This could easily be due to incompetence on Lenovo's part and the fact the system has Linux instead of Windows might be irrelevant.
My son's Yoga 2 Pro was purchased in the Fall. The wireless on his laptop was flaky as hell in our house (FIOS standard-issue wireless router), but worked elsewhere. Updated the drivers, no improvement. Spent hours on Lenovo forums and elsewhere online, trying all sorts of suggestions. No improvement. Disabled the FIOS router wireless and bought a moderately expensive new Netgear wireless router. Still no joy.
Replaced the Lenovo wireless driver with an older, non-model-specific Windows wireless driver, and Happy Days Are Here Again.
So even with Windows the Lenovo driver was garbage, but the MS driver was just fine.
Several years ago I wanted to switch to Credo, but they had no Windows Phones & I needed a WP for work, so I couldn't use them. They eventually got Windows Phones, but their ToS prohibits using the data plan for business uses, or as a hotspot, or with Push-email (ActiveSync).
So as much as I'd like the money I'm spending already on mobile service to benefit Credo's causes, I can't use them. I routinely receive emails from them asking me to switch, and each time I wonder how much $ Credo is leaving on the table by forbidding these uses of their network.
I've just read the article (heresy, I know) and while there was nothing at all there to cause me any doubt, after getting over how awful the story is, and how bad things have gotten in our country when it comes to things involving personal freedoms, I immediately recalled the story posted on Slashdot many years ago about the woman who motorcycled through the remains outside of Chernobyl and documented the full experience. I think it was over a year later when it came to light that *that* whole article was a hoax.
This story demonstrates vividly just how rotten our security apparatus in the United States has become, with personal protections & liberties (& laws) completely ignored anytime a person with a badge decrees. But there's still that nagging though that this whole thing might just be a work of art engineered to get us thinking about these topics.
$30,000 is really not much for a new car. You aren't going to find many "real luxury cars" for $30k, new. For that price you can probably get a pretty maxed-out Accord, Camry, Mazda 6, Altima, Fusion, or Malibu. $30k buys a mid-level minivan.
Insurance costs aren't going to be unusually high just because a car is $30,000 either.
I don't know your frame of reference, but unfortunately many middle-of-the-road, not-spectacular cars are $30,000 in today's world.
Ignoring the merits or lack thereof of the proposal, isn't this sort of thing exactly the opposite of what "conservatives" claim to be about? And doesn't McCain claim to be a conservative?
It's a difficult PITA, but I wake up 2 hours early 3-4 days each week and go to a gym. I spend 45 minutes-1 hour on a treadmill or elliptical and pass the time by watching sci-fi shows saved to an iPod, connected to the exercise machine. (Off-topic - just finished BSG, am now getting started with Farscape). I can watch the show on the 12" display instead of the bouncing 1.5" ipod screen, with the added bonus of my workout history being tracked at Nike+.
It *IS* difficult to make the time, but it can be done. You may even feel a positive effect. I've spent my entire adult life always short-of-breath. I believed I had a slight case of asthma. Once I began regularly working out the out-of-breath feeling lessened and eventually disappeared. I now find it returns if I stop going to the gym for about a week or more.
I also try to be health-conscious when I eat. That is also not easy, but is a choice. I frequently eat turkey sandwiches on wheat (no cheese), salads, or supermarket sushi when I'd really rather have a cheeseburger.
I was only providing the freely-accessible network to be neighborly. Turns out my doing so was a problem for my neighbor. So, again, in the interests of being a good neighbor I turned the netwok off.
It didn't hurt me at all to do so. (In fact, I saved on electricity costs, negligible though they may be.)
Over time I've no doubt at all that my neighbors have done far more for me than I've done for them - this wasn't at all a big deal and I was happy to accomodate.
Years ago I set up a free wi-fi network from my house, and called it something like 'Free WiFi'. A few weeks later a neighbor asked me to stop.
He regulated his kids' internet usage, and they had been using the free network to get online during those times when they were prohibited from doing so.
I'm in what I'd call an upper-middle-class suburb in Northern NJ.
Our area suffered multi-day power outages and some downed trees from Sandy, but minimal rain, no flooding, and other than gas lines things are getting back to normal.
I arrived at my polling place around 8:45am or so. There were 2 voting machines available for my precinct. One other designated for voters from a different precinct, but located in the same room.
