And how am I meant to fit in all the examples in this little text box? My mother is one example, as are your grandparents. Have your grandparents never asked you for help with their PC? They must be pretty clued-up or else do very little apart from what you've mentioned. I'm actually struggling to think of anyone I know outside IT who hasn't asked for my help with something confusing on Windows.
Who is this mythical Grandma I keep hearing about? The Grandma I know best (my mother) doesn't even understand how the TV works never mind Windows. Most of the grandmas (and people in general) I know find Windows as comprehensible as hieroglyphics. Windows useability is a long long way away from being good enough for Grandma. Stop holding it up as some kind of holy grail. Windows is not intuitive it's merely familiar and there's a massive difference between the former and the latter. As soon as it does something unexpected it's every bit as difficult as Linux and still requires someone who understands it to fix it.
The vibrant mobile phone market in Europe came from having one standard (GSM) instead of several - and it wasn't the free market that made that happen.
Because Apple is an incredibly wealthy corporation which will probably never be called to account and you are just a consumer who can easily be threatened with expensive legal action.
I can cut and paste from my browser too and it doesn't support this 'feature'. Or does Google Office reimplement cut and paste ignoring the fact that GUI has it built in already?
And I remember some clown from Microsoft advancing the view that because Unix security sucked when it was the same age as Windows NT it was ok for Windows NT security to suck, thereby inviting their customers to stick with Unix until NT security didn't suck anymore.
The mangling of the English language for no good reason really sucks though. Revenue generation dialogues indeed. Why don't these arseholes just disappear up their own arseholes and do us all a favour.
In what way exactly? As I said, the only groupthink comes from the rabidly pro-MS section where any criticism, justified or not comes in for the same bullshit treatment as if Microsoft were perfect or something. This story was bollocks, not all of them are.
But then I have a sort of ambivalent attitude towards Microsoft. I despise their business practices and their general disinterest in making stuff that works well over stuff that looks pretty. On the other hand I like their programming tools and have been known to say nice things about them from time to time. So where do I fit in in the so-called groupthink? A number of people here don't like Microsoft quite often for good reasons. You have options. You can: deal with it; bugger off to a pro-MS site; or you could, shock horror, not read Microsoft stories if the lack of blind acceptance of Microsoft's incredible brilliance offends you.
The only Slashdot groupthink I ever come across is the Microsoft shill section. Either that or Microsoft have some software monitoring slashdot.org that posts a similar message to yours any time anything remotely critical gets said about Microsoft.
Which is a tad bizarre for a GUI that's supposed to be offloading a lot of the work to the graphics card.
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So it wasn't being compatible with Windows that killed OS/2 it was the fact that it wasn't on every machine. Thank you now please say that from now on.
The Church of England is so far away from the fundies it's not funny. Although they didn't want poofters (that's faggots in the US) to be priests so they're still reactionary in some ways.
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Far from being an advantage, the Windows compatibility killed OS/2 because it was the only thing most people saw in it. "It runs Windows better than Windows !" "Well, if it's to run Windows stuff, I'll stick to what I know". End of story.
Are you seriously suggesting that the OS that ran Windows apps badly (Windows) outsold the OS that ran them well (OS/2) merely because users wanted native apps? Perhaps there's a more plausible reason such as no other PC manufacturer were prepared to preload an OS from one of their competitors - the preloaded OS being the one that is most likely to win due to the hassle of switching OS for the average user.
If he was generalising he'd have used the nouns "everybody" or "everyone" instead of "people". The fact of the matter is that "people" (that is some members of the human race not all of them collectively) are doing the very things that he is railing against.
Such an influx of finances into empty product/service ideas will NOT happen again.
Not a denial as such but I'd be amazed if it never happened again in my lifetime never mind never again ever. I was just wondering what the basis for that definite statement actually was.
In what way? Or are you suggesting that an education system that at least tries to be of benefit to all the citizens of a country is some form of evil communism?
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And how am I meant to fit in all the examples in this little text box? My mother is one example, as are your grandparents. Have your grandparents never asked you for help with their PC? They must be pretty clued-up or else do very little apart from what you've mentioned. I'm actually struggling to think of anyone I know outside IT who hasn't asked for my help with something confusing on Windows.
