Before you say climate != weather, check this graph out? For 13 years straight it has persistently getting colder. The UK is getting colder every year as well. The climate of the world did get warmer starting in the 1970s but it is reversing now. It is not just Alaska or the UK.
As a former Alaskan I can tell you that glacialization has come back the last 3 years and summer temperatures are rapidly falling year after year. So climate != weather but 13 years of data is starting to make a case for a cooler climate regardless of increased CO2.
You can start by not buying one that only works with IE 7 and XP after blood, sweat, and tears, getting off IE 6 and XP to Windows 7 only now to reverse a whole years worth of work to downgrade because the CFO read about it in skymail on his flight to Brussels!
I remember those dark days but besides the British ministry of health and welfare that requires its applicants to use IE 6 I no of none and I mean none on the net. Work it is different as 85% of corps love crappy ancient software because they can standardize on it and never spend money to change something unless the accountants see a way it can boost the shareprice.
Even at my work my coworkers use IE 9 and it works with 90% of our portals. Chrome bitches about our portal system with a warning box but it still renders fine. We have old stuff in the office too. Thank God for Firefox and Chrome.
With tablets going into the workplace I envision the following decade will be about ripping out the ancient proprietry stuff like MS and moving them into virtualization servers accissible by a webkit browser and open HTML 5 apps by decades end. Microsoft is not there yet with Windows 8 and the surface, but I can imagine that will change rapidly as apps that run on the big 3 will come out and Windows 9 will be very much improved and can run tablet style and cloud enabled so you can get rid of your while I.T. department and go cloud.
I am typing this on Firefox 17 ESR because I do not like change that often when it breaks things, but it is much better thant Firefox 4. Versions 4 through 8 were really terrible and I do not blame his wife for switching.
My exwife used IE 6 right until IE 7 came out. I loaded up Firefox 2 and she was shocked how much better it was. She is not a loyalist and thinks IE is crap. Point being is that browsers and things change. Some people use Firefox out of habbit like some IE users now and wont change. Some like me use the best tool.
2 years ago IE 9 was the best browser. Secure, supported decent HTML 5, quick etc. Then Chrome was the better one. Now I find Firefox improving as it is no longer a bloated pig that breaks ever release and is OK. Once someone leaves due to performance the image is tarnished just like yours is with IE. Very hard to get people to switch back.
I heard IE 11 might have it. I am really surprised why as MS has been trying to champaign web enabled excel spreedsheets and powerpoint presentation?!
Powerpoint 2013 is having web based ones as a selling point to share so people do not have to fly with a laptop and it can be viewed on a browser. Many finance and accounting folks in the enterprise use mathmatical formulas and do more than simple pie charts. MathML is not hard to support. I would image it is easy compared to trying to port WebGL with opengl emulation over DirectX which runs on top of WDDM.
Yeah i think old billy got his ACID tests mixed up, which is why i think its stupid to call this ACID instead of something like ML-Test or Math Tester. But I ran the test on both Comodo Dragon (Based on Chromium stable) and Pale Moon and it was a total mess and considering how long it took IE to get ACID support I'm seriously doubting he got IE 8 to pass, nor do i believe that FF ESR passed as that is a couple of years old.
But again I really don't see a point in the MathML tests, the vast majority won't ever be going to a site that depends on MathML so saying its not supporting MathML means squat, like saying a CPU should be judged strictly by how well it runs Folding At Home. Hell Folding is a hell of a lot bigger niche than MathML, can anybody even name a popular site in the top 20 page ranking that uses it? Top 50? So far web designers can't even get HTML V5 up and running without it sucking cycles like a drunk sucking down free drinks so MathML should rightly be at the bottom of the "to do" list.
Yeah I had 3 rum and cokes when I typed that.
