Because billions of dollars have been spent on Windows-only software. Provide a decent compatibility layer for a better OS and the sound of MS stock price tanking would deafen the world.
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Ah Wikipedia that bastion of truth. Attraction solely to children or very young adults is an illness and is no more a sexual preference than anorexia nervosa is a diet preference.
people who can't really program write code that doesn't handle errors properly and fails, often silently and undetectedly, when the input deviates from the expected.
And you think this kind of idiocy never existed before VB? Or is caused solely by VB? You obviously haven't been in IT very long.
A reasonable company wouldn't have put that illegal term in the contract in the first place. I won't get on to business ethics I'll just say that Micro$oft suxorz.
Ah but it wouldn't just be the gold spammers that get constantly killed by high level players it would be all new players. Therefore WoW would only be as successful as other MMORPGs that have that sort of thing in it - which with the exception of some of the MMORPGs in South Korea is not particularly.
There's also the muddying of the waters that most people who pirate expensive software wouldn't buy it so the makers of the expensive software have not lost a sale. However without the pirating of their software they would lose market share which can have value if it leads to ubiquity of the software pirated to the detriment of their competition.
Who invested the capital in building public works, clearing slums and generally improving living and working conditions? Not the capitalists who fought tooth and nail (and still do) to prevent it.
I have no interest in whether AIX or Linux is the best fit for this company and I say good luck to them with what they're happy with. What I took exception to was this ludicrous statement:
it suddenly becomes a worthwhile thing to have someone who's contractually obliged to fix your system when it breaks. Posting a bug report at freshmeat doesn't quite cut it when you have planes grounded..
as if it was still the 20th century and Linux support was still being provided by RTFMers instead of the likes of IBM, Oracle, Novell etc etc.
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Well he'd have trouble driving to Great Britain or Ireland without sinking but apart from that it's absolutely true. Why wouldn't it be?
It's funny this contradiction raises so few eyebrows...
Dogma is rarely questioned and when it is you get called a heretic/commie
I didn't notice at all and had to go back and look quite closely to spot it. Some people must have an anal retentive gene or something.
Can I ask you something? Is 2005 really so hard to say/type that you say/type 2K5 instead?
I suppose it's better those sociopaths get their jollies in WoW rather than in real life. However that's the reason why I play PvE these days too.
People like you are a boil on the arse of the internet.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that World of Warcraft has every ability to be just as destructive to someones' life as, say, heroin.
WoW is an awful lot cheaper than heroin. I doubt those same friends would feel the need to mug old ladies for their subscriptions.
You're assured that your software isn't as good as it should be?
Oh piss off you anal retentive twat.
Because billions of dollars have been spent on Windows-only software. Provide a decent compatibility layer for a better OS and the sound of MS stock price tanking would deafen the world.
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Ah Wikipedia that bastion of truth. Attraction solely to children or very young adults is an illness and is no more a sexual preference than anorexia nervosa is a diet preference.
To be only attracted to teenagers and going on to take advantage of troubled children who mistake sexuality for affection is a sickness.
Making life less difficult for obnoxious people like you would indeed be good
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I agree
people who can't really program write code that doesn't handle errors properly and fails, often silently and undetectedly, when the input deviates from the expected.
And you think this kind of idiocy never existed before VB? Or is caused solely by VB? You obviously haven't been in IT very long.
Making life less pleasant for ephebephiles sounds fair to me.
A reasonable company wouldn't have put that illegal term in the contract in the first place. I won't get on to business ethics I'll just say that Micro$oft suxorz.
Someone being overly pedantic on Slashdot? Next they'll be criticising a great company like Microsoft.
The government does have an awful lot more to do than the average corporation though.
Ah but it wouldn't just be the gold spammers that get constantly killed by high level players it would be all new players. Therefore WoW would only be as successful as other MMORPGs that have that sort of thing in it - which with the exception of some of the MMORPGs in South Korea is not particularly.
I suppose giving sociopaths something else to do spares all those flies from having their wings pulled off.
There's also the muddying of the waters that most people who pirate expensive software wouldn't buy it so the makers of the expensive software have not lost a sale. However without the pirating of their software they would lose market share which can have value if it leads to ubiquity of the software pirated to the detriment of their competition.
Henry Ford built the sewers, demolished the slums and outlawed sweatshops? Link please.
Who invested the capital in building public works, clearing slums and generally improving living and working conditions? Not the capitalists who fought tooth and nail (and still do) to prevent it.
Socialism worked pretty well in the democratic western countries, that's why people aren't dying of cholera/typhoid/starvation in slums anymore.
as if it was still the 20th century and Linux support was still being provided by RTFMers instead of the likes of IBM, Oracle, Novell etc etc.