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Comment Re:Hmm... (Score 4, Funny) 535

So Elop left Microsoft to head up Nokia, where he made supposedly very idiotic changes that had the effect of destroying Nokia's share price. Microsoft then buys Nokia at a fraction of the cost it would otherwise have been, and Elop returns to a prestigious role at Microsoft, where he's in with a shot at the CEO role.

That doesn't look the slightest bit dodgy at all.

EMBRACE EXTEND EXTINGUISH.

Well in this case it looks more like: INFILTRATE - WEAKEN - ASSIMILATE

Comment Re:Don't wanna be first... (Score 1) 282

The automated driver, has a key advantage, it doesn't get distracted from driving, its primary goal is to get you from point a to point b as safe as possible.

<pessimist mode> What if this thing gets used by a transportation company, and they reprogram it with a new primary goal: to get the cargo from point a to point b as fast as possible?

Don't underestimate the power of capitalism (also called "greed").

Comment Re:Truthful (Score 1) 633

As long as most printers and wireless cards and such are windows-only, as long as people send you docx files, as long as there are non-standard behaviors in MSIE that have to be tested for, as long as netflix uses silverlight... the windows monopoly still causes the linux user some annoyance in every day life.

"some"???

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