Because Open Source has a long history of just such practices behind it doesn't it? No, success for Microsoft, the world's third largest tech company, and king of the desktop and office suite would be not making such an obvious mistake.
Can you or can you not develop for Silverlight on a non-MS platform? As far as I can tell you cannot. So it's not zealotry that stops people who don't own a copy of Windows from developing Silverlight applications, it's their unwillingness to pay for extra software for no advantage to them. Perhaps Microsoft should have tried to win over more than just ASP.NET developers.
All right let me put it another way. Is it easy to develop for Silverlight on non-Microsoft platforms? That of course includes being able to test on Internet Explorer.
In the UK you could easily spend £50 on one night out, whereas a game costing the same would provide several days' pleasure at least without the hangover or any other hassles.
Can you run the full version of.NET on any platform but Windows? If the answer is no then perhaps the reason why Apple and OSS fundamentalists refuse to develop for Silverlight is because they don't feel like paying Microsoft for a Windows license that they otherwise don't want or need. By the way most of the Microsoft non-fundamentalists aren't using Silverlight either.
IE is still the only browser that is easily mass-deployed with site wide policies and settings
And is the only browser which many corporate users are still stuck on a 10 year old version of because Microsoft deliberately made it difficult to migrate away from. Way to consider business needs.
for example, how do you connect to a remote PC with bash and run your commands there?
Monopoly. Manufacturers of solar panels. Note that 2 of the world's top 10 manufacturers of solar panels (which doesn't include your "monopoly") are US companies. Ergo Solyndra LLC of Fremont California did not have a monopoly on the manufacture of solar panels in the US. They were just shit.
the hardcore geeks who are TIRED of random bsod, hangs, unresponsiveness, hardware issue, driver issues, security flaws
Only the last one still applies, and that applies to all OSes with the possible exception of OpenBSD. Windows has many flaws in UI design but its core is pretty solid these days and yes I am amazed to be writing these words.
A monopoly was being created? Even though there are several other manufacturers of solar panels in the US? I think you might want to update your dictionary.
Want and poverty was eliminated when capitalism was required by social democracy to contribute to society. It did nothing to eliminate want or poverty before that happened. People only stopped living in cholera-ridden shitholes in the developed world when governments took money from the capitalists in order to pay for it. The capitalists (apart from a few notable exceptions like the Cadburys in the UK and Henry Ford in the US) did very little to improve the lot of ordinary people.
Looks like it. Seriously ollymorgs the internet is full of rude assholes, and this place is no different. No moaning about it is going to get any other result than more abuse.
Does it say why the ribbon was imposed on users with no way to switch back to the UI they were familiar with? Why should users have to learn a new and confusing interface just because Microsoft think it's cool? I used to be pretty quick with Word and Excel, now I have to Google to find out how to do stuff that I used to be able to do in my sleep. I can accomodate change when I can see a clear advantage; the ribbon provides no clear advantage.
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Because Open Source has a long history of just such practices behind it doesn't it? No, success for Microsoft, the world's third largest tech company, and king of the desktop and office suite would be not making such an obvious mistake.
Can you or can you not develop for Silverlight on a non-MS platform? As far as I can tell you cannot. So it's not zealotry that stops people who don't own a copy of Windows from developing Silverlight applications, it's their unwillingness to pay for extra software for no advantage to them. Perhaps Microsoft should have tried to win over more than just ASP.NET developers.
Users who don't read for more than an hour at a time perhaps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear,_hear
I lived in Oslo for 3 months. I remember it well :)
All right let me put it another way. Is it easy to develop for Silverlight on non-Microsoft platforms? That of course includes being able to test on Internet Explorer.
Or the Eee Pad Transformer which by all accounts is very good
Should've bought an Eee Pad Transformer then.
In the UK you could easily spend £50 on one night out, whereas a game costing the same would provide several days' pleasure at least without the hangover or any other hassles.
Can you run the full version of .NET on any platform but Windows? If the answer is no then perhaps the reason why Apple and OSS fundamentalists refuse to develop for Silverlight is because they don't feel like paying Microsoft for a Windows license that they otherwise don't want or need. By the way most of the Microsoft non-fundamentalists aren't using Silverlight either.
And is the only browser which many corporate users are still stuck on a 10 year old version of because Microsoft deliberately made it difficult to migrate away from. Way to consider business needs.
You, sir, are a dumbass.
Llano. AMD have been fucking up badly recently but even they wouldn't name their new chip Lamo.
Monopoly. Manufacturers of solar panels. Note that 2 of the world's top 10 manufacturers of solar panels (which doesn't include your "monopoly") are US companies. Ergo Solyndra LLC of Fremont California did not have a monopoly on the manufacture of solar panels in the US. They were just shit.
I know he is but I quite like arguing with him occasionally. He usually buries me with sheer volume though :)
Only the last one still applies, and that applies to all OSes with the possible exception of OpenBSD. Windows has many flaws in UI design but its core is pretty solid these days and yes I am amazed to be writing these words.
Agilent seems to have sold off a lot of what was HP as well.
A monopoly was being created? Even though there are several other manufacturers of solar panels in the US? I think you might want to update your dictionary.
Want and poverty was eliminated when capitalism was required by social democracy to contribute to society. It did nothing to eliminate want or poverty before that happened. People only stopped living in cholera-ridden shitholes in the developed world when governments took money from the capitalists in order to pay for it. The capitalists (apart from a few notable exceptions like the Cadburys in the UK and Henry Ford in the US) did very little to improve the lot of ordinary people.
That idea will go away about the same time as people stop referring to "slashdot groupthink".
You filthy pirate scum!
For fuck's sake who, apart from the very nerdy like yourself, would read that overcomplicated explanation of a very simple concept.
Looks like it. Seriously ollymorgs the internet is full of rude assholes, and this place is no different. No moaning about it is going to get any other result than more abuse.
Does it say why the ribbon was imposed on users with no way to switch back to the UI they were familiar with? Why should users have to learn a new and confusing interface just because Microsoft think it's cool? I used to be pretty quick with Word and Excel, now I have to Google to find out how to do stuff that I used to be able to do in my sleep. I can accomodate change when I can see a clear advantage; the ribbon provides no clear advantage.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/password-recovery-gpu,review-32213-6.html
It will take quite some time to crack a decent WPA2/AES passphrase.
You lose points for misuse of a buzzword.