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  1. nokia's sole purpose is to promote windows phone on Former Nokia Exec: Windows Phone Strategy Doomed · · Score: 0

    and die in process. It is all calculated. Both parties knew Nokia is done and finished. They cannot be that dumb to not see what every consumer sees. So that billion bucks paid by MS is like money paid to advertisement. And just maybe, there is clause that another MS bailout would come.

  2. Goodbye GNOME, thanks for the foot on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1

    Window managers should enable users to do more; not limit them in what they want to do.
    It is ridiculous that in age of high-def screens, main GNOME idea is that we want to see one window at a time.

  3. It boils down to managed vs non mananged language on iOS Vs. Android: Which Has the Crashiest Apps? · · Score: 1

    As many know, it is possible but tought to make C-based apps that have perfect memory management and no chance of crashing. My own applications, and hundred professional ones written in C/C++ do crash. Sometimes. And it is often hard to figure out where they crash. It could be array out of bounds, some NULL pointer de-referencing, some dependent library doing the same, etc.
    While Java-based ones never do. They do throw exception, at which point you know what/where to fix.

  4. Re:Way ahead of you, Symantec on Symantec Tells Customers To Stop Using pcAnywhere · · Score: 1

    Yep, from behavior of McAfee scanning compressed files, implementation has to be something like this:
    int scan_zipped_file(char * file, int file_size)
    {
          int i=0;
          int j=0;
          while (j < file_size)
          {
                while (i < 0x7FFFFFFF)
                {
                  i++;
                }
                j++;
          }
          return 1;
    }

  5. Re:Dilution sucks! on Shareholder Fight Threatens Mandriva SA · · Score: 2

    Something is better than nothing. Ask old GM shareholders.

  6. Re:If they need something to do, on AMD To Lay Off 10% of Global Workforce · · Score: 1

    *here you are laid off and also you can't work for the competitor, go die of hunger*
    Even on link that you left, that clause is forbidden in California, where AMD has its headquarters.

  7. on the other hand, outsorcing didn't work well on Feds Take USAjobs.gov Back From Monster, Performance Tanks · · Score: 1

    Gov't outsourced federal student loan processing to private company, and that didn't work well either. Auto-pay didn't work for days, so many had "payment late" notices. site was unusable for a week.
    http://consumerist.com/2011/10/dept-of-educations-new-site-giving-headaches-to-folks-with-student-loans.html

  8. allow me some black humor... on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    America .. always less jobs

  9. Re:Is it just me or has litigation gone crazy late on Via Files Suit Against Apple · · Score: 1

    or perhaps somebody at /. finds it more interesting than before...

  10. Re:News at 11? on The (Big) Problem With RIM · · Score: 1

    Yep, they watched as Google went from 0% market share to number one.

  11. Friday off - bad choice on More Schools Go To 4-Day Week To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    They should have went with Wednesday off. 3 days in row off means that kids won't do much for these 3 days. If they had 2 days school, one day off to do homework, then another two days of school, they wouldn't be so disconnected.

    but I suppose teachers like 3 days off too - so it is win/win for everybody but students.

  12. Google has reached that point... on Google Pulls Plug On Programming For the Masses · · Score: 1

    ... where profit matters more than value given to customers.

    Closing of Google Labs was sign of times to come.

    Expect less freebies from them in times to come.

  13. link is dead and no other sources can be found on Verizon Cracks Down On Jailbreak Tethering · · Score: 1

    Does anybody have another credible source?

  14. GNOME, KDE, etc on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 0, Troll

    All these window managers are inferior to Windows. Even after copying each Windows release, they are still behind Windows 95 in usability. Hell, they are getting worse. It is now a punishment to me to use Gnome 2.1x.

    For example, you cannot change location in Nautilus without using magic keyboard shortcut such as Ctrl + L. But you can see location just fine, just you can't change it.

    Only chance for good Linux desktop is if Google decides to make some professional window manager like they did on Android.

    I appreciate work that GNOME/KDE teams are putting out for pro bone, but after so many releases that don't address basic usability issue, I cannot but wonder if they are going in wrong direction.

  15. Just to say.. on LulzSec Calls For PayPal Boycott, Spokesman Arrested · · Score: 1

    lulz-- to arrested one
    lulz++ to police

  16. article and post - sucks on NAND Flash Better Than DRAM For PC Performance · · Score: 1

    Holy confusion. From reading the slashdot post you would think that NAND is faster than DDR3...Neither post or article are explaining this in simple terms: if you replace/augment your HDD with SDD you get more performance boost that any other upgrade would for $

  17. Tech law on No Additional Firefox 4 Security Updates · · Score: 1

    Companies sooner or latter manage to hurt themselves even without compentition or outside influence. Just give them enough time to do so.

  18. PSN is not down for everybody ... on PSN Up, And Then Down Again · · Score: 1

    Chuck Norris is using it. :)

  19. Re:We're sorry on Nokia Outsources Symbian OS Work · · Score: 1

    That means that Nokia's Win7 phones will be exactly the same as HTC's and Motorola's Win7 phones.

    Maybe not - everybody but Nokia soon will jump off Win7 phone disaster train. Nokia might very well be only company using Win7 phone.

  20. In other words on Chinese Phone Maker ZTE Turns Down WP7 · · Score: 1

    They have more business sense than Nokia.

    One could think of this move as less competition for Nokia... right? Except Nokia has to be worried by now "sh** we picked a big stinky turd and nobody else want piece of it"

  21. Re:Enjoy. on US House Subcommittee Votes To Kill Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    It could be also that they needed to give him few more dollars, so that Obama sees their picture.

  22. questionable statistics on Debian Is the Most Important Linux · · Score: 1

    So if there are 10 distros, 1 of them having 99% market share and other 9 have 1% market share, this statistics say that other 9 are "most important". Well they are not. Give us number of actual number of computers using RH-based vs. debian-based distros.

  23. Re:So much for build quality... on New MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals 'Shoddy Assembly' · · Score: 1

    what ARE you getting (hardware-wise) for the extra money, given that most of Apple's components are industry standard now?.

    Although apple's laptops have few unique features, you are not getting as much as you put, according to profit margins of Apple Corp.

  24. Re:But... on Are Tablets Just Too Expensive? · · Score: 1

    except today's gen tables will be worthless then.

    And that's the answer for these wondering why tablets are not worth more.

  25. Re:Turn in your geek card on Apple eBook Rules Changing For Sellers · · Score: 1