Ozzie always confused me. The world has been moving closer and closer to integration and, as soon as he got to MS, they went in the other direction. MS restructured so that OS, Office, Gaming, and many others were their own profit centers. They were given bonuses or blasts depending on how they did individually. Now if that meant that OS did something that hurt Office, that was fine as look as OS got a win out of it.

And these "organizations who might be willing to buy the company's assets and keep the service going" would be planning to do what with the (hopefully) aggregated data?

September 13, 1999: The day the moon left Earth's orbit.

The problem with the way teachers are ranked is that it causes the unintended consequence of teaching to the test. Everything is a waste of time for them.

The solution to this is to rank teaches based on the how the students succeed when the teacher has no direct input. Rank teachers based on how students do in the following grade. A 1st grade teach gets ranks by the grades in 2nd grade and so on. 12th grade teachers get ranked based on if the person does well over the next four years in college, work, or the military. There's always the posibility of collusion but it becomes more difficult.

Why do I care about extending battery life. I only need to have the porn sites going to 2, 3 minutes tops.

Garanteed. Example: people currently use Flash to implement HTML links.

Unblockable ads plus geolocation? I predict pain.

One of the things that's always funny about speeding cameras is how legislators deal with them. Legislators:

1. View them as a way of increasing revenue
2. Say it's all about safety
3. Realize that tickets from automated systems can't be "fixed"
4. Kill the system while talking about preserving the right to privacy

At my company we've had a weekend fire drill thanks to Y2K. I'm not talking about 10 years ago. I'm talking about yesterday. Ten plus years ago some genius "fixed" the Y2K issue by checking to see if the first of the two digits in the year was a zero. If it was prepend "20", otherwise...

Flamebait me if you must, but I'm a NH resident and the Old Man has always confused the life out of me. It was a 30 foot tall item on a 1200 peak. Tiny. It was like holding a quarter at arm's length. But you go around this state and you'd think it was the fraggin' Grand Canyon or something. And now I get to see money and time wasted trying to resurrect this pathetic icon? Wonderful.

So what should the people in the north or snowy parts of California do? Having a nice absorbant car in the dead of winter is a very good thing.

I wonder if this means that the adaptor in my car would no longer work. Talk about a non-starter.

Well, you're just fucking amazing.

And nice way to hijack a thread to spout about how incredible you are.

Did you ever consider that all the brain power you're putting into selective perception could be put to better use. Like posting relevant comments that aren't self congratulatory.

Someone please mod this moron down.

I'd pay money to see "perfect storm" go away. People currently use it to represent any situation which contains two or more variables. I literally scream in their faces when they do that.

I'm a Microsoft hater, but I have to say this is really cool. [ Let's see how they try to force some connection to IE and the OS to lock you in. :-) ]

Then I thought "Duh, why didn't anyone else think of it?"

Every invention is obvious after someone thinks of it.

Imagine how slow typing would be on one of these devices.

Imagine how slow typing would be if you were limited to a 4x3 keboard and the best way to type was with your thumbs. It's amazing what we can learn to do.