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If there was you wouldnt have to brag about it, the world will know it.<br><br>Vista Sidebar doesnt count as research, it is developing gizmos and passing them as research. It is the high priests passing off crap as the holy shit!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_22:18:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "2560766ac31501d013fb8ab56b6358b1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673729": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"other <i>than for</i> making money\"<br><br>sigh", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-20_23:58:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673730": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>Microsoft's always been incredible at research.  Where they suck, like many prestige research institutions like Bell Labs and Xerox PARC, is in turning the cool research into real products.<br><br>The number of times I've been shown (and wowed by) Microsoft Research projects is countless.  The number of actual shipping products based on the things which caused my jaw to hit the floor?  Almost none.<br><br>Sad.  :(", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_03:16:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "b9ba1eb612adfc10357bd4fd2802fd45", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673731": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I respectfully disagree with post 15. MS totally whiffed on AJAX. True they invented the xmlhttprequest object, but they didn't  understand it was revolutionary. How ironic that Google used Microsoft's own technology against them?<br><br>Xerox invented the GUI, but didn't realize what they had invented. Jobs must have left his tour smiling at what he had stumbled upon. Probably calling the Xerox people idiots along the way.<br><br>You can invent all you want, but if you don't develop markets with the technology what use is it? They don't seem to have the ability to recognize what is significant and what is not.<br><br>How long did the xmlhttprequest object languish within IE before Google rediscovered it?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_12:21:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "a34d8f26b1b3175b767a2b22ee5b09f5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673732": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have no doubt that the research team at Microsoft is doing cool stuff.<br><br>But it doesn't matter.<br><br>Because to get from the lab to the customer, it has to go through the klein bottle that is the Microsoft addiction to consensus and everyone having a say. Any remote cool potential will be gutted, stomped on, and burned, so that it looks like everything else Microsoft does. Passionless, inoffensive, and, (worst of all), \"okay\".<br><br>Microsoft is the king of \"okay\". They may be the biggest, but they're still the king of \"okay\"<br><br>No one remembers \"okay\". You remember the first, the best, and occasionally, the last. But who the hell remembers the middle, even if it's the biggest and/or lasted the longest?<br><br>Here's one. Who designed that lamer strip mall you drive by on the way to work?<br><br>You don't care, it's \"okay\". Hell, you don't even remember the strip mall as anything but collection of shopts.<br><br>Frank Lloyd Wright<br>Mies van der Rohe<br>Sears Tower<br>The Golden Gate Bridge<br>Central Park<br><br>Those? Those you remember, because none of those were about \"okay\". They were, and are, about passion.<br><br>Microsoft is like someone who knows how to play a piano, can read music perfectly, but they have no soul for music, no feeling. They can play what's put in front of them, but they'll never feel the crowd, never take a risk without a net.<br><br>In the end, who cares about Microsoft other making money? It's the only thing they've ever been the best at.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-20_23:53:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673733": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "whoa-whoa - a quick google search reveals google has over 10000 employees given 20% (one day a week) of their time for personal we'll call it research.  Microsoft has according to <a href=\"http://research.microsoft.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">research.microsoft.com</a> over 700 people - say working 5 days a week.  So Google is doing what 185% more research...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_01:26:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "2bbb4480fc9d06ed095e9be3c329a056", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673734": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks for posting on these topic, Robert. Generating healthy discussion points is why you keep your readers!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_22:07:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "3a82c9cde41e2bb976b26073fbf2d4d5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673735": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks Robert,<br><br>its for articles like this, why i appreciate your blog.<br><br>this was very fascinating..", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_03:34:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "dfda6835222fbe69883a98f124634b6b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673736": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Awesome man! Didn't know Bill and his men had an underground research lab!<br><br>Will catch up with articles such as these!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-09-28_11:33:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "d79c99c6bd298985570efced2322f357", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673737": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Didnt know I was the one who replied after such a long time!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-09-28_11:35:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "d79c99c6bd298985570efced2322f357", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673683": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A note to Kevin. First of all I have read the papers and and I know the fields that I mentioned out of your long list.<br><br>My point was really abot the originality of the work coming out MSR in these 2 areas. For instance, it is well accepted that the work of Srivastava and Eustace on ATOM is a very simple and original idea in a field that had existed for a while. At MSR this was simply applied. No real advances on ideas underlying the original work were reported from the papers I have seen from MSR. So one can view this as the proper completion of a research program started by the authors, and yes that is a valid research method, and worthwhile. However a research lab must be judged also by the contribution to the science as well and that is what I was saying.<br><br>I understand what you are saying, and you dont seem to be denying what I claimed. We just dont agree on how a research lab ought to be judged.<br><br>If I may end on a hopeful and positive note, I'd like to see MSR work on long term problems that will contribute more to sciences and society, like some of the work that theory group is doing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-26_01:22:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "9cd215733593ec35a9a5b2e258846580", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673684": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A comment back to Alex and Jimmy: read the papers before you pass judgment.<br><br>Every single thing I listed is a place where a new direction was founded and papers were published on it. If you want to make up some unattainable or moving target definition of \"groundbreaking\" so that MSR can't possibly match it, fine. But talk to the people who work in these researchers' domains, and they will all tell you that this is groundbreaking work.<br><br>Cardelli and Peyton-Jones did groundbreaking functional programming work before they joined MSR, and they did lots more once they got to MSR.<br><br>Srivastava et al started the code-rearrangement work before they got to MSR, but they made it scale and work on real production code at MSR. And that's the important part.<br><br>And no one tells our researchers what to work on; they pick their own projects. No one forces them to participate in Techfest; they all volunteer. And of course I strongly disagree with the notion that they are wasting their talent; they are all using it to great benefit.<br><br>And just a final thought: if you're measuring a research lab on the number of \"groundbreaking breakthroughts,\" then you simply don't understand how research is done. 99% of all research is incremental, building upon great work that came before and taking it to the next step. You measure a research lab by whether it's advancing the state of the art, getting those advances into commercial products, and overall on the impact that it's having.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-25_23:26:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "caab22902d83a5dc9ee6d73be24ac419", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673685": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL @ Welch and Guiness trying to get the last word in their pissing contest!<br><br>But it's getting boring now.  Both of you should just let it go.<br><br>As for Scoble not talking about things like AD or MMC, it's because he knows nothing about them.  Scoble is into gadgets and web services.  He's not technically knowledgeable to go beyond that, nor does he pretend to be.  (He's not technically knowledgeable about the areas he *does* cover either, but that's another story. :p)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-25_14:55:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "4a20476223313a73c880051285dd8804", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Right. See, he talks about Microsoft outside of the areas that I like them for. So by definition, (unless i REALLY wanted to hijack things), since he only talks about Microsoft in the areas that I'm down on them about, well, my opinions of them are going to be negative.<br><br>Funny how context and looking at the larger picture changes things. Well, not for Guiness(sic), because face it, he's just in it for the crusadin'.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-25_13:41:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd just like to say that comparing PARC to MSR is a little bull%^&amp;*, in PARC's day the idea of a mouse was \"groundbreaking.\" Due to the amount of technology already existing and general cynicism the bar for \"groundbreaking\" is far higher.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-05-01_22:05:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "c7455dc857d35d7eb8ede797f07d4e4e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673688": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I know that MSR is funded with Billions of dollars (anyone know the total budget since the beginning?) and I have not seen much on the market on a cost/benifit case.  I am not impressed as I would expect cool things from them based on the dollars and effort.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-04-03_11:12:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "668672914ca5f4ab38b6770ba195abce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673689": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@52  \"However, how often does Robert talk about Active Directory, and MMC and the rest? Not bloody often\"<br><br>Does he talk about it at all?  That is unfortunate.  But the likely reason for that is that he's likely never touched it, installed it..in short...never gotten his hands dirty in the corporate IT world. A shame, really, as there is a lot to cover in that space beyond the next cool internet time waster. And with Scoble's reach it could be a beneficial \"conversation\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-24_18:17:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "26493d7270fb206c1e08599674e51e5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673690": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>\u201clame\u201d wasn\u2019t the issue, cluttered packaging was. The former is subjective, the latter not (or at least, less so).</i><br><br>\"cluttered\" is every bit as subjective as \"lame\" susan. It's just that \"lame\" isn't making a BS attempt at objectivity. One syllable, conveys everything I wish it to. I like the greater efficiency and lack of overhead.<br><br><i>And get real - If OSX came in the same packaging as Vista, you\u2019d not be declaring it as \u201clame\u201d, and everyone familiar with your writings knows it.</i><br><br>Pfft. You ever try asking people what they think first? Actually, I think the OS X box is kind of lame too. It's...dull. Yes, that's the word. Dull. The last time they had a pimpin' logo was for Jaguar, and I wanted real fake fur.<br><br>Oh, i'm sorry, was that the sound of your assumptions crumbling? Better clean them up before someone steps on them.<br><br><br><i>1. Many aren\u2019t knowledgable about your anti-MS bias. The readers of Scoble\u2019s blog certainly are, but those that aren\u2019t may be fooled into treating your articles as if they\u2019re worthy of respect.</i><br><br>No, they know exactly how I feel. I hide nothing in that regard. They also know, unlike you, that I like some things Microsoft does, but they're not the kinds of things that get noticed. Active Directory is just brilliant. I wish Microsoft would do MORE to help non-windows systems use it, but jeez, anyone can see it's a kick-ass directory service. Same thing with the AD tools.  In fact, the entire MMC concept is really brilliant. The ability to easily extend management tools to suit your needs? I've been on Apple's ass for a while about that. (In person quite a few times) Apple wishes they had something as elegant as MSI and Group Policy for installing software across a network. Sure, you can come close with Apple Remote Desktop and Apple installers, but MSI just kicks the crap out of it.<br><br>I think the move to XML by Office should have happened years ago, that 97 format is just shit when it comes to reliability, durability, and scalability. But, I think their attitude towards including translators to the OO format is stupid. I'm also firmly on Microsoft's side with regard to Adobe's bullshit with the PDF translators, but if you read my blog (yes, I know, it'll take more than ten seconds), you'll see that I am no friend of the Acrobat team. The rest of CS? Love them. LOVE them. The Acrobat team? With the exception of the people I personally know on that team, I don't trust them at all, they're too willing to blatantly bullshit people.<br><br>However, how often does Robert talk about Active Directory, and MMC and the rest? Not bloody often. The stuff he does talk about is, usually, the stuff I dislike, and the truth is, there's a lot of stuff in Vista that got changed for the worse, or makes no sense at all from the viewpoint of increasing clarity. Your approval of that idea makes no difference to me.<br><br><i>2. I never said there wasn\u2019t a market for tech writing that constantly bashes Microsft and worships the facilities that Jobs to relieve himself. Apple fanboys certainly will flock to your writings so there is a market for catering to them. But your writings will never be mistaken for objective analysis by anyone that\u2019s not drinking the same kool-aid that you do.</i><br><br>Dude...to be blunt, I don't care. If it ended tomorrow, I wouldn't care. I'm having fun. If you think I wrap my self-image up in what you or anyone thinks of my writing, you're delusional. I've an inner circle of people who I've come to trust over the decades and they, by and large, do a good job of giving me useful opinions. But you? Shit, by what qualifications do you pass judgement on the quality or lack therof in my writing? I've got around 20 years of IT experience on damned near everything but Mainframes, what're your qualifications? See, to me, you're just another nimrod on the internet, all hurt and whiny that someone not only doesn't agree with you, but laughs at your attempts to \"straighten them out\".<br><br>I normally don't agree with Robert's anti-anonymity jihad, I think he misses a lot of points, but dude, really. Stop hiding in your mom's basement.