Annnd ... ta-da! Cisco provides the equipment/software that enables that traffic shaping.

They are one of the few industries that tries to adapt to a changing market to keep their customer base. Rather than try to see how technology is changing or where the market is transitioning and move their business model to accomodate those changes, they sit back and complain that new technology is hampering their old way of doing business and they'd rather figure out a way to stop it.

Maybe they should act like a real corporation?

You can appreciate Ubuntu in the geek circle too. As a QA engineer I troubleshoot broken software all day -- while Linux is useful for my job as a desktop OS, I don't want to waste time troubleshooting it too.

Ubuntu (usually) installs great and is up and running quickly out of the box. When stuff goes wrong, I have all the Ubuntu forums just a quick search away (usually with a pretty quick answer).

"This phone won't leave your signal hanging dry as you grasp firmly"

"I don't care. I want the iPhone"

Exactly. If it's not seen as a value-add to customers, then demand is low. If demand is low, why waste the resources implementing the feature when you're still going to do fine at sales? It's not about "support v6 becuase we are Cisco!" it's about "support v6 because customers are asking for it!"

in order for your lack of understanding of sarcasm.

Syriana, anyone?

I don't think that he's necessarily trying to shut down this complaint. What he IS trying to do is make sure that the board doesn't look at this document and treat it like an official engineering document -- signed off by a professional engineer. The way in which it is written/presented has a "professional engineering" feel -- but it isn't a professional document and so it shouldn't have the same "sway" a professional document would.

If I read a report written by a doctor on medical research -- it's probably trustworthy. If I read a report written by Joe Nurse that "looks" like a professional medical report -- I might make a mistake and be misled.

These one-liner summaries seem to be tickling CmdrTaco's fancy today ...

If that sidebar to the left is going to stay ... it needs some contrast compared with the body. It's especially awkward on the home page. The font size is almost the same, there's a whole lot of white space, etc. When I look at it the sidebar and the body are just kind of running together, there's nothing to set it apart. Change the fonts or add a thin border; do SOMETHING to separate it and make it clear that it's a side bar.

I don't believe Christianity is tainted, but people sure are tainted. You will not find "good Christians in this world", because they don't exist. That's the point of it -- no one is without sin (Romans 3:23) and we deserve judgement from a perfect just God, but Jesus was sent to live a perfect life and die to bear that burden as our substitute (Romans 6:23). Christianity is about living in belief of that.

If you want to make claims against the oppression of Christianity, you have to make claims against Jesus (who arguably was the greatest liberator known -- look at the way he treats children, women, and Gentiles amongst a Jewish culture which had no value for those people)... Christianity is about Jesus, not about the Christians. People are destined to screw up.

Actually, Office 2010 doesn't support Strict, only Transitional. The next release of Office will support both. The problem is, I doubt anything else supports Transitional other than office. See this blog that was posted on MSDN.

Dude why not? RTFM!

In my town the Fire Department routinely comes around and flushes/tests the hydrants. So ... seems like there's some maintenance going on there. I don't see the police testing the roadways.

According to the policy PDF, the only limitation is that the office application used supports ECMA-376. It doesn't state whether it needs to be ECMA-376 Strict or Transitional conformance.

So why couldn't someone use one of these?