The reason HTML 5 is not getting off is because of... you guessed it... IE support. Make that old IE support. IE 6 you can safely ignore outside of China thankfully, but IE 8 is HUGE and with grannies and the corps not leaving XP anytime soon it will stick a long long time. Remember not every business has its own I.T. department or with with small shops like your own who tell them to leave. Most are small to medium sized business that have some old app that uses IE 6 like a POS system in a cash register or DOS based app. No one really wants to take time out of the day to explain how to setup virtilization when the owner thinks spending money to replace soemthing that works fine already.
I still use IE 8 at work and some of my coworkers do use IE 9 but I know some of our portal pages do not work and I do nto want to bother to change it as I need to find odd apps on it for users who call with needing Tidcore or spotfire which is hidden in that monstrosity that predates sharepoint. But I never go outside of technet, microsoft, and gmail so I do nto care. I am overworked in the office at this point. I can imagine that is the typical IE 8 user that you see in logs.
Point being I will not upgrade nor will the Indian I.T. team bother with a SCCM update until websites switch to HTML 5. Sites wont switch to HTML 5 because they have no reason to upgrade from IE 8. Until that changes no one will budge and time will freeze on inovation except on our phones which will sadly have a richer browsing experience.
Worse, with desktops being just good enough they are turning into mainframes that only get updated once per decade running even older apps. This slows down innovation even further.
It is not all positive. It is buggy and has proprietary extensions similiar to something that sounded familiar in the past? Its javascript sometimes does not load on sites and its version of HTML 5 is differnent from others. HTML5test.com tests things that W3C implements a little differently or not at all.
Remember IE 6 was lean mean and standards compliant compared to the god awefull netscape 10 years ago too. Hard to believe in a place like slashdot to admit but if you go read slashdot history on the most discussed stories of all time "What keeps you on Windows from 2002" IE 6 is mentioned!
The switch to a new rendering engine is going to cause issues soon and many corporate oriented SVs and site makers will not be pleased.
This shows why enterprises prefer stability and ancient standards like old IE over Chrome who changes the rendering engine on a whim.
This whole article is clearly false. I ran this test on Firefox 17 ESR (the older annual updated version) and it ran. Last, I even ran it on IE. Perfect! I set the compatibility mode to lower and IE 9 ran fine too, and so did IE 8 render it fine as well which is old in modern standards.
Maybe I am missing something but every browser can pass this... well except the alpha quality ones.
I'd be quite happy if they'd standardize the DRM in HTML5. That way there would be one common DRM to crack instead of everyone having their own peculiar variant.
Explain how it would work with Linux. I do not run it anymore but other users reading this comment sure do! What about if I want to make a free setup box or whatever project I want to work on? Opensource would mean everyone would see how it works.
Oops it means only Safari, Chrome (not Chromium), and IE. Firefox users and Android 2.x users need not apply. I do not want a future with ads blasting loud h.264 video with no adblock and no way to filter it because of DRM controls telling my browser to tell me to go fuck myself!
Every corp, organization, and business owners will DRM every page and sign it. No more browsing the source. No more non Windows OS support. If the DRM owner who gets his free monopoply handed by the W3C decides no opensource what happens to innovation? Chome/Safari is the IE 6 of this decade mixed with HTML5test.com who tests non standardized features that favor just webkit. A deal with that would fragment the web for sure and be a nightmare if someone wants to create another browser.
I hate plugins. But I agree with RMS even if I think he is not grounded in reality with economics.
The web needs to stay free! Who is to say Netflix wont team up with Google for a Chrome DRM extension in Blink/Webkit that is not standard when Silverlight dies? Yes, it is shitty for Netflix to do it simply wont stop media companies. However to let DRM in means the death of free internet. How can FirefoxOS or a project I want to work on work when these media companies only standardize on one browser's DRM or with people who can afford the check to pay for DRM?
You didn't think DRM would be free to implement did you? Shoot IE and Safari might even takeover marketshare wise because of this! Things need to stay opened and if someone wants to go proprietary that is their business. However it should not be a standard requirement to simply browse the web.
