Comment This is kinda funny (Score 1) 113
given the AI article just a few stories down.
Comment Re:Economics (Score 1) 1142
Dito.
Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released 272
supersloshy writes Today Mozilla released Thunderbird 3.
Many new features are available, including Tabs and enhanced search features, a message archive for emails you don't want to delete but still want to keep, Firefox 3's improved Add-ons Manager, Personas support, and many other improvements. Download here."
Comment Simple (Score 1) 1007
vim -x filename
What could be simpler? It's easy, quick, and unless your laptop is stolen by an uber hacker, it's quite safe.
Comment Traitors to Freedom (Score 2, Insightful) 239
"A group of 18 Republican US senators have also sent a letter to Genachowski raising concerns about net neutrality regulations."
They make it too easy to figure out who's in the pocket of big business.
Comment Re:12 Year Old Mainframe = 20+ Other Servers (Score 1) 152
And that's the difference between the government and profit driven corporations--because the government has no problem spending other people's money.
Comment May I be the first to say... (Score 1) 272
Good Work!
Submission + - EE Times says Internet caused the economic crisis (eetimes.eu) 1
An anonymous reader writes: It wasn't the bankers. It was the Internet and Google that caused the global economic crisis, argues EE Times in this analysis piece. The argument runs that by speeding globalization the Internet, and Google, have created a more closely-coupled system that was bound to end in boom and bust.
Submission + - Tech Support Help Desk
ekimd writes: I have several clients (hotels, etc.) who need 24 hour technical support for guests (read, "Help! I can't connect to the inter-tubes at 3am!"). My consulting company just isn't set up to deal with that kind of support. Does anyone have recommendations for a great tech support call center?
Comment Did no one read the article? (Score 2, Interesting) 1142
Hasn't anyone RTF? These aren't profits from inside the US, they're international profits. Why should the American gov't be able to tax international revenue in the first place IF that revenue is kept and invested internationally? I hate Microsoft as much as the next man, but Balmer is actually making a lot of sense here.
Comment Re:Bite the hand that feeds... (Score 1) 1142
THANK YOU! I was starting to feel like the only one in the entire slashdot-world who felt this way.
Comment Re:Why not just a Windows tax? (Score 2, Interesting) 405
You want to tax Americans to fund Microsoft's incompetence?
Comment Re:That's it !!!!! (Score 1) 176
I wondered the same thing. Ever since I started using gmail I haven't had any problem with spam and I don't waste any time filtering, etc.
Comment Re:I drink no caffeine... (Score 1) 571
Mod parent up. I drink no coffee either.
Comment Re:dvd::rip (Score 1) 501
Another vote for dvd::rip. I've used it tons of times and *never* had a problem.
