Comment Re:phone home? (Score 1) 857
If it did that, there's no way in Hell that Microsoft could have come to that conclusion.
Comment What the actual fuck!? (Score 1) 857
What group of people did they look at to get that impression!? Linux users? They certainly stopped using it... along with Windows for what should be a clearly obvious reason: Microsoft doesn't listen to it's customers.
Submission + - NVIDIA Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over Linux Drivers (brightsideofnews.com)
Jkumar_cool writes: A rumor appeared from the heart of Beijing that due to the performance of its GPU architecture and its Linux drivers, NVIDIA was approached by one of the leading Chinese CPU teams to use an NV GPU in a pilot school PC project. The Linux would run on the Chinese CPU, while GeForce GPU would provide the graphics power. 'Pilot project' in this case means over 10 million PCs in one order, broken down — 100,000 schools with 100-150 PCs each. The problem was two-fold; NVIDIA never releases source code for its Linux drivers, and the binaries are only X86. Incentivized by the Chinese government, the Chinese CPU team called NVIDIA to come to China and work with them.
To cut the story short, the NV team appeared there, and in very arrogant manner told the Chinese side that they are a large US corporation, and that recompiling the Linux drivers would cost the Chinese a lot of money. The money that Chinese CPU team and the Academy of Science were supposed to fork out was to the tune of several million dollars in incentive that are typically referred to as NRE — Non-recurring Engineering.
To cut the story short, the NV team appeared there, and in very arrogant manner told the Chinese side that they are a large US corporation, and that recompiling the Linux drivers would cost the Chinese a lot of money. The money that Chinese CPU team and the Academy of Science were supposed to fork out was to the tune of several million dollars in incentive that are typically referred to as NRE — Non-recurring Engineering.
Comment For being a conservative government... (Score 1) 211
...they sure are liberally applying the surveillance.
Comment Solution: (Score 1) 380
Solution? Lock them out of their computers the instant the word to fire them is given by the boss.
Comment Re:More sushi! (Score 1) 173
Would you like a serving of radioactivity with that sushi?
Comment All hail technology! (Score 2) 159
Making us lazier and lazier every single day!
Comment Extremophiles... (Score -1, Offtopic) 63
...living where ever it takes to indulge their pedophillia
Comment How many employees would that be? (Score 1) 345
Well, you would need to have one employee for each hour of video. So, that's 72 employees. But since 72 employees can't watch an hour of video in a minute, we need to increase that to an hour. That sharply increases to 4320 employees, with each one screening 1 hour of content every hour, assuming they're required to look over every little bit of content.
Let's say they're required to take breaks. Tack on an extra 680 employees for a nice round number of 5000 employees. What about finding out if something is copyrighted? That's an extra 1000 employees confirming that something is copyrighted in addition to the 5000 initial screeners. 6000 employees.
Now, let's assume those 6000 working 8-hour shifts. But wait, there's content being uploaded 24/7. So now we have at least 18,000 employees. Taking sick leave and vacations into account, we need maybe at least 2000 more employees to fill in for those.
Now, those 20,000 employees have to be paid. Let's assume they're being paid modestly at $22 an hour. (I don't know enough about salaries to give a fuck about calculating that)
That's $440,000 dollars to those employees. Per hour. $10,560,000 per day. $147,840,000 every 2 weeks. That's $2,620,800,000. $3,843,840,000 every year.
Submission + - Startup Saves $100,000 by NOT supporting Internet Explorer (internetnews.com) 2
darthcamaro writes: Guess what — you don't have to support Microsoft's IE web browser any more to build a successful website. In fact, you might just be able to save yourself a pile of cash if you avoid IE altogether. That's the story in Canada's National Post today and to make this even sweeter — no one complained about the lack of IE support either.
Submission + - Rickroll Meme Destroyed By Copyright Takedown (torrentfreak.com)
TheGift73 writes: "It’s possibly one of the most popular ever memes in the history of the Internet but today it lies in tatters. The Rickroll phenomenon, whereby people are promised one thing but given “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley instead, has been ended by a copyright takedown request by AVG Technologies. It’s a brave move – Rickrolling was invented by 4chan and who knows how they’re going to react.
Anyone who has spent much time online, especially on Internet message boards of any kind, will be aware of Rickrolling.
It’s an incredibly simple concept. The meme is based on a bait and switch, whereby someone posts a hyperlink which allegedly provides content relevant to the current discussion, but in fact leads to the 1987 Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up” instead.
People who follow these links and end up viewing the song/video are said to have been “Rickrolled” and over the years millions of people have been fooled into doing so. However, those falling into the trap today are being met with something not nearly as entertaining and, if it’s even possible, something that is even more annoying.
Due to a copyright complaint, the original Rickroll video has been removed from YouTube."
Anyone who has spent much time online, especially on Internet message boards of any kind, will be aware of Rickrolling.
It’s an incredibly simple concept. The meme is based on a bait and switch, whereby someone posts a hyperlink which allegedly provides content relevant to the current discussion, but in fact leads to the 1987 Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up” instead.
People who follow these links and end up viewing the song/video are said to have been “Rickrolled” and over the years millions of people have been fooled into doing so. However, those falling into the trap today are being met with something not nearly as entertaining and, if it’s even possible, something that is even more annoying.
Due to a copyright complaint, the original Rickroll video has been removed from YouTube."
Comment Just another reason... (Score 5, Insightful) 131
...to avoid anything related to Fox News like the plague
Comment 8000? (Score 0) 594
Huh, now it's over 9!!
Comment I'll probably get downmodded for this, but... (Score 2) 1264
Have you ever considered the possibility, that some people might not want Desktop Linux to take off. But not for the reason you would think. See, if everybody started using desktop Linux, then, just like what has happened with MacOS X, malware will start appearing for it in ever increasing numbers. Lots of Linux users I know use it as a safe haven from Windows and all it's malware. I don't think they want to see that haven suddenly infested, and have to do something like switch to a different distro every few months/years/etc in order to keep their haven...
Comment You don't say... (Score 1) 65
"UK Web Snooping Plan Invades Privacy"
No shit, sherlock.
