"If you would stop posting, it would be greatly appreciated. "
Thank you for your misplaced concern but perhaps you should try to busy yourself with searching for a new job since the place you used to work folded up ( no doubt , in part, thanks to your "work" there.)
Have fun.
Yeah, I know : no matter how incompetent and wasteful these so called "government programs" have to go on for we will surely die without them.
Government is there to protect us from internal chaos and external enemies not to protect us from ourselves.
I am yet to see any sort of small Free Software company sucesfully competing with the big boys.
It is a nice theory but surprisingly void of real examples.
"Linux can and should be just as gorgeous and usable as OS X, or any other OS on the planet.
"
This is a question of taste and as such can be debated endlessly.
I , for example, find Mac very annoying and much prefer Windows style KDE desktop etc...
Not everybody.
Alex doesn't get paid for creating word processor because Joe already created one and is available to everyone so there is NO need to hire Alex.
"Still people like Mozart and Beethoven delivered some very fine music so it is not the end of the world."
Yes, they did to a few who could afford to listen to it.
Please, don't even bring that up.
CD industry in one form or another is here to stay ( possibly as a paid distribution online etc..)
These are very specific and unique fields.
99% of the time any large corporation will do better than the government.
I hope I don't have to give you any examples here but if I do just look east of Berlin...
"The Microsoft has changed its licensing policy from stealing to plain robbing."
No, they are who are "stealing and plain robbing" for there is NO recourse when these people enforce new tax, while one can always refuse to buy from Microsoft there is no such a escape from their greedy hands.
Only because it was subsidized by USSR in completely failed effort to minimize differences between Western and Eastern part.
Have you seen technological marvels from E. Germany like Trabant etc ??
Their economy was a disaster.
"I mean, what kind of a country can go from the devastation of WW1 to damn nearly winning WW2, and then from the devastation originating there into its current dominating position in Europe?"
It has nothing to do with Germans just right system and a lot of help from outside.
Just look at eastern Germany , they were just as German as the rest of the country yet somehow their "Germanic" status did not protect them from ending up just as bad as the rest of soviet block.
"This would speed up stuff like moving windows which are slow in X because of the communication required between the WM and the X server. "
I agree that X is slow but WM is not a problem. You can easily bypass WM and do your own window management and you will see that there is no difference in performance.
The problem is somewhere with Xserver or Xlib.
" if a user wants to incorporate my code into their commercial system, they have to buy a commercial license from Troll Tech."
Good, most people have no problem with the fact that there are costs associated with running business.
You have two choices, write your own GUI toolkit or use Qt.
Mostly correct but Windows 9x/Me had fully pre-emptive multitasking for all Win32 apps.
Where it suffered was memory protection which had to be partially sacrificed to fully support Win16 apps.
I just played it and it is ok but nothing out of ordinary.
In fact there is no view panning, controls sucks.
This product suffers from lack of polish and finish which is understandable considering the fact that it was create by one dude.
Reasonably fun simulator but nothing that I have not seen before.
PS.
I am not flight simulators fanatic or pilot and therefore it is entirely possible that I might have missed something that stands this product apart from everything else.
Just talking about "fun factor".
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"God, I just can't get over it. "
...
You don't even know the whole truth.
Seat down
I have more than one name here.
"This will save you a great deal of humiliation, and the rest of us a great deal of anguish. "
Feel free to stop responding and save yourself " a great deal of anguish."
"If you would stop posting, it would be greatly appreciated. "
Thank you for your misplaced concern but perhaps you should try to busy yourself with searching for a new job since the place you used to work folded up ( no doubt , in part, thanks to your "work" there.)
Have fun.
Shit ... there goes my launch set.
Nah ... original post was way more interesting.
Yeah, right.
It is much easier to change your citizenship or risk arguing with IRS than to switch to Apple or Unix.
Yeah, I know : no matter how incompetent and wasteful these so called "government programs" have to go on for we will surely die without them.
Government is there to protect us from internal chaos and external enemies not to protect us from ourselves.
I am yet to see any sort of small Free Software company sucesfully competing with the big boys.
It is a nice theory but surprisingly void of real examples.
So is fucking car industry but only lunatics like you are running around claiming that it would be foolish to invest into auto industry.
"Linux can and should be just as gorgeous and usable as OS X, or any other OS on the planet.
...
"
This is a question of taste and as such can be debated endlessly.
I , for example, find Mac very annoying and much prefer Windows style KDE desktop etc
Not everybody.
Alex doesn't get paid for creating word processor because Joe already created one and is available to everyone so there is NO need to hire Alex.
"Plus, there's no such thing as a free car, as there is with free (as in beer) software. "
There is. It is called public transportation.
"Still people like Mozart and Beethoven delivered some very fine music so it is not the end of the world."
Yes, they did to a few who could afford to listen to it.
Please, don't even bring that up.
CD industry in one form or another is here to stay ( possibly as a paid distribution online etc..)
These are very specific and unique fields. ...
99% of the time any large corporation will do better than the government.
I hope I don't have to give you any examples here but if I do just look east of Berlin
"especially as you seem to be cutting down your freedoms a lot recently in USA"
True, but even with that we still have long way to go before we approach level of Government power that people in Europe have to deal with.
"The Microsoft has changed its licensing policy from stealing to plain robbing."
No, they are who are "stealing and plain robbing" for there is NO recourse when these people enforce new tax, while one can always refuse to buy from Microsoft there is no such a escape from their greedy hands.
Only because it was subsidized by USSR in completely failed effort to minimize differences between Western and Eastern part.
Have you seen technological marvels from E. Germany like Trabant etc ??
Their economy was a disaster.
"oh, a big company says it's good then it must be good"
EU approach is simply "oh, a big daddy says it's good then it must be good."
"I mean, what kind of a country can go from the devastation of WW1 to damn nearly winning WW2, and then from the devastation originating there into its current dominating position in Europe?"
It has nothing to do with Germans just right system and a lot of help from outside.
Just look at eastern Germany , they were just as German as the rest of the country yet somehow their "Germanic" status did not protect them from ending up just as bad as the rest of soviet block.
"This would speed up stuff like moving windows which are slow in X because of the communication required between the WM and the X server. "
I agree that X is slow but WM is not a problem. You can easily bypass WM and do your own window management and you will see that there is no difference in performance.
The problem is somewhere with Xserver or Xlib.
" if a user wants to incorporate my code into their commercial system, they have to buy a commercial license from Troll Tech."
Good, most people have no problem with the fact that there are costs associated with running business.
You have two choices, write your own GUI toolkit or use Qt.
Mostly correct but Windows 9x/Me had fully pre-emptive multitasking for all Win32 apps.
Where it suffered was memory protection which had to be partially sacrificed to fully support Win16 apps.
Hehehe.
You truly like your Macs, good for you.
"And best of all, I don't need Microsoft ANYTHING to use my Mac! "
But you need Apple everything and that is more than I could stand.
Apple is simply NOT a good software company.
I just played it and it is ok but nothing out of ordinary.
In fact there is no view panning, controls sucks.
This product suffers from lack of polish and finish which is understandable considering the fact that it was create by one dude.
Reasonably fun simulator but nothing that I have not seen before.
PS.
I am not flight simulators fanatic or pilot and therefore it is entirely possible that I might have missed something that stands this product apart from everything else.
Just talking about "fun factor".
"apache does not work well on NT"
Well, I should have said that it does work as well as IIS does on NT ( and that includes whole infrastructure and not simply httpd deamon.)