Follow Slashdot blog updates by subscribing to our blog RSS feed

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:The Solution (Score 2, Insightful) 309

If Google could "single handily invalidate all of their obvious, worthless and prior art ridden patents one by one" and just charged $5 for the Android license every Mfg would save $3 per device. So why not just do it? It's money on the table for the whole ecosystem. Maybe they can't do it as easily as you think.

Comment Re:Drive conservatively! (Score 2) 374

You may be showing some sarcasm, but in case you are not, generally accepted conventions are that you pass to the left and then return to the right lane, or at least not stay in the left lane and camp out. Yes your tax dollars helped pay for the road along with the rest of us, so we all need to follow some guidelines for safe use. It is unsafe for you to drive slower than expected in any situation, as cars will run up on you, get frustrated and try to cut you off going around you. They are also unsafe, but your habits provoked that. We just had some people killed here recently on a highway for that situation.

Comment More like rationalizatoin (Score 4, Insightful) 542

Because of the slight of hand and then confrontation, I would think it is more like people just rationalize the circumstances and then seek to defend the supposed position they took (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(making_excuses)) I also wonder if the researcher had any white lab coat, etc. that made them seem more authoritative?

What I do not see is an actual change of opinion.

Comment Re:Ask Hostess How Well That Worked Out (Score 0) 150

We've seen this script before. The private equity firm forces the company to take out huge loans, which are then paid to the equity firm as consulting and management fees, and bonuses. Dell's largest operating cost becomes servicing the debt, which means everything else gets cut -- product research, product quality, staff, salaries. The market quickly realizes that Dell products have become shit(tier), and customers flee.

Four years later, the equity firm is several hundred million dollars richer, Dell goes bankrupt and is liquidated, and thousands of former Dell employees are out of work.

Where have you seen this before? I am interested in reading more.

Comment So her hearing defect is fixed? (Score 1) 370

My daughter, who has a hearing defect, was prescribed a listening program that only worked on - Windows 95.

She was pretty freaked out by them at the time and, ten years later, she still says she remembers the screams although she can't remember what was on the videos.

Since she can only remember the screams, I am assuming the videos fixed the hearing defect she had?

Comment Re: one of the biggest and most powerful companies (Score 2) 235

Not sure why that is the case, can you elaborate? I do Outlook searches in Windows 7 from the command text box on the Start menu, inside Outlook using the box above the inbox on Windows 8 (that is an area Microsoft failed in; the search from the OS does not include data inside of Outlook); and inside of Outlook on the mac. In every case it is less than a second and I have 9,000 emails on average in the inbox, and 20,000+ across all folders including an archive.pst file. What do you see?

Comment Re:I don't have a windows key... (Score 1) 675

Thanks Bill Gates - you seem a little salty since you left Microsoft, is that Wife driving you crazy? You make a semi-decent point about the potential distraction, and like I told somebody else on this thread a moment ago, I do not like that Outlook mail data is not in the search results. I may have better focus that you, as I do not get distracted by the metro home screen when searching, but I can see where a person could.

Comment Re:I don't have a windows key... (Score 1) 675

Yep, and that is all in Windows 8. The only thing I see in Windows 8 that slows me down is the fact that Outlook emails do not show up in search results like they did in Windows 7. FOr some reason, even with Outlook 2013 Microsoft is not providing a contract between Outlook and data and general Windows search (Hit the Windows key and type a string that would be in an email and a file, it only shows the file). Otherwise it is about as good as Windows 7 for real work; though I cannot say it is markedly better. And I have a Windows laptop (Fujitsu tablet) but I use it more like a laptop, s Surface RT, and a Acer tablet (W500) with Windows 8 pro).

Slashdot Top Deals

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

Working...