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Comment This policy isn't "evil" (Score 1) 102

Just unethical. Big difference!!

One is keeping your employees from talking about the company true or not and over-managing the employees rights to free speech. This is unethical.

The other would be like slicing the throats of all employee's children who don't toe the company line. This is evil.

Are we clear? I hate it when the line gets blurred.

Comment My Neighborhood is full of them in AZ (Score 1) 97

Those second million might have happened in my neighborhood in Chandler, AZ. for the past year at least, we've had swarms of them driving around our neighborhood streets at all times of the day and night, thought not late night that I'm aware of (ie mid-5 am, as a linux lead for several large international companies, I get more done at night so I'm up working those hours when no one annoys me with chats etc). At times we've seen 6 driving through our streets all in a line. Driving from pickup up dinner and gas yesterday, about 2 miles, I saw 3 of them including one at the pump next to us at the gas station (we drive a Volt, $13 fill up! W00t!). At first it was interesting, now it's just another car on the road. Haven't heard of any accidents, nor seen any. Though I haven't looked, you might be able to catch some in Google Maps sat images, I see our cars every refresh.

It's very comforting to see them being used so successfully locally, and really gives you some confidence in the product.

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Roku Finally Gets a 2D Menu System 80

DeviceGuru writes "Many of us have griped for years about Roku's retro one-dimensional user interface. Finally, in conjunction with the release of the new Roku 3 model, the Linux-based media streaming player is getting a two-dimensional facelift, making it quicker and easier to access favorite channels and find new ones. Current Roku users, who will now begin suffering from UI-envy, will be glad to learn that Roku plans to push out a firmware update next month to many earlier models, including the Roku LT, Roku HD (model 2500R), Roku 2 HD, Roku 2 XD, Roku 2 XS, and Roku Streaming Stick. A short demo of the new 2D Roku menu system is available in this YouTube video."

Comment Re:Missing option: (Score 1) 128

I really wish I had some mod points for you folks! Made my night.

Can you direct us to a white paper enumerating best practices for optimal client-centered Buzzword Bingo methodologies?

We should not overestimate the transformational power of industry buzzwords, nor the new synergies they can help us achieve in emerging vertical markets. What we need is a new paradigm embracing the best practices that will lead us to ever growing profitability.

While you touched on many important paradigms, I think it's crucial to understand that the core of the problem with the buzzword complex is that it overemphasizes the transformative cultural forces present in highly interactive social network ecosystems.

What we truly need is a flexible and authentic approach to telling deep, engaging stories about a performative community culture that focuses not only on iteration but also on building meaningful relationships within our social graphs in order to create an innovative and multifaceted story-based brand, through which we can see past the unnecessary and false dichotomy between sustainable growth and scalable, engaging profit opportunities.

Comment I call shenanigans! (Score 1) 262

I've had 5! Count 'em 5 ICDs. When they do the reading, you can always get a copy of the readout. They print them up, and clear the memory.

Every time, without exception no matter the technician, over the course of at least a hundred of these data dumps did I NEVER get a copy and I still have quite a few of them. They even go over them with you. You do have to have a modicum of cardiac AND electric knowledge or it's pointless of course. I have plenty of both so it wasn't an issue. EVER.

Comment Re:Any company (Score 1) 555

I suggest you put down most of your computing devices then. Intel is HUGE here, as is Motorola and Microchip. American Express and Goodyear Tire are also huge here (eg Goodyear, AZ is a real town named after.... Goodyear Tire). So no electronics for you, no plane rides (who do you think makes the tires for the planes and the emergency chutes you jump on to escape the plane?), lose those tires. Cut up that card.

Oh, and if the AC is calling my died in the wool liberal wife racist? Get a life. A state isn't racist, mentally handicapped conservatives in the state legislature are. They get voted in by snowbirds, the elderly who relocate here 6 months out of the year. Like your grandparents.

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