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Comment Beta? (Score 4, Insightful) 194

The milestone has also prompted speculation about when, if ever, Gmail will lose its beta status, and Ars Technica recently sat down with Todd Jackson, Gmail's Project Manager, to discuss the reasoning behind that nagging beta label.

Whatever the reason, it certainly is making people talk about it.

Comment Re:release date (Score 3, Insightful) 483

It doesn't matter how good the alternatives are if it will cost them more money to switch than to keep it as-is. [...] The only thing that matters is "We've used this for X years, and dammit, we're not changing."

But then you have no point. You're talking about not upgrading a system because an application might break. There goes your argument about backwards compatibility.

Not you and I, we're geeks, but we're not making decisions

Talk for yourself.

Comment Re:release date (Score 5, Insightful) 483

What are you? Another Microsoft marketing/misinformation drone? Or have you just been brainwashed?

You're an IT administrator for a bank. You support about 35 mission-critical applications that go to a mainframe. [...] All those applications were written for Windows 95.

And the mainframe is running what? Windows For Mainframes Edition? I don't think so.

Now, Microsoft is a safe bet because you know those applications were written decades ago and will still work.

I disagree. I only use Windows at work, but it is my understanding that it is very difficult to make older Windows applications run in newer versions of Windows, especially applications that were written for Windows 95/98.

But you go with Apple, or Linux and what do you get? Every five years, maybe ten if you're lucky, you have to rebuild and redesign everything to make it work with the latest and greatest.

That's assuming that you keep updating Linux or Mac OS to the latest and greatest. But you don't have to. In your mainframe "example" it is assumed that the system images running the applications are not being updated. And then you complain that Linux/Apple apps may break if you update the OS? Come on.

You might want to change your desktop background to this one.

Comment Re:Yup (Score 4, Informative) 600

2) Loose your wallet, loose your cash. Loose your wallet, deactivate your credit card.

loose (verb)
1 loosen, relax, loose
become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"

lose (verb)
4 misplace, mislay, lose
place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses"

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