How exactly does it screw with compatibility? Old code will still compile. Old compiled classes will still load. They're adding new stuff. Nothing old is being changed or removed. You don't *have* to re-write anything. If someone tells you so, its because they want to.
It only screws with IT departments because they fear change. They also seem to not want to install security updates either. The only JVM upgrade problems I've experienced in the last 10 years was with legacy code written for IBM's 1.3 JVM because the developers at the time thought it was a good idea to refer to com.ibm classes.
Or we have software that needs to run? Laugh at I.T. departments all you want but we never had to worry about Vista. We never had issues with ME because we never had to run it. We didn't have to worry about the ribbon either as we gradually learned at home how to use it. We never had to worry about our browsers being broken every 6 weeks either. Sure they may not have the latest wizz bang checklist features but most sites still only develop for IE 8 anyway.
At home I use Android SDK which only runs Java 6. I plan to keep it as Java 7 had all the security issues that 6 never had because Sun wrote 6 and not Indian interns at Oracle who never touched it before.
You are right I fear change as I see Windows 8 and just reformatted my system because I had to use the headache inducing horrible gui of Office 2013 in its all white glory with no borders or colorless gray. YUCK.
Windows 7/XP and older software works fine thank you very much and I do not want to change. It is supperior and I do not have to be a guinne pig to make sales numbers for WIndows 8/0ffice 2013. MS literally called every retailer to get office 2010 off the shelves!! Assholes.
Finally a version that is not loaded with security issues relatively and can run all the software out there. Java 7 was truly terrible and has too many updates. There is no time for that at work.
Java 7 had 50 patches in just one month!
Java 6 does not have nearly the amount of vulnurabilities and is right up there with XP. It works and is mature and I do not see a reason to change.
I have not seen Sparcs in years. They are so 2003. Kind of sad as we move to generic x86 but Sun really screwed up marketing these and Oracle is not helping by requiring an Oracle RDBMS license whether they are an oracle shop or not does not help. Oracle has also been happy to tell people with perfectly good Sparc Ultra I's to go fuck themselves we wont patch your systems anymore unless you pay us $$$ for your 12 year old systems you already paid for!
You can tell I do not like Oracle so consider my opinion biased. True they can multithread really well but the performance is slow and the industry has moved to clustered low cost blades to spread things out instead in such programs. The issue with threading on a single big ass server is not as big as it once was but still used in limited circumstances.
I thought the UltraSparc was legacy at this point so I am surprised.
"Big business craves stability over saving a few hundred bucks per machine. However VMware are coming up with interesting new stuff and more interestingly the more advanced features are flowing down into more basic editions."
Are you talking about the same big business that migrated from top stable mainframe, VMS, and Unix platforms to shit wintel to save money? The same big business that standardized on Microsoft products because they were cheaper? The same ones that hire Indian H1B1 Visa's because they can get the work done 10% cheaper, but with only 50% of the productivty?!
The same one where crticial IT decisions are made by accountants and not the I.T. staff who get bonuses based on how much money they save rather than what they invest it?
Color me cynical, but at the end of the day money talks bullshit walks. If it is cheaper they will do it. After all that is why I am paid $15/hr to make sure they stay up and running with no redundancy. After all I am a cost who adds no business value and it is cheaper to do that than pay for clustering or VMWare.
IE 6 was the wave of the future. Our memories become distorted based on opinions if you ask any psychologist! But lets look at the statistics leading up to 2003. No one and I mean no one survived competing against MS. Opera, Netscape, others were dying month after month. IE 6 was the best browser as Mozilla and Netscape had more quirks in that time frame. No I am not trolling, but rather serious. They improved afterwards.
Webki/khtml, opera, netscape/Mozilla, and IE all failed the ACID test. Not one browser was good back in 2002 and 2003. This was not an IE only thing we believe as today.
So it makes great business sense to standardize on IE 6 10 years ago as Opera was probably going to die and so was this silly Mozilla hack called Firefox. IE integrated with active directory and was eventually going to hit 100% marketshare whether we liked it or not soon. That 3%? Who cares in business I.T. decides your browser.
Of course today things are better. Even IE does not exhibit bizarre behaviors. But Opera in 2003 sucked as well as khtml and even Mozilla had many Netscape quirks in it that required workarounds.
