yeah - and look where the success of this humble bundle has got THQ - they filed for bankruptcy protection in late 2012. The pc games industry is anything but healthy.
http://www.cgw.com/Press-Center/News/2012/THQ-In-Financial-Trouble.aspx#.UN6-AneeOAE

Socail Networking = Antisocial networking

yeah but you can't tax the robot workers.

Have to agree - Elite was my favourite C64 game (and I played very many C64 titles back in the days). Whoever posted this article - a big thank you! - and I have just reserved my digital copy of this game - wouldn't have done so without slashdot.

In my opinion Daily Mail is nothing more than a troll of a newspaper that force feeds its readers exactly what they want to hear, or what they know will rile their readership in order to sell more rags to their core readership.
Radiohead felt strongly enough about this rag to write a song about it that nicely sums this up in haunting poetic terms .

I seriously have to doubt a Norwegian based study that (surprise, surprise) discovers that fossil fuels are more environmentally friendly than Electric motors - its just slightly less surprising than this study coming from say a Saudi based institution or Jeremy Clarkson...

According to the article:
"My Twitter account was deactivated but before doing so I posted links to my Google+ account, blog and invited people to contact me on Facebook. I'm delighted that a lot of my lovely friends did. I'm also delighted that The Troll did too."

So can anyone explain how you get to someones IP address by inviting people to contact you on Facebook?

Why did the jury foreman consider Google's opinion to be the arbiter of this case? What if Google were just being over-cautious? That was likely the Samsung boards opinion, and why they chose not to pass this onto the engineers. From the BBC article it seems that the Jury's decision was that if Google and Apple says its so - then it must be so.

Every time I read statements from the jury foreman - they seem to be evolving - with the news stories finding holes in his previous statements.

What amazes me is his statement on why they did not consider prior art:

"the software was an entirely different methodology, and the more modern software could not be loaded onto the older example and be run without error."
So because they could not run the software from a device produced in the 2010s on a device produced in the 1990s - it was not considered as prior art... astonishing.

Yeah - they're effectively asking a californian based jury if how much money they would like South Korea (Samsung) to donate to the local economy - I find it hard to believe any Californian based jury was going to decide anything different. I wonder what the long term effect will be of US based jurys charging billions of dollars to international firms just to do business in the US...

I first heard of Scrum from my wifes hospital ward - where they were using the technique to manage the activities of their staff. This made me curious as to its origins and it turns out it was first and foremost a product development methodology. So its not that Scrum is spreading from its software origins - it never originated in software in the first place.

but can you do the fandango?

Yeah in the UK the C64 was up against the sinclair spectrum (which was probably more popular at least at the time most of my mates had these) - as well as the Amstrad machines and BBC micro machines - so it had some tough competition.
I had the C64 - in fact I still have mine - sat behind me right now in pieces - as it needs a keyboard repair - (need to get a replacement h key from somewhere).
I recently picked up my C64 from my mothers attic - even today I think it could well be the best way to get my son into programming - that and the new raspberry PI.

haha - pot calling kettle black - I looked at some your old posts and noticed the usage of quite a few hyphens. Take a look yourself...

It all depends on what actions are taken with the information - and who does the interviews.
A few years ago now - over a period - my company lost several key developers - and tech experts. I don't work for our HR department - but I was working as a peer (with 15+ years experience) to those that had left. I rapidly got fed up with seeing some really good colleagues leave - and so I requested to as many as I could to exit interview them. Noone that I asked declined - as they knew that I wasn't from HR - and I explained that the main reason was to improve the company - and try to fix the issues that they had with it. I had quite a detailed set of questions - and collected answers in the same manner from all. Then I went through the answers - and came up with suggestions to improve things. One of the key things for our company was - that when tech experts / devs get to a certain level - the only career paths open to them - was management or sales - and most wanted neither. I started the changes such that we managed to introduce a technical expert career track - which means that you can now be a tech expert all the way up to the second to top level in our company (top level being director / CEO). Subsequently I got comments from those that left that if this had happened earlier - then they might not have left. There were many other issues that we took forwards and tried to address - some with success - some not. I've always believed that it is best to try to fix the company I work for before looking outside. If the company I work for ever becomes closed to these fixes - then I will up sticks and go elsewhere.

I agree - the underlying figures show that Microsofts core business is actually in pretty good shape. Its just that many people posting here don't seem to realize that Microsofts core business has moved on from Windows if you take a look at the summarised figures:

Windows + Windows live division: 13% loss in revenue
Server + Server tools: 13% increase in revenue
Online services division: 8% increase in revenue
Microsoft business division: 7% increase in revenue
Entertainment + devices division: 20% increase in revenue