Comment Re:ArsTechnica (Score 1) 129
Thank you for the Phoronix suggestion. I want to get back into *nix stuff and the old websites are gone.
Comment Privacy and Facebook. Hmmmm. (Score 3, Insightful) 110
There are things that Facebook doesn't want to share with the world? Now they know how we feel when Facebook fails at honoring basic Privacy settings.
AMD Offers Women Geek Dating Advice 269
Blacklaw writes "It appears AMD has decided to branch out from integrated circuits and enter the romance market with a handy guide for girls to land themselves a geeky guy. From the article: 'In a blog post written by Leslie Sobon, the company's vice president of marketing, Sobon describes her life in the largely male-dominated world of technology as being "mostly surrounded by guys all day," but says: "I can tell you that — in general — technical guys are pretty cool," and offers advice on how girls can land a geek guy. Although clearly meant in a lighthearted way, Sobon's missive serves to patronize both her company's customers — who, we learn, are socially inept and bad dressers — and women, who apparently can't understand technology and need to find a nice man who can "fix the TV, your PC, and the sprinkler system" along with other magical item s far too complex for the poor female brain to comprehend.'"
Comment Re:It all depends... (Score 3, Informative) 520
Completely agree. Need private office with a collaboration area or lab. In 27 years of sw engineering, that was the best, most productive setup. The team would congregate in the lab every day for an hour or two, but when we really needed to buckle down and seriously code, the private office was great.
Comment Re:Exploding ipod? Don't worry! (Score 2, Funny) 475
Maybe not YOU. But someone.
Kindle 2 Tear-Down Reveals Price of Components 169
adeelarshad82 writes "Amazon's wildly popular Kindle 2 got a good old fashioned tear-down from the folks at market research firm iSuppli. According to the organization, the Kindle 2's manufacturing cost is almost half as much as its retail price."