He doesn't have to work again for a day in his life and still live comfortable anywhere in the world! I think he misses his old job more than the money and wants to work again. There is a key difference between rich people and low people like us. Money is one of them. Work for them is about passions as they have so much money they care about stroking their egos and doing something fun. We low people have to worry about retirement, bills, debts, etc.
And the reason why Michele wants to take Dell private is so he can do some radical things to it. So who knows? Give the man the benefit of a doubt, grab some popcorn, and see what happens
He's already CEO and Chairman. If he can take the company in new profitable directions, then there's no incentive for the other shareholders to sell because they they'd be giving up their shares just before they become more valuable. Their only sensible choice is to get as much money as possible for the shares now, since, if it goes private, they'll never be able to own part of Dell again.
That wont happen in the next quarter though? Computers make money based on spreadsheets. Not long term strategy. You either raise the price in the next 4 months or be fired. Pick your poison? Apple was only able to pull off the move to intel macs because of sales of its IPODs. Jobs could only make the IPOD by first selling iMacs etc. If something is not increasing in value quarter by quarter you can't invest to make more money. You need short term money RIGHT NOW so the computer programs can raise the price in a few milliseconds and the owners get that slight profit from the volatility.
It is the DPI or pixels per square inch. Your phone is clear and crisp because it has a higher DPI 150 - 250 than a standard desktop resolution of 100 for all the resolutions.
This is due to Windows XP compatibility. Since many users are crying and still grabing to their copies in 2013 the developer see little reason to leave them out and it creates a chicken and egg scenario.
Windows 8 solves this but, man it is Metro?! Windows XP and Windows 7 will be here for a very very very long time. Judging by the comments here I see people will be sticking with Windows 7 10 years from now being batshit crazy if anyone dares to upgrade even more extreme than the XP loyalists who still swear by that ancient crappy OS today. Old monitors are included as well since monitor makers do not want to put a 200 DPI resolution monitor as LCD screens render everything only at the max resolution and downgrade visual quality for a lower resolution.
For this reason I stuck with a big CRT until 2008! I wanted control with my games and not maxing everyone out for a shittier degraded quality. Anyway this is the 2nd reason why your computer has a crappy display. No one wants a degraded experience and whoever made the spec for LCD to only use the max and use software degradation tricks to still display should be taken out in a field and shot!
If MS fixes and also the home tab in Office 2013 then I will be more open. Windows Blue has 16.7 million colors and a palette to select. Still I am not ready to leave WIndows 7 yet. But, I hated vista too because active Windows were black and butt ugly. Windows 7 finally fixed the horrible UI and colors.
But the desktop is done. Its caput.
In several years all your users will be used to IOS and Android and it wont be too big. But in early 2013 I agree Windows 7 is a much better bet and is semi modern but starting to age fast just like XP was when Vista came out in late 2006. I see where MS is going where you only use one app at a time anyway but a brain has trouble with shit flying out as one task can use more than 1 Windows. A improved start screen that takes half or 1/3 the page in Windows Red or whatever will make me tolerate it in 2014 if I buy another system rather than put a now 5 year old OS on it. But time will tell. According to the anti Slashdot Neowin the start screen has improved and caught up with Windows 7 with instant search.
The start menu is gone forever. It isn't coming back.
I welcome these changes as I dispice Metro in its current form for all the reasons you stated. I like to be able to see multiple programs at once, use the taskbar to preview with aero all the differnet IE tabs and apps, and use instant search for things in my word document to see if I have matching files etc.
So far Microsoft is responding to some of the criticism by making making Metro applets do the same things like resizing and having more than one app open.
But the desktop and the start menu is notcoming back. The desktop is dead and Microsoft has invested too much into this and is losing too much marketshare to go back to the old ways. Customers are telling Microsoft they want a cool IPAD, iBook, or a Droid. Not wanting the same sluggish crashy POS with 11 year old blue and green colored XP machines they use at work. Desktop apps are not touch friendly and do not go beyond 100 DPI without major gui issues and bugs. Why is my 2 year old Samsung Galaxy S gives a better browsing experience with smooth GPU acceleration, less pixely graphics, and HTML 5 goodness than my desktop PC?
