We've recently had two UPSs expire in the last couple of months. We were talking about it and we have a UPS fail more often than we have a power outage. If the UPS fails more often than a power outage, why do we even use UPSs?

Every time I read an article like this, it gives me a smug face wondering why more people don't switch.

I didn't know that Microsoft was trying to gain open source credibility. Last I checked, they were the kings of proprietary software.

I interviewed with Microsoft for a development position a few weeks ago. I found that the interviewers were very arrogant. They assumed they knew all the details about my past projects. It felt like politics with them would be horrendous because everyone is showing each other up.

Needless to say, I turned down the job offer. It doesn't surprise me how they keep making flub ups like this when the people at their company are so arrogant.

I think it's kind of ironic how both the courts and Microsoft wanted to keep this secret, but slashdot here has no respect for that. Does it occur to anyone here that there was a reason they wanted it to be secret? Maybe they didn't want these organizations retaliating? This kind of reminds me of the one time a news reporter was being held hostage. The government wanted to keep the fact that she was hostage out of the public eye in order to lower the ransom fee. However, wikipedia editors thought it better to post to it to the public.

Times like this make me grateful that I've chosen to use Windows instead of Linux.

If you use Windows, be prepared to succumb to the conditions of the company that produces it. This includes if the company that produces it wants to assure that you actually paid for the software you installed. If you are not all right with this, don't use Windows.

My AI teacher opened his class with telling us all about these researchers that were making predictions back in the 50's and 60's about AI. During that era, they had great expectations of AI only to have them crushed later. They made predictions that 10 years from then, we would be able to replace human translators with computers. As we know, computers have not replaced human translators. They were so unsuccessful, that there is what is called "The Dark Age of NLP (Natural Language Processing".

If I learned anything in that class, it was not to make predictions about when computers will or will not make AI breakthroughs. Historically, researchers have been way off.

Those were my Google searches! I just recently built that crib!

At my university, most CS students do not take notes at all. It's kind of foreign to see someone taking notes in a CS course. I assume it is because CS courses are about understanding the concept instead of memorizing information. Because it's not as much memorization, note taking is not as needed.