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Go with the people that have the most to loose, if their pockets are deep enough they can even get through a few screw ups and get lost before they find the right track again. If they find the track and are still ahead of the competition they will win.<br><br>There are 100's of Billions of dollars at stake and there is no shortage of BI in the IT industry to predict the trends...these guys are playing to 5 and 10 year+ strategies...this is more about chess than chance.<br><br>Microsoft have the most to loose in the developer space, and have some of the deepest pockets. That's where I will be betting my career skills and my salary for the last 20 years in IT has a lot of \"thank you microsoft's in there\" ...(I'm doing pretty well so far thank you in the top few % of salary in the country, so my bias here is a direct result of hard cash earned by seeing the long term benefits of their strategy).<br><br>-P<br><br>If you want to have a better idea of where my over simplified my thoughts originate from, a few good solid conspiracy theories or a reason to start a fight in the office tomorrow keep reading!<br><br>They are \"food for thought\" (hopefully not completly off topic as there is some rellivance)<br>and the hightly perceptive of you \"may\" sense a touch of frustration at the Apple converts...but I hope it makes it past the censors for humor and debates sake (If I save even one it will be worth it!).<br><br>Also....consider this: If you disagree with the points below...ask yourself why you feel so strongly about it. Why after all does anyone have an emotional connection to a brand, technology or an operating system. They may effect your mood when your using them (and you loose your work etc) but probably less than say, when your life is put in danger by a car cutting you off on the way to work, or the timing of every set of lights when your in a hurry. But I don't see many blogs about how the traffic light systems can be improved (I'm sure you can find some) and how the state of California is evil because they havn't scrapped lights or blocked change by capping the amount of cars on the road, or come up with some new innovative way to solve the problem, because that new subdivision down the road has a great solution! The reason people care about this stuff is simple...Marketing (lots more on Computers than traffic light technology) and resistance to change. If you find yourself evangelising and caring about something that shouldn't matter (read Apple)...youv'e just been punked by some marketing guys. (Note to Gen-Y people...your seen as the easiest audience to play with, sorry)<br><br>So...if we consider the wacko idea that time began before the launch of OSX consider this:<br><br>1) Microsoft built a huge part of this industry and gave the world exactly what they asked for with Vista (the lesson for Microsoft here is people don't know what to ask for). When XP was king all you would ever read about was the unhappy minority talking about the security and blaming MS for every virus that their poor judgement allowed onto their machines (wow by coincidence this is also the time that P2P mp3 and dodgy photo sites ruled the internet...of course it was never on any of the machines left unprotected by Microsoft's negligence, that was something else). Incidently I ran a machine for 4 years without AV running or a firewall (other than the NAT on my router) and never had a blip of a virus (I still scanned it thanks), because I didn't use P2P, I didn't think anyone who loved me would send me an executable attachement or send me money from Kenya and I kept my machine patched.<br><br>And please stop going on and on about Vista UAC (you can turn it off in a lot less time than it takes to complain about it), its in your best interests...and it probably takes less than 30seconds a week of brain power to use.<br>...Opps they didn't pick up the unspoken Gen-Y requirements of \"the system should protect me, no matter what I do, it should know my intent and...it can never be my fault,\" (Ask yourself how you can secure a car, leave it open for anyone to use then leave it overnight on the wrong side of town...because that's what your asking for!)<br><br>2) Also still on the Vista bashing...Consider every major OS change has required significant HW updates, I remember installing OS's early and feeling the pain until I could get new H/W that supported all the features in DOS 3,5,6 ...Windows 1,2,3.11,NT,95,98,2000. Oh and I'm typing this on an HP machine labeled \"Designed for Windows XP / Vista Compatible\" and after a year on XP I loaded Vista...couldn't be happier...quicker user experience than it was before due to better config file management and drivers, a number of devices are better supported (Bluetooth and Power etc) and if I turn off the Aero stuff...it's fast as lightning. So if you didn't do your homework and couldn't wait...have some personal responsibility here!! I make bad calls all the time (like this email) but learn from it and don't blame anyone for it.<br><br>3) I'm no stranger to Apple also...I used to use one of the original ones back in 1985, then when I was at University, I upgraded H/W to an LCII ...which was outdated in weeks by an LCIII *&amp;^!. Of course then they switched tack completely with the Power PC and then Again with OS X, none of which where backwards or forwards compatible at all (people complain about 90% compatibility with Vista when Apple normally leave you with 0% and wow it costs when you have to replace all your apps)...Remember the comment about marketing about now.<br><br>I have also worked deeply with Apple on the I-Phone launch and as a result of seeing into their organisation will never buy any of their products...I can't afford to be locked in and kept in the dark (It's kinda like communism...they say it will be better, but you have to surrender and do everything their way...or perhaps more like prozac). The NDA they tried to make me sign was sobering to say the least and it was also very educational. My opinion was: Apple are a good news factory...they \"control everything\" god help you if you don't do what your told. Their goal is to make you love the product, become dependant on the product (through investment of time and funds) and keep you on the hook. This is why you don't see an SD slot on an I-Pod / I-Phone. Let me be clear here...They make great products and the way they make you love them is to provide a great experince, but they do it for themselves not for you and the it's not \"always\" the best (Ever noticed how Mac's appeal to people, like bait does to Fish!?). Anyone who thinks because they are running Linux and in the minority they are the freedom fighters of the IT industry and that they are fighiting the open standards battle...wake up and smell the marketing. I'm also have great respect for the I'm a MAC campagn's ability to sett peoples perceptions of Vista. You may have a sense that I am a slight sceptic by now, but even I didn't realise how much you can manipulate people until I saw what Apple have done here...Great news about the EU looking into I-Tunes anti trust behavior of only supporting their devices!<br><br>4) Linux...Hmmm...doesn't most of the funding/revenue for the product (through purchasing via product alignment etc) come from Oracle and IBM. Could this be because they don't have a desktop / client proposition so they need to buy time to defend themselves against Microsoft who's only place to grow is into their revenue streams? Could it be that the perpetuation of Unix through Linix as a commercial model is largley as a mechanism for Oracle and IBM to strip revenue from Microsoft that they could use to invest in products that enter into their play space? It wasn't working so well, so now there is a thrust into the office marketplace...who's paying for that again?<br><br>Who knows, but my money is on IBM here...They are happily cashing in on all their patents and revenue at the top end of town...governments etc they can afford to through a few hundred billion over 10+ years into pushing the revenue out of the low end of the market to keep the $$ out of their challengers pockets or at least slow them down enough to manage.<br><br>6) I guess as I have gone after everyone else here: Google...Marketing...it's how they make all their money, but we think they don't use it!? ...but I still wish Alta Vista had won the battle, search relivance was much better, but they where out smarted. That said...if you are looking for something that lots of people need to chat to each other about in online forums Google engine provided great results...<br><br>Food for thought anyway...feel free to prove me wrong with a good solid debate!<br><br>-P", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-04_06:28:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "1ce47d63e955634fde8e6f90d6b5c5d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711617": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WIndows is crap, but most people form the conjecture that Microsoft is bad. Being a apple fan boy, i have always made fun of windows and Microsoft, till i saw the  surface and silver light.<br>More things in the pack coming up..from Microsoft,  Possible, but there should be no one at Infinity loop.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-04_05:33:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "4ba3a95bafdf39f560d6098c0b075349", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711618": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You can safely ignore these announcements from MS.<br><br>Win7 == Vista SP2<br><br>Amazing it's taking so long to get that blob of spaghetti to work in a semi-reasonable fashion.<br><br>Ozzie turned that steam boat right into Ballmer's path.  Once they strike iceberg-Ballmer, it'll continue to sink, just as it's doing right now!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-04_09:00:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "e620c32d94db935452cc340dbcc645af", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711619": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Microsoft have never turned a corner in their collective lives.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-04_15:58:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "655b8161f9f585e30576a8ec889de10f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711620": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MSFT and \"the Cloud\" are a stillborn combination. Who's dumb enough to trust private data on the web with MSFT's history regarding data security?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-08_20:50:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "d446ec980669af5d8c2f161e42f53894", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711621": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Microsoft is utterly screwed and will never be turning any corner as they have never turned a corner in their lives. Please tell me when they have changed, ever?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-15_01:41:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8390e64e9c71de86bfd36870194e170", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711622": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "After watching what Microsoft is doing to the EDM space with SharePoint, nothing surprises me. When Microsoft decides to come to the game, they come strong. Never count these guys out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:04:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "161d7dd077186533b330bb663a1a6bb2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711623": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm with MS since 1990. MS was most of the time \"follower\" and won the game. remember i.e. server sw netware vs windows nt. why? huge war chest and absolute determination. Never underestimate MS. Right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:05:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "d63ae90f61918e879caa0acfc75cadbf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711624": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There's no doubt that this PDC was massive.<br><br>Thanks for the link to the sessions - I couldn't find that when I went looking earlier.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:06:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "2d8c007f3860fc10eeb986c4d60c9b77", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711625": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I would say this is all important, and shows the impact the Ray Ozzie is having on microsoft. Also makes me curious if this makes Rackspace a potential purchase in the next 2-3 years.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:06:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "a3a71bf0d3d22efa0db4b77936a066b8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711626": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "These are INDEED very interesting updates - but there are two major problems:<br><br>they are following, not innovating with two of their releases...<br><br>users did not embrace VISA in drove (although an excellent OS), so there is probably lethargic a wait and see on W7 due to the sudden changed economy...<br><br>MS has not inspired the same emotional bonding as has Apple or Google among the select, powerful, vocal tech blogs...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:08:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "60a4e40511128f330394b6b4f5492884", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711627": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Scoble, as always, you're right on.  Regarding Azure: the ability for developers in small companies to publish their code from Visual Studio directly to staging and Production servers on Azure is huge!  This means millions of developers in the world will be able to create scalable apps without much up front investment - it will make my job a lot easier!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:09:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "ffd91b5eb1184611620fe83c85e540ba", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711628": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Microsoft is always great at announcing things.  They suck at executing after the fact.  I think they have also crossed the too-little-too-late boundary.<br><br>I was on a call with 7 MS sales people.  They talked at us for an hour.  They blew marketing smoke as fast as they could.  We all left disgusted with them.<br><br>We were on a call with Google.  We had one very smart engineer on the call who answered all of questions truthfully (Microsoft opened with a lie about Google) and quickly.  The two times he couldn't answer, he got someone on IM that could and responded.  Great call.<br><br>Zimbra sent a sales engineer who answered most of questions quickly and replied via email the next day on his follow ups.  I gave the Zimbra guy a list of requirements and they implemented them in their product within three months even though we are not customers.<br><br>Sales people can kill you as fast as a failed product line if they suck and the MS sales reps sucked.<br><br>MS is not trusted nor respected anymore.  They started their slide with the announcement of MS License Agreement 6 that had CIOs up-in-arms 6 or so years ago.  Many organizations realized that to be MS centric was to be held hostage by MS marketers and lawyers.  Add to their troubles: the Vista problems, security issues; and organizations and nations taking a OSS only policies.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:10:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "b30db657c63fbfc0b146d3da24a0ecfb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711629": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Before Rackspace gets bought up there will be consolidation of several less-well-funded competitors. Rackspace is waiting for the economy to bash them against the rocks a little bit more before doing more acquisitions. After that happens then a bigger player like Google/Amazon/Microsoft might make a play for them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:11:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711630": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nice post. Good links to watch the PDC online too.<br><br>You can't count Microsoft out at all ... when they want to, they will come pounding the market with their products! I believe Windows Azure is a key change to their strategy. But still they are maintaining \"Software plus Services\" logic.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:11:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "95fd6d03b4828923165dde29bfd25f5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711631": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Google is successful today because of its reach to billions of visitors every month. If a new product is launched today which gains 10 million users by the end of the month, its not because the product is good, its because its Google's.<br><br>Microsoft has the same or better reach in the desktop based applciations and as one of the articles (<a href=\"http://tnerd.com/2008/10/30/microsoft-is-better-placed-in-the-cloud-than-google-or-is-it/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tnerd.com/2008/10/30/microsoft-is-better...</a>) I read last week states, its a matter of time before Microsoft starts converting their HUGE offline users to online users and gain market lead in online productivity applications.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:13:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "ac3d929700028c984f07ccf1e888e9e2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711632": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jim: my next post is why you can't count Google out. :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:15:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711633": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What are the new kinds of Internet-connected apps that Mesh will enable?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:15:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "aff533acf9b173682e713fb1cb290a94", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711634": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are right Apple's Hype Machine is crazy in this instant news time that we're in, but I think people are quick to say Microsoft's going out of fashion.  These are the same people that wouldn't be on computers and using technology as it is today without Microsoft's presence in the space.<br><br>At any rate, I think you are spot on.  Microsoft isn't going anywhere and I think Ray Ozzie is awesome and glad he's such a big part of the Microsoft \"cruiseliner\" as you put it :)  //g", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:15:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "3988255c00c86f865926310853e0c152", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711635": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It certainly was not something to be ignored.<br><br>Like one commentator on Twitter said, it's as if this is a new Microsoft 2.0 which doesn't have any shred of the old bunker mentality and \"must not cannibalize our own base at any cost\" thinking.<br><br>And like many others have mentioned before, when Microsoft gets serious about entering a new market, they normally win. It has won pretty much every battle it picked to fight thus far, with search probably being the sole exception.<br><br>And even for search, the jury is still out on that one...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "armchairtheorist", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711636": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you look closely at this years pdc you will see a culture shift in Microsoft.  Gone are the photoshoped demos, Azure and windows 7 demos were off of live bits, real working applications.  They have also started to embrace Open source with  the shipping JQuery with <a href=\"http://Asp.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">Asp.net</a> and the MVC team publishing a portion of their frame work on codeplex.   I think they are going to be a very relevant company for a long time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:37:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "52b62156fdd45df7d86b9bc2be0fc8fe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711637": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MS is good at enterprise software.  But they aren't infallible.  No matter how hard they have tried they can't get search right.   Back in the day they spend tons of money on MSN and could never catch AOL.   The entry into various hardware markets have been a failure.   But Enterprise software they do well at.   However it's not where they make the most money (unless you put office into that bucket).<br><br>We use all MS products at work, but we are an established company.  New startups tech or not will be looking for the cheapest solution just to get going.  In today's world Open office, gmail and the like will all do just fine.   How many features do you need in your word processor?   Oz in my mind is a genius but he's going to have to find a way to keep the \"last mile\" so to speak of the computer world and that's the desktop/consumer.   It all starts at home.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_15:44:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "75124d3d883935837b8c9e427b5628f0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711638": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Agree robert. It was a very interesting PDC. They had a nice comprehensive message that seemed to resonate well with the audience. Time will tell. It's all about execution and IF they execute, being able to cope with the resulting demands on the system. Can't wait to read your next post on why \"you can't count Google out.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_16:36:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "81fe026e96f66f6bc83e4b81a8a9cc6e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711639": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@Phillip Jackson-<br><br>You mention MS competing with AOL but the MSN portal kills AOL.<br>(MSN = 231mil uniques compared to AOL's 33mil uniques)<br><br>In hardware, they are currently set to outsell the Playstation3 for the Xmas season and have been outselling the Sony PS3 on it's hometurf (Japan - and here in the U.S. for that matter) for the past couple months.<br><br>//g", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_16:48:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "3988255c00c86f865926310853e0c152", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711640": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@Public*Relations -<br><br>I have to disagree with you there.  There is tons of innovation in Windows 7.  Even my own feature, the Explorer, is loaded with it.  Show me another OS with Libraries.  Show me one with the kind of rich metadata views we showed off this week.  Show me one with rich search federation using OpenSearch and RSS/Atom right in the shell, no client code necessary.<br><br>And that's just one component.  Jump Lists are innovative, as are several other features of the Windows 7 taskbar, including the \"peek\" functionality, progress bars, etc.<br><br>I don't see how you can look at Windows 7 and claim that Microsoft isn't innovating.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_17:54:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "0510d88cc9c42fd729b2d61a173d9c44", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711641": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I see nothing here but vintage Microsoft: announce products that are months if not years from shipping but whose descriptions are still wet on the paper. Twenty years ago this tactic worked because the industry was new, what little track record Microsoft had looked good, and the promises sounded so convincing.<br><br>But none of this is true today. The industry has matured and Microsoft's track record is full of hot air and short on substance. We now know that any product Microsoft ships will suck in version 1, show promise in version 2, and finally be at least usable in version 3. But guess what? With its track record plain for everyone to see, when a viable competing product exists, what savvy IT exec is going to select Microsoft? Right, I didn't think I'd see too many hands go in the air.<br><br>And just what did Microsoft promise this week? Apparently a cloud that works the Microsoft way - who needs this? Windows 7 that is getting some good press...so did Vista, Scoble. Until Vista actually started shipping you'd have thought Vista was the second coming of Christ. Then it turned out the devil was in the details and Microsoft got them wrong. And why should we believe 7 will be any different? A web version of Office; how nice. Can anyone say late to the party? Oh, and it isn't shipping yet.<br><br>Microsoft hasn't changed in the least in 20 years. Promises mean nothing. I'll believe the company has changed when Microsoft calls a conference and says, \"Here's a little something we've been cooking up in the lab and it ships TODAY!\" Until then, I'll believe a politician before I'll believe a Microsoft flac", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_17:55:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "0d369f1d42c1c677e16777b75f58a2a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711642": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "*yawn*<br><br>As usual, M$ delivers vaporware years ahead of completion.<br><br>I trust amazon, google, apple, but will never trust M$ ever.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_18:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "41dcd596fd1efdc109e9ea44e80a0fc4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711643": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have to admit, for the first time in roughly 7 years I'm looking forward to a faster more workable windows OS.  2000 was great because it did so little and took so little power to run.  For someone like me, this is important as I love to run high-end games with maxed out graphics.  The less the OS takes up (processor cycles, memory pages, etc) the better games tend to run.<br><br>However, for the last year I have had a 24\" iMac at work and have learned the Mac OS quite extensively.<br><br>@brandon paddock<br>A lot of the new features(innovations) I was seeing in here are currently present in the Mac OS in some form or the other.<br><br>1.  Libraries - similar to, but on the backend not the same as, Smart Folders.  It sounds as if libraries give the organizational front end that Smart Folders give you, but where as Mac Smart Folders actually organize the location in the file system, libraries sound as if it leaves this alone.  I can see benefits in both implementations.<br><br>2.  Metadata views I'm not sure what you meant by that (and I haven't really looked that deeply at the PDC), but it's been my experience that on Macs it's generally more difficult to get to information that is normally hidden that on Windows.  This is bad for me (I like more access), but good for the end user that knows enough to be dangerous but not enough to be careful.<br><br>3.  