<br><br><i>The \u201creal problem\u201d is that you say the same thing every week here. And no, I\u2019m not going to ignore you (not that I visit Scoble\u2019s blog much, certainly not as much as you do). I\u2019m not going to put you on a mental \u201ckill file\u201d or \u201cignore list\u201d. You\u2019re not worthy of such. I\u2019ll ignore you on a case-by-case basis as I do with anyone else. And I normally do ignore your drivel. But when I feel like it I\u2019m going to call you out on the nonsense that you write, particularly when, as in this case, you write \u201cMicrosoft sucks\u201d without even reading the blog/videos.</i><br><br>See, you can't even ignore me properly. It's like a drug for you. You can disguise it as \"calling me out\" when I \"don't watch the video\", (I'm STILL waiting for your proof of that. I mean, if you're going to COMPLETELY ignore my point, and accuse me of something, at LEAST have SOME proof of the accusation), but that's just a pathetic attempt at crusading.<br><br>Tell the truth \"Guiness\"(sic).  You do this for one reason. For once, someone's paying attention to you. You're maybe even getting emails about it. Of course they're of two kinds: \"YEAH, GET THE ROTTEN BASTARD, YOU SHOW HIMsowedon'thaveto\" or \"Dude, he's eating this up, you're just making him hum a happy tune\", but either way, you're getting more attention on this blog than you probably get in a month.<br><br>Kinda heady isn't it. The best part is, you don't have to prove anything. You don't have to even be <i>right</i>. See, I'm a nice target for people like you. I'm loud, regularly crass, see no reason to be overly nice to people I don't know, see no reason to pull punches, and laugh at your bullshit.<br><br>Especially this:<br><br><i>Oh, and I don\u2019t need \u201cproof\u201d that you didn\u2019t watch the videos before posting, anyone reading your first post here (and has read you before) would conclude as much from the very first two sentences.</i><br><br>This reads as:<br><br><i>Okay, you've got me. Obviously, short of having server access and knowledge of every IP address you've used, or had access to in a fortnight or so, I have no way of knowing if you watched, or didn't watch the video. I'd have to claim psychic powers, but then you'd really abuse me, and there'd be no way to have *any* dignity at that point. But since you don't agree with me and I (supposedly) DID watch the video, then you couldn't have watched. Because that would mean that we saw the same thing, and disagree, and for us to disagree means that one of us must be wrong and in my world, that has to be you. Forget about me admitting that your point had nothing to do with the quality, or lack of in the work that MSR does, because at that point, I'd look like a *complete* nimrod for missing a point that literally, had nothing to do with the video. No, I'm going to rail at you because YOU'RE NOT A NICE PERSON, and rely on mobthink to back me up. Facts, schmacts, I'm crusading against a mean bastard here, facts have no bearing.</i><br><br>Dude, if you showed me your script, I couldn't predict you better.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-24_15:00:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673691": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John C Welch vomitted:<br><i>\"I\u2019m still getting paid to write them, and the rate is going up, so it doesn\u2019t seem to be a real problem. \"</i><br><br>Two reasons for that:<br>1. Many aren't knowledgable about your anti-MS bias.  The readers of Scoble's blog certainly are, but those that aren't may be fooled into treating your articles as if they're worthy of respect.<br><br>2. I never said there wasn't a market for tech writing that constantly bashes Microsft and worships the facilities that Jobs to relieve himself.  Apple fanboys certainly will flock to your writings so there is a market for catering to them.  But your writings will never be mistaken for objective analysis by anyone that's not drinking the same kool-aid that you do.<br><br><br><i>\"Obviously, this is a real problem for you. So here\u2019s a tip: Don\u2019t read anything I write. Don\u2019t read my comments. Don\u2019t reply to them. In fact, here\u2019s a handy mantra: \u201cThere is no welch. Welch is dead to me\u201d\"</i><br><br>The \"real problem\" is that you say the same thing every week here.  And no, I'm not going to ignore you (not that I visit Scoble's blog much, certainly not as much as you do).  I'm not going to put you on a mental \"kill file\" or \"ignore list\".  You're not worthy of such.  I'll ignore you on a case-by-case basis as I do with anyone else.  And I normally do ignore your drivel.  But when I feel like it I'm going to call you out on the nonsense that you write, particularly when, as in this case, you write \"Microsoft sucks\" without even reading the blog/videos.<br><br>Oh, and I don't need \"proof\" that you didn't watch the videos before posting, anyone reading your first post here (and has read you before) would conclude as much from the very first two sentences.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-24_14:24:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "6daf84f2887db4830e88c4f2bcce3ea3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673692": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John C Welch wrote:<br><i>\"Actually, yeah, the Vista packaging is kinda lame too. \"</i><br><br>???<br>Vista's packaging, while you may find it lame (lot's of people on Digg like it, even the Microsoft haters there), it's nothing like what was shown in that Microsoft iPod video.<br><br>\"lame\" wasn't the issue, cluttered packaging was.  The former is subjective, the latter not (or at least, less so).<br><br>And get real - If OSX came in the same packaging as Vista, you'd not be declaring it as \"lame\", and everyone familiar with your writings knows it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-24_13:39:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "d21ea5551ddecaac4e5313af168405ca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673693": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bob: we talk to Intel a fair amount. Lots of folks are thinking hard about multi-core.<br><br>The problem is that you really can't just take a sequential software program and magically parallelize it. The developer needs to think about modelling the parallelism from the beginning.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-24_00:41:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "caab22902d83a5dc9ee6d73be24ac419", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "skc write:<br><br><i>The funny thing about all the people poo-pooing MSR is that they can\u2019t point to any other software related company thats doing great research. It\u2019s all well and good to laugh at Kevins list, but at least point out a company doing better research</i><br><br>I think you are missing the point. What MSR does(by and large) is what other companies do in advanced product development. Kevin's list is a joke. Hardly anything in that list was based on an original idea developed at MSR. Now if you want to call that ground breaking contribution from MSR fine... MSR is a warehouse of stars they hired and who are just reduced to doing incremental improvements to their previous great ideas, doing techfests and tech-transfers. I think it is the greatest waste of talent that there ever has been when you create an elite club of computer scientists who cant be effective.<br><br>Oh before you think I am picking on MSR, Google is the same they are wasting huge amounts of talent too.<br><br>It makes no difference what other software companies do in the name of research.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-24_01:16:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "fd01440e172bf3d39b9ca8e021d06abb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Fair enough John, you\u2019re basically saying MSR stuff doesn\u2019t make it into MS products, but you haven\u2019t pointed out what brilliant research from Apple, Google or IBM makes it into their products\u2026I mean I think thats what the beef is right?</i><br><br>No, that's not what I'm saying either. I'm saying that by the time an idea from MSR has navigated the gauntlet of Microsoft teams, committees, branding, consensus, and me-too, it's gone from something that could be cool and new to something two years behind and as bland as sand.<br><br>All the companies, (well, dunno about Google) have been guilty of this at one time or another. IBM's a bit of a special case, because some of the stuff coming out of their labs is beyond \"esoteric\". As well, a lot of IBM's research isn't so much for products as tech. Hard Drives. Etc.<br><br>So short of a company showing you a precise timeline, you can't tell. That's assuming the company even really uses its own research. Xerox PARC helped invent Ethernet, but Xerox was never an Ethernet Giant.<br><br>Hence my comment being about Microsoft being so relentless in stripping the cool/fun factor from things, not about the quality of MSR, or the usage percentages of MSR work.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-23_17:11:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673696": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've just seen part two of Kevin's tour.<br><br>The thing that most struck me was the comment by that hapless researcher who was resigned to having everyone's 4-core CPU chips all running at 25% capacity forevermore, unless Microsoft can someday find a non-prohibitively complex way to let individual application-level programmers laboriously tell all the cylinders inside the engine to work properly together. What a disappointment to realize that it's up to Microsoft to make this happen someday.<br><br>Why is this something that Schofield shouldn't just plainly tell Intel to make transparent within the microcode of the CPU chip, so that the typical harried application programmer doesn't have to worry at all about whether a program will run at full processor capacity on a CPU? It should be the CPU's own business whether it implements its capacity internally with one core or 8 cores or 80 cores. An operating system that can work on distributed machines connected by a network is another matter.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-23_16:43:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "efc2f6e8dd34a7dab81ef2918bed0f5d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673697": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fair enough John, you're basically saying (in a nutshell) that MSR stuff doesn't make it into MS products, but you haven't pointed out what brilliant research from Apple, Google or IBM makes it into their products...I mean I think thats what the beef is right?<br><br>So whats come out of Google's research labs that proves that they have a better track record than MSR for example (given Kevins list of technology transfer from MSR to consumer products). All I would like is a similar such list for any of these competitors. After all, Scobles post IS contrasting MSR and Google research labs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-23_14:29:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "1b4a803a20ad950d945a06235662cfce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673698": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fair enough John, you're basically saying MSR stuff doesn't make it into MS products, but you haven't pointed out what brilliant research from Apple, Google or IBM makes it into their products...I mean I think thats what the beef is right?<br><br>Whats come out of Google's research labs that proves that they have a better track record than MSR for example (given Kevins list of technology transfer from MSR to consumer products). All I would like is a similar such list for any of these competitors. After all, Scobles post IS contrasting MSR and Google research labs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-23_14:27:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "1b4a803a20ad950d945a06235662cfce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673699": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>John, I don\u2019t think anybody said MS is perfect, but I will challenge you to name a relevant software company thats doing research you deem worthy of your praise.<br><br>Should make for an interesting read.</i><br><br>Again, i didn't make ANY comment on the quality of Microsoft <i>Research</i>. My comment was on how the REST of the company takes a cool idea and FUBARS it in comittee.<br><br>But since you're asking, I think that MSR, like any research group, is doing cool stuff. So's IBM. (When it comes to research, IBM pwns all). So's Apple. So's Google.<br><br>The problem with MSR isn't the \"R\" it's the \"MS\". Now, if Microsoft ever really slims down, is run by someone without a pathological need to be the only software company on the planet in ANY category, and stops insisting that branding be done by firehose instead of paint brush, then Microsoft will become a far better company for it.<br><br>But right now, as a company, it has no focus whatsoever, and it shows.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-23_14:17:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673700": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John, I don't think anybody said MS is perfect, but I will challenge you to name a relevant software company thats doing research you deem worthy of your  praise.<br><br>Should make for an interesting read.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-23_11:14:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "1b4a803a20ad950d945a06235662cfce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673701": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lazy, thanks...now we can pit IBM's research against MSR and have a decent discussion.<br><br>Whats coming out of IBM research?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-23_12:31:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "1b4a803a20ad950d945a06235662cfce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673702": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Is Podtech working on a video permalinks feature like Google has with their video? That would be good to be able to link the timestamps to in your posts, Robert.<br><br>Food for thought, if not.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-22_17:45:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "f259169eb5cb73c577261845a24a64c5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673703": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John C<br>You had me worried for a minute, but you came through @ 32.<br>Don't you hate when you can't even get a good argument?<br><br><br>Guy", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-22_17:00:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "bb31daa6b22b97a9aa6e69016f50badc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673704": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>You claim that your articles regarding Microsoft and Apple resemble something like \u201cobjective analysis\u201d. Well think on this:</i><br><br>No, I don't. Perfect objectivity is a myth, and the \"big lie\" of human society. It is neither physically nor psychologically possible to be \"objective\". The only thing I claim the links I provided show is that I don't *always* rag on Microsoft. Objectivity is one of the funniest things ever created, because it's utter bullshit. We're all trapped inside our own skulls, and everything we say, write, or do is subjective based on that.<br><br><i>My aquaintance with your \u201cwork\u201d mainly consists of mostly your rants on Scoble\u2019s blog. Indeed, I\u2019d never heard of you until I read your constant Microsoft-bashing on this blog (sorry to bust your ego). </i><br><br>You have a far bigger impression of my ego than I do. If people like or don't like what I write, that's fine with me. In fact, I'd prefer it if fewer people read my site, the bandwidth bills are starting to creep up. Don't actively hate on it, that drives up traffic too. Just don't read it. Really. It's not paying any bills.<br><br><i>And on this blog, you do indeed give the impression of being a rabid anti-Microsoft, Jobs-worshipping fanboy, that spouts big words in the attempt to show off psuedo-knowledge (an affliction shared by many tech bloggers, BTW). This leads me to dismiss your articles without bothering to read them, such as the \u201cMac OS X vs Vista\u201d article. You can bet that your behavior on this blog has diminished your credibility with others as well. I\u2019ve been to other message boards where many do dismiss you as an Apple-fanboy and Microsoft-hater, mostly based on your rantings here.