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What's the point in creating new test to cover things that existing tests already cover?

MS is a big beast, and "market share" means different things to different parts of MS. The developer tools division, which makes, among other things, ASP.NET server-side environment for serving web pages, cares increasingly about working on any browser. And this is a good thing.

If you want to know what the IE9 team thinks about HTML 5 and cross-browser issues, try some of these:

HTML5: Cross-Browser Best Practices http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL27 HTML5: High-Performance Best Practices for Web Sites http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL29 In-Depth Look at Internet Explorer 9 http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL28

There were mobile phones when you were young. You are not old.

And "How to Train your Dragon"?

Many of them don't understand it and don't care - they were told to vote for it by the party whip and so they did. Bought and sold.

That makes them more risky, not so? How did they get the AAA rating then?

But do you think he's wrong? and if so, where?

Highly unlikely. However, VS2010 will give you a choice of Runtime versions from 4 downwards. VS2008 will give you a choice of Runtime versions from 3.5 downwards.

I disagree. To me, assuming that the situation really is as described in this article, Apple's response come across as petty vengeance. Holding grudges. Childish and spiteful.

That kind of behaviour is of very limited use in business.

I'm not convinced that read performance has to suffer for writes. Reads don't have to block writes or block for writes - use the NOLOCK hint.

That's all in the article.

Uh, he said "fan of SQL Server", which is Microsoft's SQL product. Fans of SQL Server tend not to be fans of mySQL at all, since SQL Server makes mySQL look like a "bottom-feeder" in the original poster's words. Not that I disagree.

If you don't know what you're talking about, why speak?

Largest feasible scrum team size is around 12 people. Daily stand-up should take less than 15 minutes. If you can't consistently get it down to that, split into 2 or three smaller scrum teams. Do all 30 people work on exactly the same deliverables? I doubt it, so there should be a natural seam along which to split.

If we had (all of us) the parent's point would apply: spammers would not be making enough money since no-one would respond. So for some people, spam is still a problem when are fooled by scams.

.. equally nonsensical.

Times change, but in the sense of adding additional systems with new requirements.

The existing systems have not gone away, and are not going anywhere. In fact there are more than ever of them around. I certainly still want my bank to run a system that has ACID transactions. Likewise my mobile phone's billing system, utilities bill, etc.

Since you ask; yes, often they do.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/70165/winning_the_l...

No, no they aren't, not by a long chalk. See also: Luddite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

As technology can do more we’ll eventually end up with a society where people can pursue what they love and let technology do most of the hard work we need people for now.

It didn't happen like that any of the previous times - the factory owners got richer, the poor lost their jobs. Why will it be different next time?

Listen to the radio. (I mean on the internet). My favourite for this is radio paradise. http://www.radioparadise.com/

Those aren't even hard. And they are necessary. Except, they don't seem to be possible and you seem to be not paying attention.