The UK has a similar situation with the Republic of Ireland - no passport is required to cross the border. You normally need one to fly between the two, and you may be asked for one if you go by ferry.
Try investigating corporate behavior in 19th century America, and the resulting anti-trust legislation.
Monopolies are the result of governments having too much power in the marketplace.
I see no evidence for this. Some government types have been pro-monopoly (Monarchy, Despotism, Communist & Nazism), but most have recognised their negative impact on the national economy.
If there were a substantial number of PC users who wanted prefabricated systems without Windowswhich were capable of running their existing software, then there would be a distributor who would fill that need
Which is precisely what this case is about. Microsoft is so used to bullying both hardware & software vendors to get it own way, it takes the courts to force them to play fair.
And the answer is because users like Microsoft products.
I call BS on that. They have a larger market share because they have coerced hardware distributors to pre-package PCs with Windows. Most consumers don't want to stump up the extra cash for Apple PCs, so end up with Windows. After a few software purchases, they are effectively locked into continued dependence on Windows to run their software.
I know this because I am in this position, at home & at work. I think MS Word is horrible, clunky, difficult to use word processing software, but am prevented from save files in anything except *.doc format because I am informed by my employer it is the "industry standard".
have you never heard of Borland Delphi - where Microsoft stole all their RAD ideas after '95? And eventually their lead designer to create.NET? Having worked with both, I found Delphi slick, and VB clunky by comparison.
You don't need to run "old as dirt servers" to maintain COBOL, unless you have it tied into old unsupported teleprocessors or databases. COBOL support exists on most platforms, and for good reason.
It goes with the territory. Sure it can be ugly, but it doesn't have to be, usually just go to exit, or restart loop. Now "alter go to" is a whole other beast!
Yeah, that "Topic search" right-click is a godsend for understanding the behavior of Pascal and the Delphi objects. Anything not answered there, then the newsfroups are your friend (props to the TeamB guys!).
There was a decent free stipped down version 6 available (although you had register to use it). Good luck tracking it down though, it was a couple of versions ago..
Sorry, I think you put the cart before the horse. The problem is not global variables, but the limitations imposed on the programmer by the OOPs model. While OOPs offers some benfits over traditional procedural and fuctional methods, it also creates new problems and some nasty hacks to get around them.
It's back to the old adage "if you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail". So expanding your "toolbox" of languages might help you keep a clearer idea of how to solve the problems you face.
Proudly ignoring the "GOTO considered harmful" zealots since 1988:-)
Unfortunately it also cuts both ways - Corporations have often been known to sit on patents for products that could rival their existing products, because the new patent is for something more efficient or longer lasting, and they decide there is more profit in doing things the old way. effectively stiffling progress.
You can't remove politics from the system - any grouping of people take on a political nature. You've heard the phrase "office politics", right? Now removing the teat on which our current representitives suck, i.e. campaign funding, might help. Although they won't like it, and will fight it tooth and nail, it's the only thing that might make a difference.
I don't recall China being run by a cult of personality for a a few decades now, although they both claim to be socialist. In my opinion, Sweden is more socialist than either of them.
And what is wrong with "fear of cross-polination"? Especially these damned "terminator" crops? You think using GM crops is going to make those unfair subsidies go away? We already produce more food than we can consume, we don't need GM crops. Governments, (at the behest of big business) are attempting to convince us that we do, but very few consumers are comvinced. If the consumer is given the choice between GM food and non-GM food, which do they buy?
I wish China would sort this mess out. They have already annexed Tibet, want to annex Taiwan, why the hell don't they sort out this festering sore on their northern border?
A friend turned me on to his "Manhatten Reseach Inc." CD a while back. Some great tracks, and some that can be used to let people know that the party is over;P
He produced a couple of albums of strange noises he recommended for playing to babies. I wonder how those kids turned out...
a Parliment who decisions can be ignored the national governments' representitives on the Council of Ministers, who are answerable to the Government which sent them, not the public. This leaves the gate wide open for lobbyists.
There is still plenty of scope for improving the current balance of power in the EU. Personally I thought the EEC was just fine, and have no desire to see a federal Europe.
I have seen statistics (they were presented during a speech in one of my college course so I don't have an references for you)
Buddy, you were lied too. The US has way more violent death than any nation that has effective gun control. Strangely enough, you also have way more violent death than other other countries with the same level of gun control (i.e. Canada).
Don't you realize that waving a gun around makes you a target, not safer?
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The UK has a similar situation with the Republic of Ireland - no passport is required to cross the border. You normally need one to fly between the two, and you may be asked for one if you go by ferry.
calf brains and kidney pies are not European, the are British
I've only come across calf brain in Italian restaurants, although there may be some region of the UK where it is done.
Although if you've never tried Steak & Kidney pie (or even better, in suet pudding) you don't know what you are missing!
The fact that there's no supporting evidence...
Try investigating corporate behavior in 19th century America, and the resulting anti-trust legislation.
Monopolies are the result of governments having too much power in the marketplace.
