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Microsoft's forum sliding efforts are quite muscular, and serious.

Hmmm, the Y axis of the graph is tough to interpret. Isn't it kind of weird to use a percentage for a line graph? With percentages, the goal is to provide an obvious fractional bre…

Don't make excuses for something that's very obviously antithetical to very premise of Linux and free, open-source software.

If everyone wants it disabled, then it should be disabled by default. If it's the type of thing no one would ever enable, unless it were defaulted as such, then it shouldn't even b…

Ray Kurzweil.

I know what you mean. Somewhere, out there, we'll find an MBA-type, trying to paste an Excel spreadsheet into one of those tabular data types, and a black hole will open up and swa…

It just seems strange that there needs to be an orange widget to act as a "landing zone" at all. Why not park the heads hanging in free space? Ostensibly the plastic widget is prob…

> To make problems even worse, that landing zone is only rated for 250,000 to 350,000 cycles or so. I don't understand how a little orange plastic widget suffers damage or delivers…

So, an individual buys a one family home, at a convenient location, with the intent of renting it out as an income-producing property. The person pays extra money, since a more des…

> Now, On to the The South Bronx!!! ...and he was never heard from again.

Cool-kid words for cloud infrastructure in-groups. Somewhere along the line someone with clout and a laser pointer directed the attention of a roomful of people to an analogy in a …

To be honest, I'd rather have the government kill me, in many situations.

I guess I'm just supposed to know what ATAP means.