Since you're such a fan of anal sex rape comparisons, let's do it your way.
Some people like getting a dick in their ass by large corporations, who take their money, rape their locale's competition leaving them without jobs, and export the taxation to tax heavens meaning there's no money for local doctor who would check if they got HIV from all the foreign dick in their ass.
No, it's important to make everyone pay by the rules. Anarchist bullshit you're spewing sounds nice if you have a strong anarchist bend, but otherwise, it sounds quite insane. Reality is that taxation is about preventing the suffering, rather than creating it. It creates safety nets, pays for medicine, police, fire protection and so on. It guarantees some income even if you lose your job, or get hurt. It lets you go to work when you have young children and gives you a place to put them in daycare. It provides centralized and functional education system. And countless other things. Tax dodging is what generates suffering, heavy suffering at that. Much of the current budget problems in France are because traditional tax revenues are dying up - because of increasing paths of tax evasion being available to traditionally large contributors, such as large companies.
Companies that dodge this need to be taxed like others, both to prevent suffering and to allow competition to survive and adapt. They should not be allowed to effectively steal their contribution from taxation pool as they do now while destroying their competition though these unfair means.
I suspect it's a cultural thing. UK version of coupling was understandable to those who have experienced UK culture to significant amount. It was a very Western European show if you will.
US version tried to do the same thing and failed because it was too alien for US culture. They should have changed the script to match the local culture far more to succeed in my opinion. It's true that you can to extent sell another culture's product, but it either requires heavy and costly indoctrination (as hollywood does it) or it needs to be something special (like classic movies). It doesn't really work for fairly modern sitcom that is very much based on real life experiences, as these are different between cultures.
You must be lost. This is a site for nerds. Not lawyers.
You also appear very stupid, because you think that software updates are always fixes, instead of configuration changes, version updates, optimizations and so on.
You may want to sit down for this. They can be latter and not the former.
Metro makes sense for large screen? You say this based on owning a surface tablet?
This is where I know I'm talking to someone severely mentally challenged or so emotionally invested in the product that any future argument is pointless. You cannon convince someone who's mentally retarded and you can't convince a believer. Both draw strength from their conviction, no matter how unbased in reality it is.
In hindsight, it actually looked real. Snowden clearly didn't want to stay there, and didn't plan to. The mess at the airport, and the fact that US actually downed a plane of Latin American country's president above Europe proves that no one thought he planned to stay in Russia.
So the answer to your question is that no, it doesn't seem convenient. In fact, it seems pretty damn inconvenient for everyone involved, including Russia, who didn't and doesn't want Snowden - he creates additional diplomatic problems with US (same reason why everyone else doesn't want him either) but they are stuck with him because they can't just surrender him to US either without massively losing face.
All I can say is whatever you're smoking, it must be some very hard stuff. You actually think that windows 8 is a functional fusion of tablet and desktop?
Have you ever touched a PC running one? I'm yet to meet a single person who would make such a claim after actually using the OS.
On the other hand I have a lot of people I know who came to me as I was the computer guy to ask where they could get the "windows to replace this colorful weird thing that came with my computer?"
So either you're in serious trouble with chemicals, or you're on MS payroll and doing your job. If latter, please pass the message up the chain - 8 is a catastrophe and those of us that actually like windows would like windows 9 to be a functional hybrid of XP and 7 with anything taken from 8 ripped clean out. We need a desktop OS. Not a jury rigged hybrid like USSR that "stands in communism with one foot but is stuck in socialism with another" as the old soviet anecdote goes. Because the old granny asking "how long do we have to stand in this uncomfortable position" was far smarter then the communist party guy that came to advertise the message.
Considering that his neighbors in US claim that he spent ages in front of the computer, it's pretty likely he was living like that for a while. There's only so much you can burn money on while working on publishing biggest leak of the century and he's been doing it for years.
Jokes aside, windows 8 is a tablet OS. Nothing more, nothing less. What windows was before it, was a desktop OS. And microsoft needs a desktop OS. It doesn't have one right now, other than for those that buy windows 8 pro and can upgrade to 7, which is microsoft's last desktop OS.
In a way, you're right. People who used it on "right hardware" probably do like it. Problem is, they like android and ios a whole lot more. And 8 is useless trash on desktop, where it's actually used.
So a product for one segment, that for some reason (well we do know the reason, it's called leveraging monopoly, something for which MS has convictions in the past) which is forcibly pushed into another. A car analogy: 8 is a sedan being pushed into truck market, because microsoft is the only truck company worth a damn. It doesn't compete well against sedans when put against them, and it fails on principle when competing with previous iteration of the truck by the same company.
