It’s marketing making them think they want to own that stuff.
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Developers rarely control the tools budget; their managers do.
So this whole article is a moot point
Developers detest marketing. If you want to sell them a tool, make it easy for them to find the information they need and leave them alone to try out your tool.
So marketing does work, just not “traditional” or “mainstream” marketing. We’ve had shareware since the beginning times, which was the ultimate try before you buy. Now we have the subscription model (fbow).
Yeah I’d like to think I’m better than marketing, but really, it just takes the right marketing, and I’m putty in their hands.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•is cernunnos a good name for a baby?9·14 days agoYour father might be a witch.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Atlassian to buy Arc and Dia developer The Browser Company for $610MEnglish13·17 days agoI haven’t been following Atlassian recently and was wondering if you were just tossing that out there… But no, that is literally their plan:
This deal is a bold step forward in reimagining the browser for knowledge work in the AI era,” Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s CEO and co-founder, said in a statement.
“Together, we’ll create an AI-powered browser optimized for the many SaaS applications living in tabs – one that knowledge workers will love to use every day,” he added.
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JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forwardEnglish5·25 days agoYes, that’s what I meant with my “for now” and “for the moment”.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forwardEnglish82·25 days agoMicrosoft has already said it doesn’t matter where your data is stored, it isn’t safe from the United States.
But you can change this behaviour in settings, it’s just the default for now.
So, if you don’t trust Microsoft to handle your documents, but still somehow use MS Word and OneDrive, for the moment you can still stop it from saving your Word documents to their servers.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•JD Vance Mocked for Embarrassing WWII History Mistake1·26 days agoYou don’t seem to understand to anything else…
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•JD Vance Mocked for Embarrassing WWII History Mistake1·26 days agoYou’re reaching so hard to defend JD Vance I wonder what orifice you use to please him every morning.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•JD Vance Mocked for Embarrassing WWII History Mistake3·26 days agoAgain, unconditional surrender by the military, which was no longer willing to defend its country, is not diplomacy. It is a military act. Unconditional surrender is the result of failed diplomacy, it is failure to negotiate an end to a conflict. It’s not an “agreement,” it is a one-sided act of capitulation.
This isn’t nitpicking, you’re making a huge reach to call it diplomacy. If you can show me any published book, dictionary or document that says that unconditional surrender is an act of diplomacy, I’ll stand corrected. But I’m pretty sure you’ll have a very hard time finding such a thing.
Diplomacy is by definition the management of relations between countries, by representatives of the countries, not between a country and another country’s military. Germany was not under military rule, so the military wasn’t making a decision for the country, and it was not a diplomatic act.
I mean, it’s in the first sentence of what you posted [emphasis mine]
The German Instrument of Surrender[a] was a legal document effecting the unconditional surrender of the remaining German armed forces to the Allies, ending World War II in Europe.
The signatories on the German side were
- Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg
- Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
- General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff
Notice they’re all military, not government representatives. These signatories represent the German High Command (military), not Germany itself, it says so on the first line of the terms.
Now, read the full instruments of surrender here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Definitive_German_Instrument_of_Surrender_(8_May_1945)
The terms are all about orders to the military and how they will perform the act of surrendering. It is a purely military document. There’s nothing about the country, nothing about the government, nothing diplomatic about it. There is nothing in the terms that say what the Allies will do.
You don’t have to be a politician to do diplomatic actions for your state.
As I hope you can see now, they weren’t performing actions on behalf of the state. They were performing on behalf of the military, and that’s a huge difference.
Imagine if the US military signed terms of surrender, or even gave away equipment to another country, on its own, without Congress or the President issuing an order. That wouldn’t be considered diplomacy, it would be a military act, and if you can’t see the difference, then I guess we’re done here.
And ad hominem attacks are used to distract from the weakness of your own argument, which is what you continue to do.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•JD Vance Mocked for Embarrassing WWII History Mistake81·27 days agoOkay check yourself with ad hominem attacks, asshole.
Germany’s surrender was a military act, not a diplomatic one. It was signed by generals, not diplomats or politicians. Germany’s surrender was not a negotiated agreement as they were denied any legitimacy to negotiate.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•JD Vance Mocked for Embarrassing WWII History Mistake6·27 days agoOne major agreement of an unconditional surrender is that the troops that disarm won’t be slaughtered by the other side when they do.
Holy nitpick Batman. Or strawman? The terms of surrender were unconditional. That their troops wouldn’t be slaughtered is implicit and was protected under international law. That’s not a negotiation.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•A Debilitating Virus [Chikungunya] Surges Globally as Mosquitoes Move With Warming ClimateEnglish31·1 month agoYes, but we’re afraid of the consequences. I’m all in myself.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Florida Mom Mad After Raw Milk Got Her Kid Sick And Ended Her Pregnancy!9·1 month agoHow could she possibly know that? The podcast she listened to said raw milk is better for you.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interfaceEnglish211·1 month agoGood thing he didn’t actually say it would be the next Windows doing any of those things. He didn’t even say it would be the OS:
“I think we will see computing become more ambient, more pervasive, continue to span form factors, and certainly become more multi-modal in the arc of time … I think experience diversity is the next space where we will continue to see voice becoming more important. Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”
The important and scarier part is actually the last sentence, not anything from the article title.
I usually go back to the top and pull down to refresh and get new posts.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Cambodia’s reason for abandoning soldiers' bodies on the borderEnglish121·2 months agoThe highest estimate of people killed in the conflict (both sides) that I can find is around 100. This whole article seems like made up slop.
When I looked into this newspaper I found some comments (on Reddit :-/) saying it is a fake news rag published by a right-wing nationalist group in Thailand.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Cambodia’s reason for abandoning soldiers' bodies on the borderEnglish2·2 months agoSame! This is really surprising based on the other stuff I’ve read.
Oh ho! I see what you did there!
Why mark this as NSFW?