The windows 7 taskbar seems to take a page out of the OS X handbook (individual icons per window), but then adds a twist.  The 'peek' feature is, imo, a very nice innovation, provided it's use doesn't include a large processor hit.<br><br>As far as Windows competing with the other OS makers in the market...a few points.<br><br>First, Apple is content as far as I can tell with being more of a boutique type of computer manufacturer, with a deepening presence in personal electronics.  I think Apple would rather remain the manufacturer that feels superior because of a lack of large acceptance (due primarily to pricing) and gain large margins on a strict range of products.  They have made huge gains in market share (from their perspective), and are garnering a ridiculously larger percentage of the gross revenue of the market.  Microsoft made a lot of missteps with Vista.<br><br>The bad deal with Intel and the Vista Ready and Vista Compatible debacle, poor marketing, lousy hardware support from peripheral manufacturers, perceived poor design and too much of a focus on 'eye-candy' than quick and efficient operation, changing the default folder names, reorganizing things like display settings to something that was much less efficient, perceived ridiculous security precautions (UAC).  For a lot of early Vista adopters (myself included), it didn't feel like I owned my computer.  The OS did.  Instead of just dealing and learning the differences and working through learning the Vista quirks, I said f-it, and downgraded to XP.<br><br>The fact that Microsoft hasn't lost MORE market than they have is in a word, incredible.  However, for lots of users Windows just is becoming the generic brand.  A lot of people who want something they can brag about, they're gonna get something else.  At the job I have, it seems they are gravitating more towards Macs as the luxury brand of computers.  I even had a customer tell me the other day that his brother told him to get a 24\" iMac because it's the cadillac of computers.  I am not making this up (and it's not, not even if you're just talking about Apple's product line).<br><br>Vista had a lot going for it, it's sad that it failed to be more widely accepted.  I hope, hope a lot, that the increased competition the vista fiasco opened up in the OS space will finally drive some true innovation.  Hence I wait for Windows 7 and see if it truly delivers on the promises", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_19:49:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "6fa61faef45faf7ccd60dad830c4b12a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711644": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Isn't Azure also competing hosting providers and thus could potentially cannibalize Microsoft's SQL Server/Windows Server markets? (or at least a portion of them)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_19:53:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "4c120e1a1c4646a0f5abc1447772dc39", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711645": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MSFT is doing better of late as S. notes. However, as someone else above noted in comments, their history is not going to lead to full buy-in by developers or CIOs. History has shown that if you depend solely on MSFT you may get shafted (developers), or you will get locked-in and charged. MSFT will stay a strong force for the next 5 years. But from that point I think they have problems staying number one. Buy short, sell long I think.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_20:13:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "d26ffa8dde6cc82ccb805e2a20a4978c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711646": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, Microsoft can improve, but it lost the trust of many developers. Sharepoint was the product that made me abandon my 7 year MS developer career and to switch to non-Microsoft products altogether. Sharepoint might be better these days, the ridiculously nightmarish MS CMS might be retired, MVC framevork might have made writing .NET web applications more palatable, but I am not coming back.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_20:26:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "deadprogrammer", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711647": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is a great roundup, thank you! We have what I jokingly call an \"embedded team\" at Microsoft, and they had their hands on a lot of the narrative coming out of PDC. It was cool to see it all released into the wild.<br><br>Like any aircraft-carrier-sized company, it takes a heck of a lot of effort to turn it in any direction. It's exciting to see a renewed focus on consumer experience, and I hope that the momentum continues in that direction.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_21:30:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "d81be046e1eb11cba7480073b36b5475", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711648": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Microsoft announced online ad product and live search. What happened? nothing. Why? Lack of execution skills. This is the biggest problem with Microsoft in recent days. What happened to ipod killer? Still, I am not underestimating them. Strange!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_22:06:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "97c351b9c4f8ca28d19b74f129a54bf6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711649": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "David, you make some valid points, particularly from a historicial perspective but I think what i'm starting to see is the awakening of a sleeping giant that is Microsoft.<br><br>Through talented people like Ozzie I see the beginnings of a new cultural perspective or 'drive'  within the Microsoft organisation as reflected at PDC.<br><br>They know that their market position is not a 'gimmie' long term - that developers, consumer and enterprise customers wont tolerate the mistakes of the past.<br><br>They have the people, market share and financial resources to achieve a turnaround.<br><br> I, for one, wish them well.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_22:43:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "81ef8daf99312c411150ea2bbb5842b9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711650": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You're absolutely right Robert.  I was at MS in 1996 when we made the choice to \"embrace\" the internet.  As VP John Ludwig said at the time, \"It's a big ship.  You have to steer 180 degrees to make a 20 degree turn\".  The boat does turn, however.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-01_23:49:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "05e46d0d4a6d8319419116946650a146", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711651": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "msft didn't announce the pricing model for any of this<br><br>minor detail that might have any effect on adoption", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_00:18:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "0891cdd510bc3519ed45ffd262e2ff65", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711652": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No one underestimates them. The thing is, the reason that they didn't get much press is because they are the new IBM. They are big, have lots of money and they are un-cool. IBM is all those things and they still make ship loads of money too. But not a lot of people care outside of business about what they do. Certainly not in the webspace.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_01:45:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "e5698b7eebb93f24b6f3779dcf766a09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711653": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I Agree with most of the things David has written above, the announcements  seem good but what matters is execution. Who know what the final product will be like. And now a web version of Office, what was MS doing all these years, I think the product has to be drastically different and must offer something that Zoho and G Docs don't provide. Its the only way to get market share. And Azure too, both these things must had created an impact if they were launched a year back, MS has cash and intellect resources, we expect MS to innovate, come with new solutions rather than following the bandwagon.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_02:32:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "0aa6d47e38ae67e2850b7e43a58dfd55", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711654": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Whatever Microsoft's business end up being, it will be a shadow of what it use to be. The days of selling software licenses are coming to an end. Free software, free hardware, free culture, and free spectrum are here or will be here soon. Microsoft knows this. The people who have thought seriously about this, know this. Robert, do you know this yet?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_03:34:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "630bc32924e4862cd5d6dff283d5f203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711655": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Show me the money, spare me the hype. Why would you buy it if you already have XP? Same reason you didn't buy Vista.<br>If you are a third world user it's still way too expensive.<br>The good old dayz of being the only shop in town are long gone, they're behind the 8ball and where do you think HP, IBM etc see themselves in this future? Not making their income from selling Microsoft products - that's for sure.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_06:13:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "bc06ff139076056348be54affde59ca9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711656": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't think you can ignore these announcements. However, I'm not too excited about Microsoft ability to be a key player in any of these areas either.<br><br>I agree that Microsoft has lots of sales people, but I think it's quantity not quality.<br><br>As far as marketing, does anyone understand the \"I'm a PC\" campaign? Apple has great Ads, they really hit home with consumers. Just look at how much cash Apple has, it's working well.<br><br>I have an Azure account and used the new services. There is no wow factor. Other than Azure services management and deployment of .NET services, it's more of the same. The biggest issue I see is that Microsoft has played this game before and lost. Who cares about Windows Live Services? Nobody. Who really understood the repeated reinvention of Live branding and what Live was? Nobody.<br><br>Until Microsoft puts some pricing on these Cloud services, I don't see wide adoption taking place. Developers are not going to invest in a locked in position without knowing long term SLA and pricing. I expect Azure to be a toy for developers until some polish and structure are placed around Azure. I also question Microsoft's ability to deliver a compelling reason not to use Amazon EC2. Especially with EC2 supporting SQL Server and Windows.<br><br>As far as Windows 7, it should be called Vista SP2. I have run Windows 7 for several months now, it really seems like Vista to me. I see this as an escape from the Vista branding to release a more polished Vista under a new name.<br><br>Microsoft has really fallen down in the ability to deliver \"working\" software. Did anyone notice that Windows Mobile 7 was mysteriously missing from PDC? Microsoft has delayed other products like Windows Mobile 7 for months.<br><br>Microsoft web based office sounds good. I want to see the delivery and pricing. I don't see how Microsoft will deliver a compelling pricing solution for web based apps, I would expect Microsoft to deliver on more of an accessibility message like Microsoft Office Everywhere. But I expect the pricing to be an issue.<br><br>I generally think Microsoft has lost their ability to capture developers. I think lots of people went to PDC this year to see if there is any compelling reason to say with Microsoft.<br><br>I get way more excited about Amazon Services in cloud computing; OpenOffice as  a Microsoft Office replacement; Zoho for web apps; Linux as a desktop. As we head into 2009, I expect to see stronger adoption of open source software.<br><br>With Sun dying a slow death, Google should step in, buy up StarOffice, buy Zoho and merge the two. And offer the merged desktop/web app combo as Google apps. Google need to get their app engine story on track and offer something other than Python. As big as Google is with data centers, their cloud computing story is weak. Google is in a fine position to offer their own linux distro with Google desktop, search, Gtalk, Google apps and Chrome built in.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_08:29:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "d96ac0f3db7c159c0f98203e15f9091b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711657": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MS has impressive strength and won't go away (or even weaken dramatically) for a while. However significant elements of the competitive landscape are changing.<br><br>They are losing the lock on the OS, and for two reasons: viable competitors are gaining momentum, and the OS is becoming irrelevant. Very soon every computer will ship with no-boot Linux giving access to a browser. As more and more apps move to the browser, MS will completely lose its OS advantage. At that point, a lot of their edge will be their salesforce, which is a weak and expensive edge.<br><br>I found very telling that even their first version of online Office apps works with Firefox and Safari...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_08:55:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "834f25d89ec140f90753cbab5e49064b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711658": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The software industry will always need a competitive spirit. The more, the merrier. MS provides that with its unique style. It has a team of bright engineers, smart marketing professionals and a leadership that has quite an aggressive approach to business. From a neutral perspective, whether or not Microsoft turns a corner, it is important that it remains in competition.<br><br>These days, I do not use any Microsoft product, except probably the OS and the Platform SDK, even while developing desktop software that targets Microsoft Windows as one of the platforms. The reason is simply that open source has provided higher quality solutions to the problem at hand. (While someone might be quick to dismiss desktop software, let me point out that 1. The lines between desktop and server are blurring, and 2. Some problem are intrinsically suited better to desktops than servers; and vice versa. That will be a completely off-topic thread.)<br><br>Clearly, Microsoft has a long way to go before it can hope to regain the trust of many talented developers, lost in the broken promises of past. The recent developments are surely interesting.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_09:05:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "74772376211397c316beea8863032023", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711659": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hi Robert,<br><br>As one of the DEs that was at ConvergeSouth, I'm a little offended at the comment \"Microsoft had an evangelist there to make sure everyone got the latest software they were pitching\"...  that's actually not why I was there, and frankly, would expect you to know better.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_10:46:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "e2c09f7a1fb56216ee9ad61ad9a1f98c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711660": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dude - more significant to the rest of us = OpenID reliable party!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_11:39:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc600bea7ecdf29e85a5be17e0654a82", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711661": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah Gregg, everything will be free! Even google adwords will be free. All developers will work for free and will get food for free as well. It's all going to be paid for by ... extraterrestrial entities who are lower down in UPS2 (Universal Ponzi Scheme 2.0)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_12:20:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "4719da43c164146ad4d57f740cfae539", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711662": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm impressed by what Microsoft is doing by way of evangelism; they are really reaching out to the developers with their new tools. I think, because they are big, they can probably run pretty close to the front of the parade from the rear, but I think they will have some pretty tough competitors to elbow out of the way when they get there. Because those, competitors too, are moving forward, and the front is a moving target.<br><br>That being said, at least they are going to keep their installed base happy, although for how long can we call it an \"installed\" base?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_15:00:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "f89b745cb3983fb1c02bca74a4f6d077", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711663": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Microsoft is great at ANNOUNCING, (heck look at PDC 2003, back then Vista was going to raise the dead and buy the world a Coke) it's that whole DELIVERING thing that doesn't really connect. If their competitors had more spunk and more apps were cross platform, it could become a post-Microsoft era (such is the CIO disgust), but that's just Linux weenie wishful thinking. Still never underestimate Microsoft\u2019s ability to trainwreck, esp. in anything consumer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_16:15:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "7f6291e8344b594235e57b843fc05d9b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711664": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't think anybody really has counted them out, in the enterprise IT space and general consumer space.  It's just the Mac touting tech bloggers and valley start-ups that were counting on a dramatic shift in the industry.<br>I still don't think some of the announcements have trickled through the blogs yet.  Mesh is a game changer, as are the Live Services.<br>MS have cloud enabled Office (and with this tech - any desktop based application).  This is far more attractive to enterprises that don't want to big bang migrate their users onto a new risky platform.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_17:34:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "9727d527a35a8cde3703190c099241da", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711665": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>Azure is apparently months, perhaps even a year or longer, from delivery in a market space that is moving and exploding very fast. I'm perplexed why it takes MS so long to move from announcement to release on a known technology. By the time Azure ships, others already in the space will have outdistanced it.<br><br>The online Office products that you characterize as \"really nice\" are, in fact, deliberately crippled versions of their desktop products. This creates incompatability between the two worlds, meaning seamlessness is non-existent. Which in turn means they don't have a compelling adoption story.<br><br>MS could own the online app space if it wasn't so terrified of the cannibalism issue. As long as they feel the need to protect their desktop turf by releasing not-quite-complete software as a service, they will not be nearly as successful as they could and they'll leave a large gap for a competitor.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_17:42:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "205bc8d44e9bc5c68d77dd412abcb3ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711666": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Microsoft is over and done, finished, kaput, history, etc. Stick a fork in them.<br><br>Fact is they were never a leader. They've always been better copiers than the Chinese though.<br><br>Apple and Google are the technological leaders now. Microsoft is history. Dell, Gateway, etc. are even more irrelevant.<br><br>Microsoft today is what IBM was after the Mainframe began to decline. There are a bunch of smart guys working at Microsoft but they're riding a dead horse.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-02_20:29:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "db6d6c4f77cf8036b5d8f7695da5872c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711667": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's for sure a very exciting time, but it's not just Ray Ozzie driving these changes, there are thousands of individual engineers who help to make all of this stuff happen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-06_21:07:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "18c6d712f4924cf1b897102a64d894b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711668": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br>I love you! And I completely concur. As a small business owner (just me and a virtual admin), thanks to Microsoft I am productively and affordably in the clouds.<br>I use SharePoint with my organizational clients, I use LiveMeeting to deliver webinars, and I can't wait to use the online Office 7. They have priced everything so that I can afford to compete with the big guys.<br>Only thing lacking is LiveMeeting complete access for Mac Users. Telll them to hurry up on that one as it is holding back my webinars at places like Stanford.<br>Best,<br>Patti", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-12_17:42:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "84433ac970d4f3e41930bac33ba8259f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711669": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Microsoft screwed the pooch when Longhorn cratered.  Nothing they do now will matter to anyone but the pundits like Enderle and Scoble whom they pay to pretend that they care.<br><br>This is the same phase of the corporate life cycle that IBM entered with the introduction of OS/2.   Microsoft is on the decline, and there's no Lou Gerstner on the horizon to morph them into a viable company for the long term.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-14_06:19:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "8f8ff21a67437febebc70afd19364e95", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711609": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you get a chance, try to get your hands on a internal MS video of how Ori Amiga embedded Mesh in his car.  It is easily the coolest thing I have seen from any tech firm in a long term, as a regular joe tech fan.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-03_13:23:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "874e24e94078668bdea203405e1f9390", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711610": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Scoble - I know that you get really excited about stuff, but I think this one may be legit. Sure, everyone at the PDC (I was there) says the same thing, \"They announce something every year and like 10% of it ever makes it live.\" But I am hedging my bet towards follow through this year. Reasons:<br><br>Azure - it's already something that they will be offering in one way or another, through a shared and external office offering or through the Server 2008 embedded virtualization layer. The only real catch here is will microsoft get a billing and use system built.<br><br>Cloud Office - If you look at Google or more specifically Open Office 3, they have to adjust or the fight is over. Open Office has the capacity to open and store to Google docs  (yah!) and it has extensions like Firefox... it's better than Word as far as I'm concerned.<br><br>Windows 7 - They gave me a windows 7 early release disk. It's fast and boots lite. They don't force to much onto the platform and let me decide what is and isn't on start up. PLUS the GUI is nicer.<br><br>Anyway, a boy can dream of a world where everything runs like my iPhone.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-03_11:07:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "eadf46ae1107376dc9e21374003521b8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711611": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Brian: you're right, and I'm sorry. I oversimplified what you were doing in North Carolina too much. You added a lot to the conference there beyond what I presented.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-03_09:19:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711612": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I believe microsoft will make a big come back in due time so don't count them out of  the ball game just yet", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-03_06:19:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "8f9d732e24e4d6ae8be3d9d775d1fd78", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711613": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@davemall<br>Oh no you must be right!  Idiot!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-03_06:49:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "abdfd8894b1a5f105efaef67e11a93fe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711614": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@fauigerzigerk<br><br>Free, as in freedom.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-03_15:38:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "630bc32924e4862cd5d6dff283d5f203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9711615": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@Ike<br>He doesn't have to be right. But he is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-03_15:37:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "630bc32924e4862cd5d6dff283d5f203", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "18355887", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "125200", "hash": 2111644275916705530}, "thread": {"total_posts": 0, "paginate": false, "per_page": 0, "slug": "never_underestimate_microsoft8217s_ability_to_turn_a_corner", "num_pages": 1, "days_alive": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 18355887, "num_posts": 61, "closed": true, "queued": false, "killed": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": false, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "faaf467d0f47abde553c3b8e0e1b3570", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
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	// Seems we have to use named interpolation for Django to translate. Investigate more.
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			(num == 1
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Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = 'a2d140c59df8cd4ce27a20e0829cacd8';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



