I really can't relate to your friend's problem. Why would anybody prioritize some stupid online hobby over real life??
On a more serious note, for the love of God, mod me up! I've been posting and posting trying to gain karma, and it's starting to effect my work ethic!!
Say the kids wanted a digital music player. Everybody has the cool iPod. They want one too. But you're saying they never even went down that path and that they started out asking for the MS version of that product.
What exactly is it again Microsoft offers in competition to the iPod that Ballmer's kids so admire?
Nothing. MS doesn't make digital music players. Your argument holdes up against the search engine thing, but not with the iPod issue.
Not trying to insult or anything, but did you RTA? I believe the TFA points to the ruby on rails website which has plenty of resources. One of the links across the top labeled "screencasts" even has videos you can watch.
If MS doesn't join the alliance, they're seen as factious and self-serving. If MS joins the alliance, they're seen as sneaky, underhanded, factious and self-serving.
After reading your huge post about backwards compatibility this and code bloat that, I was totally throw off by your seemingly random conclusion, "only one roadblock for switching to Linux full time... is the fonts." I thought you were joking until I actually read the rest of your comment.
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That is a very interesting update. Do you happen to know if a list exists anywhere on what Javascript-related updates they've made?
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My company is involved in consumer web traffic and thus many users in the company use a variety of browsers to test both in-house and partner web pages. The rest of our administrative software works fine in the main browsers we use and it would be rediculous to force everybody to start using a specific browser for one or two pages.
Secondly, my prototype was a demo for something I wanted to expand to our clients and partners. And trust me, coding a 20 line AJAX script is not that much work and you might think.
Finally, telling people to "fuck off until support is added" is the exact reason the project was canned. That is not possible in the business world.
The decision was made without my direct input. I though it was an interesting issue and was curious how other departments handled it. I wasn't asking for ways to convince my management to reverse their decision.
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I suspected an announcement for Office being delayed right when I heard Vista was being delayed. Why? Because the urgency to release this new version of Office is directly related to Vista. The last thing MS wants to do is ship Vista with an outdated version of Office. So as long as this version finishes before Vista, everything is still dandy in the eyes of Microsoft. That said, if they can have an extra year to polish up some features, why not? Releasing the new version of office near Vista will only help Vista sales since people will say, "Oohh, Vista comes with Office, might as well get Vista instead of buying both seperately!" Not to mention it makes Vista seem like it has even more "new" things about it.
You would think they're re-writing code to address their longest single nuisance of an issue: security.
But then further reading of the article notes that it is so they can improve their home entertainment functionality.
So as much as I agree with you that it would be in their interest to "get it right before releasing" it, according to that article, that's really not what this extra effort is about.
Of course if I were MS and I needed to rewrite a ton of security-related code that very likely exists in XP as well, I might just FUD the re-write as an "entertainment patch" too, seeing as I already claimed, months and years ago that this was an OS with a code base rewritten from scratch for improved reliability...
What will this mean for office managers who have to plan upgrades and budgets?
Since when do companies have a burning urge to upgrade to software that isn't even out yet when their current software meets all their needs? The short answer is that the budgets will be spent on other things and the IT departments will be happy they won't have to spend money and time upgrading.
Loses in MS Word-like functionality to: FCK Editor Not much better than: Gmail Composer Less compatibility than: Writely Definitely not as good as: MS Office
Every week we will launch a new sophisticated program on Wednesday at 12:00 PST
Wow. I wonder how many other applications have been under development and for how many months? Most other companies doing similar things so far have had enough trouble maintaining ONE AJAX application and polishing it. How do they intend to launch several and make them all great? Sounds a tiny bit overzealous to me.
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I really can't relate to your friend's problem. Why would anybody prioritize some stupid online hobby over real life??
On a more serious note, for the love of God, mod me up! I've been posting and posting trying to gain karma, and it's starting to effect my work ethic!!
I disagree.
Say the kids wanted a digital music player. Everybody has the cool iPod. They want one too. But you're saying they never even went down that path and that they started out asking for the MS version of that product.
What exactly is it again Microsoft offers in competition to the iPod that Ballmer's kids so admire?
Nothing. MS doesn't make digital music players. Your argument holdes up against the search engine thing, but not with the iPod issue.