Both machines were occupied when I arrived, and there was 1 other voter in front of me in line.
I waited about 5 minutes, during which time one other person lined up behind me. I voted, I left.
I just spent the last 5 weeks on a cross-country road-trip doing something similar. I'd travel to a destination with my family, and then while they explored the new locale I'd work during biz hours. Over the 5 weeks I used two weeks vacation and enjoyed an immensely satisfying vacation with my family, seeing a lot of the USA I'd have never seen otherwise.
BUT: I'm accustomed to the southeast & northeast. I'd never spent any substantial amount of time in the west. Once we travelled much past Indiana T-Mobile coverage became MUCH more sporadic. There were huge stretches of highway with no coverage at all. In my 'normal' life I'd never seen any coverage lapses and T-Mo was always stellar, but out west the coverage was absent in a lot of areas. I'd guess the same is true of the other carriers but don't really know.
Btw I worked at Microsoft for a decade as a software engineer and I don't even want their products, except maybe Visual Studio and Office and DirectX and Windows 7.....</p></quote>
So, even *you* don't want their products, except for their flagship products that they are best known for? Heavens!
I'm reminded of the scene in The Jerk when Steve Martin explains that he doesn't need anything, except the paddle-ball, and the lamp, and the.....
A simple example why the computer *can't* be as simple as the other devices:
Telephone - you buy a phone, plug it in to the jack in the wall. It just works. *BUT* it isn't necessary to program your phone # into the phone to identify yourself, or enter a password to authenticate yourself.
E-Mail - You *must* enter your email address in to the computer so that it knows what e-mail to retrieve and display. You also must authenticate yourself, so you must enter a password. Exchange servers coupled with Outlook clients support autodiscover, eliminating the need for a user to configure server settings; I don't know if that is an Exchange thing or more widespread. If it is exclusive to Exchange than the server settings must also be configured before the email client will work properly.
Unless some single, monolithic & centralized email system ever comes into being I don't see how an email-device could ever be as simple as a toaster or wired telephone.
That right there is a reason why a computer simply can't be as simple as the other devices.
Fundamentally, any 'thing' that is multi-purpose will be more complicated than a single-task 'thing' for the simple reason that the user must somehow express what specifically the device should do.
Is this puzzable solvable with no guessing at all?
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I've spent some time trying to work this puzzle out this morning, and haven't gotten one number figured out yet.
Maybe I'm just not good enough at solving Sudokus, but is this puzzle solvable at all by logical deduction? Or is it *necessary* to just guess a number at some point, and 'trial & error' it to see where it leads?
Does anyone here know whether or not this puzzle can be solved without guessing?
If it is necessary to just put a number in a box and see if that will eventually lead to a dead end, then IMO this isn't a valid Sudoku puzzle. If there is some logical way, even if difficult, to conclusively determine a specific square MUST be a specific number, then I must just not be good enough to solve the puzzle, and I'm willing to accept that.
Whoops - was in a hurry and didn't notice I'd been logged out.
Here, for your viewing pleasure, a re-post, this time NOT as an AC:
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What makes you think I'm lying?
I don't know why I feel a need to defend myself or prove my veracity to you, but for whatever reason you've struck a nerve in me, so here goes:
I am an actual person, with an actual Windows Phone 7 phone, an HTC Radar to be exact. I purchased the phone from T-Mobile in the first week of December. To try and convince you I'm not a paid shill, I'll list some of the things I *don't* like about the phone: * no removable battery * no removable memory card * within Windows it is necessary to edit the registry before the phone can be moutned as USB storage. (Within Ubuntu 12.04 that isn't necessary, and the phone can be mounted.) * The photo collection interface is confusing - hard to figure out the difference between 'camera roll' and 'mobile uploads' for example at SkyDrive, and I think SkyDrive is the only way to get the photos off of the phone. * There is no Words With Friends. There is however Words by Post, which in a lot of ways I like better.
I don't have time to write further right now, have to get working.
If you have the decency and maturity to do so, I'd appreciate an apology for your accusation. If not, I'll just continue to think of you as lowly as I do now. ---- PS: Why does a baseless and classless accusation, with no substance, no humorous content, no merit to speak of, get modded up ? If you're a mod, think about thses things.
I've had a Windows Phone for 7 months. It is the best phone I've ever had, and I am thrilled with it, for the same reasons people all over the web have written about.
