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Comment Re:Bad joke (Score 1) 284

So if you forget to lock your house door or window, or a car door, or accidentally leave a window open, etc, it's ok for anybody to enter your house and look around?

Would you forget to lock your door if the moment you left every single person in the entire world could pass your door? Oh, and would you *still* forget to lock your door if you happened to have the personal information for everybody in your neighborhood at that point in time?

Comment Outlook 64bit (Score 0, Troll) 126

While we're talking about it, I thought I'd use this space to inform others about how my Outlook 2010 beta is going on Windows 7 64bit. Back end is Exchange 2010 RTM.

  • Since installing it, IE -> Office 'Sharepoint Services Support'" literally doesn't work. Obviously supporting being able to click a Document in Sharepoint and have it Open or Edit inside it's Office counterpart is too hard. You can't even manually open a document from 'Open' and save it to Sharepoint.
  • Composing an Email Message will take 100% CPU until you send it. I can confirm this on other SOE's with AMD to Intel CPU's. Lucky I have a Core2Duo so my workstation is usable. My team mate who is also trying it is unlucky enough to only have a single CPU so he literally can't leave an email half composed. Well he can, but he can't do anything else.
  • Returning from PC from Standby leaves the Inbox empty, It reconnects, but just doesnt show any email. You need to click another folder than another one.
  • The Send-A-Smile 'feature' is stupid. Yes I want to give some feedback (for example, the above 3 points) but I'm NOT giving you a screenshot of my Corporate SOE Desktop while doing so.
  • It's slow, really slow.
  • Composing an Email in HTML default with a signature and then trying to change it to Plain-Text will cause all your cause in the Email to be deleted.

Uninstalling it and moving back to Office 2007 32bit fixed all my problems. Some of the new features are pretty cool though, and I'm looking forward to having a true 64bit Office SOE Workstation

Comment Stop being basement nerds (Score 2, Insightful) 297

After going to vote, it's extremely obvious that slashdot crowd has taken reign over this voting page.

Can you PLEASE STOP posting specific highly technical changes that the average user will not understand.

Sure, blabber on about H.6969 decoding formats while you're in your basement with your friends. BUT LISTEN PEOPLE. If you want Google and Youtube to change, and change for the good of the Open Source and Freedom of speed world, lets keep our suggestion to "Use HTML5 for video, not flash". or something similar. The next "please use \this\ codec" I'm going to vote no.

All I want is to be able to download a free and open source Linux distribution, Install it and watch a video on Youtube. Couldn't care less if it's HTML412.80211g or H.2342333(revision9).

Comment This isn't "Microsoft's" fault (Score 5, Insightful) 215

So it turns out Chinese steal and pilfer IP from themselves as well. Not just the big US Corporations.

Anyone who doesn't truely understand how this isnt MSFT's fault hasn't worked in Corporate IT for long enough.

I hope the Project Managers and Developers are dealt with swiftly, but "Microsoft steals code"... I don't think so. I think you will find the real Developers in MSFT are offended that they are brought down by an under-evaluated project (why else would it be pawned off to China) run by a hand full of incompetent and unethical people.

Comment Re:Information Technology (IT) (Score 1) 736

>>However, it's the equivalent of calling a Brain surgeon a Doctor

Brain Surgeon == neurosurgeon.

Maybe we should get other professions correct before we start complaining about ourselves.

I've personally found outside of a technical company, you will always be the "IT people". Even inside a technical company (and extremely technical, such as startups) you can still be "IT" if you don't have the employee foot print.

Comment Re:Opposing patents (Score 1) 175

Please stop thinking in a FOSS mind frame. In our world, someone asks a question and if we're experienced in that field we don't mind helping out. In the law world, they just lol'd at you (just like every patent attorney who actually read your post) and are currently waiting for you to swipe your credit card details. Now ... Armchair Patent Attorneys ... now that's another matter. I'm sure they're willing to provide an abundance of information.

Comment Re:NEWSFLASH! (Score 4, Insightful) 297

I don't think the problem here is the ELECTRICITY COMPANY knowing when you "leave in the morning and get home at night".

I think Token Criminal who is working with some hackers in Russia gaining access to these INTERNET CONNECTED Smart Grids is the real problem.

It's easy to accept "trade-offs" when you don't understand an entire scenario.

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