This has been making a lot of news in Eastern Canada, because Salesforce (who bought local company Radian6) got a payroll grant from the government to go out and create 300 jobs with. ...

So naturally they cut a bunch of other jobs. The government has been scrambling ever since to not look like total morons for giving them money at all. Which is good, because corporate welfare schemes are always a ripoff for taxpayers and the only way it'll ever stop is if politicians start to get embarrassed for doing it.

The only thing that came to mind with the suggestion that they not hire brilliant people:

"An intelligence organization that fears intelligence? Historically, not awesome."
- Tony Stark

They should do #1 anyway. Stardock already figured out how to run Metro apps on the desktop, and having that option would dramatically help adoption in corporate settings.

In fact they should do #2 as well. The RT simply doesn't have the hardware specs or market clout to compete at the same price as the iPad.

I can picture it now...

Elop gets in. He sits down, and writes a memo about how the company is sitting on a burning platform and needs to change or die. He'll then adopt a bold strategy of switching the entire company over to... what? QNX maybe?

Considering his track record, I find it hard to believe anybody thinks this is a good idea.

Lets be honest: 3d is a failure in this space. A huge nummber of 3DS users never turn the 3d on, and for a lot of the market it's not a selling feature. Making a cheaper unit without it is smart, as price is a huge factor in portable gaming sales.

But then they also stripped out a speaker (going to mono instead of stereo) and came up with this really awkward form factor. Why did they do that? This thing is going to be a lot more awkward to carry around because of that.

The situation is essentially that the base NuGet repository is a highly convenient way for Visual Studio users to get packages, and people want the Oracle .net provider to be there. Oracle says they can't put it there because it's not open source (it's free as in beer).

Hi. The .net product manager at Oracle recently responded to a request to have the Oracle .net provider put into a NuGet package by refusing over licensing reasons: https://forums.oracle.com/message/11149050#11149050

Since Outercurve is specifically mentioned here, do you have any comment on this? Is there plans to fix the situation for freely available (but commercial) tools like the Oracle provider?

Thanks.

I'd say we're making no progress because this is all that's required to break stuff. Again.

Companies are great at tacking needless wifi into things and not being able to protect them against the most basic of attack. But hey, it's not like you need your lights to work reliably, right?

I can't wait for the toilet that won't flush unless you pay the guy in Russia that infected it with malware. That's going to make all our lives better.

Sure, right up until your calls/data hit your ISP.

The problem is that workloads people regularly do simply don't use 8 cores. We've had this problem on PCs for a while, and it's one of the reasons the market is shrinking so fast. Once you have a dual core machine, more cores don't do anything for you given that most of your work is single threaded. There's nothing more annoying than waiting for something or seeing lag in a game with an i7 that never gets over 25% utilization (or 13% if you have hyperthreading enabled).

He's not wrong. An eight core phone serves no purpose right now.

The problems with Windows 8 go far beyond unhappy greybeards. Trying to point a mouse at invisible hot corners is just a fucking stupid idea for a desktop OS. Metro is a touch UI and it sucks with a mouse. It also sucks for multitasking productivity, multiple monitors, and really anything else that people doing real work are using a PC for.

You sound like the people who think that "innovation" is always good, even when it's just change for the sake of change that actually makes the product less usable.

I'm pretty sure they're too busy trying to make the Surface look like a success and doing Xbox One damage control to worry about a niche vanity phone like this one that will have no market impact.

Aren't videos already click to play in most browsers, in that you have to do something to make them start? How is this supposed to work?

And if it does, how long before the browser makers respond by not allowing autoplay video?

I'm assuming you've never been to Canada. It's entirely normal.

It's also the future of every US based cloud service provider. As much as US trade reps around the world want to whine about how unfair it is that people in other countries avoid American service providers, it's only going to get worse. The US government is the worst enemy of those companies.