Google, for instance, added nearly 3,500 employees to its work force so for this year and promised everyone raises of at least 10 percent next year. The company, based just a few miles away from Yahoo's Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters, also gave all 23,300 of its workers an after-tax holiday bonus of $1,000.
I would cordially like to invite whoever modded the post above as flamebait for telling the unvarnished truth about Microsoft to grab an idea about how moderation works.
If you disagree with something or don't like what it says, that gives you no right to mod it down.
If Microsoft voluntarily did what gets done to monopolies - breaking them up into smaller companies - they might still have a chance.
I have no doubt there's plenty of brain power in Redmond.
It's the corporate culture that sucks in so many ways that have been discussed here: including FUD, top-down inflexibility, and straitjacketed thinking.
Imagine Microsoft spinning off a "mostly independent" skunkworks to develop a next-gen tablet (or anything else).
Also, the SCOC has the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to rely on, and they've been pretty clear that "freedom of expression" (albeit with greater limitations than in the US) is not something they want to mess with unless there's a very good reason.
I'd be very surprised if they hobble hyperlinking because some puffed up twit doesn't like what the hyperlink says about him
I'm sure she's a total babe and a contributor to the Linux kernel.
I look forward to the movie, with her played by Natalie Portman in a skimpy tank top, coding away while Ryan Gosling as Linus Torvald looks on admiringly.
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There's a fairly useful test at:
http://test-ipv6.comcast.net/
to see if your system is IPv6 compatible.
Augggh!
Augggh!
It's the end of the solar system!
Time for lots of unsafe sex, petty crime, and abuse of recreational drugs!
*soiling with fear*
All our base are belong to CME!
*soiling*
Athlon XP?
So many mobile devices run on ARM, and it's expanding its use so rapidly, the only surprise is that Microsoft has taken so long to get to it.
Sorry, but that's just lame.
No.
So much for my "Tijuana Donkey App"...
Scared anonymous wombat!
You lie like peeg!
This is not thread hijacking but the very heart of the matter.
I went to Pinche Cabron Medical School in Guadalajara and I'm now doing brain surgeries out of the back of my van in a mall in Topeka.
And making quite a nice living too, thank you.
Damn ObamaCare!
It looks like it's more dangerous to attack the Russian mafia than the US government.
It means we're eventually looking at one giant IT company that controls everything!
"Microappacle-EMC" will have one OS, one set of server protocols, and one line of shoddy consumer goods at ridiculous prices.
OMFG!
Google, for instance, added nearly 3,500 employees to its work force so for this year and promised everyone raises of at least 10 percent next year. The company, based just a few miles away from Yahoo's Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters, also gave all 23,300 of its workers an after-tax holiday bonus of $1,000.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/12/13/financial/f192043S08.DTL#ixzz18KJ9rQue
I would cordially like to invite whoever modded the post above as flamebait for telling the unvarnished truth about Microsoft to grab an idea about how moderation works.
If you disagree with something or don't like what it says, that gives you no right to mod it down.
Grow a pair.
That's nice.
So Windows OS goes walkabout occasionally.
If your data isn't corrupted you're probably not looking at anything worse than a "last best configuration" or an OS re-install.
Imagine you've got a critical project due immediately and the web goes tits-up (as shaw.ca does around here occasionally).
Unless you're well backed up locally, you're hosed.
Welcome to "The Cloud"...
Not only did it beat Chrome 5 (3 versions behind the current), it also beat hell out Netscape Navigator 4.0 and Firefox 1.1...
So how's that merger with Microsoft working out?
Yahoo just let 600 people go in San Francisco:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/12/13/financial/f192043S08.DTL
And now this.
It looks like everything Microsoft touches turns to sh#t these days...
If Microsoft voluntarily did what gets done to monopolies - breaking them up into smaller companies - they might still have a chance.
I have no doubt there's plenty of brain power in Redmond.
It's the corporate culture that sucks in so many ways that have been discussed here: including FUD, top-down inflexibility, and straitjacketed thinking.
Imagine Microsoft spinning off a "mostly independent" skunkworks to develop a next-gen tablet (or anything else).
I think the results might be surprising.
Well who doesn't "prefer an old, well-known, slowly dying monopoly like Microsoft"?
Given a choice, I mean.
Those Mozilla and Android upstarts are just muddying the waters, right?
I for one look forward to the brilliant success of the Windows tablet, in an unbroken string of triumphs from DOS to the Windows phone!
After all they invented "innovation"...
They're so clever they can make their Windows 7 OS work in anything... even in computers!
Oh you kids!
I remember when you could unlock the multiplier on an Athlon XP CPU by drawing four little lines with a pencil lead!
Now get off my lawn!
Also, the SCOC has the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to rely on, and they've been pretty clear that "freedom of expression" (albeit with greater limitations than in the US) is not something they want to mess with unless there's a very good reason.
I'd be very surprised if they hobble hyperlinking because some puffed up twit doesn't like what the hyperlink says about him
Microsoft?
Making billions from other people's work and then claiming it as their own?
Nah... it'd never happen...
Wonder where Allen got the idea...
I'm sure she's a total babe and a contributor to the Linux kernel.
I look forward to the movie, with her played by Natalie Portman in a skimpy tank top, coding away while Ryan Gosling as Linus Torvald looks on admiringly.
I want to bear her children!
My partner Cyril and I are very excited by this and are jacking off like blazes to provide material for our offspring...
We plan to fill a bucket and then sink it in liquid nitrogen to preserve it.
We've already picked out a name ("Caligula") and are knitting baby booties in myriad rainbow colors...
Oh, bliss!