It's irritating that their site is complete garbage. Pages missing, no apparent way to donate? Is there a place I can give money to fight these kinds of things?
My question is more like, who the hell is still using that sort of old-an-busted P2P software (bearshare, kazaa, etc) that does autosharing of folder contents like that? And really, someone with blueprints and such for marine one?
The first anecdote is about someone with a Gamertag that had "GAY" in it. In all likelihood MS didn't ban her for being gay, it banned her for using what is normally a derogatory word (on XBL) in a gamertag.
The second, they likely banned simply because tons of peope (XBL USERS) pissed and moaned. I seriously doubt MS has a ban rule about proclaiming you're a lesbian in your profile, unless it also says something genuinely inappropriate. They don't want lawsuits.
I've wondered about this myself. I think MS is worried about shifting the focus of bad software from the third party over to themselves.
Right now they can yell, "Not my problem" when someones software sucks... and it's easy because you know you sought out that 3rd party software and it doesn't work right.
If you get your software through an app store that has MICROSOFT all over it and the software sucks... who does your average joe blame? Not sure of the answer, but it's something they'd have to consider.
Since we're sharing horror stories... I called AT&T for a DSL line to a facility our company was building. Easy enough, they scheduled a date for install, and I informed my boss that the line was coming on that date. After about 5 visits from AT&T and a month later than the install date, they decided that our building was too far for DSL service, and that we were still going to pay them for a phone line we had installed specifically for the DSL service. Imagine how great I looked to the boss trying to play middleman to the f-up's at AT&T.
As a side note, I dealt with the same crap you did... nobody at AT&T knows who to send you to, has no idea what their sibling departments are called, what their phone numbers are, and none of them share any customer information between them... so you get to explain your situation to about 12 different departments every time you call.
It WAS about flash enabled devices. The survey used embedded flash, with "can you see this" type questions. That survey was meant to devine the percentage of internet enabled DEVICES.
It wasn't a "do you own a device somewhere that can play flash content?" survey.
Googles Analytics does check for flash player. I'm sure they know.;)
And let's see...956-947 million for a difference of 9 million users? Let's ignore linux users for a moment... we have no idea how many linux users have flash. OTOH, I'm pretty sure I read that Apple has sold well over 10 million iPhones. We all know iPhones don't have flash. So I'm pretty sure we already know that number is absolute bullshit.
They probably want the new os for the sake of the new ms marketplace. I expect that's where the money is at. However, ms shot themselves in the foot by removing the dev tools for mobile from visual studio standard and below. STUPID! You'd think one product team over there would talk to another at least once a year. Instead they sunk themselves.
Not sure what problems you've had, but we just switched all of our users over to iPhones. While it was a popular decision either way, a big part of it was the remarkably GOOD integration with our exchange environment. We haven't had a single hitch with a users phone or exchange integration yet.
Oh, and you'll have to take my word for it, but there were exactly zero apple zealots in the office before we swapped out their phones. Now people are asking serious questions about mac workstations. That step scares me a little.
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Interesting. Has the minor side effect of no more electronic voting of any kind in the United States though. Ever.
For ease of implementation and use I'm a big fan of Barracuda's appliance.
Agreed. Chrome with plugins would be killer.
As it stands I can't see a site's Google pagerank with the Google browser.
Just curious... does the forcefully installed v3 advertise beta 4?
It's irritating that their site is complete garbage. Pages missing, no apparent way to donate? Is there a place I can give money to fight these kinds of things?
Bullshit. I hope they all default on their mortgages.
Nice work, Wired.
Thank you for clearing that up, Comic Book Guy. :)
Does it have a seperate numeric keypad? Most lenovos have them as numlock overlays.
Does your wheelbarrow have an outlet? I'm guessing that battery lasts about 8 seconds on a full charge.
My question is more like, who the hell is still using that sort of old-an-busted P2P software (bearshare, kazaa, etc) that does autosharing of folder contents like that? And really, someone with blueprints and such for marine one?
Someone tell that guy/gal it's 2009.
Then let me start it.
The first anecdote is about someone with a Gamertag that had "GAY" in it. In all likelihood MS didn't ban her for being gay, it banned her for using what is normally a derogatory word (on XBL) in a gamertag.
The second, they likely banned simply because tons of peope (XBL USERS) pissed and moaned. I seriously doubt MS has a ban rule about proclaiming you're a lesbian in your profile, unless it also says something genuinely inappropriate. They don't want lawsuits.
I've wondered about this myself. I think MS is worried about shifting the focus of bad software from the third party over to themselves.
Right now they can yell, "Not my problem" when someones software sucks... and it's easy because you know you sought out that 3rd party software and it doesn't work right.
If you get your software through an app store that has MICROSOFT all over it and the software sucks... who does your average joe blame? Not sure of the answer, but it's something they'd have to consider.
Since we're sharing horror stories...
I called AT&T for a DSL line to a facility our company was building. Easy enough, they scheduled a date for install, and I informed my boss that the line was coming on that date. After about 5 visits from AT&T and a month later than the install date, they decided that our building was too far for DSL service, and that we were still going to pay them for a phone line we had installed specifically for the DSL service. Imagine how great I looked to the boss trying to play middleman to the f-up's at AT&T.
As a side note, I dealt with the same crap you did... nobody at AT&T knows who to send you to, has no idea what their sibling departments are called, what their phone numbers are, and none of them share any customer information between them... so you get to explain your situation to about 12 different departments every time you call.
If the survey contains an embedded flash element, it seems the survey is about devices more than people.
"Can you see the following?" is very different from "could you maybe see this on some machine that you use somewhere?"
You know, there are all those pesky Internet Explorer users. ;)
You should have read the article.
It WAS about flash enabled devices. The survey used embedded flash, with "can you see this" type questions. That survey was meant to devine the percentage of internet enabled DEVICES.
It wasn't a "do you own a device somewhere that can play flash content?" survey.
As I mentioned earlier, if I've read it right, Adobe claims 9 million devices that don't run flash. Apple has sold over 10 million iphones.
Sounds like "Myth Busted" to me.
Googles Analytics does check for flash player. I'm sure they know. ;)
And let's see...956-947 million for a difference of 9 million users? Let's ignore linux users for a moment... we have no idea how many linux users have flash. OTOH, I'm pretty sure I read that Apple has sold well over 10 million iPhones. We all know iPhones don't have flash. So I'm pretty sure we already know that number is absolute bullshit.
Nice work Adobe.
They probably want the new os for the sake of the new ms marketplace. I expect that's where the money is at. However, ms shot themselves in the foot by removing the dev tools for mobile from visual studio standard and below. STUPID! You'd think one product team over there would talk to another at least once a year. Instead they sunk themselves.
Not sure what problems you've had, but we just switched all of our users over to iPhones. While it was a popular decision either way, a big part of it was the remarkably GOOD integration with our exchange environment. We haven't had a single hitch with a users phone or exchange integration yet.
Oh, and you'll have to take my word for it, but there were exactly zero apple zealots in the office before we swapped out their phones. Now people are asking serious questions about mac workstations. That step scares me a little.
I didn't think patentability had anything to do with usefulness or marketability.
"In space, no one can hear you... nevermind."
Steal a space station? :)
Now THATS cool.
I say god bless any newcomer to Adobe's territory. The unfortunate part is that dev software for both technologies is expensive.
(I'm intentionally ignoring VS, which is terrible for this)
They make armored innerduct for fiber runs. It's also known as "Pest Duct".
http://www.innerduct.com/products/hdpe_innerduct.php#pest_duct