howlingmad - Slashdot User

Comment Retail Stores? (Score 1) 167

by howlingmad on Monday September 12, 2016 @03:36PM (#52873175) Attached to: Amazon Will Open 100 Retail Stores

Brick and mortar business? Whoa! Old school. My butt "everything online".

Comment Microsoft! Fixes bugs! In Skype! For Linux! (Score 1) 89

by howlingmad on Monday September 12, 2016 @03:31PM (#52873107) Attached to: Microsoft Fixes Bugs in Skype for Linux

Oh my god! What a beautiful day! Let us celebrate this!

Comment Sales (Score 1) 76

by howlingmad on Saturday September 10, 2016 @05:09PM (#52863629) Attached to: Stephen Wolfram Reveals Ambitious Plan to Teach Computational Thinking

So we all should buy Mathematica?

Comment Congratulations! (Score 1) 204

by howlingmad on Friday September 09, 2016 @12:48PM (#52855961) Attached to: Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek'

Qapla' ! :-)

Comment But why? (Score 1) 371

by howlingmad on Thursday September 24, 2015 @03:37PM (#50591537) Attached to: Chinese Tech Companies Hire 'Cheerleaders' To Motivate Programmers

Why do they have to motivate their programmers so badly? Bad projects? Bad programming language?

Comment Why So Apathetic? Why not? (Score 1) 241

by howlingmad on Thursday September 24, 2015 @03:34PM (#50591519) Attached to: It Is Programmer Day - Why So Apathetic?

Programming as a job sucks.

Comment Good luck! (Score 1) 416

by howlingmad on Saturday February 18, 2012 @11:42AM (#39085641) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development?

Good luck on your search. I hope to follow you soon. All the best.

Comment He's right (Score 1) 881

by howlingmad on Thursday August 06, 2009 @02:46PM (#28976507) Attached to: Murdoch Says, "We'll Charge For All Our Sites"

This guy knows what he's talking about. They will not charge for everything, but certainly for 'premium' content. Whatever that is.

Murdoch Says, "We'll Charge For All Our Sites" 881

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @10:33PM from the subverting-the-dominant-paradigm dept.

Oracle Goddess writes "In what appears to be a carefully planned suicide, Rupert Murdoch announced that his media giant News Corporation Ltd intends to charge for all its news websites in a bid to lift revenues, as the transition towards online media permanently changes the advertising landscape. 'The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive methods of distribution, but it has not made content free. Accordingly we intend to charge for all our news websites,' Murdoch said."

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