Think about it? Every company thinks its I.P is sooo important and will simply DRM their whole homepage to make themselves feel important and protect their IP like jpg files which will lock out non IE and Safari browsers. That my friend is bullshit. DRM hurts debugging and the spirit of the web.
Sometimes the geeks are so narrowly obsessed they miss the big picture.
The same geeks laughed at the PC like we do the IPAD when it came out because it was not as cool as the mainframe when doing word processing. Look whom won?
I bashed the IPAD too as I wanted a hip macbook and heard the rumors of a low cost netbook and found iOS a neutered cell phone OS. Boo! I was wrong and misunderstood that some people just didn't give a shit about a full featured OS. I missed the point as I was a geek who was narrow.
Same is true with some Linux folks I see touting how XP users in hospitals who are sticking with their old software due to costs recommend Linux. I hate to tell you guys this but without apps who gives a fuck!? You mean GNU is going to donate the $10,000 required for certification? How sweet etc.
The geeks are afraid of change which is Windows. And the doctors are the ones who rightfully do not want to change as their software only runs on XP and why fix what is not broken?
Where can it be used legally? = Where can it be used legally?
How comfortable are people going to be when they see you have one and they don't? = How comfortable are people going to be when they see you have one and they don't?
Kinda Spend y - people who can't afford it will be all sour grapes.:-)
You know they said the same things about bluetooth headsets. People will think you are crazy! I guess cell phones too when they were new in the 80s.
Yes Freedos is available and some companies still use it. My point is it should not be used for new software nor software development as it is a dead platform in a different era just like XP should be avoided by this time next year.
DOS really is not an OS anyway and it can't even handle I/O. It uses the bios for keyboard import because it is so so braindead crippled. What a piece of garbage. My ant MS zealotry started from DOS way before I knew what Linux was.
So you feel they have a right to dictate to other users what they can do with their computers? Who do they think you are? Microsoft of old?
If someone wants to make money why should the compiler stop them? If someone wants to purchase software why should we stop them? What is so wrong about someone having a dream for a better life who wants to feed their kids?
Ide's want more integration, more apps want to make extension without giving away their trade secrets, more embedded devices want and need a compiler. It is hypocrtical for people like RMS to claim not to touch computers with non-free software as they take away freedom, yet work on products that do take away freedom from its users and yes developers who write commercial software use compiler and they have freedom too to feed their families and own homes and cars like everyone else.
GPLv3 has some real problems and htis is one of them. Slashdot 12 years ago was very anti-capitalistic as many of us were college students/basement dwellers. Now we are grownups with bills to pay. This silliness needs to stop and yes you are free not to use my software if I decide to charge for it so there you go.
Which is why the BSD license is so supperior. I wished FreeBSD 5.x didn't crumble and would beat linux.:-(
What is so damn evil about making money? WHat is so evil about feeding your family? Sorry but the world will not go into a communistic way of life and not use things which help consumers and businesses alike such as Office, sharepoint, ERP apps, games, or whatever. Sure you can use GNU but who do these people are to prevent businesses to streamline their processes with software or to tell us we can't have dreams of a better life by writting the next killer app?
This is not offtopic here, as GCC has clearly stated its goals were to prevent this now that they are popular. Well guess what? I see this no different than Microsoft of the old days which become popular on the cotails of another master (IBM) who then dictated which standards, versions, products, and other things at the OEM level. It is the reason we still have IE 6 in use today. GCC is no different as they are using whatever means necessary for the agenda. Just on hte opposite side of the socialism/capitalism scale. What we need is no politics or agendas and just use a product.
His proposal is that the $20 billion needed to borrow to buyback the shareholders all go to Mr. Icahn in a one lump sum payout (ok all the shareholders get it... but added for dramatization) while Dell pays it back with interest over 20 years and possibly dying. Icahn sells it to someone else who gets screwed while he gets rich in the short term price bubble. Or Icahn keeps it and forces dell to sell all of its assets to raise the shareprice and then sells it when it has to repurchase all its assets again.