However company makes it hard as hell to get older functional trucks, because it wants to get into sedan market and hopes that truck buyers will buy its sedans. Catastrophic collapse of sales ensues.
You have a core error in your argument, in that new interface is a "bet on the future".
It's not. Future has already tried it and judged it a catastrophic failure. It's a bet on the past, specifically on ability to be able to drive undesired changes based on monopoly. This has worked for microsoft in the past, several times. This time, it's failing, and beginning to cause the failure of entire windows monopoly.
P.S. Your numbers, judging by 10% apple's slice, are US numbers only. I'm talking something far, far more important than a single large sized market that is in decline in relation to the rest of the world. I'm talking world wide, the market where microsoft was traditionally the only real player, apple was marginal and weird at best, and android is pretty much the only functional replacement as of typing this.
I have one. Stop alienating those on the fence effectively telling them to take the shit shoveled or go away. Give people the desktop centric interface at least as an option, preferably as a default one. Stop shoving a bad touch based interface onto desktop by force of monopoly. That makes people go looking for options. People that would otherwise not do so.
Then you are rooting for democratic governments against corporations. It has been shown countless times throughout our history that when corporations are given free reign, following happens:
1. Rights of workers are pushed as low as possible. Preferred state no rights at all, including human rights. This is currently noticeable in third world where corporations outsource as much work as possible, because governments there are weak and rarely represent the good of their people. As a result, they are easier to bribe to ignore rights of their constituents. 2. Power is taken out of the hands of the people. Democracy by its nature is natural enemy of the free trade and corporatism. This is because it empowers majority, which is middle class and poor class workers against tiny minority of owners and business leaders who rule in systems dominated by those who have more money. The two are effectively mutually incompatible, which is again noticeable as the globalisation accelerates, the actual democratic rule is weakened as corporatism and corporate fascism takes over government functions here in the first world.
It is far more sensible, because it means local companies are actually able to compete because they are on the same ruleset.
Right now google is effectively a parasite, punishing local companies that play by the rules and pay to taxes to each country by abusing a legal loophole not to. Such loopholes must be closed asap, preferably while competition still exists. It's going to be much harder to do once google has parasited all competition to death and is the only game in town.
2. That's fine? Do you understand the numbers at all? We're talking hundreds of millions of machines in terms of sales.
Losing that is a catastrophe for OEMs, and even worse - once critical mass on "those other systems" is reached, developers will move from windows to "those other systems".
We have already seen how well windows does without developers. It's called windows RT.
1. About availability of 7. MS made it hell to get it. You have to pay significant extra to upgrade 8's license to have a right to upgrade to 7. If it's available at all in your particular country.
2. None. Instead customers are migrating to lower functionality of tablets whenever possible, which is still better than catastrophe of 8.
I may be an "internet expert" whereas you appear to be "ignorant about everything".
Such as the fact that fascist aspect of Nazi Germany came in actions completely different and separate from their Nazi aspirations. Attempting to somehow pretend that ethnic cleansing driven by Nazi ideology had something to do with fascist part of ideology shows an astounding depth of ignorance of history.
And I'm not seeing any problem at all with government preventing incestuous marriages. I believe this is an opinion shared by vast majority of population worldwide. You have to be pants on the head kind of crazy to think that government has no right to think of common good just because it happens to place restrictions on your personal freedom, which is fact central to good governance.
You are lying. Vast majority of PCs nowadays are sold with 8. A visit to any shop, including amazon or similar shows this.
Fact is, all the blingy useless trash like touch on desktop does only one thing: increase costs for consumer. And while microsoft is "holding the line" against its customers, customers are slowly but surely getting the message: buy something similar from companies that care about your needs, rather than egoes of their bosses.
Indeed. The reality is however that every one of us carries many, many recessive genetic diseases. Chance of inheriting a ONE specific disorder if fairly low. Cumulative chance of inheriting at least a few is high. Chance of inheriting at least one is close to 100%.
Then there's another major problem, that being immune system. It's known that one of the major factors of attraction is difference in immune systems, and kissing is one of the forms in which humans chemically "test" each others immune system and the more different it is, the more attractive other person is.
Children of incestuous unions are typically born with much weaker immune systems than their peers because of this.
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Buy a chromebook, install windows xp/7 on it, you're good to go.
Time to visit a doctor to get on medication to stop these hallucinations!
Since you're such a fan of anal sex rape comparisons, let's do it your way.
Some people like getting a dick in their ass by large corporations, who take their money, rape their locale's competition leaving them without jobs, and export the taxation to tax heavens meaning there's no money for local doctor who would check if they got HIV from all the foreign dick in their ass.
