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Comment Re:I've questioned that myself (Score 1) 283

Finance is complex, and I'm not surprised Ballmer doesn't get that.
Start with Why the loss? Take a look.

They are moving into a lot of platforms. They want to be the mobile platform for all content.
It won't surprise me if Amazon opens up a way for people to have video channels, like Youtube but with a way to weed out the idiots.
Amazon is playing the long game. If they win they will be the platform everyone uses to launch need business and grow.

If the flinch and decides to cut the moves they have made to do that, in the long run they won't add up to much.
If a large financial organization didn't illegally use my money, I would use this time to Invest in Amazon,

Comment Fist off (Score 1) 283

who gives a shit about what these people say?
Cuban got lucky, and MS barely simmered along under Ballmer.

IBM has one of the best RnD labs in the world. So yeah, there a tech company.
It's nice of fat ass Ballmer to tell every hard working mom and pop shop restaurant their not a real business.

Comment Re:Packages can't be removed? (Score 2) 126

Because ubuntu dosen't allow new major versions to be added to a distro that has already been released.

Do they allow packages to be ranamed? Then changing only 5 bits woudl rectify the situation.

If they just leave the code as-is, but change the name from "ownCloud" to "pwnCloud", then the actual functionality of the package would be clear to everyone.

Comment Re:Cashiers (Score 1) 720

Wonder if the cashiers would even be able to do that today...

They weren't able to do it back then, either.

Any large order had an almost 100% chance of having an arithmetic error. It was always unfathomable to me how more than a century after the invention of the cash register, a multi-billion dollar company could predicate all of their income on high school students' scribbling. Not to mention having to wait in line while all these errors were tediously generated by the staff then checked over by irate customers.

It was a great thing when McDonalds finally dragged themselves into the 19th century.

Comment Re:Just call a dealer (Score 1) 120

A) It's more accurate.
B) You can send the dealer a email
C) Online isn't working.

And no, many of you do NOT have Aspergers syndrome. Some do. No more here then anywhere else.

Most of you are just passive aggressive ass hats.
I am around people with Aspergers syndrome every day. I don't know of any that can't use a phone to call someone they don't know.

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