The new sharepoint includes Windows Workflow Foundation which vastly improves the versioning and tracking of documents in sharepooint. Considering you are already used to using word and sharepoint i would recomend moving to the next version of both. The non-technical can use word and publish directly to sharepoint and have all the workflow and versioning happen automatically. The more techinically inclide can work with sharepoint directly.
I was at the conference and had no idea that this had happened until today. I'm not sure who your target audience was, but noone at the conference was talking about it. I'm not sure why you would protest at the sharepoint conference anyhow, it's not directly related to DRM, although the new office does have rights management it isn't targeted at consumers, but rather corporate data.
I don't support DRM for consumer products, but in a corporate environment it makes a lot of sense, by protesting at this venue you are implying that you are against DRM in all its forms, which seems a bit extream. DRM has it's uses, there is lots of corporate data that you want to restrict sharing on.
As much as i hate to say it I think the market determines what you should use.
If you are working on a product you have more flexibility to choose your own frame work, but if you are consulting or responding to RFPs then you have to choose a framework that the client is familiar with and comfortable with.
If you are going to be doing work for government or larger companies they probably already have a lot of time and money invested in a framework, so if you plan on doing work for them you better be able to develop in their framework.
Marketing also plays a big role, Microsoft, Sun, IBM and the other players spend big money targeting the decision makers in IT. If you decide to go with a framework by one of the big players you can leverage some of the marketing to your advantage.
If you have a good team of developers the framework isn't as important as you may think, a good team will be able to make a successful project regardless of the framework; so choosing the framework to match the market and your clients is an important decision.
I recomend that you evalute your potential customers and see what they want then train or hire developer with knowledge of that framework.
I found the book to be too fanboyish. It never discusses any of the flaws or weaknesses of the show. I love the simpson (hence buying the book) but I'd like the book to be a bit more critical.
Wow, it's refreshing to see two people with very different view points have a civial discussion about it. It's not something you see on slashdot forums very often.
I have a 16:9 HDTV and an xbox with the HD pack and I have to say that Halo looks awesome on the TV. The best part is when you play four players the split screen works really well. Other games work as well, but to varing degrees. One thing to be aware of is that the DVD player in the xbox doesn't play DVDs in DHTV so you will need a seperate DVD player for watching movies.
I also have a PS2 and gamecube. The PS2 doesn't use HDTV so it hasn't changed much, it does provide support for widescreen which is nice, but I wouldn't recomend buying HDTV just for the PS2.
The gamecube works well with HDTV I only have one game, metroid prime, but it shows up really well on the new TV.
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A good review of the Generac Guardian Automatic Standby Generator
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003428.php
The new sharepoint includes Windows Workflow Foundation which vastly improves the versioning and tracking of documents in sharepooint. Considering you are already used to using word and sharepoint i would recomend moving to the next version of both. The non-technical can use word and publish directly to sharepoint and have all the workflow and versioning happen automatically. The more techinically inclide can work with sharepoint directly.
I was at the conference and had no idea that this had happened until today. I'm not sure who your target audience was, but noone at the conference was talking about it. I'm not sure why you would protest at the sharepoint conference anyhow, it's not directly related to DRM, although the new office does have rights management it isn't targeted at consumers, but rather corporate data.
I don't support DRM for consumer products, but in a corporate environment it makes a lot of sense, by protesting at this venue you are implying that you are against DRM in all its forms, which seems a bit extream. DRM has it's uses, there is lots of corporate data that you want to restrict sharing on.
As much as i hate to say it I think the market determines what you should use.
If you are working on a product you have more flexibility to choose your own frame work, but if you are consulting or responding to RFPs then you have to choose a framework that the client is familiar with and comfortable with.
If you are going to be doing work for government or larger companies they probably already have a lot of time and money invested in a framework, so if you plan on doing work for them you better be able to develop in their framework.
Marketing also plays a big role, Microsoft, Sun, IBM and the other players spend big money targeting the decision makers in IT. If you decide to go with a framework by one of the big players you can leverage some of the marketing to your advantage.
If you have a good team of developers the framework isn't as important as you may think, a good team will be able to make a successful project regardless of the framework; so choosing the framework to match the market and your clients is an important decision.
I recomend that you evalute your potential customers and see what they want then train or hire developer with knowledge of that framework.
I found the book to be too fanboyish. It never discusses any of the flaws or weaknesses of the show. I love the simpson (hence buying the book) but I'd like the book to be a bit more critical.
Wow, it's refreshing to see two people with very different view points have a civial discussion about it. It's not something you see on slashdot forums very often.
I have a 16:9 HDTV and an xbox with the HD pack and I have to say that Halo looks awesome on the TV. The best part is when you play four players the split screen works really well. Other games work as well, but to varing degrees. One thing to be aware of is that the DVD player in the xbox doesn't play DVDs in DHTV so you will need a seperate DVD player for watching movies. I also have a PS2 and gamecube. The PS2 doesn't use HDTV so it hasn't changed much, it does provide support for widescreen which is nice, but I wouldn't recomend buying HDTV just for the PS2. The gamecube works well with HDTV I only have one game, metroid prime, but it shows up really well on the new TV.