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  1. Re:Also, not breaking up the company on Steve Ballmer's Big-Time Error: Not Resigning Years Ago · · Score: 1

    The integration of those products was Microsoft's greatest strength. Remember when EU made them unbundle the browser because it was a competitive advantage?

  2. Re:Amazon/Facebook? on Steve Ballmer's Big-Time Error: Not Resigning Years Ago · · Score: 1

    I'd say two areas: tablets and cloud computing.

  3. Re:Stock price... on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 1

    He was already a billionaire. MSFT is also a tech index fund :)

  4. Re:Disagree on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 1

    Got a source for this? A gradient made up of pixels of "solid color".

  5. Re:Disagree on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Kinect was a interesting product that they under-captilized on. Why weren't they able to do with motion tracking what Apple did with touch based interfaces? Build an entire new ecosystem of products and services that never existed before? Meanwhile, Apple was building vertically integrated empires in product categories they created (there was no "tablet market" before apple. There was a spattering of shitty products with zero mass consumer appeal). But if all we can point to as the "success" of Steve Ballmer's microsoft is the Kinect the poor guy did a worse job than I realized.

  6. Re:Sugar on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    Agreed - total calories consumer vs burned (aka Basal Metabolic Rate) dictates the upper or lower bounds of mass (that's basic thermodynamics). How those calories are stored or burned is dictated to a large degree by the ratio of macronutrients (how much are high glycemic carbs vs say, protein).

  7. Re:heh on Single Developer Responsible For Over 47k Apps In BlackBerry World · · Score: 1

    (Pssst - you're one of those "retards")

  8. Re:heh on Single Developer Responsible For Over 47k Apps In BlackBerry World · · Score: 1

    He said it's dead in the US and will be dead in the rest of the world 5 years. Not literally dead, obviously, as it's a company and doesn't have any corporeal form. The term means loosely that the company is on a massive, steady decline.

    But feel free to ride that dying horse right into the grave, honestly, no sarcasm - you might as well. I'm not even going to argue with you over the merits of the device versus it's competitors because it doesn't matter. The simple fact of the matter is that, in a few years, the marketshare will be too small to support the company. At that point your preference won't matter, because the market won't be large enough to sustain blackberry. They lost $84M in the last quarter, even after massive layoffs. They've certainly got a couple years left, but it's going nowhere but down until then.

  9. Re:heh on Single Developer Responsible For Over 47k Apps In BlackBerry World · · Score: 1

    Mike Lazaridis will go down as the biggest tech failure in history. He took one of the most massively dominant market positions and lost it in the shortest period I've ever seen. And the only reason was his pure, blind ego.

  10. Re:For once Bill Gates is right on Internet.org: Altruistic, Or the Ultimate In Cynicism? · · Score: 1

    I don't see why it can't be both? If you provide them with access to the internet they can learn about how to sanitize water or help grow food. absolutely we should do whatever we can to help bootstrap them and get them going, but if we just continue to give them shit forever how will they ever advance? teach a man to fish, you know the addge.

  11. Re:Sugar on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    Bingo! HFCS-55 vs granulated sugar there's almost no difference in fructose content. It's not what's worse sugar or HFCS, it's that they're BOTH bad in large quantities. Diabetes, metabolic syndrome, etc, etc etc. all linked to both sugar and hfcs.

  12. Re:Sugar on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 2

    lol fructose is just a disaccharide, its technically a more complex carb chain than glucose (monosaccharide). do you mean high fructose corn syrup? you're sort of right. typically what you see is HFCS55 which is 55% fructose and 41% glucose. to put it in perspective, granulated sugar is 50/50 fructose/glucose. so HFCS is only marginally more fructose than regular sugar, so you're wrong. but you're also right, because sugar, hfcs and all the other high glycemic carbs are what's really causing this problem.

  13. Re:Why did Python avoid some common "OO" idioms? on Interviews: Q&A With Guido van Rossum · · Score: 1

    I'm not a python programmer by any stretch of the imagination, but aren't private methods more by convention and less through actual strict enforcement? As in, you can declare a member private but it can still be accessed, it just "shouldn't be" by convention?

  14. Re:Form over function. Typical iSheep on How One Programmer Is Coding Faster By Voice Than Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Pretty much everyone in the industry disagrees with your assessment of the Macbook keyboard. It has been lauded for years by every review source, and has since been copied by almost every manufacturer (HP, Asus, Lenovo, etc etc etc ad nauseum). The style has become so prevalent at this point it has a name: "island-style keyboard".

  15. Re:No notice, no reference on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    And do you think those people give references for that company? Yeah didn't think so. It's a two way street.

  16. Re:maintenance updates during the day ? on Washington Post Hacked, a Day After New York Times · · Score: 1

    Oh boy. Well, when you have a couple hundred (or thousand) hosts, you can't really fit it into any particular window. These websites are also read 24 hours a day by people all over our planet, so there isn't really a "good time".

  17. Re:The Technology is Not New on Wireless Devices Go Battery-Free With New Communication Technique · · Score: 1

    Ambient backscatter. Ambient is the keyword here.

  18. Re:Start with a LTS distro on Fedora Core May Be Reborn · · Score: 1

    In place upgrades of fedora when new versions come out is really painless now.

  19. Re:They should start by not breaking things on Fedora Core May Be Reborn · · Score: 2

    Found your problem, you're using gnome. Switch to dwm and never look back.

  20. Re:Really? Give it a break. on Fedora Core May Be Reborn · · Score: 1

    systemd vs init, iptables replaced with firewall in fedora19, NetworkManager, etc. Fedora is the test bed for things that eventually roll into redhat. Those are big, established functions that have existed in some format in Linux for well over a decade.

  21. Re:Kickstarter: frenemy of free software on New Animated PNG Creation Tools Intend To Bring APNG Into Mainstream Use · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's people who would have otherwise written free software using kickstarter, I think it's people who would have otherwise written commercial, closed-source software looking for a different funding avenue.

  22. Re:"Unity web player"? on DEF CON Hackers Unveil a New Way of Visualizing Web Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Don't worry there's Unity Connect now, runs on Linux.

  23. Re:Try Zabbix, it's free on How To Build a Simple Open Source Server Monitoring Solution With Mobile Support · · Score: 1

    Is zabbix really any good? What's the deal with the paid version, is it just support? I'd like some experience from actual users.

    I'm desperately looking for a new NMS. We're using What's Up Gold now and I can't stomach paying them another cent. We've fiddled with Zenoss and OpenNMS and pretty much anything else we can get our hands on.

    Looking for:
    Truly open source
    SNMP performance graphing
    TCP/UDP service monitoring
    ICMP polling
    Interface status monitoring (up/down)

    That's really pretty much all I need.

  24. Re:But their 5400RPM hybrid drives suck on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I meant 5400rpm hybrid vs SSD. My mistake, I definitely agree (or assume at least) that a 5400rpm hybrid would use significantly less power than a 7200rpm drive.

  25. Re:RAM cache? on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    DDR3? What speed? Got a link?