Comment 3,000 bug fixes (Score 3, Interesting) 157
How many to go?
Comment Only $7 billion in profit last quarter? (Score 1) 251
Fuck, they've hardly got any reason to even bother staying in business any more.
Comment Re:Personally, I'm more worried about Google (Score 2) 323
What is the federal government going to do? Probably nothing... unless you do something stupid like expose its war crimes. [See: Manning, Bradley] What might one employee in the federal government whom you pissed off do with a record of all your web searches? Use your imagination.
Comment In other words... (Score 1) 323
"Please help us not look like your bitch."
Submission + - Proof of sweeping domestic phone surveillance by the NSA (guardian.co.uk)
Trashcan Romeo writes: The Guardian has obtained a court order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) requiring Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to provide the National Security Agency (NSA) , for all domestic and international calls, the numbers of both parties, location data, call duration, time of day, and other unique identifiers.
Submission + - Another Story on the State of Microsoft - Microsoft to Reorganize (forbes.com)
puddingebola writes: This story from Forbes touches on Steve Ballmer's announcement that Microsoft will reorganize. From the article, "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer appears to be planning a major reorganization. His apparent objective is to help the company move toward becoming a “devices and services company,” as presented in the company’s annual shareholder letter last October." What follows is an analysis of the current state of Microsoft's current ventures: shrinking PC sales, Nokia management calling for a change of course, Office 360 lagging, a $1 Billion investment in Nook, the losses on Xbox. Once again, if Microsoft starts to lose the revenue of Windows and Office, how long does the boat float? And what of the suggestion, on the verge of another update in the Xbox console, that Microsoft should sell the Xbox division?
Comment Now that I use Chrome... (Score 1) 250
... that "Firefox" menu is like a Cheetos-dust-coated thumb in my eye. Man, I'm never going back.
Comment Will they now admit... (Score 1) 800
... that their justification for getting rid of the Start menu in the first place - "No one uses it" - was a self-serving lie?
Comment I thought no one used the Start button! (Score 1) 491
Microsoft told me so when explaining why they got rid of it! Why would they bring back something no one uses? I'm all confused now!
Comment Remember when Apple fucked up Maps in iOS6? (Score 1) 536
After brazening it out for a few days, the CEO admitted, "OK, yeah, we fucked this up." You think Ballmer will have the class to do the same? We'll get corporate mealy-mouthing about "improvements" that shirk his culpability for one of the biggest (and most predictable) fiascos in PC history.
Comment Don't knock the placebo effect (Score 1) 749
I personally can't tell the difference between V0 mp3 and FLAC. But I'll still spend the download time and storage space on FLAC just because it gives me a warm feeling to know that I'm getting all the bits. An irrational pleasure is still a pleasure.
Comment "A bit hesitant" is one way of putting it (Score 2) 205
If Google couldn't find a way to wring enough greenbacks out of Reader, what chance does this have?
Submission + - Google Reader shutting down on July 1, 2013 (blogspot.com)
Trashcan Romeo writes: The brainchild of software engineer Chris Wetherell will go dark as Google decides to "[pour] all of our energy into fewer products".
Submission + - Google Reader Being Retired (blogspot.com)
Edgewood_Dirk writes: According to the official blog, Google Reader is being retired on July 1st, 2013. The main reasoning seems to be its decline in usage over the last few years. Users and developers will be able to retrieve their RSS data using Google Takeout.
Comment Re:Great franchise crippled by poor implementation (Score 1) 569
"Sacrifice players' freedom"... As one person put it, given that SC is presented as a "toy", EA seems pretty damned determined to limit the ways you can play with it.