Icahn did that to Timewarner. The company had to sell everything and then repurcahse it again after the stock price surged and the others were left holding the bag.
Windows 8 Pro/Exchange 2013 have app downloads tied to each users corporate account that is tied to the profile in a hidden encrypted partition. When the user wants to do something personal he or she logs off and logins in with their hotmail account and his or her personal apps all show up. Easy
Windows Blue and Windows 9 and Exchange 2015 will offer more integration. MS has a demo of it too. This puts an end to Active Directory too for all bout cloud providers serving ancient win32 apps in virtualizers to tablet users. They do not need to upload.
The business world is heading to this too but bare in mind it is typically 5 years behind the consumer market. 5 years ago the IPhone 1 just came out so this is where corporate America is now with Windows RT/8. In the coming years I expect the cloud and tablets to take over everything and end the annoying IT cost center as we know it.
Which.docx format? The ECMA-376 1st Edition version included in Word 2007, or the ISO/IEC 29500:2008 Transitional included in Word 2010? And what about the formal 29500:2008 Strict format, which the Office OpenXML standard says should be preferred to Transitional but which Word can't write? It makes a difference, since ECMA-376 and 29500:2008 aren't compatible (among other things, date formats differ and dates valid in one format are illegal in the other). I don't know if Office 2013 introduced another variation on the format, I need to remain compatible with work so I can't install Office later than 2010.
Which is a greater reason to keep updated. THe compatiblity pack for Office 2003 does not cover it so there will be some formatting issues the longer you keep Office 2000. I can't stand Office 2013, and spent extra money to downgrade to Office 2010, grrr thanks MS for ordering retailers to destoy all older copies so Amazon can boast the price of its older products on its users.
I like aero, rounded corners, and knowing my apps will still run and using a well supported and industry standard operating system. Otherwise I would be running Linux. How do I know the upgrade trendmill wont turn into another Firefox 4/5/6/7/8 where shit broke each release?
Firefox just now is finally morphing into something cna be updated all the time. Windows is not. The apps require specific versions of IE, dlls, paths, and whatnot and an agile development environment would be disasterous. It is not Android much like Firefox is not Chrome.
Why don't we put India in charge of the US. We wouldn't need congress any more.
Or better yet remind them who they are working for. If they do not hear a peep out of the average citizen then they assume there really is a labor shortage and good old Microsoft would never lie would they?
If your senator is a democrat tell them how much wages have not went up and how job ads actually state "H1B1 rates in salary and how employers are abusing the system as it was designed to only allow an employer to hire someone at a comparative rate. Never as a way to lower costs.
If your senator is a republican tell them it is an assault on the free market as employers get to choose where to hire, but you do not have the choice to do the same. Mention government interference and tax dollars wasted, then close with the same line I had above in your own words how it is not going as intended.
Also, mention one of the organizations was a fraudalent fake one by Microsoft looking for cheaper workers. Not an actualy organization of I.T. professionals who are lobbying for this as this is self centered and not in the will of your constitutions. Call them too as the staff checks the amount of calls everday and a spike is certainly noticed by the senator.
Remember the DMCA 2.0 law requiring DRM TCPA chips in every computer sold? It was thrown out after we at slashdot put down such links. Senators got so much of an earfull that was cancelled. Slashdot generates 10,000 if not 100,000 of views for stories. So spend 3 minutes and do your part.
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Here is another source showing global warming slowing down and even reversing some cases!
I am a former Alaskan. Tell that to the Alaskans where May first 60 degree days hit and leaves start appearing on the trees when it just hit 4 a night or two ago and the snow hasn't even melted yet?
Before you say climate != weather, check this graph out? For 13 years straight it has persistently getting colder. The UK is getting colder every year as well. The climate of the world did get warmer starting in the 1970s but it is reversing now. It is not just Alaska or the UK.
I think our calculations on CO2 are way off.