I'd be fascinated to know how a mere 500,000 people saved all 60 million of us from recession. Where are you getting this from?
Who is this mythical Grandma I keep hearing about? The Grandma I know best (my mother) doesn't even understand how the TV works never mind Windows.
Most of the grandmas (and people in general) I know find Windows as comprehensible as hieroglyphics. Windows useability is a long long way away from being good enough for Grandma.
Stop holding it up as some kind of holy grail. Windows is not intuitive it's merely familiar and there's a massive difference between the former and the latter.
As soon as it does something unexpected it's every bit as difficult as Linux and still requires someone who understands it to fix it.
The vibrant mobile phone market in Europe came from having one standard (GSM) instead of several - and it wasn't the free market that made that happen.
Don't give the fuckers any ideas: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6181949.stm
They might make that a condition of any future 'defence' deal.
Because Apple is an incredibly wealthy corporation which will probably never be called to account and you are just a consumer who can easily be threatened with expensive legal action.
Yeh *blush* I see what you mean. I'll check it out before I post next time.
I can cut and paste from my browser too and it doesn't support this 'feature'. Or does Google Office reimplement cut and paste ignoring the fact that GUI has it built in already?
And I remember some clown from Microsoft advancing the view that because Unix security sucked when it was the same age as Windows NT it was ok for Windows NT security to suck, thereby inviting their customers to stick with Unix until NT security didn't suck anymore.
The mangling of the English language for no good reason really sucks though. Revenue generation dialogues indeed. Why don't these arseholes just disappear up their own arseholes and do us all a favour.
www.powernodes.com looks like a likely suspect for his workplace ;)
Stopping trying to own everything desktop-related would probably be a cheaper and more reliable alternative.
It's not the drivers that are the problem but DirectX.
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In what way exactly? As I said, the only groupthink comes from the rabidly pro-MS section where any criticism, justified or not comes in for the same bullshit treatment as if Microsoft were perfect or something. This story was bollocks, not all of them are.
But then I have a sort of ambivalent attitude towards Microsoft. I despise their business practices and their general disinterest in making stuff that works well over stuff that looks pretty. On the other hand I like their programming tools and have been known to say nice things about them from time to time. So where do I fit in in the so-called groupthink? A number of people here don't like Microsoft quite often for good reasons. You have options. You can: deal with it; bugger off to a pro-MS site; or you could, shock horror, not read Microsoft stories if the lack of blind acceptance of Microsoft's incredible brilliance offends you.
Yeh I'm surprised he didn't mention how Win16 compatibility killed OS/2.
The only Slashdot groupthink I ever come across is the Microsoft shill section. Either that or Microsoft have some software monitoring slashdot.org that posts a similar message to yours any time anything remotely critical gets said about Microsoft.
Which is a tad bizarre for a GUI that's supposed to be offloading a lot of the work to the graphics card.
So it wasn't being compatible with Windows that killed OS/2 it was the fact that it wasn't on every machine. Thank you now please say that from now on.
The Church of England is so far away from the fundies it's not funny. Although they didn't want poofters (that's faggots in the US) to be priests so they're still reactionary in some ways.
Far from being an advantage, the Windows compatibility killed OS/2 because it was the only thing most people saw in it. "It runs Windows better than Windows !" "Well, if it's to run Windows stuff, I'll stick to what I know". End of story.
Are you seriously suggesting that the OS that ran Windows apps badly (Windows) outsold the OS that ran them well (OS/2) merely because users wanted native apps? Perhaps there's a more plausible reason such as no other PC manufacturer were prepared to preload an OS from one of their competitors - the preloaded OS being the one that is most likely to win due to the hassle of switching OS for the average user.
If he was generalising he'd have used the nouns "everybody" or "everyone" instead of "people". The fact of the matter is that "people" (that is some members of the human race not all of them collectively) are doing the very things that he is railing against.
Such an influx of finances into empty product/service ideas will NOT happen again.
Not a denial as such but I'd be amazed if it never happened again in my lifetime never mind never again ever. I was just wondering what the basis for that definite statement actually was.
In what way? Or are you suggesting that an education system that at least tries to be of benefit to all the citizens of a country is some form of evil communism?