I see no evidence for this. Some government types have been pro-monopoly (Monarchy, Despotism, Communist & Nazism), but most have recognised their negative impact on the national economy.
I think you are half way there:
If there were a substantial number of PC users who wanted prefabricated systems without Windows which were capable of running their existing software, then there would be a distributor who would fill that need
Which is precisely what this case is about. Microsoft is so used to bullying both hardware & software vendors to get it own way, it takes the courts to force them to play fair.
And the answer is because users like Microsoft products.
I call BS on that. They have a larger market share because they have coerced hardware distributors to pre-package PCs with Windows. Most consumers don't want to stump up the extra cash for Apple PCs, so end up with Windows. After a few software purchases, they are effectively locked into continued dependence on Windows to run their software.
I know this because I am in this position, at home & at work. I think MS Word is horrible, clunky, difficult to use word processing software, but am prevented from save files in anything except *.doc format because I am informed by my employer it is the "industry standard".
have you never heard of Borland Delphi - where Microsoft stole all their RAD ideas after '95? And eventually their lead designer to create .NET? Having worked with both, I found Delphi slick, and VB clunky by comparison.
You don't need to run "old as dirt servers" to maintain COBOL, unless you have it tied into old unsupported teleprocessors or databases. COBOL support exists on most platforms, and for good reason.
It goes with the territory. Sure it can be ugly, but it doesn't have to be, usually just go to exit, or restart loop. Now "alter go to" is a whole other beast!
They had a brilliant C++ version of Delphi, but it was treated as the idiot inbred cousin
;-)
I always had that feeling about C++ syntax too
check out Lazarus. It's a bit bare bones compared to Delphi, but still good enough for simple projects.
Yeah, that "Topic search" right-click is a godsend for understanding the behavior of Pascal and the Delphi objects. Anything not answered there, then the newsfroups are your friend (props to the TeamB guys!).
There was a decent free stipped down version 6 available (although you had register to use it). Good luck tracking it down though, it was a couple of versions ago..
Sorry, I think you put the cart before the horse. The problem is not global variables, but the limitations imposed on the programmer by the OOPs model. While OOPs offers some benfits over traditional procedural and fuctional methods, it also creates new problems and some nasty hacks to get around them.
:-)
It's back to the old adage "if you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail". So expanding your "toolbox" of languages might help you keep a clearer idea of how to solve the problems you face.
Proudly ignoring the "GOTO considered harmful" zealots since 1988
Unfortunately it also cuts both ways - Corporations have often been known to sit on patents for products that could rival their existing products, because the new patent is for something more efficient or longer lasting, and they decide there is more profit in doing things the old way. effectively stiffling progress.
"I'm intrigued by your ideas, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter."
remove politics from the system
You can't remove politics from the system - any grouping of people take on a political nature. You've heard the phrase "office politics", right? Now removing the teat on which our current representitives suck, i.e. campaign funding, might help. Although they won't like it, and will fight it tooth and nail, it's the only thing that might make a difference.
That thought had occurred to me... but to my mind it looks like a failure on their part.
Sure, I think the "horde of mighty devils" would probably take better care of the population.
I don't recall China being run by a cult of personality for a a few decades now, although they both claim to be socialist. In my opinion, Sweden is more socialist than either of them.
And what is wrong with "fear of cross-polination"? Especially these damned "terminator" crops?
You think using GM crops is going to make those unfair subsidies go away?
We already produce more food than we can consume, we don't need GM crops. Governments, (at the behest of big business) are attempting to convince us that we do, but very few consumers are comvinced. If the consumer is given the choice between GM food and non-GM food, which do they buy?
I wish China would sort this mess out. They have already annexed Tibet, want to annex Taiwan, why the hell don't they sort out this festering sore on their northern border?
A friend turned me on to his "Manhatten Reseach Inc." CD a while back. Some great tracks, and some that can be used to let people know that the party is over ;P
He produced a couple of albums of strange noises he recommended for playing to babies. I wonder how those kids turned out...
a Parliment who decisions can be ignored the national governments' representitives on the Council of Ministers, who are answerable to the Government which sent them, not the public. This leaves the gate wide open for lobbyists.
There is still plenty of scope for improving the current balance of power in the EU. Personally I thought the EEC was just fine, and have no desire to see a federal Europe.
Nope, your stats are bogus. The latest Google found for me were from the Public Health Agency of Canada, quoting UN figures from the late 90s:
Gun homocides per million:
UK - 1.3
USA - 62.4
Canada - 6.0
Northern Ireland - 35.5
Looks like you are way ahead of us in that department. Northern Ireland was doing its best to catch up. I wonder where they got the guns?
Source
I have seen statistics (they were presented during a speech in one of my college course so I don't have an references for you)
Buddy, you were lied too. The US has way more violent death than any nation that has effective gun control. Strangely enough, you also have way more violent death than other other countries with the same level of gun control (i.e. Canada).
Don't you realize that waving a gun around makes you a target, not safer?