Amazing

What really is amazing is the fact that he kept hitting her for two years.

Perhaps he read somewhere that "women like persistence" or he has his knowledge about women from telenovelas and hollywood-movies, where the women also say "yes", eventually, and marries the hero.

At least, the FAIL icon is thoroughly deserved here.

Would be interesting to know who had the idea to hire her in the first place...

Past performance

If he continues to deliver results like in the past, that bonus is not gross.

Wall-Street has paid much more to people who destroyed more value than he helped create.

It's probably better to let Scott and Phil do the presentations, though ;-)

Even Phil has gotten better at it over the last key-notes - and I though he was hopeless.

I have no problem with this

Even if my data was involved.

The bad guys ("shady rat") have been doing this in secret and for money for a very long time - but nobody likes to talk about it, claiming security where it never really existed.

At last, there's somebody exposing this security-theater.

Bravo.

We've been through this

Apple has been looking for RHEL/CentOS and Solaris admins, with various related skills.

I don't think there's much OSX-Server running there.

The guy running that particular part of the show (on behalf of Steve, of course), Eddie Cue, is famous for using what's needed and what works.

It's not Google, of course, but I have to assume it's reasonable close.

OpenSuSE 11.4 - my windows lose focus

It's basically the only problem I seem to have.

I start typing something and suddenly, the focus will be removed from the window I type in, basically going nowhere.

I've got to click in the window again.

Sort of totally ruins the experience....

Also, having the 3d-effects enabled by default is not a good idea on systems that are too weak to handle them.

What was he playing?

Must 've been addictive!

I'm sure, the manufacturer of the game could spin this as positive news.

;-)

Small yes

...but influential nevertheless.

In the security-world, trends tend to hit OpenBSD 6 months before the rest of the world.

Facebook & MySpace not enough?

'nuff said

Pictures or it didn't happen

'nuff said.

Alarming

As funny as it is watching this ballade - the question looming behind the horizon is: can Apple execs under Steve Jobs - and let's be honest: there's nobody next to him - can they actually be successful?

It must be incredibly difficult to be a successful executive at Apple - and it must be equally difficult to find people who want to take such a job and actually get accepted by Apple.

Apple has a leadership-problem. It's not at the top, but just below.

It may also be that the hardware is just not ready for the software.

A little bit like in the NeXT days.

Ouch

Why did he make the company pay for her?

You can do that if you own the company.

But a CEO is basically only an employee. 17 million per year or not.

Too bad - he probably feared his spouse was not "tolerant" enough to pay his mistress himself.

Didn't they eliminate the "tablet" group some months ago?

I believe I read an article written by some ex-MSFT exec that basically was one long complaint how f+cked-up the company and its politics were (and probably still are). Among other things, this was one claim of the article.

(search Google for "Dick Brass")

"Banned from the iPhone for three years"?

You must be kidding.

Mobile Flash simply does not exist (other than on Laptops).

A small but inconvenient fact that Adobe forgets to mention every time it slams Apple and the iPhone.

Adobe has been promising it for years.

It's literally the Duke Nukem Forever of the smartphone world.

Also, Flash is next to useless on any device:

- video-play -> HTLM5

- flash-ads -> who wants those anyway? I now run Click2Flash on my Mac and the only thing I miss are ads.

That only leaves games - but as the upcoming release of the infamous "Farmville" for iPhone and iPad proves, one doesn't need Flash to have a popular game on a Flash-less platform.

The iPhone is its own platform - and rightfully so.

One point...

herearound, when google updated its sat-images, one could suddenly see clearly which house had a pool in the garden (and how big it was).

Before, everything was hidden behind hedges....

I haven't heard of an increase in break-ins, though.

(Paris, because she's been a victim of burglary, too)

Hopefully...

...they have good wireless signal strength all over the place, so you can at least get your mail via iPhone while you're there.

;-)

Killed by their own success

Most people will opt for the Win7-version (if Linux is available at all) - the cost is almost irrelevant - so much is true.

But where a Linux-version is available, the price-difference will stick out.

What most people do not seem to realize is that a sale of Win7 for a netbook will result in the loss of a "full" sale of Win7 for a notebook, most likely.

Already, shipments of netbooks (and the reduced price MSFT has to offer XP for) shows in their balance-sheet.

They may win the netbook-war - but at their own expense, because Linux isn't even the enemy, it's Windows itself.

While Linux-netbooks are not compelling to people outside special-interest markets (sysadmins etc.) - an Apple-designed netbook may very well be.

With carrier-subsidies, it might in some cases be priced below Win7 offerings of competitors with "inferior" products.

While not a real mass-market, Apple might once again be able to pull a high-margin segment almost completely into their control.

Apple has no problem with a 1, 2, or 5% marketshare - as long as those people guarantee them a healthy margin.

Apple has been adding 0.5b to 1b USD _per_ quarter to the bank (for years now) only from pleasing a very, very small segment of the market.

Turns out, volume doesn't beat anything. Only fools would sacrifice volume over margin.

Solaris is indeed not a toy

Where would Linux (and to a certain degree, BSD, too) copy from if Solaris would go away?

Linux would go nowhere.

Paris because even she knows what she talks about - at least sometimes.

A maths professor allowed this

On my technical university.

You were even allowed to use a notebook with Mathematica or Maple.

Most people believed the exam would be super-easy like this - but the prof just formulated the questions in a way that made notebooks next to useless.

You first had to get a grasp of the story that was described, before you could actually start doing calculations.

Lot's of people failed and he had to stop this concept later...

I didn't own a notebook anyway and I did never failed. You just had to do the exercises.

Number of Rounds

To be fair, at most places three rounds is normal.

I can imagine if they want to expose you to a lot of people you are going to work with (or for) and see if you like each other, they'd do more rounds.

Of course, six rounds is kind-of insane. Kafkaesque, if you want.

I have to ask who these people are, whom you are facing in the various rounds?

Do they have day-jobs? Do they just commute between the cafeteria, the gym and the shower while they check their Gmail accounts once in a while?

Also, I remember a not-so-recent slashdot-story about Larry or Sergej signing-off every new hire personally until then.

I do like Google (even without being affiliated with them) and I do dislike MSFT, but from these reports, there's something truly going wrong in there.

That's not to say that MSFT does everything right. If only 10% of the stuff on minimsft.blogspot.com is correct, they're in deep shit, too - although with other problems.

Paris, because I don't know which of the two would hire her first - I suspect it would be a close call.

Cobbler is great!

To Mr Anonymous Coward in the first posting:

If you have dozens or hundreds of servers to install on a regular basis, doing it all by hand is crazy.

With cobbler, I can have it done in almost no time, and have consistent results every time.

I agree that you should know how to deploy a server - and currently, cobbler still requires that knowledge. But once you've installed a server-OS a couple of times, it becomes incredibly boring.