Considering the high cost, higher failure rate, and even higher odds of going overbudget on trying to get SAP to do what you want, I'm not even remotely convinced it was a gamble. If you already have a team in place, this is the less risky way to go because you're only going to build what you need and you're not dependent on a third party to maybe one day make it work if you throw enough consultant money at them.

Oracle's shareholders agree with him. Damn socialist investment bankers!

I'm pretty sure that with how much Apple cares about branding, "our stuff smells like cat piss" is a problem they would fix pretty quickly.

Nobody wants to be seen holding a smelly device.

Microsoft's own tools don't even work on XP anymore. It's a highly obsolete codebase for them.

If people want to keep using it, then can take those machines off the net and use them until they die without problem. But at some point Microsoft wants to devote its time to building better stuff, not infinitely supporting the old stuff because corporate IT still thinks that their IE6 only web app is good enough.

Not really. The bleeding edge seemed to like 3d TV. Then it went to the wider market and has died off.

4k only makes sense outside of a niche market if they can move a lot of units, and to do that it needs to sell outside of the bleeding edge.

If you're writing a novel, a tool like Scrivener is a lot better than a text editor of any particular sort. It's designed for writers and makes it easy to do things like keep track of and organize all your notes, which if you're writing a novel is going to be far more important than whatever command is used to change the font.

So click that link, and it wants me to sign in to view answers? With my Facebook account? Holy shit, Experts Exchange came back from the dead! (And if you happen to do it on mobile, they'll also nag you to install their app.)

It's like someone took Stack Overflow and decided to add 100% more crap.

IE 8 is the base version in Windows 7 and used by a lot of corporate installs of that.

Don't expect it to go away anytime soon, unfortunately.

I had to do this recently for a legitimate reason. A friend had bought a small hobby type operation (including the domain), but the old owner forgot to change the domain ownership over and dropped off the grid. It wasn't really a problem until we wanted to change hosting providers, at which point we couldn't update the DNS settings.

Since we actually had control of the domain, I used the account that was listed as the admin contact to send an email to the registrar explaining the situation and asking if they could change the info for us. Without any validation whatsoever they sent me the username and password (apparently stored in clear text) for the account, allowing me to do anything I wanted with it.

Thankfully I don't use that registrar for my own stuff. I expected at least to have to show some proof of ownership or something.

At the rate Star Citizen is raising money, it's going to have an AAA budget before it comes out. It happened to hit the sweet spot of a known creator with a proven track record, good timing, and a genre with a lot of fans starved for a game. It's been marketed well, and the early previews have been good to wet the appetite (there's no meat available yet).

The sheer amount of money they've got (almost $20 million) makes it so unusual that it doesn't make a good example. Even if the game is a resounding success (and I sure hope it is) it's not a good example to follow because so few crowdfunded projects can get even close to that in funding.

What other projects CAN learn from them is to not stop fundraising just because your Kickstarter is over. Beyond that, it's just too weird to draw any kind of conclusions from.

I dunno, Microosft can make a decent .net provider for their database. Oracle has all kinds of catching up to do in that department.

Aside from the animations making things take longer, performance is choppier than it used to be on my iPad 3. Even typing in some apps now lags at times, and it never did that before.

Looking enviously at my wife's Nexus 7 2nd gen, that thing flies.

Those patents covered actual working models, not taking something that already exists, slapping "Mobile" in the description, and suing small businesses that are using it.

This article is out to lunch and written entirely to benefit the patent troll industry (which now finds itself drawing unwanted attention).

While Americans might be pissed off about this, they're not doing much about it. The rest of the world is looking on and asking hard questions about how much reliance we want on American based companies, given what that means for our data and the US Government's desire to spy on it.

Google doesn't have much of a choice but to try and fight this - to roll over is just to do serious damage to their international business interests. Same for any big service provider. If you're in Europe and you need to do something securely, would you even think about getting services from an American company anymore?

Not a chance. If they're not careful, the NSA is going to destroy the competitiveness of some very big companies.

If the documentation says it does, then yes, it is in fact the optimizers job.

If it's not actually going to do it, then they shouldn't say it will.