The Chicago Tribune is a public medium? I'm pretty sure you can't just send them a column and expect them to print it, but let me know if you find otherwise.
I'm not sure how useful it is to post a link to a geocities page as a comment to an article which outright tells you that Geocities is being taken offline today. Needless to say, you get a nice Yahoo! 503 error page if you try your link...
Mod parent up please? Too many people depend on random internet comments to form their opinions instead of doing their own research, allowing them to become what I call "Lazy-boy experts." These people know very little but think every answer they have is the right one.
That may be true, but when a SaaS solution like this drops even for an hour, it means millions of people can't get their email. When my company's exchange server drops (which is actually just as reliable as gmail is), my company loses their email service (~18,000 people), but the rest of the world is fine.
There is something to be said for having local instances vs. the cloud -- reliability expectations for a globally hosted solution like this are simply higher.
I dunno - I've been using G-Mail and Google Apps since each was introduced, and this is the first time one of their outages has impacted me, or EVERYONE else that I talk to (true, that's not a lot of people, but...).
Electronic resources are great, but having a written reference on the side is still very useful - if only because you may need to see the reference while looking at stuff on your screen.
There is also much to be said for being able to pencil in quick notes directly in their context, IMO.
The problem is such info is also useful for placement of in-game ads. A lot of people already don't like in-game ads and the fact they are using your lab-rat data to show them to you simply creeps them out.
"Plans to upgrade" does not mean "Going to upgrade as soon as it's released." I'd say it's actually rather smart to have *PLANS* of how to handle this upgrade very early on, that way when you have users asking for it, you can tell them very easily what will have to happen before you'll upgrade them.
If you say "I'm waiting until SP2" like a lot of people have already said... guess what, you have plans.
Really, this article is incredibly anti-newsworthy but let's face it, it's spun in a way that makes MS look bad and that's really all it takes to make it on Slashdot, right?
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The Chicago Tribune is a public medium? I'm pretty sure you can't just send them a column and expect them to print it, but let me know if you find otherwise.
Modifying a list whilst you're iterating through it is a big no-no!
Random bloggers > japanese national space agency...
I'm not sure how useful it is to post a link to a geocities page as a comment to an article which outright tells you that Geocities is being taken offline today. Needless to say, you get a nice Yahoo! 503 error page if you try your link...
Reference (Sorry, I'd look for the reference on NBER's site but I'm at work and can't stay on /. THAT long!)
Just websense slashdot from him ;-)
Mod parent up please? Too many people depend on random internet comments to form their opinions instead of doing their own research, allowing them to become what I call "Lazy-boy experts." These people know very little but think every answer they have is the right one.
Careful. After you've worn it a few times it will come out of your tie rack yelling "ALALALALALA" and then explode...
I see nothing wrong with it -- it looks like like every other chart or graph I see on Fox news!
(Or realizing that January has 31 days..)
Maybe he meant the purposes are REALLY intense!
"its", not "it's"
With love,
Grammar Nazi #881307
(mods give me a break, this is just an "idle" thread!)
You must be new here... Stories often take days to hit SlashDot's front page.
No, instead they'd use a treatment which you have severe allergy too and kill you with your own reaction to it...
That may be true, but when a SaaS solution like this drops even for an hour, it means millions of people can't get their email. When my company's exchange server drops (which is actually just as reliable as gmail is), my company loses their email service (~18,000 people), but the rest of the world is fine.
There is something to be said for having local instances vs. the cloud -- reliability expectations for a globally hosted solution like this are simply higher.
Fixed that for you...
Michael J Fox? Michael Jordan?
Clearly you don't follow american politics...
I get and appreciate the joke but was this sentence incredibly difficult for anyone else to read, or am I just that much of a grammar nazi?
Just because you fail doesn't mean it's not useful.
There is also much to be said for being able to pencil in quick notes directly in their context, IMO.
The problem is such info is also useful for placement of in-game ads. A lot of people already don't like in-game ads and the fact they are using your lab-rat data to show them to you simply creeps them out.
"Plans to upgrade" does not mean "Going to upgrade as soon as it's released." I'd say it's actually rather smart to have *PLANS* of how to handle this upgrade very early on, that way when you have users asking for it, you can tell them very easily what will have to happen before you'll upgrade them.
If you say "I'm waiting until SP2" like a lot of people have already said... guess what, you have plans.
Really, this article is incredibly anti-newsworthy but let's face it, it's spun in a way that makes MS look bad and that's really all it takes to make it on Slashdot, right?
It's posted on July 5th...