To your comment, I don't believe there is any mobile phone more stable than this one, certainly not any other smartphone. I can't recall the last time I've powered the phone off. 'It just works.'
There are fair criticisms of the Windows Phones, but instability isn't one of them by any stretch of the imagination.
My wife has an Android (LG MyTouch Q), and it is painfully slow, coupled with an insensitive and/or unresponsive touchscreen. Having lusted over Android phones for a while, now that I've used one they've completely lost their appeal to me.
It doesn't even have to come to a lawsuit. The parent post is correct, at least in my experience.
A couple of years ago I was driving at night in the rain and drove into a pothole at full-speed (probably around 35-40mph). Just didn't see it, at all. The next morning I discovered a large egg on the side of my tire.
I returned to the location of the pothole and took a few pictures of it.
I then emailed the pictures (and an explanation) to the streets dept of the town and asked if I could be reimbursed for the repair costs - about $200 for the tire replacement. Somebody within the town administration sent me a few forms to complete and explained that they would investigate the claim, and if the town had known about the pothole for a certain length of time before my incident and not repaired it, then they were liable to reimburse me.
I returned the completed forms and a copy of my repair receipt, and a few weeks later I received a check from the town.
Back in 2010 (I think) soon after Citizens United both Best Buy & Target made sizable donations to some anti-gay-rights pro-corporate political entity, I think in Minnesota.
I sent similar emails to both corporations complaining about the donation. I explained that they really shouldn't make these sorts of donations at all, but if they wanted my business I demanded they make an equal donation to the opposing side.
Surprisingly to me, I received what appeared to be sincere, personally written responses from both companies. I don't believe either reply was a canned response.
Regrettably both companies replied that they were simply supporting the political side that they believed was most favorable to their profits, and by extension their stockholders.
Since then I haven't purchased anything from either company, and haven't persuaded friends or relatives to do so either. (I'm the guy people always turn to for tech advice, and often end up advising them on purchases or accompanying them to stores for purchases - a fact I mentioned in my emails to the comapnies.)
Given how many stores have closed up over the last few years I do sometimes find myself constrained by my personal boycotts, but I also find myself flat-out buying less crap than I used to, when I'd go to Target almost every weekend just because something in their circular appealed to me.
I don't remember the last time I so thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated an article. To the original poster, and the/. editors that approved this - thanks. This one was a winner.
I'd find it very amusing if somebody without accomplices around the globe somehow manages to deceptively manipulate people or agencies in the remote locations to help them solve this. For example, pull a Jim Rockford and through a phone call manage to get the local constabul in Bratislava to somehow capture and transmit the photo to the home-bound contestant.
As to #1, Jurors should not be researching case law and self-educating during the case. The attorneys and judge are responsible for properly vetting the jurors during the selection process (voire dire), and then during the case properly instructing the jurors as necessary. Jurors aren't expected to be law students, and I find the thought of a juror that cruises the internet to teach him/herself the law during a case unsettling.
As for #2, In my own elitist, stuck-up opinion I don't want most people to be jurors. Unfortunately our system isn't predicated on "a jury of our peers, but only those whose wisdom, intelligence, and judgement we respect".
IMO rules about this sort of thing fall into the category of "people really shouldn't need to be told".
When you participate on a jury, you are prohibited from communicating anything related to the case with anybody outside of the jury deliberation chambers. End of story. Whether you communicate the information face-to-face, via e-mail, or through Facebook or Twitter really shouldn't matter.
But of course there are idiots throughout society, so multiple, redundant rules need to be enacted to try and prevent problems.
I think SharePoint is pretty good; why do you call it "the worst intranet platform in the world"?
AND, I can't help but point out you make the bold, blanket statements that IE8 is 'the second worst browser', and SharePoint is 'the worst intranet platform in the world', and then display a signature that states your world has 'too many shades of gray'.
Seems to me you aren't seeing shades of gray at all. Depending on the environment, SharePoint may be perfectly fine. You might want to re-evaluate your chosen sig before proclaiming rash and baseless judgements.
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This could easily be due to incompetence on Lenovo's part and the fact the system has Linux instead of Windows might be irrelevant.
My son's Yoga 2 Pro was purchased in the Fall. The wireless on his laptop was flaky as hell in our house (FIOS standard-issue wireless router), but worked elsewhere. Updated the drivers, no improvement. Spent hours on Lenovo forums and elsewhere online, trying all sorts of suggestions. No improvement. Disabled the FIOS router wireless and bought a moderately expensive new Netgear wireless router. Still no joy.
