Help ma boab! Obama, that scunner, is oot ta git us! Would be braw if that Jennie McCarthy lassie would save us!

This solution doesn't seem to be buzzword compliant. The cloud isn't about writing stuff with a pen. Cloud is.. er, it's kind of like, well you know, Internet things. Give me money.

Fair point on the editing set-up. I'm pretty experienced now with wiki markup, but that took time. What's she on about when she talks of "mind calming images"? What's with the Geocities comparison? Wikipedia is a minimalist and utilitarian layout. Geocities was the land that aesthetics forgot, and helped popularise eye-raping text on a tiled background. Really, why did people do that? I wondered if they had a monitor calibrated drastically differently to mine, or did they never read their own websites? How can anyone think that blue text on a starry background is pleasant to read, and auto-playing midi files? God, how did we survive?

There are plenty other sites she can visit for her modern web experience. Want dynamic stuff that breaks traditional browsing paradigms? Sure, you got it. How about over-use of flash and other crap? Coming right up, albeit in smaller amounts these days due to anyone with an ounce of sense blocking Flash content except for sites where it'll be used to provide the service being sought - not just advertising or "artistic" flair. Want Javascript/AJAX stuff that'll send your cycles climbing, and give you something that looks nice but is in fact far less useful that the old site? Sure, and why not come to Slashdot to see an example of how geeks can build a UI to solve a problem that never really existed - all while neglecting proper support for unicode and touch screen devices. Did anyone at Geeknet not even try browsing Slashdot on a touchscreen device? Trying to adjust filtering is a pain, and why is there an option at the bottom to opt out of the mobile version if it doesn't work? God I hate mobile versions of sites - particularly when I can't opt out of them.

Ironically The Atlantic reminds me of Wikipedia design. Nice simple layout that doesn't detract from the content. Wikipedia works because its layout doesn't get in my way (except maybe when they fuck around "mobile friendly" layouts.

I wonder how many shoppers even ask for something with Windows? I imagine it'd be more a PC, and it's expected they can browse the web and buy stuff for it. Anybody with experience in retail who can fill in some blanks?

People pretending do be who they are not is pretty annoying. I won't send the to Hell, but certainly they won't be getting top shelf liquor in Heaven. Good news though. You're getting the good stuff!
JC

Serkes is formerly of the AAPS, which alone should ring alarm bells. AAPS is a right-wing pseudo medical association, with Andrew Schlafly (of Conservapedia infamy) as legal counsel. The AAPS is pushing quackery and a lunatic tightening agenda. Schlafly himself is no stranger to statistical mendacity, or perhaps he's just making the kinds of mistakes that'd shame a high schooler. Curiously enough, he also asserts expertise in medicine and pretty much everything, and with each pronouncement he demonstrates dishonesty and ignorance. The thing is, we don't even need to know this in order to reject the findings of the survey. As Bauman said, the survey is deeply flawed. The analysis is either utterly incompetent, or dishonest. Given Serkes' record, I believe the latter to be the case. This survey would be just as flawed and worthy of rejection if it came from the AMA, signed by me.

Yeah, all those SAP and Oracle users. Maybe it has wider usage than I'm aware of, but the vast majority of use I see is enterprise. Of course this doesn't mean that it's not a problem. There are plenty of business users who are one step away from using Typex on their screens.

Sure, 10% savings. It's not as if there may be additional overheads, such as training and the liability from having the IT staff directly on GMs payroll. What's the secret here? Build a pig farm for every 5 IT staff, and have at least four IT guys working the goldmine?

God yeah. There are many areas I want government to stay the hell away from, such as religion (that's between my followers and myself), but where they are involved, I want accountability, transparency and fiscal responsibility.

That's interesting to know. Excel on Mac does the same odd thing when saving files, in that it effectively uses the location of the file instead of /tmp. Excel on Mac in general does very strange stuff in the file system. Specifically it appears to rely exclusively on the path to the file, meaning that if a file is moved while being used, saving will create a new file at the original location. Other applications (not sure if this is a Cocoa thing or not) use another mechanism, allowing them to keep track of the file as it's moved around. Also, it can't reliably open files when there are two mounted volumes sharing the same name or even a mounted volume with the same name as the short username of the active user.

This! It's relatively cheap. Leave access details with your solicitor, stipulating as a condition of being disclosed, that spend a night in the old Johnson place. To be extra secure you could leave half of the necesary information with your family, and the other half in a sealed envelope with your solicitor. If there is no old Johnson place, go for any similarly creepy and abandoned old house. The Scooby Dooesque antics will surely lift their spirits in what must certainly be a difficult time. Lead a good life, treat people well, and don't dwell to much on dogma for dogma's sake. I'll have a nice place awaiting your arrival.

I think you're arguing with people who define innovation as being something so bizarre that in order to satisfy their fetishised view of innovation, one must first design a universe from scratch. That's what my dad did, yet I wouldn't be so blinkered as to claim that original invention is the be all and end all of innovation. Airbus A320 innovative? Bah, it's just a big Comet with a few fancy gadgets. VisiCalc innovative? Has everyone forgotten graph paper and slide rules?

Jesus Christ! That feature is amazing, and this is the first I've heard of it. I owe you a beer.

But why wouldn't they pay for it? Is it possible that they would indeed pay for x product if they couldn't get it for free? Perhaps not in all cases, but I doubt all freeloaders would entirely abandon movies/music/games if unable to grab free copies. In a world where copying is prohibitively difficult, people would go back to how we used to be before the rise of file sharing: some people picking up bootlegs, and the bulk of people having to consume according to their spending power. Atari 2600 titles were relatively difficult to pirate, so at the time I either saved up allowance to buy titles, or more commonly visited my local game renting shop.

Open source has many definitions, not all of which require modified code to be shared, let alone server-side code. Such a licence would be unworkable for many enterprise uses, as customization or even just configuration could be an unacceptable disclosure of internal data.