You can expect better gas mileage or pollution controls or crash survivability or fuel economy tomorrow.
The idea that progress is inevitable and expected is a well established notion of modern civilization.
Progress is not conspicuous consumption. If you're conflating the two then you're the one that's got the problem and you are in no position to look down on anyone else.
I like my things to do more and to be better. That's progress. That's why you're not cowering in a cave somewhere. That's why you have your cushy life and a relative certainty that you will even live long enough to enjoy it.
No one needs to be specifically trained in Brand X products in order to be able to use them on aome job. Computing skills when taught properly are quite independent of the brand of tool involved.
Given the way that disposable incomes work between the US and Europe, I suspect that I can still "pay more" for a good German/Belgian/Czech/Estonian beer here in the States and still be paying less for it than anyone in any of the places were my beer actually came for.
If you can use one word processor, you should be able to use any of them.
This isn't the era of Word Perfect for DOS when secretaries were expected to type 60 WPM and know the keyboard shortcuts and understand the markup language.
Besides, even the monopoly product is not a constant. So creating a course based on chasing the monopoly product doesn't make sense base on your rationale either.
A very miniscule proportion of what attracts Valve to Ubuntu has anything to do with what Canonical has done. Like any other distribution, Ubuntu is the combination of a number of upstream projects. Canonical really gets much more than it gives in this respect.
What Canonical does is mainly configuration management and that it tends to do poorly. They already have a bad reputation for pushing out versions before they're ready or making other bad decisions.
The fact that they've decided to put on the afterburners after having jumped the shark is really no surprise to anyone.
No. We just have some understanding of what's going on here.
This just isn't about two marketing machines fighting. The US patent office and the US courts are involved. That makes the stakes considerably higher. The results could have serious long term consequences.
In terms of "the big picture", patents very much matter.
In some place they mean the difference between life and death.
Your just trying to white wash the situation and pretend that there is nothing serious or important going on here.
> I doubt Apple will ever copy the cheap feeling the Galaxy SIII has when you hold it in your hand. I have been an iPhone user since the 3G
I dumped my 3GS for a Galaxy phone. This "cheap feeling" propaganda is just mindless rhetoric that is the last resort of fanboys that don't have enough clue to criticize something meaningful.
You can't say anything technical so you go for the most superficial and subjective thing you can.
> why is it suddenly "racist" to demand ID to vote?
You are not fooling anyone. We have a long a shameful past of disenfranchisement in this country. You can try to white wash it but it's pretty obvious what you're advocating.
It's just a Poll Tax in disguise.
As I said. Apathy is a far more important problem than fraud.
> Are you seriously asking this in a straight face?
Been there and done that already. Some of us have been doing this for years going on decades. It's really not as dire as fear mongers like you make it out to be.
Your nonsense helps perpetuate the monopoly.
It's not just about Free Software either. This "Big Lie" also impacts any other commercial software that dares to stand as alternative to monopolyware.
Even if there are problems, people will blame them on Microsoft as they are used to Microsoft fuck ups even when it comes to sharing files between different copies of msoffice.
Not everyone should need to waste money on a Word Perfect wannabe just because some corporation managed to convince everyone that their file format is some kind of defacto standard.
It's about on par with everyone being expected to install a copy of the Oracle database.
> Yeah - try applying those bolded words to elections in the US and you're RAAACIST!!!!
Because you are. The idea that voter fraud is any real problem is just a clansman fantasy. That's not the real problem. The real problem is that voter turnout pathetically low.
The fact that a clansman like you wants to put barriers in front of those that want to encourage greater voter participation is the real problem.
More participation does more to negate the imagined harm of voter fraud then any other action you could take. It also doesn't require the intentional or unintentional disenfranchisement of any rightful voter.
Unless you have thousands of dollars to buy such apps, it doesn't matter that much really.
In the meantime, I can have a much faster machine that's also more maintainable. I can upgrade my storage and video card with ease rather than contributing to the local land fill.
Apple brand doorstops are like bitch slapping your mother.
Is she a helpless ninny or not? Some people are just beyond hope. If they can't be bothered to open a terminal then they are probably hopeless regardless of what OS you're using.
I know a 90 year old "great grandma" that would have no problems executing any well documented recipe you gave her.
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You can expect better gas mileage or pollution controls or crash survivability or fuel economy tomorrow.
The idea that progress is inevitable and expected is a well established notion of modern civilization.
Progress is not conspicuous consumption. If you're conflating the two then you're the one that's got the problem and you are in no position to look down on anyone else.
This is a question of quality.
Clearly that is something you just don't get.
I like my things to do more and to be better. That's progress. That's why you're not cowering in a cave somewhere. That's why you have your cushy life and a relative certainty that you will even live long enough to enjoy it.
The habitable area of Japan is miniscule. It would be more like comparing to Delaware or Massachusets.
That's just the nature of tech in the modern age.
Anything you buy today is already obsolete.
Someone managed to make that observation in the 80s. Probably thought he was really insightful at the time.
You are trying to invoke the Brand X fallacy.
No one needs to be specifically trained in Brand X products in order to be able to use them on aome job. Computing skills when taught properly are quite independent of the brand of tool involved.
