Just like speed camera fines are a 'tax'. Haha a tax on people breaking the law, how about not breaking the law then? I'm waiting for the Association of British Shoplifters to start a campaign next.
I have no idea how Blair Witch succeeded it's like a bad reality show and not even remotely scary. Some people are just suckers for perceived coolness I guess.
I'm one of Microsoft's fiercest critics on here but I have to concede that WSH is extremely handy. Although it's a fair bit annoying that if you want to do a dialog you have to generate HTML and display it in IE rather than being able to use the VB common controls or such like. BTW if you're going to reply something on the lines of "why don't you use " don't bother. I'm a clerical worker not an IT worker, they refused to even let me install VB CCE despite the advantages of being able to create plugins for Word rather than having to go to every PC and install macros by hand. Any other suggestions will be gratefully received however even if you do call me clueless;)
GUIs may be better than command lines for desktop apps but the power of shell scripting and the like makes it a poor fit for a server. There are no intuitive GUIs anyway, they all have quirks that catch out the unwary user. Personally I don't find KDE any more difficult to use than Windows, and speaking as someone who provides regular tech support to non-techies I doubt they would too.
No it's a paragraph of pretentious drivel using lots of big words, real and imaginary, in a failed attempt to look intellectual. Or in shorter terms what the bloody hell is he on about?
Because as the world's biggest software company they should have done something like this a very long time ago instead of bullying everyone else in the PC industry, breaking the law and pointlessly fighting a court case instead of settling and behaving at least a bit co-operatively with the people that are stuck with their shoddy software.
I can burn potatoes with ease so I don't see how a bunch of semi-barbaric Europeans couldn't;)
So people suffered and starved for hundreds of years, simply because of their inability to adapt their culture to the changing environment.
Although you didn't blame them exclusively, Europe's relative secularism has taken care of priests saying or doing stupid things like that. I'd like to think that the US could be included in that but Creationism makes me very pessimistic on that score. I'm a bit of a misanthropic old bugger and think less humans on the planet would be a good thing in general, I just wish it was possible to choose who would be saved from the verge of extinction. No politicians, captains of industry, suburban SUV owners, religious nutcases or women who use a pushchair as an offensive weapon would be allowed on MY ark;)
The negative image of the music biz is well-earned. Allied with the poor quality and lack of originality of a great deal of the music, the exploitation of artists who see only a small fraction of the price of a CD, many attempts to kill off threatening new technology, the descent to being more like the sex industry than the music industry along with the very tedious glorification of crime and at least the appearance if not the actuality of a price-fixing cartel it's not surprising that your industry has a very negative image. To make it worse instead of trying to address some of these issues, you have decided to treat your customers like criminals with infuriating DRM (that tends to get cracked anyway) and annoying (and in Sony's case disruptive and possibly illegal) CD copy protection schemes, which again usually get cracked. I do accept that piracy is wrong, but the contempt your industry is held in and the disinterest up until recently in giving consumers what they want i.e. downloadable music (and then you cripple it so that it only works on certain portable players) is eventually going to wipe you out unless you change, and very few people will shed a tear when that happens.
None of the successful collaborative OSS projects have let anyone and everyone submit code to them; that would be a recipe for disaster. What's wrong with Wikipedia restricting people from turning a really good idea into a vehicle for furthering agendas, trolling and outright libel? The world is full of assholes and the relative anonymity of the internet allows them to be a lot more obnoxious than they'd dare be in the real world. Anyone who's played online games has seen that in action.
A bass guitar would make a very effective weapon in any armed insurrection, even if you didn't have the strength to swing it you could drop it from a window onto the fascist bullyboys.
You're very wrong about demand for COBOL programmers. I was one and there are very few COBOL jobs about now, most have been moved to India because there are no young, cheap people coming into that field (not surprisingly). I now find myself outside of IT and the only way I can get into the newer fields is to get a degree just so I can get back into something that I already have 15 years experience doing. No-one wants to train me despite the fact that I did a C++ course at college and passed it with full marks (showing that it wouldn't take long for me to pick stuff up). It's in the nature of the wastefulness of corporate culture, they'd rather pay top dollar to poach someone or take on someone inexperienced in years than someone who only needs the language/platform skills, not all the analysis/design/corporate politics skills that takes years to learn rather than a few months.
MS weren't the only ones who did, they just had less perceived disadvantages than the major competition, namely IBM who in the early 90s were still the big bad monopolist and also a competitor to the other PC manufacturers to boot.
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shouldn't that be wulling
Just like speed camera fines are a 'tax'. Haha a tax on people breaking the law, how about not breaking the law then? I'm waiting for the Association of British Shoplifters to start a campaign next.
Learn another language you lazy English clod.
I have no idea how Blair Witch succeeded it's like a bad reality show and not even remotely scary. Some people are just suckers for perceived coolness I guess.
I'm sure they'd at the very least be offended by the smell.
