You really don't care that your hugely expensive laptop doesn't work properly? If my iMac had such an issue it would be back at the Apple Store faster than you could blink. This is the sort of thing most people wouldn't tolerate in a 100GBP tablet never mind a 2000GBP laptop.
The SD card slot was what I was talking about. I refuse to pay Apple an extra 80GBP for 16GB of flash when I can get 64gb for just over half that. All the idiotic restrictions on how I'm allowed to use it is a further reason not to buy one. I don't hate Apple; I'm typing this on an iMac, but I won't be buying anything else from them now they're forcing customers to buy whole new computers just to get a RAM upgrade. The iPad is bad enough but selling a computer for 2000GBP that you can't upgrade is nothing short of disgraceful.
I chose an Android tablet because I wouldn't have to buy another one if I ran out of storage. Sadly Google seem to think that Android users don't need much local storage too which is why it wasn't a Nexus 7.
Yes that is utterly idiotic. I can't understand why you can't format text you paste in the same way as you can format text you load in from a file. Microsoft software in general is full of retarded stuff like this. SSRS automatically creates reports in en-US for me even though my system language is set to en-GB. Drop down lists mysteriously stop working randomly in CRM 2011 and the only way to fix it is to resize your screen after which time they're fine (!). Ctrl+F is "find" everywhere but Outlook 2010 where it's F3. IE developer tools are still crappier than on Chrome or Firefox. Etc etc ad nauseum. Don't get me started on "An unexpected error has occurred" type messages.
Yeah a proprietary Web browser controlled by a convicted monopolist is just the same as an open source rendering engine that has multiple contributing companies, two of whom are bitter rivals.
Except that is exactly what you're doing, suggesting that the user is at fault for wanting something that Apple won't provide and further suggesting that the user doesn't have any mental flexibility for buying something non-Apple that offers an experience more to their liking.
The Tunisians and Egyptians didn't need guns to overthrow their governments. The Libyan resistance however, despite having guns, were on the verge of being crushed before NATO stepped in. The Syrian resistance also have lots of weaponry and have so far failed to overthrow their government. Likewise the Palestinians also have plenty of guns and rockets and have so far failed to remove the Israelis from Palestine. The Chechnyans have guns but are still ruled by the Russians and so on and so forth. Ownership of projectile weapons doesn't guarantee you anything.
Any other business that was constantly late and over budget would stop getting work and go out of business;
Yes you did and I provided an example of companies that do a lot of work for private entities who also often don't do a good job but are yet to go out of business.
IT contracting companies have been useless forever and yet corporations still keep employing them. This isn't private sector vs public sector, this is crap contracts agreed to by people focusing on price over reality because agreeing to an impossibly low figure on the new payroll system means a bonus now and any future shambles can be blamed on the contractor.
Entity Framework is good when you use it with a properly designed database. It saves a lot of work which, correct me if I'm wrong, is the whole point of computers. There are so many times that people forget that very simple fact in their rush to wave their e-peen around.
From your previous post: "government research is a huge waste of money". The Internet and the WWW came from government research and have transformed the world dramatically.
You do realise that both the Internet and WWW were created by the evil wasteful government don't you? Do you think it would be anything like as free and open if it had been created by Microsoft or Apple?
Because it's the only piece of cross-platform middleware that's taken off. Cross-platform compiled apps are a lot harder to do than web apps on a more or less common platform. The differences between IE, Firefox and Webkit browsers are far smaller than the differences between Windows, OS X and the various Linux distros.
Wouldn't matter if you had a supersoaker or an assault rifle against a government that has drones, an airforce, a huge army, tanks and bombs, not to mention biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. This isn't two armies with muskets and cannons like in the 18th century, the battle between the patriots (who don't seem to have risen up at all in the last 200 or so years in any case) and the US government will not go so well for the patriots.
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You really don't care that your hugely expensive laptop doesn't work properly? If my iMac had such an issue it would be back at the Apple Store faster than you could blink. This is the sort of thing most people wouldn't tolerate in a 100GBP tablet never mind a 2000GBP laptop.
To the tedious fanbois on here Apple can do no wrong so the consumer should be suing anyone but the God entity.
It would be "why did you buy a laptop if you want to play games?"
Are you serious? What extra computer literacy do you need to use Firefox or Chrome?
