Let me transpose this article to emphasize just how incredibly stupid this submission is:

Hey guys, I'm a game developer and my computer doesn't run things that I need to use to develop games. So I bought a new computer. You see, a computer is a machine that runs software and computes things for you. It has a mouse, a keyboard, and a monitor. Some computers are big, but others are small. For instance, the computer I bought has 4GB of memory. That is more memory than other computers that have 2GB. When you buy a computer, it's maybe 90% set up for you, but you need to install the remaining 10% of things that you'll use and change the settings so it runs the way you like it. Computers are so neat.

This article isn't even asking a fucking question. It's just somebody telling the Slashdot crowd what a VPS is. What the fuck?

McAfee would kill for that.

Made a typo. Ignore my extra zero. "1000 cents" and ".94 cents" respectively when comparing the normal data rate. Still ridiculous at $3300/Mbps. Would you cry over losing a slight edge on a 1000x markup?

As long as they want, assuming they don't take on the accounting practices of the bigger carriers. Companies like Verizon and AT&T make a ridiculous profit on their data service, yet they cry over losing even one cent. Here's my math to back it up.

I was bored one day and decided to do some digging on those data overages the cell phone carriers love to charge. $.10/MB seems like a fairly common rate, but what people don't realize is, that works out to about $33,000 per Mbps per month. The amount of data you can send in one month at a rate of 1Mbps is about 330GB, or 330,000MB. At the overage rate of $.10/MB, that's $33,000 a month. That's a new BMW, every damn month.

I know what you're thinking, though. "Well, it's a penalty. It's supposed to be ridiculously high..." Yeah, that's understandable, but it's not much higher than their normal data rates. Taking Verizon's plans as an example, 1GB is $50/month. 50,000 cents divided by 1024MB is $.48/MB. But that's unfair because that includes unlimited minutes and text messages, so let's consider this - their 2GB plan is $10 more. That's $10/GB. 10000 cents divided by 1024MB is $.094/MB.

9.4 cents per MB regular rate.
10 cents per MB at overage rates.
Either way, we're paying $33,000/Mbps for cellular data service. Do you know what the going rate is for IP transit in the telco industry? At bulk rates, $1-2/Mbps.

tl;dr: T-Mobile can play the Unlimited Data game as long as they want. The cost to them is low, they just choose not to fuck their customers as hard as the big guys do.

...that nobody wants to pay for his game.

Okay, so, £52 in the first week? That's about $83. That's roughly $12/day. In the first week. On a brand new platform.

What the fuck was this guy thinking? That when he hit the magic "Submit" button on the developers portal for the MS App Store, money would start raining down from the ceiling? Did he think scantily clad women would arrive on his doorstep within minutes to personally "massage" him in a hot tub full of champagne?

The title might as well read, "Developer Underwhelmed by Product Success, Blames Everyone Else".

2/10. Good intentional misspelling of Linus's name, but the rest of it just didn't feel natural. Troll harder.

"Please, not in front of the press... until I post it on my blog."

He released the memorandum on his own, totally undermining other staffers and most likely bypassing any sort of vetting, validation, and/or peer review stages. It's naturally in the RSC's best interests to put forth memos and reports that present a consistent argument and (most importantly) don't express opinions in a way that may offend constituents.

While I hate to see them distance themselves from a sane and rational argument for copyright reform, I can't help but think that any other organization would do the same thing when one of their employees decides to go all "cowboy" and fire off memos and reports without organizational consent.

Nothing good has ever come from the commander-in-chief tossing government money back to his buddies (and campaign donors) in industry. My statement applies to this president just as much as it does to those before him.

You mean, people are picking the stock browser over mobile versions of Firefox or Google Chrome? Wow. What could possibly be the meaning of this? Let's deconstruct it and find the real truth in all this...

Oh, here it is. It's a combination of No one cares and the mobile versions suck!

Firefox and Chrome may be competitive browsers in the PC realm, but in their transition to mobile platforms, they're bringing over all that bloat and feature creep and trying to cram it all into a small screen. My Android smartphone has acceptable (but not ideal) battery life when I use the mobile browser for quick things here and there, but when I've tried to use mobile FF/Chrome apps it drops like a rock. I suppose if you sit there tethered into the wall jack you'd be fine, but at that point, why not just whip out your laptop?

Wow, you are getting gray. :)

I figure if the operator was a youngin' he probably wouldn't get the humor in labeling the speed dial "Giddy-up".

John McAfree?

What a clever pun considering the situation. Surely it was intentional!

This study focuses on "tech" positions (a very broad description) that require a Bachelor's degree. Here's what I'm left wondering after reading this:

Are they adjusting for the fact that a low-skilled tech position (tech support) in 2000 paying $12/hr did not require a Bachelor's, but in the current workforce climate, the same low-skilled tech support job at the same pay rate commonly requires that applicants have "at least" an Associates, but preferably (read: we won't hire you if you don't have) a Bachelor's degree? If this was not adjusted for, then the reason they're seeing diluted wages vs. what they expected is because with that one little change in the requirements for a position, a lot more jobs fit their description now than did jobs in 2000, which adds a lot of low wages to their data set and reduces the overall average wage across the entire IT field.

The Surface commercial was an absolute joke, so I'm not surprised the product itself is rapidly becoming a flop. Dubstep, breakdancers, romantic old people, and crunk girl scouts don't make me want to buy a tablet. The director should have stuck to directing Justin Bieber's music videos. Even if you have to spend all day pandering to shrieking preteens, at least there's money in it.

Troll.

The assholes you meet are not assholes because they're football players. They're assholes because they're assholes. Perhaps you, sir, are actually the asshole, and they just respond in kind.

There are plenty of very kind and caring people out there who also happen to play football. Come to terms with this and overcome your irrational (but understandable) hate of people who are more talented than you.