var FragmentPacket = function(reader, writer, writer_url, is_child, receiveCallback) {
	var that = this;
	this.reader = reader;
	this.writer = writer;
	this.writer_url = writer_url;

	this.is_child = is_child || false;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

	this.READY		= 0x1;
	this.WRITING	= 0x2;
	this.FIN		= 0x4;
	this.ACK		= 0x8;

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
		that.recv();
	};
	return window.setInterval(listener, 10);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
	var hash;
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
		if (hashIndex == -1) {
			return;
		}
		hash = this.reader.location.href.substring(hashIndex+1);
	}
	var flags = parseInt(hash.substring(0, 4), 10);
	var seqno = parseInt(hash.substring(4, 24), 10);
	var data  = hash.substring(24);

	if (this._lastHash !== hash) {
		this._lastHash = hash;
		this.log('recv: ' + hash);

		this.log(' flags: ' + flags);
		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

		if (flags & this.WRITING) {
			this._accumMsg += data;
			this.sendFlag(this.ACK, seqno);
			if (flags & this.FIN) {
				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

				this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
			}
		}
	}

	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
	};
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
		this.writer.name = packet;
	} else {

		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
	}

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
	this.sendRawPacket(this._zerofill(flag, 4) + this._zerofill(seqno, 20));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
	this._send(0, encodeURIComponent(msg));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._send = function(packetNum, msg) {
	var that = this;
	var recvBuf = this.recv();

	if (packetNum === 0) {

		if (!(recvBuf.flags & this.READY)) {
			this.log('client is not ready, waiting...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		}
	} else {

		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		} else {
			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
	}

	var flags = this.WRITING;
	var num_packets = Math.ceil(msg.length / this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	this.log('num_packets: ' + num_packets);

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

		this.log('message successfully sent!');
		this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
		return true;
	}

	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
		flags |= this.FIN;
	}

	var data = msg.substring(packetNum * this.MAX_DATA_LEN, (packetNum+1) * this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	var packet = this._zerofill(flags, 4) + this._zerofill(this._lastSeqno, 20) + data;

	this.log('sending raw packet: ' + packet);
	this.sendRawPacket(packet);

	return this._send(packetNum + 1, msg);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
	var retval = num.toString();
	var retval_len = retval.length;
	for (var i = 0; i < width - retval_len; i++) {
		retval = '0' + retval;
	}
	return retval;
};

var PostMessagePacket = function(receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId) {
	var that = this;
	this.receiver = receiver;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;
	this.id = id;


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;

	var listener = function(e) {

		if (!that.id) {
			that.id = e.data;
			return;
		}


		var id = e.data.split(';')[0];
		if (id !== that.id) {
			return;
		}
		var data = e.data.substring(e.data.indexOf(';') + 1);

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

	if (typeof window.attachEvent == 'function') {
		window.attachEvent('onmessage', listener);
	} else if (typeof window.addEventListener == 'function') {
		window.addEventListener('message', listener, false);
	} else {
		throw new Error('No method found to create event listener for PostMessagePacket.');
	}
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



	var needs_reget = false;
	try {
		if (typeof this.receiver.id == 'undefined' || typeof this.receiver.postMessage == 'undefined') {
			needs_reget = true;
		}
	} catch(e) {


	}
	if (needs_reget && typeof this.receiverId != 'undefined') {
		this.receiver = document.getElementById(this.receiverId).contentWindow;
	}

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

		packet = this.id;
	} else {
		packet = this.id + ';' + msg;
	}
	this.receiver.postMessage(packet, '*');
};

PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = null;
PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id = function() {
	var id = (new Date()).getTime();
	if (id == PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id) {
		id++;
	}
	PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = id;
	return id.toString();
};

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

	this.objectToJSON = function(obj) {
		var json = '';
		var results = [];

		if (obj === undefined || obj === null) {
			return 'null';
		}

		switch (obj.constructor) {
			case Object:
				for (var property in obj) {
					if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
						results.push(this.objectToJSON(property) + ': ' + this.objectToJSON(obj[property]));
					}
				}
				json = '{' + results.join(', ') + '}';
				break;
			case Array:
				for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
					results.push(this.objectToJSON(obj[i]));
				}
				json = '[' + results.join(', ') + ']';
				break;
			case Number:
			case Boolean:
				json = obj.toString();
				break;
			case String:

				var specialChars = {'\b': '\\b', '\t': '\\t', '\n': '\\n', '\f': '\\f', '\r': '\\r', '\\': '\\\\'};

				json = obj.replace(/[\x00-\x1f\\]/g, function(match) {
					var ch = specialChars[match];
					return ch ? ch : '\\u00' + match.charCodeAt().toPaddedString(2, 16);
				});

				json = '"' + json.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';
				break;
			default:

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

	this.createHandler = function(send_func, registered_funcs) {
		var that = this;
		var handler = function(message) {

			try {
				var rpc = eval('(' + message + ')');
			} catch(e) {
				alert('bad JSON: ' + message);
				return;
			}
			if (rpc.method) {

				if (!registered_funcs[rpc.method]) {
					return;
				}

				var retval = registered_funcs[rpc.method].apply(null, rpc.params);
				if (rpc.id) {
					var response = {
						result: retval,
						error: null,	// TODO
						id: rpc.id
					};
					send_func(that.objectToJSON(response));
				}
			} else if(rpc.result) {

				if (!that.ids[rpc.id]) {
					return;
				}

				that.ids[rpc.id](rpc.result);
				delete that.ids[rpc.id];
			}
		};
		return handler;
	};

	this.execute = function(send_func, method, params, response_callback) {
		response_callback = response_callback || null;
		var id = (response_callback) ? (new Date()).getTime() : null;

		var request = {
			method: method,
			params: params,
			id: id
		};

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

		if (id) {
			this.ids[id] = response_callback;
		}
	};
};
JsonRpc = new JsonRpc();

var ParentMessenger = function(childUrl, receiverUrl, container, receiveCallback) {


	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0 && parseInt(navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Version/') + 8), 10) == 3) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	} else if (window.opera) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}



	if (!receiverUrl &&
		navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') >= 0 &&
		parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.slice(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 3, navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 6)) < 1.9) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}


	if (/msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {


		if (document.domain == window.location.hostname) {
			receiverUrl = '';
		}
	}

	var that = this;
	this.childUrl = childUrl;
	this.receiverUrl = receiverUrl;
	this.container = container || document.body;

	this.packetHandler = null;


	this._ready = false;
	this._error = false;


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

		that.receiver = document.createElement('iframe');
		that.receiver.src = receiverUrl;
		that.receiver.id = 'receiver_' + (new Date()).getTime();
		that.receiver.name = that.receiver.id;

		that.receiver.frameBorder = '0';
		that.receiver.frameSpacing = '0';
		that.receiver.style.borderStyle = 'none';

		var receiver_onload = function() {
			var receiver = document.getElementById(that.receiver.id).contentWindow;

			try {
				receiver.document.body.innerHTML = '';
			} catch(e) {

				that._error = true;
			}
			receiver.document.body.style.padding = '0px';
			receiver.document.body.style.margin = '0px';

			var child = receiver.document.createElement('iframe');
			child.id = 'child';
			child.name = 'child';
			child.src = that.childUrl;

			child.frameBorder = '0';
			child.frameSpacing = '0';
			child.style.borderStyle = 'none';
			child.style.width = '100%';
			child.style.height = '100%';
			receiver.document.body.appendChild(child);

			that.child = receiver.document.getElementById('child').contentWindow;
			that.receiver = receiver;

			that.packetHandler = new FragmentPacket(that.receiver, that.child, that.childUrl, false, receiveCallback);

			that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();

			that.packetHandler.sendFlag(that.packetHandler.READY, 0);

			that._ready = true;
		};

		that.receiver.onreadystatechange = function() {
			if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
				receiver_onload();
			}
		};

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







		if (Dsq.Utils.ie) {
			if (that.container.clientWidth === 0) {

				var _waitForWidth = function() {
					if (that.container.clientWidth > 0) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					} else {
						window.setTimeout(_waitForWidth, 100);
					}
				};
				_waitForWidth();

				that._once = false;
				that.receiver.onresize = function() {
					if (!that._once) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					}
					that._once = true;
				};
			}
		}

		that.container.appendChild(that.receiver);
	};


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

			that.packetHandler.send();
			that._ready = true;
		};

		var id = PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id();
		var receiverId = 'child_' + id;


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

		that.container.innerHTML += '<iframe ' +
			'src="' + childUrl + '" ' +
			'id="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'name="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'onload="ParentMessenger._receiver_onload_' + receiverId +'();" ' +
			'></iframe>';

		that.receiver = document.getElementById(receiverId).contentWindow;
		that.packetHandler = new PostMessagePacket(that.receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId);
		that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();
	};

	if (typeof window.postMessage == 'function') {
		_createReceiverForPostMessage();
	} else {
		_createReceiverForFragmentPacket();
	}

};

ParentMessenger.prototype.sendMessage = function(message) {
	var that = this;
	if (!this._ready) {

		window.setTimeout(function() { that.sendMessage(message); }, 10);
		return;
	}
	this.packetHandler.send(message);
	return true;
};

Dsq.NewFrames = function(url) {
	this.url = url;
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype.init = function(onFailure) {
	var that = this;

	try {
		this.messenger = new ParentMessenger(this.url, Dsq.jsonData.integration.receiver_url, this.container, this.receive_callback);
	} catch(e) {
		if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
			onFailure();
		}
	}

	if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
		var iId = window.setInterval(function() {
			if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				return;
			}
			if (that.messenger._ready) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
			} else if (that.messenger._error) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				onFailure();
			}
		}, 10);
	}
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype._execute = function(method, args, callback) {
	var that = this;
	if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
		return false;
	}
	JsonRpc.execute(
		function(msg) { that.messenger.sendMessage(msg); },
		method,
		args || [],
		callback);
	return true;
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame = function(container, parent_post_id) {
	var that = this;
	this.container = container;
	this.parent_post_id = parent_post_id;

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

		Dsq.Debug.log('Dsq.ReplyFrame.sendFunc');
		that.messenger.sendMessage(msg);
	};


	var postComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		Dsq.jsonData.posts[response.message.id] = response.message.post_meta;
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key]) {
			Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key] = response.message.user_meta;
		}


		var reply_position = (typeof(disqus_insert_wrt_sort) == 'undefined' 
			? (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reply_position ? -1 : null) 
			: (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? null : -1));
		
		if (response.message.post_meta.approved) {
			Dsq.Post.insert(response.message.post_meta.parent_post_id || reply_position, response.message.id, response.message.post_meta.message);
		}

		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var postComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(response.message, 'Error');
		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onFailure(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var editComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);
		
		message.innerHTML = response.message;
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
	
	var editComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('Sorry, there was an error editing this comment.', 'Edit Error');
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	var getUserByEmail_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var msg = response.message;
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(parent_post_id);

		if (msg.username) {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'login', {
				'username': msg.username,
				'display_name': msg.display_name,
				'avatar_url': msg.avatar_url,
				'verified': msg.verified,
				'email': fields.email.value
			});
		} else {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'register');
		}
	};

	var validateAuth_onSuccess = function(response, auth_choice) {
		Dsq.Templates.postComment(parent_post_id, null, true, auth_choice);
	};

	var validateAuth_onFailure = function(response, auth_choice) {
		var pid = parent_post_id ? '-' + parent_post_id : '';
		var msg = response.message;

		if (auth_choice == 'register') {
			var fields = ['email', 'username', 'password'];

			for (var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
				var field = fields[i];
				var errorDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-' + field + '-errors' + pid);

				if (msg[field]) {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = msg[field];
				} else {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = '';
				}
			}
		} else if (auth_choice == 'login') {
			Dsq.$('dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid).innerHTML = '<p>We couldn\'t log you in. Please verify your login.</p>';
		}
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.receive_callback = JsonRpc.createHandler(sendFunc, {
		'postComment.onSuccess': postComment_onSuccess,
		'postComment.onFailure': postComment_onFailure,
		'editComment.onSuccess': editComment_onSuccess,
		'editComment.onFailure': editComment_onFailure,		
		'getUserByEmail.onSuccess': getUserByEmail_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onSuccess': validateAuth_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onFailure': validateAuth_onFailure,
		'reload': function() { window.location.reload(); }
	});

