Comment Re:First... (Score 0) 357
Well, I just counted employers (have done several different job descriptions for a couple of them). 4 different employers in 31 years. Same one for the last 20 years.
Comment Re:a case of sour grapes? (Score 0) 174
Yes, my comment is redundant but, if you look at the times, they are 2 minutes apart. I was editing mine when he posted his. Sorry about that.
Comment a case of sour grapes? (Score -1, Redundant) 174
Microsoft is now complaining ......... IBM is so anticompetitive that governments should intervene.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
Comment Re:Skype (Score 0) 198
You live in Central New York?
No, Southeastern Ohio
Comment Re:Skype (Score 0) 198
It's done nothing but storm for a week here & we haven't had a seconds trouble with it. TV has gone out a couple of times but not WB.
Comment Re:Skype (Score 1, Insightful) 198
We recently switched to WildBlue satellite internet service and it has a fair amount of latency. No big deal really but it would be too much for Skype and you have to assume that the same problem would hold true for any sat service. (BTW WildBlue is awesome compared to the dial-up rurals have to put up with :)
Comment Re:I guess that Google knows what's best for us. (Score 1) 72
regardless of my syntax..?
That's not exactly how I interpreted it. I took it to mean that the news would be dished to me (along with adverts) because of what I had searched for before. Since I work in IT, that means I would get nothing but IT news when I log in at work & at home?
Sorry, but I have a little trouble with force feeding. I don't have a Speedy Rewards card or any thing of the type. They are just used to find a subject that advertisers think they might make money from me. I send junk mail back to the sender in their own prepaid envelope (I'm tired of paying the trashman to haul it off). I'm also an old fart with 6 Grand kids and a GG Kid. I like my privacy and have a problem with the "Internet is everything generation". Seems a strange contradiction for an IT guy but, isn't life just a strange contradiction?
Comment I guess that Google knows what's best for us. (Score -1, Troll) 72
If this comes to pass, I guess that I'll try another search engine, I want what I want not all the junk that Google (or anyone else) thinks that I want.
Comment Re:So.. (Score 1) 274
I know exactly what you mean. If you've every read Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy, it's the same scenario. A company (in this instance a drug company) having the power & will to do what they want.
Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops 289
rsmiller510 writes "The EE Times reports this week that Dell has released a hybrid laptop running both Linux and Windows clearly aimed at business travelers. Linux for quick tasks and Windows for more intensive ones, but will such a machine really fly in the business world?"
Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College 1088
Zebano writes "Since changing the US constitution is too much work, the Iowa senate is considering a bill that would send all 7 of Iowa's electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote in a presidential election. This would only go into affect after enough states totaling 270 electoral votes (enough to elect a president) adopted similar resolutions."
Looking At Changes In the Newest GCC 54
cyberpead writes "With GCC 4 comes a new optimization framework (and new intermediate code representation), new target and language support, and a variety of new attributes and options. Get to know the major new features and their benefits in this article."
Math Prof Uncovers Secret Chord 177
chebucto writes "The opening chord to A Hard Day's Night is famous because for 40 years, no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing. Musicians, scholars and amateur guitar players alike had all come up with their own theories, but it took a Dalhousie mathematician to figure out the exact formula. Dr. Brown used Fourier transforms to find the notes in the chord, and deduced that another George — George Martin, the Beatles producer — also played on the chord, adding a piano chord that included an F note impossible to play with the other notes on the guitar."
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Is Back In Business 70
Matt_dk writes "Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147. The image demonstrated that the camera is working exactly as it was before going offline, thereby scoring a 'perfect 10 both for performance and beauty.' (Meanwhile, the slowly declining Mars Phoenix Lander has now entered safe mode, according to reader CraftyJack.)
CueCat Patent Granted, Finally 184
RobertB-DC writes "Who could forget the :CueCat, the amazing device that would bring 'convergence' between the real world and the online marketing Utopia of the late '90s? Belo, the Dallas-based newspaper and TV conglomerate, spent millions of dollars on the project, only to be ridiculed from the start and eventually becoming a sort of poster kitty for the Dot-Com Bust. Well, the device's inventor and chief cheerleader, J. Jovan Philyaw, didn't forget. His patent application, in progress since 1998, has finally been granted. The story comes from a Dallas alternative weekly, since the local Belo paper is still smarting from its $40-million-dollar black eye."
