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Re:Real Games for Windows (1994) on Friday August 21, 2015 @04:06PM (#10099899)
BTW, 1994 saw the release of some of the greatest classics in PC gaming:

X-COM, Doom 2, Warcraft, Colonization, Panzer General

And quite a few others.

Re:Upcoming AWS Security Maintenance on Saturday February 28, 2015 @03:17AM (#9123150)
Wouldn't using kpatch remove the need to reboot instances ?
Re:Amazon to Open First Brick-and-Mortar Location on Thursday October 09, 2014 @04:05PM (#8434737)
This is probably to help feed the media buzz when they release a new Kindle or such.

TV loves these " people in Manhattan queued all night in front of the store in anticipation of iThingy 15.7 "

Re:Ray Kurzweil is wrong: The Singularity is not near on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @07:02AM (#7176878)
Charles Stross dubbed it The Rapture of the Nerds many years ago.
Re:Devopsdays TLV livestream on Monday September 30, 2013 @06:55AM (#6468815)
It seems to be throwing errors now
Re:Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @08:08AM (#5945461)
Exactly. It is also great on a Galaxy Tab.

Do any of the alternatives to Reader have a good app for Android ?

Re:Why I Dislike EC2 on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @06:08PM (#5822393)
Most organizations when they try to use AWS or Rackspace as a mere extension of their datacenter - discover that is quite hard, and that their apps require extensive redesign to fit the new environment. This in turn leads to the lock-in and lack of flexibility.

I think this blog post touches on the phenomenon: http://www.ravellosystems.com/blog/the-unbearable-lightness-...