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Why IE is better - Can Firefox do this? - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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HAAHAHHAAHHHHHAHHHAHAA!!!!!!!!!!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Funniest thing I've seen all day!
- Rick Bucich
Would you want to?
- Kevin Hatton
This is real artwork :))) Thanks IE:))
- Samir Kerimov
Livestock Transportation Fail « FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments - http://failblog.org/2009...
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xDDD
- espyder
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Trying to give this guy the benefit of the doubt: maybe it's a backpack? :P
- Dylan McCall
Mozilla FireFox Browser « Introducing "Add-on Collections" « cool idea!! - http://blog.mozilla.com/addons...
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"Add-on Collections In November, we launched Fashion Your Firefox, which was a collection of add-ons that we felt were great for a novice user just getting started with customizing their browser. Now, we’d like to take it a step further and let anyone create their own collection of add-ons that can be shared with their friends, posted on blogs, and featured on the Firefox Add-ons website. Starting today, visitors to the add-ons website will see a brand new look with collections of add-ons front and center. We’ve integrated collections throughout the site, and created a Collection Directory that showcases all of the add-on lists created by our users. There are a number of Mozilla-created collections that are featured throughout the site, but we hope to replace these with useful community-created collections in the near future. If you find a collection you like, logged-in users can mark it as a favorite to easily get back to it later. Creating a collection of your own is as easy as...
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- Susan Beebe
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Collections Directory ---> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US...
- Susan Beebe
I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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"After weeks of negotiations, I.B.M. withdrew its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems on Sunday, one day after Sun’s board balked at a reduced offer, according to three people close to the talks. ... After the legal review, I.B.M. shaved its offer Saturday from $9.55 a share, the offer on the table late last week, to $9.40 a share, said one person familiar with the talks. The offer was presented to Sun’s board on Saturday, and it balked. The Sun board did not reject the offer outright, but wanted certain guarantees that the I.B.M. side considered “onerous,” according to that person."
- Paul Buchheit
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By my reckoning, IBM reduced its offer to Sun twice. You can't reduce an offer twice, and retain any credibility as a serious buyer. So IBM will have lost its credibility with Sun's Board - which includes Sun's largest shareholders. That means it's not Sun's management rejecting IBM - it's Sun's shareholders rejecting IBM. Either IBM did this because it didn't really want to do the deal; or IBM is not used to doing deals where it needs to behave in a credible way.
- Simon Brocklehurst
This sounds like what happened with the Apple deal in the '90s.
- Gabe
Simon - that was my thought. This price thing is more indicative of cold feet.
- Hutch Carpenter
Like for relevance. Dislike for content. I think the IBM deal would have been good for Sun, and kept its Java IP in reasonably competent hands. Plus, I hate navigating Sun's web pages; it's sad to say that IBM's are actually better :P
- Joel Webber
Sorry, Joel, but I can't think of any company that was really better off after being acquired by IBM. Rolm? Lotus? Rational? Informix? No on all counts.
- Gabe
@Gabe: Well, maybe you're right about that (I was an intern at Lotus during the IBM acquisition, and people were leaving like rats off a sinking ship). I'm thinking more of what's good for those of us who care what happens to Java. I know most of it's open in one way or another at this point, but it could still use good technical leadership, and I don't really see Sun doing that so much anymore.
- Joel Webber
+1 @Joel. And some of the alternatitives are pretty bad - Imagine Dell owning Sun. Hewlett Packard (or Cisco) have got no idea how to do software.
- Nick Lothian
I like it that IBM and Sun still remain as separate entities.
- Winston Teo
Joel, the problem is that IBM is not technically competent. That IBM people think SWT is a good idea demonstrates they don't even understand the problems, let alone have any ability to figure out high-quality solutions. People tend to confuse IBM's super strong sales and business development capability for it having strong technical ability. IBM's business model is such that the weaker its staff are technically, and the worse its software, the more money it makes. Clever stuff, business-wise.
- Simon Brocklehurst
@Simon - does Sun have alternatives? (Also - it's not like Swing or JavaFX give me huge confidence in Sun sometimes...)
