Because there are these things called "businesses" and they practice this concept called a "paper trail".
My clients are primarily mid/large businesses and government agencies. As much as I would love to have my clients pay me electronically, none of them do. They all send a check through their AP systems via mail.
I eagerly await being able to "deposit" my checks while I'm standing at the Post Office going through my mail.
Oh, and another thing about electronic funds transfer: the fees can be killer. 4% is fine when you're dealing with a $25 payment. But 4% off my $10,000 paycheck is a serious fee.
Maybe I missed it, but where does Blizzard say that you must play on Battle.Net?
StarCraft 2 ships with single-player campaigns, just like the first one did. And I haven't heard anything that says you cannot play games againt the computer.
What I *have* heard is that, during the beta, they are only focusing on player vs player games. And these, of course, require Battle.net. But I don't believe this applies to what will actually be shipping.
And it's beta software. We kinda expect it to make mistakes. Unlike some companies that keep their products in beta for a decade.
I've been using Office 2010 for a few months now and absolutely love it. It's not very different from 2007. Just refined, like Windows 7 is to Vista. It has a few new features in each application that users will enjoy, especially in Sharepoint environments.
One very cool feature in Outlook is the "People Pane" which appears optionally next to the message you're reading. Expand it and it will show you all of your prior appointments, emails, IMs, attachments, and more that are connected to that person. So when Fred sends you an email and says "what did you think about that other email I sent you?" it's a piece of cake to find it.
But oh noes! A beta has a bug! There must be nothing else to bash Microsoft for today.
I look forward to seeing pictures of these censorship advocates having sex with their mistresses, getting wasted in public, allegations of bribery, and all other unseemly manner of behavior.
It seems like these guys are going through great lengths to hack the application layer, when this is really the fault of the transmission layer.
Why not come up with a better protocol than TCP/IP or the radio protocol or whatever the heck it is that they're using, and then tune the OS to work off that stack and hand it over to Outlook as standard network data?
I admit I know nothing about cars, let alone their computer systems.
But I always thought that modern cars had some kind of primitive "black box" type feature that would record things like acceleration, breaking, speed... I dunno what else, and tie that into the air bag deployment.
I have no idea WHY I assume this, but it's always been floating around in my mind.
It looks like they're headed that way. In the latest update to Google Mobile Maps, you can turn on "layers". If you provide GMM with your Google login, it can pull down any layers that you've created on your PC.
A Layer is really just a collection of places that you've identified and saved on the map. You can give each place a description, URL, etc.
But it probably won't be long until they expand that to routes, too.
Mine arrived Thursday. It's contents included:
- Balloons, napkins, and streamers
- A giant poster for Windows 7
- 10 giveaway totes with Windows 7 branding
- a deck of cards
- a puzzle
- Signature Edition Windows 7 (64 and 32 bit)
- Dozens of coupons for Norton AV and the Zune Marketplace
There might have been more, but I don't recall.
It might matter how many people you invited. I've invited about 60 to my party and am waiting to hear back how many will make it. If I have more than 20 confirmed, I'm going to ask MS for more giveaways.
It wouldn't surprise me if half of those MMS messages are just text, with no photo/video/sound attached.
I found out that if someone sends me an MMS message, and I just hit "reply" without thinking about it, my reply is sent as an MMS even if I don't insert any media.
This may just be a "feature" of my phone (HTC + Windows Mobile) but I was doing this for quite a while until I realized it.
Thankfully, I have the unlimited plan for messages no matter how they are sent.
While they don't publish all of the data, there is a video (about an hour long) that they posted to MSDN that introduces the Ribbon and all of the variations that went into creating it.
In one particular scene, they show data collected from one week's use of most Office 2003 apps. In the video they've ranked all of the features used in Word, Outlook, etc, by number of times used.
In Word, the most commonly accessed feature was Paste. In today's ribbon, where do you see paste? It's the very first icon on the Home tab.
I train people on Microsoft Office for a living. Everyone I've trained on Office 2007 has said how much easier it is to use than 2003. Hunting for common options is no longer a common activity.
There comes a point where a program becomes so complicated, menus don't cut it. The ribbon solves that problem beautifully, and Office 2010 refines it even further.
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Because there are these things called "businesses" and they practice this concept called a "paper trail".
My clients are primarily mid/large businesses and government agencies. As much as I would love to have my clients pay me electronically, none of them do. They all send a check through their AP systems via mail.
I eagerly await being able to "deposit" my checks while I'm standing at the Post Office going through my mail.
Oh, and another thing about electronic funds transfer: the fees can be killer. 4% is fine when you're dealing with a $25 payment. But 4% off my $10,000 paycheck is a serious fee.
I'm waiting for the US military to develop a Raccoon Suit (from Mario) for our solders.
But I bet those Canadians will beat us to it.
Group Policy can disable this for all domain users in one click.
And even if left on, what admin would allow a non-authenticated user access to anything on the network?
Besides, if I had enough access to a machine to turn this feature on, couldn't I just take control of it via traditional means? Why bother.
Maybe I missed it, but where does Blizzard say that you must play on Battle.Net?
StarCraft 2 ships with single-player campaigns, just like the first one did. And I haven't heard anything that says you cannot play games againt the computer.
What I *have* heard is that, during the beta, they are only focusing on player vs player games. And these, of course, require Battle.net. But I don't believe this applies to what will actually be shipping.
