Well, cynically, maybe they do understand, it's the IT managers who don't. After all, going X.Y to X.Z is classically a minor change, while X.Y to Z.Y is major. Just because someone says "That's not true for us," and actually means it doesn't ensure management will believe them.

Actually, I've found that while users often want the latest and greatest, they get absolutely extraordinarily pissy if their 15-year-old program doesn't work any more, and will jump through more hoops than you'd believe in order to try and keep the most useless crap running for an extra month.

And you understand picking on a typo to support your moronic assumption that he wasn't specifically asking about processes that would probably be most using ActiveX means your fail on two counts, correct?

1. Being an asshole,
2. Supporting your claim.

You also failed at reading comprehension. He's not a consultant, he's getting a degree, so he's talking with businesses to find out the kinds of technology he needs most to familiarize himself with. So, one might say you "fail," and so much so that it was rather "epic" in scope. Maybe even say that you had an "epic fail." At least my assumptions are rational.

Oh bloody hell, the general meaning of "consumer" you twat. Mayhaps "Customer" if you will. Professionals are still customers. And since I was speaking in generalities of the market IN GENERAL, then GENERALLY I meant "stop releasing shit that isn't actually ready to be released."

Well, it does have that X in the title. X for Xpress...?

Er, and what part is supposed to correlate to Microsoft? Office still has backwards compatibility, Win7 has XP mode, and they supported XP right up until then. The only time compatibility's really broken is with Vista. And even then, you still had XP available. FCP7 is not available, and has no support, and by reports, hasn't for a while. So I'm sorry, but I don't see a situation on MS's side that's analogous to this. Unless you're referring to something like 2007's switch to the ribbon. Which isn't even close to the same thing, since functionality was still there, just moved around. Not meaning to be bitchy or anything, but if you could expand your statement to an actual comparison?

Then it should have been released 6 months from now. I'm not blaming Apple on this one (for once), but the entire goddamned industry. Stop releasing your Beta as a consumer-ready product. RIM's Playbook, Apple's FCPX, and well, most tablets barring the iPad, really. Every single one wasn't completely ready for launch, either missing crucial features or getting tons of stability fixes within the first weeks of release. I know it's not a new phenomenon, but it seems to have gotten worse recently.

Jesus. If even half as many cancel this time, that's likely to be a huge fucking blow to the game. About the only one that can stand to lose 20k subscribers at a shot is WoW, and since the uproar is higher than last time, 20k would be conservative. I've never played EVE, but I'd hate to see it go. It proves that a game can be different from WoW and still work. Well, had worked.

Or you could do what I do, and just delete all the messages about replies any way, because you can just click on your replies from your homepage, and be taken to the full thread. Or just ignore them. Depends on the topic, I suppose.

Youtube, in fact, does restrict content by country, however, your link works in Canada at least.

No it's not. You're an idiot.

See how that works?

I can reasonably claim that you mowing the lawn while I'm asleep causes me terror. After all, if your mower is loud enough, and I'm disoriented enough, then the noise can cause me to fear for my life, and be terrified, until I find out what's going on. So, under your rules, mowing the FUCKING LAWN IS TERRORISM! If I'm a pedestrian, and you drive too close to me, I could be terrified I'm about to be run over. DRIVING YOUR CAR IS TERRORISM.

See why your definition simply doesn't work? Get one that actually encompasses a reasonable set of actions, and you might not come off like an idiot.

I'm sorry, but that's a retarded response. Even if I think the reaction to 9/11 was overblown, hacking a company is a completely different scale than wide-spread physical destruction and loss of life. To try and equate them means you're not an individual who should ever be included in a rational discussion about proportional response or morality. If I had to guess, I'd say you're probably one of the "nuke 'em all and fuck sorting them out" types, right?

What it was was that the US made a statement that any cyber attacks by foreign nations would be met with retaliation up to and including use of military force. Further, you cannot actually declare a war on an individual, nor a concept, "War on Drugs/Terror" notwithstanding. Also, threatening war is not terrorism, it is a tactic commonly used by governments all over the world, and was quite popular with the US for a while, as well as most Western nations.

I'm fine with opinion when it's labelled as such. A well-informed opinion backed with facts can be an interesting, informative, and insightful read, especially on subjects where the average reader may not be qualified to accurately assess the impact of the story.

Well, not to get your dander up, but in my city, the major bridges get major upkeep every few years. Repave the road deck, check the supports, etc. And then about once a decade or so they do a *really* major overhaul. Then again, those bridges do get a few million cars driving over them every year, so they might be an exception, but that maintenance schedule suggests they really should be looked after regularly.