When anyone brings it up when discussing a wide range of options and freedom in the market place you can know they are Apple fanbois.
Or it could be just someone who wants to know that their phone will work.
You never see the word applied to any other area, such as Automobiles, where there is even more diversity and choice.
Except you know you will have a seat to sit in while driving, a steering wheel (on the left in the US), and the gas pedal will always be on the right, and the brake will always be immediately to its left.
In Android world, would cars have random controls all over the place in the name of choice, variety, diversity, and freedom?
The Ribbon is actually worse than menus and toolbars because it forces the user to do more clicks than menus and toolbars. For example, if you make a piece of text bold, then you add a table, you have to click the 'home' tab in order to be able to change the font again. With toolbars, everything was on the screen all the time, you didn't have to click tabs.
Or you could hit Ctrl+B. You know, like a power user would.
Why? If I pay $60 for, say, Fallout: New Vegas, and I play it for 200 hours (which I did), that means I spent a grand total of 30 cents an hour.
Now you might have a point with these 10-hours-and-you're-done games that seem to be taking over.
It's too expensive, and there's enough of a disconnect between the legal definition of theft and copyright infringement that I feel it's an ethical choice to make to say I'm not going to support the current copyright model, I'm going to undermine it by making it less profitable.
You know Republicans have been making this exact point about Student loans for years. Now extend the same argument to welfare and social programs and you'll see why Republicans say that Democrat policies keep the poor poor instead of raising them up.
You are aware that Presidents can't do this stuff by fiat, right? That Congress would have to approve all this? And that there's no chance in hell that they actually would?
We've got the Microsoft Windows of government - slow, poorly designed, with duplicate features
We need a Unix-like government: efficient, fast, responsive, cleanly designed, compartmentalized, and well documented
The DOE is an abysmal failure if you look at what the Department was founded to do, decrease our dependance on foreign energy.
And how do you propose they do that if Congress doesn't provide enough R&D funding? You're basically arguing the GOP's standard "starve the beast" strategy. 1. Underfund a program 2. Wait for it to fail 3. Say "See, government doesn't work", then take the money and give it to rich people so they can "create jobs".
Are you saying that a corporation(s) could not provide the same service as NOAA?
Yes, but why would they?
That corporations are not capable of launching a weather sat (or buying NOAA's) and providing the service for a fee? The misperception is that your weather info is now free - it is not as taxes and debt pay for NOAA.
Yes, and it benefits all of us, not just those fortunate enough to have a subscription to WeatherCorp. If there's a tornado warning, do only the people who have paid their monthly fee get notified?
As to "science" and "research" - maybe it is time for a return to the days of philanthropy and corporate sponsorship?
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When anyone brings it up when discussing a wide range of options and freedom in the market place you can know they are Apple fanbois.
Or it could be just someone who wants to know that their phone will work.
You never see the word applied to any other area, such as Automobiles, where there is even more diversity and choice.
Except you know you will have a seat to sit in while driving, a steering wheel (on the left in the US), and the gas pedal will always be on the right, and the brake will always be immediately to its left.
In Android world, would cars have random controls all over the place in the name of choice, variety, diversity, and freedom?
That depends very much on the quality of the codebase.
No, it doesn't. There is never a good enough reason to completely throw out a large codebase all at once. Especially if it's been around a while.
No, not even if it's "really bad".
Sorry, but that statement is frankly idiotic. You have NEVER needed a map? Yeah right.
No. I write down the directions before I leave the house.
The Ribbon is actually worse than menus and toolbars because it forces the user to do more clicks than menus and toolbars. For example, if you make a piece of text bold, then you add a table, you have to click the 'home' tab in order to be able to change the font again. With toolbars, everything was on the screen all the time, you didn't have to click tabs.
Or you could hit Ctrl+B. You know, like a power user would.
Because then you'd be complaining about code bloat.
You can't please everyone.
You're going to get your chance. They're filming the Hobbit at 48fps.
$60-80 for a game is simply too much
Why? If I pay $60 for, say, Fallout: New Vegas, and I play it for 200 hours (which I did), that means I spent a grand total of 30 cents an hour.
