If lazy geeks could be bothered to write the cost benefit analysis required to get rid of IE6/7 it would have been long gone. However shrieking about it on a web forum and ignoring the perfectly valid business case of 'it does what we want it to' accomplishes precisely zero.
You're right! What we need in the middle of a huge financial crisis is to spend lots of time and money on rewriting software which will work in pretty much the same way and for an added benefit introducing plenty of brand new bugs. There's a reason why there are still 40 year old mainframe systems running - because they work.
You're assuming that someone retarded enough to drive while using a mobile phone while driving will stop just because the government says so. The risk of being caught is pretty slim, at least here in the UK, so there has been very little change in behaviour.
The Daily Mail has a long history of distortion, hysteria and outright lies, not to mention the hilarious incompetence shown in the example. Not trusting them is the right course of action. I'm sure you could find a debunking of this article somewhere online, but I'm not doing it for you.
I would agree that the wholesale irreversible change to the ribbon was a stupid idea but the idea that meaningful work can't be done is a strange one. I do meaningful work all the time with products with a ribbon interface. It takes a lot of googling to get to that point however and I think I would have just turned it off if MS had let me.
The ribbon would be fine if there was a way to turn it off for those who don't want it. However imposing it on people who know their way around the existing interface is bound to cause resistance. I got patronised for my trouble when I criticised that decision.
Autocorrect is a wonderful tool for professional typists. It allows you to create abbreviations for common phrases so you type euchr and get European Convention on Human Rights for example. I wouldn't have been without it when I typed for a living.
Because having more than one human habitation in the solar system will lessen the risk of our extinction. And we can't very well test that effectively with drones.
You're assuming that we could detect them. Any race advanced enough to travel between the stars would be advanced enough to keep their presence hidden from us.
It also means you get retrained COBOL developers like me with nearly 20 years IT experience. I might not have a CS degree but I do know how to talk to users in a way that doesn't piss them off.
It was very rare indeed to have to do memory management in COBOL either. As for being able to do real damage to the system heh. Never seen that happen in 15 years of COBOL development.
So we have a generation of programmers, who are really nothing more than typists, who can bang together a half way working solution, without having to worry about memory, or other "hard" things, because Java can do it for them.
No need to worry about optimization, memory utilization, algorithm choice , etc get just it minimally working.
What utter shite. Shit programmers exist for all languages but there are incredibly talented ones too. I can't speak for Java programmers but I presume you have a similar misplaced contempt for C# people in there too and I can assure you that things like optimisation and good algorithm choice are very important, as efficient code = responsive software = happy users. I have no doubt however that I could be just as 'leet' as you and hack on C, C++ or whatever it is you think is the one true language in a pretty short time.
Where are these massively overpaid COBOL jobs. It's been a very long time since I've seen a large amount of COBOL work and that was around Y2K / Euro time.
I don't see your reading skills working too well you fucking moron:
As much as all the British blood that was shed, bloodshed that is insultingly belittled every time you or one of your compatriots says something like "if it wasn't for us y'all be speaking German right now" as if the Europeans just sat around doing nothing while the brave Americans did all the fighting.
I never said you said it in your post on this site but I've heard it way too many fucking times from too many stupid fucking Americans belittling all the Europeans who died to defeat Hitler. Now stick your dumb fat head back up your stupid fat arse.
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If lazy geeks could be bothered to write the cost benefit analysis required to get rid of IE6/7 it would have been long gone. However shrieking about it on a web forum and ignoring the perfectly valid business case of 'it does what we want it to' accomplishes precisely zero.
You're right! What we need in the middle of a huge financial crisis is to spend lots of time and money on rewriting software which will work in pretty much the same way and for an added benefit introducing plenty of brand new bugs. There's a reason why there are still 40 year old mainframe systems running - because they work.
People who don't want to pay millions of dollars to upgrade a system that works fine are not stupid.
Yes Microsoft we'll spend millions of dollars rewriting our apps just because you say so [/sarcasm]
But you can't tell that to some people around here who will just call you a liar because their blog doesn't need to support IE6 any more.
You're assuming that someone retarded enough to drive while using a mobile phone while driving will stop just because the government says so. The risk of being caught is pretty slim, at least here in the UK, so there has been very little change in behaviour.
The risk of being caught isn't high enough.
Actually fuck it here you go.
The Daily Mail has a long history of distortion, hysteria and outright lies, not to mention the hilarious incompetence shown in the example. Not trusting them is the right course of action. I'm sure you could find a debunking of this article somewhere online, but I'm not doing it for you.
I would agree that the wholesale irreversible change to the ribbon was a stupid idea but the idea that meaningful work can't be done is a strange one. I do meaningful work all the time with products with a ribbon interface. It takes a lot of googling to get to that point however and I think I would have just turned it off if MS had let me.
The ribbon would be fine if there was a way to turn it off for those who don't want it. However imposing it on people who know their way around the existing interface is bound to cause resistance. I got patronised for my trouble when I criticised that decision.
Autocorrect is a wonderful tool for professional typists. It allows you to create abbreviations for common phrases so you type euchr and get European Convention on Human Rights for example. I wouldn't have been without it when I typed for a living.
I would hope that none of the Nazis are now in a better world. Being roasted whilst being jabbed with pitchforks for eternity hopefully.
Because having more than one human habitation in the solar system will lessen the risk of our extinction. And we can't very well test that effectively with drones.
Daily Mail stories should be treated with suspicion, if not outright derision. For example
You're assuming that we could detect them. Any race advanced enough to travel between the stars would be advanced enough to keep their presence hidden from us.
Sky in the UK requires it for online viewing so I use it (on the Mac too).
It also means you get retrained COBOL developers like me with nearly 20 years IT experience. I might not have a CS degree but I do know how to talk to users in a way that doesn't piss them off.
It was very rare indeed to have to do memory management in COBOL either. As for being able to do real damage to the system heh. Never seen that happen in 15 years of COBOL development.
What utter shite. Shit programmers exist for all languages but there are incredibly talented ones too. I can't speak for Java programmers but I presume you have a similar misplaced contempt for C# people in there too and I can assure you that things like optimisation and good algorithm choice are very important, as efficient code = responsive software = happy users. I have no doubt however that I could be just as 'leet' as you and hack on C, C++ or whatever it is you think is the one true language in a pretty short time.
Where are these massively overpaid COBOL jobs. It's been a very long time since I've seen a large amount of COBOL work and that was around Y2K / Euro time.
IE9's notification system is also very annoying and its developer tools are a long way behind Firebug.
Wowee that's really worth $150. I'll ask again. What can it do usefully that a $250 netbook can't?
What can it do that a $250 netbook can't?
I don't see your reading skills working too well you fucking moron:
I never said you said it in your post on this site but I've heard it way too many fucking times from too many stupid fucking Americans belittling all the Europeans who died to defeat Hitler. Now stick your dumb fat head back up your stupid fat arse.