IE6 lock-in is still causing harm now, over a decade after it was first inflicted on us.
A company that allows error messages such as "Windows Update has failed with an unknown error" should be expected to have shit documentation.
The SD card slot was what I was talking about. I refuse to pay Apple an extra 80GBP for 16GB of flash when I can get 64gb for just over half that. All the idiotic restrictions on how I'm allowed to use it is a further reason not to buy one. I don't hate Apple; I'm typing this on an iMac, but I won't be buying anything else from them now they're forcing customers to buy whole new computers just to get a RAM upgrade. The iPad is bad enough but selling a computer for 2000GBP that you can't upgrade is nothing short of disgraceful.
I chose an Android tablet because I wouldn't have to buy another one if I ran out of storage. Sadly Google seem to think that Android users don't need much local storage too which is why it wasn't a Nexus 7.
You really should have thought carefully before writing the beginning of the sentence. Or maybe you did given the rest of the sentence.
Yes that is utterly idiotic. I can't understand why you can't format text you paste in the same way as you can format text you load in from a file. Microsoft software in general is full of retarded stuff like this. SSRS automatically creates reports in en-US for me even though my system language is set to en-GB. Drop down lists mysteriously stop working randomly in CRM 2011 and the only way to fix it is to resize your screen after which time they're fine (!). Ctrl+F is "find" everywhere but Outlook 2010 where it's F3. IE developer tools are still crappier than on Chrome or Firefox. Etc etc ad nauseum. Don't get me started on "An unexpected error has occurred" type messages.
Please quote the exact sentence where I say you own an iPhone or else fuck off. Fucking pedantic Slashdot bellends.
Yeah a proprietary Web browser controlled by a convicted monopolist is just the same as an open source rendering engine that has multiple contributing companies, two of whom are bitter rivals.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/space-couple-to-have-massive-row-when-they-miss-the-turning-for-mars-2013022861307
Except that is exactly what you're doing, suggesting that the user is at fault for wanting something that Apple won't provide and further suggesting that the user doesn't have any mental flexibility for buying something non-Apple that offers an experience more to their liking.
The Tunisians and Egyptians didn't need guns to overthrow their governments. The Libyan resistance however, despite having guns, were on the verge of being crushed before NATO stepped in. The Syrian resistance also have lots of weaponry and have so far failed to overthrow their government. Likewise the Palestinians also have plenty of guns and rockets and have so far failed to remove the Israelis from Palestine. The Chechnyans have guns but are still ruled by the Russians and so on and so forth. Ownership of projectile weapons doesn't guarantee you anything.
Yes you did and I provided an example of companies that do a lot of work for private entities who also often don't do a good job but are yet to go out of business.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPD
So is it Narcissistic personality disorders or National Democratic Party of Germanys. Come on Slashdot, not everyone understand buzz-acronyms.
IT contracting companies have been useless forever and yet corporations still keep employing them. This isn't private sector vs public sector, this is crap contracts agreed to by people focusing on price over reality because agreeing to an impossibly low figure on the new payroll system means a bonus now and any future shambles can be blamed on the contractor.
Entity Framework is good when you use it with a properly designed database. It saves a lot of work which, correct me if I'm wrong, is the whole point of computers. There are so many times that people forget that very simple fact in their rush to wave their e-peen around.
Your = possessive pronoun. You're = contraction of you are. Not complicated.
Office 2010 has it: http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/word-help/save-as-pdf-HA010354239.aspx#BM11
From your previous post: "government research is a huge waste of money". The Internet and the WWW came from government research and have transformed the world dramatically.
You do realise that both the Internet and WWW were created by the evil wasteful government don't you? Do you think it would be anything like as free and open if it had been created by Microsoft or Apple?
Because it's the only piece of cross-platform middleware that's taken off. Cross-platform compiled apps are a lot harder to do than web apps on a more or less common platform. The differences between IE, Firefox and Webkit browsers are far smaller than the differences between Windows, OS X and the various Linux distros.
Wouldn't matter if you had a supersoaker or an assault rifle against a government that has drones, an airforce, a huge army, tanks and bombs, not to mention biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. This isn't two armies with muskets and cannons like in the 18th century, the battle between the patriots (who don't seem to have risen up at all in the last 200 or so years in any case) and the US government will not go so well for the patriots.