Yes, because a 49% to 51% vote is so clear cut, especially after the side that got the 51% was exposed as having broken every law in the books and dilapidated public funds in order to do so. Seriously, why are people so against the wishes of some to have freedom and independance ? Would you also call every american dumb if they had lost the first War of Independance and then marched against the English a 2nd time ?
Wasted space ? I doubt it since most people want one. Averse to change ? No, the shape thing has been used before (Palm) and it's much less efficient than a keyboard. Plus having shapes for words makes learning Kanji seem easy. Seriously, the keyboard is one of the best input device for text. And last I checked, SMS, MMS, the frickin root shell, entering contact information is all text based input.
And seriously, it's not because people don't agree with you that you are somehow special and everyone else is averse to change. I personnally just don't like change just for the sake of change. Until someone comes up with something better than the keyboard, and not a virtual one that takes up half the screen space, they can keep their change.
You could, you know, just not use it ? Most of the people who don't want an iPhone want a physical keyboard on their device. Not to mention all the iPhone users who just hate typing without any feedback.
They don't restore the annotations. The annotations are still on the Kindle, except they're not tied to a book anymore. By restoring the book, the annotations are just linked back by the device. See the lawsuit about the guy who had taken notes on his kindle for a paper on 1984. He still has his notes, he just doesn't know what they are referring to without the book.
Adoption of a true IP infrastructure across the board... no more IP over (insert your favorite old tech, like ATM or GSM), and all the extra overhead it causes.
Uh... ? What is a true IP infrastructure in your eyes ? Because I don't see anything in IP that permits physical interconnexion like ATM or GSM does. IP will always be over (insert some link layer and physical media here). Otherwise, IP wouldn't work.
Again, and again, this crap comes up. It never was true in the first place and yet you pro-MS people keep spouting it. The reason they didn't go after OpenOffice is that OpenOffice doesn't infringe on their patent. The reason they "waited" is that they were actually working with Microsoft on getting their technology into Office. They sued when Microsoft dropped them like a bad habit and took the technology for themselves.
The GPL does not give either of us that freedom.
It's about freedom, right?
It's about the code's freedom, not the programmer's freedom. The GPL is the only license that assures code will always be available and that the users of said code will always be able to use any modification made by anyone to that code. If you can't see that as an advantage, as the GP does not, then you don't understand what the GPL is all about.
Not if you want to write commercial software on top of it
That makes no sense. You're essentially saying the GPL isn't open because you can't take code licensed under it and then close it. The GPL is precisely about keeping things open. It is the most Free license out there precisely because it forces people to either play by the open source rules or go write their own.
I bet you thought the GPL's Free was about the programmer's freedom. Sorry, it's not, it's about the code's freedom.
On the other hand, I've seen Oracle DBs still respond properly to queries under a load of close to 200 on a 8-way UltraSparc 3 running Solaris (and the load wasn't because of Oracle, but because of other stuff we had on the box, which we used to do consolidation of services).
Seriously, night and day. Sure the Linux stuff runs fine most of the time for smaller applications, but our SAP instances on HP-UX run much better and fast than those we have running off of Linux.
So what now? I am sitting at a red stoplight, which I know takes at least a minute to switch. I can't take 10 seconds to text someone that I'll be late? It's perfectly safe and the worst thing is that I'll get honked at if the light turns green before I pay attention. I have made a thoughtful, careful choice. Yet according to the law, I am as bad as a drunk driver.
What did you do before the advent of SMS ? Just do that from now on.
No, you still get around 6-7 Gigs back by installing Snow Leopard, but it's reported as higher than that. When we installed it on a Macbook Pro 13" at work, we actually got 15 gigs back. Which was puzzling until we learned that everything was counted in base 10 now, so it makes sense and it is as Apple advertised.
(since Oracle predominantly runs now on cheap Linux/x64 boxen).
Any Oracle we have on cheap Linux/x64 runs like crap. That's why we mostly put it on SPARC, PA-RISC or Itanium hardware with Solaris/HP-UX.
And the plural of box is boxes.
We're actually in the middle of migrating all our Solaris boxes to Itanium HP-UX boxes. Seeing Veritas Cluster Service being replaced by McServiceguard is sad indeed.
Maybe I don't know, Palm could write their own Mac stuff instead of relying on Apple to do it for them ? I don't see how this is anti-competitive, Palm OS is not a Apple product, they don't have to support it, write software for it or update legacy code to work with their new OS.
Palm can do the work themselves if they think it's worth it. Apple isn't stopping them from downloading Xcode and writing a Cocoa based app to sync with their own hardware.
