"Hey, want to know a secret? Vista has more features than Linux."
Pfffffffttttttttttt!!!!!
What? Are you out of your mind, or just being sarcastic?
You're risking the wrath of thousands of very pissed-off penguins, my friend. Better don the flame-retardant (and bite resistant) suit while you've still got the chance...
"So, some of you bleeding heart liberals, better get ready to bend over and put your head between your legs and pray, because, indeed we are being compromised"
What does that mean? Do you actually believe that "bleeding heart liberals" are in favour of an incompetent/corrupt military?
"In the mid 70's, the American public wasn't terribly interested in funding anything even remotely related to space. What little interest had long since drained away after Apollo 13 (and would have probably been gone after Apollo 12 had the explosion not happened)."
I think a lot of people were pretty interested, until they saw the astronauts driving around in a buggy and playing golf. Even I, as a wide-eyed youth, thought that was a huge waste of time and money. It didn't help that the astronaut's egos were starting to rub people the wrong way. When asked about the frivolity of golfing on the moon, Shepard said something along the lines of, "STFU! I'm an astronaut, WTF are you?"
We were expecting them to start building a moon base in preparation for the Mars Mission. Instead, all we got was that POS Skylab...
"it's probably Gates and Microsoft that helped big a big part of your soapbox."
I've been using computers since the punch-card days, before personal computers even existed. I can assure you that Bill Gates and Microsoft had very little to do with the initial format of the PC - it was a little company called IBM. Gates was just lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. He didn't even write MS-DOS 1.0 - he bought it.
As for where things went from there, it was pretty much the consumer that decided they wanted "IBM compatibility", which meant DOS compatibility. By the time version 4 of MSDOS was being written, Gates and company had already begun building in code that was specifically designed to sabotage competitors' applications. I've been a Gates hater ever since - and anyone else who was around back then who didn't have his head up his ass (or was an unapologetic fascist bootlicker like yourself) hated Gates too.
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"Hey, want to know a secret? Vista has more features than Linux." Pfffffffttttttttttt!!!!! What? Are you out of your mind, or just being sarcastic? You're risking the wrath of thousands of very pissed-off penguins, my friend. Better don the flame-retardant (and bite resistant) suit while you've still got the chance...
"... in desktops, where it's trivial and normal to have full backups ..."
If only that were even close to true...
"So, some of you bleeding heart liberals, better get ready to bend over and put your head between your legs and pray, because, indeed we are being compromised" What does that mean? Do you actually believe that "bleeding heart liberals" are in favour of an incompetent/corrupt military?
"DOS 4 was a hugh piece of crap that IBM force upon Microsoft." That's news to me. How did this happen, and why?
"In the mid 70's, the American public wasn't terribly interested in funding anything even remotely related to space. What little interest had long since drained away after Apollo 13 (and would have probably been gone after Apollo 12 had the explosion not happened)." I think a lot of people were pretty interested, until they saw the astronauts driving around in a buggy and playing golf. Even I, as a wide-eyed youth, thought that was a huge waste of time and money. It didn't help that the astronaut's egos were starting to rub people the wrong way. When asked about the frivolity of golfing on the moon, Shepard said something along the lines of, "STFU! I'm an astronaut, WTF are you?" We were expecting them to start building a moon base in preparation for the Mars Mission. Instead, all we got was that POS Skylab...
"it's probably Gates and Microsoft that helped big a big part of your soapbox."
I've been using computers since the punch-card days, before personal computers even existed. I can assure you that Bill Gates and Microsoft had very little to do with the initial format of the PC - it was a little company called IBM. Gates was just lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. He didn't even write MS-DOS 1.0 - he bought it.
As for where things went from there, it was pretty much the consumer that decided they wanted "IBM compatibility", which meant DOS compatibility. By the time version 4 of MSDOS was being written, Gates and company had already begun building in code that was specifically designed to sabotage competitors' applications. I've been a Gates hater ever since - and anyone else who was around back then who didn't have his head up his ass (or was an unapologetic fascist bootlicker like yourself) hated Gates too.
"I own a business that's all MS right now..."
Really? Then please explain this: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?display=uptime &site=phydeauxpets.com&find_site=GO.
If your business is "all MS", then why are you using CentOS for your web site? I guess ISS couldn't do the job for you...
What a troll...