Spain had colonies in the 16th century, Portugal had colonies in the 16th century, Newfoundland and Northern Quebec had independent whaling centers run by the basques that had up to 2.000 people in summer and the biggest one had probably about 200 permanent inhabitants at its height, and France's colonies in Florida didn't fail because of weather, but because of war with Spain making them unable to devote money to the defence of outposts in America when they're in the middle of a four-five way civil war. And then there's France and the Netherland's northern colonies which didn't face the same amounts of death.
Firefox is a) not linux and b) mostly not written by school kids. The Linux GUI is a red herring (and for info, Solaris uses GNOME while the *BSDs (usually) use KDE on the desktop, IRIX is pretty much dead, MacOS uses its own GUI Cocoa-based GUI running on Aqua, leaving AIX and HP-UX which I haven't touched... And admittedly Plan 9) - and both projects are heavily written, again, by professional programmers and not school kids. But congratulations, you managed to write a long strawman without taking a breath.
I replied below, but continuity of government only really matters if there's claims to breaking the continuity of state. of course if the grand dukes of Tuscany had suddenly claimed to be kings of Italy, they'd have been laughed at to death if they didn't manage to actually bring it on and prove it vs the other north italian princes who would have been on the path.
Also, Hungary only ceased to be sovereign independently of Austria in the 19th century, and this lasted until 1867, which is where modern hungary started to exist, somewhat. Hungary was recognized as an equal member in the Austro-Hungarian empire with the Imperial lands, unlike, say, Bohemia, Galicia or Austria itself, and Croatia was legally a province of the empire and a dozen counties of Hungary- for one, Hungary had delegations from the very beginning of the olympic games. Some of the ministries were called joint, because they had the same minister for both countries, but AH in 1918 was a personal union and nothing more from a constitutional standpoint.
Germany in 1919 was a confederation of multiple states, the only succession between modern germany and this germany is the idea of germany. Italy was a 19th century creation because there was no Italy anymore, and depending on who you asked it happened in 476, in the 10th century, in 1648, in 1806 or in 1815 and its geographical definition. A state has the continuity people recognize, outside and inside, independently of who is on top.
It's Microsoft, mass adoption was expected, not being forced to defend another market to barely maintain monopoly level control (laptops: they revived XP as a customer product because of the Vista-ready fiasco, then because Linux was getting 30% of the netbook sales even with MSI's linux books being put together by morons, then because Apple reached a point where analysts estimated 20% of laptop sales in the US being macs (yeah, it's not the world, but it's not an insignificant market) launched defensive ads that had no point BUT being "zomg macs and linux netbooks r teh suxxorz"). From a market standpoint, it failed in comparison to what the corporation that put it out had been able to do, even if it was using the same business methods.
A change of government isn't a change of country - the US didn't magically become another country during the civil war or when the constitution was signed. Britain didn't morph, it was created by the union and dissolution of England, Scotland and Ireland into the United Kingdom, in 1801
Sounds like typical MS - do a monstrous codebase and the only way to fix is to pile more code on old stuff you're not even sure works anymore or does what:/
After all, their purpose is to educate people and to get them ready for real jobs.
Unless you're doing a professional program (usually applied stuff - economics vs business, computer science vs engineering, etc), it's only a side effect. Their first purpose is only to educate (and eventually to have successors in research).
Doing this trick on Fido for a 16GB iPhone 3G S is 500$ (200$ for Phone, 300$ for early cancellation - add 60 and then some (it's a canadian telco after all) for the first month of contract - and then switch to prepaid (and yay no paying for voice anymore)
The only place where I've ever seen RTFM being thrown around non-ironically was the Debian boards. Debian is not merely Linux, it's linux with the arrogance of the GNU Project.
How much can we bet that it's to use as a justification if somebody tries to use "clean room implementation" as a defense like could be done with Samba?
Dvorak for each language requires learning something as involved as going from Qwerty to Azerty, will likely never work in, say, Europe for this basic reason. Three main keyboards (all that changes is diacritic and symbol placement on most keymaps in the same branch) is better than the myriad that would be involved imo.
One of the problems with dvorak for me was that learning a keymap for a different language is about as involved as going from qwerty to azerty or qwertz, I did it as a teen, but I still mistyped stuff for months on that pirated version of windows 3.1 for France I had lying around. I now use a personal keymap that fits my needs to be able to use diacritics for spanish, german, french and to a lesser extent portuguese and welsh in daily school/work.
Learned to touch type, tried to stick to it for a few weeks because of my very first job interview, never managed to get over 30wpm, gave up and went back to something else which is, yes, index-dominant - and yet I do 70wpm without any injuries or hurt (vs. the touch typing cramps) - and that ended up being a mark against me in that interview because they were assholes about it (although admittedly hearing loss in a job that turned out to involve audio work would never have made it through)
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Spain had colonies in the 16th century, Portugal had colonies in the 16th century, Newfoundland and Northern Quebec had independent whaling centers run by the basques that had up to 2.000 people in summer and the biggest one had probably about 200 permanent inhabitants at its height, and France's colonies in Florida didn't fail because of weather, but because of war with Spain making them unable to devote money to the defence of outposts in America when they're in the middle of a four-five way civil war. And then there's France and the Netherland's northern colonies which didn't face the same amounts of death.