</i><br><br>Well, to be blunt, if you make up your mind about someone based solely on comments in someone else's blog, you're rather on the dumb/shallow side, and I'm far happier that you don't read my writing. There's enough people like you in the world, and if you all congregate in one place, it's easier for me to avoid you.<br><br><i>So, it would behoove you not to constantly spout anti-MS rhetoric on this blog if you want people to put credence into your articles.</i><br><br>I'm still getting paid to write them, and the rate is going up, so it doesn't seem to be a real problem. And if it ever becomes one, so what? All the writing does is fund my \"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea\" collection and buy me new guitars on a regular basis. In any event, I'm rather content with myself and my life, so DO pardon me if I'm not changing based on a commenter with the name of a beer that tastes like roofing tar.<br><br><i>Again, you bashed Microsoft on this topic without even watching Scoble\u2019s videos. </i><br><br>And you know this? Proof?<br><br><i>And it\u2019s not like you added anything new, it was just the same garbage that you spout on this blog each and every week, and at least 4 times each week. Since you brought nothing new to the table and didn\u2019t watch the videos, why did you even post a comment for this blog entry anyway? You have a compulsion regarding Microsoft, where you just can\u2019t help yourself from regurgitating bile.</i><br><br>Oh, and of course, YOUR comments are incisive and providing necessary analysis on the video I suppose.<br><br><i>Oh, and if you don\u2019t want to clean up your act for the sake of restoring credibility of your \u201carticles\u201d, then at least get some new material so that you don\u2019t sound like a broken record.</i><br><br>Obviously, this is a real problem for you. So here's a tip: Don't read anything I write. Don't read my comments. Don't reply to them. In fact, here's a handy mantra: \"There is no welch. Welch is dead to me\"<br><br>repeat it until you reclaim your psychic balance.<br><br><i>That video was made by Microsoft themselves, and was shown prompt product divisions to use better packaging. You can\u2019t point to a Microsoft package like the one in that video since that video was released, so it\u2019s not \u201ctrue\u201d and \u201csad\u201d, it\u2019s \u201cpast\u201d.</i><br><br>Actually, yeah, the Vista packaging is kinda lame too.<br><br><i>But again, you\u2019re too biased against Microsoft to give credit for any improvement at all. Indeed, you don\u2019t *want* to see any improvement because you\u2019d rather bash. If Microsoft improves anything, you put your hands over your eyes and ears and go \u201cla la la la\u201d so as not to see or hear about it. And this blog entry is the perfect example. You spouted your hatred without watching the videos, for fear that you *might* see something that you liked. And you know what? *That\u2019s* what is both \u201ctrue and sad\u201d.</i><br><br>Shhhh...shhh...just stop, and the bad man will go away. The bad man only exists if you let him. Just because the bad man likes Active Directory and Technet and thinks the Mac BU rocks, don't listen. You have your mind made up, shhhh. Don't let the bad facts in. That's it. Chant your mantra. \"There is no Welch. Welch is dead to me.\"<br><br>It's okay. Just because you don't know whether I watched the videos or not, or that my comment wasn't about the quality, or lack thereof in the MSR division, shhhhh. It's okay. Facts and truth don't matter. It's the Welch, and the Welch is evil. Just because my comment was about how Microsoft waters down all their products and hoses them until the cool is gone, like what they did to Zune wireless file sharing, or the inane DRM on downloaded Xbox movies, shhh. It's okay. Microsoft is still perfect in your world. Your fanboyism is okay. All your faults are really perfections. It is only the Welch that is evil. Everything you say or do is okay compared to the Welch.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-23_09:16:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673705": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Looks like I hit a nerve.<br>I\u2019ve never seen you so defensive so as to have to resort to listing articles where you didn\u2019t equate Microsoft with fecal matter.</i><br><br>No you misrepresented me. There's a difference. So rather than trying to argue with a closed mind, I presented evidence. Of course, had you bothered to look, you'd have found it yourself. But being lazy makes it harder for you to misrepresent my work. If you'd looked at various mailing list archives, you'd have seen where I've repeatedly said that AD is a *far* better directory service, and its admin tools well above anything Apple has. But again, that would make it harder for you to be a prat.<br><br><i>I saw a link to a \u201cMac OSX vs Vista\u201d article, clicked on it, saw that you were the offer and didn\u2019t bother to read it because you have zero credibility regarding Microsoft (and zero regarding Apple, it\u2019s just the opposite result).</i><br><br>That's funny, I've talked about my qualifications in many places. What are yours? I'll put my qualifications to comment about Apple and Microsoft tech implementations at the network and desktop level against yours any day. Please, feel free to list them.<br><br>It's too bad you didn't read the whole article, because you missed the last part where I said:<br><br><i>... Even so, I think it must be said that Vista is indeed an improvement on Windows XP. Honestly, I think that's the only metric that really counts when you think about it: Is Vista better enough than XP to be worth the upgrade? I'll say yes. This may be more of a comment on how bad XP really is more than how good Vista is.</i><br><br>See, how good Vista is compared to Mac OS X is immaterial. The real question is if Vista is a clear improvement on *XP*, and it is definitely that.<br><br>But again, why bother researching?<br><br><i>The fact is, you spewed your anti-MS bilge without even looking into the research that Scoble posted about!! Let that sink in. Ponder it. And come to the realization of how screwed up you really are.</i><br><br>Oooh, amateur psychology. Yay! The true sign that you only wanted to fuss at me, and now are all hurty that I didn't play your game. Now you try to make opinions and ideas formed by around twenty years of dealing with Microsoft products on a professional level as an administrator be all about a <i>personality</i> defect. Besides, how do you know if I watched or not? Again, the point of my comment wasn't that MSR doesn't do cool research. It was that by the time the product gets out of MSR to the consumer, it's been so thoroughly \"beiged\" that it's as exciting as watching dry paint. But again, why bother reading what I wrote, when all you really cared about was a nice game of ad hominem, and a poorly played one at that.<br><br>You're not very good at this whole \"ragging on people thing\". I recommend you start with an easier target. I'm sure there's a pre-school near you, and if you ask nice, the kids will take it easy on you.<br><br><i>Research is great, but people need to see the fruits of that research in tangible ways that the average consumer can see and enjoy.</i><br><br>It's not that Microsoft never lets anything out of R&amp;D. It's just that by the time it runs the gauntlet of committees and consensus, all the life has been sucked out of it. That video about what Microsoft would do if they packaged the iPod? That's both true and quite sad.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-22_14:41:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673706": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@35  I'm guessing IBM is right up there. They spend $6B a year.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-23_12:01:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "26493d7270fb206c1e08599674e51e5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673707": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL @ John C. Welch.<br>Looks like I hit a nerve.<br>I've never seen you so defensive so as to have to resort to listing articles where you didn't equate Microsoft with fecal matter.<br><br>I saw a link to a \"Mac OSX vs Vista\" article, clicked on it, saw that you were the offer and didn't bother to read it because you have zero credibility regarding Microsoft (and zero regarding Apple, it's just the opposite result).<br><br>The fact is, you spewed your anti-MS bilge without even looking into the research that Scoble posted about!!  Let that sink in.  Ponder it.  And come to the realization of how screwed up you really are.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_19:56:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "6312a7708efa7762a3b75ea650d3ffaf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673708": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Edit:  In the rant at 21, \"offer\" should be \"author\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_19:57:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "6312a7708efa7762a3b75ea650d3ffaf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673709": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"One thing Microsoft does WAY better than Google: Research\"<br><br>What do you mean?  Are the offices better?  The chairs more comfy?  Bigger screens or faster internet access?<br><br>What has Microsoft \"research\" produced?  Maybe I'm privileged, but Microsoft research appears to be significantly less productive than academic research labs in public and private universities.<br><br>When you run the numbers (Microsoft spent something like $6 billion on \"research\" last year), it gets even more depressing but very few schools in America have that kind of endowment, let alone a lab with that kind of funding.<br><br>Microsoft is the worst software company in the world.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_19:30:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "9aae0e2c1503b1e541e4c4cb9bb08f0a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673710": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have to jump in here on this one.<br><br>To me Microsoft is more of a company that enables people to do amazing things.  I mean look how much goes into JUST development side to enable people to make cool stuff.  By Microsoft doing their research they are enableing people to see what is possible which in turns allows others to replicate and mass produce.  My favorite quote by an MS employe is this<br><br>\u201cMicrosoft doesn\u2019t create cool stuff, they enable everyone else to create cool stuff.\u201d<br><br>To me it is soo true I mean look at AJAX MS created the technology originally to enable it and now look at where it has gone it is becoming a standard of its own.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_11:18:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "d5c7efa3f66d6fc8ef6750fa07558c8a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673711": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The funny thing about all the people poo-pooing MSR is that they can't point to any other software related company thats doing great research. It's all well and good to laugh at Kevins list, but at least point out a company doing better research.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-23_04:43:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "1b4a803a20ad950d945a06235662cfce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673712": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Another example of Microsoft Research being used in real products, that Kevin Schofield missed.<br>F#, the MSR .NET functional language, is used in heavy-duty data processing (we're talking Terabytes of data) in Xbox Live.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_20:05:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "db7b55fa953d23d251df345a3b70cc0b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673713": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great Video Robert! You did a wonderful job of capturing what was there! I knew giving up my seat for you to get a better camera spot for the keynote was the right thing to do :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_09:55:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "4982e5334328b9484a02dfa8c38f1236", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673714": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John C Welch<br><br>You claim that your articles regarding Microsoft and Apple resemble something like \"objective analysis\".  Well think on this:<br><br>My aquaintance with your \"work\" mainly consists of mostly your rants on Scoble's blog.  Indeed, I'd never heard of you until I read your constant Microsoft-bashing on this blog (sorry to bust your ego).  And on this blog, you do indeed give the impression of being a rabid anti-Microsoft, Jobs-worshipping fanboy, that spouts big words in the attempt to show off psuedo-knowledge (an affliction shared by many tech bloggers, BTW).  This leads me to dismiss your articles without bothering to read them, such as the \"Mac OS X vs Vista\" article.  You can bet that your behavior on this blog has diminished your credibility with others as well.  I've been to other message boards where many do dismiss you as an Apple-fanboy and Microsoft-hater, mostly based on your rantings here.<br><br>So, it would behoove you not to constantly spout anti-MS rhetoric on this blog if you want people to put credence into your articles.<br><br>Again, you bashed Microsoft on this topic without even watching Scoble's videos.  And it's not like you added anything new, it was just the same garbage that you spout on this blog each and every week, and at least 4 times each week.  Since you brought nothing new to the table and didn't watch the videos, why did you even post a comment for this blog entry anyway?  You have a compulsion regarding Microsoft, where you just can't help yourself from regurgitating bile.<br><br>Oh, and if you don't want to clean up your act for the sake of restoring credibility of your \"articles\", then at least get some new material so that you don't sound like a broken record.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-23_05:14:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "6daf84f2887db4830e88c4f2bcce3ea3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673715": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Kevin - You list a lot of interesting technologies, and I dont mean to imply that these are not interesting or that they are trivial, not by any means! but  I do know a few areas you list, and I can only say that these are not in the same league as world class ground breaking things you expect from a rsearch lab. e.g. the code rearrangement research predates what was done by Srivastava et. al. From the published description I can only say that it is an important tweak to the existing state of the art, but not a fundamental leap. It was widespread practice befoe Srivastava (ATOM) came to MSR and he did some of the ground breaking before MSR. Not a fundamental contribution from MSR! Maybe you guys tech tranafered it effectively but that is not a research contribution.<br><br>The functional language work you describe was primarily done before the people you list joined MSR (Haskell 89?), so sorry that is not a contribution of MSR by any stretch (they made their name in this field in 1980s)... These are 2 things I know about<br>Jim Gray got his Turing award after he joined MSR but he did the work long before that...<br><br>My impression is that MSR hires famous people, but that is not the same as work nurtured by MSR that became famous. You hire them because they are famous, not because they do work that makes MSR famous, at least based on my field of expertise. It is possible that the other things you mention are different... tell me if I am wrong.<br><br>Peace!<br>A.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-22_03:16:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "9cd215733593ec35a9a5b2e258846580", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673716": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John C Welch,<br><br>You cited \"That video about what Microsoft would do if they packaged the iPod? That\u2019s both true and quite sad.\"<br><br>That video was made by Microsoft themselves, and was shown prompt product divisions to use better packaging.  