After the UK and Alaska has seen a 2 - 5 degree temperature drop since 2000, and cooling global wide many observations are counteracting the global warming models.
As a former Alaskan I can tell you that glacialization has come back the last 3 years and summer temperatures are rapidly falling year after year. So climate != weather but 13 years of data is starting to make a case for a cooler climate regardless of increased CO2.
You can start by not buying one that only works with IE 7 and XP after blood, sweat, and tears, getting off IE 6 and XP to Windows 7 only now to reverse a whole years worth of work to downgrade because the CFO read about it in skymail on his flight to Brussels!
Care to share the sites?
I remember those dark days but besides the British ministry of health and welfare that requires its applicants to use IE 6 I no of none and I mean none on the net. Work it is different as 85% of corps love crappy ancient software because they can standardize on it and never spend money to change something unless the accountants see a way it can boost the shareprice.
Even at my work my coworkers use IE 9 and it works with 90% of our portals. Chrome bitches about our portal system with a warning box but it still renders fine. We have old stuff in the office too. Thank God for Firefox and Chrome.
With tablets going into the workplace I envision the following decade will be about ripping out the ancient proprietry stuff like MS and moving them into virtualization servers accissible by a webkit browser and open HTML 5 apps by decades end. Microsoft is not there yet with Windows 8 and the surface, but I can imagine that will change rapidly as apps that run on the big 3 will come out and Windows 9 will be very much improved and can run tablet style and cloud enabled so you can get rid of your while I.T. department and go cloud.
I left Firefox too for a long time too.
I am typing this on Firefox 17 ESR because I do not like change that often when it breaks things, but it is much better thant Firefox 4. Versions 4 through 8 were really terrible and I do not blame his wife for switching.
My exwife used IE 6 right until IE 7 came out. I loaded up Firefox 2 and she was shocked how much better it was. She is not a loyalist and thinks IE is crap. Point being is that browsers and things change. Some people use Firefox out of habbit like some IE users now and wont change. Some like me use the best tool.
2 years ago IE 9 was the best browser. Secure, supported decent HTML 5, quick etc. Then Chrome was the better one. Now I find Firefox improving as it is no longer a bloated pig that breaks ever release and is OK. Once someone leaves due to performance the image is tarnished just like yours is with IE. Very hard to get people to switch back.
I heard IE 11 might have it. I am really surprised why as MS has been trying to champaign web enabled excel spreedsheets and powerpoint presentation?!
Powerpoint 2013 is having web based ones as a selling point to share so people do not have to fly with a laptop and it can be viewed on a browser. Many finance and accounting folks in the enterprise use mathmatical formulas and do more than simple pie charts. MathML is not hard to support. I would image it is easy compared to trying to port WebGL with opengl emulation over DirectX which runs on top of WDDM.
Yeah i think old billy got his ACID tests mixed up, which is why i think its stupid to call this ACID instead of something like ML-Test or Math Tester. But I ran the test on both Comodo Dragon (Based on Chromium stable) and Pale Moon and it was a total mess and considering how long it took IE to get ACID support I'm seriously doubting he got IE 8 to pass, nor do i believe that FF ESR passed as that is a couple of years old.
But again I really don't see a point in the MathML tests, the vast majority won't ever be going to a site that depends on MathML so saying its not supporting MathML means squat, like saying a CPU should be judged strictly by how well it runs Folding At Home. Hell Folding is a hell of a lot bigger niche than MathML, can anybody even name a popular site in the top 20 page ranking that uses it? Top 50? So far web designers can't even get HTML V5 up and running without it sucking cycles like a drunk sucking down free drinks so MathML should rightly be at the bottom of the "to do" list.
Yeah I had 3 rum and cokes when I typed that.
The reason HTML 5 is not getting off is because of ... you guessed it... IE support. Make that old IE support. IE 6 you can safely ignore outside of China thankfully, but IE 8 is HUGE and with grannies and the corps not leaving XP anytime soon it will stick a long long time. Remember not every business has its own I.T. department or with with small shops like your own who tell them to leave. Most are small to medium sized business that have some old app that uses IE 6 like a POS system in a cash register or DOS based app. No one really wants to take time out of the day to explain how to setup virtilization when the owner thinks spending money to replace soemthing that works fine already.
