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Comment: Re:Less is more. (Score 5, Insightful) 403

by neonmonk (#43660859) Attached to: Adobe's Creative Cloud Illustrates How the Cloud Costs You More

Why would you use the obviously inferior GIMP, when you already own CS3,4,5 or 6?

The real answer is to stop upgrading until something better comes along. Now whether that option is Adobe Cloud (which I highly doubt) or another competitor is to be seen.

But it's not GIMP and it never will be.

Comment: Re:Equal rights (Score 1) 832

by neonmonk (#43617105) Attached to: So What If Yahoo's New Dads Get Less Leave Than Moms?

It's not just discrimination against the dads, it's discriminating against their wives - implying that they should be the stay at homes and how dare they want to get back to their career, which may or may not be better than their husbands. And let's face it, I'm sure their career has a better future, considering they're not working for Yahoo...

Comment: Re:Press the Windows key then type (Score 1) 1010

by neonmonk (#43420013) Attached to: Windows 8 Killing PC Sales

ERMAHGERD YOU CAN SEARCH THE GIGANTIC SCREENMENU!

Pfft. It's apologists like you that really annoys me. Win7 has type ahead as well. And it's definitely useful, I use it all the time. What it doesn't do when I access the Win7 start menu is disconnect me from my current task/context. Full screen menus are jarring and when all people use the Start Menu for is a list of applications, it's completely unnecessary.

I would go as far to say it's not even necessary for tablets, and a swipe side menu would be really goddamn cool.

Stop making excuses for Microsoft's bad decision making regarding their UI, just because you've found it tolerable.

Comment: Nonsense (Score 4, Insightful) 43

by neonmonk (#43279291) Attached to: Apache CloudStack Becomes a Top-level Project

"CloudStack provides an open and flexible cloud orchestration platform to deliver reliable and scalable private and public clouds."

When I go to an "About" page, I expect to be told exactly what x thing is all about.

As it stands, I have no idea what CloudStack is or does, apart from nonsensical "cloud" mumbo jumbo.

Businesses

EA Building Microtransactions Into All of Its Future Games 303

Posted by Soulskill
from the do-not-want dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Develop reports on comments from Blake Jorgensen, Electronic Arts' Chief Financial Officer, speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference. As you may have guessed from the name of the conference, the business aspect of EA was the topic. Jorgensen said, 'The next and much bigger piece [of the business] is microtransactions within games. ... We're building into all of our games the ability to pay for things along the way, either to get to a higher level to buy a new character, to buy a truck, a gun, whatever it might be, and consumers are enjoying and embracing that way of the business.' This is particularly distressing given EA's recent implementation of microtransations in Dead Space 3, where you can spend money to improve your weaponry."
Science

Does the Higgs Boson Reveal Our Universe's Doomsday? 421

Posted by Soulskill
from the keep-calm-and-carry-on dept.
astroengine writes "If calculations of the newly discovered Higgs boson particle are correct, one day, tens of billions of years from now, the universe will disappear at the speed of light, replaced by a strange, alternative dimension one theoretical physicist calls boring. 'It may be that the universe we live in is inherently unstable and at some point billions of years from now it's all going to get wiped out. This has to do with the Higgs energy field itself,' Joseph Lykken, with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., said. 'This calculation tells you that many tens of billions of years from now there'll be a catastrophe.'"
Businesses

What EMC Looks For When It's Hiring 223

Posted by Slashdot Staff
from the pulse-strongly-recommended dept.
Yvonne Lee, Community Manager at Dice.com, writes "Because EMC has expanded through more than 70 acquisitions in eight years — it was hiring even during the recession — and because many of the acquired companies were startups, it is trying to leverage the more dynamic cultures it's inherited and make itself more nimble and innovative. People it hired 'need to be able to move fast and run,' Thus, a key to getting the company's attention is to prove you can do what you say you can. In other words, when Murray asks if you can work fast, you can't just say yes. You'll have to use your previous achievements to prove that you can."

Comment: Re:Well... (Score 5, Interesting) 305

by neonmonk (#42666263) Attached to: 'Bankrupt' Australian Surgeon Sues Google For Auto-Complete

He didn't. His personal bankruptcy was annulled.

But even if he did go bankrupt from the CoastJet business failing, should that be broadcast to everyone as soon as they even type in his name into Google? It's completely out of context. He didn't go bankrupt from being sued by patients. He didn't go bankrupt by gambling his money at the casino (although buying into aviation at this stage of the game could be argued as riskier) - the guy is being punished needlessly.

Does this have to go to a lawsuit though? Why can't Google seem to moderate themselves effectively? You should be able to fill out a form saying "Google autocomplete is being mean to me" and Google decides whether or not it makes sense to remove said autocomplete. It shouldn't be hard. Simple common sense.

I don't know what the case here is, but if he did try to contact Google then I'm sure they ignored him completely as they are wont to do.

Anyone who claims this is about freedom of speech are being ridiculous. Should people be able to buy billboard space around the world and declare to the world that you are pedophile? Or something true, a compulsive masturbator? What makes a Google autocomplete any different?

Waste not, get your budget cut next year.

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