So you complain that Microsoft is being anti-competitve with their added value programs, and yet you admit that you use a competing operating system? Sounds like the market is working after all...
It all depends on how much the Speak 'n Spell has been overclocked. That fork and saw blade aren't exactly premium components either. And we all know that satellite dishes made out of umbrellas have ridiculously high latencies.
I live in the Kansas City area. Most of what people think of as "Kansas City" is actually in Missouri. Many people live in the suburbs on the Kansas side and commute to downtown KC, Missouri (and actually, the reverse is true too, more and more Missourians are commuting to Kansas). In our case, you pay taxes to the state you live in first. That counts as a credit toward the taxes you owe to the state you work in. I may actually have that backwards (i.e. it may be that you pay taxes to your employment state first), but in any event the taxes you pay to the first state are credited toward the second. In most people's cases it doesn't make much more than a few dollars difference anyway.
I don't know if this is a federal mandate or just something that the two states have worked out between themselves, but I know it's a fairly common arrangement.
"The problem is if they give it away. If Microsoft begins giving away their security suite, then Symantec will probably go the way of Stac Electronics and Netscape."
It's not quite what you're looking for, but here goes:
We use 6 at my work. I have.NET at home. One day I brought a copy of the project home and tried to build it. Errors and warnings abound. I gave up. Of course, my coworkers learned C++ "on the fly" in 1999 with this project and it shows. So if you wrote "good" code and you're not trying to do things you shouldn't be doing, like
enum EnumeratedType {Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta}; CString Text; EnumeratedType ET = Alpha; Text = ET;//expecting the text "Alpha" to be in Text
then you should be OK. (go ahead and laugh, that's in the code MANY times) (By the way, these are the same people that think SQL databases are for "bad programmers who can't roll their own")
Antifreeze bottled up in your garage usually isn't cycling through a pump for better parts of (or all of) the day. Most modern gasoline pumps can't be operated by children; at least one button required to start the pump is far too high for someone under 5 years old to push.
You *might* be able to teach a two year old that water from the reserator is a no-no. I doubt it, but you might. Good luck with trying to teach that to a dog or cat.
I don't know myself, but I suspect that propylene glycol is very similar to ethylene glycol in all relevant respects (price, cooling ability, etc.) except toxicity. So why would you belittle someone for advocating a solution that gets most (if not all) of the benefits of the original one but carries much less risk? That's called "making a good decision" and it's an important part of that thing called "the real world".
Take me and my coworkers. I'm more or less "fresh out of college". They're older than my parents. They've been maintaining this Army sim for about as long as I've been alive. Allegedly it's written in C++ but closer inspection reveals that it's written in Modula that's just been "C++ized". SQL? That's for bad programmers. Roll yer own, they say (in other words, linear search through an array of 5000 things). Visual Studio saying "I know what you're trying to do; please don't, it will make all of our lives suck"? Do it anyway; nothing could possibly be wrong with their design. CVS/Subversion? No, you can't trust the computer to merge, you can't trust humans to resolve conflicts, and if you don't get someone's bleeding edge code the very instant they check it in then your copy of the project will asplode.
Funny thing is, they hired me straight out of college thinking I'd be the "new idea guy". If you're not willing to honestly evaluate new ideas and let go of faulty or outdated assumptions, you're a burden, regardless of your age, regardless of your field.
It doesn't matter to the typical user though. All he sees is that he can't figure out how to make program X work with his flavor of Linux. But in Windows, he can. This will make Windows the "better" OS in his eyes.
The Internet/video games, and the local riverboat casinos.
Web browsing (particularly forum participation) and video games put me in control of the information I use. If I want to quit and come back later, it'll be waiting for me. I can change topics/games in a few seconds if I want to. I am entirely in control. Sitting passively in front of a screen is so 20th century.
The money that I don't spend at theaters goes to the casinos (well, on bad days anyway). I can sit at a table, play some blackjack (again, I have far more control here than staring at a movie screen), hang out with my friends, chat with the dealer, chat with the other people at the table, maybe have a few rounds, and it's all a good time. I know when I sit down that the house has a ~1% edge on the games I play. I go in with a fixed amount of money and if I lose it all, a) it's not going to break me and b) I don't feel compelled to try to get it back. It's gone, but it would have been gone anyway if I had blown it at a theater.
Be it enacted by (insert lawmaking body here) that:
Section 1: Potential buyers of computers must pass a competency exam before the purchase of said computer. This exam shall cover topics independent of the operating system installed.
Section 2: Before or at 30 days after the date of sale, the customer must demonstrate compentency in whatever operating system is installed on purchased computer.
Section 3: Failure of the exam described in Section 1 will deny the customer the ability to purchase said computer. Failure of the exam described in Section 2 will void any obligation of the vendor to provide technical support and said customer forfeits any right to file civil suits of any nature regarding said computer. Said customer also forfeits any right to lobby any lawmaker regarding computers.
Section 4: Persons may retake an exam they have failed not less than 1 week after the failed test.
Section 5: The exams described in section 1 and 2 shall be approved by the Educational Testing Service.