I still use IE 8 at work and some of my coworkers do use IE 9 but I know some of our portal pages do not work and I do nto want to bother to change it as I need to find odd apps on it for users who call with needing Tidcore or spotfire which is hidden in that monstrosity that predates sharepoint. But I never go outside of technet, microsoft, and gmail so I do nto care. I am overworked in the office at this point. I can imagine that is the typical IE 8 user that you see in logs.
Point being I will not upgrade nor will the Indian I.T. team bother with a SCCM update until websites switch to HTML 5. Sites wont switch to HTML 5 because they have no reason to upgrade from IE 8. Until that changes no one will budge and time will freeze on inovation except on our phones which will sadly have a richer browsing experience.
Worse, with desktops being just good enough they are turning into mainframes that only get updated once per decade running even older apps. This slows down innovation even further.
Ask a web developer what they think about Chrome?
It is not all positive. It is buggy and has proprietary extensions similiar to something that sounded familiar in the past? Its javascript sometimes does not load on sites and its version of HTML 5 is differnent from others. HTML5test.com tests things that W3C implements a little differently or not at all.
Remember IE 6 was lean mean and standards compliant compared to the god awefull netscape 10 years ago too. Hard to believe in a place like slashdot to admit but if you go read slashdot history on the most discussed stories of all time "What keeps you on Windows from 2002" IE 6 is mentioned!
The switch to a new rendering engine is going to cause issues soon and many corporate oriented SVs and site makers will not be pleased.
Chrome stable passed it just fine.
This shows why enterprises prefer stability and ancient standards like old IE over Chrome who changes the rendering engine on a whim.
This whole article is clearly false. I ran this test on Firefox 17 ESR (the older annual updated version) and it ran. Last, I even ran it on IE. Perfect! I set the compatibility mode to lower and IE 9 ran fine too, and so did IE 8 render it fine as well which is old in modern standards.
Maybe I am missing something but every browser can pass this ... well except the alpha quality ones.
Why? Ask any phb and they will tell you it is a must for any client. All corporate sites continue to function so the issue must be the developer!
I'd be quite happy if they'd standardize the DRM in HTML5. That way there would be one common DRM to crack instead of everyone having their own peculiar variant.
Explain how it would work with Linux. I do not run it anymore but other users reading this comment sure do! What about if I want to make a free setup box or whatever project I want to work on? Opensource would mean everyone would see how it works.
Oops it means only Safari, Chrome (not Chromium), and IE. Firefox users and Android 2.x users need not apply. I do not want a future with ads blasting loud h.264 video with no adblock and no way to filter it because of DRM controls telling my browser to tell me to go fuck myself!
Every corp, organization, and business owners will DRM every page and sign it. No more browsing the source. No more non Windows OS support. If the DRM owner who gets his free monopoply handed by the W3C decides no opensource what happens to innovation? Chome/Safari is the IE 6 of this decade mixed with HTML5test.com who tests non standardized features that favor just webkit. A deal with that would fragment the web for sure and be a nightmare if someone wants to create another browser.
H.264 is DRM friendly too!
I hate plugins. But I agree with RMS even if I think he is not grounded in reality with economics.
The web needs to stay free! Who is to say Netflix wont team up with Google for a Chrome DRM extension in Blink/Webkit that is not standard when Silverlight dies? Yes, it is shitty for Netflix to do it simply wont stop media companies. However to let DRM in means the death of free internet. How can FirefoxOS or a project I want to work on work when these media companies only standardize on one browser's DRM or with people who can afford the check to pay for DRM?
You didn't think DRM would be free to implement did you? Shoot IE and Safari might even takeover marketshare wise because of this! Things need to stay opened and if someone wants to go proprietary that is their business. However it should not be a standard requirement to simply browse the web.
