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Ballmer got into a shouting match with Microsoft's board when directors said they didn't want to buy Nokia and start making smartphones. Ballmer told the board last June that if he didn't get what he wanted, he wouldn't be CEO any more.
In the end, it seems he threw one tantrum too many.
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That guy should never have had a leadership position. Sounds a bit like our last Prime Minister (Gordon Brown)
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Gotta disagree. Nokia had MS exactly where it wanted them. All they needed to do was to threaten to go fully android if MS didn't agree to the deal and MS's choices were either pay whatever they demanded or abandon mobile and slit their own throat. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The OpenShift.NET project integrates .NET and SQL server capabilities with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
.NET is open for business
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Reading view is a new feature in Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 8.1 that helps you focus on the main content of the Web page you want to read. Or: "How to hide all the ads everyone is adding"
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or just use AdBlock! works great 
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Reading view or similar feature via iReader extension in Firefox and Chrome do more than what AdBlock does. Try it and see.
Kevin
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Just tried iReader -- using that I have to click it and it then opens in a separate view where as AdBlock just cleans the page of ads "inline".
Have you tried Instapaper? If I want a stripped down view of an article with just the content I save it to InstaPaper which has the added benefit of being accessible on my iOS device offline too.
If I'm browsing I usually want to see the page just not the ads.
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Dave Calkins wrote: Just tried iReader -- using that I have to click it and it then opens in a separate view
But that's exactly what I want. I just want to read the text without the surrounding guff, not just ads. It also makes copy/paste eadier on occasions when I want to do that.
Dave Calkins wrote: where as AdBlock just cleans the page of ads "inline".
It's not just ads I want to avoid.
Dave Calkins wrote: Have you tried Instapaper? If I want a stripped down view of an article with just the content I save it to InstaPaper which has the added benefit of being accessible on my iOS device offline too.
No, may try. Getting an iOS device imminently - may arrive today.
Dave Calkins wrote: If I'm browsing I usually want to see the page just not the ads.
Often I do but there are occasions when I don't.
I like all of the options you mention. It depends on my context. I like flexibility. 
Kevin
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to me iReader does more than I want and does it in an awkward way -- I just want to view the page, not open a separate view to view the page in the page Just seems clunky to have this separate view I have to pull up to view the page I'm already viewing I guess.
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What you describe as a disadvantage is exactly what I consider an advantage! I often want to view a clean version of the page there and then. It's often easier on the eyes. Plus it often does make copy/paste of snippets easier on occasions when I need to do that. E.g., it stops you from inadvertently copying side content.
To me I regard Instapaper as complementary rather than an alternative, as sometimes I do want to save and consume later.
But, hey, we're all different.
Kevin
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The InstaPaper mobile app can be especially helpful if you want to read stuff offline. When you add to InstaPaper and then run the mobile app it'll download the stuff in your list. When I was using an iPod touch this was great as I could just pull it up before I left wifi and then have the articles available when I was out. Not as big a deal if you're using a device with network access anywhere of course.
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Don't you know that companies can pay AdBlock not to filter out their ads? That's how AdBlock makes money with ads!
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That wouldn't surprise me at all - however, I haven't seen any examples of that in my browsing so I can't say that has affected me.
In my experience it seems to work really well and does a great job cleaning pages of ads. Nice to view a web site and watch the counter go up and NOT see all the ads
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The functional programming language, ranked 69th a year ago, threatens to crash the top 10 in Tiobe's rankings. From "a little bit of interest", all the way up to "some interest"
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This almost got me excited and then I saw "Tiobe" 
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Mark Penn, who was behind Microsoft's 'Scroogled' campaign, was just named to the newly created VP position in a shakeup of Microsoft's inner circle. I'll let you fill in the political joke here. Just don't accept a cigar from him.
Yeah, that was the other Clinton, sue me.
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Penn's strategy #1: Deny 'til you almost get impeached.
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"Operative" is an adjective; the noun is "operator".
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Three languages compete to make JavaScript easier to write and faster to execute. Which to choose? "You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
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You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path that's clear.
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I will choose freewill.
Kevin
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
Rush fan? 
Kevin
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Kind of required due to my passport. But Peart's lyrics can just be soooooo deeeeep sometimes, maaaaaaaaan!
TTFN - Kent
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