Especially Raymond Chen's. Not only is it interesting, but it fits quite well the original request for "a developer who wants to talk about the best way of doing things".
If they really wanted to... Microsoft would have fixed the glaring security holes that the open source community has been pointing out for years a very long time ago
Which is funny because at the same time they are talking about listening, they are also working on the next service pack for their flagship product, and the whole service pack is focussed on nothing but security. But of course, you won't count that since it would get in the way of your complaining.
The central point-- that when I evaluate products I don't give brownie points for effort-- holds just fine without the analogy. If you don't like the analogy, you can ignore it. It's only there to illustrate what I'm saying, not be the main point.
If you're a hardcore racer, you could have optimised settings for different humidity/temperature conditions
It would seem better to have your car automatically adjust based on the humidity and temperature. Especially since your car might already have the hardware to know the latter.
What difference does it make whose "fault" it is? If Windows has better hardware support, that's what I would care about when deciding what OS to use. If I go to by a toaster, or a TV or a car (oh no, I've made a comparison to cars! someone's going to complain), I buy the one that does what I want/ need and that is the least expensive. I don't buy a car saying that "this car doesn't have the features I want, but it's not the manufacturer's fault. They really did try hard!". For most of us, software is not a religious issue and I don't care how hard the engineers worked or how smart they are, only what the software can or can't do.
Does anyone know why this is? They have such a large selection of movies that it's hard to imagine carrying some porn movies hasn't occurred to them. So it must be a conscious choice not to carry any. This doesn't seem like a good business decision on the face of it, but they must have their reasons. What are they?
No, you should do the math. The fact that "any whole number doubled will always be even" means that your cumulative amount will always be some amount of even numbers added to 1 (from the first square on the chessboard), which means that the cumulative number of gold pices will always be odd (disregarding the degenerate case where you have zero gold pieces), just like the parent said. Did you even try to find the cumulative number of gold piece for your own example? 1+2+4+8+16+32+64=127, which is odd.
Caffeine is probably the most widely used of all drugs. It is found in coffee, tea and "cola" drinks. Can it be harmful, or is it a perfectly safe refreshing beverage?
The question is whether caffeine may be a "perfectly safe refreshing beverage"? That might make sense, except that caffeine isn't a beverage at all. I'm not usually a grammar nazi, but scientific papers hurt their credibility when they can't correctly form a sentence.
What about NTSC vs. PAL (or whatever they use in Japan)? Do Japanese, American and European consoles all work fine on the tv's in all three markets? I imagine at the least you need a converter for the power cord, but that seems easy.
If the goal is only to stay out of the bottom 5%, that seems easy. Realistically, at any given time, at least one out of twenty employees is probably actively fucking things up and causing problems. So if you do absolutely nothing, you should be above those people, and out of the bottom 5%. Easy.
There are some who would say that you should only be using the postfix form if you want to draw attention to the 'then' part of the statement, as in "die 'errormsg' if something-bad-happens;". Personally, I don't think it should be used just to avoid using curly braces (although I'm the kind of person who always uses braces in C as well). Your point is still a good one though, and what you're suggesting is certainly miles ahead of abusing shortcircuit evaluation.
It's not because OO.org doesn't want to, or isn't up to date; the reason is because Microsoft keeps the method of opening those documents secret!
First, they didn't say that. They just said that you can't read the documents. This is a well-known fact, so I don't see how stating it is "admitting to anti-competitive behavior".
But anyway, the main point is that if I were running a business, I would not want to use a product that can't read documentst that others send to me. I wouldn't be interested in why I can't read them, so this still sounds like a compelling reason to use MS Office. Whether the software has the features they need (which might include reading Word.doc's) seems like a better basis for a business decision then the reasons why it has or doesn't have those features.
No one said that the US is or is not a republic, so I'm not sure why you're bringing that issue up. He claimed that it is a democracy, which is obviously true. Pointing out other things that the US is doesn't negate that claim. That would be like if I responded to your claim that the US is a republic by saying "actually, it's a country" or "actually, it's in North America".
Nintendo makes extremely innovative games. They just put the same characters in all of them. I love the Nintendo franchises, so I think this approach is fantastic.
It's ridiculous to declare that the new Zelda game won't be innovative based only on the title.
I bought soul calibur on gamecube because it was one of the few fighting games for the system.
Perhaps this is because when you already have the greatest fighting game of all time (Smash Bros.; although the original soul calibur on dreamcast was pretty incredible (I haven't played the second one much)), having tons of other fighting games available would be redundant and unnecessary.
Sorry, here's the version for those with lower reading comprehension scores:
"Microsoft is now seeing some competition entering the market traditionally dominated by Windows; i.e. the mass-market prebuilt desktop x86-PCs that are most commonly bought by business and home users."
Ah, that's much clearer, thanks. I guess in our reading comprehension class, we haven't yet gotten to the lesson where they explain that consumer PCs only include those than run on a certain kind of processor. Yes, it's much easier when rather than claiming that Microsoft has a monopoly on operating systems, we claim that they have a monopoly on Windows.
Btw, doesn't Apple have a monopoly on "the market traditionally dominated by the Macintosh; i.e., PowerPC computers" (or whaever chip they use now)? Will they soon face massive fines for including a web browser and a media player with their OS, which clearly aren't technologies consumers want and would only be included with an operating system for anticompetitive reasons?