You can't point to a Microsoft package like the one in that video since that video was released, so it's not \"true\" and \"sad\", it's \"past\".<br><br>But again, you're too biased against Microsoft to give credit for any improvement at all.  Indeed, you don't *want* to see any improvement because you'd rather bash.  If Microsoft improves anything, you put your hands over your eyes and ears and go \"la la la la\" so as not to see or hear about it.  And this blog entry is the perfect example.  You spouted your hatred without watching the videos, for fear that you *might* see something that you liked.  And you know what?  *That's* what is both \"true and sad\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-23_05:20:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "6daf84f2887db4830e88c4f2bcce3ea3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673717": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Kevin Schoefield says that they wrote 3700 papers... and someone else mentions how Microsoft misses the boat as did Xerox PARC.<br><br>I have two question to Kevin: How many papers were published by Xerox in the 70s and 80s when they did their ground breaking work? How many ground breaking ideas have been published by MSR scientists while working at MSR? (Sorry Gray, Hoare and others who did their ground breaking work before MSR dont count). I can maybe think of one but it is still a bit to early to judge.<br><br>Qantity does not make up quality...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-22_00:15:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "9cd215733593ec35a9a5b2e258846580", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673718": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anon@20, your numbers are way out of proportion (in the order of maginitude). $6 Billion on research spent? That is like more than 8 million dollars per researcher.<br><br>$6B was our total R&amp;D few years back (you should confirm the correct numbers). Just \"R\" is way lower by order of magnitudes.<br><br>BTW, I have been on various NSF panels and have seen various funding proposals. Average researcher in Microsoft has about the same spent as an average university professor (if you ignore the student stipends).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_23:58:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "ccda189c77625ecbecf9c4fd0481bdb9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673719": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yup, forgot that XBox Live was using F#. Thanks for the catch.<br><br>I also forgot the news of this week -- the announcement of \"Response Point\" which was incubated in MSR. <a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/mar07/03-19MSResponsePointPR.mspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/m...</a><br><br>As to Alex's question: there are several that we can identify now. Keeping in mind that most truly \"groundbreaking\" technologies take 10+ years before they're recognized as such, I'm sure that there are more that we haven't identified as such yet.<br><br>But some examples:<br>- the foundations of image based rendering, by Hughes Hoppe<br>- hardware support for graphics processing (aka \"Talisman\") by Jim Kajiya, Turner Whitted et al<br>- ClearType (read the papers and the patent application before you judge; there's much more to this than is generally admitted) by John Platt<br>- source code analysis, modeling and verification, by Jim Larus, Sriram Rajamani, and several others<br>- public area wireless networks by Victor Bahl<br>- support vector machines for spam filtering, by John Platt and David Heckerman<br>- applying spam filtering algorithms to designing an HIV vaccine, by Heckerman and Jojic<br>- functional programming language work by Luca Cardelli and Simon Peyton-Jones<br>- performance optimizing a program by re-arranging its code and data segments based upon empirical observation, but Amitabh Srivastava et al.<br>- 3-D information visualization papers by George Robertson<br>- Mary Czerwinski's papers on understanding differences in spatial abilities between men and women<br>- Cerwinski's papers on measuring productivity improvements from wide-screen displays<br>- Yuri Gurevich's work on applying abstract state machines to the specification process<br>- Anoop Gupta's work on the \"sidebar\" and design considerations for peripheral displays<br>- Yi-Min Wang's Strider work on system security and cybersecurity, the dangers of undetectable rootkits using virtualization, and most recently \"following the money\" to understand the double-funnel ecosystm behind Web spam<br>- Photorealistic fabric and water rendering from Baining Guo et al.<br><br>There, that's a good start.<br><br>To be clear, I should add that I certainly don't think MSR has a perfect record of tech transfer. Everyone at MSR wants to do more tech transfer, and we sometimes get frustrated when we can't make it work or it takes too damn long. But then I step back and realize that we're far better at this than any other industrial research lab, as near as I can tell, and I feel a little bit better.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-22_00:56:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "caab22902d83a5dc9ee6d73be24ac419", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673720": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>John C. Welch, you didn\u2019t even bother watching Scoble\u2019s material, you just jumped at another chance to bash Microsoft. We get it - you hate Microsoft. (Too bad that destroys the credibility of your \u201carticles\u201d in other web publications.)</i><br><br>You're not into the whole \"research\" thing are you? An incomplete list of favorable or neutral Microsoft articles from me:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2004/12/sometimes_microsoft_really_is.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2004/12/sometime...</a><br><a href=\"http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2005/03/finally_found_a_replacement_ce.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2005/03/finally_...</a><br><a href=\"http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2005/03/the_sprintaudiovox_ppc6600_sma.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2005/03/the_spri...</a><br><a href=\"http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2005/05/good_job_microsoft.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2005/05/good_job...</a><br><a href=\"http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2006/02/its_a_busy_day_in_the_troll_zo.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2006/02/its_a_bu...</a><br><a href=\"http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/appleent/article.php/3568166\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/applee...</a><br><a href=\"http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/appleent/article.php/3610776\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/applee...</a><br><a href=\"http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/appleent/article.php/3594126\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/applee...</a><br><br>Do I hammer Microsoft over them bein' stupid? Oh HELL yeah.<br><br>But I rag on the Acrobat team just as hard, if not harder, because they're like a big tumor of dumb in a pretty smart company.<br><br>I rag on Apple, very specifically when they deserve it too:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2006/10/apple_dont_be_a_bunch_of_tools.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2006/10/apple_do...</a><br><br>Somehow, you seemed to have missed that.<br><br><i>But you don\u2019t need to post that in every single blog. Give it a rest. You derailed this thread in the 3rd post before anyone had a chance to talk about any of the research itself. If all you have to bring to the table on Microsoft topics is, \u201cMicrosoft sucks\u201d, without even reading or viewing the blog/video, then just don\u2019t post anything (at least once in a while).</i><br><br>pfft, [waves hand dismissively ]. Like you're a shining example of NOT derailing things. But then, you just wanted a chance to attack OMGTEHMEANZ0R!!!111<br><br>how's that working out for you?<br><br><i>So fine, if you want to beat us up for not blowing our own horn, I\u2019ll take that hit. But to say that we don\u2019t commercialize our research is just wrong.</i><br><br>No one's saying that. But by the time you commercialize stuff, it's been comitteed and consensus'd to bland. Look at your list of stuff Kevin, and eliminate everything that was Microsoft playing catchup with Vista to get to where everyone else already was, and suddenly, that list is a LOT smaller.<br><br><i><br><br>And yet, in the one place that should be a shining example of how to do it right and cool, namely OWA, Microsoft is still, very deliberately, crippling the experience for everyone not using IE on Windows. Brilliant way to lead the way.<br><br>Maybe when Microsoft stops letting their competition set the agenda...</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_13:49:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673721": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@8 I understand the defensiveness, but you overlook John's point. John conceded that MSR does great work, but the point is, when it ends up in MS products it's no where near are \"cool\" or great as the original researcher envisioned. But, I guess it's much like concept cars ending up in production..they are always trimmed down and gutted to meet the mass production demand. Everything mentioned about what ended up in Vista is..as John said...just okay.  Sidebar? yawn.  3D -interface?  How does that make a user more productive or what problem does that solve that wasn't being solved with simple Alt-Tab?  Heech Specognition?  How much is that used? The Ribbon UI?  Was it MSR's goal to have users re-learn Office?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_01:55:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "26493d7270fb206c1e08599674e51e5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673722": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mike, you can't just say that whatever people do with 20% of their time is \"research.\" You have to have a quality metric to it. For MSR, it's papers published. We've published over 3700. We publish in peer-reviewed journals, so third-parties can tell us whether our work is any good or not. Google may or may not get benefit from their 20% time rule (though I have yet to meet anyone at Google who works less than a sixty hour week, so you have to wonder where that 20% time is coming from...) but it has nothing to do with real research.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_01:37:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "caab22902d83a5dc9ee6d73be24ac419", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673723": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Saw C9's videos of it with Rory Blyth. I'll pay to get both you and him working together....<br><br>(Don't really expect me to pay)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_00:16:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "5cb11c6d11db3f8e8e302e32ee0897c9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673724": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dude, thanks for spending the time at Techfest and for spending far more time editing the videos together. I know this was a huge amount of time and I really appreciate it.<br><br>It always pisses me off when people say that Microsoft hasn't commercialized its research. We've worked closely with our product gorups to transfer a ton of stuff over. What we haven't done is get in people's faces about it.<br><br>In Vista: the 3-D interface, the Sidebar, Superfetch, speech recognition. The network map autodetection. Ink parsing. IPv6 support. The IE7 phishing detector. The new HP photo format. MSR made significant contributions to all of these. In Office 2007, we helped with the new Ribbon UI, made improvmenets to search relevance in Sharepoint, improved chart labeling in Excel, and improved the spell checker. For the XBox we contributed graphics library for photorealistic functions, TrueSkill, geolocation for XBox live, the AI for Forza. Data mining algorithms in SQL Server came from MSR. We contributed to the spam filters in Hotmail, Exchange and Outlook. Several of the tools in Visual Studio Team Server came from MSR, as did the static driver verifier in the Vista DDK. There's MSR technology everywhere.<br><br>There are dozens and dozens of other examples.  The Tablet PC came out of MSR. The first-generation Windows Media audio codec came out of MSR too. Our interactive TV work started in MSR.<br><br>So fine, if you want to beat us up for not blowing our own horn, I'll take that hit. But to say that we don't commercialize our research is just wrong.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_01:29:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "caab22902d83a5dc9ee6d73be24ac419", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John C. Welch, you didn't even bother watching Scoble's material, you just jumped at another chance to bash Microsoft.  We get it - you hate Microsoft.  (Too bad that destroys the credibility of your \"articles\" in other web publications.)<br><br>But you don't need to post that in every single blog.  Give it a rest.  You derailed this thread in the 3rd post before anyone had a chance to talk about any of the research itself.  If all you have to bring to the table on Microsoft topics is, \"Microsoft sucks\", without even reading or viewing the blog/video, then just don't post anything (at least once in a while).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_00:30:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "6312a7708efa7762a3b75ea650d3ffaf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673726": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Don't give MC what he asks for or he won't get what he really wants, a chance to moan and complain.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_12:55:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "355305b3ced696799b19f2e63539d88b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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}, "9673727": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I understand that MS may have a great research arm, but the consumer rarely see the fruit of such research.<br><br>What I'm driving at is simple: Apple does research and releases a wonderful OS, cool consumer gadgets, and beautiful hardware. MS copies with the Zune, and what do we get? A dud of a device.<br><br>Vista, likewise, is a dud of an OS. No wonder people are switching to the Mac in record numbers. It's just a better platform all around.<br><br>Research is great, but people need to see the fruits of that research in tangible ways that the average consumer can see and enjoy. For all the years that Vista was in R&amp;D, we really get nothing more than an interface that tried so hard to be Aqua, security that places the onus squarely on the user, and a definitive lack of available drivers for gadgets.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-21_21:55:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "a329cadecf7e07dc89521a4dc6c9b4f9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years 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": "18427425", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "125200", "hash": -5234250281409036198}, "thread": {"total_posts": 0, "paginate": false, "per_page": 0, "slug": "one_thing_microsoft_does_way_better_than_google_research", "num_pages": 1, "days_alive": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 18427425, "num_posts": 55, "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"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

if(typeof DsqLocal == 'undefined') {
	DsqLocal = {};
}



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
	this.ADD_NEW_COMMENT = "Add New Comment";
	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
  this.MODERATE_OPTIONS = "Moderate Options";

  // Thread moderator actions
  this.CLOSE_THREAD = "Close thread";
  this.OPEN_THREAD = "Open thread";
  this.REMOVE_THREAD = "Remove thread";
  this.RESTORE_THREAD = "Restore thread";
  this.ACTIONS = "Actions";
};
// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
	// Seems we have to use named interpolation for Django to translate. Investigate more.
