Maybe? It's definitely in the best interest of the shareholders. Unless you think all of Yahoo's top talent will now leave for the millions of lucrative tech jobs around the bay. Wait a minute...

Reader h11:6 points out news of a recent study which suggests that "Android's open source nature will give it a boost over Apple's iPhone," and thus take the lead in sales as soon as three years from now. It will be interesting to see how they deal with the flood of proposed apps as their popularity rises.

Is this similar to the year of Linux taking over Windows I keep hearing about? Sorry, mod me a troll.

I had a totally different thought when I saw "identified as lesbian" and the "proveit" tag.

The above post is the best advice. But if you don't care and really want to have a little fun:

Reverse blackmail. Tell them that you are leaving today, and they can sign you as a contractor for the next 3 weeks at triple your hourly rate.

Who pays for the news broadcasts on NBC, ABC, and CBS?! Who pays the anchors, the journalists, and the cameramen? Who pays for your local news broadcasts?

TV Advertising. This story is talking about Online Distribution, which has seen dramatic cuts in advertising dollars. Much larger cuts than TV advertising. Think about it.

Have you ever tried to play a 2-year old game online? You get one of two results:

1) No one is playing, so you can't find a game or
2) People are still playing, but have been playing it for 2 years and are so far out of your skill range it's completely unfun

The likes of California and New York clearly have no concept of what it means to "spend less,"

Yes, the above tax is stupid, but your comment is pretty silly too. I've loved living in California, where a salary that pays cost of living automatically puts me in a Jumbo mortgage and a high federal income tax bracket. I didn't hear anyone complaining about CA and NY when the economy was booming and people were using my tax dollars to pay for Nebraska farmers to NOT farm their land. Wait, they still are. How about we stop that?

I'm interested what the policies are on all the different app stores. I know everyone here hates Apple's restrictive policies, but I do appreciate how I can download any app from their app store and not worry about it breaking my iphone, spreading viruses, changing system defaults, or worse (like stealing passwords).

What approval processes and policies do these other stores have?

I can see that happening. And then, on Slashdot: I bought the OS with my computer, it's mine. Why shouldn't I be able to put it on my PC? And then: I bought this computer, I have a right to the OS upgrades, which is why I pirate it and install it on my older mac.

Ah Slashdot, where you can rationalize ANYTHING.

The "memories" of today have been better preserved than any generation before. In the past, only those wealthy, educated, and friendly to the current power got to "preserve" their memories.

Innovation isn't taking an idea out of nothing. Innovation is doing something that hasn't been done before. The difference between a side-scroll wheel and the front wheel on the iPod was night and day. The difference between the iphone's touch screen and UI compared to a Treo is night-and-fucking-day.

I'd imagine if someone developed a time-machine you'd say they just built off of Einstein's work. It's true, but it means you completely missed the point.

If people couldn't open a PDF, the problem was somewhere between the keyboard and chair.

Your biggest griper will be a finance guy (like me). For him, just buy excel. Forcing him to use something other than excel is cruel and unusual punishment.

Pretty cool stuff. I think myself (and many others in the US) will wait until the cost and efficiency of solar panels reaches a point where you can mount them flat on just the back half of the roof and it'll still pay for itself within 2 years.