Replaced the Lenovo wireless driver with an older, non-model-specific Windows wireless driver, and Happy Days Are Here Again.
So even with Windows the Lenovo driver was garbage, but the MS driver was just fine.
Several years ago I wanted to switch to Credo, but they had no Windows Phones & I needed a WP for work, so I couldn't use them. They eventually got Windows Phones, but their ToS prohibits using the data plan for business uses, or as a hotspot, or with Push-email (ActiveSync).
So as much as I'd like the money I'm spending already on mobile service to benefit Credo's causes, I can't use them. I routinely receive emails from them asking me to switch, and each time I wonder how much $ Credo is leaving on the table by forbidding these uses of their network.
I've just read the article (heresy, I know) and while there was nothing at all there to cause me any doubt, after getting over how awful the story is, and how bad things have gotten in our country when it comes to things involving personal freedoms, I immediately recalled the story posted on Slashdot many years ago about the woman who motorcycled through the remains outside of Chernobyl and documented the full experience. I think it was over a year later when it came to light that *that* whole article was a hoax.
This story demonstrates vividly just how rotten our security apparatus in the United States has become, with personal protections & liberties (& laws) completely ignored anytime a person with a badge decrees. But there's still that nagging though that this whole thing might just be a work of art engineered to get us thinking about these topics.
Are you in the US?
$30,000 is really not much for a new car. You aren't going to find many "real luxury cars" for $30k, new.
For that price you can probably get a pretty maxed-out Accord, Camry, Mazda 6, Altima, Fusion, or Malibu. $30k buys a mid-level minivan.
Insurance costs aren't going to be unusually high just because a car is $30,000 either.
I don't know your frame of reference, but unfortunately many middle-of-the-road, not-spectacular cars are $30,000 in today's world.
Ignoring the merits or lack thereof of the proposal, isn't this sort of thing exactly the opposite of what "conservatives" claim to be about? And doesn't McCain claim to be a conservative?
It's a difficult PITA, but I wake up 2 hours early 3-4 days each week and go to a gym. I spend 45 minutes-1 hour on a treadmill or elliptical and pass the time by watching sci-fi shows saved to an iPod, connected to the exercise machine. (Off-topic - just finished BSG, am now getting started with Farscape). I can watch the show on the 12" display instead of the bouncing 1.5" ipod screen, with the added bonus of my workout history being tracked at Nike+.
It *IS* difficult to make the time, but it can be done. You may even feel a positive effect. I've spent my entire adult life always short-of-breath. I believed I had a slight case of asthma. Once I began regularly working out the out-of-breath feeling lessened and eventually disappeared. I now find it returns if I stop going to the gym for about a week or more.
I also try to be health-conscious when I eat. That is also not easy, but is a choice. I frequently eat turkey sandwiches on wheat (no cheese), salads, or supermarket sushi when I'd really rather have a cheeseburger.
I was only providing the freely-accessible network to be neighborly. Turns out my doing so was a problem for my neighbor. So, again, in the interests of being a good neighbor I turned the netwok off.
It didn't hurt me at all to do so. (In fact, I saved on electricity costs, negligible though they may be.)
Over time I've no doubt at all that my neighbors have done far more for me than I've done for them - this wasn't at all a big deal and I was happy to accomodate.
Years ago I set up a free wi-fi network from my house, and called it something like 'Free WiFi'. A few weeks later a neighbor asked me to stop.
He regulated his kids' internet usage, and they had been using the free network to get online during those times when they were prohibited from doing so.
So I turned it off.
I'm in what I'd call an upper-middle-class suburb in Northern NJ.
Our area suffered multi-day power outages and some downed trees from Sandy, but minimal rain, no flooding, and other than gas lines things are getting back to normal.
I arrived at my polling place around 8:45am or so. There were 2 voting machines available for my precinct. One other designated for voters from a different precinct, but located in the same room.
Both machines were occupied when I arrived, and there was 1 other voter in front of me in line.
I waited about 5 minutes, during which time one other person lined up behind me. I voted, I left.
