Comment Re:Put some of the money back in... (Score 3, Funny) 296
"Conan, what is good?"
"To see your enemies driven before you, to have their libraries forked and to hear the lamentation of their wizards"
"Conan, what is good?"
"To see your enemies driven before you, to have their libraries forked and to hear the lamentation of their wizards"
How Many Employees Does Microsoft Really Need?
With any luck, no more than is necessary to shut the doors and turn out the lights.
"I would also predict that the vast majority of our customers would never be caught in the buying the additional buckets of usage, that we will always want to say the basic level of usage at a sufficiently high level that the vast majority of our customers are not implicated by the usage-based billing plan."
"640k ought to be enough for anyone*"
"Let them eat cake"
*Looks like Gates never said that
And here I thought I was the only one running Enlightenment
This seems appropriate:
It looks like that watch might be running MS/TRES
It's called "Hypermiling"
And it's difficult to do when everyone around you is hell bent on getting to that next red light before it turns green.
If you can't make money off copies of your work, don't release copies of your work.
Musicians should only perform live and Hollywood movies should only be shown in theaters.
The rest of us like our internet just the way it is, thank you very much.
Nowadays I only write scripts (PHP, Perl, Python, Bash, sh) and I debug with print, error_log, echo and exit/quit().
"'..."I don't believe so," Feinstein said during an appearance on NBC's Meet the
Press. "The president has very clearly said that he wants to continue to recieve
the funding provided by the contractors who supply the equipment, software and
bodies involved in this billion-dollar operation. So I think we would agree with
him. I know a dominant majority of the - everybody, virtually, except two or
three, on the Senate Intelligence Committee would agree with that."
I can't say it enough.
Line sharing, line sharing, line sharing.
From a 2009 Ars Technica article:
"...mandating "open access" to broadband networks works really, really well as a way to boost speeds and lower costs."
If ISPs want to experiment with data-caps and pay-to-play systems, let them. If there's 10 ISPs in town they can all offer different packages. Competition and market-forces will do the rest.
You went and spilled the beans about 'alt-tab'!
Now it's going to be harder to find people to amaze by showing them how they can swap between applications without taking their hands off the keyboard.
Ruined all my fun...
Well, not exactly
I'm expecting something like this to topple Facebook.
With a terabyte of storage on a handheld device and a local application, you could replicate FB's service without the ads, limitations and privacy issues.
The Yahoo weather app for tablets/phones is aesthetically gorgeous and efficiently laid out.
Ditto for the Flickr app and the Flickr makeover.
Not a fan-boy, but definitely want to give props to a few things I have been enjoying using lately.
Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.