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  1. In fact... on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 1

    ...the door buzzer system in my apartment uses a land line.

    And you know what? The number it calls when you hit the number on my apartment calls MY MOBILE PHONE!

    So what this kid invented is made obsolete by a buzzer system that was installed in the 80's. Great work, kid.

  2. Re:It doesn't work on Ask Slashdot: Compensating Technical People For Contributing to Sales? · · Score: 1

    The problem with that philosophy is you won't end up hiring people.

    It's a lot cheaper to let the personally distant folks warm up to you than it is to train someone from scratch.

  3. Re:It doesn't work on Ask Slashdot: Compensating Technical People For Contributing to Sales? · · Score: 0

    -all
    +most

    And the answer at that point is any tech company.

  4. This spells disaster. on Ask Slashdot: Compensating Technical People For Contributing to Sales? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ok, let's say that by some piece of luck your engineers become sales people. Good sales people, even.

    Now they look around and realize something -- they don't need you. In fact, they don't need anyone else, because they can do the R&D *and* the sales.

    If they don't have the power to fire all of you, they certainly have the power to take your customer list and leave to start their own company.

  5. Re:It doesn't work on Ask Slashdot: Compensating Technical People For Contributing to Sales? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When your sales people barely know how to turn on a computer and your engineering people are too socially inept to carry out a conversation, the danger is quite minimal.

  6. Let's get that version number correct on Harnessing the Energy of Galloping Gertie · · Score: 2

    12.04 or 12.10, but not 12.0

  7. Re:Links on Duke Nukem Forever Demo Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    The summary -- did you read it?

  8. Re:Picture not so smart... on Experimental "Smart Town" To Be Built In Japan · · Score: 1

    My friend's girlfriend was visiting SF from Japan, and she complained that the city felt "empty" to her. So your idea of density that's "too high" might be someone else's "uncomfortably low."

  9. Re:Picture not so smart... on Experimental "Smart Town" To Be Built In Japan · · Score: 1

    As the number of humans increases, low density will no longer be an option. You'd might as well get used to that now.

  10. Re:Picture not so smart... on Experimental "Smart Town" To Be Built In Japan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I walk to work, takes 10 minutes. And I do 50%+ of my shopping on the way home.

    Public transit is wonderful, don't get me wrong. But it's no substitute for mixed zone, high-density neighborhoods.

  11. Small number of people? on Oracle To Give OpenOffice.org To Apache Incubator · · Score: 2

    Next time you go the DMV, a police station, etc. take a look at what software is running. The "small number of people" includes just about everyone, since many tax-funded institutions are using (or trying to use) Oracle software.

    We could all be a bit more sympathetic to government workers who spend every day kludging through broken, half-assed software shat out by Ellison and his cronies.

  12. Re:Stealing on Is Bill Gates the Cure For What Ails Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid you'll need a much bigger drill, because it still sounds like stealing to me.

  13. Re:...what? on Samsung Launches Exynos-Based Origen Dev Board · · Score: 1

    Well for starters, it doesn't provide any context as to what it's about. "Board" can mean a lot of things in hardware lingo. Are they talking about a motherboard? That would be a good place to start.

    Companies crap out press releases all the time. Skip the techno-babble and tell me WHY this is news-worthy.

  14. Stealing on Is Bill Gates the Cure For What Ails Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Remember when Google caught Bing stealing their search results? Thing is, Bing was only stealing the results people clicked on -- and I'd assume most people don't click on spam links on Google.

    Is it possible the reason Bing has less spam is they have more of a human filter than a software filter?

  15. Re:...what? on Samsung Launches Exynos-Based Origen Dev Board · · Score: 1

    If I have to RTFA to understand the summary, then what's the point of the summary?

  16. Excuse me? on Samsung Launches Exynos-Based Origen Dev Board · · Score: 1

    If I have to click the link in the summary, then can you explain what the hell the point of the summary is?

    Why not just post a bunch of links with no text?

  17. Consequences for who? on PBS Web Sites and Databases Hacked · · Score: 1

    Good luck, they're behind 7 proxies.

  18. But... on PBS Web Sites and Databases Hacked · · Score: 2

    ...criticizing liars associated with a political party makes you *partisan*!

  19. ...what? on Samsung Launches Exynos-Based Origen Dev Board · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A little context would go a long way towards explaining what the hell the summary is babbling about.

  20. Re:Ooo! I can solve that one! on US Nuclear Power Enters the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    But what about when Homer wants to work from home in episode 135?

  21. Re:A "nuke" power plant owned by Duke? on US Nuclear Power Enters the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    More like -1, -2, -3 at this point.

  22. What's the difference? on Steve Ballmer's Head On the Block? · · Score: 1

    Tell me what you'd buy with $56 billion that you couldn't buy with $8.3 billion?

  23. So what? FUCK them. on AT&T To Launch LTE Network In 5 Cities This Summer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    AT&T is one of the worst companies: brain-dead tech support, high prices, a website that barely works, and bills that run for pages with hidden charges.

    "Rethink Possibilities." Yeah, rethink all the possible ways those bastards can screw you. Because just when you've had enough, they find a new way.

    (Yes, I dealt with AT&T for too long and I'm in the middle of switching to other companies.)

  24. But... on New Bacterium Lives On Caffeine · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...are they good programmers?

  25. They said they wanted something that has Mac support, Ekiga is only Gnome and Windows.