The infrastructure is dated due to XP compatibility with win32. I do not feel Metro is ready yet which is why I am typing this on Windows 7 but if MS clears its act with more colors a taskbar, a smart screen that doesn't block what you are doing, and more Skeumorphism they will have a winner. Windows Blue is even faster and less crappy and sluggish with huge ass latency compred to Windows 8, which beats Windows 7, which is even more responsive than XP when it comes to Windows Rot.
Arguing against it makes it look like we are old men who hate change because of a silly button.
Well one the housing boom inflated home values rents went up 200% and they never went down!
I used to live in Alaska too and the rent was $750 a month for a bedroom in a basement was the norm. It seems everywhere it is that high. Maybe if you owned a home bought in 2000 you have not seen the cost inflation. Today it costs $900 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment in most cities even if a house is cheaper. Why? Because the landlords bought in during hte housing boom and have mortgages to pay. With people being foreclosed upon there is a line and people lining up to pay that much for a shitty place!
Maybe in rural Alabama but in the real world everywhere it costs higher and higher each year as the landlords try to make a quick buck knowing you do not have the 25% down for a home for half the price.
I still play that game and it was sooo fucking close to a Wow killer. They rushed it without dailies and raids to meet Christmas projection marks in some accountants spreadsheet and they killed the game cards and the expansion at the store and gave up too early.
I do not care what other say about SWTOR it is not failure and much better. Bioware did great things and they got rid of great people too quickly. Another 6 months when SWTOR had the dailies, raids, and fixes it would have 3x the amount of subscribers.
What a shame and I am irritated as I do not want to go back to Wow.
There new Thunder and durgango APUs are rumored to finally get close to the I7's!
This will crush them as AMD's former strength is floating point calculations and today it is multithreading or rather can get close to performance in multithreading.
I do not see how you can unless this was 20 years ago.
Car insurance $200 a month. Uncle Sam's rent money = 25% of pay = $4000 or $360 a month, Food = $350 a month or = the other 25%. Now rent you are looking at $700 a month. I live in cheap ass Florida and you can not find a good apartment for anything less.
You do not want Office 2013. It is blinding white and very very ugly. Unless you colaborate with large groups of people with salesforce and cloud apps used in the office 2013 appstore there is no reason.
I like the appstore and new free developer tools for it! But I view it like Vista/Windows 8 where it is unbaked but a new groundwork to work from there. Office 2015 will fix this I am sure with Windows 9.
If your hardware is old just do what XP loyalists and corps do. Put Windows 7 and Office 2010 on. It will be alive for a long long time until MS gets its shit together in the tablet world.
Why do the rest of us have left XP ages ago while the corps live in the past with ancient kernels and internet browsers? The answer is because of costs and migration hassles.
So what does Microsoft do? Put at $179 charge on upgrading in edition to Windows! Think that will get Windows 9 and newer tablets out the door in 2015? Nope. If I have to blow an addition $179 for something I already have in addition to investing in new hardware then fuck it! Windows 7 still works fine and so does Office 2010 and I will move my games to lower detailed settings as my hardware ages. Hmm sounds similiar to my employers attitude towards upgrading.
Take away that extra cash and I will be more likely to switch to Windows 9 on my PhenomII in 2015 if hardware still does not innovate that much and perhaps leave Office 2010 by then too if it is innovative enough. But if I alreayd blew $$ for 2013 I will keep what i have longer. I don't win, and neither does Microsoft. OEMs would loose too and Web developers will be pissed as IE users will use obsolete versions tied to Windows 7 longer as a result as well.
This is a step in the right direction. Now if only unfriendly customer feedback would get them to retract Metro we'll really be in business.
Seriously though, how obvious was it that there would be a huge negative reaction to the change of licensing terms for Office? As usually, the more MBA's you get involved in things the dumber the collective IQ of an organization gets.
Wait to you see the blinding white of of Office 2013! May god have mercy on your soul if you have a flickering flourscent light 60 mhz CRT you stare at all day with it.
Other than that it has some nice improvements under the hood. Cloud integration, an app store with app addons like Firefox has with its browses, GPU acceleration, detailed collaborative editing, and Metro support. I have the dark theme which is a medium gray (it is void of all colors) and I have been running it for almost a month.
It is cool because you can look at a paragraph in Word and see -edited by Jamie 1/29/2013 tag. The document changes work like Im conversations. But the gui,,, just makes me want to go back to Office 2010 similiar to Windows 8. Shame, but potential for something new as addons for cloud services will be the next major reason to upgrade office this decade. Perhaps Office 2015 with Windows 9 will be mature and nice again?