Regarding the machines - they were AVC Advantage machines - electronic, but I don't think they are digital/computerized/black-box systems (I hope not, at any rate). Found a .pdf describing them here: http://www.verifiedvoting.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/AVCAdvantage.pdf
I just spent the last 5 weeks on a cross-country road-trip doing something similar. I'd travel to a destination with my family, and then while they explored the new locale I'd work during biz hours. Over the 5 weeks I used two weeks vacation and enjoyed an immensely satisfying vacation with my family, seeing a lot of the USA I'd have never seen otherwise.
BUT: I'm accustomed to the southeast & northeast. I'd never spent any substantial amount of time in the west. Once we travelled much past Indiana T-Mobile coverage became MUCH more sporadic. There were huge stretches of highway with no coverage at all. In my 'normal' life I'd never seen any coverage lapses and T-Mo was always stellar, but out west the coverage was absent in a lot of areas. I'd guess the same is true of the other carriers but don't really know.
Man, I wish I had MOD points today. I'd absolutely mod you up, funny.
Thanks for the chuckle.
Yeah but we WANTED their products.
We don't want Microsofts.
Btw I worked at Microsoft for a decade as a software engineer and I don't even want their products, except maybe Visual Studio and Office and DirectX and Windows 7 .....</p></quote>
So, even *you* don't want their products, except for their flagship products that they are best known for? Heavens!
I'm reminded of the scene in The Jerk when Steve Martin explains that he doesn't need anything, except the paddle-ball, and the lamp, and the.....
A simple example why the computer *can't* be as simple as the other devices:
Telephone - you buy a phone, plug it in to the jack in the wall. It just works.
*BUT* it isn't necessary to program your phone # into the phone to identify yourself, or enter a password to authenticate yourself.
E-Mail - You *must* enter your email address in to the computer so that it knows what e-mail to retrieve and display. You also must authenticate yourself, so you must enter a password. Exchange servers coupled with Outlook clients support autodiscover, eliminating the need for a user to configure server settings; I don't know if that is an Exchange thing or more widespread. If it is exclusive to Exchange than the server settings must also be configured before the email client will work properly.
Unless some single, monolithic & centralized email system ever comes into being I don't see how an email-device could ever be as simple as a toaster or wired telephone.
That right there is a reason why a computer simply can't be as simple as the other devices.
Fundamentally, any 'thing' that is multi-purpose will be more complicated than a single-task 'thing' for the simple reason that the user must somehow express what specifically the device should do.
I've spent some time trying to work this puzzle out this morning, and haven't gotten one number figured out yet.
Maybe I'm just not good enough at solving Sudokus, but is this puzzle solvable at all by logical deduction? Or is it *necessary* to just guess a number at some point, and 'trial & error' it to see where it leads?
Does anyone here know whether or not this puzzle can be solved without guessing?
If it is necessary to just put a number in a box and see if that will eventually lead to a dead end, then IMO this isn't a valid Sudoku puzzle. If there is some logical way, even if difficult, to conclusively determine a specific square MUST be a specific number, then I must just not be good enough to solve the puzzle, and I'm willing to accept that.
Whoops - was in a hurry and didn't notice I'd been logged out.
Here, for your viewing pleasure, a re-post, this time NOT as an AC:
>>>>>>
What makes you think I'm lying?
I don't know why I feel a need to defend myself or prove my veracity to you, but for whatever reason you've struck a nerve in me, so here goes:
I am an actual person, with an actual Windows Phone 7 phone, an HTC Radar to be exact. I purchased the phone from T-Mobile in the first week of December. To try and convince you I'm not a paid shill, I'll list some of the things I *don't* like about the phone:
* no removable battery
* no removable memory card
* within Windows it is necessary to edit the registry before the phone can be moutned as USB storage. (Within Ubuntu 12.04 that isn't necessary, and the phone can be mounted.)
* The photo collection interface is confusing - hard to figure out the difference between 'camera roll' and 'mobile uploads' for example at SkyDrive, and I think SkyDrive is the only way to get the photos off of the phone.
* There is no Words With Friends. There is however Words by Post, which in a lot of ways I like better.
I don't have time to write further right now, have to get working.
If you have the decency and maturity to do so, I'd appreciate an apology for your accusation. If not, I'll just continue to think of you as lowly as I do now.
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PS: Why does a baseless and classless accusation, with no substance, no humorous content, no merit to speak of, get modded up ? If you're a mod, think about thses things.
Do you have any WP7 experience at all?
