Comment Re:How about some nice menus instead? (Score 2, Insightful) 617
What mistake? The ribbon is fine, it takes 5 mins to pick up unless you have a learning disability or a brain dead MS hater.
Bing Users' Click-Through Rate 55% Higher Than Google Users' 268
An anonymous reader writes "Techcrunch is running a story that shows some pretty significant differences in the clicking habits of users of Yahoo, Google, and Bing. As it turns out, folks who arrive at websites via Bing are 55% more likely to click on an ad than if they arrived from Google (data based on the Chitika network). Essentially, people who use Bing are far more susceptible to advertising. Bing has acquired a decent market share in such a short time, but could it just be that they've reaped the low hanging fruit of those particularly persuaded by advertising? When their huge marketing campaign winds down, what kind of staying power will it have?"
Comment Re:Hm. (Score 1) 464
There will be a screen showing trusted MS software. Then you would have to tick a little box to see non-trusted other software and a big disclaimer screen about malware, virii and the like.
Thats how I imagine it.
Comment Re:And so it begins... (Score 1) 283
Yup.. slashdot wont be worth visiting for the next day or so.
Quality not quantity people...
Soyuz 4/5 Made History 40 Years Ago Today 166
dj writes in with a reminder that forty years ago, on January 16, 1969, the two Russian spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 carried out the first docking between two manned spacecraft and transfer of crew between the craft. Wired's piece gives a gripping account of "one of the roughest re-entries in the history of space flight": "Soyuz 5's service module failed to detach at retrofire, causing the vehicle to assume an aerodynamic position that left the heat shield pointed the wrong way as it re-entered the atmosphere. The only thing standing between Volynov and a fiery death was the command module's thin hatch cover. The interior of Volynov's capsule filled with noxious fumes as the gaskets sealing the hatch started to burn, and it got very hot in there (which, a short time later was something he probably missed). ... But wait. There's more."
Comment Re:quick, someone start complaining! (Score 0, Troll) 420
Pfft.
If the iPhone was release by another company such as SE or Nokia it would be called disappointing but because its apple its innovating.