One word "Nokia". How are they doing since they got that new CEO? A bad worker or engineer can fuck up a hell of alot less than director and certainly a CEO.
I am getting a bad rap these weekend for this but I have a better option that works just as well.
Fire them. After needing to pay their bills they will do better and have a stronger worth ethic. If you ask any manager they do not like to hire 21 to 23 year olds. The reason being is without real world experience they do not quite get the reason they are there and how management and customers see things. Typically most everyone gets fired in life at least once and it mostly happens in this age group.
The last 4 years I have seen employers simply demand excellence and fire people left and right if they are nto the best. Average is just not good enough as we all do more for less.
I would be fuming if I am working so hard in fear of being fired every day knowing my limited earnings are being taxed to some guy to go fishing all day?! If I have to do it and multitask to be the most efficient to meet my metrics why do other people get any slack? Maybe I have just not been lucky and see companies today put up with useless employees where you can show up more than 5 minutes late for work more than 3 times and keep his or her job.
I didn't even see that part with the 200 emails. Why is he still employed?! My boss would have fired me within 48 hours of not answering emails and she gets an email of eveyr website I have been on and for how long.
I guess I am blessed with an employer who actually makes sure you work and fires people who do not. IWth I.T. grads working at Walmart because there are not enough jobs I mentioning a firing. Seems only fair to those out of work happy to do it without browsing slashdot. Maybe my American viewpoint bugs Europeans reading this but this should not be tolerated. I would fire anyone doing these things.
He doesn't love his job anyway so I am doing no favors by keeping him. After workign at McDonalds superfast with no breaks for 8 hours straight perhaps he will see how great he really did have it? No need to use technology. Where is the user and customer forcus?!
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How exactly does it screw with compatibility? Old code will still compile. Old compiled classes will still load.
They're adding new stuff. Nothing old is being changed or removed.
You don't *have* to re-write anything. If someone tells you so, its because they want to.
It only screws with IT departments because they fear change. They also seem to not want to install security updates either.
The only JVM upgrade problems I've experienced in the last 10 years was with legacy code written for IBM's 1.3 JVM because the developers at the time thought it was a good idea to refer to com.ibm classes.
Or we have software that needs to run? Laugh at I.T. departments all you want but we never had to worry about Vista. We never had issues with ME because we never had to run it. We didn't have to worry about the ribbon either as we gradually learned at home how to use it. We never had to worry about our browsers being broken every 6 weeks either. Sure they may not have the latest wizz bang checklist features but most sites still only develop for IE 8 anyway.
At home I use Android SDK which only runs Java 6. I plan to keep it as Java 7 had all the security issues that 6 never had because Sun wrote 6 and not Indian interns at Oracle who never touched it before.
You are right I fear change as I see Windows 8 and just reformatted my system because I had to use the headache inducing horrible gui of Office 2013 in its all white glory with no borders or colorless gray. YUCK.
Windows 7/XP and older software works fine thank you very much and I do not want to change. It is supperior and I do not have to be a guinne pig to make sales numbers for WIndows 8/0ffice 2013. MS literally called every retailer to get office 2010 off the shelves!! Assholes.
Finally a version that is not loaded with security issues relatively and can run all the software out there. Java 7 was truly terrible and has too many updates. There is no time for that at work.
Java 7 had 50 patches in just one month!
Java 6 does not have nearly the amount of vulnurabilities and is right up there with XP. It works and is mature and I do not see a reason to change.
I wonder what it will break next?
I have not seen Sparcs in years. They are so 2003. Kind of sad as we move to generic x86 but Sun really screwed up marketing these and Oracle is not helping by requiring an Oracle RDBMS license whether they are an oracle shop or not does not help. Oracle has also been happy to tell people with perfectly good Sparc Ultra I's to go fuck themselves we wont patch your systems anymore unless you pay us $$$ for your 12 year old systems you already paid for!
You can tell I do not like Oracle so consider my opinion biased. True they can multithread really well but the performance is slow and the industry has moved to clustered low cost blades to spread things out instead in such programs. The issue with threading on a single big ass server is not as big as it once was but still used in limited circumstances.
I thought the UltraSparc was legacy at this point so I am surprised.
