Comment Re:What's going on? (Score 1) 105
Maybe it's a "you didn't make me CEO of MS, so this is what you get" message from Elop?! :D
Linux will inherit the Earth. Tremble, M$ Office paperclip.
The hilarious thing about this is that there's someone as MS who has decided that the best way to approach the problem of Android/ChromeOS taking their market share is to... compete on price. Because that's going to work isn't it?
Robing Google of Android market-share would be both amusing, and potentially profitable!
It would be good to see other companies competing with Google for a bundled app-stack on Android, so if MS or even Apple were to compete, then this would be a good thing.
But just to pick up on your point about it being "amusing", I assume you're saying that because Google created Android, and thus if they got screwed over for making a genuinely open platform, this would some how be funny?
Let's be clear here, Google have been playing nice (mostly) all the way through. That's why other people can take that platform and monetise it without paying Google a bean. I'd love to see MS do something like that... because of course, they wouldn't.
A photo booth at a mall I think had 'kernal panic' on the screen, so I assume it was linux.
Wouldn't you feel insulted if it had a kernel panic right after taking your picture?!
10 years of service when built to last 90 days.
Thank the Martian winds. The wind blows the dust off of the rovers solar collectors, that wasn't expected.
It could do with another scrub though... them Martian dust devils are getting lazy!!. I'm amazed any solar energy actually gets through all that stuff.
[raises glass to the continued awesomeness of Opportunity rover]
Thanks, but $8 for a bulb that lasts 25% more than my
That was a box of 10! But they are generally a bit more expensive it's true.
Never ceases to blow my mind when people outside the US think 10 miles is a commute. I am not criticizing, it is just an interesting divergence of viewpoint.
Perhaps it's because roads in a lot of places are not very straight or even particularly smooth so that means a journey will take longer. Also, in 1980's UK, probably most house-holds only had one car, so being forced to buy a car to get to work is another expense. And fuel costs more in the UK. Oh, and also, driving a manual car with a little 1.3litre straight-four manual transmission versus (say) a 3 litre v6 automatic probably makes a journey seem a bit longer too. Especially with the rain druming on the roof... the whole fucking way. And back again!
We're not jealous by the way!
Declare the copper thieves terrorists and have them shot.
Firm but fair!
I do seriously think that any crime that is an attack on "infrastructure" should be punished more harshly though, so phone lines/exchange equipment, and also things like train signalling cables which also happens (in the UK anyway).
should we setup a separate email address at google for each vendor account we create?
You don't already use an alias? username+vendor@gmail.com
Surprising how many scripts tell you that this is not a valid email address.
Seriously!! I keep thinking I should set up a "shame" website to list sites that do stupid validation like this. There must be loads of devs using the same borked regex and it pisses me off no end!
and they are part owners of private prisons so they even make bank off of the prison time as well.
Yeah, they should be sued for insider trading! or something!
Seriously though, is $183K a reasonable price for what they needed doing? It sounds a tad expensive to me, so it would be interesting to know who created that invoice.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
