Comment And we thought Toyota had problems... (Score 1) 3
Now when you fast forward your music, it will continuously speed up until the song is over. :-(
Submission + - SPAM: The Good, Bad, and Ugly OSes of the Decade
itwbennett writes: Hundreds of Operating Systems were released during the past decade, finding their way into microdevices, watches, refrigerators, mobile phones, cars, motorcycles, jets, even the International Space Station. Some worked; some even worked well. Others, sadly, didn't. And some were just ahead of their time. Blogger Tom Henderson takes a look back at the best and worst OSes of the decade. Among the worst? Vista, as you'd suspect, along with WinME. But what about GNU Hurd? And some of the best? Solaris/OpenSolaris 10, MacOS X, And newcomer Google Android.
Submission + - Microsoft accused of helping virus writers (pcpro.co.uk)
Barence writes: Security firm Trend Micro has accused Microsoft of giving malware writers a helping hand by advising users not to scan certain files on their PC because "they are not at risk of infection". Trend Micro warns that by making such information available, Microsoft is effectively creating a hit list for malware writers. "Following the recommendations does not pose a significant threat as of now, but it has a very big potential of being one," the company's researcher, David Sancho, writes on the Trend Micro blog.
Comment Re:Good for Rio (good for Chicago) (Score 1) 1040
Living in the Milwaukee area, I am very glad that the Olympics are NOT going to Chicago. Chicago is a land of garbage and destruction, and doesn't deserve the Olympics. Obama just wanted it there because he lived there once.
I will be glad to never see the Olympics in America again. The Olympics just beg for terrorist attacks, and I would prefer to keep those in other nations.
Comment Time for a dirt nap (Score 3, Funny) 5
And if she's caught driving again, the judge will make her sleep underground for 1000 years in a small box, a la Demolition Man and every other movie like it, just so that she can see her one true love again, the automobile.
Maybe in 1000 years GM can make a car profitable.
Comment Software costs money once (Score 1) 465
Every time you buy hardware, you pay for it.
Software can be copied an infinite amount of times for the price of the developer.
If you are selling things in quantity, it makes sense to always solve problems with software and not hardware.
If you're buying one or two, then hardware can be cheaper.
Comment Re:be them (Score 1) 551
This is definitely the best advise (other than mine) in this thread.
The best managers manage by doing, whether they do 1%, 10%, or 50%, if you do some, they will respect you.
The problem with seasoned programmers though is the inability to learn new things. I would first start by analyzing the code that they have written, and suggest improvements to them where applicable. You can stay on the business side of things (everyone who switches there does it because it's easier than programming) because that will give you maybe 10 hours of real work a week, and then do another 10 hours of programming a week, and you'll still live up to your manager title by not doing anything for 20 hours or more a week.
Best of luck friend, you'll need it. To me, seasoned typically means, head in ass and scared of ideas they didn't think of themselves.
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