Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
That's why I attack with
Raw magic instead.

--Archmage Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice and Arcane"

Don't wait on it. They're still too busy harassing YouTube users to show their Real Name, and tweaking the same to look more like Facebook (noticed those pics next to the comments? --oh who am I kidding, I'm trying to get people to read YouTube comments to make a point...silly me).

Tough to stop employees from doing something when it's the company goal.

Carrier Grade

adj., patently obsolete; low quality; ridiculous; fucked up.

WTF!? He just one-hit killed me. That's some Carrier Grade bullshit right there.

At DeweyCheatam&Howe, we are committed to combining Carrier Grade customer service with Wall Street Grade executive profits.

Come on, dude, stop driving that Carrier Grade '60s clunker and get a real car!

She's my ex-girlfriend now, because that Carrier Grade whore was in our bedroom with some poolboy from down the block.

I think backslashdot's talking about the sudden rise after the fall. These days you can very safely read "back off its strategy of aggressively discounting drives to gain market share, allowing its rivals to raise prices, as well" as "work with its rivals to keep prices high so they don't have to worry about those pesky 'competition' or 'can't pay their CEOs bonuses this quarter' things".

Whether by government fine ("unfortunately, we have to pass the costs of onerous government regulation on to the consumer" and such bullshit), continued corporate collusion, or both (because fines don't stop determined white-collar criminals from just speaking in a new code), the days of hope for reasonable SSD prices will be (if not are) over. Oh well.

I'd rather have both services die. Even @Blogger is #BetterThanThatMarketerFloodedConstrainedCrap.

Where the hell does Intel get off telling its customers what they have to build with their chips?

"Nice wholesale chip prices you got there. Shame if anything were to raise them..."

Just as long as they're not "super heroes", or they'll have a whole different royalty problem.

Close. The six strikes don't quite give them that power. Instead the management will hire their tech-gofer grandsons to

1. replace the CPUs inside the offending PowerPoint laptops with Celerons for a few days,
2. add a bunch of toolbars to their browsers-of-choice, and
3. tell the MPAA the slides used Comic Sans.

That'll learn 'em.

Dear Sirmadam President,

You might have removed our Glorious People's Technology from your nuclear reactors, but we know everything that happened in there now. The nuke codes, the aliens, the frat parties you held above the spent-fuel pool with that "Lohan" girl because the glow was supposedly aphrodisiac...pah! We're way ahead of you there!

We have better nukes. Scalier aliens. Even more of your tech. And when we call in your debts...we'll have the blackmail videos from the party to make you pay! I hear some of your Cabinet members were...deeply embedded that day! Haaa hahaha*continues to laugh and cough all Sephiroth-like*...

On behalf of the People's Republic,

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Big Hoojie

PS: YES WE SPELLED "SCALIER" CORRECTLY. Our aliens are like fucking Draconians, not those starved green bean dolls with potato heads and shit.

There ought to be a meeting between big browser makers to come up with a standard version of HTML that fixes this platform-specific web app mess. Maybe one of Google's employees can author it.

I've definitely seen a bunch of chromebook ads (mainly "For Everyone") here in the US. (At least twice as many Windows 8 ads though, and mainly the "Artist" ad.)

Well, they did the "find whoever was responsible" part, but I'm not sure you'd be happy with what they actually did with one instead.

Sadly, even Qt is slowly rolling down the Psycho Control Freak UI Designer road (see Qt Quick). I think we need more widget standardization, not de-emphasis.

They already did-ish, for Visual Studio 2012, by making an extension to use a predefined VS2010-like color scheme or custom ones.

It's neither a full reversal nor an apology for the sudden rash of Full Retard spasms from their marketing and UI departments, and oh-so-certainly not enough to get me to give my street address just to register to use a more horrible-looking VS Express, but it's slight progress. Like, 0.3% of the giant leap back they took.

Without kWh statistics, I call shenanigans.

The GIFT gave them a giant excuse as well. Thanks, Penny Arcade! Thanks for fucking up the internet.