They're not doing it wrong -- they're doing it because they can! If MSFT didn't want to worry about an end user (who might happen to be a Fortune 500 client buying an unlimited site license) writing an Excel macro or a program in VBA, these features should have never been included with Office in the first place. So, MSFT will have to support these features or provide compelling enough reasons for their customer base (via more compelling reasons) to migrate to a new version and move their real "programming" outside of Office.

BTW, if you want to know why alot of corporate clients have codebase inside of Office applications, read my sig.

I'm sure they can find ways to improve Clippy or something tertiary in importance.

Because they're "DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!."

The EPI is slanted left-of-center; let me cite Cato as a counterpoint -- http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/negative-effects-minimum-wage-laws. I know Cato is right-of-center; however, if we're citing any source as independent, then Cato holds just as much weight as EPI.

Eventually, what will end up happening is we'll get to a point where every person will end up on a 1099 -- eventually making each person his/her own boss in the eyes of the law. Unfortunately, what will happen is all those people will see what the tax burden that he/she will have to incur due to those laws and start to revolt; either this, or the people in America are just plain stupid. I just hope that grocery baggers start getting angry when they see, after getting converted to 1099, that they have to pay half of their $10/hr. check to the government. Sure, a large number of rich people are greedy; so are every not-so-rich person who screams that the rich aren't paying their fair share even though the lion's share of the tax bill comes out of the pockets of the top 1%. Unfortunately, neither groups are as greedy as the government. I agree that the less-fortunate need help; however, having politicians skimming billions off the top for the sake of wealth distribution is an inefficient mechanism.

First of all, no company purely hires "based off of how much work there is to do" since many small businesses run on razor-thin profit margins and most publicly-traded companies need to improve profitability in order to appease shareholders; so, companies who are forced into situations where their costs go up all of a sudden do two things -- a) lay a bunch of people off in order to stay solvent, or b) raise prices in order to keep pace with increased costs. Secondly, you're right about inflation, but you're wrong in thinking it "only hurts the rich" since all they will do is increase prices in order to assure the same level of profit. Meanwhile, the guys at the bottom still can't afford to make ends meet because costs of food, gas, rent, and all other necessities go up due to the inflation caused by a minimum wage that only supposed to hurt the rich. Of course, the Left then complains that the rich get richer while the poor stay poorer; that, then, leads politicians to pass another increase in minimum wage for the sake of fairness, which then leads to a combination of more layoffs and more inflation, which leads to the Left to complain again about the rich getting richer while the poor stay poorer, which leads to another increase in minimum wage, which leads to more layoffs and inflation, which leads to...

Come to think of it, if Kurzweil is right, we'll come across the singularity within our lifetime. So, still assuming Kurzweil is correct, we'll be alive to witness the eschatological event scientists now are just starting to postulate. Granted, we might not care about it now, but we will 10 billion years from now and regretting then not being able to do anything about it while we had the chance now.

So, what you're saying is that we need to have more scientific research done on hair growth and longer erections, right?

I suppose that also makes the Occupy movement (which is chock-full of real and well-documented actual violence and not just standing around brandishing a weapon) and New Black Panther Party members parked outside of PA and OH polling sites for the sake of voter intimidation examples of left-wing extremism. Right?

I'm just trying to get some clarity.

The problem with the American political system doesn't have much to do with a lack of detail (although it's certainly a byproduct of the root cause) and more to do with political corruption and cronyism of the American politician. You see, often times our leaders tell us that we must spend egregiously for X cause for the general welfare; however, this is merely a smoke screen in order to raid the public coffers to pay back those that got our leaders elected. Unfortunately, this occurs both on the left (under the guise of aiding the poor) and the right (this time as public safety and national security); either way, you're voting in a group who sees tax revenue as a means to enrich themselves along with those who got them elected. After all, the richest members of Congress (in both houses) are usually left-wing Democrats; I often find it hypocritical of multimillionaires telling me that I'm not paying my fair share since both my net worth and my annual salary are vastly inferior to theirs.

Los Angeles isn't much better. At least SF Metro doesn't spend $100 million for an environmental impact study for a proposed trolley service that circles two downtown blocks. Nor does SF spend almost $1 billion to build out less than 10 miles of an at-grade train service -- which is always needing service despite being completed late, BTW. And, I know the politicians in SF do some screwy things, but at least they aren't caught literally in bed with the media (e.g. Villaraigosa). And, at least your liberals practice what they preach -- our lefties in LA can't be bothered with recycling or reducing their carbon footprint by taking public transportation (it's for poor people, after all, and we have to keep up appearances in order to be part of the in crowd).

Oh, another thing -- I've hung out with the hippies and homeless folk in SF, and I've never had an issue even though I tend to wear my Libertarianism on my sleeve. Then again, when I visit SF, I'm usually in Potrero Hill or the Mission District; so, it's possible that other parts of SF aren't as friendly. I know my friends in SF complain about the pretentious hipsters trying to exude deck, but these types are everywhere now unfortunately -- you'll even find them in the red parts of red states. I've even seen them in Louisiana, and not just New Orleans or Baton Rouge, but even in the redneck hillbilly towns.

...The Flash is feasting on some Road Runner he caught earlier in the day.

Copyright law states that a copyright lasts up to 75 years after the author's death. Supes has got a while.

If you hire any of them, tell that African prince (they're all princes over there apparently) he still owes me $80,000,000.

Some people still think XML is a language...

I thought that too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU