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Comment Re:Couldn't be worse (Score -1) 368

And I left when even all of my own groups (one of them with 60000 members) were taken by Indian spammers. Some of the groups would receive hundreds of Indian Job placement, coupon sales, company advertisement and other types of spam.

Orkut's communities were their top offering and it was basically killed by spam (they could have removed all posts by members with high rate of spam reports).

Same as you I do not have anything against Indians, Brazilians or Chinese. But their huge numbers (and by the same ratio, spammers among them) and sometimes their insistence of using their own language could starve any resource if they are directed to it.

Comment Re:BS Article (Score -1) 445

No, that's because the installation manifest file has mentioned the maxVersion to be 4.0, that's not hard coded into plugin code and can be manually edited. However because users don't know that, they will need to download an updated plugin.

Comment Re:No good? (Score -1) 202

Novell 3.1 was mostly a file server. TCP/IP was later introduced for it and then later MySQL and Apache became available on 4.XX. So people were using 3.11 as a network file server only and not for server side applications.

I used to develop tcp/ip NLM modules for novel netware 3.12 and 4.XX and we used to do it using Watcom C. The ide we were using was borland C++ (as a C language editor). I had created batch and shell files which used to compile different versions for Netware 3.12, 4.11 and also SCO Unix, Linux, AIX etc. However extending and maintaining a 300,000 lines of code software was not easy.

Comment Re:new user-interface is a bad idea and may slow d (Score -1) 534

You cannot just stop there for 30 years because users may not be comfortable with changes. I have had very big websites (with over 1 million users) and 20%-30% people would become angry whenever an updated version come out. However after a few months everyone would be happy.

Ribbons are a combination of Tabs and Toolbars. Both of them are well accepted. In my opinion ribbons are faster to use (if you get used to them) than deep menu options.

Comment Re:Anecdotal (Score -1) 362

Your wife, your housemate, your coworkers and the person who has stolen your phone did not have access to phone service provider's records.

But they potentially do to your iphone or iTune synced data on your PC.

Comment Re:What, people measure scientific output? (Score 0) 362

Scientific output normally refers to cited papers (even though it could be seen wider).

http://www.scimagojr.com/countryrank.php?area=0&category=0&region=all&year=2009&order=it&min=0&min_type=it

Narrow down to the last year. Also interestingly Iran has the highest growth rate in all countries (11 times he average of the World) and Asia is the future scientific growth region.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18546-iran-showing-fastest-scientific-growth-of-any-country.html

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