please don't rush it out to make Christmas if there's a danger of it being half-assed... if you know it's NOT gonna make Christmas, then take the time to get it right and launch it properly then...
then again, I'm probably tilting at windmills here... marketing a product
<sarcasm>"obviously"</sarcasm>
comes before getting it right... they've probably got the entire marketing campaign fully booked and rolling already... must get the marketing right and damn the user experience... if it tanks, they can always point the finger at some middle level engineer who caved in and promised it would be ready.
Ballmer decides to "kill" Google... Yahoo are the first to suffer... Massachusetts goes for Open Document and pdf... Microsoft decides to accept the less "open" of the two and Adobe get to suffer
What's the bets that this 'innovative' native Office12 support for pdf will only really display properly in Office 12???
This is all to get back in with Massachusetts but will enable them to foist their perverted XML into the mix.
oh p155 off... I've just finished watching it and have been in fits of laughter... you must have had you sense of humour extracted some time ago... there are several very deep in jokes in it... I especially liked the bit where Pirk and the Babel 13 captain were fighting each other in what appeared to be a tunnel... rather reminiscent of an early star trek episode where one protagonist was locked in eternal combat with his opposite from the anti-matter universe... and Pirks' female bridge officer... hmmm... seriously hot, those legs just seem to go on forever... especially when she's pulling her boots up most of the time...
every man and his dog's got a dvd player now... they're so cheap now, you chuck them away when they start to skip... The market's saturated... so the hardware guys are clamouring for a new format to get us all off buying again... not to mention the content guys want us to go out and buy our content all over again in this nice fancy new high def format. Mind you, I've just counted up my DVD collection, some 350 plus titles... and there is NO WAY I'm going to just up and get them all over again... I've only just recently finished getting DVD replacements for most of my worn out VHS tapes... the rest haven't been, or very likely, never will be issued on DVD...
except they can come unglued when new machines are purchased with Word12 bundled on them... we're currently having this problem with inter Word compatibility cos our new machines come with Word 2003 and some of our old machines are having problems reading documents that have been through those word2003 machines, even though, we've saved them in word97 format...
we're now actually contemplating switching everyone to OpenOffice 2 rather than upgrading everybody to Office 2003... we want to take the hit once, rather than everytime MS try to force it upon us.
that a bird in the hand (ie. the standard that's available right now) is worth far more than two in the bush (ie the one that's only promised and is at least two years off)... I mean, which manufacturer is going to hold off on the promise of 50GB, when he can have 30GB right now??? only an idiot who's going to miss the boat and look very, very stupid.
OpenOffice isn't in beta anymore, rc1 is out... so the beta "canard" that MS have been trying to fly is an ex-canard... days to do are getting few for the final full release.
you would be pretty upset if it was a piece of crucial legislation you wanted that had been shot down and thus could never be resubmitted now wouldn't you...
hmmm brings back a rather vivid memory of a recreational walk in the Falklands that went slightly wrong (was stationed there in 1983 at RAF Stanley). We were enjoying our walk when we came upon this fence... and facing away from us on this fence was a rusty sign "Perigas Minas"..."Danger Mines"... the next few hours were rather tricky getting the rest of the group out of that minefield...
Microsoft taking on Google... first casualty is Yahoo... meanwhile Google fails to notice any impact... 9 million MSN subscribers is peanuts compared to number of people who use google
don't knock it... saves a lot of wear and tear on the pockets... just a pity they're not really "acceptable" in public yet... (that is in the UK or America... they're perfectly acceptable in most of Europe though)
the whole scenario just freaks me out... the prospect of the Police just detaining anyone who fits the "profile" and searching their home under the terrorism act... I'm innocent, but you can bet your last £ that something somewhere in your home or in your computer could be construed as being terrorism related...
just wonder if I wiped that copy of "The Anarchist's Cookbook" I downloaded in curiosity five years ago from usenet... not to mention the fact that my education and armed forces experience gives me the capability of designing and building timer devices... and of cooking up explosives...
mine do... but then I use Knoppix and a USB stick... oh sorry, I thought you were talking just about windows desktop preferences... not microsoft windows preference...
Who said.. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." and also, "and the parting on the left, are now parting on the right"... I think it was The Who in "Won't get fooled again"...
