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Possibly Nadella could bring interesting novelties at MS, thanks to his former position at Sun MS (Microsystems), his cloud work at MS and his Tim Cook look. That seems to be a wise choice.

It doesn't take a Columbo to figure out that when someone refers to Columbo, that person was born the same year TV did.

Possibly Nadella could bring interesting novelties at MS, thanks to his former position at Sun MS (Microsystems), his cloud work at MS and his Tim Cook look. That seems to be a wise choice.

With all the brainwashes we get from ads, TV, reality shows and political meetings, how could we be "information fuller"?

This.

Thank you for posting this. I've always used Seagate which have had a high success rate in terms of reliability and quietness (unlike some other makers that I won't mention).

This is why when an official entity, like the UK gov, goes for OpenOffice, ie something open, that will push companies to do the same. Little by little, world will tend towards something more standard and open, and the remaining hard MS officers, will have no other choice than migrate to the new standards if they want their docs readable. This is what happened with Internet Explorer, as more and more people went away IE 6-7, pushing MS to do something more compatible. The difference lies into the fact that MS Office is not free, and, more importantly, MS office is for many companies the only blocking reason they can't migrate to something else, Mac or Linux. I'm not saying they would migrate but at least - after MS Office is gone - most of them can.

The best movies I know all come from a book. And most readers are usually the ones who want to see what the book gives on screen (eg LOTR). Thus saying "if the story leaks in a book, nobody will go see it in a theater" is wrong. So, does such leak have a bad impact on the movie success is yet to be proven. With all the media publicity it created (like /.), the leak is probably not so bad for QT (besides, one may wonder why it took Tarantino a week to sue the guy...).

That's true. But the poll would have been biased, since, being so funny, everybody would have clicked on it...

and the ones to blame here are more the parents than the schools. If no parent would send their kids to there these schools wouldn't exist.

Kind of agree. Gates had 2mn to think, but he chose to play quick - probably not seeing what was coming. But anyone who played against a strong chess software, like Fritz, knows how quickly this thing takes you down. And Carlsen is better than Fritz..

Must have been the Scholar's mate (didn't see the video). Meaning even a beginner could beat Gates in 71 seconds. Not to minimize Gates success, but

could he do the same thing today if he was starting from scratch? Make a rather crappy [D]OS for the [at the time] biggest player in the industry [IBM]? Then perform a "IBM gamble" and become a monopoly? Benefit from being underestimated at the time from competition (Sun, Apple, HP) stubbornly keeping selling overpriced hard/software? Doubt that.

But .. where is Microsoft? Out of the picture - or geographical issue?