Comment Especially soccer games-- (Score 2) 483
--some of those slide tackles are pretty nasty.
Comment Re:What a miserable looking mud ball (Score 5, Funny) 106
If you don't like it, go someplace else.
Comment Does it tickle? (Score 1) 98
But does it tickle?
Comment Good news, everyone! (Score 1) 117
Obligatory Futurama reference.
Comment Adobe still allowed! (Score 2) 383
Note that Adobe is still allowed to Photoshop ads for Photoshop, since that's what they're selling
Comment As long as it's averaged with Slashdot karma (Score 5, Funny) 344
Please mod me up, I want to refinance!
Comment Tiobe Index reflects conservatism (Score 2) 421
It's notable that the Tiobe Index has just one 21st century language among the top ten (C#, 2001). http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Microsoft Patent Aims To Curb Obnoxious Employee Behavior 312
theodp writes "GeekWire reports that a pending Microsoft patent for monitoring workplace behavior would do Dwight Schrute proud. Three Microsoft inventors propose curbing obnoxious workplace habits in an equally obnoxious fashion — using a computer device for monitoring and analyzing workers' interactions over video conferences, telephone, text messages and other forms of digital communication to look for patterns of negative and positive behavior, and assigning behavior scores to employees based on what the system finds. Bad behavior, Microsoft explains, might include wearing dark glasses in a video conference, wearing unacceptable clothing to a business meeting, cutting off others during conversation, prolonged monologues, and even how one nods one's head in agreement, shakes one's head indicating disagreement, and makes hand gestures."
Comment All three every day (Score 1) 1880
A lot of us use all three every day. If they're like me, it's Windows for collaboration with business staff, Linux for development and deployment, Mac OS X for personal use.
Comment But that's ten cents!!! (Score 1) 229
Ten cents is ten cents in this economy...
Comment iPad taking off (Score 4, Funny) 253
The iPad is finally taking off.
Comment This is why we can't have nice things (Score 1) 139
Next time, take better care of your natural satellites.
Earth's Population To Hit 7 Billion This Year 461
MikeChino writes "The UN Population Division just announced that the world's human population will hit 7 billion by Halloween 2011. The increase of one billion people in the past 12 years is worrying, especially since the global population only reached one billion total in the early 19th century. In the next 20 years, our population growth is predicted to rise to 8 billion people as our demand for food increases by 50 percent, water by 30 percent and energy by 50 percent." Not everyone finds it to be worrying per se.
Rapid Browser Development Challenges Web Developers 221
Esther Schindler writes "Feeling a little overwhelmed by changing web standards and new browser choices? You aren't the only one. Mozilla is launching development tracks for the next two editions of its Firefox Web browser immediately, with hopes to push both into general release before the end of the year. This while Microsoft previews Internet Explorer 10 on the heels of its IE9 release, and Google projects Chrome 13 just one year after Chrome 7. Meanwhile, HTML5, the next version of the Web's primary language, appears to have entered a permanent gestation phase. Writes Scott Fulton: All the confusion has prompted Web developers to ask this question: What do we develop our sites against now?"
Comment Ten points if reading this on your second monitor! (Score 5, Funny) 1002
Ten points if you read this post on your second monitor like I did!
