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The best programmers are better at talking to users and customers, because that is the harder skill. Programming isn’t a solo activity - at the very least the programmer is working…

LTSB = Embedded

Rocksteady didn't do Arkham Origins. Rocksteady is only responsible for Arkham Asylum and Arkham City.

As someone who cares about security, thanks Google! As someone who administers some servers that are affected by this, I'm annoyed, because I now have a new project that has to be …

Last I checked, police don't write the law. Blame either the politician or the bureaucrat.

Ivy Bridge still hasn't been released in the server space. The server market currently has Sandy Bridge chips. The Ivy Bridge chips are due at the end of the year.

Sometimes that's the best way to do it. HIPAA requirements are a pain, but they exist for a reason.

And without Jobs, do you think Wozniak is able to do that?

Wasn't Steve's base salary $1? Shouldn't we compare base salary and total compensation when looking at this stuff? Also, was he worth that bonus in 2001?

XP is affected by this but XP is not vulnerable in the default configuration because there is no service listening set up with the firewall by default and the firewall is on by def…

Is it a bad thing that there is a media outlet that has a different slant then the other outlets? Everyone's biased and few (if any) avoid it in their journalism.

I don't really have a problem with a state government giving tax cuts to newspapers, as long as there are no strings attached. Tax cuts aren't necessarily a bailout. If a governmen…

A smaller web server like lighttpd or cherokee may be a better choice if all you are serving is images.

Why is this a terrible move?

Chrome likely is pulling others from IE because it can often be installed with non-admin privileges.

It's more complicated than that. If a browser breaks Sharepoint or any other intranet site, it won't get deployed. I imagine there are many, many, many corporations who still haven…