Exactly. No one cares about open sores software exact Nazis, Communists and pedophiles or any combination thereof. These freetard fuckers are killing the software industry.
If you paid money to Microsoft for their software it's not unreasonable to expect them make sure it actually works and to fix it if they screwed something up.
Actually it is quite unreasonable to expect them to support a piece of software indefinitely or they have to involuntarily give away their source code for free.
There should most certainly be obligations of some sort, otherwise consumers face being totally screwed when a company ceases support...
This is amusing in light of the fact that most open source advocates are constantly telling people about how they have no obligation at all to support the software. If this is the case, why should Microsoft, or any proprietary vendor, have any obligation themselves?
No new service pack updates for office and similar programs?
Where did you get that from? This is only about the OS itself, it has nothing to do with end of life on support for Office or any other separate product.
Because kdawson is a moron? I'm also still trying to figure out what relevance this has to "news for nerds" other than the "series of tubes" link since this is about Ted Stevens.
PC gamers who are used to the relatively complex and in-depth menu and control systems facilitated by the mouse don't always react well to the simplified systems necessitated by controller use.
So you're too dumb to use a controller setup that even children can use and yet you claim to be superior? HAHAHAHA.
The Widgets Updates Patent Advisory Group is a Patent Advisory Group (PAG) as defined by the W3C Patent Policy (PP).
The mission of this Patent Advisory Group is to study issues and propose solutions related to a patent disclosure from Apple, Inc., concerning the Widgets 1.0: Updates Working Draft.
This PAG is triggered by Section 7.1 (PAG Formation) of the Patent Policy, which states that a PAG is triggered in the event "a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available under W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements". The specific patent is 5,764,992 (U.S.), held by Apple, Inc. Apple Inc. has excluded all claims of patent 5,764,992 (U.S.)
I know this summary is a whopping 2 sentences long but you could have made yourself look like less of a dumbass by reading it.
How exactly would evacuating a week prior to the earthquake saved the people who died? They would have just gone back into the city after the earthquake didn't happen on the predicted day and been in harm's way anyway. Your pathetic attempt at some emotional appeal is pretty fail.
If you had bothered to read the summary, this was an intentional April Fools joke that went wrong. It has nothing to do with Perl and any lack of strict typing in the language.
Those of you with functioning brains prefer larger downloads,
Why should anyone care about downloading a few extra kilobytes? It's not like anyone with a decent connection is going to notice the difference.
and waiting for full page loads before replying and after moderating?
Oh noes! Not a full page load! My god that takes almost a full second! Golly gee whiz, those extra 3 milliseconds I'm going to save by going with the crappier web 2.0 interface is totally worth it!
Ah, right, and having to refresh the page every time you change your threshold?
You actually change that on a regular basis? I thought most people just set it once and forgot it. But even still, that's a whopping one second to refresh.
Phew. Sure am glad my brain is broken then. Among other advantages, those of us with non-functional brains realize that just because a technology happens to have a buzzword attached to it doesn't mean that the technology itself is a bad thing.
The funny thing is that most of the "advantages" you talk about are either ones that no one is going to care about or no one is going to notice. Most of these optimizations really only benefit the site on the server-side end.
I think you're both missing the point that it isn't free because of anti-trust law.I didn't realize I was going to have to spell it out.
No, I'm not missing any point at all. You're just making something up without any evidence your statement up with. This is an enterprise-level tool and they aren't going to make such a thing and give it away for free. This is no different than for any other enterprise tool that they sell.
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Exactly. No one cares about open sores software exact Nazis, Communists and pedophiles or any combination thereof. These freetard fuckers are killing the software industry.
I'm more amazed that their is a material that can support the collective fat asses of a theater full of trekkies.
If you paid money to Microsoft for their software it's not unreasonable to expect them make sure it actually works and to fix it if they screwed something up.
Actually it is quite unreasonable to expect them to support a piece of software indefinitely or they have to involuntarily give away their source code for free.
We need some new thinking. Not rehashes of dead TV shows and old comic books.
So your solution to the rehashing of dead TV shows and old comic books is to rehash novels?
There should most certainly be obligations of some sort, otherwise consumers face being totally screwed when a company ceases support...
