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In partnership with Dell, Microsoft is launching its Azure cloud in a box offering, codenamed 'San Diego.' "A gift real special, so take it off the top"
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For Google, its entire product lineup is just a big series of A/B experiments. "You know the law: Two men enter, one man leaves."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "You know the law: Two men enter, one man leaves."
Fight Club.......Oh wait, is this not MQOTD?
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It's an interesting strategy. After all, why wait for someone else to start competing? If you can create the competition yourself, it really doesn't leave much room for anyone else, and yet receive all the revenue.
Of course, you can shoot yourself in the foot, but like cereal companies (that figured out years ago it's best to have multiple products competing against each other) it would be amusing if this becomes the new business model of the 21st century. I imagine there will be several books about "SCBM" - Self Competition Business Model coming to Kindle soon.
Sounds sort of kinky, doesn't it?
Marc
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Yes, I'm writing two books about it right now. One is for Kindle and the other is for Kindle.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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So in what circumstances is it appropriate for workers, male or female, to hold out their hand for a raise? And when is it less than advisable? "You know the night time, is the right time"
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Ray Charles is for all time
TTFN - Kent
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I meant the concept of asking for a raise.
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Oh. Yeah. 'struth.
TTFN - Kent
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Just trust Karma, eh?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Slaves aren't allowed to ask for a raise. And if such an event does occur, steps will be implemented to ensure it never happens again.
Comments from work:- "Why can't you just do it like everybody else?"
- "Well, we haven't had any complaints yet."
- "I just want to get it into production."
- "It only matters if it’s important to someone who matters."
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Microsoft is planning to launch its own wearable fitness band in the coming weeks. They dug the unsold SPOT watches out of storage?
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Google is seeking permission to test a high-speed Internet service that could be in your home before Fiber. Brains between transmitters are only mildly poached
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Am I the only one thinking that noone gives dollars at price of cents?
I would like to know how much data volumen is going to be saved / forwarded to the marketing research, personalized sells and /or similars
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Developers aren't going to go for proprietary standards. "Standards are wonderful things; that's why we have so many."
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People found guilty of Internet "trolling" in Britain could be jailed for up to two years under government proposals outlined on Sunday, following a number of high-profile cases of abusive and threatening behaviour on Twitter. The Lounge might become a lonely place...
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As if any of our local trolls were in the UK.
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Be brave troller is coming
In code we trust !
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This is such a hard call to make - on the one hand some of the recent excesses (gamergate is a good recent example) have made me begin to think that anonymity on the Internet is not worth the price, on the other the potential for abuse by the government to stifle dissent is also horrifying.
Sadly, it looks like trolls may cause the entire Internet to lose some of its freedom.
Largely, I blame the large Internet companies (Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) for failing to get their house in order. They're the people with the resources to come up with a solution to this. Their failure to do so may cost us all an important freedom.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: have made me begin to think that anonymity on the Internet is not worth the
price Anonymity provides freedom, the freedom of speech among others. If the media are controlled, you cannot talk of freedom. And no, it is not worth giving up because some idiots used some harsh words.
Rob Grainger wrote: Their failure to do so may cost us all an important freedom. Well, yaah, apparantly - I am going to guess that most people rather have a friendly place without freedom than anything else.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: some idiots used some harsh words.
If it was only idiots using harsh words, then I don't think it would be as much of a problem. If they locked up everyone who called someone a c*nt on Twatter, then between Piers Morgan and David Cameron, most of the UK would be behind bars.
Unfortunately, some total f*cktards thought it would be a good idea to start posting women's home addresses and other personal information, accompanied by threats of rape and murder.
Whilst I'm generally opposed to censorship and de-anonymising the Internet, the people making these kinds of post clearly need to be tracked down and locked up.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Unfortunately, some total f*cktards thought it would be a good idea Good point, didn't know it was that extreme.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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