Are we done with stupid comparisons yet?
No, it's important to make everyone pay by the rules. Anarchist bullshit you're spewing sounds nice if you have a strong anarchist bend, but otherwise, it sounds quite insane. Reality is that taxation is about preventing the suffering, rather than creating it. It creates safety nets, pays for medicine, police, fire protection and so on. It guarantees some income even if you lose your job, or get hurt. It lets you go to work when you have young children and gives you a place to put them in daycare. It provides centralized and functional education system. And countless other things.
Tax dodging is what generates suffering, heavy suffering at that. Much of the current budget problems in France are because traditional tax revenues are dying up - because of increasing paths of tax evasion being available to traditionally large contributors, such as large companies.
Companies that dodge this need to be taxed like others, both to prevent suffering and to allow competition to survive and adapt. They should not be allowed to effectively steal their contribution from taxation pool as they do now while destroying their competition though these unfair means.
I suspect it's a cultural thing. UK version of coupling was understandable to those who have experienced UK culture to significant amount. It was a very Western European show if you will.
US version tried to do the same thing and failed because it was too alien for US culture. They should have changed the script to match the local culture far more to succeed in my opinion. It's true that you can to extent sell another culture's product, but it either requires heavy and costly indoctrination (as hollywood does it) or it needs to be something special (like classic movies). It doesn't really work for fairly modern sitcom that is very much based on real life experiences, as these are different between cultures.
First taxi was hilarious though. Definitely one of the better movies.
You must be lost. This is a site for nerds. Not lawyers.
You also appear very stupid, because you think that software updates are always fixes, instead of configuration changes, version updates, optimizations and so on.
You may want to sit down for this. They can be latter and not the former.
This isn't market where you get to haggle. This is about facts, and they don't leave any room for guessing.
Metro makes sense for large screen? You say this based on owning a surface tablet?
This is where I know I'm talking to someone severely mentally challenged or so emotionally invested in the product that any future argument is pointless. You cannon convince someone who's mentally retarded and you can't convince a believer. Both draw strength from their conviction, no matter how unbased in reality it is.
In hindsight, it actually looked real. Snowden clearly didn't want to stay there, and didn't plan to. The mess at the airport, and the fact that US actually downed a plane of Latin American country's president above Europe proves that no one thought he planned to stay in Russia.
So the answer to your question is that no, it doesn't seem convenient. In fact, it seems pretty damn inconvenient for everyone involved, including Russia, who didn't and doesn't want Snowden - he creates additional diplomatic problems with US (same reason why everyone else doesn't want him either) but they are stuck with him because they can't just surrender him to US either without massively losing face.
All I can say is whatever you're smoking, it must be some very hard stuff. You actually think that windows 8 is a functional fusion of tablet and desktop?
Have you ever touched a PC running one? I'm yet to meet a single person who would make such a claim after actually using the OS.
On the other hand I have a lot of people I know who came to me as I was the computer guy to ask where they could get the "windows to replace this colorful weird thing that came with my computer?"
So either you're in serious trouble with chemicals, or you're on MS payroll and doing your job. If latter, please pass the message up the chain - 8 is a catastrophe and those of us that actually like windows would like windows 9 to be a functional hybrid of XP and 7 with anything taken from 8 ripped clean out. We need a desktop OS. Not a jury rigged hybrid like USSR that "stands in communism with one foot but is stuck in socialism with another" as the old soviet anecdote goes. Because the old granny asking "how long do we have to stand in this uncomfortable position" was far smarter then the communist party guy that came to advertise the message.
Thank you.
Considering that his neighbors in US claim that he spent ages in front of the computer, it's pretty likely he was living like that for a while. There's only so much you can burn money on while working on publishing biggest leak of the century and he's been doing it for years.
Funnily enough, I think Putin put it the best. After all, he's an old intelligence operative himself.
"He's a strange man. He threw away his life, a good life, just to push for an idealist goal. I don't agree with him, but I respect his conviction".
What, both of them?
Jokes aside, windows 8 is a tablet OS. Nothing more, nothing less. What windows was before it, was a desktop OS. And microsoft needs a desktop OS. It doesn't have one right now, other than for those that buy windows 8 pro and can upgrade to 7, which is microsoft's last desktop OS.
In a way, you're right. People who used it on "right hardware" probably do like it. Problem is, they like android and ios a whole lot more. And 8 is useless trash on desktop, where it's actually used.
