My IBM T21 made in 2000 still works fine with Ubuntu, although its no longer useful for Windows. Or Windows is no longer useful, I am not sure which. Do the electrons in Windows wear out?
You must be very young and inexperienced if you have never encountered a situation where the government screws up completely, and/or leaks all its data to assorted bunches of criminals.
Both the US and the UK have particularly appalling records on both counts.
The user interface remains a problem, It typically takes two or three days for a newbie to find out how to open of close a file, and another three to give up entirely.
None of your arguments count for anything if you live outside the USA
Which most of the planet does. For the rest of us, Google/Android meant slightly open, which huge range of alternative suppliers. Apple meant not at all open, and Windows meant "looses your data and keeps crashing". Not much of a choice there.
If it does, then they will be in Gitmo very quick, because that is fighting for the interests of someone other than the US based Megacorps, which is terrorism.
The concept of "Licensed only for region X" is only legal if it enhances the profits of American companies. Otherwise it is an infringement of international trade agreements.
This is one of the strategies America uses to make itself unpopular in the rest of the world.
And we have airline check in queues so long it is probably quicker to swim to France than fly there.
When the IRA (HInt: American sponsored) were bombing the UK on a regular basis, we just took it, saying "the risk of dying from eating Scotch eggs beats the risk of an IRA bomb any day!" or, for the oldies "Compared to the Blitz, this is nothing!"
Then the Americans got hit, and it was "OK, lets circle the poodles and waggle our tails".
No one in the UK believes that airline check in procedures are about safety. We all know they are about our politicians pandering to America for reasons we don't understand, but which probably involve bribery and corruption.
In the 1960's there were a bunch of law suits over this, which is why many modern assemblers have Really Stupid (TM) mnemonics. I remember TI as deliberately using stupid mnemonics so they could copyright them. This strategy was assisted by very poorly designed documentation:
A - this instruction affects some registers
B - This instruction does not affect some registers
etc
Hint A = Add, B = Branch (which means jump) but only real gurus knew this, because the documentation did not bother to tell you.
While your No 4 is my preference, you forgot the obvious "Ride of the Valkyrie", and the less obvious emulated police helicopter, with optional "Step away from the road, and put your hands up" voice-over.
In reality, it does not matter which gas is causing the problem it is Americans that are emitting the gasses, and therefore Americans that are the problem.
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My IBM T21 made in 2000 still works fine with Ubuntu, although its no longer useful for Windows. Or Windows is no longer useful, I am not sure which. Do the electrons in Windows wear out?
On what planet?
Libertarians are illiterate anarchists. (Or Liberians with poor spelling skills).
Next Thursday, then.
Both the US and the UK have particularly appalling records on both counts.
Mod parent +2 , totally correct.
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Real men use Fortran, which needs Fortran coding sheets.
Or even NetBSD?
The user interface remains a problem, It typically takes two or three days for a newbie to find out how to open of close a file, and another three to give up entirely.
Which most of the planet does. For the rest of us, Google/Android meant slightly open, which huge range of alternative suppliers. Apple meant not at all open, and Windows meant "looses your data and keeps crashing". Not much of a choice there.
Disclaimer: One of my grandparents was a leprechaun.
If you can prove you are an Orc, I for one, am willing to mod you up!
If it does, then they will be in Gitmo very quick, because that is fighting for the interests of someone other than the US based Megacorps, which is terrorism.
This is one of the strategies America uses to make itself unpopular in the rest of the world.
No. or maybe yes. It is, however, the CORRECT spelling of colour.
Yep. You cant tell if the drivers work or not, till after you run them!
Have you never been in a plane where a young man stands up and says to the pilot: "Take this plane to Cuba or I will singe your beard!"
When the IRA (HInt: American sponsored) were bombing the UK on a regular basis, we just took it, saying "the risk of dying from eating Scotch eggs beats the risk of an IRA bomb any day!" or, for the oldies "Compared to the Blitz, this is nothing!"
Then the Americans got hit, and it was "OK, lets circle the poodles and waggle our tails".
No one in the UK believes that airline check in procedures are about safety. We all know they are about our politicians pandering to America for reasons we don't understand, but which probably involve bribery and corruption.
IMHE it is every bit as functional as Lisp.
A - this instruction affects some registers
B - This instruction does not affect some registers
etc
Hint A = Add, B = Branch (which means jump) but only real gurus knew this, because the documentation did not bother to tell you.
Yes, that is what the media demands. Knees up Mother Brown!
While your No 4 is my preference, you forgot the obvious "Ride of the Valkyrie", and the less obvious emulated police helicopter, with optional "Step away from the road, and put your hands up" voice-over.
Lets just nuke them from high orbit to be sure
Oh, wait ...
It does if they are stupid enough - remember, 2+2=5 for large values of 2!