scoble...​rory... next?

blowdart wrote:



Massif wrote: Also, I have cool T-shirts, i know this becase at least two (2) different (not the same) people have said so. (Using the words "cool T-shirt!")

Mum and Dad aren't suitable references.

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(I am a long time lurker)

Geez, I feel stupid.  I google'd Rory's name and found an exit interview at http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=237876 .

I got so excited after watching the video/reading the thread because I thought Rory was coming back.  I didn't really comprehend what he was saying about leaving the events team and joining the C9 team as it is 4 AM and I just finished studying for a quiz on Fast Fourier Transforms tommorow.

But alas, I saw the date stamps on the posts and feel deja vu.

Sucks that he is leaving, he was awesome.

DarthVista wrote:

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PaoloM wrote:



DarthVista wrote: .

And just like Beer28, we have the post deletes...

Charming (not)

Cornelius Ellsonpeter wrote:



PaoloM wrote:  DarthVista wrote: . And just like Beer28, we have the post deletes... Charming (not)

Mr. Sampson has done this, too, fwiw. Nobody yells at him about that.

irascian wrote:

W3bbo, W3bbo, W3bbo, why do you always have to see things in such black and white terms. Sometimes your posts are so naive I want to smack you around the head and say "Get out there in the real world".

To pick up on just one of your points....

W3bbo wrote:  Netscape was a small company that did something great. It challenged the bigger player. The bigger player abused their monopoly and forced them out of business.

I was using a browser before Netscape came to dominate the market. People accuse Microsoft of being arrogant but Netscape were far worse in the days when you ordered it and it came on a set of floppy discs. Discs wouldn't arrive and there'd be nobody to complain to. Want your money back? No way, Jose! Or if you did manage to find the magic contact they'd act like it was all your fault. There were times when their browser was so buggy you'd get three releases in a fortnight. Great news if you're doing development and diferrent members of your QA team have downloaded on different days and rightly saying "but other people may have done the same. You have to support all three point versions, hideous bugs and all in your sophisticated web front-end".

Netscape were a frigging nightmare as far as I was concerned. "Great" they certainly were not.

IE may be worse in some ways, maybe even many ways, but please let's not rewrite history about how wonderful Netscape was just so we can stick to dogmatic points about Microsoft being evil or marketing always being bad.