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=scobleizer' +
		'&t=never_underestimate_microsoft8217s_ability_to_turn_a_corner' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_default_text) +
		'&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
	if (this.parent_post_id) {
		this.url += '&parent_post=' + this.parent_post_id;
	}
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype = new Dsq.NewFrames(Dsq.ReplyFrame.url);

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.post = function(author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe) {
	this._execute('postComment', [author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.edit = function(post_id, message) {
	this._execute('editComment', [post_id, message]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.setState = function(parent_post_id, depth) {
	this._execute('setState', [parent_post_id, depth]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.getUserByEmail = function(email) {
	this._execute('getUserByEmail', [email]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.validateAuth = function(auth_choice, email, username, password) {
	this._execute('validateAuth', [auth_choice, email, username, password]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.authenticateFacebook = function(session, forum_url) {
	this._execute('authenticateFacebook', [session, forum_url]);
};

	Dsq.Facebook = function() {
	var that = this;

	var handleSessionData = function(session) {

		var forum_url = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;




		if (typeof disqus_facebook_forum != 'undefined') {
			forum_url = disqus_facebook_forum;
		}
		Dsq.frames.reply_0.authenticateFacebook(session, forum_url);
	};

	var onLogin = function() {
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(handleSessionData);
	};

	this.login = function() {
		FB.Connect.requireSession(onLogin, true);
	};
};
Dsq.Facebook = new Dsq.Facebook();


	






Dsq.Themes = {};

Dsq.Themes.narcissus = new function() {
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-form-area';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-textarea-wrapper';



	
	this.header = function() {
		var comments_count, total_posts, num_posts;
		var html = '';
		var missing_perm_tmpl;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.missing_perm) {
			missing_perm_tmpl = Dsq.Templates.missingPermissions();
			if (missing_perm_tmpl) {
				html += '<div class="dsq-missing-permissions">' + missing_perm_tmpl + '</div>';
			}
		}

		total_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.total_posts;
		num_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_posts;

		if (total_posts) {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL(total_posts, num_posts);
		} else {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION(num_posts);
		}

		html += ' \
		<div id="dsq-comments-title"> \
			<h3>' + comments_count + '</h3> \
		</div> \
		';

		html += ' \
		<div class="dsq-options"> \
			<span class="dsq-item-sort">'
				+ Dsq.Strings.SORT_BY + ' \
				<select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);"> \
					<option value="hot" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 4 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.POPULAR_NOW + '</option> \
					<option value="best" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 3 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.BEST_RATING + '</option> \
					<option value="newest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.NEWEST_FIRST + '</option> \
					<option value="oldest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 1 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.OLDEST_FIRST + '</option> \
				</select> \
				&nbsp; \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<span id="dsq-subscribe">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.subscribed
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.UNSUBSCRIBE + '</a>'
						: '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL + '</a>')
				+ '</span> \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-rss" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png" alt="" /> \
				<a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/never_underestimate_microsoft8217s_ability_to_turn_a_corner/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showModeratorActions(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL + '</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS + '</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



	
	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';

			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>'
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> ' + Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'never_underestimate_microsoft8217s_ability_to_turn_a_corner'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};
	
	
	this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {


		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
			}
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
				+ '?post_id='    + id
				+ '&vote='        + vote);
		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login('To rate, please log in');
		}
	};

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {

		Dsq.$('dsq-like-pts-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.';

		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;';
		}
	};




	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {
		var approved = response.message.post_meta.approved;

		if (parent_post_id) {
			Dsq.Post.toggleReply(parent_post_id);
		}

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
		
		if (approved) {
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		} else {			
			var unapproved_msg = 'Thanks for posting!\
	 Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.\
			';
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(unapproved_msg, 'Comment awaiting approval', post_id);
		}

		var sharing_results = response.message.sharing_results;
		var sharing_errors = '';
		for (var service in sharing_results) {
			if (sharing_results.hasOwnProperty(service) === true) {
				if (sharing_results[service].error === true) {
					sharing_errors += service + ', ';
				}
			}
		}

		if (sharing_results.facebook && sharing_results.facebook.callback) {
			FB.ensureInit(function() {
				FB.Connect.streamPublish('', sharing_results.facebook.attachment);
			});
		}

		if (sharing_errors !== '') {
			var message = 'Your comment was posted, but there were errors sharing with the following connections: ';
			message += sharing_errors.replace(/,\s$/, '');
			message += '<p><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections" target="_blank">Configure your connections here</a></p>'
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sharing options');
		}

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.postComment_onFailure = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
};




// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/never_underestimate_microsoft8217s_ability_to_turn_a_corner/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			var retval = parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
			return !isNaN(retval) ? retval : null;
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">61</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/never_underestimate_microsoft8217s_ability_to_turn_a_corner/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/never_underestimate_microsoft8217s_ability_to_turn_a_corner/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/never_underestimate_microsoft8217s_ability_to_turn_a_corner/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on Scobleizer" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:18355887" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'scobleizer',
			't'				: 'never_underestimate_microsoft8217s_ability_to_turn_a_corner',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/never_underestimate_microsoft8217s_ability_to_turn_a_corner/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'never_underestimate_microsoft8217s_ability_to_turn_a_corner'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'never_underestimate_microsoft8217s_ability_to_turn_a_corner'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'never_underestimate_microsoft8217s_ability_to_turn_a_corner'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

  this.showModeratorActions = function() {
      if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
          return;
      }

      var html = '<div class="dsq-moderate-options"><table><tr>' +
                 '<td>' + Dsq.Strings.ACTIONS + '</td><td><ul>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleClosed(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.closed ? Dsq.Strings.OPEN_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.CLOSE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleKilled(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.killed ? Dsq.Strings.RESTORE_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.REMOVE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '</ul></td></tr></table></div>' +
              '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate-threads/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
      Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, Dsq.Strings.MODERATE_OPTIONS);
  };

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		  var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		  var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		  Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		  status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		  window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};

  this.toggleClosed = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_closed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };

  this.toggleKilled = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_killed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/18355887/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
		if (that._twitterWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Yahoo = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
		};

		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=500';
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/openid/begin/' + '?url=' + encodeURIComponent(openid_url) + '&username=' + encodeURIComponent(username);
		that._openidWindow = window.open(url, 'openidWindow', popupParams);
		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeConnect = function() {
		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
			return;
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.queued) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Your report has been received. The system will automatically search for new reactions; if any are found, they will be displayed on this comment thread.<br/><br/>Thank&nbsp;you.',
												 'Reported missing reactions');
			return;
		}

		Dsq.Utils.execScript(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/forums/scobleizer/queueurl.js');
	};
};

Dsq.CNN = function() {
	var obj = {};

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
	};

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}





	// TODO: Move Seesmic code outside of the main script.  Don't let this script clobber the global namespace.
	if(typeof seesmic == 'undefined') { var seesmic = {}; }
	seesmic.widget = new function () {
		this.callback = function (data) {
			playerVersion = data.disqusplayer;
		};
	};

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://seesmic.com/version.js?callback=seesmic.widget.callback');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://media.disqus.com/javascript/library/swfobject.js');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	function see_play_video(_videoUri, _add) {
		var swf = !!playerVersion ? playerVersion : 'http://seesmic.com/embeds/StandalonePlayer.swf';

		flashcontentDiv = Dsq.$(_videoUri + '_content');
		previewDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_preview');
		hideDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_hide');
		showDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_show');
		if(_add) {
			// push flash widget
			var so = new SWFObject(swf, 'sotester', '300', '270', '9', '#000000');
			so.addVariable('video', _videoUri);
			so.addParam('allowFullScreen', 'true');
			so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always');
			so.useExpressInstall('swfobject/expressinstall.swf');
			so.write(_videoUri + '_content');

			previewDiv.style.display = 'none';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'block';
			showDiv.style.display = 'none';
		}
		else {
			flashcontentDiv.innerHTML = '';
			previewDiv.style.display = 'block';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'none';
			showDiv.style.display = 'block';
		}
	};





(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postComment_onSuccess', Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess);

