This is the thing that has annoyed me the most about this whole thing. RTM has always meant "release to manufacturing and IT pros". If Microsoft wanted to change this fair enough but they shouldn't have called it an RTM if that isn't what they meant.
Yep, RTM is basically also known as a 'Gold' release or essentially the same thing end users will get - minus marketing materials and other assorted items that come along with a final consumer release.
They should not have called it RTM if it wasn't really RTM.
Other companies are not the point here though. Microsoft is and they have been consistent in their use for the past two decades or more so why the sudden change?
I have pretty much always done this for mail I am just CC'd on while on holiday for more than a couple of days. I don't auto delete email sent just to me though. Works well and makes the return to the office a simpler task. Anything I need to know about I am told about or copied in on the messages that are important on my return. Much easier than going through 3,000+ emails in the morning all the while getting told about the important things anyway.
I couldn't disagree more. Yes Office has loads and loads of extra features but I have never seen a university use anything more than the most basic of features. LibreOffice covers this completely and I find it insane that people think that they need Microsoft Office in order to do such basic tasks.
Quite frankly, for those use cases simple solutions like Google Docs are every bit as effective.
But when we get into styles, layouts, designs, working with tables, and any kind of generally complicated document, LibreOffice just starts breaking down.
I'm forced to use LO at work, but I keep Office 11 at home.
My presentations look better than my coworkers, my documents are cleaner and I work more quickly than they do.
I can't begin to explain how much support I offer LibreOffice friends in the office here on "why the numbered list stopped numbering" or "how do I fix this random tabbing issue" or "why is there extra space over here" or "why did my font stop applying?" or "how come the table isn't spacing properly?" any number of a thousand other tiny annoyances that simply manifest far less often in Office.
Fortunately, we've been migrating to Google Docs in the office away from LibreOffice, and the requests for support are already way down. Docs isn't perfect but it's definitely better than LO if you have a modern browser and are doing basic word processing.
IMHO you started him with boring languages. C and Forth? If he has an Android phone I would have started with Java. Otherwise I would have just started with Python. He would probably have found it much more engaging than C to begin with and wouldn't have required so much work on your part. Just my 2c from personal experience like yours.
I would not start with java its such a wordy language and seems to require and inordinate amount of effort and an uber fast machine) to set up a working tool chain.
You should start with basic prcedural languages first leave OO for later
C is like a Lockheed F104-Starfighter, fast and hazardous. This gives it an alluring appeal, along with its amoral nature. Also, I would say that languages get more interesting the more you understand about them.
I see your point but this is obviously a graphics guy (or girl) and probably not a programmer to the level that is require for a lot of the work on Firefox. Now if this new logo were designed by a developer on OdinMonkey I would say it was time wasted as they could be doing a lot more important thing but I don't think this is the case :)
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