- Nick Lothian
Nick, there's always a "Plan B". In the event of no buyers, Sun can do massive layoffs to return to profitability. If Sun cut enough to have $1B in annual profits, market cap would be higher than IBM's offer, which would provide a better exit for major shareholders. More than possible to do this, given Sun's annual R&D budget is $2B. Re: JavaFX - it's at least modern in concept; SWT is a flawed idea, that was known to be flawed (by everyone except IBM) more than a decade ago.
- Simon Brocklehurst
@Simon - there are other things Sun could do to make a short term return to profits, too eg, try and moneterise Java more aggressively,drop the software business and become a patent troll, etc, etc. I'm not sure any would be good for Java.
- Nick Lothian
@NIck - well, several parts of Sun's software business, including Java, are profitable currently. No need to drop these if they look like staying profitable. The trick is to cut the overhead (under-performing middle managers, sales people that can't sell etc.); and cut the R&D to a size that reflects the size of the business today. I'm not sure growing the top-line in the short-term is realistic in the current economy. A return to profitability, though, should be possible.
- Simon Brocklehurst
when you pull the piece of gum out of the pack it snaps on your fingers like the gum trick.
- rob friedman
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@Simon: I really don't want to turn this into an SWT/Swing argument, as I feel like they both suck for various reasons. But I don't think it's fair to say that SWT is proof that IBM lacks technical competence (From my limited experience, IBM's technical competence varies a lot among different groups within the company).
- Joel Webber
With SWT, they wanted to solve a specific problem very well from an end-user's perspective -- i.e. it should feel like a native app, and be fast. And they did so quite well, IMHO, even though it sucks to have to use all those native libraries and platform-specific jars. But the Eclipse UI still feels a lot better to me than IntelliJ, and I think SWT's the reason (obviously this is a matter of opinion, but I know plenty of people who far prefer a SWT UI, so it's at least open to debate).
- Joel Webber
Sorry, Sun
- Jayavasanthan J
Paul are you going to buy Sun?
- Shakeel Mahate
I never understood why IBM would want to buy Sun other than that it was cheap. Obviously they decided it wasn't cheap enough.
- Kenton
Glad I didn't buy any Sun stock.
- John Flynn
@Joel, you're right - it doesn't prove it; rather I think it illustrates it And clearly, it would be overstating things to say the *whole* of IBM is technically incompetent. However, there are *many*, *many* weak people there. Everyone I meet that has dealt with IBM - customers, collaborators, competitors - has stories to tell; and almost none are positive in terms of technical capability. Conversely, everyone is impressed by its ability to win business and put dollars in the bank.
- Simon Brocklehurst
Didn't we see this coming?
- Brad Arsenault
Wow, how did we not all see this coming. What is IBM going to do with Sun? Just purchase Java from them, not all of Sun.
- Zachary TG
George Clooney approached to play Dr. Phil in biopic - http://www.inquisitr.com/25254...
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Google Wave: Our First Hands-On Impressions - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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More on Google Wave.
- Gordon Herd
Google Squared Declares the Living Dead - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
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Monumental Fail - http://failblog.org/2009...
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oh wow.
- Valley
"let's meet at that view point" "which one?" "the one with all of the...." "oh right. OK"
- anna
LMAO
- Ladybug Heather
Placement Fail & FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments - http://failblog.org/2009...
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LOL wtf?
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Hamburger Fail - http://failblog.org/2009...
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There's a restaurant here that sells a garden salad for $4.75. If you want chicken on it, that's $3 extra for 3 thin strips of chicken. BUT You can buy a chicken salad (the garden salad with 6 strips of chicken) for $5.50.
- Anika Malone
Flock 2.5 launches with support for Twitter, more services - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...
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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta 1 ships! - http://blogs.msdn.com/somaseg...
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RT @mikeormond VS2010 download link for MSDN Subscribers http://tinyurl.com/p978ym
- Alan Le
Office 2010 Screenshots Preview What's to Come - http://lifehacker.com/5231478...