Think about it? Every company thinks its I.P is sooo important and will simply DRM their whole homepage to make themselves feel important and protect their IP like jpg files which will lock out non IE and Safari browsers. That my friend is bullshit. DRM hurts debugging and the spirit of the web.
Sometimes the geeks are so narrowly obsessed they miss the big picture.
The same geeks laughed at the PC like we do the IPAD when it came out because it was not as cool as the mainframe when doing word processing. Look whom won?
I bashed the IPAD too as I wanted a hip macbook and heard the rumors of a low cost netbook and found iOS a neutered cell phone OS. Boo! I was wrong and misunderstood that some people just didn't give a shit about a full featured OS. I missed the point as I was a geek who was narrow.
Same is true with some Linux folks I see touting how XP users in hospitals who are sticking with their old software due to costs recommend Linux. I hate to tell you guys this but without apps who gives a fuck!? You mean GNU is going to donate the $10,000 required for certification? How sweet etc.
The geeks are afraid of change which is Windows. And the doctors are the ones who rightfully do not want to change as their software only runs on XP and why fix what is not broken?
Radical Change Product= Radical Change Product
Where can it be used legally? = Where can it be used legally?
How comfortable are people going to be when they see you have one and they don't? = How comfortable are people going to be when they see you have one and they don't?
Kinda Spend y - people who can't afford it will be all sour grapes. :-)
You know they said the same things about bluetooth headsets. People will think you are crazy! I guess cell phones too when they were new in the 80s.
What happened to the starwars that I used to know?
Dos is EOL and obsolete. Get over it.
Yes Freedos is available and some companies still use it. My point is it should not be used for new software nor software development as it is a dead platform in a different era just like XP should be avoided by this time next year.
DOS really is not an OS anyway and it can't even handle I/O. It uses the bios for keyboard import because it is so so braindead crippled. What a piece of garbage. My ant MS zealotry started from DOS way before I knew what Linux was.
So you feel they have a right to dictate to other users what they can do with their computers? Who do they think you are? Microsoft of old?
If someone wants to make money why should the compiler stop them? If someone wants to purchase software why should we stop them? What is so wrong about someone having a dream for a better life who wants to feed their kids?
Ide's want more integration, more apps want to make extension without giving away their trade secrets, more embedded devices want and need a compiler. It is hypocrtical for people like RMS to claim not to touch computers with non-free software as they take away freedom, yet work on products that do take away freedom from its users and yes developers who write commercial software use compiler and they have freedom too to feed their families and own homes and cars like everyone else.
GPLv3 has some real problems and htis is one of them. Slashdot 12 years ago was very anti-capitalistic as many of us were college students/basement dwellers. Now we are grownups with bills to pay. This silliness needs to stop and yes you are free not to use my software if I decide to charge for it so there you go.
Which is why the BSD license is so supperior. I wished FreeBSD 5.x didn't crumble and would beat linux. :-(
What is so damn evil about making money? WHat is so evil about feeding your family? Sorry but the world will not go into a communistic way of life and not use things which help consumers and businesses alike such as Office, sharepoint, ERP apps, games, or whatever. Sure you can use GNU but who do these people are to prevent businesses to streamline their processes with software or to tell us we can't have dreams of a better life by writting the next killer app?
This is not offtopic here, as GCC has clearly stated its goals were to prevent this now that they are popular. Well guess what? I see this no different than Microsoft of the old days which become popular on the cotails of another master (IBM) who then dictated which standards, versions, products, and other things at the OEM level. It is the reason we still have IE 6 in use today. GCC is no different as they are using whatever means necessary for the agenda. Just on hte opposite side of the socialism/capitalism scale. What we need is no politics or agendas and just use a product.
Google adds. No one else may compete and you only buy a right to use them as they are a copy of the pair of glasses at Google. Not an actual pair etc.
