Sorry, it was such a basic question from my perspective, to which the answer is readily and widely available since... forever, so I thought wrongly of it.
I'm not a fanboy. I specifically chose a DBA development path under LINUX, because I think it rocks. HOWEVER. We are talking here about software products FOR Microsoft platforms, not only software products BY Microsoft. And even so, if all you know about Microsoft software is Windows and Office, then I just don't see a reason to continue arguing with an uninformed person. Microsoft phones don't sell because they came last in an almost saturated market where they lost the start. I don't even expect them to sell, even if they have a perfect product (which they don't).
Again, not a fanboy, but someone who thinks beyond your obvious hatred for Microsoft. I welcome and good product for any platform with open arms.
One more thing to mention. My HTC Desire S with Android 2.3.5 was shit. It hanged completely 2 out of 5 times when docked, it reset unexpectedly after placing a call (and sometimes DURING call), it ate my battery alive (with very light usage) and power hungry processes were hanging all the time. Once I upgraded to 4.0.4 they ALL went away. So see, even Android sucks at times.
I suppose you're a troll as well, but to hell with it, I'll bite. Any celestial body large enough to have a sizable gravity (I am sure there's a threshold formula somewhere, but CBA to check) will take, in time, a spherical shape because of... GRAVITY! (applause in the background)
Generally, people like Microsoft software products.
There, fixed that for you.
Look, I know it's a wet dream to say that people don't like Microsoft products. It's what you wish for and in your mind it's probably true. Sadly, all world data proves you wrong. Market share, corporate apps, etc., all show Microsoft-based stuff comes first in preferences. It's the way it is. If you meant hardware, then yes, save for XBox there's been nothing that Microsoft made right so far. Now let me interpret your "forced down their throats at the work place". You're putting the cart before the mule, so to speak. It goes like this: Software that only runs on Windows came to life because there was a larger demand for it to run under Windows. The demand existed BEFORE the product was made. if I start to make an application, a piece of software that I want to sell, I look at market size. Which platform offers the greatest chance for ROI? Which OS do my possible customers use? That's what I create my software for. then, if it sells fine and if I make enough money to invest some with almost no chance for ROI, I'll make a Linux version too, just for the fun of it or whatever. but corporate software has been primarily created to fatten wallets, and wallets can be genuinely fattened if you have Windows-based customers. Sad but true. I mean, when was the last time you actually BOUGHT an application for your Linux-based PC?
Except for "Drop it like it's hot!". Now seriously, getting hit by a fireball requires a sudden change in temperature from normal to hot, and then a sudden heat dissipation (OK, maybe not so sudden). Pretty difficult to achieve such a sudden temperature change given a controller's restrictions, unless you would, as a customer, accept a bulky controller which would be plugged in to a power source. Peltier effect can achieve pretty sudden temperature changes (backed by a highly thermoconductive material, e.g. copper, aluminum) but it sucks energy like there's no tomorrow. Running on batteries? Forget it. However, I would accept a bulky, power-hungry controller if it would give me such feedback. Cold beer effect for walking in a blizzard, sudden heat when hit by fireball... yes please. Question is... would it pee in your hand if your character starts swimming?
My ass is butt-ugly (pun intended). If that floats your boat, just look for whatever's already freely available. Facebook is probably filled to the rim with such things. i can't compete professionals:)
Hey, this opens up BUSINESS opportunities for me, as I have bigass proxy access through UK, US, AU, JP, etc. Shortly put, all regions are covered. I could download the driver from anywhere and life like a fat rat off re-selling the driver to EU. Heh heh.
I'm an European (despite what the French say) and I never really cared. I'm an Average Joe with too little money to be interesting and my online life is as dull as a wooden plank. here, google, take my data and shove it in your... data warehouse. My mindset revolves around this: Anything you put online means you void your privacy rights to that stuff, nothing else.
OK. Anything coming from YOUR brain, that's worth mentioning? I generally loathe people who (sometimes randomly) choose a leadership and start spreading its wisdom without adding anything. Preachers come to mind.
Here's an interesting counterexample very fresh in my memory. Two days ago I watched the "Cat watches Slayer" video posted on wimp.com (http://www.wimp.com/watchingslayer/). I remembered how much I loved Slayer when I was 16-18 and all I could find was a couple of cassette tapes which I couldn't play anymore (yeah, I got rid of my cassette player) so I immediately went and bought their albums online. Yes, all of them, because I could afford this one purchase. So, paradoxically, a video of a cat watching Slayer boosted some Slayer sales. Go figure.
Just because you haven't been the subject of a war yourself, it doesn't mean your (pretty comfy) life (I assume) is shared by the entire world. Quite the other way around, I'd venture to say. The world is changing at an unprecedented pace. In some developed countries there's this false feeling of safety, because there are still resources to access and the quality of life is good and seems unchangeable. Facilitated travel heightens the risk of an epidemic. It took 15 years for the black plague of 14th century to spread from Asia to Europe. Were it to happen now, that time would be reduced to a couple weeks at most. Resource interdependence makes it a lot more difficult for communities and/or countries to resist in case the economy shakes or is brought down for whatever reason. Look at current crisis, which started in 2008 and affected pretty much the whole world in a matter of months. Imagine what a week-long country-wide power outage would do.