"Big business craves stability over saving a few hundred bucks per machine. However VMware are coming up with interesting new stuff and more interestingly the more advanced features are flowing down into more basic editions."
Are you talking about the same big business that migrated from top stable mainframe, VMS, and Unix platforms to shit wintel to save money? The same big business that standardized on Microsoft products because they were cheaper? The same ones that hire Indian H1B1 Visa's because they can get the work done 10% cheaper, but with only 50% of the productivty?!
The same one where crticial IT decisions are made by accountants and not the I.T. staff who get bonuses based on how much money they save rather than what they invest it?
Color me cynical, but at the end of the day money talks bullshit walks. If it is cheaper they will do it. After all that is why I am paid $15/hr to make sure they stay up and running with no redundancy. After all I am a cost who adds no business value and it is cheaper to do that than pay for clustering or VMWare.
This is not the 1990s anymore.
In 2003 the writing was all the wall.
IE 6 was the wave of the future. Our memories become distorted based on opinions if you ask any psychologist! But lets look at the statistics leading up to 2003. No one and I mean no one survived competing against MS. Opera, Netscape, others were dying month after month. IE 6 was the best browser as Mozilla and Netscape had more quirks in that time frame. No I am not trolling, but rather serious. They improved afterwards.
Webki/khtml, opera, netscape/Mozilla, and IE all failed the ACID test. Not one browser was good back in 2002 and 2003. This was not an IE only thing we believe as today.
So it makes great business sense to standardize on IE 6 10 years ago as Opera was probably going to die and so was this silly Mozilla hack called Firefox. IE integrated with active directory and was eventually going to hit 100% marketshare whether we liked it or not soon. That 3%? Who cares in business I.T. decides your browser.
Of course today things are better. Even IE does not exhibit bizarre behaviors. But Opera in 2003 sucked as well as khtml and even Mozilla had many Netscape quirks in it that required workarounds.
MD has billions already.
He doesn't have to work again for a day in his life and still live comfortable anywhere in the world! I think he misses his old job more than the money and wants to work again. There is a key difference between rich people and low people like us. Money is one of them. Work for them is about passions as they have so much money they care about stroking their egos and doing something fun. We low people have to worry about retirement, bills, debts, etc.
And the reason why Michele wants to take Dell private is so he can do some radical things to it. So who knows? Give the man the benefit of a doubt, grab some popcorn, and see what happens
He's already CEO and Chairman. If he can take the company in new profitable directions, then there's no incentive for the other shareholders to sell because they they'd be giving up their shares just before they become more valuable. Their only sensible choice is to get as much money as possible for the shares now, since, if it goes private, they'll never be able to own part of Dell again.
That wont happen in the next quarter though? Computers make money based on spreadsheets. Not long term strategy. You either raise the price in the next 4 months or be fired. Pick your poison? Apple was only able to pull off the move to intel macs because of sales of its IPODs. Jobs could only make the IPOD by first selling iMacs etc. If something is not increasing in value quarter by quarter you can't invest to make more money. You need short term money RIGHT NOW so the computer programs can raise the price in a few milliseconds and the owners get that slight profit from the volatility.
The issue is not the resolution.
It is the DPI or pixels per square inch. Your phone is clear and crisp because it has a higher DPI 150 - 250 than a standard desktop resolution of 100 for all the resolutions.
This is due to Windows XP compatibility. Since many users are crying and still grabing to their copies in 2013 the developer see little reason to leave them out and it creates a chicken and egg scenario.
Windows 8 solves this but, man it is Metro?! Windows XP and Windows 7 will be here for a very very very long time. Judging by the comments here I see people will be sticking with Windows 7 10 years from now being batshit crazy if anyone dares to upgrade even more extreme than the XP loyalists who still swear by that ancient crappy OS today. Old monitors are included as well since monitor makers do not want to put a 200 DPI resolution monitor as LCD screens render everything only at the max resolution and downgrade visual quality for a lower resolution.
For this reason I stuck with a big CRT until 2008! I wanted control with my games and not maxing everyone out for a shittier degraded quality. Anyway this is the 2nd reason why your computer has a crappy display. No one wants a degraded experience and whoever made the spec for LCD to only use the max and use software degradation tricks to still display should be taken out in a field and shot!
