"When I do a web search, I want the results sorted by relevance! Too bad the FTC can't get involved.
"
Well, it is free stuff.
Don't like it ? Don't use it...
I think it is NetPositive precisely because it has a problem with many pages ( Opera is much better in this regard.)
I am not sure though, since this things is wrapped in its own custom GUI...
The main problem is slowness of GUI, it feels like KDE running on Pentium 100 with a Virge card.
We have a test unit here in the office.
It sucks. It is quite slow, some web pages do not display properly ( complete mess) etc...
I wouldn't buy one...
Hell by restricting companies freedom to sell you non-free cars , you are helping more cars to be free and people have more money to spend on healtcare etc...
Isn't that just as noble ?
Outlook is one of the better looking programs out there.
BTW. You world of mutts and similar programs is gone, while you might enjoy using it there is NOTHING you can do stop GUI based programs just like you cannot stop progress.
Well, this is exactly what will happen if Latinos continue in their refusal to accept American culture.
There is nothing magical about US as compared with, say Mexico. Let in enough people who don't give a shit about what made US strong and it will become the same shithole Mexico is.
"The idea is that it's bad for the country for the government to depend on the private sector for vital services. "
US was relying on private industry for one of the most vital services: military equipment...
One can even make a case that US military technology is the best in the world.
"assumes that people only make rational buying decisions"
Well, we do assume that people are free which entitles them to make any sort of buying decisions.
Forcing them to make, what we think would be more rational decision, is definitely not something we want to do.
"And that's what governments are _for_, to do things that private citizens can't or won't pay for."
Not necessarily. Remember, any time government pays for something it does so using our money with assumption that it knows better what is good for us than we do.
Dangerously close to slavery.
"it is that the production of software needs to be justified in terms of benefit to society"
Of course, and there is even very easy way to measure that.
If your software sells then obviously people do find it useful and beneficial.
If it does not then, well, you get the picture...
"Ohh and let's talk about Americans freedom to walk into a store buy a gun and shot the head of the owner. Would you like to discuss that freedom?:)"
Just as much freedom as walking into some store in Denmark, buying a knife and slashing owner's throat.
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Totalitarian bully ?
By enforcing its own laws ?
Remember, he was arrested in US after he voluntarily came to this country.
If you don't like US laws don't come here.
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"that they are not corrupt and will do the right thing"
Heheh... Europe is where corruption was invented and you are famous for insanely corrupted governments ( specially in places like Italy and France)
"When I do a web search, I want the results sorted by relevance! Too bad the FTC can't get involved. ...
"
Well, it is free stuff.
Don't like it ? Don't use it
You I counted it unofficially too , and in my case Gore lost...
I think it is NetPositive precisely because it has a problem with many pages ( Opera is much better in this regard.) ...
I am not sure though, since this things is wrapped in its own custom GUI
The main problem is slowness of GUI, it feels like KDE running on Pentium 100 with a Virge card.
We have a test unit here in the office. ...
...
It sucks. It is quite slow, some web pages do not display properly ( complete mess) etc
I wouldn't buy one
Hell by restricting companies freedom to sell you non-free cars , you are helping more cars to be free and people have more money to spend on healtcare etc. ..
Isn't that just as noble ?
Why should I believe you ?
That is precisely why Russians are in so much shit. ...
Complete chaos
Outlook is one of the better looking programs out there.
BTW. You world of mutts and similar programs is gone, while you might enjoy using it there is NOTHING you can do stop GUI based programs just like you cannot stop progress.
" I mean IT department, honestly believes that M$ software and technology is industry standard."
Well, they are right.
Exchange is one of the leading email and collaboration software packages which makes them industry standard.
Haha ... I am not even American by birth and I happened to understand 3 languages....
You don't have a book...
You don't even know how to read.
Well, this is exactly what will happen if Latinos continue in their refusal to accept American culture.
There is nothing magical about US as compared with, say Mexico. Let in enough people who don't give a shit about what made US strong and it will become the same shithole Mexico is.
Not even close.
For a place where Windows is already present , it makes so much more sense to stick with it.
"guts to throw out U.S companies, being tired of working as underpaid plantation labor for U.S fruit barons? "
Too bad now they are working as underpaid plantation labor for their own communistic barons.
"The idea is that it's bad for the country for the government to depend on the private sector for vital services. "
US was relying on private industry for one of the most vital services: military equipment...
One can even make a case that US military technology is the best in the world.
Yeah, assuming that return you get out of Free Software is just as good as you would get from using other sources. ...
That is a big "if"
And by restricting your freedom to any software you want what will it ensure ?
Yeah, there are half-done, constantly trying to catch up, bindings for C++...
"Apple has tried to educate the consumer about the reality of clock speed, and they failed. "
They failed because even if it adjusted for differences between Intel and PowerPC, Apple hardware still looked like overpriced crap.
"assumes that people only make rational buying decisions"
Well, we do assume that people are free which entitles them to make any sort of buying decisions.
Forcing them to make, what we think would be more rational decision, is definitely not something we want to do.
"And that's what governments are _for_, to do things that private citizens can't or won't pay for."
Not necessarily. Remember, any time government pays for something it does so using our money with assumption that it knows better what is good for us than we do.
Dangerously close to slavery.
"it is that the production of software needs to be justified in terms of benefit to society"
Of course, and there is even very easy way to measure that.
If your software sells then obviously people do find it useful and beneficial.
If it does not then, well, you get the picture...
"You have Denmark confused with Germany. "
:)"
It is pretty much all over Europe.
"Ohh and let's talk about Americans freedom to walk into a store buy a gun and shot the head of the owner. Would you like to discuss that freedom?
Just as much freedom as walking into some store in Denmark, buying a knife and slashing owner's throat.
Totalitarian bully ?
By enforcing its own laws ?
Remember, he was arrested in US after he voluntarily came to this country.
If you don't like US laws don't come here.
He was trying to sell illegal stuff on US soil.
There is NO jurisdiction problem here.