Why do you say SJWs aren't a thing? They're in the news every day. Here is a recent example from the UK: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/21/.... Mr Hero of the Left even said this pretty patronising thing too:
‘This image relates directly to the practice of assaulting black people in America. ‘It is directly threatening of a racist assault, and if I were black and were faced by a wearer I would know just where I stood.’
No one but him (a white guy) was offended but the major UK retailer caved just in case a shitstorm ensued. For a t-shirt that had an image that was merely a quote from a TV show that no one was offended by either. If you don't think that's ludicrous then please explain.
Mishandling highly classified documents and running a private email server to avoid freedom of information laws is the bit you missed out. Perhaps the Dems should have voted for the anti-Establishment candidate in the primaries rather than crowning Queen Hillary and then perhaps we'd not be faced with four years of that orange lunatic.
In this case it was Microsoft's fault for taking 5 years to produce a half arsed upgrade to NT 5 with no upgrade path that left loads of users stuck on XP. Microsoft were the ones that pushed for Vista Ready stickers to be placed on machines that weren't.
Vista wasn't a massive flop because you're a super genius and everyone else is an idiot, it's because it was a mess that was pushed out of the door before it was ready.
FOSS will be more than good enough. I'm not wedded to Microsoft. Even they have embraced open source so why wouldn't I? I love having the ability to dig into the tools I work with and would find it much harder if I couldn't.
It may be an illusion as you say, although there doesn't seem to have been a major problem with it, but it's not just the interface but the custom templates, the macros and the third party plugins and document generators that FOSS advocates always pretend don't exist. The cost of migrating away from them, especially if nothing suitable is already on the market, can be prohibitive. If it was as simple as you say then there would've been a stampede away from proprietary software. This simplistic "it's just a drop in replacement" is just not the case. It's an expensive and disruptive change for very little justifiable gain.
So you think being able to speak in person to someone who works on the project is no better than asking a question on Stack Overflow? Of course it costs money. Is good OSS support free?
You call Microsoft and, depending on the issue, you speak to their tech support or if they can't help, you get an engineer. They run regular conferences and workshops where you can meet and ask the devs questions, they give you an account manager who can liaise with the devs should you need advice, they have shitloads of code samples and video tutorials and their primary dev framework plus loads of other parts of the software stack is on GitHub and so on and so forth. It's nowhere near perfect but the idea that running complex software is just a matter of Googling it is laughable no matter what the tech is.
I still can't see that that's somehow wrong. As you and I have both said, there can be serious repercussions for demonstrating, even if you have every right to do so. Discrimination still happens and it looks like those employment protections you mention depend on where you live https://www.google.co.uk/amp/w...
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Nick Denton complaining about the rotten state of internet discourse is like Rupert Murdoch complaining about unethical journalism.
This idiot is one of the people that has made the internet so unpleasant.
Arrr ye scurvy dog!
Why do you say SJWs aren't a thing? They're in the news every day. Here is a recent example from the UK: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/21/.... Mr Hero of the Left even said this pretty patronising thing too:
No one but him (a white guy) was offended but the major UK retailer caved just in case a shitstorm ensued. For a t-shirt that had an image that was merely a quote from a TV show that no one was offended by either. If you don't think that's ludicrous then please explain.
Mishandling highly classified documents and running a private email server to avoid freedom of information laws is the bit you missed out. Perhaps the Dems should have voted for the anti-Establishment candidate in the primaries rather than crowning Queen Hillary and then perhaps we'd not be faced with four years of that orange lunatic.
In this case it was Microsoft's fault for taking 5 years to produce a half arsed upgrade to NT 5 with no upgrade path that left loads of users stuck on XP. Microsoft were the ones that pushed for Vista Ready stickers to be placed on machines that weren't.
Vista wasn't a massive flop because you're a super genius and everyone else is an idiot, it's because it was a mess that was pushed out of the door before it was ready.
Yeah yeah it's always someone else's fault
Yeah let's pay Microsoft another $100 for something that should've been free with an apology for Vista.
So Wikileaks only had credibility when they were making the other side look bad?
How do you compete against people that have a dramatically lower cost of living than you?
Oh fuck off
Selling newspapers mainly
How do you charge it and play music at the same time?
Hehe we can tell what you search for judging by that autocorrect ;-)
By that light then why is there a problem with men trying to learn those skills via PUA teaching?
Uber is a minicab firm and minicab drivers follow a different set of rules to black cab drivers.
FOSS will be more than good enough. I'm not wedded to Microsoft. Even they have embraced open source so why wouldn't I? I love having the ability to dig into the tools I work with and would find it much harder if I couldn't.
It may be an illusion as you say, although there doesn't seem to have been a major problem with it, but it's not just the interface but the custom templates, the macros and the third party plugins and document generators that FOSS advocates always pretend don't exist. The cost of migrating away from them, especially if nothing suitable is already on the market, can be prohibitive. If it was as simple as you say then there would've been a stampede away from proprietary software. This simplistic "it's just a drop in replacement" is just not the case. It's an expensive and disruptive change for very little justifiable gain.
So you think being able to speak in person to someone who works on the project is no better than asking a question on Stack Overflow? Of course it costs money. Is good OSS support free?
Why stay?
Whereas there have been no breaking UI changes in any FOSS products ever.
You obviously learn new tech instantaneously but us mere mortals may take a week or two to get our heads round it.
You call Microsoft and, depending on the issue, you speak to their tech support or if they can't help, you get an engineer. They run regular conferences and workshops where you can meet and ask the devs questions, they give you an account manager who can liaise with the devs should you need advice, they have shitloads of code samples and video tutorials and their primary dev framework plus loads of other parts of the software stack is on GitHub and so on and so forth. It's nowhere near perfect but the idea that running complex software is just a matter of Googling it is laughable no matter what the tech is.
I own a curved TV and I have no idea what you're talking about. It is a pointless gimmick but nothing weird happens to the picture.
I still can't see that that's somehow wrong. As you and I have both said, there can be serious repercussions for demonstrating, even if you have every right to do so. Discrimination still happens and it looks like those employment protections you mention depend on where you live https://www.google.co.uk/amp/w...