I've had a Windows Phone for 7 months. It is the best phone I've ever had, and I am thrilled with it, for the same reasons people all over the web have written about.
To your comment, I don't believe there is any mobile phone more stable than this one, certainly not any other smartphone. I can't recall the last time I've powered the phone off. 'It just works.'
There are fair criticisms of the Windows Phones, but instability isn't one of them by any stretch of the imagination.
My wife has an Android (LG MyTouch Q), and it is painfully slow, coupled with an insensitive and/or unresponsive touchscreen. Having lusted over Android phones for a while, now that I've used one they've completely lost their appeal to me.
It doesn't even have to come to a lawsuit. The parent post is correct, at least in my experience.
A couple of years ago I was driving at night in the rain and drove into a pothole at full-speed (probably around 35-40mph). Just didn't see it, at all.
The next morning I discovered a large egg on the side of my tire.
I returned to the location of the pothole and took a few pictures of it.
I then emailed the pictures (and an explanation) to the streets dept of the town and asked if I could be reimbursed for the repair costs - about $200 for the tire replacement. Somebody within the town administration sent me a few forms to complete and explained that they would investigate the claim, and if the town had known about the pothole for a certain length of time before my incident and not repaired it, then they were liable to reimburse me.
I returned the completed forms and a copy of my repair receipt, and a few weeks later I received a check from the town.
Back in 2010 (I think) soon after Citizens United both Best Buy & Target made sizable donations to some anti-gay-rights pro-corporate political entity, I think in Minnesota.
I sent similar emails to both corporations complaining about the donation. I explained that they really shouldn't make these sorts of donations at all, but if they wanted my business I demanded they make an equal donation to the opposing side.
Surprisingly to me, I received what appeared to be sincere, personally written responses from both companies. I don't believe either reply was a canned response.
Regrettably both companies replied that they were simply supporting the political side that they believed was most favorable to their profits, and by extension their stockholders.
Since then I haven't purchased anything from either company, and haven't persuaded friends or relatives to do so either. (I'm the guy people always turn to for tech advice, and often end up advising them on purchases or accompanying them to stores for purchases - a fact I mentioned in my emails to the comapnies.)
Given how many stores have closed up over the last few years I do sometimes find myself constrained by my personal boycotts, but I also find myself flat-out buying less crap than I used to, when I'd go to Target almost every weekend just because something in their circular appealed to me.
I don't remember the last time I so thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated an article. To the original poster, and the /. editors that approved this - thanks. This one was a winner.
I'd find it very amusing if somebody without accomplices around the globe somehow manages to deceptively manipulate people or agencies in the remote locations to help them solve this. For example, pull a Jim Rockford and through a phone call manage to get the local constabul in Bratislava to somehow capture and transmit the photo to the home-bound contestant.
THAT would be very impressive.
SONOFABITCH!!!!
You couldn't have told me about this 30 years ago???? !!! ????
As to #1, Jurors should not be researching case law and self-educating during the case. The attorneys and judge are responsible for properly vetting the jurors during the selection process (voire dire), and then during the case properly instructing the jurors as necessary. Jurors aren't expected to be law students, and I find the thought of a juror that cruises the internet to teach him/herself the law during a case unsettling.
As for #2, In my own elitist, stuck-up opinion I don't want most people to be jurors. Unfortunately our system isn't predicated on "a jury of our peers, but only those whose wisdom, intelligence, and judgement we respect".
(reposting, as myself.)
IMO rules about this sort of thing fall into the category of "people really shouldn't need to be told".
When you participate on a jury, you are prohibited from communicating anything related to the case with anybody outside of the jury deliberation chambers. End of story. Whether you communicate the information face-to-face, via e-mail, or through Facebook or Twitter really shouldn't matter.
But of course there are idiots throughout society, so multiple, redundant rules need to be enacted to try and prevent problems.
I think SharePoint is pretty good; why do you call it "the worst intranet platform in the world"?
AND, I can't help but point out you make the bold, blanket statements that IE8 is 'the second worst browser', and SharePoint is 'the worst intranet platform in the world', and then display a signature that states your world has 'too many shades of gray'.
Seems to me you aren't seeing shades of gray at all. Depending on the environment, SharePoint may be perfectly fine. You might want to re-evaluate your chosen sig before proclaiming rash and baseless judgements.
According to the summary, it was Sarkozy who called Netanyahu a liar, not Obama.