In my experience, one should always read the tea leaves or die. The more someone has to lose the better the intelligence gathering should be. As big as Microsofts interests are in China, Microsoft should have had fair warning that this was to happen. Hardly anything is really a secret. To me, the lose proposition is that they did not seem fit to do anything about it before it happened.

And yes, I am aware of all the complications of doing the job. Thats what makes it special. And inexcusable for Microsoft. Keep doing more of that, keep losing.

Trained to click on shit by bad interface design. It might have been a different story if UI designers didn't think every simple little thing demanded the users exclusive attention and acknowledgment right now.

They did it to hit the price point. No one asked for windows on ARM. Wait, was one of you guys trolling Microsoft again?

He huffed, but he didn't inhale.

I think you meant Perl. Python is for something else.

"Have to" is pretty strong wording considering you must do nothing of the sort.

If they really knew what they were trying to build it would be a multiply redundant liver with wireless charging pad.

With 4.3 million personnel, the federal government licks its genitals pretty much all the time.

I too get annoyed at virtuosos trying to play the violin without the proper Fortran running through their head.

Let the contributor opt in/out.
Or doesn't anyone do compromise anymore?

--dant

Reference to E=mc^2 is a truism and largely irrelevant. Every energy-producing reaction loses mass. Yes, even the chemical ones.

What of burning magnesium?

And as long as you only talk to yourself you should be golden.

Freeze his account!
But sir, we don't have his PIN number...

So to clear up the confusion 802.11n rate specification should be "180mbps unless its higher, up to 300 or less".

will we have the ability to vote anyone off [Mars]?