	this.LOGGED_IN_AS = function(username) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logged in as %(username)s', {username:username});
	};

	this.LOGOUT_FROM = function(disqus) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logout from %(disqus)s', {disqus:disqus});
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comment", {num:num, total:total});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comments", {num:num, total:total});
		}
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
	};
};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





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=one_thing_microsoft_does_way_better_than_google_research' +
		'&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/one_thing_microsoft_does_way_better_than_google_research/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='	+ 'one_thing_microsoft_does_way_better_than_google_research'
			+ '&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/one_thing_microsoft_does_way_better_than_google_research/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">55</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/one_thing_microsoft_does_way_better_than_google_research/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/one_thing_microsoft_does_way_better_than_google_research/">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/one_thing_microsoft_does_way_better_than_google_research/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:18427425" 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'				: 'one_thing_microsoft_does_way_better_than_google_research',
			// 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/one_thing_microsoft_does_way_better_than_google_research/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='	+ 'one_thing_microsoft_does_way_better_than_google_research'
			+ '&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='	+ 'one_thing_microsoft_does_way_better_than_google_research'
			+ '&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='		+ 'one_thing_microsoft_does_way_better_than_google_research'
				+ '&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/18427425/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-9673732">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9673732" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673732" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673732" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9673732" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673732" class="dsq-comment-message">I have no doubt that the research team at Microsoft is doing cool stuff.<br><br>But it doesn\'t matter.<br><br>Because to get from the lab to the customer, it has to go through the klein bottle that is the Microsoft addiction to consensus and everyone having a say. Any remote cool potential will be gutted, stomped on, and burned, so that it looks like everything else Microsoft does. Passionless, inoffensive, and, (worst of all), "okay".<br><br>Microsoft is the king of "okay". They may be the biggest, but they\'re still the king of "okay"<br><br>No one remembers "okay". You remember the first, the best, and occasionally, the last. But who the hell remembers the middle, even if it\'s the biggest and/or lasted the longest?<br><br>Here\'s one. Who designed that lamer strip mall you drive by on the way to work?<br><br>You don\'t care, it\'s "okay". Hell, you don\'t even remember the strip mall as anything but collection of shopts.<br><br>Frank Lloyd Wright<br>Mies van der Rohe<br>Sears Tower<br>The Golden Gate Bridge<br>Central Park<br><br>Those? Those you remember, because none of those were about "okay". They were, and are, about passion.<br><br>Microsoft is like someone who knows how to play a piano, can read music perfectly, but they have no soul for music, no feeling. They can play what\'s put in front of them, but they\'ll never feel the crowd, never take a risk without a net.<br><br>In the end, who cares about Microsoft other making money? It\'s the only thing they\'ve ever been the best at.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9673729">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9673729" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673729" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673729" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9673729" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673729" class="dsq-comment-message">"other <i>than for</i> making money"<br><br>sigh</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9673723">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9673723" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673723" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673723" href="http://blog.yuvisense.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Yuvi</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9673723" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673723" class="dsq-comment-message">Saw C9\'s videos of it with Rory Blyth. I\'ll pay to get both you and him working together....<br><br>(Don\'t really expect me to pay)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9673725">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9673725" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673725" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673725">Guiness</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9673725" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673725" class="dsq-comment-message">John C. Welch, you didn\'t even bother watching Scoble\'s material, you just jumped at another chance to bash Microsoft.  We get it - you hate Microsoft.  (Too bad that destroys the credibility of your "articles" in other web publications.)<br><br>But you don\'t need to post that in every single blog.  Give it a rest.  You derailed this thread in the 3rd post before anyone had a chance to talk about any of the research itself.  If all you have to bring to the table on Microsoft topics is, "Microsoft sucks", without even reading or viewing the blog/video, then just don\'t post anything (at least once in a while).</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9673733">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9673733" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673733" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673733" href="http://www.piedcow.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mike</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9673733" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673733" class="dsq-comment-message">whoa-whoa - a quick google search reveals google has over 10000 employees given 20% (one day a week) of their time for personal we\'ll call it research.  Microsoft has according to <a href="http://research.microsoft.com" rel="nofollow">research.microsoft.com</a> over 700 people - say working 5 days a week.  So Google is doing what 185% more research...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673724" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673724" href="http://kschofield.spaces.live.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kevin Schofield</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673724" class="dsq-comment-message">Dude, thanks for spending the time at Techfest and for spending far more time editing the videos together. I know this was a huge amount of time and I really appreciate it.<br><br>It always pisses me off when people say that Microsoft hasn\'t commercialized its research. We\'ve worked closely with our product gorups to transfer a ton of stuff over. What we haven\'t done is get in people\'s faces about it.<br><br>In Vista: the 3-D interface, the Sidebar, Superfetch, speech recognition. The network map autodetection. Ink parsing. IPv6 support. The IE7 phishing detector. The new HP photo format. MSR made significant contributions to all of these. In Office 2007, we helped with the new Ribbon UI, made improvmenets to search relevance in Sharepoint, improved chart labeling in Excel, and improved the spell checker. For the XBox we contributed graphics library for photorealistic functions, TrueSkill, geolocation for XBox live, the AI for Forza. Data mining algorithms in SQL Server came from MSR. We contributed to the spam filters in Hotmail, Exchange and Outlook. Several of the tools in Visual Studio Team Server came from MSR, as did the static driver verifier in the Vista DDK. There\'s MSR technology everywhere.<br><br>There are dozens and dozens of other examples.  The Tablet PC came out of MSR. The first-generation Windows Media audio codec came out of MSR too. Our interactive TV work started in MSR.<br><br>So fine, if you want to beat us up for not blowing our own horn, I\'ll take that hit. But to say that we don\'t commercialize our research is just wrong.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673722" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673722" href="http://kschofield.spaces.live.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kevin Schofield</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673722" class="dsq-comment-message">Mike, you can\'t just say that whatever people do with 20% of their time is "research." You have to have a quality metric to it. For MSR, it\'s papers published. We\'ve published over 3700. We publish in peer-reviewed journals, so third-parties can tell us whether our work is any good or not. Google may or may not get benefit from their 20% time rule (though I have yet to meet anyone at Google who works less than a sixty hour week, so you have to wonder where that 20% time is coming from...) but it has nothing to do with real research.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673721">LayZ</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673721" class="dsq-comment-message">@8 I understand the defensiveness, but you overlook John\'s point. John conceded that MSR does great work, but the point is, when it ends up in MS products it\'s no where near are "cool" or great as the original researcher envisioned. But, I guess it\'s much like concept cars ending up in production..they are always trimmed down and gutted to meet the mass production demand. Everything mentioned about what ended up in Vista is..as John said...just okay.  Sidebar? yawn.  3D -interface?  How does that make a user more productive or what problem does that solve that wasn\'t being solved with simple Alt-Tab?  Heech Specognition?  How much is that used? The Ribbon UI?  Was it MSR\'s goal to have users re-learn Office?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9673730" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673730" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673730" href="http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Don MacAskill</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673730" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>Microsoft\'s always been incredible at research.  Where they suck, like many prestige research institutions like Bell Labs and Xerox PARC, is in turning the cool research into real products.<br><br>The number of times I\'ve been shown (and wowed by) Microsoft Research projects is countless.  The number of actual shipping products based on the things which caused my jaw to hit the floor?  Almost none.<br><br>Sad.  :(</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673735" href="http://captaink.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Suresh</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673735" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks Robert,<br><br>its for articles like this, why i appreciate your blog.<br><br>this was very fascinating..</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673713" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673713" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/ajuneja" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ajay Juneja</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673713" class="dsq-comment-message">Great Video Robert! You did a wonderful job of capturing what was there! I knew giving up my seat for you to get a better camera spot for the keynote was the right thing to do :)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673710" href="http://beginningasp.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Buddy Lindsey</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673710" class="dsq-comment-message">I have to jump in here on this one.<br><br>To me Microsoft is more of a company that enables people to do amazing things.  I mean look how much goes into JUST development side to enable people to make cool stuff.  By Microsoft doing their research they are enableing people to see what is possible which in turns allows others to replicate and mass produce.  My favorite quote by an MS employe is this<br><br>“Microsoft doesn’t create cool stuff, they enable everyone else to create cool stuff.”<br><br>To me it is soo true I mean look at AJAX MS created the technology originally to enable it and now look at where it has gone it is becoming a standard of its own.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673731">G Gent</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673731" class="dsq-comment-message">I respectfully disagree with post 15. MS totally whiffed on AJAX. True they invented the xmlhttprequest object, but they didn\'t  understand it was revolutionary. How ironic that Google used Microsoft\'s own technology against them?<br><br>Xerox invented the GUI, but didn\'t realize what they had invented. Jobs must have left his tour smiling at what he had stumbled upon. Probably calling the Xerox people idiots along the way.<br><br>You can invent all you want, but if you don\'t develop markets with the technology what use is it? They don\'t seem to have the ability to recognize what is significant and what is not.<br><br>How long did the xmlhttprequest object languish within IE before Google rediscovered it?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673726">Aaron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673726" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t give MC what he asks for or he won\'t get what he really wants, a chance to moan and complain.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673720" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673720" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>John C. Welch, you didn’t even bother watching Scoble’s material, you just jumped at another chance to bash Microsoft. We get it - you hate Microsoft. (Too bad that destroys the credibility of your “articles” in other web publications.)</i><br><br>You\'re not into the whole "research" thing are you? An incomplete list of favorable or neutral Microsoft articles from me:<br><br><a href="http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2004/12/sometimes_microsoft_really_is.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2004/12/sometime...</a><br><a href="http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2005/03/finally_found_a_replacement_ce.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2005/03/finally_...</a><br><a href="http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2005/03/the_sprintaudiovox_ppc6600_sma.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2005/03/the_spri...</a><br><a href="http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2005/05/good_job_microsoft.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2005/05/good_job...</a><br><a href="http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2006/02/its_a_busy_day_in_the_troll_zo.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2006/02/its_a_bu...</a><br><a href="http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/appleent/article.php/3568166" rel="nofollow">http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/applee...</a><br><a href="http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/appleent/article.php/3610776" rel="nofollow">http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/applee...</a><br><a href="http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/appleent/article.php/3594126" rel="nofollow">http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/applee...</a><br><br>Do I hammer Microsoft over them bein\' stupid? Oh HELL yeah.<br><br>But I rag on the Acrobat team just as hard, if not harder, because they\'re like a big tumor of dumb in a pretty smart company.<br><br>I rag on Apple, very specifically when they deserve it too:<br><br><a href="http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2006/10/apple_dont_be_a_bunch_of_tools.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2006/10/apple_do...</a><br><br>Somehow, you seemed to have missed that.