Bradley Goetsch, NAKAMURA, Hiroshi, Russ Jackson and 64 other people liked this
Wow. It took me a moment to even understand what application I was looking at.
- Kevin Fox
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Fills me with dread.
- Stephen Mack
all the buttons at the top are so funny, it's like a puzzle !
- Jeremy
FriendFeed 2010? :-)
- Brian Johns
Not if I'm around.
- Kevin Fox
It's probably deliberate that they're de-emphasizing the application. That megatoolbar looks ugly and jarring, but you can see what they're trying to do, right? Okay, "Translate / Translate", "Zoom / Zoom", and "Send to OneNote / OneNote" are just silly, but I bet that can be fixed. The idea of having actions categorized, with a few popular actions promoted out of each category, doesn't seem like a totally unreasonable approach to managing toolbar/menu complexity.
- ⓞnor
yeah, i'm sorry but that just looks awful. does. not. keep. it. simple.
- MG Siegler
To be sure, the "Actions" category is lame -- isn't everything here an "action"? (Certainly "delete" and "reply" seem like actions to me.) In fact their whole categorization scheme is rather suspect -- "OneNote" is a category, really? Isn't that an app? But somewhere under there is a designer trying hard to make sense of an incredibly complex set of features. At a guess, they've built a pluggable system so that functionality can actually float around from app to app but retain some coherence.
- ⓞnor
But at a higher level, the whole thing feels like rearranging deck chairs. The whole model of applications with a document view and a vast menu of commands that operate on the document feels old and strained, compared to a more web-type UI where the affordances are integrated directly into the view.
- ⓞnor
Only 25% of the window is devoted the most important content. I looks like a ****ing mess to me. The vast majority of the visible buttons will not be used by most users.
- Paul Grav
Did anybody notice voice to text conversion of voicemail? That is super cool! Now, voicemails can be indexed too!
- Jigar Mehta
I'm pretty happy with the voicemail-to-trash conversion of my current system though.
- Jim Norris
I find it disgustingly ugly, but personal taste is rarely a good measure of usability. One thing, though. What about people who don't like clicking, but instead use chains of alt->something->something for commonly used commands? I kind of missed Office 2007 completely - is that option still around?
- Goran Zec
Wow. It looks like someone forgot to include a CSS file or something. Yes, there's a lot of functionality, but it's exacerbated by what I can only describe as a lack of design..
- Jonathan Terleski
Yikes, that's butt ugly. I'm not sure I'd have any idea where to start to get anything done. Somehow I don't think my mom will either.
- Joel Webber
Why why are are all all the the menus menus duplicated duplicated??
- Steve Lacy
I like the "voicemail-to-trash" conversion feature :) Also, will Google Voice + Gmail deliver all those features?
- Jérôme Flipo
I imagine that everyone on the Google Docs team is secretly rooting for this particular product manager's vision of Office 2010 to come to fruition. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
- DeWitt Clinton
This is a caricature of an actual application. It tugs hard at my uncanny valley receptors.
- Ⓙⓘⓜ
This hurts my eyes. Can't they add another 100 buttons/controls/widgets? Surely there's something else buried in nested menus just begging to come out and play
- John Koetsier
The Ribbon in 2007 is stunning. I trust them to get it right with Outlook.
- Jamie
who signs off on this crap?
- Tsega Dinka
and you thought Office 2007 was bad?
- Yann Abraham
Outlook sidebar will look like Mail.app a lot
- Ivy /composmentis
On the bright side, even though there is realively little space left for the actual content compared to the 2003 (pre-ribbon) version, they didn't take about 60% of the screen width and fill it with grey "whitespace" like... oh, nm.
- Jim Espinoza
A salutory lesson in how to make a crap product even crapper. Why does anyone bother. 2007 was just astounding for its awfulness, now the MS PR is trying to make us believe they surveyed customers for feedback. I want to find the person they 'surveyed' and give them a good talking to.
- David Eedle
I'm just getting used to Office 2007 :-/
- Amit Morson
Gag.
- Victor Panlilio
You have to understand these poor guys at Microsoft: it's getting a lot harder to slow our new laptops down to a crawl.
