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VMS also ran on Dec-Alpha. The main problem was that a single Alpha could replace an awful lot of VAX HW and so to claw the profit back, the license fees meant a VMS Alpha was abou…

There's a Joel Spolsky podcast about Qt (pronounced cute) where he talks about the cute guy giving the talk - to the confused embarrassment of the other speakers.

I suspect they make very little money selling Kindles. They probably sell for about break-even, as seen by the price drops. Amazon want you to buy books, preferably online, and onl…

Any place that has any kind of "employee valuation policy" doesn't value their employees.

Because the alternative was that IBM or HP would buy Sun - or they would simply disappear. The result (in either case) would be a lot of IBM hardware salesmen crawling over Sun's c…

This happens everytime a company is taken over by a larger one. Except for a few VPs who are part of the M&A team - everyone at the smaller company always ends up beneath the same …

I suspect somebody said the same thing about GM or Chrysler

In the UK they can imprison you for 5years for refusing to hand over the key. You did log the key for that https session when you used amazon checkout didn't you?

The real problem with the clipper chips was the start of international communication - which meant the USA had to agree with Europe, Japan, China etc to share the keys. Same thing …