Comment Re:Not Onion? (Score 1) 86
How does one get a "Redundant" rating when one is the 4th poster of the topic, and the third poster that didn't just post to be first?
Odd.
Odd.
Comment Re:I haven't seen it (Score 1) 275
Comment Re:Not Onion? (Score 1, Redundant) 86
What surprised me was the Best Newcomer award went to the Palm Pre. If ever there was a doomed to fail product.....
With all the Android buzz, iPhone still ruling the smart phone universe and the Blackberry line still the corporate hero, I don't see where the Pre will fit.
With all the Android buzz, iPhone still ruling the smart phone universe and the Blackberry line still the corporate hero, I don't see where the Pre will fit.
Comment Re:Joikuspot (Score 1) 202
A Sybian Phone?
Ewwww! I'm not putting my ear to that!
Ewwww! I'm not putting my ear to that!
Comment Re:Wouldn't have mattered (Score 1) 471
Actually, Serenity was one of the NASA-supplied names for the module, not a write-in nerd joke.
Comment Re:Yes more like TOS - W/ Kirk putting his boots A (Score 2, Interesting) 444
Yes - weekly defeats with the Federation in jeopardy....
Was a regular thing during the last few seasons of DS9.
Comment Re:Or... (Score 1) 839
So by saying you didn't want to sound redundant, you informed us that you were going to say the same thing, to keep from being redundant?
Comment Re:Breakdown of causation (Score 2, Funny) 132
But then I suppose getting a pink slip is one sure way of never being stressed out by the boss ever again...
I think that if I received a pink slip from my boss (both of us being men), I'd be fairly disturbed, compounding my normal level of job-related stress.
Also, I would probably have a good case for a sexual harassment charge.
Comment Re:Layoffs (Score 5, Interesting) 640
I work for one of the top 5 insurance companies in the U.S. and SQL Server utilized as the back end for at least 50% of the apps currently running. The rest use DB2 Mainframe as the back end, and many of those are being re-written using both J2EE and .NET with SQL Server as the back-end.
SQL Server is used in many of the shops I've worked for, and as more companies do the J2EE vs .NET juggle, SQL Server is fairly common.
Comment Re:So they say. (Score 1) 35
ESA's handoff to IDG to do E for All (AKA E4Empty)
...... I expect E for All to be canceled for 2009. E3 wanted E4A to be the b2c face of the ESA, and since it didn't work, and the ESA....
My god, That's the most acronyms I've ever seen in a post!
Microsoft's Savvy Open Source Move 137
willdavid writes to mention Joe Panettieri is reporting that Microsoft is continuing their push for open source software interoperability. In the most recent push Microsoft is partnering with a small Silicon Valley company called SpikeSource to certify open source software on Windows 2008. "Despite growing Linux deployments, Windows Server remains quite popular for running open source applications. SugarCRM, the fast-growing open source application provider, is quick to note that many of its business developments occur on Windows Server. And Microsoft itself has sponsored SugarCRM's conferences, in order to stay in front of open source crowds."