"If all the kids went out and started using Unix, would you do that too!?"
Not trying to insult or anything, but did you RTA? I believe the TFA points to the ruby on rails website which has plenty of resources. One of the links across the top labeled "screencasts" even has videos you can watch.
Speaking of rails and cake...
http://cakephp.org/ just released 0.10.9 about a week ago.
Sounds like they just got a second life!
If MS doesn't join the alliance, they're seen as factious and self-serving.
If MS joins the alliance, they're seen as sneaky, underhanded, factious and self-serving.
So... you're saying I hate MS either way?
I can live with that.
MS and Yahoo better do something equally innovative to catch up. Google's really leading the pack now!
Why do I sense an onslaught of corny jokes coming to reply to this post?
Unless of course the post itself is the corny joke.
After reading your huge post about backwards compatibility this and code bloat that, I was totally throw off by your seemingly random conclusion, "only one roadblock for switching to Linux full time... is the fonts." I thought you were joking until I actually read the rest of your comment.
Sure I could guess but which ones exactly would those be?
Don't worry dude, you'll know soon enough.
Even the Borg needed a queen.
That is a very interesting update. Do you happen to know if a list exists anywhere on what Javascript-related updates they've made?
My company is involved in consumer web traffic and thus many users in the company use a variety of browsers to test both in-house and partner web pages. The rest of our administrative software works fine in the main browsers we use and it would be rediculous to force everybody to start using a specific browser for one or two pages.
Secondly, my prototype was a demo for something I wanted to expand to our clients and partners. And trust me, coding a 20 line AJAX script is not that much work and you might think.
Finally, telling people to "fuck off until support is added" is the exact reason the project was canned. That is not possible in the business world.
The decision was made without my direct input. I though it was an interesting issue and was curious how other departments handled it. I wasn't asking for ways to convince my management to reverse their decision.
But thanks for the trolling/flamebait.
Now it's the world's first privately funded satellite crater.
Here in the US we prefer chairs over fists.
making your in-game persona as pervasive as an email address
Hello sir,
I am interested in a position in your great organization. Attached is my resume. You can find my contact information at the bottom of this correspondance.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Moochfish
Level 28 Night Elf, Hunter
Lothar Realm
World of Warcraft
I suspected an announcement for Office being delayed right when I heard Vista was being delayed. Why? Because the urgency to release this new version of Office is directly related to Vista. The last thing MS wants to do is ship Vista with an outdated version of Office. So as long as this version finishes before Vista, everything is still dandy in the eyes of Microsoft. That said, if they can have an extra year to polish up some features, why not? Releasing the new version of office near Vista will only help Vista sales since people will say, "Oohh, Vista comes with Office, might as well get Vista instead of buying both seperately!" Not to mention it makes Vista seem like it has even more "new" things about it.
You would think they're re-writing code to address their longest single nuisance of an issue: security.
But then further reading of the article notes that it is so they can improve their home entertainment functionality.
So as much as I agree with you that it would be in their interest to "get it right before releasing" it, according to that article, that's really not what this extra effort is about.
Of course if I were MS and I needed to rewrite a ton of security-related code that very likely exists in XP as well, I might just FUD the re-write as an "entertainment patch" too, seeing as I already claimed, months and years ago that this was an OS with a code base rewritten from scratch for improved reliability...
Reminds me of the argument behind integrating a web browser into explorer.
But maybe that's just me.
What will this mean for office managers who have to plan upgrades and budgets?
Since when do companies have a burning urge to upgrade to software that isn't even out yet when their current software meets all their needs? The short answer is that the budgets will be spent on other things and the IT departments will be happy they won't have to spend money and time upgrading.
Loses in MS Word-like functionality to: FCK Editor
Not much better than: Gmail Composer
Less compatibility than: Writely
Definitely not as good as: MS Office
Every week we will launch a new sophisticated program on Wednesday at 12:00 PST
Wow. I wonder how many other applications have been under development and for how many months? Most other companies doing similar things so far have had enough trouble maintaining ONE AJAX application and polishing it. How do they intend to launch several and make them all great? Sounds a tiny bit overzealous to me.
That's because adult who likes video games... Well, let's just say kids have other priorities such as a social life.
Am i rite?
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I can see three types of jokes that can come from this title: