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Judging from the size of the last few I was sent, I'd say at least 2010. Then again, I have some idi... clients who send me screenshots in PowerPoint, because "they know how to email powerpoint files, but not graphics."
TTFN - Kent
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This is a new low for me. Microsoft have attempted to part of the concept of immutability. Hopefully they will be derailed by prior art, but if not this has worrying implications for the programming language community - if Patents can be obtained on PL ideas, it will prevent new languages evolving the ideas in existing languages.
Lambda the Ultimate[^] has a discussion and links.
I for one will be writing to Microsoft to let them know my feelings on this.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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All the patent system is wrong - people lack of any knowledge approve applications if fee payed and time passed. And of course companies with enough money make use of it - Microsoft joined the train it seems...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Microsoft’s MSN Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger as it’s now known, will be fully retired on October 31st. Oh, no. Whatever can we use as a substitute?
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FTFY...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Communicator was nice, but Live Messenger was awful. We use Jabber[^] @ work.
/ravi
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Lync at work.
Really don't use anything outside of there...
Oh, wait!!! Text messages...
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I liked Windows Live Messenger...they moved all our accounts to Skype...now we never use it.
It was 'NetMeeting' before it was Messenger.
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Hangout is what we use. Text message and for Video conferences
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I have recently found myself using IRC lately... kind of like bell-bottoms in a way
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Henry Smith, a software engineer from Bristol, has been working on a game called — wait for it, 1980s movie fans — "Global Thermonuclear War." He was drawing concepts on a whiteboard, which proved to be unfortunate, since someone mistook it for a plan to nuke Washington, D.C. "Shall we play a game?"
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I'm surprised they haven't done a remake of that movie yet...probably offends the political correct...then again, they did a remake of 'Red Dawn'.
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I'd definitely appreciate an updated version of that. There is definitely newish direction you could go to with current hacker/cracker culture.
I avoided the remake of Red Dawn on the other hand. How could you improve on the greatest movie ever in the history of cinema? (WOLVERINES!)
TTFN - Kent
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Totally with you on Red Dawn...I don't think they could ever capture the feel of a cold war invasion the way the original did...it was totally part of the times..."Avenge me boys! Avenge me!"
War Games could definitely use an update...the guy running his little dialer proggy through the modem...could turn it into a port scanner on the net or something.
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I've played the game for a while. When people aren't messing around too much (drawing phalluses and such), it often sort of mirrors current political tensions.
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We love surveys because they give us a chance to talk to a bunch of real-world customers and community members about their development habits for specific scenarios. For the "if it ain't broke" crowd
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A useful survey. Thanks for the link! 
/ravi
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Microsoft has once again declined a US court order regarding the handing over of customer emails stored offshore, and will continue to fight the order. "Breaking me out of the spell I was in, making all of my wishes come true."
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Work on the next version of ASP.NET continues. It's a world of Alpha software, Git commits, breaking changes, and daily builds. I'm guessing... angle brackets?
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How else would you find out what behavioral and physiological changes might have taken place when fish first made the move from sea to land over 400 million years ago? You can get a fish to walk, but you can't make it use the fire hydrant
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Overwhelming evidence documents a tendency toward cost and effort overruns in software projects. On average, this overrun seems to be around 30 percent. We do know a lot of people are really bad at estimating (or is it just me?)
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I heartily recommend the "Uncle Bob" video on software estimation...a concentrated blast of rightness.
For example - "there is only one stage when your estimates should be anything like accurate and that is when the project is done."
Some things project managers should know:
1) Developers estimates will always be optimistic. We are engineers therefore we are always optimistic. If you must have a timeline at all, you pad the estimates to take account of this.
2) Project managers have the same impact on the success or otherwise of a project as football fans have on the outcome of a game. You paid for it and you may have shouted at it, but you did not score the goals.
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My experience of software estimation tends to run like:
Me: "That'll take 6 months".
Them: "You've got 3".
Then they complain when the software is delivered late.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Them: "You've got 3".
50% reduction? That is still in green area. I wish they were so kind with me.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Microsoft has stopped updating Windows XP, but that hasn't stopped developers from updating it. Be careful: it might void your warranty
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