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Comment Re:Blind coding for the blind (Score 1) 727

by jones_supa (#47718629) Attached to: Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop'

I'd love to run Linux as a primary OS, but I've tried all kinds of distros, and there has not been a single desktop environment that felt robust and professional, where things were in places I'd expect and everything just worked without a lot of unnecessary fiddling and looking up of vague error messages.

Same experience here.

Comment Re:Linux could own the desktop... (Score 1) 727

by jones_supa (#47718533) Attached to: Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop'

I can already see in my mind how that kind of development system would break after some development package gets upgraded:

In bubblegum-wrapper.py, line 1208:
deb-pkg: Invalid argument: --no-externals

When Windows programs use robust binary interfaces, Linux programs always use this kind of fragile backend scripts.

Submission + - Professor Steve Ballmer Will Teach At Two Universities This Year (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by redletterdave
redletterdave writes: When Steve Ballmer announced he was stepping down from Microsoft’s board of directors, he cited a fall schedule that would 'be hectic between teaching a new class and the start of the NBA season.' It turns out Ballmer will teach an MBA class at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in the fall, and a class at USC’s Marshall School of Business in the spring. Helen Chang, assistant director of communications at Stanford’s Business School, told Business Insider that Ballmer will be working with faculty member Susan Athey for a strategic management course called 'TRAMGT588: Leading organizations.' As for the spring semester, Ballmer will head to Los Angeles — closer to where his Clippers will be playing — and teach a course at University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. We reached out to the Marshall School, which declined to offer more details about Ballmer’s class.

Comment Let me guess (Score 1) 96

by jones_supa (#47712087) Attached to: Your Phone Can Be Snooped On Using Its Gyroscope
No one will ever bother exploiting this. Neither will anyone bother to exploit the red button attack or inferring audio from video recording. It's just too tricky to get these working in practice. Even with the gyroscope you get a crummy 100Hz frequency cap with terrible amounts of factors decreasing sound capture quality.

Submission + - Ballmer Leaves Microsoft Board

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: After leaving his position as CEO of Microsoft a year ago, Steve Ballmer has still held a position as a member of the board of directors for the company. Now, he is leaving the board, along with a letter to the fresh CEO Satya Nadella. 'I have become very busy,' Ballmer explains. 'I see a combination of Clippers, civic contribution, teaching and study taking up a lot of time.' Despite his departure, the former-CEO is still invested in the company's success, and he spent most of the letter encouraging Nadella and giving advice. Nadella shot back a supportive, equally optimistic response, promising that Microsoft will thrive in 'the mobile-first, cloud-first world.'

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