His proposal is that the $20 billion needed to borrow to buyback the shareholders all go to Mr. Icahn in a one lump sum payout (ok all the shareholders get it ... but added for dramatization) while Dell pays it back with interest over 20 years and possibly dying. Icahn sells it to someone else who gets screwed while he gets rich in the short term price bubble. Or Icahn keeps it and forces dell to sell all of its assets to raise the shareprice and then sells it when it has to repurchase all its assets again.
Icahn did that to Timewarner. The company had to sell everything and then repurcahse it again after the stock price surged and the others were left holding the bag.
This man is a menace!
You do not need to reimage.
Windows 8 Pro/Exchange 2013 have app downloads tied to each users corporate account that is tied to the profile in a hidden encrypted partition. When the user wants to do something personal he or she logs off and logins in with their hotmail account and his or her personal apps all show up. Easy
Windows Blue and Windows 9 and Exchange 2015 will offer more integration. MS has a demo of it too. This puts an end to Active Directory too for all bout cloud providers serving ancient win32 apps in virtualizers to tablet users. They do not need to upload.
The business world is heading to this too but bare in mind it is typically 5 years behind the consumer market. 5 years ago the IPhone 1 just came out so this is where corporate America is now with Windows RT/8. In the coming years I expect the cloud and tablets to take over everything and end the annoying IT cost center as we know it.
Which .docx format? The ECMA-376 1st Edition version included in Word 2007, or the ISO/IEC 29500:2008 Transitional included in Word 2010? And what about the formal 29500:2008 Strict format, which the Office OpenXML standard says should be preferred to Transitional but which Word can't write? It makes a difference, since ECMA-376 and 29500:2008 aren't compatible (among other things, date formats differ and dates valid in one format are illegal in the other). I don't know if Office 2013 introduced another variation on the format, I need to remain compatible with work so I can't install Office later than 2010.
Which is a greater reason to keep updated. THe compatiblity pack for Office 2003 does not cover it so there will be some formatting issues the longer you keep Office 2000. I can't stand Office 2013, and spent extra money to downgrade to Office 2010, grrr thanks MS for ordering retailers to destoy all older copies so Amazon can boast the price of its older products on its users.
I like aero, rounded corners, and knowing my apps will still run and using a well supported and industry standard operating system. Otherwise I would be running Linux. How do I know the upgrade trendmill wont turn into another Firefox 4/5/6/7/8 where shit broke each release?
Firefox just now is finally morphing into something cna be updated all the time. Windows is not. The apps require specific versions of IE, dlls, paths, and whatnot and an agile development environment would be disasterous. It is not Android much like Firefox is not Chrome.
Why don't we put India in charge of the US. We wouldn't need congress any more.
Or better yet remind them who they are working for. If they do not hear a peep out of the average citizen then they assume there really is a labor shortage and good old Microsoft would never lie would they?
Instead of whining in a slashdot post go email, call, tweet, or whatever to your senator! The link I provided is all 100 of them.
If your senator is a democrat tell them how much wages have not went up and how job ads actually state "H1B1 rates in salary and how employers are abusing the system as it was designed to only allow an employer to hire someone at a comparative rate. Never as a way to lower costs.
If your senator is a republican tell them it is an assault on the free market as employers get to choose where to hire, but you do not have the choice to do the same. Mention government interference and tax dollars wasted, then close with the same line I had above in your own words how it is not going as intended.
Also, mention one of the organizations was a fraudalent fake one by Microsoft looking for cheaper workers. Not an actualy organization of I.T. professionals who are lobbying for this as this is self centered and not in the will of your constitutions. Call them too as the staff checks the amount of calls everday and a spike is certainly noticed by the senator.
Remember the DMCA 2.0 law requiring DRM TCPA chips in every computer sold? It was thrown out after we at slashdot put down such links. Senators got so much of an earfull that was cancelled. Slashdot generates 10,000 if not 100,000 of views for stories. So spend 3 minutes and do your part.