People can't even take short-cuts properly!

I guess the kind of person who takes shortcuts can't be bothered to do it properly - short-cutting the short-cut.

But I suppose that those who can take short-cuts properly don't get spotted....

Sometimes, what's good for the stock-price is not good for the business.

Maybe he had to be "decisive" and "strategic" in order to survive so he went boldly ahead to exit the DVD-by-mail business and preserved investor confidence at the expense of the business, even though he wasn't sure it was a good idea.

Yeah... that was my experience... when WP for windows came out it sucked and crashed and was useless; it's fans tried hard to like it and pretend it was OK, and made excuses for it... but it was not good.

You don't have a kernel security bug in the word processor, you have it in the kernel.

The word processor makes kernel calls all the time; usually wrapped in crt.dll and cpp.dll calls but it's kernel calls in the end.

Opening a file and locking a file requires a kernel call.

I absolutely block all ads.

I even blocked your post, so I'm replying blind, and I hope the context fits!

On a serious note, you have just made the same point I was making; it's nice that we agree.

So... Stephen Elop calls it 'the first real Windows Phone'

I thought this was the first windows phone: http://www.dcviews.com/press/Orange_SPV.htm

Orange was a Microsoft Gold Partner, and I wrote the Orange custom home screen software complete with easter-egg while working for Orange in Leeds.

Now I learn it was all just a dream... it wasn't a REAL windows phone at all... or maybe Elop is too young and inexperienced to remember recent history... ah well..

You must learn the difference between "everyone will" and "anyone can"

DNA doesn't lie, but you can't always tell what it's "saying"

And those doing DNS tests might lie, and those collecting it might collect extra DNA (it's too small to see) or tamper with it on purpose.

I think gnome3 is great. It does have a menu (despite most people saying it doesn't: hint - click on "applications" instead of "windows" when you press the menu button)

However.. I also have a three monitor desktop, using xinerama, one of them is a udlfb usb frame-buffer device. So I guess gnome3 will never work for me. This forces me to mint, which I've been considering after being ignored and/or insulted to death by launchpad.

It's also wrong. The menu hasn't gone.
Press the windows button (or mouse-move to the top-left-corner)

You then get to choose from "windows" (running apps) or if you want, click on the word "Applications" and you get the FULL menu with categories to the right. You can either browse the full menu or click on a category and browse that sub-menu of applications.

It's something new and original and much easier to work in principle and not based on windows 95 either.

I think it's great.

gnome 3 still has a categorised menus - it's now full screen.

You don't HAVE to type the name of the app, you can either browse the full list of select from categories on the right.

better to "bash" linux that to "dash" linux or "sh" linux, or worse: "ash" linux

1 buggy whip free with ever film camera sold

nicely put.

And that's partly why we celebrate him even if someone else could/would have done it.

He did it and he did it well (capra style).
And we have enough gratitude to thank whoever it was that did it.

If you can make such a black box then the CIA would be very interested...