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So you complain that Microsoft is being anti-competitve with their added value programs, and yet you admit that you use a competing operating system? Sounds like the market is working after all...
It all depends on how much the Speak 'n Spell has been overclocked. That fork and saw blade aren't exactly premium components either. And we all know that satellite dishes made out of umbrellas have ridiculously high latencies.
I live in the Kansas City area. Most of what people think of as "Kansas City" is actually in Missouri. Many people live in the suburbs on the Kansas side and commute to downtown KC, Missouri (and actually, the reverse is true too, more and more Missourians are commuting to Kansas). In our case, you pay taxes to the state you live in first. That counts as a credit toward the taxes you owe to the state you work in. I may actually have that backwards (i.e. it may be that you pay taxes to your employment state first), but in any event the taxes you pay to the first state are credited toward the second. In most people's cases it doesn't make much more than a few dollars difference anyway.
I don't know if this is a federal mandate or just something that the two states have worked out between themselves, but I know it's a fairly common arrangement.
"The problem is if they give it away. If Microsoft begins giving away their security suite, then Symantec will probably go the way of Stac Electronics and Netscape."
Not seeing the downside here.
It's not quite what you're looking for, but here goes:
.NET at home. One day I brought a copy of the project home and tried to build it. Errors and warnings abound. I gave up. Of course, my coworkers learned C++ "on the fly" in 1999 with this project and it shows. So if you wrote "good" code and you're not trying to do things you shouldn't be doing, like
//expecting the text "Alpha" to be in Text
We use 6 at my work. I have
enum EnumeratedType {Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta};
CString Text;
EnumeratedType ET = Alpha;
Text = ET;
then you should be OK.
(go ahead and laugh, that's in the code MANY times)
(By the way, these are the same people that think SQL databases are for "bad programmers who can't roll their own")
Antifreeze bottled up in your garage usually isn't cycling through a pump for better parts of (or all of) the day. Most modern gasoline pumps can't be operated by children; at least one button required to start the pump is far too high for someone under 5 years old to push.
You *might* be able to teach a two year old that water from the reserator is a no-no. I doubt it, but you might. Good luck with trying to teach that to a dog or cat.
I don't know myself, but I suspect that propylene glycol is very similar to ethylene glycol in all relevant respects (price, cooling ability, etc.) except toxicity. So why would you belittle someone for advocating a solution that gets most (if not all) of the benefits of the original one but carries much less risk? That's called "making a good decision" and it's an important part of that thing called "the real world".
Take me and my coworkers. I'm more or less "fresh out of college". They're older than my parents. They've been maintaining this Army sim for about as long as I've been alive. Allegedly it's written in C++ but closer inspection reveals that it's written in Modula that's just been "C++ized". SQL? That's for bad programmers. Roll yer own, they say (in other words, linear search through an array of 5000 things). Visual Studio saying "I know what you're trying to do; please don't, it will make all of our lives suck"? Do it anyway; nothing could possibly be wrong with their design. CVS/Subversion? No, you can't trust the computer to merge, you can't trust humans to resolve conflicts, and if you don't get someone's bleeding edge code the very instant they check it in then your copy of the project will asplode.
Funny thing is, they hired me straight out of college thinking I'd be the "new idea guy". If you're not willing to honestly evaluate new ideas and let go of faulty or outdated assumptions, you're a burden, regardless of your age, regardless of your field.
You're supposed to use black paper. It depletes ink faster.
It doesn't matter to the typical user though. All he sees is that he can't figure out how to make program X work with his flavor of Linux. But in Windows, he can. This will make Windows the "better" OS in his eyes.
People want porn. Is that so hard to predict?
The Internet/video games, and the local riverboat casinos.
Web browsing (particularly forum participation) and video games put me in control of the information I use. If I want to quit and come back later, it'll be waiting for me. I can change topics/games in a few seconds if I want to. I am entirely in control. Sitting passively in front of a screen is so 20th century.
The money that I don't spend at theaters goes to the casinos (well, on bad days anyway). I can sit at a table, play some blackjack (again, I have far more control here than staring at a movie screen), hang out with my friends, chat with the dealer, chat with the other people at the table, maybe have a few rounds, and it's all a good time. I know when I sit down that the house has a ~1% edge on the games I play. I go in with a fixed amount of money and if I lose it all, a) it's not going to break me and b) I don't feel compelled to try to get it back. It's gone, but it would have been gone anyway if I had blown it at a theater.
Be it enacted by (insert lawmaking body here) that:
Section 1: Potential buyers of computers must pass a competency exam before the purchase of said computer. This exam shall cover topics independent of the operating system installed.
Section 2: Before or at 30 days after the date of sale, the customer must demonstrate compentency in whatever operating system is installed on purchased computer.
Section 3: Failure of the exam described in Section 1 will deny the customer the ability to purchase said computer. Failure of the exam described in Section 2 will void any obligation of the vendor to provide technical support and said customer forfeits any right to file civil suits of any nature regarding said computer. Said customer also forfeits any right to lobby any lawmaker regarding computers.
Section 4: Persons may retake an exam they have failed not less than 1 week after the failed test.
Section 5: The exams described in section 1 and 2 shall be approved by the Educational Testing Service.