obviously you lean right. did you not get the memo that right-thinking, right-leaning people should only head to "nytimes.com" to bitch at Krugman? to suggest that a "real American" would ever be in the NY Times audience shows your commitment to the cause must be flagging or flaccid. the left still has its Mojo, just ask Mr. Weiner. no flaccid problems there!

is that what the Fox legal team said? why would you repeat corporate rubbish? at least put a smiley face on that noise or you might confuse the less evolved

Enemy, shmenemy.

Microsoft was a bland bureaucracy that produced the worst sort of bloated corporate junkware. They were monopolistic pigs with contemptible table manners (think Ballmer here). At times I frakking hated them.

Google however has been a meritocracy that creates stuff that is often pretty cool. Google has an appetite like any other corporate beast but so far they've been more refined which I appreciate. So far I have little cause to fear or hate them.

So Microsoft took my money and gave me junkware. Google takes whatever data I give them and gives me ads and fairly useful tools.

I like Google's proposition better and I don't believe that is particularly sad at all.

• 1) find out which Comcast execs use their own service
• 2) hack in with malice aforethought
• 3) ???
• 4) profit!

Comcast Exec: [logs into service] hmm, why does my home thermostat read 666?

Hubbard was a hateful, psychotic douchebag. Surely a closer comparison to Hubbard is Ellison at Oracle, versus Jobs at Apple.

I get the controlling, the secrecy, the clique -- all true for both Scientology and Appledom. But to compare the virility of the "illness" I say Apple is like a cold sore caught from a kiss (costs something, but worth it), Oracle is like herpes (one pays for life and there is no cure) and Scientology is like ebola (one bleeds [cash] til one dies)

Nice story "Chips & Dips"
Slashdot (really just a rebranded "Chips & Dips") can't resist pulling an acronym out of the mists of time
Seriously, not that hard to say "Russia's Federal Security Service (aka FSB) wants..."
The 1980's called and said they wanted their Cold War propaganda back

This is not a bad strategy for Microsoft but I don't think the stated reason makes any sense.

I guess Mr. Mundie can't say "Microsoft is a flat-flippered, bloated, beached, dead whale of an organization and we cannot expect to catch our more nimble competitors." At least he can't say that and keep his job.

Instead of Microsoft trying to be "cool" - which they are genetically incapable of - they should go after a market where a hugely overpriced competitor could be undercut. I'm thinking Oracle business applications could be undercut without too much effort. Microsoft sort of has their own server software stack - they just need to cobble together some business junkware that runs on it then sell it at a tenth the cost of Oracle's junkware. Then it's "Hello Mister Massive Sales! W00t!"

MS already has a lot of the pieces, they just need to bundle it altogether, call it a "solution" and run it in the cloud :)

Never attribute to competence that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. [ Krugman's Razor ]

Not that much trouble really, a small matter of building a system to distrubute water -- think municipal water supply. Or would thinking be too much trouble?

Jesus, we've descended to the point where a minor engineering problem elicits meh, why bother?

Idiocracy

Obviously we're getting close to the end of the run for the Earth 2.0 simulation
We tried to warn you all, but oh dear... So sad it's come to this
So long, so long, so long, and thanks for all the fish

-z dolphins-

"what is Valentine's Day, Alex?"

As a loyal Apple customer enjoying my flawless devices, this is what I got out of your post.
Why would anyone mod you troll?

I'm sure the Republicans aren't just using this to get some of their NH political juice back. And if they got some back, I'm sure they wouldn't reconsider the merits of the system.
I'm also sure the Democrats will wholeheartedly support allowing voters to have more choice, even at the expense of some of their own newfound political juice in NH.
Yes, I'm being totally serious. No, reeeeallllyyyyy

nice one Heisenberg
not sure if that joke's funny, or not

So very cool. Just read this Rolling Stone Article associated with SAIL - frak me rotten.

Death of newspapers and music stores predicted in 1972 - swoops my hair back.

I knew frakking around with LISP was mild altering, but I didn't know it lead to prescience and precognitive ability. Woof