Um, so what you're saying is that you don't understand programming?
If you don't want to rewrite it, then leave it alone. I have DirectX 3 games that will still run perfectly well under DirectX 11. Or do you also rewrite your code every time a new OpenGL extension comes out?
"It works for me" is not compelling. I use Linux on a daily basis at work, and I really don't like it. For instance, on Monday I locked up my workstation with a bad 'grep' command.
Policy makers should focus on making development more walkable.
You're talking about a country where people literally get back into their car to drive to a different parking spot at the stripmall so they won't have to walk as far to the next store.
Nobody else seems to have any trouble making their software "just work" on Linux....what?
Hell, I bought a bluetooth dongle that supposedly had no Linux support at all, I plugged it in and it just worked. On the Windows box I had to install software and drivers and reboot a couple of times, and it kinda sorta worked.
Congratulations on having the opposite experience to everyone else I guess.
In the last 10 years, MS and Linux have switched places in the useability and maintenance aspects.... Anyone who has used both OSes lately is aware of this.
I use both on a daily basis, and you are living in a fantasy world.
I think you need to give it more time. Watch the first few seasons of the UK Top Gear. They were also pretty bad. One of the UK hosts (Clarkson?) said something to the effect that the hosts of the US Top Gear haven't had time to develop the deep hatred of each other that makes the UK show work.
everything was office office office. Most people type, spellcheck, then print/email. Or they make ugly powerpoints and the most advanced feature used is to import a graph from excel. This is not what MS should have based their entire company on; and if it truly was the core of the company they would have put office on Linux long ago.
Where do you think MS makes their money? And why would they bother porting Office to a platform with a 1% market share?
The way plugging in any new piece of hardware starts a hardware installation wizard that hardly ever seems to work and then causes people to go hunting for some CD or driver on the net?
I've never had it fail. What are you doing wrong?
The way you need to reinstall Windows every now and then because it mysteriously slows down or bits and pieces of it stop working?
I've never had to reinstall. What are you doing wrong?
Good numerics libraries full of operator overloading make my code much, much more simple, reliable and correct.
Sorry, but no. Operator overloading is the tool of the devil. If I see A + B in C, I know it's adding two numbers. If I see A + B in C++... well, there's no way to tell what's really happening.
Templates are what makes sane numerics libraries great
The only thing worse than operator overloading in C++ are templates in C++.
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Um, so what you're saying is that you don't understand programming?
If you don't want to rewrite it, then leave it alone. I have DirectX 3 games that will still run perfectly well under DirectX 11. Or do you also rewrite your code every time a new OpenGL extension comes out?
"It works for me" is not compelling. I use Linux on a daily basis at work, and I really don't like it. For instance, on Monday I locked up my workstation with a bad 'grep' command.
Please provide a scientific definition of 'kind'.
And what does any of that have to do with your desire to teach your children bullshit and lies?
Policy makers should focus on making development more walkable.
You're talking about a country where people literally get back into their car to drive to a different parking spot at the stripmall so they won't have to walk as far to the next store.
(Lameness filter is lame.)
The people that did the original work? The Apple shareholders?
the only way for a company to distinguish itself is to innovate faster than the competition can copy.
Or wait until someone else does the real work, then copy them with a couple of bug fixes. Which doesn't promote innovation at all.
Cool. You can put it on the same shelf with your Indrema.
Yeah, I get it. I can't imagine how you don't find it depressing.
Synopsis: Humans are self-destructive, never learn from their mistakes, and are doomed to destroy themselves over and over again.
No, they said they got better performance out of OpenGL. X is still a bloated, obsolete piece of shit.
Either IOS or Droid does everything that you could really need from a phone.
Except have an interface that isn't horrible. *shrug*
If MS are not cool that leaves no way to describe Android, which is so nerdy it should come with a pocket protector.
Nobody else seems to have any trouble making their software "just work" on Linux. ...what?
Hell, I bought a bluetooth dongle that supposedly had no Linux support at all, I plugged it in and it just worked. On the Windows box I had to install software and drivers and reboot a couple of times, and it kinda sorta worked.
Congratulations on having the opposite experience to everyone else I guess.
In the last 10 years, MS and Linux have switched places in the useability and maintenance aspects. ... Anyone who has used both OSes lately is aware of this.
I use both on a daily basis, and you are living in a fantasy world.
It's still just a matter of personal preference and familiarity.
No, it isn't. You don't need precision for movement. You need precision for shooting.
What? None of that is true. Or perhaps it's time to replace that 486DX2.
They've ALREADY lost the OS market
In what parallel universe?
I think you need to give it more time. Watch the first few seasons of the UK Top Gear. They were also pretty bad. One of the UK hosts (Clarkson?) said something to the effect that the hosts of the US Top Gear haven't had time to develop the deep hatred of each other that makes the UK show work.
You think traffic laws make a difference in how people drive here. :3
everything was office office office. Most people type, spellcheck, then print/email. Or they make ugly powerpoints and the most advanced feature used is to import a graph from excel. This is not what MS should have based their entire company on; and if it truly was the core of the company they would have put office on Linux long ago.
Where do you think MS makes their money? And why would they bother porting Office to a platform with a 1% market share?
If you type commands into a line it's cli.
No, it isn't. A command line Google just be a black screen with a bash prompt and you'd have to type something like:
> search --image --string "natalie protman" --exclude "hot rgits" --exclude "petrified" --site slashdot.org --perpage 20 --safesearch 0
The way plugging in any new piece of hardware starts a hardware installation wizard that hardly ever seems to work and then causes people to go hunting for some CD or driver on the net?
I've never had it fail. What are you doing wrong?
The way you need to reinstall Windows every now and then because it mysteriously slows down or bits and pieces of it stop working?
I've never had to reinstall. What are you doing wrong?
B) Microsoft kept the format secret so no-one could compete.
This one of course. But I'm waiting for the bad part.
Good numerics libraries full of operator overloading make my code much, much more simple, reliable and correct.
Sorry, but no. Operator overloading is the tool of the devil. If I see A + B in C, I know it's adding two numbers. If I see A + B in C++... well, there's no way to tell what's really happening.
Templates are what makes sane numerics libraries great
The only thing worse than operator overloading in C++ are templates in C++.