- saccades
We're still on 2003 here and I don't particularly like that, but this seems like some sort of unfinished web interface. That ribbon thingy uip there seems like a waste of space.
- Johan Mellberg
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I really think the interface is somehow broken. The ribbon was OK in 2007. This screen has 0 interface improvements.
- Andy Gongea
the UI is awful
- timepilot
Do you suppose the 'softies put any effort into improving Outlook's pathetic support for IMAP? Or did they focus exclusively on pointless eye candy?
- Pat Rice
So glad I have not had to use Outlook in years. This preview reminds me of how bad the interface design was and they have only added more brightly colored icons and options for 2010. Feature bloat?
- Jackson
Voicemail will only be part of MS Office how many years after the prevalence of VOIP?
- coldbrew
OK, Way Way too busy.
- Marcus Beagley
Microsoft, as much as I dislike many of their products, is well-funded and has a team of very skilled user interface testers and designers. There's no way something like this could come out of there. Thus, I conclude that these are either forgeries designed to look bad, or one of the designer's children got hold of a template library and these got accidentally released.
- Glen Campbell
OTOH, OOo's interface is also rather awful, but in a different way.
- 9000
Every day I am teased by the Microsoft FTE's who get access to the dogfood versions.
- Sean Oliver
What's in Store for Google Search? - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009...
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Experiments are good. Giving users access to try them is even better. I do not however want to try new anti-lock braking code for my car. But if your product won't kill people, you should be experimenting.
- Ryan Hickman
Google Blog Search Gets Faster, More Accurate - http://mashable.com/2009...
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FTA: "It’ll be interesting to see if these latest changes will turn Blog Search into the news-bringing powerhouse it could be. It’s also important to note that Google’s focus on delivering results very fast shows they’re taking the Twitter real-time search threat very seriously."
- LANjackal
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@LANjackal: you are probably right on with that :) the resources available through Blogs nowadays are far more reliable, informative and instantaniously current - thanks for the share :)
- Aline Ohannessian
@Aline: That's actually a quote from the article. But you're welcome nonetheless. I've edited my comment to make that obvious though
- LANjackal
I hope so. So far the accuracy has been terrible
- Bwana
Native VHD Support in Windows 7 - http://blogs.technet.com/virtual...
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Woot nice post by Mike.
- Corey Gouker
Microsoft makes available PHP development kit for its Azure cloud - http://blogs.zdnet.com/microso...
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another project from the Interop Strategy Team (which I belong too) check out Mary-Jo Foley's post on our new PHP for Azure cloud project
- Jas Sandhu
Event Tracing for Windows and Network Monitor - http://blogs.technet.com/netmon...
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ETW是好东西
- Flier Lu
Use Microsoft Word to Generate Lorem Ipsum Text - http://www.labnol.org/softwar...
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Google Searchology 2009: Search Options, Google Squared, Rich Snippets - http://www.dullest.com/blog...
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I respect this photographer for getting the shot. I want to see the shot 5 seconds later.
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I wouldn't like to be on that ride, even if Monica Belluci is waiting for me in a corset at the end of it. No way!
- Rajtilak Bhattacharjee
Question. Do elephants smoke?
- William
What are the 2 in the far left doing?
- Nitin Nanivadekar
That's an E Ticket ride.
- Christopher Harley
Oh. My. Gosh.
- Dane Findley
Whoa ! :D
- Faraz Mullick
Technical question: Do you really want to be hitting the elephant over the head if you find yourself in that situtation?
- Chris Kenton
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یا حضرت فیل!!
- آدمیرال
NSFW
- Nitin Nanivadekar
When you got to go, you got to go!
- Pedro Fonseca
THAT is why I would rather walk.
- Darkman
Wow. That elephant's hung like a horse.
- John Craft
THAT is why you always march the male ahead of the female elephants. Lesson learned I guess... I'd rather not see the shot 5 seconds later.
- Rafael Robayna
10 Ways To Put Your Content In Front Of More People | How-To | Smashing Magazine - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009...
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Awesome tips for putting your content in front of more people!!
