I am wondering if I actually got the first post nine whole minutes after this stor was published. Is this discrimination against women on slashdot? Just wondering cause the half life of a new story before comments is usually about one minute.

All this hot wind about tax credits... I think it will break soon. And this whole thing will blow over.

I suspect the entire post is a subtle troll to fill up an otherwise newsless day. Doing "the last 10%" is called "doing your job" to people whose job it is to manage servers. If it's not your job, hire someone and go away. That's about as subtle a non-answer a non-question, non-issue can get.

It's a free market. Microsoft is not forcing anyone to buy its products. If may be mildly coercive in the short term to companies that feel they "must" use Microsoft products, but raising prices is also the best method to charge customers what the product is really worth to them. If it's worth it to switch, they will. But if not, then fair is fair.

Moderation gods may flame-mod me down on this. But you also have to "get to the point" where you get over the Metro interface. I have dealt with many Windows newbies (ranging from relatives to customers -- mostly non-techies) in the past who had a very hard time dealing with the idea of a "Start" menu. It's not going to be real fun seeing them deal without it. Especially when the help calls start coming in.

The analogy does not end there. He could buy a wireless router and totally reframe the whole analysis.

You are looking at 2.5-5% overhead depending on TCP, UDP, frame size, etc. Not 20-30%. If you're feeling pungent, save up your bills for a year and file a small claims court action. Might cost you a few bucks and a couple hours. In exchange, ATT is 99% likely not so show up (therefore you win by default), or to call and offer you credit for cancellation. Should be worth a few hundred bucks to you.

Save your breath. Why would Apple give Google any face on this? The #1 reason they dumped Google Maps was Google's withholding turn-by-turn voice navigation from the iOS version in order to give their Android platform a competitive advantage. Google wanted to play hardball, and they got it. No TBT, no dice. Plain and simple.

Run it through your regular NAT router setup and tell your kid not to download nasty stuff!

And consider the educational value of having him get viruses. And the joy of reinstalling the OS.

Maybe he will appreciate dad's wisdom to date ;)

You have the right to remain silent.

Great patent idea. What could go wrong?

Oh, yeah.

The 3D Chiseler.

That's true. On the other hand, it's virtually impossible to enforce on any practical technical level. Like the quality of a first post.

Google voice search is just an alternative entry method for the standard search. It is hardly a strategic counter to the more AI-driven approach (ok, quasi-AI) that Siri represents. And it does little to address either the vertical search gap presented by Yelp, or the "diagonal" functionality gap that Siri addresses by smoothly integrating with your other iOS apps like text message, alarm or calendar.

It's pretty clear what happened. They kept the keys secret and held out for a long time on "principle" because that was the best business decision at the time. Then, as the onslaught of iPhone and Android took its toll, the principle changed to survival, because that became the new best business decision.

It's sad, but at this point, it hardly affects any country but India anyway!

Look. All I want is a computer with two keys. A 1 and a 0. Preferably really, really big keys. No software. No firmware. Just me and the machine. No way to screw things up. It will do what I tell it, and no more. That way, I can keep banging away until I get either Turing's syndrome, or Tourette's.