OEM didn't have a downgrade program, linux alternatives, and apple market increases when XP came out.
Firefox is a) not linux and b) mostly not written by school kids. The Linux GUI is a red herring (and for info, Solaris uses GNOME while the *BSDs (usually) use KDE on the desktop, IRIX is pretty much dead, MacOS uses its own GUI Cocoa-based GUI running on Aqua, leaving AIX and HP-UX which I haven't touched... And admittedly Plan 9) - and both projects are heavily written, again, by professional programmers and not school kids. But congratulations, you managed to write a long strawman without taking a breath.
Sympatico (Bell) started pulling that shit this summer apparently, too.
I replied below, but continuity of government only really matters if there's claims to breaking the continuity of state. of course if the grand dukes of Tuscany had suddenly claimed to be kings of Italy, they'd have been laughed at to death if they didn't manage to actually bring it on and prove it vs the other north italian princes who would have been on the path.
No, only when you change bosses apparently.
Also, Hungary only ceased to be sovereign independently of Austria in the 19th century, and this lasted until 1867, which is where modern hungary started to exist, somewhat. Hungary was recognized as an equal member in the Austro-Hungarian empire with the Imperial lands, unlike, say, Bohemia, Galicia or Austria itself, and Croatia was legally a province of the empire and a dozen counties of Hungary- for one, Hungary had delegations from the very beginning of the olympic games. Some of the ministries were called joint, because they had the same minister for both countries, but AH in 1918 was a personal union and nothing more from a constitutional standpoint.
Germany in 1919 was a confederation of multiple states, the only succession between modern germany and this germany is the idea of germany. Italy was a 19th century creation because there was no Italy anymore, and depending on who you asked it happened in 476, in the 10th century, in 1648, in 1806 or in 1815 and its geographical definition. A state has the continuity people recognize, outside and inside, independently of who is on top.
It's Microsoft, mass adoption was expected, not being forced to defend another market to barely maintain monopoly level control (laptops: they revived XP as a customer product because of the Vista-ready fiasco, then because Linux was getting 30% of the netbook sales even with MSI's linux books being put together by morons, then because Apple reached a point where analysts estimated 20% of laptop sales in the US being macs (yeah, it's not the world, but it's not an insignificant market) launched defensive ads that had no point BUT being "zomg macs and linux netbooks r teh suxxorz"). From a market standpoint, it failed in comparison to what the corporation that put it out had been able to do, even if it was using the same business methods.
A change of government isn't a change of country - the US didn't magically become another country during the civil war or when the constitution was signed. Britain didn't morph, it was created by the union and dissolution of England, Scotland and Ireland into the United Kingdom, in 1801
Yes, stats fail - the reason it's bad is that the experiment is completely drowning in selection bias (hence the sample is not random).
It's also bad statistical methodology - if you have to sign up the sample is not random.
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Sounds like typical MS - do a monstrous codebase and the only way to fix is to pile more code on old stuff you're not even sure works anymore or does what :/
Oh, snap!
After all, their purpose is to educate people and to get them ready for real jobs.
Unless you're doing a professional program (usually applied stuff - economics vs business, computer science vs engineering, etc), it's only a side effect. Their first purpose is only to educate (and eventually to have successors in research).
Doing this trick on Fido for a 16GB iPhone 3G S is 500$ (200$ for Phone, 300$ for early cancellation - add 60 and then some (it's a canadian telco after all) for the first month of contract - and then switch to prepaid (and yay no paying for voice anymore)
You don't need an iphone plan if you get it prepaid and at least one place does sell the new ones 750 and 800, otoh, that's 100 more than the n900.
The only place where I've ever seen RTFM being thrown around non-ironically was the Debian boards. Debian is not merely Linux, it's linux with the arrogance of the GNU Project.
How much can we bet that it's to use as a justification if somebody tries to use "clean room implementation" as a defense like could be done with Samba?
Yes, because basing skills on vaporware is so much more productive.
Dvorak for each language requires learning something as involved as going from Qwerty to Azerty, will likely never work in, say, Europe for this basic reason. Three main keyboards (all that changes is diacritic and symbol placement on most keymaps in the same branch) is better than the myriad that would be involved imo.
One of the problems with dvorak for me was that learning a keymap for a different language is about as involved as going from qwerty to azerty or qwertz, I did it as a teen, but I still mistyped stuff for months on that pirated version of windows 3.1 for France I had lying around. I now use a personal keymap that fits my needs to be able to use diacritics for spanish, german, french and to a lesser extent portuguese and welsh in daily school/work.
Learned to touch type, tried to stick to it for a few weeks because of my very first job interview, never managed to get over 30wpm, gave up and went back to something else which is, yes, index-dominant - and yet I do 70wpm without any injuries or hurt (vs. the touch typing cramps) - and that ended up being a mark against me in that interview because they were assholes about it (although admittedly hearing loss in a job that turned out to involve audio work would never have made it through)
Or you could learn C and jailbreak.