I mean, being kind-of-an-asshole to Allen was the best thing Gates ever did over his life.
I also have to question portrayal of both Gates and Allen as competent programmers. What is described as their outstanding accomplishments, is something any decent programmer of that time would have to do every day, and most did that without the atrocious design that Microsoft is known for, ever since.
but assuming that health insurance companies are properly regulated
As I said, welcome to US. The only things that are properly regulated, are ones that can potentially threaten people in power and their corporate masters. Sick and dead people are hardly threatening, and it's not like, say, Rupert Murdoch will ever dare to use a doctor he did not pay for personally.
To be fair, study of history is full of subjective opinions and propaganda formulas presented as fact, and Wikipedia is an unmitigated disaster as far as any historical event of the late 19th or 20th century is concerned.
Insurers cannot remove people from rolls merely for becoming ill. That would make their entire reason to exist pointless, and their product utterly without value.
How would that differ from not denying treatment in the first place? Doctors are supposed to make diagnosis when anything happens that produces a record in the patient's history anyway.
It would be a greater burden on me to punch you in the face than on your neighbor -- does it give me the right to order your neighbor to punch you in the face?
Stil is, and ingrained in American culture. Why do you think, BDSM porn is so unusually popular in US? Slavery. In Japan it's popular due to different but also historical reasons -- extremely strict social hierarchy. Everywhere else it is less popular because for centuries social progress was defined as reduction of one person's power over another, so very few people associate control and pain with success and safety. US and Japan stick out like sore thumbs.
The ideas of "your job is already done by someone else, you just have to find it!" and "it's magic!" were proclaimed to be new and exciting directions of technology for decades if not centuries. They invariably failed.
I never said that support of the idea of amoral government is the only source of conflicts. I have already mentioned religion as a politically privileged form of superstition -- that has to be a source of conflicts.
Do you mean that if you suck up enough to "successful" companies by being a good sucker and making your company dependent on their products, their success will rub onto you? YESSS! I have a great idea! From now on, you should only have dinner at McDonald's!
Yes!!! Everyone is right, no answer is wrong, and if someone claims that something is a huge pile of shitty code, he is a religious zealot!
Of course, those are means to an end. And.NET is created to produce a bunch of undereducated "programmers" tho depend on Microsoft components to do everything they do (and unable to do anything Microsoft does not provide components for). Face it, no one outside Microsoft used.NET because it's a "nice architecture". It's used because it has a bunch of pre-built stuff so it's easy to slap things together and call yourself a "programmer".
Actually bloat is definitely a problem for all applications other than a GUI phonebook. And that exception only applies if that phonebook does not run on a phone.
Have you checked how much memory performance changed since that "2002", you moron? That's the speed at which your multi-gigabyte application runs by moving its guts around.
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I mean, being kind-of-an-asshole to Allen was the best thing Gates ever did over his life.
I also have to question portrayal of both Gates and Allen as competent programmers. What is described as their outstanding accomplishments, is something any decent programmer of that time would have to do every day, and most did that without the atrocious design that Microsoft is known for, ever since.
but assuming that health insurance companies are properly regulated
As I said, welcome to US. The only things that are properly regulated, are ones that can potentially threaten people in power and their corporate masters. Sick and dead people are hardly threatening, and it's not like, say, Rupert Murdoch will ever dare to use a doctor he did not pay for personally.
The only people "happy" in US with their insurance are ones who never got sick yet.
To be fair, study of history is full of subjective opinions and propaganda formulas presented as fact, and Wikipedia is an unmitigated disaster as far as any historical event of the late 19th or 20th century is concerned.
Insurers cannot remove people from rolls merely for becoming ill. That would make their entire reason to exist pointless, and their product utterly without value.
Welcome to US.
How would that differ from not denying treatment in the first place? Doctors are supposed to make diagnosis when anything happens that produces a record in the patient's history anyway.
My whole point is that the request to identify the users was not legitimate in the first place.
It would be a greater burden on me to punch you in the face than on your neighbor -- does it give me the right to order your neighbor to punch you in the face?
s/people/disgusting crooks/g
We should collectively rush to close the barn doors after the horses are out.
"...and remember, kids -- Cthulhu fhtagn!"
Just for the record, I wholeheartedly support indiscriminate oppression of all religions.
Stil is, and ingrained in American culture. Why do you think, BDSM porn is so unusually popular in US? Slavery. In Japan it's popular due to different but also historical reasons -- extremely strict social hierarchy. Everywhere else it is less popular because for centuries social progress was defined as reduction of one person's power over another, so very few people associate control and pain with success and safety. US and Japan stick out like sore thumbs.
They did rewrite UI layer, you numbnuts! Network Manager remained as a backend.
That's because it was "the" smartphone OS.
Really? Can you give a list of companies that actually paid Microsoft for that? Or it it yet another "$699 Linux fee" that SCO got from some puppets?
One can guess how great Maemo UI is when its detractors have to resort to this kind of nitpicking.
My only problem with Maemo UI is that task switching is slow if I run huge numbers of them. And that Flash plugin is ancient.
The .Net platform runs on Windows, Windows Phone 7, iOS, OS X, Android, and Linux.
lol
The ideas of "your job is already done by someone else, you just have to find it!" and "it's magic!" were proclaimed to be new and exciting directions of technology for decades if not centuries. They invariably failed.
Ever heard of latency?
So THAT was the goal of "liberating Kosovo"!
One of them being US.
I never said that support of the idea of amoral government is the only source of conflicts. I have already mentioned religion as a politically privileged form of superstition -- that has to be a source of conflicts.
Do you mean that if you suck up enough to "successful" companies by being a good sucker and making your company dependent on their products, their success will rub onto you? YESSS! I have a great idea! From now on, you should only have dinner at McDonald's!
Yes!!! Everyone is right, no answer is wrong, and if someone claims that something is a huge pile of shitty code, he is a religious zealot!
Of course, those are means to an end. And .NET is created to produce a bunch of undereducated "programmers" tho depend on Microsoft components to do everything they do (and unable to do anything Microsoft does not provide components for). Face it, no one outside Microsoft used .NET because it's a "nice architecture". It's used because it has a bunch of pre-built stuff so it's easy to slap things together and call yourself a "programmer".
Actually bloat is definitely a problem for all applications other than a GUI phonebook. And that exception only applies if that phonebook does not run on a phone.
Have you checked how much memory performance changed since that "2002", you moron? That's the speed at which your multi-gigabyte application runs by moving its guts around.