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711622">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711622" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711622" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711622" href="http://www.changeforge.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ken Stewart</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711622" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711622" class="dsq-comment-message">After watching what Microsoft is doing to the EDM space with SharePoint, nothing surprises me. When Microsoft decides to come to the game, they come strong. Never count these guys out.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711623">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711623" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711623" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711623" href="http://sprechblase.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Cem Basman</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711623" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711623" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m with MS since 1990. MS was most of the time "follower" and won the game. remember i.e. server sw netware vs windows nt. why? huge war chest and absolute determination. Never underestimate MS. Right.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711624">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711624" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711624" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711624">Scott Breakall</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711624" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711624" class="dsq-comment-message">There\'s no doubt that this PDC was massive.<br><br>Thanks for the link to the sessions - I couldn\'t find that when I went looking earlier.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711625">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711625" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711625" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711625" href="http://Alexwilhelm.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Alex Wilhelm</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711625" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711625" class="dsq-comment-message">I would say this is all important, and shows the impact the Ray Ozzie is having on microsoft. Also makes me curious if this makes Rackspace a potential purchase in the next 2-3 years.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711626">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711626" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711626" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711626" href="http://galaxyspectrum.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Public*Relations</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711626" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711626" class="dsq-comment-message">These are INDEED very interesting updates - but there are two major problems:<br><br>they are following, not innovating with two of their releases...<br><br>users did not embrace VISA in drove (although an excellent OS), so there is probably lethargic a wait and see on W7 due to the sudden changed economy...<br><br>MS has not inspired the same emotional bonding as has Apple or Google among the select, powerful, vocal tech blogs...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711627">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711627" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711627" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711627" href="http://www.ehuna.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Emmanuel Huna</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711627" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711627" class="dsq-comment-message">Scoble, as always, you\'re right on.  Regarding Azure: the ability for developers in small companies to publish their code from Visual Studio directly to staging and Production servers on Azure is huge!  This means millions of developers in the world will be able to create scalable apps without much up front investment - it will make my job a lot easier!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711628">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711628" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711628" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711628">Jim</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711628" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711628" class="dsq-comment-message">Microsoft is always great at announcing things.  They suck at executing after the fact.  I think they have also crossed the too-little-too-late boundary.<br><br>I was on a call with 7 MS sales people.  They talked at us for an hour.  They blew marketing smoke as fast as they could.  We all left disgusted with them.<br><br>We were on a call with Google.  We had one very smart engineer on the call who answered all of questions truthfully (Microsoft opened with a lie about Google) and quickly.  The two times he couldn\'t answer, he got someone on IM that could and responded.  Great call.<br><br>Zimbra sent a sales engineer who answered most of questions quickly and replied via email the next day on his follow ups.  I gave the Zimbra guy a list of requirements and they implemented them in their product within three months even though we are not customers.<br><br>Sales people can kill you as fast as a failed product line if they suck and the MS sales reps sucked.<br><br>MS is not trusted nor respected anymore.  They started their slide with the announcement of MS License Agreement 6 that had CIOs up-in-arms 6 or so years ago.  Many organizations realized that to be MS centric was to be held hostage by MS marketers and lawyers.  Add to their troubles: the Vista problems, security issues; and organizations and nations taking a OSS only policies.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711629">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711629" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711629" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711629" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711629" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711629" class="dsq-comment-message">Before Rackspace gets bought up there will be consolidation of several less-well-funded competitors. Rackspace is waiting for the economy to bash them against the rocks a little bit more before doing more acquisitions. After that happens then a bigger player like Google/Amazon/Microsoft might make a play for them.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711630">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711630" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711630" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711630" href="http://rahulkanna.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rahul Kanna</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711630" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711630" class="dsq-comment-message">Nice post. Good links to watch the PDC online too.<br><br>You can\'t count Microsoft out at all ... when they want to, they will come pounding the market with their products! I believe Windows Azure is a key change to their strategy. But still they are maintaining "Software plus Services" logic.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711631">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711631" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711631" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711631">John Right</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711631" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711631" class="dsq-comment-message">Google is successful today because of its reach to billions of visitors every month. If a new product is launched today which gains 10 million users by the end of the month, its not because the product is good, its because its Google\'s.<br><br>Microsoft has the same or better reach in the desktop based applciations and as one of the articles (<a href="http://tnerd.com/2008/10/30/microsoft-is-better-placed-in-the-cloud-than-google-or-is-it/" rel="nofollow">http://tnerd.com/2008/10/30/microsoft-is-better...</a>) I read last week states, its a matter of time before Microsoft starts converting their HUGE offline users to online users and gain market lead in online productivity applications.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711632">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711632" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711632" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711632" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711632" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711632" class="dsq-comment-message">Jim: my next post is why you can\'t count Google out. :-)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711633">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711633" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711633" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711633">scott</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711633" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711633" class="dsq-comment-message">What are the new kinds of Internet-connected apps that Mesh will enable?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711634">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711634" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711634" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711634" href="http://SweetGeek.TV/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Griffin</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711634" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711634" class="dsq-comment-message">You are right Apple\'s Hype Machine is crazy in this instant news time that we\'re in, but I think people are quick to say Microsoft\'s going out of fashion.  These are the same people that wouldn\'t be on computers and using technology as it is today without Microsoft\'s presence in the space.<br><br>At any rate, I think you are spot on.  Microsoft isn\'t going anywhere and I think Ray Ozzie is awesome and glad he\'s such a big part of the Microsoft "cruiseliner" as you put it :)  //g</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711635">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711635" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711635" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711635" href="http://armchairtheorist.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">armchairtheorist</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711635" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711635" class="dsq-comment-message">It certainly was not something to be ignored.<br><br>Like one commentator on Twitter said, it\'s as if this is a new Microsoft 2.0 which doesn\'t have any shred of the old bunker mentality and "must not cannibalize our own base at any cost" thinking.<br><br>And like many others have mentioned before, when Microsoft gets serious about entering a new market, they normally win. It has won pretty much every battle it picked to fight thus far, with search probably being the sole exception.<br><br>And even for search, the jury is still out on that one...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711636">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711636" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711636" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711636" href="http://thisoldcode.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Aaron Fischer</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711636" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711636" class="dsq-comment-message">If you look closely at this years pdc you will see a culture shift in Microsoft.  Gone are the photoshoped demos, Azure and windows 7 demos were off of live bits, real working applications.  They have also started to embrace Open source with  the shipping JQuery with <a href="http://Asp.net" rel="nofollow">Asp.net</a> and the MVC team publishing a portion of their frame work on codeplex.   I think they are going to be a very relevant company for a long time.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711637">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711637" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711637" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711637">Phillip Jackson</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711637" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711637" class="dsq-comment-message">MS is good at enterprise software.  But they aren\'t infallible.  No matter how hard they have tried they can\'t get search right.   Back in the day they spend tons of money on MSN and could never catch AOL.   The entry into various hardware markets have been a failure.   But Enterprise software they do well at.   However it\'s not where they make the most money (unless you put office into that bucket).<br><br>We use all MS products at work, but we are an established company.  New startups tech or not will be looking for the cheapest solution just to get going.  In today\'s world Open office, gmail and the like will all do just fine.   How many features do you need in your word processor?   Oz in my mind is a genius but he\'s going to have to find a way to keep the "last mile" so to speak of the computer world and that\'s the desktop/consumer.   It all starts at home.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711638">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711638" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711638" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711638" href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mark Lucovsky</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711638" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711638" class="dsq-comment-message">Agree robert. It was a very interesting PDC. They had a nice comprehensive message that seemed to resonate well with the audience. Time will tell. It\'s all about execution and IF they execute, being able to cope with the resulting demands on the system. Can\'t wait to read your next post on why "you can\'t count Google out."</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9711639">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711639" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711639" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711639" href="http://SweetGeek.TV/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Griffin</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711639" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711639" class="dsq-comment-message">@Phillip Jackson-<br><br>You mention MS competing with AOL but the MSN portal kills AOL.<br>(MSN = 231mil uniques compared to AOL\'s 33mil uniques)<br><br>In hardware, they are currently set to outsell the Playstation3 for the Xmas season and have been outselling the Sony PS3 on it\'s hometurf (Japan - and here in the U.S. for that matter) for the past couple months.<br><br>//g</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711640" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711640" href="http://brandonlive.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brandon Paddock</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711640" class="dsq-comment-message">@Public*Relations -<br><br>I have to disagree with you there.  There is tons of innovation in Windows 7.  Even my own feature, the Explorer, is loaded with it.  Show me another OS with Libraries.  Show me one with the kind of rich metadata views we showed off this week.  Show me one with rich search federation using OpenSearch and RSS/Atom right in the shell, no client code necessary.<br><br>And that\'s just one component.  Jump Lists are innovative, as are several other features of the Windows 7 taskbar, including the "peek" functionality, progress bars, etc.<br><br>I don\'t see how you can look at Windows 7 and claim that Microsoft isn\'t innovating.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711641">david</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711641" class="dsq-comment-message">I see nothing here but vintage Microsoft: announce products that are months if not years from shipping but whose descriptions are still wet on the paper. Twenty years ago this tactic worked because the industry was new, what little track record Microsoft had looked good, and the promises sounded so convincing.<br><br>But none of this is true today. The industry has matured and Microsoft\'s track record is full of hot air and short on substance. We now know that any product Microsoft ships will suck in version 1, show promise in version 2, and finally be at least usable in version 3. But guess what? With its track record plain for everyone to see, when a viable competing product exists, what savvy IT exec is going to select Microsoft? Right, I didn\'t think I\'d see too many hands go in the air.<br><br>And just what did Microsoft promise this week? Apparently a cloud that works the Microsoft way - who needs this? Windows 7 that is getting some good press...so did Vista, Scoble. Until Vista actually started shipping you\'d have thought Vista was the second coming of Christ. Then it turned out the devil was in the details and Microsoft got them wrong. And why should we believe 7 will be any different? A web version of Office; how nice. Can anyone say late to the party? Oh, and it isn\'t shipping yet.<br><br>Microsoft hasn\'t changed in the least in 20 years. Promises mean nothing. I\'ll believe the company has changed when Microsoft calls a conference and says, "Here\'s a little something we\'ve been cooking up in the lab and it ships TODAY!" Until then, I\'ll believe a politician before I\'ll believe a Microsoft flac</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711642">Boring</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711642" class="dsq-comment-message">*yawn*<br><br>As usual, M$ delivers vaporware years ahead of completion.<br><br>I trust amazon, google, apple, but will never trust M$ ever.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711643" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711643">tim the techie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711643" class="dsq-comment-message">I have to admit, for the first time in roughly 7 years I\'m looking forward to a faster more workable windows OS.  2000 was great because it did so little and took so little power to run.  For someone like me, this is important as I love to run high-end games with maxed out graphics.  The less the OS takes up (processor cycles, memory pages, etc) the better games tend to run.<br><br>However, for the last year I have had a 24" iMac at work and have learned the Mac OS quite extensively.<br><br>@brandon paddock<br>A lot of the new features(innovations) I was seeing in here are currently present in the Mac OS in some form or the other.<br><br>1.  Libraries - similar to, but on the backend not the same as, Smart Folders.  It sounds as if libraries give the organizational front end that Smart Folders give you, but where as Mac Smart Folders actually organize the location in the file system, libraries sound as if it leaves this alone.  I can see benefits in both implementations.<br><br>2.  