Hemi Roid - Slashdot User

Comment Re:In the initial report.. (Score 1) 130

by Hemi Roid on Monday July 20, 2009 @05:37PM (#28762421) Attached to: Alaskan Blob Is an Algae Bloom

Excuse me for being ignorant but I was taught that birds were not mammals they were more akin to dinosaurs than to mammals. Guess I need to go back to school and get a refresher course or have they changed the laws of physics so would I have to retake that also and does 1+1=3 now because of inflation. Next thing you know they are going to tell me that Columbus didn't discover the North American continent and the world is still flat.

Comment Re:Most scary option: your own immune system (Score 1) 511

by Hemi Roid on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @11:58AM (#26133217) Attached to: If I must catch a disease, I'd rather catch it via ...

Watching House re-runs lately?

Bill Gates Reveals Secret of Microsoft's Success 584

Posted by kdawson on Friday June 20, 2008 @01:05PM from the polishing-the-legacy dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "Bill Gates, in a interview with the BBC, revealed the secret of Microsoft's success: 'Most of our competitors were very poorly run. They did not understand how to bring in people with business experience and people with engineering experience and put them together,' said Gates. 'They did not think about software in this broad way. They did not think about tools or efficiency. They would therefore do one product, but would not renew it to get it to the next generation.' Mitch Kapor, founder of the Lotus Corporation, has a different view: 'Claims by Microsoft that people were buying the software because it was good are pretty self-serving. I'd like to smoke what he's smoking.' Gates also said that he took a 'conservative balance sheet approach' to running Microsoft explaining that he wanted 'great financial strength so we would have the flexibility to do software in the new way, or whatever we wanted to do.'"

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