I'm one of Microsoft's fiercest critics on here but I have to concede that WSH is extremely handy. Although it's a fair bit annoying that if you want to do a dialog you have to generate HTML and display it in IE rather than being able to use the VB common controls or such like. BTW if you're going to reply something on the lines of "why don't you use " don't bother. I'm a clerical worker not an IT worker, they refused to even let me install VB CCE despite the advantages of being able to create plugins for Word rather than having to go to every PC and install macros by hand. Any other suggestions will be gratefully received however even if you do call me clueless ;)
If MS allowed the switching off of the GUI unless required that would be a positive step too, since a large amount of the time it isn't required.
I sit corrected :)
You mean like hotfixes?
Elevate? You mean like the new Daleks?
GUIs may be better than command lines for desktop apps but the power of shell scripting and the like makes it a poor fit for a server. There are no intuitive GUIs anyway, they all have quirks that catch out the unwary user. Personally I don't find KDE any more difficult to use than Windows, and speaking as someone who provides regular tech support to non-techies I doubt they would too.
I thought NAMBLA had absolutely nothing to do with girls.
And, please don't forget, sadly lacking in a realistic alternative.
No it's a paragraph of pretentious drivel using lots of big words, real and imaginary, in a failed attempt to look intellectual. Or in shorter terms what the bloody hell is he on about?
It was an attempt more to point out that Microsoft are really unpopular for a lot of good reasons, and people do say that to smokers who quit.
Because as the world's biggest software company they should have done something like this a very long time ago instead of bullying everyone else in the PC industry, breaking the law and pointlessly fighting a court case instead of settling and behaving at least a bit co-operatively with the people that are stuck with their shoddy software.
If only economists would take a few history classes, that would be nice too.
I can burn potatoes with ease so I don't see how a bunch of semi-barbaric Europeans couldn't ;)
;)
So people suffered and starved for hundreds of years, simply because of their inability to adapt their culture to the changing environment.
Although you didn't blame them exclusively, Europe's relative secularism has taken care of priests saying or doing stupid things like that. I'd like to think that the US could be included in that but Creationism makes me very pessimistic on that score.
I'm a bit of a misanthropic old bugger and think less humans on the planet would be a good thing in general, I just wish it was possible to choose who would be saved from the verge of extinction. No politicians, captains of industry, suburban SUV owners, religious nutcases or women who use a pushchair as an offensive weapon would be allowed on MY ark
The negative image of the music biz is well-earned. Allied with the poor quality and lack of originality of a great deal of the music, the exploitation of artists who see only a small fraction of the price of a CD, many attempts to kill off threatening new technology, the descent to being more like the sex industry than the music industry along with the very tedious glorification of crime and at least the appearance if not the actuality of a price-fixing cartel it's not surprising that your industry has a very negative image. To make it worse instead of trying to address some of these issues, you have decided to treat your customers like criminals with infuriating DRM (that tends to get cracked anyway) and annoying (and in Sony's case disruptive and possibly illegal) CD copy protection schemes, which again usually get cracked.
I do accept that piracy is wrong, but the contempt your industry is held in and the disinterest up until recently in giving consumers what they want i.e. downloadable music (and then you cripple it so that it only works on certain portable players) is eventually going to wipe you out unless you change, and very few people will shed a tear when that happens.
Are you crazy posting copyrighted lyrics on the internet? Expect a bill for $150 million for the revenue you've cost the execs *cough* artists.
None of the successful collaborative OSS projects have let anyone and everyone submit code to them; that would be a recipe for disaster. What's wrong with Wikipedia restricting people from turning a really good idea into a vehicle for furthering agendas, trolling and outright libel? The world is full of assholes and the relative anonymity of the internet allows them to be a lot more obnoxious than they'd dare be in the real world. Anyone who's played online games has seen that in action.
A bass guitar would make a very effective weapon in any armed insurrection, even if you didn't have the strength to swing it you could drop it from a window onto the fascist bullyboys.
You're very wrong about demand for COBOL programmers. I was one and there are very few COBOL jobs about now, most have been moved to India because there are no young, cheap people coming into that field (not surprisingly). I now find myself outside of IT and the only way I can get into the newer fields is to get a degree just so I can get back into something that I already have 15 years experience doing.
No-one wants to train me despite the fact that I did a C++ course at college and passed it with full marks (showing that it wouldn't take long for me to pick stuff up). It's in the nature of the wastefulness of corporate culture, they'd rather pay top dollar to poach someone or take on someone inexperienced in years than someone who only needs the language/platform skills, not all the analysis/design/corporate politics skills that takes years to learn rather than a few months.
MS weren't the only ones who did, they just had less perceived disadvantages than the major competition, namely IBM who in the early 90s were still the big bad monopolist and also a competitor to the other PC manufacturers to boot.
$485 mil at once, $49 mil over 10 weeks or $5 mil over 100 weeks?