Yes I have. You know what was the common point between all those people ? They never got a computing education. Which is what the FSF is proning. You obviously are failing to understand the concept that trade skills don't belong in higher education. You can go to a trade school if you really want to learn a trade skill.
*Poisoning education - Frankly, writing software for Windows is simply easier (or at least was until recently, it's getting better) especially if the bulk of what you're writing is interface work (like, say, educational software).
Wait what ? Simply easier for interface work ? Until we got.NET, your only option for writing Windows software that was "easy" was Visual Basic. And that was awful, even though building the interface was brain dead. Otherwise, your options were MFC or Win32 and saying those are easier feels very wrong. In the late 90s, writing software for Windows, Mac or Linux was very much on par and it still very much is (no,.NET didn't make anything simpler than new technologies on other platforms).
Maybe your education should have included actual software developement courses instead of just teaching you Visual Studio.NET. Maybe today you wouldn't be poisoned.
If you learn general computing knowledge, be it on Linux, Mac or Windows, you understand every platform. You don't specifically need to "learn on Windows" to use Windows. I've never used Windows at home nor at school and I'm perfectly fine opening my SSH client on my work Windows machine, as well as using Outlook.
Your way of thinking is exactly the problem presented by the FSF and the argument in this very thread. Teaching "Windows" is wrong and is not proper education.
The fact that your school system is broken and your teachers are lazy and stupid is not Microsoft's fault.
Yes it is in fact. Steve Ballmer was the first one to denounce the OLPC with Sugar as "not teaching kids the proper tools for today's workplace". Nevermind the fact that the OLPC with Sugar was a basic learning tool that wasn't even about computing and that it still included a "Show Source" button so that kids could see the source code of exactly what they were doing if they were computing inclined.
I think yes, Microsoft is very much at fault for pushing their products in the school system under the threat of "teaching anything else isn't teaching" turning education establishments into trade skill schools.
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Yes, because a 49% to 51% vote is so clear cut, especially after the side that got the 51% was exposed as having broken every law in the books and dilapidated public funds in order to do so. Seriously, why are people so against the wishes of some to have freedom and independance ? Would you also call every american dumb if they had lost the first War of Independance and then marched against the English a 2nd time ?
Wasted space ? I doubt it since most people want one. Averse to change ? No, the shape thing has been used before (Palm) and it's much less efficient than a keyboard. Plus having shapes for words makes learning Kanji seem easy. Seriously, the keyboard is one of the best input device for text. And last I checked, SMS, MMS, the frickin root shell, entering contact information is all text based input.
And seriously, it's not because people don't agree with you that you are somehow special and everyone else is averse to change. I personnally just don't like change just for the sake of change. Until someone comes up with something better than the keyboard, and not a virtual one that takes up half the screen space, they can keep their change.
You could, you know, just not use it ? Most of the people who don't want an iPhone want a physical keyboard on their device. Not to mention all the iPhone users who just hate typing without any feedback.
You have a root shell on the N900 without having to jailbreak it. What more could you want ?
They don't restore the annotations. The annotations are still on the Kindle, except they're not tied to a book anymore. By restoring the book, the annotations are just linked back by the device. See the lawsuit about the guy who had taken notes on his kindle for a paper on 1984. He still has his notes, he just doesn't know what they are referring to without the book.
Adoption of a true IP infrastructure across the board... no more IP over (insert your favorite old tech, like ATM or GSM), and all the extra overhead it causes.
Uh... ? What is a true IP infrastructure in your eyes ? Because I don't see anything in IP that permits physical interconnexion like ATM or GSM does. IP will always be over (insert some link layer and physical media here). Otherwise, IP wouldn't work.
Again, and again, this crap comes up. It never was true in the first place and yet you pro-MS people keep spouting it. The reason they didn't go after OpenOffice is that OpenOffice doesn't infringe on their patent. The reason they "waited" is that they were actually working with Microsoft on getting their technology into Office. They sued when Microsoft dropped them like a bad habit and took the technology for themselves.
Forgive me if I have little sympathy if you like sounding like an idiot. I bet you use Virii also. Suck it up.
The GPL forces me to offer my software for free
No, it forces you to offer your software for Free. You can charge whatever you want for it.
The GPL does not give either of us that freedom. It's about freedom, right?
It's about the code's freedom, not the programmer's freedom. The GPL is the only license that assures code will always be available and that the users of said code will always be able to use any modification made by anyone to that code. If you can't see that as an advantage, as the GP does not, then you don't understand what the GPL is all about.
Or isn't the GPL considered open anymore?
