Who says yanks are stupid? Seems to me, only those with an agenda.
1) Pissy jealous foreigners 2) Teachers unions *always* saying teachers need more money, smaller classrooms, and no accountability. 3) Corporations looking for an excuse to hire more visa workers.
When you bottom-line it, yanks don't look so stupid at all.
1) US Corporations: Apple, Cisco, IBM, GE, Microsoft, Intel, and on, and on. 2) US inventions - real inventions, inventions that changed the world, US has way more than it's share. 3) Universities like MIT. 4) Nobel prizes in sciences
I could probably think of more. I suppose you can use some meaningless standard, like standardized tests, to "prove" whatever you want. But when it comes to real science, tech, inventions, and money; the US does not look so stupid at all.
If you are a msft shop, then, I suspect, in the short term it really is less expensive to stay with msft.
In the long term, it's far more expensive, and will get worse. In the long term, you are vendor locked. In the long term, you are a slave to msft. You have to buy whatever msft tells you to buy, when msft tells you to buy it, and pay whatever msft tells you to pay.
You lose all of your freedom, and flexibility. Find some technology you really like? If msft hates it, you won't be able to use it.
Desktop Linux is getting much better. Wayland has a lot of potential. Msft desktop is getting worse. Win8 is a disaster.
How many accounts does it take? How is it legal to even close one?
If the government can get away with this, where does it stop? Close the bank of accounts of political rivals? Close the bank accounts of those who write unflattering articles about Obama?
Seems to me that this action sets a dangerous precedent.
Is that a joke? This article is not about fixing problems, it is only about smearing F/OSS.
The article is entirely one-sided. It is meant to make F/OSS seem insecure, while completely ignoring the fact that proprietary software is just as bad, if not worse.
> Really, though, VB6 is not BASIC, despite claims to the contrary. Program structure (numbered lines), approach (graphical), flow control (GOTO?) and syntax is entirely different.
Might as well say FORTRAN 77 is not really FORTRAN.
Numbered lines, and GOTOs, as a flow control method have been gone way before VB.
In the 1980s, I used MS Professional BASIC to write programs that were several thousands of lines. Never used any line numbers, or GOTOs.
1) What makes you think vegetarians expect you to eat this?
2) What makes yo think this compares to GMO vegetables?
3) Would you be surprised to learn that a lot of hard-core conservative meat eaters hate GMO way more than hippy vegetarians? Do some research on Monsanto.
IMO: chomebooks blow windows laptops right out of the water, in many respects.
Every time I start my windows laptop, I want to groan: wait . . . wait . . . wait, while windows makes long series of updates. When I want to shut down it's the same thing. Even when windows is booted, it's not *really* booted - the computer is unusable because of so much crap going on in the background.
Plus I don't like being a victim of msft's non-stop format scams, and so many other vendor lock-in scams.
Then there is the anti-virus headaches. AV software can slow your winbox almost as much a virus. And it's nearly as hard to remove. AV software hardly works anyway.
Getting on a chromebook, or a linux box, after using windows is like a breath a fresh air.
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Sure seems like it.
Who says yanks are stupid? Seems to me, only those with an agenda.
1) Pissy jealous foreigners
2) Teachers unions *always* saying teachers need more money, smaller classrooms, and no accountability.
3) Corporations looking for an excuse to hire more visa workers.
When you bottom-line it, yanks don't look so stupid at all.
1) US Corporations: Apple, Cisco, IBM, GE, Microsoft, Intel, and on, and on.
2) US inventions - real inventions, inventions that changed the world, US has way more than it's share.
3) Universities like MIT.
4) Nobel prizes in sciences
I could probably think of more. I suppose you can use some meaningless standard, like standardized tests, to "prove" whatever you want. But when it comes to real science, tech, inventions, and money; the US does not look so stupid at all.
If you are a msft shop, then, I suspect, in the short term it really is less expensive to stay with msft.
In the long term, it's far more expensive, and will get worse. In the long term, you are vendor locked. In the long term, you are a slave to msft. You have to buy whatever msft tells you to buy, when msft tells you to buy it, and pay whatever msft tells you to pay.
You lose all of your freedom, and flexibility. Find some technology you really like? If msft hates it, you won't be able to use it.
Desktop Linux is getting much better. Wayland has a lot of potential. Msft desktop is getting worse. Win8 is a disaster.
