so the clinton family are the oil family that were filthy with the corruption of that scandal and still to this day have not wiped that particular stink off and the bush family were totally clean, having little to nothing to do with oil investments, right?
This is a great non sequitur. All of Enron's scams and corruptions happened years before Bush was even in office. Their big stock pump-and-dump happened in August of 2000 before he was even elected. This grasping at straws to blame anything and everything on Bush is both sad and laughable.
inherited from the previous administration, nothing to do with obama...
No, they are a direct result of his budgets. He's even admitted to so.
entirely ordered and operated by the previous administration. condemned, ceased and genuine efforts made to find the best way to put it into the past with the least damage. original controversy nothing to do with obama...
But he definitely made sure that no one could ever hold them responsible by giving them immunity and as such providing tacit approval.
so let me get this straight... your entire criticism is based around blaming every single thing on bush, then saying:
No, I blame them both since Obama has taken what Bush has done and expanded it and made the situation that much worse.
which may or may not be a good idea, but is 100% entirely, confessed by you, obama's best efforts to clean up the mess that bush left america in...
Sorry, but I've confessed no such thing. I disagreed with it under Bush and I disagree with it even more with Obama's huge expansion of the bailouts.
i am waiting for the part where you show obama to be worse...
I already did. The fact that you attempted to hand wave it all away doesn't change that fact.
Millions? Really? Even the most outlying figures for the death tolls have never been in the millions.
war over large parts of the planet,
This was something new only to the 8 years of the Bush presidency? Last time I checked there was also war over large parts of the planet during the Clinton years too.
mass alienation and destabilisation,
That's new?
worldwide economic collapse...
Wow, so Bush is no single-handedly responsible for the worldwide economic collapse? Hyperbolic much? I was against Bush all throughout his stay in office but even I spot this as being total fucking bullshit. The economic collapse was catalyzed by the bursting of the housing bubble created by Alan Greenspan during the Clinton years.
i don't think any politician at all is "good", but you'll have to get up pretty early each morning and put in some very long hours to be actually WORSE than bush...
Obama must be working overtime, because in many of the areas you mention above they've only gotten worse, and will continue to get worse, under Obama.
Yes, the Bush administration had a lot of flaws, but Obama'a administration looks to be expanding on them.
Exactly. The funny thing is that now the Obama supporters are pulling the "But Bill Clinton did !!" that they were all complaining about the right doing it with regards to Bush's bullshit, but now they are doing the same thing with Bush to make excuses for Obama's bullshit.
Oh and just as a further note, Enron's fraud and corruption happened during the Clinton Administration. Their big pump-and-dump happened in the last year of Clinton being in office so lumping that failure on Bush is pretty unfair and disingenuous.
Yes. Multi-trillion dollar deficits, continued flushing of money down the toilet on bailouts to shitty companies, pardoning the telecos for helping in illegally wiretap citizens.
And it's doing even worse at all those things in relation to the current one. The current regime went from zero to corrupt in a time span that would make even Dick Cheney's head spin.
dude, maybe you should read a bit closer before posting
There is nothing to read closer as I quoted exactly what you typed. The GGP never said or implied that the Symbian foundation owned Qt. Secondly, your implication about the Symbian version of Qt wasn't open source was also false.
It is when they are selling most of those phones to the providers for 100s of dollars a piece.
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and there are millions of free examples available to you.
Too bad many of those millions are shitty examples that teach bad coding techniques and style. God help any kid who learns how to program from viewing slashcode!
This is the one big reason why Symbian is such a failure.
I wish I could be as big of a failure as Symbian where in around 18 million phones per quarter are sold with it installed and it holds 50% of the smart phone OS market.
And such thinking gave us the Year of the Linux desktop years ago! Oh wait... The licensing costs for WinMo are a pittance to the device manufacturers when it comes to the total cost to make the device especially since all the big phone companies definitely negotiate bulk license rates when dealing with Microsoft. If you honestly think these big phone manufacturers that rake in 10s of billions in revenue a year care about that mere pittance they throw to Microsoft for WinMo you are horrible naive. It's the same reason why all the nerd rage over the licensing costs of H.264 or MP3 etc is meaningless to any major device manufacturer as it's a mere pittance to their bottom line.
and now that Android has arrived and brought a much more friendly programming environment, this step is too little, too late.
Too bad the figures don't bear you out what with Symbian powering almost 50% of all smart phones while Android is fighting to get more than 2-3% of the market. There are more Symbian-powered phones sold each quarter than there are even total devices running Android.
