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Comment Re:Also Xerox (Score 3, Insightful) 181

by EvilSuggestions on Monday March 11, 2013 @04:53PM (#43142425) Attached to: Sheryl Sandberg and Technology's Female Leaders

Speaking as someone who was IRIF'ed during a large, showy reorganization at Xerox, I beg to differ:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9228947/Xerox_s_outsourcing_one_year_later_layoffs
And that move definitely destroyed the once-proud solid engineering traditions of the Phaser printer org that Xerox acquired from Tektronix. Used to be an amazing group of innovative engineers there, and now just a burnt out husk remains.

Submission + - Is Canonical's Qt Move A Mobile Power Play? (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruhlinger on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @03:44PM

jfruhlinger writes: Many Linux users were pleased to hear that Canonical was going to include Qt libraries in the next version of Ubuntu. Brian Proffitt was happy, too — but he also sees what's in it for Canonical: a way into the mobile Linux space, something that directly effects the GNOME-centril MeeGo distro. Qt plus Ubuntu could add up to "a better MeeGo than MeeGo."

Comment Re:"Planing?" (Score 1) 227

by EvilSuggestions on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @04:54PM (#34703160) Attached to: France Planning Non-Windows Tablet Tax?

I've wanted to ask a real linguist: is there a technical term for that construct? I know a few people here in the US Pacific NW who occasionally make use of that construct in day-to-day speech, and I'm curious about how much it has been studied. For example, does it have a well defined regional distribution?

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