Slashdot Mirror
not to mention the fact that the physical version comes with a bonus disk which ISN'T available via download...
then again, I'm probably tilting at windmills here... marketing a product
comes before getting it right... they've probably got the entire marketing campaign fully booked and rolling already... must get the marketing right and damn the user experience... if it tanks, they can always point the finger at some middle level engineer who caved in and promised it would be ready.It needs Flash... without it, there's no fancy schmancy picture...
What's the bets that this 'innovative' native Office12 support for pdf will only really display properly in Office 12???
This is all to get back in with Massachusetts but will enable them to foist their perverted XML into the mix.
even Groklaw got it hours before slashdot... ;)
oh p155 off... I've just finished watching it and have been in fits of laughter... you must have had you sense of humour extracted some time ago... there are several very deep in jokes in it... I especially liked the bit where Pirk and the Babel 13 captain were fighting each other in what appeared to be a tunnel... rather reminiscent of an early star trek episode where one protagonist was locked in eternal combat with his opposite from the anti-matter universe... and Pirks' female bridge officer... hmmm... seriously hot, those legs just seem to go on forever... especially when she's pulling her boots up most of the time...
Sales over the internet should be treated exactly the same.
every man and his dog's got a dvd player now... they're so cheap now, you chuck them away when they start to skip... The market's saturated... so the hardware guys are clamouring for a new format to get us all off buying again... not to mention the content guys want us to go out and buy our content all over again in this nice fancy new high def format. Mind you, I've just counted up my DVD collection, some 350 plus titles... and there is NO WAY I'm going to just up and get them all over again... I've only just recently finished getting DVD replacements for most of my worn out VHS tapes... the rest haven't been, or very likely, never will be issued on DVD...
we're now actually contemplating switching everyone to OpenOffice 2 rather than upgrading everybody to Office 2003... we want to take the hit once, rather than everytime MS try to force it upon us.
that a bird in the hand (ie. the standard that's available right now) is worth far more than two in the bush (ie the one that's only promised and is at least two years off)... I mean, which manufacturer is going to hold off on the promise of 50GB, when he can have 30GB right now??? only an idiot who's going to miss the boat and look very, very stupid.
OpenOffice isn't in beta anymore, rc1 is out... so the beta "canard" that MS have been trying to fly is an ex-canard... days to do are getting few for the final full release.
4. you can read the damned thing in bright sunlight... something you can't do with current colour displays such as I have on my Tungsten E
you would be pretty upset if it was a piece of crucial legislation you wanted that had been shot down and thus could never be resubmitted now wouldn't you...
hmmm brings back a rather vivid memory of a recreational walk in the Falklands that went slightly wrong (was stationed there in 1983 at RAF Stanley). We were enjoying our walk when we came upon this fence... and facing away from us on this fence was a rusty sign "Perigas Minas"..."Danger Mines"... the next few hours were rather tricky getting the rest of the group out of that minefield...
every one and his dog's got one... just NOT cool anymore... like iPods, they're not cool anymore either...
Google share price rises ever so slightly
Microsoft taking on Google... first casualty is Yahoo... meanwhile Google fails to notice any impact... 9 million MSN subscribers is peanuts compared to number of people who use google
/flame-proof undies on... ;)
More like... "whoopee doo... who gives a fsck"...
mods come on now, please READ the post before clicking it up...
excellent... now I can get to see my ascii p0rn from the 80's
it's further down in this thread...
best slashdotting target ever... the download page for Digital File Check just comes back blank...
don't knock it... saves a lot of wear and tear on the pockets... just a pity they're not really "acceptable" in public yet... (that is in the UK or America... they're perfectly acceptable in most of Europe though)
just wonder if I wiped that copy of "The Anarchist's Cookbook" I downloaded in curiosity five years ago from usenet... not to mention the fact that my education and armed forces experience gives me the capability of designing and building timer devices... and of cooking up explosives...
mine do... but then I use Knoppix and a USB stick... oh sorry, I thought you were talking just about windows desktop preferences... not microsoft windows preference...
Who said.. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." and also, "and the parting on the left, are now parting on the right"... I think it was The Who in "Won't get fooled again"...