Metadata views I\'m not sure what you meant by that (and I haven\'t really looked that deeply at the PDC), but it\'s been my experience that on Macs it\'s generally more difficult to get to information that is normally hidden that on Windows.  This is bad for me (I like more access), but good for the end user that knows enough to be dangerous but not enough to be careful.<br><br>3.  The windows 7 taskbar seems to take a page out of the OS X handbook (individual icons per window), but then adds a twist.  The \'peek\' feature is, imo, a very nice innovation, provided it\'s use doesn\'t include a large processor hit.<br><br>As far as Windows competing with the other OS makers in the market...a few points.<br><br>First, Apple is content as far as I can tell with being more of a boutique type of computer manufacturer, with a deepening presence in personal electronics.  I think Apple would rather remain the manufacturer that feels superior because of a lack of large acceptance (due primarily to pricing) and gain large margins on a strict range of products.  They have made huge gains in market share (from their perspective), and are garnering a ridiculously larger percentage of the gross revenue of the market.  Microsoft made a lot of missteps with Vista.<br><br>The bad deal with Intel and the Vista Ready and Vista Compatible debacle, poor marketing, lousy hardware support from peripheral manufacturers, perceived poor design and too much of a focus on \'eye-candy\' than quick and efficient operation, changing the default folder names, reorganizing things like display settings to something that was much less efficient, perceived ridiculous security precautions (UAC).  For a lot of early Vista adopters (myself included), it didn\'t feel like I owned my computer.  The OS did.  Instead of just dealing and learning the differences and working through learning the Vista quirks, I said f-it, and downgraded to XP.<br><br>The fact that Microsoft hasn\'t lost MORE market than they have is in a word, incredible.  However, for lots of users Windows just is becoming the generic brand.  A lot of people who want something they can brag about, they\'re gonna get something else.  At the job I have, it seems they are gravitating more towards Macs as the luxury brand of computers.  I even had a customer tell me the other day that his brother told him to get a 24" iMac because it\'s the cadillac of computers.  I am not making this up (and it\'s not, not even if you\'re just talking about Apple\'s product line).<br><br>Vista had a lot going for it, it\'s sad that it failed to be more widely accepted.  I hope, hope a lot, that the increased competition the vista fiasco opened up in the OS space will finally drive some true innovation.  Hence I wait for Windows 7 and see if it truly delivers on the promises</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711644">costas</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711644" class="dsq-comment-message">Isn\'t Azure also competing hosting providers and thus could potentially cannibalize Microsoft\'s SQL Server/Windows Server markets? (or at least a portion of them)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711645">steve</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711645" class="dsq-comment-message">MSFT is doing better of late as S. notes. However, as someone else above noted in comments, their history is not going to lead to full buy-in by developers or CIOs. History has shown that if you depend solely on MSFT you may get shafted (developers), or you will get locked-in and charged. MSFT will stay a strong force for the next 5 years. But from that point I think they have problems staying number one. Buy short, sell long I think.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711646" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711646" href="http://www.deadprogrammer.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Deadprogrammer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711646" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, Microsoft can improve, but it lost the trust of many developers. Sharepoint was the product that made me abandon my 7 year MS developer career and to switch to non-Microsoft products altogether. Sharepoint might be better these days, the ridiculously nightmarish MS CMS might be retired, MVC framevork might have made writing .NET web applications more palatable, but I am not coming back.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711647" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711647" href="http://www.easci.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">J-P Voilleque</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711647" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711647" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a great roundup, thank you! We have what I jokingly call an "embedded team" at Microsoft, and they had their hands on a lot of the narrative coming out of PDC. It was cool to see it all released into the wild.<br><br>Like any aircraft-carrier-sized company, it takes a heck of a lot of effort to turn it in any direction. It\'s exciting to see a renewed focus on consumer experience, and I hope that the momentum continues in that direction.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711648" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711648" href="http://www.stockmarketguide.in/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">VENKATAKRISHNA NALAMOTHU</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711648" class="dsq-comment-message">Microsoft announced online ad product and live search. What happened? nothing. Why? Lack of execution skills. This is the biggest problem with Microsoft in recent days. What happened to ipod killer? Still, I am not underestimating them. Strange!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711649">Kevin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711649" class="dsq-comment-message">David, you make some valid points, particularly from a historicial perspective but I think what i\'m starting to see is the awakening of a sleeping giant that is Microsoft.<br><br>Through talented people like Ozzie I see the beginnings of a new cultural perspective or \'drive\'  within the Microsoft organisation as reflected at PDC.<br><br>They know that their market position is not a \'gimmie\' long term - that developers, consumer and enterprise customers wont tolerate the mistakes of the past.<br><br>They have the people, market share and financial resources to achieve a turnaround.<br><br> I, for one, wish them well.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711650" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711650" href="http://saunderslog.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Alec Saunders</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711650" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re absolutely right Robert.  I was at MS in 1996 when we made the choice to "embrace" the internet.  As VP John Ludwig said at the time, "It\'s a big ship.  You have to steer 180 degrees to make a 20 degree turn".  The boat does turn, however.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711651">glenn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711651" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711651" class="dsq-comment-message">msft didn\'t announce the pricing model for any of this<br><br>minor detail that might have any effect on adoption</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711652">Diego</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711652" class="dsq-comment-message">No one underestimates them. The thing is, the reason that they didn\'t get much press is because they are the new IBM. They are big, have lots of money and they are un-cool. IBM is all those things and they still make ship loads of money too. But not a lot of people care outside of business about what they do. Certainly not in the webspace.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711653" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711653" href="http://socailinfotainment.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Supreet</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711653" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711653" class="dsq-comment-message">I Agree with most of the things David has written above, the announcements  seem good but what matters is execution. Who know what the final product will be like. And now a web version of Office, what was MS doing all these years, I think the product has to be drastically different and must offer something that Zoho and G Docs don\'t provide. Its the only way to get market share. And Azure too, both these things must had created an impact if they were launched a year back, MS has cash and intellect resources, we expect MS to innovate, come with new solutions rather than following the bandwagon.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711654">Gregg</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711654" class="dsq-comment-message">Whatever Microsoft\'s business end up being, it will be a shadow of what it use to be. The days of selling software licenses are coming to an end. Free software, free hardware, free culture, and free spectrum are here or will be here soon. Microsoft knows this. The people who have thought seriously about this, know this. Robert, do you know this yet?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711655" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711655">Dean Procter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711655" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711655" class="dsq-comment-message">Show me the money, spare me the hype. Why would you buy it if you already have XP? Same reason you didn\'t buy Vista.<br>If you are a third world user it\'s still way too expensive.<br>The good old dayz of being the only shop in town are long gone, they\'re behind the 8ball and where do you think HP, IBM etc see themselves in this future? Not making their income from selling Microsoft products - that\'s for sure.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711656">Chris</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711656" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think you can ignore these announcements. However, I\'m not too excited about Microsoft ability to be a key player in any of these areas either.<br><br>I agree that Microsoft has lots of sales people, but I think it\'s quantity not quality.<br><br>As far as marketing, does anyone understand the "I\'m a PC" campaign? Apple has great Ads, they really hit home with consumers. Just look at how much cash Apple has, it\'s working well.<br><br>I have an Azure account and used the new services. There is no wow factor. Other than Azure services management and deployment of .NET services, it\'s more of the same. The biggest issue I see is that Microsoft has played this game before and lost. Who cares about Windows Live Services? Nobody. Who really understood the repeated reinvention of Live branding and what Live was? Nobody.<br><br>Until Microsoft puts some pricing on these Cloud services, I don\'t see wide adoption taking place. Developers are not going to invest in a locked in position without knowing long term SLA and pricing. I expect Azure to be a toy for developers until some polish and structure are placed around Azure. I also question Microsoft\'s ability to deliver a compelling reason not to use Amazon EC2. Especially with EC2 supporting SQL Server and Windows.<br><br>As far as Windows 7, it should be called Vista SP2. I have run Windows 7 for several months now, it really seems like Vista to me. I see this as an escape from the Vista branding to release a more polished Vista under a new name.<br><br>Microsoft has really fallen down in the ability to deliver "working" software. Did anyone notice that Windows Mobile 7 was mysteriously missing from PDC? Microsoft has delayed other products like Windows Mobile 7 for months.<br><br>Microsoft web based office sounds good. I want to see the delivery and pricing. I don\'t see how Microsoft will deliver a compelling pricing solution for web based apps, I would expect Microsoft to deliver on more of an accessibility message like Microsoft Office Everywhere. But I expect the pricing to be an issue.<br><br>I generally think Microsoft has lost their ability to capture developers. I think lots of people went to PDC this year to see if there is any compelling reason to say with Microsoft.<br><br>I get way more excited about Amazon Services in cloud computing; OpenOffice as  a Microsoft Office replacement; Zoho for web apps; Linux as a desktop. As we head into 2009, I expect to see stronger adoption of open source software.<br><br>With Sun dying a slow death, Google should step in, buy up StarOffice, buy Zoho and merge the two. And offer the merged desktop/web app combo as Google apps. Google need to get their app engine story on track and offer something other than Python. As big as Google is with data centers, their cloud computing story is weak. Google is in a fine position to offer their own linux distro with Google desktop, search, Gtalk, Google apps and Chrome built in.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711657">Luca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711657" class="dsq-comment-message">MS has impressive strength and won\'t go away (or even weaken dramatically) for a while. However significant elements of the competitive landscape are changing.<br><br>They are losing the lock on the OS, and for two reasons: viable competitors are gaining momentum, and the OS is becoming irrelevant. Very soon every computer will ship with no-boot Linux giving access to a browser. As more and more apps move to the browser, MS will completely lose its OS advantage. At that point, a lot of their edge will be their salesforce, which is a weak and expensive edge.<br><br>I found very telling that even their first version of online Office apps works with Firefox and Safari...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711658" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711658" href="http://vidagdha.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Shailesh S. Khandekar</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711658" class="dsq-comment-message">The software industry will always need a competitive spirit. The more, the merrier. MS provides that with its unique style. It has a team of bright engineers, smart marketing professionals and a leadership that has quite an aggressive approach to business. From a neutral perspective, whether or not Microsoft turns a corner, it is important that it remains in competition.<br><br>These days, I do not use any Microsoft product, except probably the OS and the Platform SDK, even while developing desktop software that targets Microsoft Windows as one of the platforms. The reason is simply that open source has provided higher quality solutions to the problem at hand. (While someone might be quick to dismiss desktop software, let me point out that 1. The lines between desktop and server are blurring, and 2. Some problem are intrinsically suited better to desktops than servers; and vice versa. That will be a completely off-topic thread.)<br><br>Clearly, Microsoft has a long way to go before it can hope to regain the trust of many talented developers, lost in the broken promises of past. The recent developments are surely interesting.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711659" href="http://www.structuretoobig.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brian</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711659" class="dsq-comment-message">Hi Robert,<br><br>As one of the DEs that was at ConvergeSouth, I\'m a little offended at the comment "Microsoft had an evangelist there to make sure everyone got the latest software they were pitching"...  that\'s actually not why I was there, and frankly, would expect you to know better.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711660" href="http://marc.blogs.it/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Marc Canter</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711660" class="dsq-comment-message">Dude - more significant to the rest of us = OpenID reliable party!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711661">fauigerzigerk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711661" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah Gregg, everything will be free! Even google adwords will be free. All developers will work for free and will get food for free as well. It\'s all going to be paid for by ... extraterrestrial entities who are lower down in UPS2 (Universal Ponzi Scheme 2.0)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711662" href="http://blog.stealthmode.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Francine hardaway</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711662" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m impressed by what Microsoft is doing by way of evangelism; they are really reaching out to the developers with their new tools. I think, because they are big, they can probably run pretty close to the front of the parade from the rear, but I think they will have some pretty tough competitors to elbow out of the way when they get there. Because those, competitors too, are moving forward, and the front is a moving target.<br><br>That being said, at least they are going to keep their installed base happy, although for how long can we call it an "installed" base?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711663" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711663">Christopher Coulter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711663" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711663" class="dsq-comment-message">Microsoft is great at ANNOUNCING, (heck look at PDC 2003, back then Vista was going to raise the dead and buy the world a Coke) it\'s that whole DELIVERING thing that doesn\'t really connect. If their competitors had more spunk and more apps were cross platform, it could become a post-Microsoft era (such is the CIO disgust), but that\'s just Linux weenie wishful thinking. Still never underestimate Microsoft’s ability to trainwreck, esp. in anything consumer.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711664" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711664" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711664">Joe</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711664" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think anybody really has counted them out, in the enterprise IT space and general consumer space.  It\'s just the Mac touting tech bloggers and valley start-ups that were counting on a dramatic shift in the industry.<br>I still don\'t think some of the announcements have trickled through the blogs yet.  Mesh is a game changer, as are the Live Services.<br>MS have cloud enabled Office (and with this tech - any desktop based application).  This is far more attractive to enterprises that don\'t want to big bang migrate their users onto a new risky platform.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711665" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711665" href="http://www.danshafer.com/onemind" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dan Shafer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711665" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>Azure is apparently months, perhaps even a year or longer, from delivery in a market space that is moving and exploding very fast. I\'m perplexed why it takes MS so long to move from announcement to release on a known technology. By the time Azure ships, others already in the space will have outdistanced it.