The US (and the Brits) send enormous amounts of Lend-Lease support to the Soviets in WW2. Without that it's likely they would have ended up in a stalemate with the Germans for a while, being bled out.
Eh, the Soviets wouldn't have lost. The Germans lacked the manpower and logistics to actually overrun the rest of the Soviet Union. That said without western allied support they wouldn't have pushed the Germans back with anywhere near the speed they had IRL.
Basically our entire world right now can be traced back to WW1 really. WW1 and WW2, which was directly caused by WW!, completely re-wrote the entirety of the world order.
The question is is it worth the developers time to continue working on it when there's so many other options available. From what I can gather the KDE devs think no, but keep it around for Reasons (tm).
7 had a huge lack of features and then was totally abandoned. 8 started out feature poor but got better over time. I haven't touched 10. I worked for WP support for a while, but not any longer and since my carrier doesn't support WP I have an Android. I still have my Lumia 520 that I won at work, but it's just for playing the occasional game for achievements.
WP has what it takes, but it got it too late, had too many missteps along the way and lost the mindshare war. So the only way it can make a dent is if one of the others takes a dive.
Don't forget that he got a TON of free stuff from Microsoft. Even if you hate Microsoft he could easily sell that for thousands. I think he came out of this in pretty damn good shape personally.
War is the way of Man.
Man is the means of War.
You allow us War.
Our worship is our readiness.
It is proper to adhere to our nature,
Aggression is natural,
We are meant to be aggressive.
Through war we are purified,
Through slaughter we are enlightened,
I cast thee, Nex Alea,
May fortune find strength in me,
So that my weaknesses be absolved.
Preaching to the choir. We even had tech leads who were required to vet escalations to Tier 2 and stuff still got through regularly. There was only a path to Tier 2 for a short time, when I started it was a different contract, when I left there was no Tier 2, they had expanded their in-house Tier 3 support and moved to directly escalating to them.
Chicken and egg. If there's still maintained OSes running 32-bit then there's no reason for them to swap over, so the swap won't happen unless it's forced. If it's forced then all the systems manufactured until then are made obsolete, and a lot of embedded systems don't have high turnover rates.
"I'm willing to bet there are still Windows 95 machines running somewhere in mission critical systems in places around the world."
As of about 5 years ago there was one in a paper mill I was working at. Since they were only using it because there was no new drivers for the thing it was plugged into I'm willing to bet it's still there unless it broke.
The IT guy had a copy of Windows 1.0 in a drawer in the server room too.
On the other hand I worked for Xbox for years and many times we'd have ISPs sending people to us because they could get service to their home so OBVIOUSLY it wasn't the ISPs fault! Except it was. The ISP was providing sub-par service that technically worked, but was out of spec, and so they needed to make adjustments to get the customer back up to speed.
We had an entire group whose primary job was calling ISPs and getting them to fix their shit.
Indeed. The job simply sucks, so most people won't stay anyway. At my place a quarter of my training class was gone within 2 months and I don't think any of them were fired.
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YOU'RE JUST A MISOGYNIST!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!!!!!!!
But yeah, stats lie, and more and more I find it hard to support the left because of things like this.
No, it's never enough.
The US (and the Brits) send enormous amounts of Lend-Lease support to the Soviets in WW2. Without that it's likely they would have ended up in a stalemate with the Germans for a while, being bled out.
Eh, the Soviets wouldn't have lost. The Germans lacked the manpower and logistics to actually overrun the rest of the Soviet Union. That said without western allied support they wouldn't have pushed the Germans back with anywhere near the speed they had IRL.
Basically our entire world right now can be traced back to WW1 really. WW1 and WW2, which was directly caused by WW!, completely re-wrote the entirety of the world order.
There's plenty of people today that seem to believe that an accusation is proof.
Check the director listing on Search for Spock. That's why he agreed to do it.
The question is is it worth the developers time to continue working on it when there's so many other options available. From what I can gather the KDE devs think no, but keep it around for Reasons (tm).
7 had a huge lack of features and then was totally abandoned. 8 started out feature poor but got better over time. I haven't touched 10. I worked for WP support for a while, but not any longer and since my carrier doesn't support WP I have an Android. I still have my Lumia 520 that I won at work, but it's just for playing the occasional game for achievements.
WP has what it takes, but it got it too late, had too many missteps along the way and lost the mindshare war. So the only way it can make a dent is if one of the others takes a dive.
I use a separate browser for Facebook. It's not much, but it's something.
Agreed.
Don't forget that he got a TON of free stuff from Microsoft. Even if you hate Microsoft he could easily sell that for thousands. I think he came out of this in pretty damn good shape personally.
It's all about the narrative. If they admit he didn't do shit worth talking about then they'd have to admit that half of the narrative was a lie.
But muh feelings.
Your implication is that de-evolution into an Orwellian world isn't the goal. I believe you'll find that is not the case.
May I introduce you to the Murdercube?
http://kweapons.wikia.com/wiki/Glorious_Murder_Cube
War is the way of Man. Man is the means of War. You allow us War. Our worship is our readiness.
It is proper to adhere to our nature, Aggression is natural, We are meant to be aggressive.
Through war we are purified, Through slaughter we are enlightened, I cast thee, Nex Alea, May fortune find strength in me, So that my weaknesses be absolved.
Saluto Nex Alea.
Since no one else has stepped up.
*Ahem!*
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!
You've got perhaps a misplaced level of trust in the justice system.
Preaching to the choir. We even had tech leads who were required to vet escalations to Tier 2 and stuff still got through regularly. There was only a path to Tier 2 for a short time, when I started it was a different contract, when I left there was no Tier 2, they had expanded their in-house Tier 3 support and moved to directly escalating to them.
Chicken and egg. If there's still maintained OSes running 32-bit then there's no reason for them to swap over, so the swap won't happen unless it's forced. If it's forced then all the systems manufactured until then are made obsolete, and a lot of embedded systems don't have high turnover rates.
"I'm willing to bet there are still Windows 95 machines running somewhere in mission critical systems in places around the world."
As of about 5 years ago there was one in a paper mill I was working at. Since they were only using it because there was no new drivers for the thing it was plugged into I'm willing to bet it's still there unless it broke.
The IT guy had a copy of Windows 1.0 in a drawer in the server room too.
That would require getting the right agent though, not so easy.
On the other hand I worked for Xbox for years and many times we'd have ISPs sending people to us because they could get service to their home so OBVIOUSLY it wasn't the ISPs fault! Except it was. The ISP was providing sub-par service that technically worked, but was out of spec, and so they needed to make adjustments to get the customer back up to speed.
We had an entire group whose primary job was calling ISPs and getting them to fix their shit.
Indeed. The job simply sucks, so most people won't stay anyway. At my place a quarter of my training class was gone within 2 months and I don't think any of them were fired.