This is amusing in light of the fact that most open source advocates are constantly telling people about how they have no obligation at all to support the software. If this is the case, why should Microsoft, or any proprietary vendor, have any obligation themselves?
Those "features" that you're talking about can be e.g. IPv6 support
Welcome to 6.5 years ago.
Because it's their code and they can do with it as they want?
No new service pack updates for office and similar programs?
Where did you get that from? This is only about the OS itself, it has nothing to do with end of life on support for Office or any other separate product.
Procedural mistakes should not overturn convictions that are this overwhelming.
Exactly. Due process has no place in getting in the way of a prosecutor winning a case by lying, manipulating evidence and harassing witnesses.
Why is this YRO?
Because kdawson is a moron? I'm also still trying to figure out what relevance this has to "news for nerds" other than the "series of tubes" link since this is about Ted Stevens.
PC gamers who are used to the relatively complex and in-depth menu and control systems facilitated by the mouse don't always react well to the simplified systems necessitated by controller use.
So you're too dumb to use a controller setup that even children can use and yet you claim to be superior? HAHAHAHA.
First of all, I'm not entirely sold on the source of this story, since it does come from Opera's website.
Then don't believe opera and go straight to the W3C page that is the third link the summary: http://www.w3.org/2009/03/widgets-pag-charter
The Widgets Updates Patent Advisory Group is a Patent Advisory Group (PAG) as defined by the W3C Patent Policy (PP).
The mission of this Patent Advisory Group is to study issues and propose solutions related to a patent disclosure from Apple, Inc., concerning the Widgets 1.0: Updates Working Draft.
This PAG is triggered by Section 7.1 (PAG Formation) of the Patent Policy, which states that a PAG is triggered in the event "a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available under W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements". The specific patent is 5,764,992 (U.S.), held by Apple, Inc. Apple Inc. has excluded all claims of patent 5,764,992 (U.S.)
I know this summary is a whopping 2 sentences long but you could have made yourself look like less of a dumbass by reading it.
How exactly would evacuating a week prior to the earthquake saved the people who died? They would have just gone back into the city after the earthquake didn't happen on the predicted day and been in harm's way anyway. Your pathetic attempt at some emotional appeal is pretty fail.
I'm not sold on their evidence. I don't see a huge jump [google.com] since February of '08 in search popularity.
You don't? It went from around .75 to at least 1.25 which is at least a gain of around 67%
If you had bothered to read the summary, this was an intentional April Fools joke that went wrong. It has nothing to do with Perl and any lack of strict typing in the language.
But I have level 80, purple gear you insensitive clod!
Those of you with functioning brains prefer larger downloads,
Why should anyone care about downloading a few extra kilobytes? It's not like anyone with a decent connection is going to notice the difference.
and waiting for full page loads before replying and after moderating?
Oh noes! Not a full page load! My god that takes almost a full second! Golly gee whiz, those extra 3 milliseconds I'm going to save by going with the crappier web 2.0 interface is totally worth it!
Ah, right, and having to refresh the page every time you change your threshold?
You actually change that on a regular basis? I thought most people just set it once and forgot it. But even still, that's a whopping one second to refresh.
Phew. Sure am glad my brain is broken then. Among other advantages, those of us with non-functional brains realize that just because a technology happens to have a buzzword attached to it doesn't mean that the technology itself is a bad thing.
The funny thing is that most of the "advantages" you talk about are either ones that no one is going to care about or no one is going to notice. Most of these optimizations really only benefit the site on the server-side end.
One of my submissions, the "editor" changed an accurate link to an inaccurate one
kdawson?
You mean except for the fact that they are co-opting copyrights on orphan books that would prevent others from doing this?
And yet despite your claim of it not working at all in any version of IE, I was able to post this comment in IE6. Strange, eh?
But fixing things requires actually doing hard work rather than cheap hacks.
I think you're both missing the point that it isn't free because of anti-trust law.I didn't realize I was going to have to spell it out.
No, I'm not missing any point at all. You're just making something up without any evidence your statement up with. This is an enterprise-level tool and they aren't going to make such a thing and give it away for free. This is no different than for any other enterprise tool that they sell.
So i fail to see the complaint.
The lack of quality standards of editors?
I think he's pointing out the fact that Microsoft Forefront isn't free it's something you have to buy.
Yeah, but that's just pretending the problem doesn't exist anymore.