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Especially Raymond Chen's. Not only is it interesting, but it fits quite well the original request for "a developer who wants to talk about the best way of doing things".
Which is funny because at the same time they are talking about listening, they are also working on the next service pack for their flagship product, and the whole service pack is focussed on nothing but security. But of course, you won't count that since it would get in the way of your complaining.
The central point-- that when I evaluate products I don't give brownie points for effort-- holds just fine without the analogy. If you don't like the analogy, you can ignore it. It's only there to illustrate what I'm saying, not be the main point.
It would seem better to have your car automatically adjust based on the humidity and temperature. Especially since your car might already have the hardware to know the latter.
What difference does it make whose "fault" it is? If Windows has better hardware support, that's what I would care about when deciding what OS to use. If I go to by a toaster, or a TV or a car (oh no, I've made a comparison to cars! someone's going to complain), I buy the one that does what I want/ need and that is the least expensive. I don't buy a car saying that "this car doesn't have the features I want, but it's not the manufacturer's fault. They really did try hard!". For most of us, software is not a religious issue and I don't care how hard the engineers worked or how smart they are, only what the software can or can't do.
Does anyone know why this is? They have such a large selection of movies that it's hard to imagine carrying some porn movies hasn't occurred to them. So it must be a conscious choice not to carry any. This doesn't seem like a good business decision on the face of it, but they must have their reasons. What are they?
Because bulk-renaming files is not something the average user ordinarily wants to do.
No, you should do the math. The fact that "any whole number doubled will always be even" means that your cumulative amount will always be some amount of even numbers added to 1 (from the first square on the chessboard), which means that the cumulative number of gold pices will always be odd (disregarding the degenerate case where you have zero gold pieces), just like the parent said. Did you even try to find the cumulative number of gold piece for your own example? 1+2+4+8+16+32+64=127, which is odd.
The question is whether caffeine may be a "perfectly safe refreshing beverage"? That might make sense, except that caffeine isn't a beverage at all. I'm not usually a grammar nazi, but scientific papers hurt their credibility when they can't correctly form a sentence.
Is the same true of beer (obviously, with the diurectic being alcohol rather than caffeine)?
Carlin already addressed that. We attacked the Germans because they were cutting in on our action.
What about NTSC vs. PAL (or whatever they use in Japan)? Do Japanese, American and European consoles all work fine on the tv's in all three markets? I imagine at the least you need a converter for the power cord, but that seems easy.
If the goal is only to stay out of the bottom 5%, that seems easy. Realistically, at any given time, at least one out of twenty employees is probably actively fucking things up and causing problems. So if you do absolutely nothing, you should be above those people, and out of the bottom 5%. Easy.
Not if you compile with the -nosquadron flag.
There are some who would say that you should only be using the postfix form if you want to draw attention to the 'then' part of the statement, as in "die 'errormsg' if something-bad-happens;". Personally, I don't think it should be used just to avoid using curly braces (although I'm the kind of person who always uses braces in C as well). Your point is still a good one though, and what you're suggesting is certainly miles ahead of abusing shortcircuit evaluation.
He must just be referring to the fact taht slashdot runs advertisement from Microsoft.
I don't understand how it could be both a "nice try" and a "pitiful attempt".
First, they didn't say that. They just said that you can't read the documents. This is a well-known fact, so I don't see how stating it is "admitting to anti-competitive behavior".
But anyway, the main point is that if I were running a business, I would not want to use a product that can't read documentst that others send to me. I wouldn't be interested in why I can't read them, so this still sounds like a compelling reason to use MS Office. Whether the software has the features they need (which might include reading Word
No one said that the US is or is not a republic, so I'm not sure why you're bringing that issue up. He claimed that it is a democracy, which is obviously true. Pointing out other things that the US is doesn't negate that claim. That would be like if I responded to your claim that the US is a republic by saying "actually, it's a country" or "actually, it's in North America".
Nintendo makes extremely innovative games. They just put the same characters in all of them. I love the Nintendo franchises, so I think this approach is fantastic.
It's ridiculous to declare that the new Zelda game won't be innovative based only on the title.
Perhaps this is because when you already have the greatest fighting game of all time (Smash Bros.; although the original soul calibur on dreamcast was pretty incredible (I haven't played the second one much)), having tons of other fighting games available would be redundant and unnecessary.
He presumably wore it every day because he could only afford one t-shirt.
I guess they'll just have to make the leap from directly from Windows vs. Linux to vi vs. emacs.
Ah, that's much clearer, thanks. I guess in our reading comprehension class, we haven't yet gotten to the lesson where they explain that consumer PCs only include those than run on a certain kind of processor. Yes, it's much easier when rather than claiming that Microsoft has a monopoly on operating systems, we claim that they have a monopoly on Windows.
Btw, doesn't Apple have a monopoly on "the market traditionally dominated by the Macintosh; i.e., PowerPC computers" (or whaever chip they use now)? Will they soon face massive fines for including a web browser and a media player with their OS, which clearly aren't technologies consumers want and would only be included with an operating system for anticompetitive reasons?
If you think it's possible to drive fast enough anywhere in that area to be danger because you're on your phone, you're obviously not from new york.