Did MS flatline because Bill left, or was it always going to flatline around then because it MS had reached that point where it couldn't go after new markets without canniblising it's core income streams and competitors were lined up to take advantage of that.
Actually, by retiring before he dies, he gets a strong voice in selecting his successor. That, along with the fact that he's been carefully selecting like-minded cardinals the last several years, ensures the next pope will by very similar to Benedict.
Yes, by striking himself down, he becomes more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
The U.S. federal government is pretty good in this regard. I'm sure the people deciding whom to hire have certain assumptions about how technical ability changes with age. But they generally don't think about things like a candidate's health insurance costing more.
When I was young all-boy and all-girl schools were going away. The feminists argued that it was discriminatory against girls. Then later the feminists started arguing that girls had to be separated from boys in class because they were intimidated by the boys.
Frankly I think single sex classrooms would be better. Taking away some of the sexual distractions. At the same time there is something to be said for mixed ed sex. Maybe what I would do is build all-boy and all-girl schools next to each other.
If the issue is sexual attraction, you could end up needing as many classrooms as students:
No straight boy, bisexual boy, bisexual girl, or gay girl could be in a room with any girl.
No straight girl, bisexual girl, bisexual boy, or gay boy could be in a room with any boy.
In the extreme case, a class full of bisexual students would need to have one kid per classroom.
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Ah... crap. I knew something looked wrong.
The irony is horrifying.
Fortrunately, English has a word that nicely covers both of those variants: deceipt.
A newspaper has no business engaging in any form of deceipt. It's the opposite of informing the reader.
Did MS flatline because Bill left, or was it always going to flatline around then because it MS had reached that point where it couldn't go after new markets without canniblising it's core income streams and competitors were lined up to take advantage of that.
Wait... BINGO! I've got BINGO!
Actually, by retiring before he dies, he gets a strong voice in selecting his successor. That, along with the fact that he's been carefully selecting like-minded cardinals the last several years, ensures the next pope will by very similar to Benedict.
Yes, by striking himself down, he becomes more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
"Why is this on slashdot?"
It's about a guy who can talk to the cloud without any computer.
Chuck Norris?
If the government isn't going to be reading them, then I assume we can cease construction of the huge new NSA data center in Utah?
Until you define "needs", the question is pretty meaningless.
Sometimes a man needs to stop coding to take care of his family relationships..
Agreed, but he probably shouldn't go to the pub and announce he's going to hack his family.
Thanks.
The U.S. federal government is pretty good in this regard. I'm sure the people deciding whom to hire have certain assumptions about how technical ability changes with age. But they generally don't think about things like a candidate's health insurance costing more.
Serious question: what's the meme where people just write "this." as the first paragraph of a reply? I can't make sense of it.
Hey, take off, eh?
Seems to me that before his suicide would have been better timing.
Yeah, but sometimes I prefer to target my donations a little more precisely to a particular effort, as in this case.
If someone sets up a legal defense fund, I'd be happy to chip in.
I'd also chip in for a fund to pay for going after that deputy and that police department.
So an entire country is stupid, if it has just one commentator who makes an ill-conceived proposal?
So what games to you play on a high-end gaming tablet? " Insanely Incandescently Pissed-off birds"?
It's hard to tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
When I was young all-boy and all-girl schools were going away. The feminists argued that it was discriminatory against girls.
Then later the feminists started arguing that girls had to be separated from boys in class because they were intimidated by the boys.
Frankly I think single sex classrooms would be better. Taking away some of the sexual distractions. At the same time there is something to be said for mixed ed sex. Maybe what I would do is build all-boy and all-girl schools next to each other.
If the issue is sexual attraction, you could end up needing as many classrooms as students:
In the extreme case, a class full of bisexual students would need to have one kid per classroom.
Combinatorics can be a bitch.
To worker: "You write bad code."
See, by choosing the right language for the problem, the solution was very simple. And I did it with just four keywords plus one terminator!
Apparently HP's lawyers can.
Or perhaps it has to do with people doing gut-checks about exactly why one should keep his/her word.
Schlaffe. Ich schlaffe fuer die ganze nacht.
Well, one thing going for Google Docs is that it doesn't have the ribbon bar.
Man, I still can't get the hang of that thing.
Out of curiosity, if you're that obsessed with formatting, why don't you use LaTeX?
Granted, it provides many formatting rules behind the scenes. But they're generally really good formatting rules.