I strongly suspect that Nokia will be pushing Qt as the main toolkit/API for their [smart]phones, after which they will be free to dump the steaming pile that is Symbian and switch to Linux.
Yes, they are going to go through all the effort of porting Qt to Symbian only to ditch Symbian for Linux. Oh wait... Just because they are pushing out a few devices using Linux in no way means they are dropping Symbian.
Once again, I'm not saying that Nokia is in trouble: with their apparent migration towards Linux + Qt, they will be fine.
What apparent migration? Please provide any actual statements from Nokia that even remotely hint at them dropping Symbian to go all Linux.
Other than a one-off printed letter, what place does a word processing document have in today's world of Wikis and such?
You mean other than for writing novels, papers and articles? Yeah, other than major stuff like that, I can see no use for a word processor at all. Last time I checked my professor or your editor isn't going to accept a wiki page as a way to turn in your writing to.
Well it's a good thing that your incredulity doesn't override statistical evidence.
How many of those people they asked actually used office as a mission critical application in their day to day use? In my admittedly small sample, nobody that I work with at all enjoys using the ribbons, which is about 5 that I have spoken to about it.
In my larger sample of about 30-50 people almost all of them enjoy the new GUI and once they start using Office 2007 for a few weeks they never want to go back to 2003. I guess this is why anecdotes aren't good evidence of something.
You obviously don't work with.NET on a daily basis. Same crap different syntax, different names on the box..
I use it almost every day and in many ways I prefer it to Java (though I use Java often too for certain things it does better). I never get why people cares so much about what languages other people like to code in.
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Because this is more portable and power efficient?
The BSD, MIT licenses (even if more open) are for mugs who end up having their code "stolen" !
You claim this but the BSDs get countless contributions back from people and corporations that use their code. This is just GPL FUD.
so the clinton family are the oil family that were filthy with the corruption of that scandal and still to this day have not wiped that particular stink off and the bush family were totally clean, having little to nothing to do with oil investments, right?
This is a great non sequitur. All of Enron's scams and corruptions happened years before Bush was even in office. Their big stock pump-and-dump happened in August of 2000 before he was even elected. This grasping at straws to blame anything and everything on Bush is both sad and laughable.
inherited from the previous administration, nothing to do with obama...
No, they are a direct result of his budgets. He's even admitted to so.
entirely ordered and operated by the previous administration. condemned, ceased and genuine efforts made to find the best way to put it into the past with the least damage. original controversy nothing to do with obama...
But he definitely made sure that no one could ever hold them responsible by giving them immunity and as such providing tacit approval.
so let me get this straight... your entire criticism is based around blaming every single thing on bush, then saying:
No, I blame them both since Obama has taken what Bush has done and expanded it and made the situation that much worse.
which may or may not be a good idea, but is 100% entirely, confessed by you, obama's best efforts to clean up the mess that bush left america in...
Sorry, but I've confessed no such thing. I disagreed with it under Bush and I disagree with it even more with Obama's huge expansion of the bailouts.
i am waiting for the part where you show obama to be worse...
I already did. The fact that you attempted to hand wave it all away doesn't change that fact.
millions needlessly dead
Millions? Really? Even the most outlying figures for the death tolls have never been in the millions.
war over large parts of the planet,
This was something new only to the 8 years of the Bush presidency? Last time I checked there was also war over large parts of the planet during the Clinton years too.
mass alienation and destabilisation,
That's new?
worldwide economic collapse...
Wow, so Bush is no single-handedly responsible for the worldwide economic collapse? Hyperbolic much? I was against Bush all throughout his stay in office but even I spot this as being total fucking bullshit. The economic collapse was catalyzed by the bursting of the housing bubble created by Alan Greenspan during the Clinton years.
i don't think any politician at all is "good", but you'll have to get up pretty early each morning and put in some very long hours to be actually WORSE than bush...
Obama must be working overtime, because in many of the areas you mention above they've only gotten worse, and will continue to get worse, under Obama.
Yes, the Bush administration had a lot of flaws, but Obama'a administration looks to be expanding on them.
Exactly. The funny thing is that now the Obama supporters are pulling the "But Bill Clinton did !!" that they were all complaining about the right doing it with regards to Bush's bullshit, but now they are doing the same thing with Bush to make excuses for Obama's bullshit.
Oh and just as a further note, Enron's fraud and corruption happened during the Clinton Administration. Their big pump-and-dump happened in the last year of Clinton being in office so lumping that failure on Bush is pretty unfair and disingenuous.
really???? worse than bush???