If MS fixes and also the home tab in Office 2013 then I will be more open. Windows Blue has 16.7 million colors and a palette to select. Still I am not ready to leave WIndows 7 yet. But, I hated vista too because active Windows were black and butt ugly. Windows 7 finally fixed the horrible UI and colors.
But the desktop is done. Its caput.
In several years all your users will be used to IOS and Android and it wont be too big. But in early 2013 I agree Windows 7 is a much better bet and is semi modern but starting to age fast just like XP was when Vista came out in late 2006. I see where MS is going where you only use one app at a time anyway but a brain has trouble with shit flying out as one task can use more than 1 Windows. A improved start screen that takes half or 1/3 the page in Windows Red or whatever will make me tolerate it in 2014 if I buy another system rather than put a now 5 year old OS on it. But time will tell. According to the anti Slashdot Neowin the start screen has improved and caught up with Windows 7 with instant search.
The start menu is gone forever. It isn't coming back.
I want to see the all so cool new IE!
I welcome these changes as I dispice Metro in its current form for all the reasons you stated. I like to be able to see multiple programs at once, use the taskbar to preview with aero all the differnet IE tabs and apps, and use instant search for things in my word document to see if I have matching files etc.
So far Microsoft is responding to some of the criticism by making making Metro applets do the same things like resizing and having more than one app open.
But the desktop and the start menu is notcoming back. The desktop is dead and Microsoft has invested too much into this and is losing too much marketshare to go back to the old ways. Customers are telling Microsoft they want a cool IPAD, iBook, or a Droid. Not wanting the same sluggish crashy POS with 11 year old blue and green colored XP machines they use at work. Desktop apps are not touch friendly and do not go beyond 100 DPI without major gui issues and bugs. Why is my 2 year old Samsung Galaxy S gives a better browsing experience with smooth GPU acceleration, less pixely graphics, and HTML 5 goodness than my desktop PC?
The infrastructure is dated due to XP compatibility with win32. I do not feel Metro is ready yet which is why I am typing this on Windows 7 but if MS clears its act with more colors a taskbar, a smart screen that doesn't block what you are doing, and more Skeumorphism they will have a winner. Windows Blue is even faster and less crappy and sluggish with huge ass latency compred to Windows 8, which beats Windows 7, which is even more responsive than XP when it comes to Windows Rot.
Arguing against it makes it look like we are old men who hate change because of a silly button.
Well one the housing boom inflated home values rents went up 200% and they never went down!
I used to live in Alaska too and the rent was $750 a month for a bedroom in a basement was the norm. It seems everywhere it is that high. Maybe if you owned a home bought in 2000 you have not seen the cost inflation. Today it costs $900 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment in most cities even if a house is cheaper. Why? Because the landlords bought in during hte housing boom and have mortgages to pay. With people being foreclosed upon there is a line and people lining up to pay that much for a shitty place!
Maybe in rural Alabama but in the real world everywhere it costs higher and higher each year as the landlords try to make a quick buck knowing you do not have the 25% down for a home for half the price.
They have.
It was close but the good employees have been let go. Making it F2P kills profits so I assume it will be killed soon 90% done without a chance.
I still play that game and it was sooo fucking close to a Wow killer. They rushed it without dailies and raids to meet Christmas projection marks in some accountants spreadsheet and they killed the game cards and the expansion at the store and gave up too early.
I do not care what other say about SWTOR it is not failure and much better. Bioware did great things and they got rid of great people too quickly. Another 6 months when SWTOR had the dailies, raids, and fixes it would have 3x the amount of subscribers.
What a shame and I am irritated as I do not want to go back to Wow.
Do I need to know Mandrin or Cantonisse? What is the pay there compared to the major cities?
To get Cyrsis 3 at 30 fps is here!
There new Thunder and durgango APUs are rumored to finally get close to the I7's!
This will crush them as AMD's former strength is floating point calculations and today it is multithreading or rather can get close to performance in multithreading.
Problem are the cities are as expensive as US ones. IN Honk Kong a 1 bedroom goes for $4,000 a month!
I do not see how you can unless this was 20 years ago.
Car insurance $200 a month. Uncle Sam's rent money = 25% of pay = $4000 or $360 a month, Food = $350 a month or = the other 25%. Now rent you are looking at $700 a month. I live in cheap ass Florida and you can not find a good apartment for anything less.
You would need $25,0000 to just break even.