How many accounts does it take? How is it legal to even close one?
If the government can get away with this, where does it stop? Close the bank of accounts of political rivals? Close the bank accounts of those who write unflattering articles about Obama?
Seems to me that this action sets a dangerous precedent.
You are ignoring the fact that paid software is no better.
> discuss how to fix some legitimate shortcomings
Is that a joke? This article is not about fixing problems, it is only about smearing F/OSS.
The article is entirely one-sided. It is meant to make F/OSS seem insecure, while completely ignoring the fact that proprietary software is just as bad, if not worse.
Taking away a person's assets without a trial seem unconstitutional to me.
This article is nothing but pure propaganda.
Free software may not be perfect, but, from a security standpoint, it easily beats microsoft, and most other proprietary software.
Lots of email clients do this. This creates many problems, and does not do any good what-so-ever.
Remember her cover-up about Benghazi?
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-benghazi-documents-point-white-house-misleading-talking-points/
Even Micheal Moore was pissed about how Hillary sold out to health care money.
> Nixon should have been jailed
Obama makes Nixon look like a boy scout.
At least Nixon got a lot done.
> Really, though, VB6 is not BASIC, despite claims to the contrary. Program structure (numbered lines), approach (graphical), flow control (GOTO?) and syntax is entirely different.
Might as well say FORTRAN 77 is not really FORTRAN.
Numbered lines, and GOTOs, as a flow control method have been gone way before VB.
In the 1980s, I used MS Professional BASIC to write programs that were several thousands of lines. Never used any line numbers, or GOTOs.
> I always found BASIC to be far more irritating to program in anything more than trivial applications.
Which version? It makes a huge difference.
Sadly, many people think of BASIC as the early Apple, and MS, BASIC. Far better versions of BASIC have been available, for decades now.
I am not a republican myself. But, waas this court decision really decided by the republican party?
1) What makes you think vegetarians expect you to eat this?
2) What makes yo think this compares to GMO vegetables?
3) Would you be surprised to learn that a lot of hard-core conservative meat eaters hate GMO way more than hippy vegetarians? Do some research on Monsanto.
I don't know if it's safte to eat wild insects today. Too many pesticides.
> A pathetic attempt at fake meat or vegetarianism will not achieve any of those. Your attempt to propagate bogus propaganda is weak.
How do you know this? Are you are physician, or scientist? Have you done any serious research?
Have you even watched a few documentaries?
Food Inc. (2008)
Vegucated (2010)
Speciesism: The Movie (2013)
Got the Facts on Milk? (2008)
Fresh (2009)
Problem with being a corporate pilot: if your boss dies, you are likely to be out of a job. That is what happened to my brother.
Now, he cannot get any flying jobs at all.
Seems crazy to me, all that skill, training, and experience, going to waste.
My brother is in his late 40s.
Google was not in early. Far from it.
I doubt the ingredients in a bottle of beer cost much more than $0.20.
The real money goes to marketing. After that: taxes, distribution, packaging . . .
Honestly: I would not be surprised if the can costs more to make than the beer that's inside it. I know that's the case with sodas.
I have found winboxes to be much more delicate. No spinning disks in my chromebook.
I have a chromebook also, and I have no idea what you are posting about.
Please explain how using a chromebook causes anybody to "signing your soul away to Google."
And while you're at it, please explain how MS never pulls any vendor-lock-in scams, or anything like that.
You think Microsoft has never had any security issues?
> Think of all the personal information the pupil will generate and hand-over to Google in over a decade of schooling!
But it's okay to hand-over said data to Microsoft?
Microsoft is worse than google when it comes to harvesting data from grade schools children.
IMO: chomebooks blow windows laptops right out of the water, in many respects.
Every time I start my windows laptop, I want to groan: wait . . . wait . . . wait, while windows makes long series of updates. When I want to shut down it's the same thing. Even when windows is booted, it's not *really* booted - the computer is unusable because of so much crap going on in the background.
Plus I don't like being a victim of msft's non-stop format scams, and so many other vendor lock-in scams.
Then there is the anti-virus headaches. AV software can slow your winbox almost as much a virus. And it's nearly as hard to remove. AV software hardly works anyway.
Getting on a chromebook, or a linux box, after using windows is like a breath a fresh air.