So a product for one segment, that for some reason (well we do know the reason, it's called leveraging monopoly, something for which MS has convictions in the past) which is forcibly pushed into another. A car analogy: 8 is a sedan being pushed into truck market, because microsoft is the only truck company worth a damn. It doesn't compete well against sedans when put against them, and it fails on principle when competing with previous iteration of the truck by the same company.
However company makes it hard as hell to get older functional trucks, because it wants to get into sedan market and hopes that truck buyers will buy its sedans. Catastrophic collapse of sales ensues.
You have a core error in your argument, in that new interface is a "bet on the future".
It's not. Future has already tried it and judged it a catastrophic failure. It's a bet on the past, specifically on ability to be able to drive undesired changes based on monopoly. This has worked for microsoft in the past, several times. This time, it's failing, and beginning to cause the failure of entire windows monopoly.
P.S. Your numbers, judging by 10% apple's slice, are US numbers only. I'm talking something far, far more important than a single large sized market that is in decline in relation to the rest of the world. I'm talking world wide, the market where microsoft was traditionally the only real player, apple was marginal and weird at best, and android is pretty much the only functional replacement as of typing this.
I have one. Stop alienating those on the fence effectively telling them to take the shit shoveled or go away. Give people the desktop centric interface at least as an option, preferably as a default one. Stop shoving a bad touch based interface onto desktop by force of monopoly. That makes people go looking for options. People that would otherwise not do so.
Then you are rooting for democratic governments against corporations. It has been shown countless times throughout our history that when corporations are given free reign, following happens:
1. Rights of workers are pushed as low as possible. Preferred state no rights at all, including human rights. This is currently noticeable in third world where corporations outsource as much work as possible, because governments there are weak and rarely represent the good of their people. As a result, they are easier to bribe to ignore rights of their constituents.
2. Power is taken out of the hands of the people. Democracy by its nature is natural enemy of the free trade and corporatism. This is because it empowers majority, which is middle class and poor class workers against tiny minority of owners and business leaders who rule in systems dominated by those who have more money. The two are effectively mutually incompatible, which is again noticeable as the globalisation accelerates, the actual democratic rule is weakened as corporatism and corporate fascism takes over government functions here in the first world.
It is far more sensible, because it means local companies are actually able to compete because they are on the same ruleset.
Right now google is effectively a parasite, punishing local companies that play by the rules and pay to taxes to each country by abusing a legal loophole not to. Such loopholes must be closed asap, preferably while competition still exists. It's going to be much harder to do once google has parasited all competition to death and is the only game in town.
2. That's fine? Do you understand the numbers at all? We're talking hundreds of millions of machines in terms of sales.
Losing that is a catastrophe for OEMs, and even worse - once critical mass on "those other systems" is reached, developers will move from windows to "those other systems".
We have already seen how well windows does without developers. It's called windows RT.
1. About availability of 7. MS made it hell to get it. You have to pay significant extra to upgrade 8's license to have a right to upgrade to 7. If it's available at all in your particular country.
2. None. Instead customers are migrating to lower functionality of tablets whenever possible, which is still better than catastrophe of 8.
I may be an "internet expert" whereas you appear to be "ignorant about everything".
Such as the fact that fascist aspect of Nazi Germany came in actions completely different and separate from their Nazi aspirations. Attempting to somehow pretend that ethnic cleansing driven by Nazi ideology had something to do with fascist part of ideology shows an astounding depth of ignorance of history.
And I'm not seeing any problem at all with government preventing incestuous marriages. I believe this is an opinion shared by vast majority of population worldwide. You have to be pants on the head kind of crazy to think that government has no right to think of common good just because it happens to place restrictions on your personal freedom, which is fact central to good governance.
You are lying. Vast majority of PCs nowadays are sold with 8. A visit to any shop, including amazon or similar shows this.
Fact is, all the blingy useless trash like touch on desktop does only one thing: increase costs for consumer. And while microsoft is "holding the line" against its customers, customers are slowly but surely getting the message: buy something similar from companies that care about your needs, rather than egoes of their bosses.
Fascism is when corporations control the government.
You'll have to explain the link between that and preventing births of very sick children.
Indeed. The reality is however that every one of us carries many, many recessive genetic diseases. Chance of inheriting a ONE specific disorder if fairly low. Cumulative chance of inheriting at least a few is high. Chance of inheriting at least one is close to 100%.
Then there's another major problem, that being immune system. It's known that one of the major factors of attraction is difference in immune systems, and kissing is one of the forms in which humans chemically "test" each others immune system and the more different it is, the more attractive other person is.
Children of incestuous unions are typically born with much weaker immune systems than their peers because of this.
The beauty of it: I never specified a nation.