You do not want Office 2013. It is blinding white and very very ugly. Unless you colaborate with large groups of people with salesforce and cloud apps used in the office 2013 appstore there is no reason.
I like the appstore and new free developer tools for it! But I view it like Vista/Windows 8 where it is unbaked but a new groundwork to work from there. Office 2015 will fix this I am sure with Windows 9.
If your hardware is old just do what XP loyalists and corps do. Put Windows 7 and Office 2010 on. It will be alive for a long long time until MS gets its shit together in the tablet world.
You what is stupid?
Why do the rest of us have left XP ages ago while the corps live in the past with ancient kernels and internet browsers? The answer is because of costs and migration hassles.
So what does Microsoft do? Put at $179 charge on upgrading in edition to Windows! Think that will get Windows 9 and newer tablets out the door in 2015? Nope. If I have to blow an addition $179 for something I already have in addition to investing in new hardware then fuck it! Windows 7 still works fine and so does Office 2010 and I will move my games to lower detailed settings as my hardware ages. Hmm sounds similiar to my employers attitude towards upgrading.
Take away that extra cash and I will be more likely to switch to Windows 9 on my PhenomII in 2015 if hardware still does not innovate that much and perhaps leave Office 2010 by then too if it is innovative enough. But if I alreayd blew $$ for 2013 I will keep what i have longer. I don't win, and neither does Microsoft. OEMs would loose too and Web developers will be pissed as IE users will use obsolete versions tied to Windows 7 longer as a result as well.
This is a step in the right direction. Now if only unfriendly customer feedback would get them to retract Metro we'll really be in business.
Seriously though, how obvious was it that there would be a huge negative reaction to the change of licensing terms for Office? As usually, the more MBA's you get involved in things the dumber the collective IQ of an organization gets.
Wait to you see the blinding white of of Office 2013! May god have mercy on your soul if you have a flickering flourscent light 60 mhz CRT you stare at all day with it.
Other than that it has some nice improvements under the hood. Cloud integration, an app store with app addons like Firefox has with its browses, GPU acceleration, detailed collaborative editing, and Metro support. I have the dark theme which is a medium gray (it is void of all colors) and I have been running it for almost a month.
It is cool because you can look at a paragraph in Word and see -edited by Jamie 1/29/2013 tag. The document changes work like Im conversations. But the gui,,, just makes me want to go back to Office 2010 similiar to Windows 8. Shame, but potential for something new as addons for cloud services will be the next major reason to upgrade office this decade. Perhaps Office 2015 with Windows 9 will be mature and nice again?
CEO's aren't worth anything?
One word "Nokia". How are they doing since they got that new CEO? A bad worker or engineer can fuck up a hell of alot less than director and certainly a CEO.
I am getting a bad rap these weekend for this but I have a better option that works just as well.
Fire them. After needing to pay their bills they will do better and have a stronger worth ethic. If you ask any manager they do not like to hire 21 to 23 year olds. The reason being is without real world experience they do not quite get the reason they are there and how management and customers see things. Typically most everyone gets fired in life at least once and it mostly happens in this age group.
The last 4 years I have seen employers simply demand excellence and fire people left and right if they are nto the best. Average is just not good enough as we all do more for less.
I would be fuming if I am working so hard in fear of being fired every day knowing my limited earnings are being taxed to some guy to go fishing all day?! If I have to do it and multitask to be the most efficient to meet my metrics why do other people get any slack? Maybe I have just not been lucky and see companies today put up with useless employees where you can show up more than 5 minutes late for work more than 3 times and keep his or her job.
Wow
I didn't even see that part with the 200 emails. Why is he still employed?! My boss would have fired me within 48 hours of not answering emails and she gets an email of eveyr website I have been on and for how long.
I guess I am blessed with an employer who actually makes sure you work and fires people who do not. IWth I.T. grads working at Walmart because there are not enough jobs I mentioning a firing. Seems only fair to those out of work happy to do it without browsing slashdot. Maybe my American viewpoint bugs Europeans reading this but this should not be tolerated. I would fire anyone doing these things.
He doesn't love his job anyway so I am doing no favors by keeping him. After workign at McDonalds superfast with no breaks for 8 hours straight perhaps he will see how great he really did have it? No need to use technology. Where is the user and customer forcus?!
Perhaps a different position?