IBM which mandates Lotus Notes. Which is the worst email program I've ever used (outside of BSD Mail).

  11. Re:Wagging the dog. on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 5, Informative

    I work at Google and I've never seen anyone here use anything besides gmail for corporate mail.

  12. Re:We're stuck on IE 6 or 8 here in business land on Google Ends Internet Explorer 9 Support In Google Apps · · Score: 1

    > Any reason you didn't go for chrome-frame instead? Chrome frame is being retired Jan 2014. http://blog.chromium.org/2013/06/retiring-chrome-frame.html

  13. Re:Ideas vs. Implementation on Larry Page and Sergey Brin Are Lousy Coders · · Score: 1

    Just joined Google six months ago, 51 years old, lots of experience. I've met no idiots at all at Google. I'm amazed at the skill and good-naturedness and lack of arrogance of the folks here. I absolutely would say best software engineers I've ever worked with, compared with Sun and IBM and Microsoft and a few startups.

  14. The memo has previously been published... on The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research · · Score: 2

    ... as part of Rick Rashid's Festschrift. http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/183790/Rick%20Rashid's%20Festschrift%207.5.12.pdf starting at page 131.

  15. Re:Yawn on "Feline Herd" Offers Easier Package Management For Emacs · · Score: 1

    Ctrl-[ is ESC independent of editor. Ctrl-(whatever) is generally (whatever) - 0x40 (in ASCII coding). And [ is 0x5b and (0x5b - 0x40) is 0x1b which is ESC.

  16. Re:Yawn on "Feline Herd" Offers Easier Package Management For Emacs · · Score: 1

    If you prefer running emacs in text mode (as I do), just run "emacs -nw".

  17. Along with... on Container Ship Breaks In Two, Sinks · · Score: 1

    "Along with 7000 containers, ship MOL Comfort broke in half..." How did all 7000 containers happen to break in half?

  18. Re:Google has a problem. on Google's Crazy Lack of Focus: Is It Really Serious About Enterprise? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the OLD days (e.g. up through the early 1990s), MOST successful tech companies had research labs doing far out things. AT&T, Xerox, DEC, IBM... I think the fact that today, few companies have such a research arm, is the real problem.

  19. Re:All of them. on Google's Crazy Lack of Focus: Is It Really Serious About Enterprise? · · Score: 2

    Google Appliance is still an active project. They are even hiring.

  20. Re:LOL .... on First Particle Comprising Four Quarks Discovered · · Score: 1

    Well, first of all, it's two quarks and two anti-quarks. Second, you'll note that that's the same as two mesons glued together (each with one quark and one anti-quark). And as the original article states, there is controversy about whether in fact this is a new type of particle... or just two mesons. "One side proposes that the particle is actually a union of two ordinary particles called mesons .... Other theorists have tentatively labelled the new particle a true tetraquark — four quarks stuck together tightly to form a compact ball. Within the ball, two quarks are bound together, as are two antiquarks." As for the actual number of different quarks, there are actually six (up down strange charm top bottom). Or 18 if you count them by color variant (red-up, blue-up, green-up, etc.).

  21. Re:The Gillette Co. says on First Particle Comprising Four Quarks Discovered · · Score: 2

    No way. Apple is a resolutely one-button, one-quark company. Let other companies worry about left quarks, right quarks, middle quarks. up quarks, down quarks...

  22. Re:What about...... on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 1

    Yes. That was my first thought.

  23. You can do voice-only prepay on a smartphone. on AT&T Expects Data-Only Phone Plans Within 2 Years · · Score: 1

    I have a Droid with prepaid Verizon ($100 / year) and no data plan. Works great.

  24. Re:It's every *even* number on Goldbach Conjecture: Closer To Solved? · · Score: 1

    The number 1 is not prime. If it were, the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic (every integer can be written as a unique ordered product of primes) would be false because you could represent, say, 4 as 2x2, 1x2x2, 1x1x2x2, 1x1x1x2x2, etc.

  25. Re:It's every *even* number on Goldbach Conjecture: Closer To Solved? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually... every even integer GREATER THAN TWO. See http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldbachConjecture.html