Every now and then, people nail it. This is one of those cases as Manu Cornet from Bonkersworld breaks down the organization charts of 6 major tech companies. In a classic example of “it’s funny because it’s true” Cornet shows how Amazon has a standard hierarchy, Google has a convoluted one, Facebook has very little central organization, Microsoft departments are at odds with each other, Apple centers around one big guy in the middle, and Oracle has a huge legal department without focusing much on actual engineering anymore. Sounds just about right. …

Infections of various types are normally the cause of computer problems. It could be malware, worms, viruses, or any number of security threats that spread from computer to computer through networks and the Internet. In this case, the problem was pretty easy to isolate. When over 32K objects are currently infected on your device, it’s likely that there is some sort of problem with your security. Did you install Norton or something?…

Microsoft just made a dumb move. I decided to recreate how I think the conversation went between the tech guy and his boss. Tech guy: It seems a lot of customers are complaining about the new Hotmail. Bugs throughout the site, some of them can’t even log in. Boss: Fix it. Tech guy: That will take a few weeks, what do we do in the mean time. Boss: It works fine on Google’s Chrome, get them to use that. Tech guy: I don’t know about that, don’t you think we should focus on Internet Explorer? Boss: Who’s the boss? Tech guy: You are… Boss: Exactly. After thousands of complaints from customers over their…

My friends and I have always talked about how arcade driving is so much more satisfying than real-world driving; you know, the unrealistically responsive steering, the third-person camera angle. It would be a dream. What? Yeah, I’ve got friends. Can’t blog all the time. Anyway, it seems the crew at Rooster Teeth have actually gone and given this concept a real-world shot by blacking out the windows of a pickup truck and securing a camera to the back of it via a really long pole. I won’t spoil anything, but I will say I am now officially content with real-world driving. There’s a bit of sailor-talk…