Yes. Multi-trillion dollar deficits, continued flushing of money down the toilet on bailouts to shitty companies, pardoning the telecos for helping in illegally wiretap citizens.
cough, cough... ENRON... cough...
cough, cough... GM... cough...
And it's doing even worse at all those things in relation to the current one. The current regime went from zero to corrupt in a time span that would make even Dick Cheney's head spin.
dude, maybe you should read a bit closer before posting
There is nothing to read closer as I quoted exactly what you typed. The GGP never said or implied that the Symbian foundation owned Qt. Secondly, your implication about the Symbian version of Qt wasn't open source was also false.
It is when they are selling most of those phones to the providers for 100s of dollars a piece.
and there are millions of free examples available to you.
Too bad many of those millions are shitty examples that teach bad coding techniques and style. God help any kid who learns how to program from viewing slashcode!
This is the one big reason why Symbian is such a failure.
I wish I could be as big of a failure as Symbian where in around 18 million phones per quarter are sold with it installed and it holds 50% of the smart phone OS market.
And such thinking gave us the Year of the Linux desktop years ago! Oh wait... The licensing costs for WinMo are a pittance to the device manufacturers when it comes to the total cost to make the device especially since all the big phone companies definitely negotiate bulk license rates when dealing with Microsoft. If you honestly think these big phone manufacturers that rake in 10s of billions in revenue a year care about that mere pittance they throw to Microsoft for WinMo you are horrible naive. It's the same reason why all the nerd rage over the licensing costs of H.264 or MP3 etc is meaningless to any major device manufacturer as it's a mere pittance to their bottom line.
and now that Android has arrived and brought a much more friendly programming environment, this step is too little, too late.
Too bad the figures don't bear you out what with Symbian powering almost 50% of all smart phones while Android is fighting to get more than 2-3% of the market. There are more Symbian-powered phones sold each quarter than there are even total devices running Android.
Where? I can't find that phrase either on this page or this page.
I strongly suspect that Nokia will be pushing Qt as the main toolkit/API for their [smart]phones, after which they will be free to dump the steaming pile that is Symbian and switch to Linux.
Yes, they are going to go through all the effort of porting Qt to Symbian only to ditch Symbian for Linux. Oh wait... Just because they are pushing out a few devices using Linux in no way means they are dropping Symbian.
Once again, I'm not saying that Nokia is in trouble: with their apparent migration towards Linux + Qt, they will be fine.
What apparent migration? Please provide any actual statements from Nokia that even remotely hint at them dropping Symbian to go all Linux.
Isn't Qt owned by Nokia, not the symbian foundation?
Do you have a problem reading? From the GP:
Nokia own both Symbian and Qt
Where in his post did he say that Qt was owned by the Symbian foundation?
It doesn't say anything about open sourcing the symbian version of Qt.
The Qt for S60 Technology Preview is available under a special technology preview license, GNU LGPL version 2.1 and GPL version 3.
http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/technical-preview-qt-for-s60
Other than a one-off printed letter, what place does a word processing document have in today's world of Wikis and such?
You mean other than for writing novels, papers and articles? Yeah, other than major stuff like that, I can see no use for a word processor at all. Last time I checked my professor or your editor isn't going to accept a wiki page as a way to turn in your writing to.
I find that hard to believe.
Well it's a good thing that your incredulity doesn't override statistical evidence.
How many of those people they asked actually used office as a mission critical application in their day to day use? In my admittedly small sample, nobody that I work with at all enjoys using the ribbons, which is about 5 that I have spoken to about it.
In my larger sample of about 30-50 people almost all of them enjoy the new GUI and once they start using Office 2007 for a few weeks they never want to go back to 2003. I guess this is why anecdotes aren't good evidence of something.
Because Rob Malda and his web monkeys couldn't code their ways out of a wet paper sack.
Yes it is big, but most of it is just the same thing over and over again. It was quite monotonous at times, really.
VB is Microsoft's bastardized version of Java.
So Microsoft bastardized a language that 5 years before it existed? That's amazing even for them!
People care about what other people code in if there's a 200+MB download just to be able to run it...
Because anyone forces you to use their app?
You obviously don't work with .NET on a daily basis. Same crap different syntax, different names on the box..
I use it almost every day and in many ways I prefer it to Java (though I use Java often too for certain things it does better). I never get why people cares so much about what languages other people like to code in.