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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 breakdown, that viewers can readily sum to 100%, visually.

I have no idea how to sum a curve and reconcile back to the original universe.

If the complete set of links in this data is a count of 12,373 links, then how many have decayed? Based on that graph, I have no idea.

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 be there in the first place.

If someone paid money to put it there, then the person who agreed to do so isn't acting in the best interests of those they serve.

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 swallow the Earth whole.

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 probably a guide rail to prevent head crashes, when the head unparks onto a platter spinning at full speed?

  > To make problems even worse, that landing 
    zone is only rated for 250,000 to 350,000
    cycles or so.

It really doesn't seem like parking the drive heads would be an action that requires any kind of contact or friction between moving parts.

What's different about parking near the rim, instead of near the spindle?

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 desirable piece of property is more likely to stay occupied and produce rent.

The owner gets it ready for rental, and selects a rental price. The rental price covers the costs of buying the property, improving the home, paying taxes, and a percentage to ensure repairs and upkeep over time, with the hopes that a portion of the money dedicated to upkeep will eventually become profits, depending on tenant churn.

Someone shows up seeking to rent, and just happens to make less than the magic number (under 20K for example), so the owner has to forfeit the portion of the price that covers taxes and upkeep.

The owner is expected to make a decision that will turn a potential source of income into a potential burden, which risks falling into disrepair. How then is this decision expected to play out?

  > Now, On to the The South Bronx!!!

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 Powerpoint presentation, and to curry favor and demonstrate loyalty, dear leader's clones started parroting each neologism.

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.