Not only did Microsoft announce this on their Outlook 2010 blog back on Jan 22, but they announced the patch for it on Feb 11.
And it's beta software. We kinda expect it to make mistakes. Unlike some companies that keep their products in beta for a decade.
I've been using Office 2010 for a few months now and absolutely love it. It's not very different from 2007. Just refined, like Windows 7 is to Vista. It has a few new features in each application that users will enjoy, especially in Sharepoint environments.
One very cool feature in Outlook is the "People Pane" which appears optionally next to the message you're reading. Expand it and it will show you all of your prior appointments, emails, IMs, attachments, and more that are connected to that person. So when Fred sends you an email and says "what did you think about that other email I sent you?" it's a piece of cake to find it.
But oh noes! A beta has a bug! There must be nothing else to bash Microsoft for today.
Duh. Just peek at these company's Buzz profiles.
That'll give you all the private information you ever wanted!
I look forward to seeing pictures of these censorship advocates having sex with their mistresses, getting wasted in public, allegations of bribery, and all other unseemly manner of behavior.
Hence the operation's name, Titstorm.
Yes. Just don't log on to Battle.net.
You must be new here.
Looks at your six-digit ID.
You must have bought your ID off eBay.
And in this day and age, his parents would have sued your parents for $100,000 in medical bills and emotional distress.
Nevermind that he started it.
That is the job of the web server to assign a default document whether its index.html, default.htm, index.php, or yourmama.html
I sent a request for yourmama.html last night, and it was 200 OK.
I always mess up some mundane detail. I hate it when that happens.
While I do get a lot of news from Facebook, it's almost always just in the form of a headline, short summary, and a link to the article.
Most of the friends I have rarely make more than a short comment about whatever they're posting on... just a "passing this on" kind of note.
So, I fail to see how this is going to produce anything other than "We know this happened, but we're awfully short on details."
But I look forward to being wrong.
They all suck.
We've all learned about the OSI model.
It seems like these guys are going through great lengths to hack the application layer, when this is really the fault of the transmission layer.
Why not come up with a better protocol than TCP/IP or the radio protocol or whatever the heck it is that they're using, and then tune the OS to work off that stack and hand it over to Outlook as standard network data?
This is better than having a million different plugs/adaptors/dongles.
I'd love to see a car outfitted with a special version of this, too.
Hotel rooms can have one, on the night stand, as a nice feature for their guests.
Any office desk could definitely benefit from one. Less wiring clutter. Only downside is no USB sync (yet).
There are plenty of uses. They're all moot unless there is an industry-wide standard, though.
New here?
Fine, but then what do you do starting January 2013?
I admit I know nothing about cars, let alone their computer systems.
But I always thought that modern cars had some kind of primitive "black box" type feature that would record things like acceleration, breaking, speed... I dunno what else, and tie that into the air bag deployment.
I have no idea WHY I assume this, but it's always been floating around in my mind.
Can anyone confirm or set me straight on this?
This is both awesome and scary at the same time.
Awesome because he's bringing news to the masses, in a way that they can afford it and understand it.
Scary because he is selecting the news they get to read, and translating it first. That means he's able to put his spin on what his readers read.
For all we know, he could be an employee of Fox News.
It looks like they're headed that way. In the latest update to Google Mobile Maps, you can turn on "layers". If you provide GMM with your Google login, it can pull down any layers that you've created on your PC.
A Layer is really just a collection of places that you've identified and saved on the map. You can give each place a description, URL, etc.
But it probably won't be long until they expand that to routes, too.
Mine arrived Thursday. It's contents included:
- Balloons, napkins, and streamers
- A giant poster for Windows 7
- 10 giveaway totes with Windows 7 branding
- a deck of cards
- a puzzle
- Signature Edition Windows 7 (64 and 32 bit)
- Dozens of coupons for Norton AV and the Zune Marketplace
There might have been more, but I don't recall.
It might matter how many people you invited. I've invited about 60 to my party and am waiting to hear back how many will make it. If I have more than 20 confirmed, I'm going to ask MS for more giveaways.
It wouldn't surprise me if half of those MMS messages are just text, with no photo/video/sound attached.
I found out that if someone sends me an MMS message, and I just hit "reply" without thinking about it, my reply is sent as an MMS even if I don't insert any media.
This may just be a "feature" of my phone (HTC + Windows Mobile) but I was doing this for quite a while until I realized it.
Thankfully, I have the unlimited plan for messages no matter how they are sent.
While they don't publish all of the data, there is a video (about an hour long) that they posted to MSDN that introduces the Ribbon and all of the variations that went into creating it.
In one particular scene, they show data collected from one week's use of most Office 2003 apps. In the video they've ranked all of the features used in Word, Outlook, etc, by number of times used.
In Word, the most commonly accessed feature was Paste. In today's ribbon, where do you see paste? It's the very first icon on the Home tab.
I train people on Microsoft Office for a living. Everyone I've trained on Office 2007 has said how much easier it is to use than 2003. Hunting for common options is no longer a common activity.
There comes a point where a program becomes so complicated, menus don't cut it. The ribbon solves that problem beautifully, and Office 2010 refines it even further.
Did I miss the memo where all stories on Slashdot are tagged as "story" ?
Perhaps we should also tag them as "slashdot" too. Or "content".