Given the way that disposable incomes work between the US and Europe, I suspect that I can still "pay more" for a good German/Belgian/Czech/Estonian beer here in the States and still be paying less for it than anyone in any of the places were my beer actually came for.
Beer tastes like crap. There is just a lot of group think behind it.
If you can use one word processor, you should be able to use any of them.
This isn't the era of Word Perfect for DOS when secretaries were expected to type 60 WPM and know the keyboard shortcuts and understand the markup language.
Besides, even the monopoly product is not a constant. So creating a course based on chasing the monopoly product doesn't make sense base on your rationale either.
> Manipulating tables in Access is also a good precursor to working with real SQL.
Your entire response was just so full of fail but this one especially takes the cake.
A very miniscule proportion of what attracts Valve to Ubuntu has anything to do with what Canonical has done. Like any other distribution, Ubuntu is the combination of a number of upstream projects. Canonical really gets much more than it gives in this respect.
What Canonical does is mainly configuration management and that it tends to do poorly. They already have a bad reputation for pushing out versions before they're ready or making other bad decisions.
The fact that they've decided to put on the afterburners after having jumped the shark is really no surprise to anyone.
No. We just have some understanding of what's going on here.
This just isn't about two marketing machines fighting. The US patent office and the US courts are involved. That makes the stakes considerably higher. The results could have serious long term consequences.
In terms of "the big picture", patents very much matter.
In some place they mean the difference between life and death.
Your just trying to white wash the situation and pretend that there is nothing serious or important going on here.
> I don't really care what a company does. If I like their products, I buy them. :) Anything else is silly.
Except the bully here is trying to interfere with that.
So other objections are hardly silly.
You seem eager to support or tolerate those that would strip the rest of us of our freedom to choose.
Apple really is the new Microsoft.
> I doubt Apple will ever copy the cheap feeling the Galaxy SIII has when you hold it in your hand. I have been an iPhone user since the 3G
I dumped my 3GS for a Galaxy phone. This "cheap feeling" propaganda is just mindless rhetoric that is the last resort of fanboys that don't have enough clue to criticize something meaningful.
You can't say anything technical so you go for the most superficial and subjective thing you can.
On what? Long filename schemes that weren't the least bit inventive?
> why is it suddenly "racist" to demand ID to vote?
You are not fooling anyone. We have a long a shameful past of disenfranchisement in this country. You can try to white wash it but it's pretty obvious what you're advocating.
It's just a Poll Tax in disguise.
As I said. Apathy is a far more important problem than fraud.
> Are you seriously asking this in a straight face?
Been there and done that already. Some of us have been doing this for years going on decades. It's really not as dire as fear mongers like you make it out to be.
Your nonsense helps perpetuate the monopoly.
It's not just about Free Software either. This "Big Lie" also impacts any other commercial software that dares to stand as alternative to monopolyware.
Even if there are problems, people will blame them on Microsoft as they are used to Microsoft fuck ups even when it comes to sharing files between different copies of msoffice.
It's a WORD PROCESSOR. It's something that should have been a well understood problem 20 years ago. Never mind 9.
Plenty of Free Software but that's not the point.
The OP was talking about FORMATS, not software. You're far to eager to engage in lame trolling to actually read what you're responding to.
...which covers about 95% of the users.
Not everyone should need to waste money on a Word Perfect wannabe just because some corporation managed to convince everyone that their file format is some kind of defacto standard.
It's about on par with everyone being expected to install a copy of the Oracle database.
> Only dirty open source hippies expect things to be free. The rest of us are perfectly willing to pay for things
Don't kid yourself. Windows users steal anything that isn't nailed down and then pass it around like party favors.
Microsoft's market share was built on this.
A Linux "freeloader" is far more likely to acknowledge that there is a license.
Nope. Jobs is the new Locutus. Although he isn't even around anymore so it would have to be his successor who's name I can't be bothered to remember.
> Yeah - try applying those bolded words to elections in the US and you're RAAACIST!!!!
Because you are. The idea that voter fraud is any real problem is just a clansman fantasy. That's not the real problem. The real problem is that voter turnout pathetically low.
The fact that a clansman like you wants to put barriers in front of those that want to encourage greater voter participation is the real problem.
More participation does more to negate the imagined harm of voter fraud then any other action you could take. It also doesn't require the intentional or unintentional disenfranchisement of any rightful voter.
Participation is the problem, not "fraud".
Unless you have thousands of dollars to buy such apps, it doesn't matter that much really.
In the meantime, I can have a much faster machine that's also more maintainable. I can upgrade my storage and video card with ease rather than contributing to the local land fill.
Apple brand doorstops are like bitch slapping your mother.
It really depends.
Is she a helpless ninny or not? Some people are just beyond hope. If they can't be bothered to open a terminal then they are probably hopeless regardless of what OS you're using.
I know a 90 year old "great grandma" that would have no problems executing any well documented recipe you gave her.
HER daughter is a helpless ninny.
It's not necessarily an age thing.
I dunno. Perhaps they should try what every other serious consumer oriented distribution has done: actually sell the product.