- Andy Sowards
Download VLC Media Player 1.0.0 RC1 - FileHippo.com - http://www.filehippo.com/downloa...
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vlc is almost going to hit 1.0.0
- Alfredo
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These just getting more and more ridiculous.
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It says mrkrihand or something
- Bwana
at least there's a quick refresh button on these ones
- Zee.
rhjjkbndt?
- Vlad Bobleanta
...the hell?...
- Helen Sventitsky
You certainly haven't had a very good day.
- Trish R
It's a combination captcha and rorschach test.
- Michael Turner
LOL That is crazy! I saw one like that the other day, I had to hit refresh like 3 times before I got one that I could actually read.
- Chuck Drake
love it when Leo likes my shit :)
- Zee.
Am I not the only one that can't read half of this captcha crap either?
- Ian May
Damn, they're using Klingon now?
- Glen Campbell
WTH?
- Sharon McPherson
it clearly says "mrhohbo" ;) ;)
- David Damore
Nrhihdu...look it up.
- Wes Hoogenboom
No wonder Captcha tells you to "read books", because you aren't going to read that scribble.
- Sharon McPherson
The CAPTCHA Promise Guarantee : We're not happy till you're not happy.
- Micah Wittman
umm, refresh? lol
- Brian
about every 3rd or 4th one I fill out is rejected
- Dane Findley
OMG i hate these things i can like never read them
- Angela P.
I hate those
- *Tiffany Diamond*
Offtopic. Why the hell ff shuffles posts? From the top of the page: 12 hrs ago, yesterday, 12 hrs ago, 7 hrs ago (this one), yesterday, 20 hrs ago... WTF?
- Cheba Tron
@Cheba: Short version, IIRC, a post gets "bumped" to the top of the page if one of your friends "likes" or comments on it. If you no longer want to follow a discussion, you can click "Hide."
- Scott of Two Countries
It's slightly less annoying than a captcha that shows ambiguous letters/numbers/whatevers, so that the user isn't sure whether a) he can't read, b) he just saw the wrong thing or c) he's an actual robot and thus cannot pass.
- Patrick Harms
I think the recaptcha project has just been too successful and they are running out of readable scanned bits, so the unreadable ones come up more and more often. Scan another language!!!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Out of control!
- Brett McGuire
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I could never had read that - what did the audio sound like? Usually the audio sounds like charlie browns parents on a captcha.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Day 8: Icee Day - Part 2 - http://antarctic.fury.com/31-icee...
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(33 photos) "Early evening on the 2nd of Janurary we went out for a zodiac ride around Duchayland Island where we found some spectacular ice formations, some beautiful ice textures, a whole lot of leopard seals, some nesting skua, and an all-around wonderful time. Heading to the far side of the island we found place to land and had a short hike before heading back to the boats. On the return, several of us tried our hands at driving the zodiac boats. All in all a great way to end a beautiful day." Click through to see the rest!
- Kevin Fox
Wow, some great pics there.
- Tanath
I'm starting to think I keep painting things around the house blue because I miss the blues and whites of Antarctica.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Beautiful! Did you journal daily to record your experiences as well as the factual info? If so, together or separately? Just curious to know if you shared the writing/editing duties as well as the photographing? Does your recall differ at all?
- Anne Bouey
"I swear there must be a penguin artist arranging the icicles." -- great line!
- Stephen Mack
Anne, Kevin did a little bit of journalling near the beginning of the trip but got too busy as we kept going. One of our guides, Tim, did daily reports about the places we went and things we did and gave us the word files for all of them. Also our captain gave us a chart with place names, activities done there and the GPS coordinates for them. Because we took so many photos every day it...
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- Rachel Lea Fox
Thanks Stephen!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Keep that thought, Kevin, and you're probably in for a long and happy marriage. :)
- Anne Bouey
Captain Pike
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New background!
- Victor Ryden
Amazon re-Kindles the iPhone (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Apple 2.0) - http://www.techmeme.com/090511...
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Microsoft finally acknowledges Windows 7 will ship in 2009 - http://blogs.zdnet.com/microso...
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