Comment: Re:Posting with it now... (Score 1) 348
but but but but... Windows 7 won't stay around forever, right?
Comment: Re:So the BSA is leading the charge (Score 1) 89
My meme-sniffing dog just got very excited about the parent post...
Comment: Re:Wait, what now? (Score 1) 460
Then why this post from Raymond Chen: Windows is not a
Comment: Re:Irrefutable fact (Score 1) 386
I guess that's why the GP was modded flamebait.
Comment: Re:Preaching To The Choir (Score 1) 474
but the trend line for Linux adoption remains as flat as the Kansas prairies.
Well duh, most of us can't use Linux at work. So all that web traffic from work would count as Windows usage. Now compare the amount of web traffic (HTTP! not bittorrent) caused by working with the amount of web traffic from home. Which one would dominate? See?
Comment: Re:Facebook should pay popular users. (Score 2) 204
Users who generate a lot of page views are rewarded. This encourages users to create more and hopefully "better" (in terms of interest to their audience) posts.
No. It will encourage users to post more popular content.
And popular != better
Comment: Re:Headline (Score 1) 89
Yeah. When seeing the headline, I wondered why Anonymous would attack a virgin.
Comment: Re:Open BSD confirms it (Score 2) 135
That must be in Soviet Russia...
Comment: Re:It has nothing to do with "head start" time (Score 1) 126
300 frickin' developers and the best they have is, "uh, I turned a modal dialog for word counts into a modeless dialog". Really? That is an embarrassment.
Give them some time to improve. They started with a large complicated, bloated and bug-ridden codebase. Many developers are new to the project, and they can't be super productive from day one.
Comment: Re:Xerox - "damn, why didnt we think of that" (Score 1) 234
Why do you assume that they are still using the exact same algorithm?