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Re:Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:47PM (#25961510)
The author is a 68 year old political scientist. The article is more like a political statement than a consumer advocacy piece.
Re:Microsoft Band
on Thursday October 30, 2014 @05:07AM (#8531978)
Background story from Microsoft: http://news.microsoft.com/features/microsofts-new-cloud-powe...
Interesting that MSR also helped developing activity recognition algorithms for the device.
Re:Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft
on Monday September 15, 2014 @08:58PM (#8322498)
They are selling Hadoop (based on Java) via HdInsight. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/hdin...
The new tax havens
Re:What IF Apple Buys Amazon?
on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:12PM (#2907078)
They may domninate the download-and-own market. However they still need to compete with other distribution mode, e.g. Netflix and Hulu in video, Spotify and Pandora in music.
What IF Apple Buys Amazon?
In its most recent (Q3 2011) financial report, Apple Inc (AAPL) put its reserves at $76.4bn. As of today (8/19/2011), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) has market capitalization of $81.22bn. It is not at all impossible for Apple to buy Amazon. I can think of the following benefits.First, iCloud can leverage AWS. Apple does not need to reinvent or relearn the data center management again. AWS itself is a...
Re:The Internet Tidal Wave (Gates, 1995)
on Thursday August 18, 2011 @06:33PM (#2901427)
> he barely mentions the importance of search
To be fair, he mentioned 7 critical steps. Search engines are No. 5.
Re:Porting Microsoft SQL Server to Linux
on Thursday July 28, 2011 @03:16PM (#2818467)
Have you tried 'bcp'?
Re:Porting Microsoft SQL Server to Linux
on Thursday July 28, 2011 @05:25AM (#2815984)
I just want to add the author of the article, i.e. Hal Berenson, is one of the key architect behind SQL Server 7.0 which is a rewrite from the legacy Sybase code. More information can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/about/technicalrecognition/SQL-Serv...
Porting Microsoft SQL Server to Linux
Microsoft committed to invest $100 million in SUSE Linux
Re:Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it
on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @10:19PM (#2168793)
Take a look at feature list here:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/mslr/feature.as...
Combing features 130, 131, 135 and 136, I think it is understandable what Google engineers did can give those fake links a boost in the search results. In a way, they cheated the algorithm.
Re:Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change
on Friday January 14, 2011 @07:27PM (#2105992)
I think it is interesting to think how a person's past (work) experience may influence the person's current thinking and judgement. Nothing else.
Re:Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change
on Friday January 14, 2011 @05:03PM (#2105624)
FYI, the person in charge (Mike Jazayeri) previously worked at Microsoft. I am not suggesting anything, just find it is quite interesting.