<br><br>The online Office products that you characterize as "really nice" are, in fact, deliberately crippled versions of their desktop products. This creates incompatability between the two worlds, meaning seamlessness is non-existent. Which in turn means they don\'t have a compelling adoption story.<br><br>MS could own the online app space if it wasn\'t so terrified of the cannibalism issue. As long as they feel the need to protect their desktop turf by releasing not-quite-complete software as a service, they will not be nearly as successful as they could and they\'ll leave a large gap for a competitor.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711666" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711666">davemall</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711666" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711666" class="dsq-comment-message">Microsoft is over and done, finished, kaput, history, etc. Stick a fork in them.<br><br>Fact is they were never a leader. They\'ve always been better copiers than the Chinese though.<br><br>Apple and Google are the technological leaders now. Microsoft is history. Dell, Gateway, etc. are even more irrelevant.<br><br>Microsoft today is what IBM was after the Mainframe began to decline. There are a bunch of smart guys working at Microsoft but they\'re riding a dead horse.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711612" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711612">kkamuela</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711612" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711612" class="dsq-comment-message">I believe microsoft will make a big come back in due time so don\'t count them out of  the ball game just yet</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711613" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711613">Ike</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711613" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711613" class="dsq-comment-message">@davemall<br>Oh no you must be right!  Idiot!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711611" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711611" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711611" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711611" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711611" class="dsq-comment-message">Brian: you\'re right, and I\'m sorry. I oversimplified what you were doing in North Carolina too much. You added a lot to the conference there beyond what I presented.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711610" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711610" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711610">Steve</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711610" class="dsq-comment-message">Scoble - I know that you get really excited about stuff, but I think this one may be legit. Sure, everyone at the PDC (I was there) says the same thing, "They announce something every year and like 10% of it ever makes it live." But I am hedging my bet towards follow through this year. Reasons:<br><br>Azure - it\'s already something that they will be offering in one way or another, through a shared and external office offering or through the Server 2008 embedded virtualization layer. The only real catch here is will microsoft get a billing and use system built.<br><br>Cloud Office - If you look at Google or more specifically Open Office 3, they have to adjust or the fight is over. Open Office has the capacity to open and store to Google docs  (yah!) and it has extensions like Firefox... it\'s better than Word as far as I\'m concerned.<br><br>Windows 7 - They gave me a windows 7 early release disk. It\'s fast and boots lite. They don\'t force to much onto the platform and let me decide what is and isn\'t on start up. PLUS the GUI is nicer.<br><br>Anyway, a boy can dream of a world where everything runs like my iPhone.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711609" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711609" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711609">Court</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711609" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711609" class="dsq-comment-message">If you get a chance, try to get your hands on a internal MS video of how Ori Amiga embedded Mesh in his car.  It is easily the coolest thing I have seen from any tech firm in a long term, as a regular joe tech fan.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711615" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711615">Gregg</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711615" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711615" class="dsq-comment-message">@Ike<br>He doesn\'t have to be right. But he is.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711614" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711614" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711614">Gregg</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711614" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711614" class="dsq-comment-message">@fauigerzigerk<br><br>Free, as in freedom.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711617" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711617" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711617" href="http://teraom.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">teraom</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711617" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711617" class="dsq-comment-message">WIndows is crap, but most people form the conjecture that Microsoft is bad. Being a apple fan boy, i have always made fun of windows and Microsoft, till i saw the  surface and silver light.<br>More things in the pack coming up..from Microsoft,  Possible, but there should be no one at Infinity loop.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711616" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711616" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711616">Phil</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711616" class="dsq-comment-message">I follow a simple rule...it always works. Go with the people that have the most to loose, if their pockets are deep enough they can even get through a few screw ups and get lost before they find the right track again. If they find the track and are still ahead of the competition they will win.<br><br>There are 100\'s of Billions of dollars at stake and there is no shortage of BI in the IT industry to predict the trends...these guys are playing to 5 and 10 year+ strategies...this is more about chess than chance.<br><br>Microsoft have the most to loose in the developer space, and have some of the deepest pockets. That\'s where I will be betting my career skills and my salary for the last 20 years in IT has a lot of "thank you microsoft\'s in there" ...(I\'m doing pretty well so far thank you in the top few % of salary in the country, so my bias here is a direct result of hard cash earned by seeing the long term benefits of their strategy).<br><br>-P<br><br>If you want to have a better idea of where my over simplified my thoughts originate from, a few good solid conspiracy theories or a reason to start a fight in the office tomorrow keep reading!<br><br>They are "food for thought" (hopefully not completly off topic as there is some rellivance)<br>and the hightly perceptive of you "may" sense a touch of frustration at the Apple converts...but I hope it makes it past the censors for humor and debates sake (If I save even one it will be worth it!).<br><br>Also....consider this: If you disagree with the points below...ask yourself why you feel so strongly about it. Why after all does anyone have an emotional connection to a brand, technology or an operating system. They may effect your mood when your using them (and you loose your work etc) but probably less than say, when your life is put in danger by a car cutting you off on the way to work, or the timing of every set of lights when your in a hurry. But I don\'t see many blogs about how the traffic light systems can be improved (I\'m sure you can find some) and how the state of California is evil because they havn\'t scrapped lights or blocked change by capping the amount of cars on the road, or come up with some new innovative way to solve the problem, because that new subdivision down the road has a great solution! The reason people care about this stuff is simple...Marketing (lots more on Computers than traffic light technology) and resistance to change. If you find yourself evangelising and caring about something that shouldn\'t matter (read Apple)...youv\'e just been punked by some marketing guys. (Note to Gen-Y people...your seen as the easiest audience to play with, sorry)<br><br>So...if we consider the wacko idea that time began before the launch of OSX consider this:<br><br>1) Microsoft built a huge part of this industry and gave the world exactly what they asked for with Vista (the lesson for Microsoft here is people don\'t know what to ask for). When XP was king all you would ever read about was the unhappy minority talking about the security and blaming MS for every virus that their poor judgement allowed onto their machines (wow by coincidence this is also the time that P2P mp3 and dodgy photo sites ruled the internet...of course it was never on any of the machines left unprotected by Microsoft\'s negligence, that was something else). Incidently I ran a machine for 4 years without AV running or a firewall (other than the NAT on my router) and never had a blip of a virus (I still scanned it thanks), because I didn\'t use P2P, I didn\'t think anyone who loved me would send me an executable attachement or send me money from Kenya and I kept my machine patched.<br><br>And please stop going on and on about Vista UAC (you can turn it off in a lot less time than it takes to complain about it), its in your best interests...and it probably takes less than 30seconds a week of brain power to use.<br>...Opps they didn\'t pick up the unspoken Gen-Y requirements of "the system should protect me, no matter what I do, it should know my intent and...it can never be my fault," (Ask yourself how you can secure a car, leave it open for anyone to use then leave it overnight on the wrong side of town...because that\'s what your asking for!)<br><br>2) Also still on the Vista bashing...Consider every major OS change has required significant HW updates, I remember installing OS\'s early and feeling the pain until I could get new H/W that supported all the features in DOS 3,5,6 ...Windows 1,2,3.11,NT,95,98,2000. Oh and I\'m typing this on an HP machine labeled "Designed for Windows XP / Vista Compatible" and after a year on XP I loaded Vista...couldn\'t be happier...quicker user experience than it was before due to better config file management and drivers, a number of devices are better supported (Bluetooth and Power etc) and if I turn off the Aero stuff...it\'s fast as lightning. So if you didn\'t do your homework and couldn\'t wait...have some personal responsibility here!! I make bad calls all the time (like this email) but learn from it and don\'t blame anyone for it.<br><br>3) I\'m no stranger to Apple also...I used to use one of the original ones back in 1985, then when I was at University, I upgraded H/W to an LCII ...which was outdated in weeks by an LCIII *&amp;^!. Of course then they switched tack completely with the Power PC and then Again with OS X, none of which where backwards or forwards compatible at all (people complain about 90% compatibility with Vista when Apple normally leave you with 0% and wow it costs when you have to replace all your apps)...Remember the comment about marketing about now.<br><br>I have also worked deeply with Apple on the I-Phone launch and as a result of seeing into their organisation will never buy any of their products...I can\'t afford to be locked in and kept in the dark (It\'s kinda like communism...they say it will be better, but you have to surrender and do everything their way...or perhaps more like prozac). The NDA they tried to make me sign was sobering to say the least and it was also very educational. My opinion was: Apple are a good news factory...they "control everything" god help you if you don\'t do what your told. Their goal is to make you love the product, become dependant on the product (through investment of time and funds) and keep you on the hook. This is why you don\'t see an SD slot on an I-Pod / I-Phone. Let me be clear here...They make great products and the way they make you love them is to provide a great experince, but they do it for themselves not for you and the it\'s not "always" the best (Ever noticed how Mac\'s appeal to people, like bait does to Fish!?). Anyone who thinks because they are running Linux and in the minority they are the freedom fighters of the IT industry and that they are fighiting the open standards battle...wake up and smell the marketing. I\'m also have great respect for the I\'m a MAC campagn\'s ability to sett peoples perceptions of Vista. You may have a sense that I am a slight sceptic by now, but even I didn\'t realise how much you can manipulate people until I saw what Apple have done here...Great news about the EU looking into I-Tunes anti trust behavior of only supporting their devices!<br><br>4) Linux...Hmmm...doesn\'t most of the funding/revenue for the product (through purchasing via product alignment etc) come from Oracle and IBM. Could this be because they don\'t have a desktop / client proposition so they need to buy time to defend themselves against Microsoft who\'s only place to grow is into their revenue streams? Could it be that the perpetuation of Unix through Linix as a commercial model is largley as a mechanism for Oracle and IBM to strip revenue from Microsoft that they could use to invest in products that enter into their play space? It wasn\'t working so well, so now there is a thrust into the office marketplace...who\'s paying for that again?<br><br>Who knows, but my money is on IBM here...They are happily cashing in on all their patents and revenue at the top end of town...governments etc they can afford to through a few hundred billion over 10+ years into pushing the revenue out of the low end of the market to keep the $$ out of their challengers pockets or at least slow them down enough to manage.<br><br>6) I guess as I have gone after everyone else here: Google...Marketing...it\'s how they make all their money, but we think they don\'t use it!? ...but I still wish Alta Vista had won the battle, search relivance was much better, but they where out smarted. That said...if you are looking for something that lots of people need to chat to each other about in online forums Google engine provided great results...<br><br>Food for thought anyway...feel free to prove me wrong with a good solid debate!<br><br>-P</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711618" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711618" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711618">Smeagol</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711618" class="dsq-comment-message">You can safely ignore these announcements from MS.<br><br>Win7 == Vista SP2<br><br>Amazing it\'s taking so long to get that blob of spaghetti to work in a semi-reasonable fashion.<br><br>Ozzie turned that steam boat right into Ballmer\'s path.  Once they strike iceberg-Ballmer, it\'ll continue to sink, just as it\'s doing right now!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711619" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711619" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711619">Henry Winckelmann</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711619" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711619" class="dsq-comment-message">Microsoft have never turned a corner in their collective lives.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711667" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711667" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711667" href="http://blog.robdolin.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rob Dolin</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711667" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711667" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s for sure a very exciting time, but it\'s not just Ray Ozzie driving these changes, there are thousands of individual engineers who help to make all of this stuff happen.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711620" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711620" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711620">tom Barta</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711620" class="dsq-comment-message">MSFT and "the Cloud" are a stillborn combination. Who\'s dumb enough to trust private data on the web with MSFT\'s history regarding data security?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711668" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711668" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9711668" href="http://www.careercompany.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">patti wilson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711668" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711668" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br>I love you! And I completely concur. As a small business owner (just me and a virtual admin), thanks to Microsoft I am productively and affordably in the clouds.<br>I use SharePoint with my organizational clients, I use LiveMeeting to deliver webinars, and I can\'t wait to use the online Office 7. They have priced everything so that I can afford to compete with the big guys.<br>Only thing lacking is LiveMeeting complete access for Mac Users. Telll them to hurry up on that one as it is holding back my webinars at places like Stanford.<br>Best,<br>Patti</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711669" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711669" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711669">Some Guy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711669" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711669" class="dsq-comment-message">Microsoft screwed the pooch when Longhorn cratered.  Nothing they do now will matter to anyone but the pundits like Enderle and Scoble whom they pay to pretend that they care.<br><br>This is the same phase of the corporate life cycle that IBM entered with the introduction of OS/2.   Microsoft is on the decline, and there\'s no Lou Gerstner on the horizon to morph them into a viable company for the long term.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9711621" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9711621" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9711621">BobTurbo</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9711621" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9711621" class="dsq-comment-message">Microsoft is utterly screwed and will never be turning any corner as they have never turned a corner in their lives. Please tell me when they have changed, ever?</div>\
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	if(document.location.hash != '') {
		document.location.hash = document.location.hash.substring(1);
	}