Anyway, I don't think you can reliably set a 15-year trendline now. If you'd go back to 2007 and ask people whether a financial crysis is imminent, they would laugh in your face. And all that happened in a 5-year span.
You wake up suddenly because looters are again banging at your reinforced door, looking for food and something to kill (or both). You shoot your through the door slits to make them go away, then prepare to take off and scavenge neighboring ruins for food.
Romania. It does have and will probably always have unlimited data plans. For mobile devices there are speed caps once you go over a certain threshold, but that's it. The difference between subscriptions is basically the threshold size (6 GB, 20 GB, 100 GB, etc). For regular broadband (CAT5, fiber optics and so on) there's no threshold and probably there won't be any, because ISPs here are in direct competition. There's no location I know of in Bucharest where you can't choose between at least 3 different ISPs. There are offers for new subscriptions, e.g. 6 months for 50% price or 3 free months, etc. RDS (my ISP) offered me a free as in beer 3G dongle which allows unlimited traffic with no monthly threshold. I have downloaded a few ISOs through 3G when their regular line was down a few weeks ago at about 4 Mb/s sustained throughput.
This does not apply to me. I am exactly the same, online or offline. Whoever met me online and then offline could testify. I use some profanity in both "worlds" and I act and react the same. These realms are't different in my view. Of course, I'm maybe one of few, but I've seen other people act similarly.
That's exactly what I disliked about mind maps. They're too damn limited. You have a central point and stem all your directions from there. But cyclic relations don't exist, also you can't make any many-to-one or one-to-many references. If point X refers to more than one branch, you'd have to hack the mind map to display it.
When shit hits the fan, all currency will be useless. Look up hyperinflation, friend. This mindset is exactly what leads to shit hitting the fan. Better stockpile water and canned food starting now.
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Oh noez, I have been CAUGHT!
Sorry, it was such a basic question from my perspective, to which the answer is readily and widely available since... forever, so I thought wrongly of it.
I'm not a fanboy. I specifically chose a DBA development path under LINUX, because I think it rocks.
HOWEVER.
We are talking here about software products FOR Microsoft platforms, not only software products BY Microsoft. And even so, if all you know about Microsoft software is Windows and Office, then I just don't see a reason to continue arguing with an uninformed person.
Microsoft phones don't sell because they came last in an almost saturated market where they lost the start. I don't even expect them to sell, even if they have a perfect product (which they don't).
Again, not a fanboy, but someone who thinks beyond your obvious hatred for Microsoft. I welcome and good product for any platform with open arms.
One more thing to mention. My HTC Desire S with Android 2.3.5 was shit. It hanged completely 2 out of 5 times when docked, it reset unexpectedly after placing a call (and sometimes DURING call), it ate my battery alive (with very light usage) and power hungry processes were hanging all the time. Once I upgraded to 4.0.4 they ALL went away. So see, even Android sucks at times.
I suppose you're a troll as well, but to hell with it, I'll bite.
Any celestial body large enough to have a sizable gravity (I am sure there's a threshold formula somewhere, but CBA to check) will take, in time, a spherical shape because of... GRAVITY! (applause in the background)
http://www.pa.msu.edu/sciencet/ask_st/031198.html
Generally, people like Microsoft software products.
There, fixed that for you.
Look, I know it's a wet dream to say that people don't like Microsoft products. It's what you wish for and in your mind it's probably true. Sadly, all world data proves you wrong. Market share, corporate apps, etc., all show Microsoft-based stuff comes first in preferences. It's the way it is.
If you meant hardware, then yes, save for XBox there's been nothing that Microsoft made right so far.
Now let me interpret your "forced down their throats at the work place". You're putting the cart before the mule, so to speak. It goes like this: Software that only runs on Windows came to life because there was a larger demand for it to run under Windows. The demand existed BEFORE the product was made. if I start to make an application, a piece of software that I want to sell, I look at market size. Which platform offers the greatest chance for ROI? Which OS do my possible customers use? That's what I create my software for. then, if it sells fine and if I make enough money to invest some with almost no chance for ROI, I'll make a Linux version too, just for the fun of it or whatever. but corporate software has been primarily created to fatten wallets, and wallets can be genuinely fattened if you have Windows-based customers. Sad but true. I mean, when was the last time you actually BOUGHT an application for your Linux-based PC?
Except for "Drop it like it's hot!".