<br><br><i>But you don’t need to post that in every single blog. Give it a rest. You derailed this thread in the 3rd post before anyone had a chance to talk about any of the research itself. If all you have to bring to the table on Microsoft topics is, “Microsoft sucks”, without even reading or viewing the blog/video, then just don’t post anything (at least once in a while).</i><br><br>pfft, [waves hand dismissively ]. Like you\'re a shining example of NOT derailing things. But then, you just wanted a chance to attack OMGTEHMEANZ0R!!!111<br><br>how\'s that working out for you?<br><br><i>So fine, if you want to beat us up for not blowing our own horn, I’ll take that hit. But to say that we don’t commercialize our research is just wrong.</i><br><br>No one\'s saying that. But by the time you commercialize stuff, it\'s been comitteed and consensus\'d to bland. Look at your list of stuff Kevin, and eliminate everything that was Microsoft playing catchup with Vista to get to where everyone else already was, and suddenly, that list is a LOT smaller.<br><br><i><br><br>And yet, in the one place that should be a shining example of how to do it right and cool, namely OWA, Microsoft is still, very deliberately, crippling the experience for everyone not using IE on Windows. Brilliant way to lead the way.<br><br>Maybe when Microsoft stops letting their competition set the agenda...</i></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673709">anon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673709" class="dsq-comment-message">"One thing Microsoft does WAY better than Google: Research"<br><br>What do you mean?  Are the offices better?  The chairs more comfy?  Bigger screens or faster internet access?<br><br>What has Microsoft "research" produced?  Maybe I\'m privileged, but Microsoft research appears to be significantly less productive than academic research labs in public and private universities.<br><br>When you run the numbers (Microsoft spent something like $6 billion on "research" last year), it gets even more depressing but very few schools in America have that kind of endowment, let alone a lab with that kind of funding.<br><br>Microsoft is the worst software company in the world.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673707">Guiness</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673707" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL @ John C. Welch.<br>Looks like I hit a nerve.<br>I\'ve never seen you so defensive so as to have to resort to listing articles where you didn\'t equate Microsoft with fecal matter.<br><br>I saw a link to a "Mac OSX vs Vista" article, clicked on it, saw that you were the offer and didn\'t bother to read it because you have zero credibility regarding Microsoft (and zero regarding Apple, it\'s just the opposite result).<br><br>The fact is, you spewed your anti-MS bilge without even looking into the research that Scoble posted about!!  Let that sink in.  Ponder it.  And come to the realization of how screwed up you really are.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673708">Guiness</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673708" class="dsq-comment-message">Edit:  In the rant at 21, "offer" should be "author".</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673712">Matthew</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673712" class="dsq-comment-message">Another example of Microsoft Research being used in real products, that Kevin Schofield missed.<br>F#, the MSR .NET functional language, is used in heavy-duty data processing (we\'re talking Terabytes of data) in Xbox Live.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673727">Sean</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673727" class="dsq-comment-message">I understand that MS may have a great research arm, but the consumer rarely see the fruit of such research.<br><br>What I\'m driving at is simple: Apple does research and releases a wonderful OS, cool consumer gadgets, and beautiful hardware. MS copies with the Zune, and what do we get? A dud of a device.<br><br>Vista, likewise, is a dud of an OS. No wonder people are switching to the Mac in record numbers. It\'s just a better platform all around.<br><br>Research is great, but people need to see the fruits of that research in tangible ways that the average consumer can see and enjoy. For all the years that Vista was in R&amp;D, we really get nothing more than an interface that tried so hard to be Aqua, security that places the onus squarely on the user, and a definitive lack of available drivers for gadgets.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673734" href="http://www.alexiablogs.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">alexia</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673734" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for posting on these topic, Robert. Generating healthy discussion points is why you keep your readers!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9673728" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673728" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673728" href="http://research.microsoft.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Who cares?</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673728" class="dsq-comment-message">I am sorry, thre is very little in the way of really good research coming out of MSR as it looks. If there was you wouldnt have to brag about it, the world will know it.<br><br>Vista Sidebar doesnt count as research, it is developing gizmos and passing them as research. It is the high priests passing off crap as the holy shit!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673718">Kamal Jain</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673718" class="dsq-comment-message">Anon@20, your numbers are way out of proportion (in the order of maginitude). $6 Billion on research spent? That is like more than 8 million dollars per researcher.<br><br>$6B was our total R&amp;D few years back (you should confirm the correct numbers). Just "R" is way lower by order of magnitudes.<br><br>BTW, I have been on various NSF panels and have seen various funding proposals. Average researcher in Microsoft has about the same spent as an average university professor (if you ignore the student stipends).</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673717">alex</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673717" class="dsq-comment-message">Kevin Schoefield says that they wrote 3700 papers... and someone else mentions how Microsoft misses the boat as did Xerox PARC.<br><br>I have two question to Kevin: How many papers were published by Xerox in the 70s and 80s when they did their ground breaking work? How many ground breaking ideas have been published by MSR scientists while working at MSR? (Sorry Gray, Hoare and others who did their ground breaking work before MSR dont count). I can maybe think of one but it is still a bit to early to judge.<br><br>Qantity does not make up quality...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673719" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673719" href="http://kschofield.spaces.live.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kevin Schofield</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673719" class="dsq-comment-message">Yup, forgot that XBox Live was using F#. Thanks for the catch.<br><br>I also forgot the news of this week -- the announcement of "Response Point" which was incubated in MSR. <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/mar07/03-19MSResponsePointPR.mspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/m...</a><br><br>As to Alex\'s question: there are several that we can identify now. Keeping in mind that most truly "groundbreaking" technologies take 10+ years before they\'re recognized as such, I\'m sure that there are more that we haven\'t identified as such yet.<br><br>But some examples:<br>- the foundations of image based rendering, by Hughes Hoppe<br>- hardware support for graphics processing (aka "Talisman") by Jim Kajiya, Turner Whitted et al<br>- ClearType (read the papers and the patent application before you judge; there\'s much more to this than is generally admitted) by John Platt<br>- source code analysis, modeling and verification, by Jim Larus, Sriram Rajamani, and several others<br>- public area wireless networks by Victor Bahl<br>- support vector machines for spam filtering, by John Platt and David Heckerman<br>- applying spam filtering algorithms to designing an HIV vaccine, by Heckerman and Jojic<br>- functional programming language work by Luca Cardelli and Simon Peyton-Jones<br>- performance optimizing a program by re-arranging its code and data segments based upon empirical observation, but Amitabh Srivastava et al.<br>- 3-D information visualization papers by George Robertson<br>- Mary Czerwinski\'s papers on understanding differences in spatial abilities between men and women<br>- Cerwinski\'s papers on measuring productivity improvements from wide-screen displays<br>- Yuri Gurevich\'s work on applying abstract state machines to the specification process<br>- Anoop Gupta\'s work on the "sidebar" and design considerations for peripheral displays<br>- Yi-Min Wang\'s Strider work on system security and cybersecurity, the dangers of undetectable rootkits using virtualization, and most recently "following the money" to understand the double-funnel ecosystm behind Web spam<br>- Photorealistic fabric and water rendering from Baining Guo et al.<br><br>There, that\'s a good start.<br><br>To be clear, I should add that I certainly don\'t think MSR has a perfect record of tech transfer. Everyone at MSR wants to do more tech transfer, and we sometimes get frustrated when we can\'t make it work or it takes too damn long. But then I step back and realize that we\'re far better at this than any other industrial research lab, as near as I can tell, and I feel a little bit better.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673715">alex</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673715" class="dsq-comment-message">Kevin - You list a lot of interesting technologies, and I dont mean to imply that these are not interesting or that they are trivial, not by any means! but  I do know a few areas you list, and I can only say that these are not in the same league as world class ground breaking things you expect from a rsearch lab. e.g. the code rearrangement research predates what was done by Srivastava et. al. From the published description I can only say that it is an important tweak to the existing state of the art, but not a fundamental leap. It was widespread practice befoe Srivastava (ATOM) came to MSR and he did some of the ground breaking before MSR. Not a fundamental contribution from MSR! Maybe you guys tech tranafered it effectively but that is not a research contribution.<br><br>The functional language work you describe was primarily done before the people you list joined MSR (Haskell 89?), so sorry that is not a contribution of MSR by any stretch (they made their name in this field in 1980s)... These are 2 things I know about<br>Jim Gray got his Turing award after he joined MSR but he did the work long before that...<br><br>My impression is that MSR hires famous people, but that is not the same as work nurtured by MSR that became famous. You hire them because they are famous, not because they do work that makes MSR famous, at least based on my field of expertise. It is possible that the other things you mention are different... tell me if I am wrong.<br><br>Peace!<br>A.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673705" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673705" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Looks like I hit a nerve.<br>I’ve never seen you so defensive so as to have to resort to listing articles where you didn’t equate Microsoft with fecal matter.</i><br><br>No you misrepresented me. There\'s a difference. So rather than trying to argue with a closed mind, I presented evidence. Of course, had you bothered to look, you\'d have found it yourself. But being lazy makes it harder for you to misrepresent my work. If you\'d looked at various mailing list archives, you\'d have seen where I\'ve repeatedly said that AD is a *far* better directory service, and its admin tools well above anything Apple has. But again, that would make it harder for you to be a prat.<br><br><i>I saw a link to a “Mac OSX vs Vista” article, clicked on it, saw that you were the offer and didn’t bother to read it because you have zero credibility regarding Microsoft (and zero regarding Apple, it’s just the opposite result).</i><br><br>That\'s funny, I\'ve talked about my qualifications in many places. What are yours? I\'ll put my qualifications to comment about Apple and Microsoft tech implementations at the network and desktop level against yours any day. Please, feel free to list them.<br><br>It\'s too bad you didn\'t read the whole article, because you missed the last part where I said:<br><br><i>... Even so, I think it must be said that Vista is indeed an improvement on Windows XP. Honestly, I think that\'s the only metric that really counts when you think about it: Is Vista better enough than XP to be worth the upgrade? I\'ll say yes. This may be more of a comment on how bad XP really is more than how good Vista is.</i><br><br>See, how good Vista is compared to Mac OS X is immaterial. The real question is if Vista is a clear improvement on *XP*, and it is definitely that.<br><br>But again, why bother researching?<br><br><i>The fact is, you spewed your anti-MS bilge without even looking into the research that Scoble posted about!! Let that sink in. Ponder it. And come to the realization of how screwed up you really are.</i><br><br>Oooh, amateur psychology. Yay! The true sign that you only wanted to fuss at me, and now are all hurty that I didn\'t play your game. Now you try to make opinions and ideas formed by around twenty years of dealing with Microsoft products on a professional level as an administrator be all about a <i>personality</i> defect. Besides, how do you know if I watched or not? Again, the point of my comment wasn\'t that MSR doesn\'t do cool research. It was that by the time the product gets out of MSR to the consumer, it\'s been so thoroughly "beiged" that it\'s as exciting as watching dry paint. But again, why bother reading what I wrote, when all you really cared about was a nice game of ad hominem, and a poorly played one at that.<br><br>You\'re not very good at this whole "ragging on people thing". I recommend you start with an easier target. I\'m sure there\'s a pre-school near you, and if you ask nice, the kids will take it easy on you.<br><br><i>Research is great, but people need to see the fruits of that research in tangible ways that the average consumer can see and enjoy.</i><br><br>It\'s not that Microsoft never lets anything out of R&amp;D. It\'s just that by the time it runs the gauntlet of committees and consensus, all the life has been sucked out of it. That video about what Microsoft would do if they packaged the iPod? That\'s both true and quite sad.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673703" href="http://glpelletier.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Guy Pelletier</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673703" class="dsq-comment-message">John C<br>You had me worried for a minute, but you came through @ 32.<br>Don\'t you hate when you can\'t even get a good argument?<br><br><br>Guy</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673702" href="http://www.makeyougohmm.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TDavid</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673702" class="dsq-comment-message">Is Podtech working on a video permalinks feature like Google has with their video? That would be good to be able to link the timestamps to in your posts, Robert.<br><br>Food for thought, if not.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673711">skc</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673711" class="dsq-comment-message">The funny thing about all the people poo-pooing MSR is that they can\'t point to any other software related company thats doing great research. It\'s all well and good to laugh at Kevins list, but at least point out a company doing better research.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673714">Guiness</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673714" class="dsq-comment-message">John C Welch<br><br>You claim that your articles regarding Microsoft and Apple resemble something like "objective analysis".  Well think on this:<br><br>My aquaintance with your "work" mainly consists of mostly your rants on Scoble\'s blog.  Indeed, I\'d never heard of you until I read your constant Microsoft-bashing on this blog (sorry to bust your ego).  