they would be using their back to pull against that 40-lb resistance...which is not that big a deal if you're in shape.

40 lb resistance is not a lot of weight but putting all that pressure onto a coin-sized ring that could only be pulled with one gloved finger? That seems really odd to me.

Think of the last time you carried groceries nowhere near 40 lb and the bags cut into your hand, even though you were using all four fingers. Increase the weight to 40lb, then quadruple it by putting it on one finger. That's a lot of force required.

Metrics are favoured by lazy management.

Look, using metrics doesn't indicate lazy management.

Look, using metrics that you don't have available doesn't indicate lazy management.

Look, using metrics that you don't have available so you ask your staff to measure their own metrics doesn't indicate lazy management.

Look, using metrics that you don't have available, so you ask your staff to measure their own metrics, but you don't know what metrics they should measure, so they end up asking Slashdot what some good metrics are, doesn't indicate lazy management.

One of you is getting fired

language that existed in MUDs still exist in modern MMOs -- words like proc and mob

I love NCIX but I gotta admit I usually buy consumer stuff from them rather than industrial-grade like server shelves. The one time I had a problem with them, they screwed up the quantity of some 120mm cooling fans I ordered, and when I phoned them it was pretty obvious that they were swamped because of the Sandy Bridge replacement fiasco (my company was having fulfillment trouble from Dell during the same period).

Agreed. The wikipedia article linked from this story illustrates that the industry hasn't stood still and there have been developments by nVidia and others for alternative methods. If we're lucky the new Doom 3 source will have a better algorithm than the retail version.

I sent John Carmack an email about this back in April 2009:

It sounds like id's lawyers are asking him to implement one of the workarounds he mentioned before he makes the public release.

Want to know what's wrong with the eBook market? Just check out this page; $15 for a poorly scanned version of a book that was written more than 40 years ago

I tried....:

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No good deed goes unpunished

i honestly tried to grasp the logic set forth in the article but all i can see is "wahhhh we don't like the itunes model". if you don't want to get swallowed by itunes like the music industry did, create your own digital storefront. you never will because this implies actually building something rather than sitting back and letting the royalty checks flow in, you lazy, litigious, delusional assholes

this is definitely what mozilla needs rather than a stable release cycle and MSI packages for enterprise

Someone in a previous article mentioned that Cringely predicted these events back in February:

http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/why-leo-apotheker-will-be-fired-from-hewlett-packard/

He said "Meg can knock back brewskies as well as any man and will probably fill those CEO shoes even better than Apotheker."

She will probably put the reins on the death spiral that Apotheker only accelerated.

Because there is no link to TFA to R :(

clamwin antivirus is devastatingly inferior to microsoft security essentials. google "clamwin userinit.exe" to read about clamwin's false positives leaving computers inoperable back in 2009

If one of the guidelines is "No data shall be allowed to escape the system," then that's good enough.

Quite right. This is the exact reason I pipe my customer's information to /dev/null