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

	
	if(document.location.search != '' && location.hash != '#disqus_thread') {
		var reply_id = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams().dsq;
		if(reply_id) { document.location.hash = 'comment-' + reply_id; }
	}

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=scobleizer&t=never_underestimate_microsoft8217s_ability_to_turn_a_corner&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	



	window.ExecuteWhen = (function () {
	var obj = {}
	
	// Private
	var running = false;
	var timer = null;
	var pending = [];
	var startTimer = function() {
		running = true;
		timer = setInterval(obj.heartBeat, 100);
	};
	var stopTimer = function() {
		running = false;
		clearInterval(timer);
	};
	
	// Public
	obj.add = function (condition, code) {
		pending.push([condition,code]);
		this.heartBeat(); //!
		if (!running) {
			startTimer();
		}
	};
	obj.heartBeat = function() {
		if (!pending.length) {
			stopTimer();
		}
		var newPending = [];
		for (var i=0; i<pending.length; i++) {
			var cond = pending[i][0];
			var code = pending[i][1];
			// FIXME: if cond or code throw an error, they never get removed from pending
			if (cond()){
				code();
			}
			else {
				newPending.push([cond, code]);
			}
		}
		pending = newPending;
	};
	return obj;
})();

// also used in embed_thread.js:
window.fbIsReady = function () {return window.FB && FB.init;};
// NOTE: This script gets executed again without threadEl
//       set when we are loaded again as the fbc_receiver.
//       In this case, we don't need the hidden container.

if(!window.FB || !FB.init) {
	if(window.Dsq && Dsq.container) {
		// container is not present when init.js is loaded from an xd-receiver iframe; in this case,
		// we don't need the FB_HiddenContainer anyway.
		var fbDiv = document.createElement('div');
		fbDiv.id = "FB_HiddenContainer";	// Required or else FeatureLoader will execute a document.write.
		fbDiv.style.position = 'absolute';	// This is intentionally not setting display to none as this breaks
		fbDiv.style.top = '-10000px';		// Flash in Safari.
		fbDiv.style.left = '-10000px';
		fbDiv.style.width = '0px';
		fbDiv.style.height = '0px';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = 'faaf467d0f47abde553c3b8e0e1b3570';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

			FB.init(facebook_api_key, window.facebookXdReceiverPath || null,
				{fetchSignedPublicSessionData: true});
		});
}


	


if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

// Global event handler for narcissus.
if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
	var g = Dsq.Utils.ie ? document : window;
	Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(g, 'keydown', function(event) {
		// Handle "enter" key on input for post box.
		if ((event.keyCode || event.which) == 13) {
			var target = Dsq.Utils.ie ? event.srcElement : event.target;
			// For Safari bug, detect text node.
			if (target.nodeType == 3) {
				target = target.parentNode;
			}

			if (target.nodeName == 'INPUT' &&
				target.parentNode.className == 'dsq-input-wrapper') {
				var postId = Dsq.Utils.extractId(target);
				Dsq.Templates.postComment(postId, this, false);
			}
		}
	});
}

})();




