It's kind of like saying "I have a rock in my pocket, that prevents lions from eating us."
Now we all know the rock isn't preventing the lions, there are none in canada, so they CAN'T eat us. Let it go.. But letting something like that just "go" gives plausibility to the whole "lions not eating people because of the rock stuff".
This is not a story about Steve Jobs being evil or Richard Stallman being "right"
Richard Stallman, for all the good work he does, damages his movement by belittling people. And to do this when people are mourning Steve Jobs, is classless. Mourning is NOT for the deceased, it is for the bereaved. It is a healing process. To come out on this occasion to belittle Steve Jobs, is ineffective and just not nice.
If Richard Stallman wants his movement to succeed, he should be a little more classy.
And no, being right doesn't entitle you to be a jerk. What he did was wrong and not amount of "good programming" can excuse this sort of behavior
And several people have said that Steve Jobs (and bill gates) can be "hard" to work for.
A friend of mine that worked with Richard Stallman, said he was a petulant child.
He may be right, but that doesn't excuse his behavior.
Other people are right too, and they don't insult me while they are teaching me.
I'm glad to see this go from flamebait to insightful. I agree with most of what was said here. Presentation, can be as important as functionality, as engineers we sometimes forget that. People like Jobs has made computers a LOT easier for users to use. I believe that the thing he did best was make computer become transparent and the task at hand be most important. Yes apples turn on and just work. and that is a very very good thing.
yeah FOSS would be better off without richard making embarrassing statements when we mourn for Steve Jobs.
yeah, right, have you noticed that apple computer (they make mobile devices, don't they) has passed Microsoft in both Stock value and Gross revenues.....
I would have to agree that verizon is bad with customers. I used their FIOS for awhile, liked the FIOS but hated the customer support.
They have a robot answer the phone. YOU CANNOT GET PAST THE ROBOT to a human!! unless you do amazing things.
The first thing they ask for is a phone number, I don't have one, they then need a strange account number, that is on my bill. If I don't have the bill I can't talk to someone.
I have had to hang up sometimes because I don't have a bill in front of me.
Everyone else puts me through to an operator after hitting 0 about 3 to 8 times
Not verizon. I hate them and won't use them.
Even if their products are better. Did I say I hate them....
So you don't mind eating a 100 pound bag of fertilizer for a penny.... I got a lot of pennies start munching........oh and be proud of it while you doing it:)
and users aren't screaming about sub pixel rendering. Probably most of them won't notice.
This is an obvious continuation of Microsoft's war on everything non microsoft, and you a shill for spreading they're lies.....
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Perhaps: "The Pompeii Manual of City Placement"
or
"The 1882 Home Buyers Guide: Krakatoa edition". (it blew up in 1883)
yeah, I used to think Punch cards were great.......
Then people laughed at me and called me an idiot.........
really I can't login to my illiac 7 any more.......oh the sorrow
And despite the zune and windows 8, I don't think they "get" consumers they same.
Look at vista, as a response to Mac OS
really pretty, but missing the point.
It's kind of like saying "I have a rock in my pocket, that prevents lions from eating us."
Now we all know the rock isn't preventing the lions, there are none in canada, so they CAN'T eat us. Let it go.. But letting something like that just "go"
gives plausibility to the whole "lions not eating people because of the rock stuff".
So It is bad, and it makes them look like idiots.
No it isn't. It's just contradiction.
O give me a clone, of the downed US drone, with the Y chromosome changed to X.......
(it was funny in the 80's)
This is not a story about Steve Jobs being evil or Richard Stallman being "right"
Richard Stallman, for all the good work he does, damages his movement by belittling people. And to do this when people
are mourning Steve Jobs, is classless. Mourning is NOT for the deceased, it is for the bereaved. It is a healing process. To come out
on this occasion to belittle Steve Jobs, is ineffective and just not nice.
If Richard Stallman wants his movement to succeed, he should be a little more classy.
And no, being right doesn't entitle you to be a jerk. What he did was wrong and not amount of "good programming" can excuse this sort of behavior
And several people have said that Steve Jobs (and bill gates) can be "hard" to work for.
A friend of mine that worked with Richard Stallman, said he was a petulant child.
He may be right, but that doesn't excuse his behavior.
Other people are right too, and they don't insult me while they are teaching me.
I agree about the consultant thing, As a consultant, I don't feel f**ked.
But everything else that PopeRatzo said is spot on!!!
I really agree, and it may take someone older (like my 53 year self) to see, it wasn't this bad 12 years ago, it wasn't bad at all in the 90's....
it's pretty bad now.
that was funny
I'm glad to see this go from flamebait to insightful. I agree with most of what was said here. Presentation, can be as important as functionality, as engineers we sometimes forget that. People like Jobs has made computers a LOT easier for users to use. I believe that the thing he did best was make computer become transparent and the task at hand be most important. Yes apples turn on and just work. and that is a very very good thing.
yeah FOSS would be better off without richard making embarrassing statements when we mourn for Steve Jobs.
Microsoft claims that this release has a 'people-first' attitude...
by k and r
they can't swim or have a navy.......
2008
oh and yeah, we can say the US isn't perfect here without reprisal.
Here in South Boston on 'A' street. Felt a slight shake twice for about 15-20 secs.
I don't know if I agree with this. When I get a new video game (like wii etc...)
I expect 20 to 40 hours of game play to "finish" it. like for Mario or zelda or in the older days Final Fantasy.
When I got the lord of the rings games, the two towers and the return of the king. I got though all 10 levels the first day.
With the built in HTML 5 databases and HTML 5 app cache you will be able to do that offline too
Really
http://gizmodo.com/5156357/browser+based-offline-gmail-demonstrated-on-iphone-android
really it's happening already.
This is a video of gmail running offline with full features....
So I wonder if MS is going to do this eventually.....
They made fun of Google docs. And now they are doing it.... but not for free....
Does anyone really want to pay for this stuff anymore..... I don't......
yeah, right, have you noticed that apple computer (they make mobile devices, don't they) has passed Microsoft in both Stock value and Gross revenues.....
So you're right, it was this year.....
you probably bought a zune, didn't you.
I would have to agree that verizon is bad with customers. I used their FIOS for awhile, liked the FIOS but hated the customer support.
They have a robot answer the phone. YOU CANNOT GET PAST THE ROBOT to a human!! unless you do amazing things.
The first thing they ask for is a phone number, I don't have one, they then need a strange account number, that is on my bill. If I don't have the bill I can't talk to someone.
I have had to hang up sometimes because I don't have a bill in front of me.
Everyone else puts me through to an operator after hitting 0 about 3 to 8 times
Not verizon. I hate them and won't use them.
Even if their products are better.
Did I say I hate them....
I see a lot of people slamming facebook and social web sites.
They usually do it on some website, while being social.
What makes their comments better than ones on facebook.
That was clever in a recursive way.
So you don't mind eating a 100 pound bag of fertilizer for a penny.... I got a lot of pennies start munching........oh and be proud of it while you doing it :)
and users aren't screaming about sub pixel rendering. Probably most of them won't notice.
This is an obvious continuation of Microsoft's war on everything non microsoft, and you a shill for spreading they're lies.....
The only time I wouldn't use Linux is for video editing.
It's still a little weak there. But I use multiple OS's anyway....