Now seriously, getting hit by a fireball requires a sudden change in temperature from normal to hot, and then a sudden heat dissipation (OK, maybe not so sudden). Pretty difficult to achieve such a sudden temperature change given a controller's restrictions, unless you would, as a customer, accept a bulky controller which would be plugged in to a power source. Peltier effect can achieve pretty sudden temperature changes (backed by a highly thermoconductive material, e.g. copper, aluminum) but it sucks energy like there's no tomorrow. Running on batteries? Forget it.
However, I would accept a bulky, power-hungry controller if it would give me such feedback. Cold beer effect for walking in a blizzard, sudden heat when hit by fireball... yes please.
Question is... would it pee in your hand if your character starts swimming?
He never forgot porn. But you can't blame your own god, can you? Oh wait...
My ass is butt-ugly (pun intended). If that floats your boat, just look for whatever's already freely available. Facebook is probably filled to the rim with such things. i can't compete professionals :)
My proxy access is corporate.
Hey, this opens up BUSINESS opportunities for me, as I have bigass proxy access through UK, US, AU, JP, etc. Shortly put, all regions are covered. I could download the driver from anywhere and life like a fat rat off re-selling the driver to EU. Heh heh.
I'm an European (despite what the French say) and I never really cared. I'm an Average Joe with too little money to be interesting and my online life is as dull as a wooden plank. here, google, take my data and shove it in your... data warehouse.
My mindset revolves around this: Anything you put online means you void your privacy rights to that stuff, nothing else.
OK. Anything coming from YOUR brain, that's worth mentioning?
I generally loathe people who (sometimes randomly) choose a leadership and start spreading its wisdom without adding anything. Preachers come to mind.
Here's an interesting counterexample very fresh in my memory.
Two days ago I watched the "Cat watches Slayer" video posted on wimp.com (http://www.wimp.com/watchingslayer/). I remembered how much I loved Slayer when I was 16-18 and all I could find was a couple of cassette tapes which I couldn't play anymore (yeah, I got rid of my cassette player) so I immediately went and bought their albums online. Yes, all of them, because I could afford this one purchase.
So, paradoxically, a video of a cat watching Slayer boosted some Slayer sales. Go figure.
This one ain't over yet. Which "next" one? :)
There's going to be no such thing as payroll taxes. We'll all use Nuka Cola caps.
Welcome to the World of Fakes.
Just because you haven't been the subject of a war yourself, it doesn't mean your (pretty comfy) life (I assume) is shared by the entire world. Quite the other way around, I'd venture to say. The world is changing at an unprecedented pace. In some developed countries there's this false feeling of safety, because there are still resources to access and the quality of life is good and seems unchangeable.
Facilitated travel heightens the risk of an epidemic. It took 15 years for the black plague of 14th century to spread from Asia to Europe. Were it to happen now, that time would be reduced to a couple weeks at most.
Resource interdependence makes it a lot more difficult for communities and/or countries to resist in case the economy shakes or is brought down for whatever reason. Look at current crisis, which started in 2008 and affected pretty much the whole world in a matter of months. Imagine what a week-long country-wide power outage would do.
Anyway, I don't think you can reliably set a 15-year trendline now. If you'd go back to 2007 and ask people whether a financial crysis is imminent, they would laugh in your face. And all that happened in a 5-year span.
You wake up suddenly because looters are again banging at your reinforced door, looking for food and something to kill (or both). You shoot your through the door slits to make them go away, then prepare to take off and scavenge neighboring ruins for food.
And so on, and so forth.
Romania.
It does have and will probably always have unlimited data plans. For mobile devices there are speed caps once you go over a certain threshold, but that's it. The difference between subscriptions is basically the threshold size (6 GB, 20 GB, 100 GB, etc).
For regular broadband (CAT5, fiber optics and so on) there's no threshold and probably there won't be any, because ISPs here are in direct competition. There's no location I know of in Bucharest where you can't choose between at least 3 different ISPs. There are offers for new subscriptions, e.g. 6 months for 50% price or 3 free months, etc.
RDS (my ISP) offered me a free as in beer 3G dongle which allows unlimited traffic with no monthly threshold. I have downloaded a few ISOs through 3G when their regular line was down a few weeks ago at about 4 Mb/s sustained throughput.
This does not apply to me. I am exactly the same, online or offline. Whoever met me online and then offline could testify. I use some profanity in both "worlds" and I act and react the same. These realms are't different in my view. Of course, I'm maybe one of few, but I've seen other people act similarly.
Too linear. No cyclic stuff in it. Apart from that, it looks pretty cool, and the exports are pretty awesome.
That's exactly what I disliked about mind maps. They're too damn limited. You have a central point and stem all your directions from there. But cyclic relations don't exist, also you can't make any many-to-one or one-to-many references. If point X refers to more than one branch, you'd have to hack the mind map to display it.
Time will tell, friend. Time will tell.
When shit hits the fan, all currency will be useless. Look up hyperinflation, friend.
This mindset is exactly what leads to shit hitting the fan. Better stockpile water and canned food starting now.
Until shit hits the fan. Which is going to happen sometime during YOUR lifetime.