There are plenty of legacy applications that will never be recompiled, because the source code was lost or the company that has it doesn't care anymore or dissolved. Businesses may even rely on such applications for business-critical processes.
More fool them if they are relying on abondonware for their business critical processes.
I would first search the exoplanets pointed to by the most interesting crop circles from the global crop circles database [cropcircleresearch.com] why do the hard work when the aliens have done it for us, just draw a line from the centre of the Earth, through the crop circle to the appropriate starsystem
So the aliens are coming down to Earth from hundreds of light years away, and leaving hints in crop circles about what planets they are coming from instead of just saying hi? And they happen to use a calling card that is easily duplicated by low level technology? And the aliens happened to start in a handful of Western countries and then spread their message around the globe?
I was talking to my barber a few days ago. Nice chap by the name of Occam. He had some interesting things to say about this sort of claim.
Dont underestimate the power of a committee to produce the illogical.
Dont assume that committees dont exist on other worlds.
I disagree. Games do matter. The reason I first started getting under the hood of my DOS6.22/Windows 3.1 PC was to get games running when I was a kid. That kind of early exposure is invaluable in driving OS adoption.
What am I running that I cant get elsewhere? Nothing really, however with Windows I can run Photoshop, a compliler and play games without having to buy a Mac, install Ubuntu or buy a console. I can do all of that with one Windows installation and it is that flexibilty that people like.
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You cannot polish a turd.
....but you can roll it in glitter.
If you had RTFA you would realise your angry tirade is misjudged.
We dont know what it is......therefore we know its a spaceship from a galaxy far far away.
And the week after, no screen, just keyboard and mouse.
There are plenty of legacy applications that will never be recompiled, because the source code was lost or the company that has it doesn't care anymore or dissolved. Businesses may even rely on such applications for business-critical processes.
More fool them if they are relying on abondonware for their business critical processes.
I would first search the exoplanets pointed to by the most interesting crop circles from the global crop circles database [cropcircleresearch.com] why do the hard work when the aliens have done it for us, just draw a line from the centre of the Earth, through the crop circle to the appropriate starsystem
So the aliens are coming down to Earth from hundreds of light years away, and leaving hints in crop circles about what planets they are coming from instead of just saying hi? And they happen to use a calling card that is easily duplicated by low level technology? And the aliens happened to start in a handful of Western countries and then spread their message around the globe?
I was talking to my barber a few days ago. Nice chap by the name of Occam. He had some interesting things to say about this sort of claim.
Dont underestimate the power of a committee to produce the illogical. Dont assume that committees dont exist on other worlds.
I disagree. Games do matter. The reason I first started getting under the hood of my DOS6.22/Windows 3.1 PC was to get games running when I was a kid. That kind of early exposure is invaluable in driving OS adoption.
What am I running that I cant get elsewhere? Nothing really, however with Windows I can run Photoshop, a compliler and play games without having to buy a Mac, install Ubuntu or buy a console. I can do all of that with one Windows installation and it is that flexibilty that people like.