Not if you want to write commercial software on top of it
That makes no sense. You're essentially saying the GPL isn't open because you can't take code licensed under it and then close it. The GPL is precisely about keeping things open. It is the most Free license out there precisely because it forces people to either play by the open source rules or go write their own.
I bet you thought the GPL's Free was about the programmer's freedom. Sorry, it's not, it's about the code's freedom.
No, I would not advocate doing any those things while driving either. How bout looking at the road ?
On the other hand, I've seen Oracle DBs still respond properly to queries under a load of close to 200 on a 8-way UltraSparc 3 running Solaris (and the load wasn't because of Oracle, but because of other stuff we had on the box, which we used to do consolidation of services). Seriously, night and day. Sure the Linux stuff runs fine most of the time for smaller applications, but our SAP instances on HP-UX run much better and fast than those we have running off of Linux.
So what now? I am sitting at a red stoplight, which I know takes at least a minute to switch. I can't take 10 seconds to text someone that I'll be late? It's perfectly safe and the worst thing is that I'll get honked at if the light turns green before I pay attention. I have made a thoughtful, careful choice. Yet according to the law, I am as bad as a drunk driver.
What did you do before the advent of SMS ? Just do that from now on.
Yeah, but the alternative Mebi and Gibi sounds like something out yaoi. So I'd rather stick with 1 Gigabyte = 1024 Megabytes.
No, you still get around 6-7 Gigs back by installing Snow Leopard, but it's reported as higher than that. When we installed it on a Macbook Pro 13" at work, we actually got 15 gigs back. Which was puzzling until we learned that everything was counted in base 10 now, so it makes sense and it is as Apple advertised.
And its a mac. What did you think? It's as far from a nerdy computer as possible.
Ah.. ignorance.. I've always found computers that provides mystical commands to find out if your EFI is 32 or 64 bit to be nerdy :
We can't forget that under the nice Quartz GUI, there is a Unix core.
(since Oracle predominantly runs now on cheap Linux/x64 boxen).
Any Oracle we have on cheap Linux/x64 runs like crap. That's why we mostly put it on SPARC, PA-RISC or Itanium hardware with Solaris/HP-UX. And the plural of box is boxes.
We're actually in the middle of migrating all our Solaris boxes to Itanium HP-UX boxes. Seeing Veritas Cluster Service being replaced by McServiceguard is sad indeed.
I'm pretty sure it refers to the "Enable Palm OS Syncing" option under the devices menu in iSync.
Maybe I don't know, Palm could write their own Mac stuff instead of relying on Apple to do it for them ? I don't see how this is anti-competitive, Palm OS is not a Apple product, they don't have to support it, write software for it or update legacy code to work with their new OS.
Palm can do the work themselves if they think it's worth it. Apple isn't stopping them from downloading Xcode and writing a Cocoa based app to sync with their own hardware.
Yes I have. You know what was the common point between all those people ? They never got a computing education. Which is what the FSF is proning. You obviously are failing to understand the concept that trade skills don't belong in higher education. You can go to a trade school if you really want to learn a trade skill.
*Poisoning education - Frankly, writing software for Windows is simply easier (or at least was until recently, it's getting better) especially if the bulk of what you're writing is interface work (like, say, educational software).
Wait what ? Simply easier for interface work ? Until we got .NET, your only option for writing Windows software that was "easy" was Visual Basic. And that was awful, even though building the interface was brain dead. Otherwise, your options were MFC or Win32 and saying those are easier feels very wrong. In the late 90s, writing software for Windows, Mac or Linux was very much on par and it still very much is (no, .NET didn't make anything simpler than new technologies on other platforms).
Maybe your education should have included actual software developement courses instead of just teaching you Visual Studio.NET. Maybe today you wouldn't be poisoned.
If you learn general computing knowledge, be it on Linux, Mac or Windows, you understand every platform. You don't specifically need to "learn on Windows" to use Windows. I've never used Windows at home nor at school and I'm perfectly fine opening my SSH client on my work Windows machine, as well as using Outlook.
Your way of thinking is exactly the problem presented by the FSF and the argument in this very thread. Teaching "Windows" is wrong and is not proper education.
The fact that your school system is broken and your teachers are lazy and stupid is not Microsoft's fault.
Yes it is in fact. Steve Ballmer was the first one to denounce the OLPC with Sugar as "not teaching kids the proper tools for today's workplace". Nevermind the fact that the OLPC with Sugar was a basic learning tool that wasn't even about computing and that it still included a "Show Source" button so that kids could see the source code of exactly what they were doing if they were computing inclined.
I think yes, Microsoft is very much at fault for pushing their products in the school system under the threat of "teaching anything else isn't teaching" turning education establishments into trade skill schools.