Comment Re:Where's the sting, oh thy sword? (Score 0) 204
In Canada, maybe... most of the US I think not.
Comment Re:The real issue = what does Steve Balmer think (Score 0) 394
...and knowing Steve Ballmer, this is very possible. I can picture it now...
Comment Re:The Achilles heel of this... (Score 0) 394
...but then you wouldn't be forced to buy their newest product next year!
Comment Re:The Achilles heel of this... (Score 0) 394
I agree... when something on my Windows machine breaks, I have to either spend ages searching the Interwebs for solutions that probably aren't there, reinstall/reboot and hope it works better next time, or (gods below) call tech support.
When something on my Linux machine breaks, there's usually several relevant communities around where I can search for / post my problem and get help fixing it. Linux has been a much nicer experience for me as far as troubleshooting problems goes.
Comment Re:The Achilles heel of this... (Score 0) 394
I don't think he was saying that we can't learn from the past, rather he was suggesting that the past sample provided were irrelevant.
Comment I think it's significant (Score 0) 469
According to Wikipedia (*ducks*)...Intel's net income is $5.3 billion out of their total revenue of $37.6 billion.
Sounds to me like $1.45 billion will make a decently sized dent, no?
White House Joins Facebook, MySpace, Twitter 144
theodp writes "The official White House Blog called the move WhiteHouse 2.0 as the Obama administration unveiled its membership in a trio of the social-networking leaders: Facebook (157,606 fans and counting), MySpace (174,817 friends and counting) and Twitter (34,612 followers and counting)."
Office 2007SP2 ODF Interoperability Very Bad 627
David Gerard writes "Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 claims support for ODF 1.1. With hard work and careful thinking, they have successfully achieved technical compliance but zero interoperability! MSO 2007sp2 won't read ODF 1.1 from any other existing application, and its ODF is only readable by the CleverAge plugin. The post goes into detail as to how it manages this so thoroughly."
Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? 1322
Ant writes with this depressing story about how public schools sometimes work: "This six-page Los Angeles Times article shares its investigation to find 'the process [of firing poor teachers] so arduous that many school principals don't even try (One-page version), except in the very worst cases. Jettisoning a teacher solely because he or she can't teach is rare ...'"
Comment you told us you would say that, sir (Score 0) 685
the first rule of project mayhem is you do not ask questions
Comment Re:Making Available (Score 0) 347
You're not suggesting that journalists actually do this "research" stuff and produce "informed articles" now are you???
Comment Re:To Err is Human--to Persist is Microsoft? (Score 0) 842
What if the scientists have a force-field?
Comment Re:To Err is Human--to Persist is Microsoft? (Score -1, Flamebait) 842
I don't think Microsoft ever included "users being responsible" in their paradigms.
Comment Re:To Err is Human--to Persist is Microsoft? (Score 0) 842
Oh yeah, well 0.001 men with a peer-reviewed double-blinded scientific study beats Mr. Anecdote any day.
Comment Re:Obviously.... (Score 0) 758
This is absolutely true.