Now you might have a point with these 10-hours-and-you're-done games that seem to be taking over.
It's too expensive, and there's enough of a disconnect between the legal definition of theft and copyright infringement that I feel it's an ethical choice to make to say I'm not going to support the current copyright model, I'm going to undermine it by making it less profitable.
Rationalize much?
You're a fool if you think wikileaks had anything at all to do with the Iraq withdrawal.
Occasionally Windows needs to be reinstalled due to either infection, registry corruption, or other software/hardware issues.
No, it doesn't.
Three stubbon office staff insist on windows not linux because they refuse to use anything new.
Or, just maybe, they want to know their software is going to work without futzing around with it.
The world is better off without it.
You're so adorable. Utterly and completely wrong, but adorable.
GNOME, Firefox, and Windows all had far more usable UIs when actual software developers were in charge of making the decisions.
Software developers are mainly concerned with creating software that works, and that works well.
Usability does not come from gradients and curved corners.
Nor does it necessarily come from horrible user interfaces or command line tools.
I find they work really really well for picking out the better programmers.
No they don't. They work really well for picking out the people who have seen the puzzle before.
Bitcoin is different from painting numbers on rocks
Yes it is. If I had a rock with a number painted on it, at least I'd have a rock.
Eh, you geeks may scoff but some of us are pulling in 20-30% profits *PER DAY* trading these "silly" Bitcoins.
30% of nothing is still nothing.
Anyone that hates without backing it up is just trying to feed you disinformation.
What if we hate and can point out the numerous reason why bitcoins are utterly stupid?
You know Republicans have been making this exact point about Student loans for years. Now extend the same argument to welfare and social programs and you'll see why Republicans say that Democrat policies keep the poor poor instead of raising them up.
Yes... it's because Republicans are wrong.
Sorry to break it to you, shill, but you're full of hot air and you need a tic-tac.
But to balance it out, everything in your post was wrong.
Let him trim the federal government
You are aware that Presidents can't do this stuff by fiat, right? That Congress would have to approve all this? And that there's no chance in hell that they actually would?
We've got the Microsoft Windows of government - slow, poorly designed, with duplicate features
We need a Unix-like government: efficient, fast, responsive, cleanly designed, compartmentalized, and well documented
These are almost backwards these days.
Why does the Federal government have to be the one doing all the spending?
Because they have the most money.
The DOE is an abysmal failure if you look at what the Department was founded to do, decrease our dependance on foreign energy.
And how do you propose they do that if Congress doesn't provide enough R&D funding? You're basically arguing the GOP's standard "starve the beast" strategy. 1. Underfund a program 2. Wait for it to fail 3. Say "See, government doesn't work", then take the money and give it to rich people so they can "create jobs".
Why should the people of North Dakota pay for tsunami monitoring for California?
Because it's the right thing to do?
Are you saying that a corporation(s) could not provide the same service as NOAA?
Yes, but why would they?
That corporations are not capable of launching a weather sat (or buying NOAA's) and providing the service for a fee? The misperception is that your weather info is now free - it is not as taxes and debt pay for NOAA.
Yes, and it benefits all of us, not just those fortunate enough to have a subscription to WeatherCorp. If there's a tornado warning, do only the people who have paid their monthly fee get notified?
As to "science" and "research" - maybe it is time for a return to the days of philanthropy and corporate sponsorship?
Sure, and maybe it's time for winged pigs too.
You have heard of the FDIC, right?
Great marketing campaign. "Bitcoins: Hey, it's not as bad as Zimbabwe!"
So to answer your question, yes, it's directly comparable.
No, it isn't.
Since someone told me to try git, all the pain was gone :).
That's only because git killed you and took all the pain away.
(I hate ever single thing about git.)
Jobs figured out that you can make aesthetically pleasing stuff and make a lot of profit off simplifying hardware design for everyday people
Yes. Is Stallman jealous?
BUT this has a negative effect on those who actually use computers and computing devices as something beyond a toaster or glorified television.
I'm sure all the people use use Macs for serious work every day will be shocked to learn that it's just a glorified television.
Jobs just turned computing devices into consumer items.
Good.