This was not meant as a flamebait. I just can't imagine anyone trusting the guy when I see him giving a speech or posing for a photo. Just try search on "steve ballmer" on Google Images, and then try "bill gates". Which of those two would you trust more with your money, based purely on these photos (admittedly biased by media interest in celebrities' wacky behavior) ?
I agree. Microsoft, despite all their more or less succesful attempts to other fields, has established a large userbase with Windows, MSOffice, and few other products in enterprise sector. Despite their shortcomings, these products work, and everyone is used to the way they work (or malfunction), and this allows MS to rake in money hand over fist, as you say. They may be in the rut when it comes to innovation (not counting the recent Ribbon weirdness), but they're still strong economically, and continue to be for years to come.
This is exactly the point of the article. They're using the "cool" zombie apocalypse scenario to push through a message about disaster preparedness. Notice the "this would also help during hurricane, flood or earthquake" addons in nearly every paragraph.
It's a shrewd idea, actually - more impressionable young americans will read such article with interest than if it was written as a dry "how to prepare for a generic disaster"-type writeup.
You're supposed to mod worthy *posts* up, not worthy users. It is not a popularity contest. Or at least it wasn't supposed to be. We can see on parent post how perverted the mod system has become here.
You should be safe, as long as you checked their twitflicksquarebook profile to make sure they were gone for vacation, and as long as you did not take a picture of yourself giving thumbs-up to the camera while breaking in.:)
"I just wonder if there are any suits in the Pentagon showing pics of the T-800 around and saying "How much can your robotics dept build THAT for?" because frankly it wouldn't surprise me."
Why would they want to build another governor of California?
If you fall asleep during game of chess, you may fall forwards onto the board, could gouge your eye(s) with a queen or bishop figure, and if the figures are tall enough, it can even kill you. </grainofsalt>
Bah, forget "those two". I'd have loved if they brought back Daria, of course with original cast. Daria at a college would have great potential to be awesome.
To be fair, there is a far better advantage to gentoo than measly (and hardly noticeable) performance optimizations - the ability to tweak optional features in software, e.g. samba with or without ldap, printing or whatever support. There is a lot of --enable-this and --disable-that options at compile time in many packages. Not everybody needs that, though.
It's the same reason the original Mona Lisa painting is so valued, even though you can look at its copies for free anywhere. Of course, not everyone would be interested in owning the original - everyone has different tastes and preferences.
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When did you discover you have these erotic fantasies?
Just get a tunnel from sixxs.net to get hands on experience in advance. They recently established a point of presence in Prague.
No, it's time that an abstract war on wars on something abstract started.
Made out with whom? How do you make out with a statistic, anyway?
This was not meant as a flamebait. I just can't imagine anyone trusting the guy when I see him giving a speech or posing for a photo.
Just try search on "steve ballmer" on Google Images, and then try "bill gates". Which of those two would you trust more with your money, based purely on these photos (admittedly biased by media interest in celebrities' wacky behavior) ?
I agree. Microsoft, despite all their more or less succesful attempts to other fields, has established a large userbase with Windows, MSOffice, and few other products in enterprise sector. Despite their shortcomings, these products work, and everyone is used to the way they work (or malfunction), and this allows MS to rake in money hand over fist, as you say.
They may be in the rut when it comes to innovation (not counting the recent Ribbon weirdness), but they're still strong economically, and continue to be for years to come.
The sad part is that Ballmer is even more socially inept. He's just a clown in a tie.
So... wait, sparkly vampires are out then?
This is exactly the point of the article. They're using the "cool" zombie apocalypse scenario to push through a message about disaster preparedness. Notice the "this would also help during hurricane, flood or earthquake" addons in nearly every paragraph.
It's a shrewd idea, actually - more impressionable young americans will read such article with interest than if it was written as a dry "how to prepare for a generic disaster"-type writeup.
Um, or just ignore that particular achievement badge? It's not like you're required to get it.
Nah. It just means that there will be less servers run by clueless people.
You're supposed to mod worthy *posts* up, not worthy users. It is not a popularity contest. Or at least it wasn't supposed to be. We can see on parent post how perverted the mod system has become here.
You should be safe, as long as you checked their twitflicksquarebook profile to make sure they were gone for vacation, and as long as you did not take a picture of yourself giving thumbs-up to the camera while breaking in. :)
"I just wonder if there are any suits in the Pentagon showing pics of the T-800 around and saying "How much can your robotics dept build THAT for?" because frankly it wouldn't surprise me."
Why would they want to build another governor of California?
Hmm, endlesspossibilities.xxx... *rushes off to register*
Yeah, me too, although I was checking for Rebecca Black's Friday first. Shame on me. :)
More importantly, do the logs mention any dreams, or sheep, or even dreams about sheep?
If you fall asleep during game of chess, you may fall forwards onto the board, could gouge your eye(s) with a queen or bishop figure, and if the figures are tall enough, it can even kill you.
</grainofsalt>
If you find above intriguing, I recommend movie Hatley High. It's a great little clever comedy piece from Canada.
I'm not worried about my *ears* falling off, in front of that hot chick.
Bah, forget "those two". I'd have loved if they brought back Daria, of course with original cast. Daria at a college would have great potential to be awesome.
You forgot to put "synergy" somewhere in there. No marketspeak is complete without synergy. Long live synergy!
To be fair, there is a far better advantage to gentoo than measly (and hardly noticeable) performance optimizations - the ability to tweak optional features in software, e.g. samba with or without ldap, printing or whatever support.
There is a lot of --enable-this and --disable-that options at compile time in many packages. Not everybody needs that, though.
Um... Whoosh, anyone?
It's the same reason the original Mona Lisa painting is so valued, even though you can look at its copies for free anywhere.
Of course, not everyone would be interested in owning the original - everyone has different tastes and preferences.