I say we combine the two and call it the Microsoft Leukemia.

Redesign the heating towers to look like giant cats.

Next problem, please.

They should name it according to the way people use it:

"Microsoft Googler", or maybe "Microsoft Google Chrome Downloader", would seem to be good choices.

Forgive and forgetting is hard, when Microsoft never really changed their strategy of working you into proprietary technologies and vendor lock-in.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

That analogy is so flawed as to make me wonder if your boss should be managing developers. Make sure he knows that you don't work for free, and that no software developer worth a damn is going to either.

Fixing bugs is not 'replacing bad bricks', and software engineering is not as simple as looking at an opening and seeing how many lines of code will fill it.

A sane ruling on the matter...
and in Florida...

[Update;} I'm back from the window, but I didn't see neither a lake of fire *nor* four horsemen. :\

> i mean the STARTING price is the same as the Xbone, and that is for the LOW END bottom o' the line system? Really?

It's not reasonable to expect a non-subsidized, upgradeable (in the case of many of the models), open console to cost less than subsidized, locked-down hardware with a consolidated-to-be-cheap design.

The Steam Machines are only a bad deal if you are the kind of person that only buys few AAA games and don't want to take advantage the openness to do things like run services (ex. put a minecraft server on your box) and/or emulators for your old console games.

You'd have to hack around it with the usual solution (pipelight) for now, but NetFlix is re-writing their client to drop Silverlight and be fully HTML5. So, in the future it should work natively.

It would have to travel 4 miles an hour over every possible type of terrain. Better to just live in orbit.