And on this blog, you do indeed give the impression of being a rabid anti-Microsoft, Jobs-worshipping fanboy, that spouts big words in the attempt to show off psuedo-knowledge (an affliction shared by many tech bloggers, BTW).  This leads me to dismiss your articles without bothering to read them, such as the "Mac OS X vs Vista" article.  You can bet that your behavior on this blog has diminished your credibility with others as well.  I\'ve been to other message boards where many do dismiss you as an Apple-fanboy and Microsoft-hater, mostly based on your rantings here.<br><br>So, it would behoove you not to constantly spout anti-MS rhetoric on this blog if you want people to put credence into your articles.<br><br>Again, you bashed Microsoft on this topic without even watching Scoble\'s videos.  And it\'s not like you added anything new, it was just the same garbage that you spout on this blog each and every week, and at least 4 times each week.  Since you brought nothing new to the table and didn\'t watch the videos, why did you even post a comment for this blog entry anyway?  You have a compulsion regarding Microsoft, where you just can\'t help yourself from regurgitating bile.<br><br>Oh, and if you don\'t want to clean up your act for the sake of restoring credibility of your "articles", then at least get some new material so that you don\'t sound like a broken record.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673716">Guiness</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673716" class="dsq-comment-message">John C Welch,<br><br>You cited "That video about what Microsoft would do if they packaged the iPod? That’s both true and quite sad."<br><br>That video was made by Microsoft themselves, and was shown prompt product divisions to use better packaging.  You can\'t point to a Microsoft package like the one in that video since that video was released, so it\'s not "true" and "sad", it\'s "past".<br><br>But again, you\'re too biased against Microsoft to give credit for any improvement at all.  Indeed, you don\'t *want* to see any improvement because you\'d rather bash.  If Microsoft improves anything, you put your hands over your eyes and ears and go "la la la la" so as not to see or hear about it.  And this blog entry is the perfect example.  You spouted your hatred without watching the videos, for fear that you *might* see something that you liked.  And you know what?  *That\'s* what is both "true and sad".</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673704" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673704" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>You claim that your articles regarding Microsoft and Apple resemble something like “objective analysis”. Well think on this:</i><br><br>No, I don\'t. Perfect objectivity is a myth, and the "big lie" of human society. It is neither physically nor psychologically possible to be "objective". The only thing I claim the links I provided show is that I don\'t *always* rag on Microsoft. Objectivity is one of the funniest things ever created, because it\'s utter bullshit. We\'re all trapped inside our own skulls, and everything we say, write, or do is subjective based on that.<br><br><i>My aquaintance with your “work” mainly consists of mostly your rants on Scoble’s blog. Indeed, I’d never heard of you until I read your constant Microsoft-bashing on this blog (sorry to bust your ego). </i><br><br>You have a far bigger impression of my ego than I do. If people like or don\'t like what I write, that\'s fine with me. In fact, I\'d prefer it if fewer people read my site, the bandwidth bills are starting to creep up. Don\'t actively hate on it, that drives up traffic too. Just don\'t read it. Really. It\'s not paying any bills.<br><br><i>And on this blog, you do indeed give the impression of being a rabid anti-Microsoft, Jobs-worshipping fanboy, that spouts big words in the attempt to show off psuedo-knowledge (an affliction shared by many tech bloggers, BTW). This leads me to dismiss your articles without bothering to read them, such as the “Mac OS X vs Vista” article. You can bet that your behavior on this blog has diminished your credibility with others as well. I’ve been to other message boards where many do dismiss you as an Apple-fanboy and Microsoft-hater, mostly based on your rantings here.</i><br><br>Well, to be blunt, if you make up your mind about someone based solely on comments in someone else\'s blog, you\'re rather on the dumb/shallow side, and I\'m far happier that you don\'t read my writing. There\'s enough people like you in the world, and if you all congregate in one place, it\'s easier for me to avoid you.<br><br><i>So, it would behoove you not to constantly spout anti-MS rhetoric on this blog if you want people to put credence into your articles.</i><br><br>I\'m still getting paid to write them, and the rate is going up, so it doesn\'t seem to be a real problem. And if it ever becomes one, so what? All the writing does is fund my "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" collection and buy me new guitars on a regular basis. In any event, I\'m rather content with myself and my life, so DO pardon me if I\'m not changing based on a commenter with the name of a beer that tastes like roofing tar.<br><br><i>Again, you bashed Microsoft on this topic without even watching Scoble’s videos. </i><br><br>And you know this? Proof?<br><br><i>And it’s not like you added anything new, it was just the same garbage that you spout on this blog each and every week, and at least 4 times each week. Since you brought nothing new to the table and didn’t watch the videos, why did you even post a comment for this blog entry anyway? You have a compulsion regarding Microsoft, where you just can’t help yourself from regurgitating bile.</i><br><br>Oh, and of course, YOUR comments are incisive and providing necessary analysis on the video I suppose.<br><br><i>Oh, and if you don’t want to clean up your act for the sake of restoring credibility of your “articles”, then at least get some new material so that you don’t sound like a broken record.</i><br><br>Obviously, this is a real problem for you. So here\'s a tip: Don\'t read anything I write. Don\'t read my comments. Don\'t reply to them. In fact, here\'s a handy mantra: "There is no welch. Welch is dead to me"<br><br>repeat it until you reclaim your psychic balance.<br><br><i>That video was made by Microsoft themselves, and was shown prompt product divisions to use better packaging. You can’t point to a Microsoft package like the one in that video since that video was released, so it’s not “true” and “sad”, it’s “past”.</i><br><br>Actually, yeah, the Vista packaging is kinda lame too.<br><br><i>But again, you’re too biased against Microsoft to give credit for any improvement at all. Indeed, you don’t *want* to see any improvement because you’d rather bash. If Microsoft improves anything, you put your hands over your eyes and ears and go “la la la la” so as not to see or hear about it. And this blog entry is the perfect example. You spouted your hatred without watching the videos, for fear that you *might* see something that you liked. And you know what? *That’s* what is both “true and sad”.</i><br><br>Shhhh...shhh...just stop, and the bad man will go away. The bad man only exists if you let him. Just because the bad man likes Active Directory and Technet and thinks the Mac BU rocks, don\'t listen. You have your mind made up, shhhh. Don\'t let the bad facts in. That\'s it. Chant your mantra. "There is no Welch. Welch is dead to me."<br><br>It\'s okay. Just because you don\'t know whether I watched the videos or not, or that my comment wasn\'t about the quality, or lack thereof in the MSR division, shhhhh. It\'s okay. Facts and truth don\'t matter. It\'s the Welch, and the Welch is evil. Just because my comment was about how Microsoft waters down all their products and hoses them until the cool is gone, like what they did to Zune wireless file sharing, or the inane DRM on downloaded Xbox movies, shhh. It\'s okay. Microsoft is still perfect in your world. Your fanboyism is okay. All your faults are really perfections. It is only the Welch that is evil. Everything you say or do is okay compared to the Welch.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673700" class="dsq-comment-message">John, I don\'t think anybody said MS is perfect, but I will challenge you to name a relevant software company thats doing research you deem worthy of your  praise.<br><br>Should make for an interesting read.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673706" class="dsq-comment-message">@35  I\'m guessing IBM is right up there. They spend $6B a year.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673701" class="dsq-comment-message">Lazy, thanks...now we can pit IBM\'s research against MSR and have a decent discussion.<br><br>Whats coming out of IBM research?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673699" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673699" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>John, I don’t think anybody said MS is perfect, but I will challenge you to name a relevant software company thats doing research you deem worthy of your praise.<br><br>Should make for an interesting read.</i><br><br>Again, i didn\'t make ANY comment on the quality of Microsoft <i>Research</i>. My comment was on how the REST of the company takes a cool idea and FUBARS it in comittee.<br><br>But since you\'re asking, I think that MSR, like any research group, is doing cool stuff. So\'s IBM. (When it comes to research, IBM pwns all). So\'s Apple. So\'s Google.<br><br>The problem with MSR isn\'t the "R" it\'s the "MS". Now, if Microsoft ever really slims down, is run by someone without a pathological need to be the only software company on the planet in ANY category, and stops insisting that branding be done by firehose instead of paint brush, then Microsoft will become a far better company for it.<br><br>But right now, as a company, it has no focus whatsoever, and it shows.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673698">skc</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673698" class="dsq-comment-message">Fair enough John, you\'re basically saying MSR stuff doesn\'t make it into MS products, but you haven\'t pointed out what brilliant research from Apple, Google or IBM makes it into their products...I mean I think thats what the beef is right?<br><br>Whats come out of Google\'s research labs that proves that they have a better track record than MSR for example (given Kevins list of technology transfer from MSR to consumer products). All I would like is a similar such list for any of these competitors. After all, Scobles post IS contrasting MSR and Google research labs.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673697" class="dsq-comment-message">Fair enough John, you\'re basically saying (in a nutshell) that MSR stuff doesn\'t make it into MS products, but you haven\'t pointed out what brilliant research from Apple, Google or IBM makes it into their products...I mean I think thats what the beef is right?<br><br>So whats come out of Google\'s research labs that proves that they have a better track record than MSR for example (given Kevins list of technology transfer from MSR to consumer products). All I would like is a similar such list for any of these competitors. After all, Scobles post IS contrasting MSR and Google research labs.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673696">Bob</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673696" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve just seen part two of Kevin\'s tour.<br><br>The thing that most struck me was the comment by that hapless researcher who was resigned to having everyone\'s 4-core CPU chips all running at 25% capacity forevermore, unless Microsoft can someday find a non-prohibitively complex way to let individual application-level programmers laboriously tell all the cylinders inside the engine to work properly together. What a disappointment to realize that it\'s up to Microsoft to make this happen someday.<br><br>Why is this something that Schofield shouldn\'t just plainly tell Intel to make transparent within the microcode of the CPU chip, so that the typical harried application programmer doesn\'t have to worry at all about whether a program will run at full processor capacity on a CPU? It should be the CPU\'s own business whether it implements its capacity internally with one core or 8 cores or 80 cores. An operating system that can work on distributed machines connected by a network is another matter.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673695" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673695" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Fair enough John, you’re basically saying MSR stuff doesn’t make it into MS products, but you haven’t pointed out what brilliant research from Apple, Google or IBM makes it into their products…I mean I think thats what the beef is right?</i><br><br>No, that\'s not what I\'m saying either. I\'m saying that by the time an idea from MSR has navigated the gauntlet of Microsoft teams, committees, branding, consensus, and me-too, it\'s gone from something that could be cool and new to something two years behind and as bland as sand.<br><br>All the companies, (well, dunno about Google) have been guilty of this at one time or another. IBM\'s a bit of a special case, because some of the stuff coming out of their labs is beyond "esoteric". As well, a lot of IBM\'s research isn\'t so much for products as tech. Hard Drives. Etc.<br><br>So short of a company showing you a precise timeline, you can\'t tell. That\'s assuming the company even really uses its own research. Xerox PARC helped invent Ethernet, but Xerox was never an Ethernet Giant.<br><br>Hence my comment being about Microsoft being so relentless in stripping the cool/fun factor from things, not about the quality of MSR, or the usage percentages of MSR work.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673693" href="http://kschofield.spaces.live.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kevin Schofield</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673693" class="dsq-comment-message">Bob: we talk to Intel a fair amount. Lots of folks are thinking hard about multi-core.<br><br>The problem is that you really can\'t just take a sequential software program and magically parallelize it. The developer needs to think about modelling the parallelism from the beginning.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673694">jimmy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673694" class="dsq-comment-message">skc write:<br><br><i>The funny thing about all the people poo-pooing MSR is that they can’t point to any other software related company thats doing great research. It’s all well and good to laugh at Kevins list, but at least point out a company doing better research</i><br><br>I think you are missing the point. What MSR does(by and large) is what other companies do in advanced product development. Kevin\'s list is a joke. Hardly anything in that list was based on an original idea developed at MSR. Now if you want to call that ground breaking contribution from MSR fine... MSR is a warehouse of stars they hired and who are just reduced to doing incremental improvements to their previous great ideas, doing techfests and tech-transfers. I think it is the greatest waste of talent that there ever has been when you create an elite club of computer scientists who cant be effective.<br><br>Oh before you think I am picking on MSR, Google is the same they are wasting huge amounts of talent too.<br><br>It makes no difference what other software companies do in the name of research.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673692">susan</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673692" class="dsq-comment-message">John C Welch wrote:<br><i>"Actually, yeah, the Vista packaging is kinda lame too. "</i><br><br>???<br>Vista\'s packaging, while you may find it lame (lot\'s of people on Digg like it, even the Microsoft haters there), it\'s nothing like what was shown in that Microsoft iPod video.<br><br>"lame" wasn\'t the issue, cluttered packaging was.  The former is subjective, the latter not (or at least, less so).<br><br>And get real - If OSX came in the same packaging as Vista, you\'d not be declaring it as "lame", and everyone familiar with your writings knows it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673691">Guiness</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673691" class="dsq-comment-message">John C Welch vomitted:<br><i>"I’m still getting paid to write them, and the rate is going up, so it doesn’t seem to be a real problem. "</i><br><br>Two reasons for that:<br>1. Many aren\'t knowledgable about your anti-MS bias.  The readers of Scoble\'s blog certainly are, but those that aren\'t may be fooled into treating your articles as if they\'re worthy of respect.<br><br>2. I never said there wasn\'t a market for tech writing that constantly bashes Microsft and worships the facilities that Jobs to relieve himself.  Apple fanboys certainly will flock to your writings so there is a market for catering to them.  But your writings will never be mistaken for objective analysis by anyone that\'s not drinking the same kool-aid that you do.<br><br><br><i>"Obviously, this is a real problem for you. So here’s a tip: Don’t read anything I write. Don’t read my comments. Don’t reply to them. In fact, here’s a handy mantra: “There is no welch. Welch is dead to me”"</i><br><br>The "real problem" is that you say the same thing every week here.  And no, I\'m not going to ignore you (not that I visit Scoble\'s blog much, certainly not as much as you do).  I\'m not going to put you on a mental "kill file" or "ignore list".  You\'re not worthy of such.  I\'ll ignore you on a case-by-case basis as I do with anyone else.  And I normally do ignore your drivel.  But when I feel like it I\'m going to call you out on the nonsense that you write, particularly when, as in this case, you write "Microsoft sucks" without even reading the blog/videos.<br><br>Oh, and I don\'t need "proof" that you didn\'t watch the videos before posting, anyone reading your first post here (and has read you before) would conclude as much from the very first two sentences.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673690" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673690" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673690" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>“lame” wasn’t the issue, cluttered packaging was. The former is subjective, the latter not (or at least, less so).</i><br><br>"cluttered" is every bit as subjective as "lame" susan. It\'s just that "lame" isn\'t making a BS attempt at objectivity. One syllable, conveys everything I wish it to. I like the greater efficiency and lack of overhead.<br><br><i>And get real - If OSX came in the same packaging as Vista, you’d not be declaring it as “lame”, and everyone familiar with your writings knows it.</i><br><br>Pfft. You ever try asking people what they think first? Actually, I think the OS X box is kind of lame too. It\'s...dull. Yes, that\'s the word. Dull. The last time they had a pimpin\' logo was for Jaguar, and I wanted real fake fur.<br><br>Oh, i\'m sorry, was that the sound of your assumptions crumbling? Better clean them up before someone steps on them.<br><br><br><i>1. Many aren’t knowledgable about your anti-MS bias. The readers of Scoble’s blog certainly are, but those that aren’t may be fooled into treating your articles as if they’re worthy of respect.</i><br><br>No, they know exactly how I feel. I hide nothing in that regard. They also know, unlike you, that I like some things Microsoft does, but they\'re not the kinds of things that get noticed. Active Directory is just brilliant. I wish Microsoft would do MORE to help non-windows systems use it, but jeez, anyone can see it\'s a kick-ass directory service. Same thing with the AD tools.  In fact, the entire MMC concept is really brilliant. The ability to easily extend management tools to suit your needs? I\'ve been on Apple\'s ass for a while about that. (In person quite a few times) Apple wishes they had something as elegant as MSI and Group Policy for installing software across a network. Sure, you can come close with Apple Remote Desktop and Apple installers, but MSI just kicks the crap out of it.<br><br>I think the move to XML by Office should have happened years ago, that 97 format is just shit when it comes to reliability, durability, and scalability. But, I think their attitude towards including translators to the OO format is stupid. I\'m also firmly on Microsoft\'s side with regard to Adobe\'s bullshit with the PDF translators, but if you read my blog (yes, I know, it\'ll take more than ten seconds), you\'ll see that I am no friend of the Acrobat team. The rest of CS? Love them. LOVE them. The Acrobat team? With the exception of the people I personally know on that team, I don\'t trust them at all, they\'re too willing to blatantly bullshit people.<br><br>However, how often does Robert talk about Active Directory, and MMC and the rest? Not bloody often. The stuff he does talk about is, usually, the stuff I dislike, and the truth is, there\'s a lot of stuff in Vista that got changed for the worse, or makes no sense at all from the viewpoint of increasing clarity. Your approval of that idea makes no difference to me.<br><br><i>2. I never said there wasn’t a market for tech writing that constantly bashes Microsft and worships the facilities that Jobs to relieve himself. Apple fanboys certainly will flock to your writings so there is a market for catering to them. But your writings will never be mistaken for objective analysis by anyone that’s not drinking the same kool-aid that you do.</i><br><br>Dude...to be blunt, I don\'t care. If it ended tomorrow, I wouldn\'t care. I\'m having fun. If you think I wrap my self-image up in what you or anyone thinks of my writing, you\'re delusional. I\'ve an inner circle of people who I\'ve come to trust over the decades and they, by and large, do a good job of giving me useful opinions. But you? Shit, by what qualifications do you pass judgement on the quality or lack therof in my writing? I\'ve got around 20 years of IT experience on damned near everything but Mainframes, what\'re your qualifications? See, to me, you\'re just another nimrod on the internet, all hurt and whiny that someone not only doesn\'t agree with you, but laughs at your attempts to "straighten them out".<br><br>I normally don\'t agree with Robert\'s anti-anonymity jihad, I think he misses a lot of points, but dude, really. Stop hiding in your mom\'s basement.<br><br><i>The “real problem” is that you say the same thing every week here. And no, I’m not going to ignore you (not that I visit Scoble’s blog much, certainly not as much as you do). I’m not going to put you on a mental “kill file” or “ignore list”. You’re not worthy of such. I’ll ignore you on a case-by-case basis as I do with anyone else. And I normally do ignore your drivel. But when I feel like it I’m going to call you out on the nonsense that you write, particularly when, as in this case, you write “Microsoft sucks” without even reading the blog/videos.</i><br><br>See, you can\'t even ignore me properly. It\'s like a drug for you. You can disguise it as "calling me out" when I "don\'t watch the video", (I\'m STILL waiting for your proof of that. I mean, if you\'re going to COMPLETELY ignore my point, and accuse me of something, at LEAST have SOME proof of the accusation), but that\'s just a pathetic attempt at crusading.<br><br>Tell the truth "Guiness"(sic).  You do this for one reason. For once, someone\'s paying attention to you. You\'re maybe even getting emails about it. Of course they\'re of two kinds: "YEAH, GET THE ROTTEN BASTARD, YOU SHOW HIMsowedon\'thaveto" or "Dude, he\'s eating this up, you\'re just making him hum a happy tune", but either way, you\'re getting more attention on this blog than you probably get in a month.<br><br>Kinda heady isn\'t it. The best part is, you don\'t have to prove anything. You don\'t have to even be <i>right</i>. See, I\'m a nice target for people like you. I\'m loud, regularly crass, see no reason to be overly nice to people I don\'t know, see no reason to pull punches, and laugh at your bullshit.<br><br>Especially this:<br><br><i>Oh, and I don’t need “proof” that you didn’t watch the videos before posting, anyone reading your first post here (and has read you before) would conclude as much from the very first two sentences.</i><br><br>This reads as:<br><br><i>Okay, you\'ve got me. Obviously, short of having server access and knowledge of every IP address you\'ve used, or had access to in a fortnight or so, I have no way of knowing if you watched, or didn\'t watch the video. I\'d have to claim psychic powers, but then you\'d really abuse me, and there\'d be no way to have *any* dignity at that point. But since you don\'t agree with me and I (supposedly) DID watch the video, then you couldn\'t have watched. Because that would mean that we saw the same thing, and disagree, and for us to disagree means that one of us must be wrong and in my world, that has to be you. Forget about me admitting that your point had nothing to do with the quality, or lack of in the work that MSR does, because at that point, I\'d look like a *complete* nimrod for missing a point that literally, had nothing to do with the video. No, I\'m going to rail at you because YOU\'RE NOT A NICE PERSON, and rely on mobthink to back me up. Facts, schmacts, I\'m crusading against a mean bastard here, facts have no bearing.</i><br><br>Dude, if you showed me your script, I couldn\'t predict you better.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673689" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673689">LayZ</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9673689" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673689" class="dsq-comment-message">@52  "However, how often does Robert talk about Active Directory, and MMC and the rest? Not bloody often"<br><br>Does he talk about it at all?  That is unfortunate.  But the likely reason for that is that he\'s likely never touched it, installed it..in short...never gotten his hands dirty in the corporate IT world. A shame, really, as there is a lot to cover in that space beyond the next cool internet time waster. And with Scoble\'s reach it could be a beneficial "conversation"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9673686" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673686" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673686" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9673686" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673686" class="dsq-comment-message">Right. See, he talks about Microsoft outside of the areas that I like them for. So by definition, (unless i REALLY wanted to hijack things), since he only talks about Microsoft in the areas that I\'m down on them about, well, my opinions of them are going to be negative.<br><br>Funny how context and looking at the larger picture changes things. Well, not for Guiness(sic), because face it, he\'s just in it for the crusadin\'.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9673685" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673685" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673685">Kermit Croaked</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9673685" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673685" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL @ Welch and Guiness trying to get the last word in their pissing contest!<br><br>But it\'s getting boring now.  Both of you should just let it go.<br><br>As for Scoble not talking about things like AD or MMC, it\'s because he knows nothing about them.  Scoble is into gadgets and web services.  He\'s not technically knowledgeable to go beyond that, nor does he pretend to be.  (He\'s not technically knowledgeable about the areas he *does* cover either, but that\'s another story. :p)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9673684" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673684" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673684" href="http://kschofield.spaces.live.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kevin Schofield</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9673684" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673684" class="dsq-comment-message">A comment back to Alex and Jimmy: read the papers before you pass judgment.<br><br>Every single thing I listed is a place where a new direction was founded and papers were published on it. If you want to make up some unattainable or moving target definition of "groundbreaking" so that MSR can\'t possibly match it, fine. But talk to the people who work in these researchers\' domains, and they will all tell you that this is groundbreaking work.<br><br>Cardelli and Peyton-Jones did groundbreaking functional programming work before they joined MSR, and they did lots more once they got to MSR.<br><br>Srivastava et al started the code-rearrangement work before they got to MSR, but they made it scale and work on real production code at MSR. And that\'s the important part.<br><br>And no one tells our researchers what to work on; they pick their own projects. No one forces them to participate in Techfest; they all volunteer. And of course I strongly disagree with the notion that they are wasting their talent; they are all using it to great benefit.<br><br>And just a final thought: if you\'re measuring a research lab on the number of "groundbreaking breakthroughts," then you simply don\'t understand how research is done. 99% of all research is incremental, building upon great work that came before and taking it to the next step. You measure a research lab by whether it\'s advancing the state of the art, getting those advances into commercial products, and overall on the impact that it\'s having.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9673683" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673683" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673683">alex</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673683" class="dsq-comment-message">A note to Kevin. First of all I have read the papers and and I know the fields that I mentioned out of your long list.<br><br>My point was really abot the originality of the work coming out MSR in these 2 areas. For instance, it is well accepted that the work of Srivastava and Eustace on ATOM is a very simple and original idea in a field that had existed for a while. At MSR this was simply applied. No real advances on ideas underlying the original work were reported from the papers I have seen from MSR. So one can view this as the proper completion of a research program started by the authors, and yes that is a valid research method, and worthwhile. However a research lab must be judged also by the contribution to the science as well and that is what I was saying.<br><br>I understand what you are saying, and you dont seem to be denying what I claimed. We just dont agree on how a research lab ought to be judged.<br><br>If I may end on a hopeful and positive note, I\'d like to see MSR work on long term problems that will contribute more to sciences and society, like some of the work that theory group is doing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9673688" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673688" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673688">David L. Crooks</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673688" class="dsq-comment-message">I know that MSR is funded with Billions of dollars (anyone know the total budget since the beginning?) and I have not seen much on the market on a cost/benifit case.  I am not impressed as I would expect cool things from them based on the dollars and effort.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9673687" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673687" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9673687">Onymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9673687" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673687" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d just like to say that comparing PARC to MSR is a little bull%^&amp;*, in PARC\'s day the idea of a mouse was "groundbreaking." Due to the amount of technology already existing and general cynicism the bar for "groundbreaking" is far higher.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9673736" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673736" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673736" href="http://www.www.infinitetech.in/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ganesh Rao</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9673736" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673736" class="dsq-comment-message">Awesome man! Didn\'t know Bill and his men had an underground research lab!<br><br>Will catch up with articles such as these!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9673737" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9673737" href="http://www.www.infinitetech.in/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Offshore Web Hosting</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9673737" class="dsq-comment-message">Didnt know I was the one who replied after such a long time!</div>\
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		// 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);
			}
		}
	});
}

})();




