Marx and followers (not including Spencer) were unable to separate the concepts of ownership and control. Marx was so stupid he thought it impossible to control something you don't own. (eg driver can't steer a stolen car).
Companies that innovate, everywhere, curse the US patent system for its stupidity from morning to night, and say how even the systems are saner.
I am not saying they don't benefit, EVERYONE is saying they would benefit a whole lot more if the US patent system was even slighly saner. Plus, almost everyone else disallows patents of software and business methods.
Do you have any idea how terrified Windows users are of installing anything
If you had actually tried to install Windows from a CD, you would be terrified too.
In all probability, you would be a Ubuntu user. Support for hardware on the Windows install disk is so grim, it will probably not be useable. You will need to download more drivers from the internet, but you wont have drivers for your network card! (So install Ubuntu to download the drivers, and then realise you can just chuck the Windows install CD in the bin and be happy!)
And if you use my favorite app that allows writing PHP by throwing cow-pats at the screen with a wiimote, you dont even need a keyboard! (And lets face it, if its PHP, then it might as well be cow-pats!)
However, some of us write time-critical, embedded c, and its harder to write that with a Wiimote.
I am thinking of crowd-sourcing funding for an app that allows writing management reports with the Wiimote. (With Prince2 support as a bolt-on goodie) Watch this space.
Yes, but you know what you want is called device manager, and not "settings", "configuration" or "hardware". Those of us that only use Windows once every couple of months have no way to guess these things. Poking around nested dropdowns works fast and easily. Wading though nested folders works, provided the Icons are actually recognisable (or labelled properly).
If you actually want to type console style textual commands, what is wrong with the 1970's Unix command line? (Command completion has been around since the late 1970's)
Well, this should certainly help. When someone asks you "Why doesn't my Sony work any more?" The answer is "Cos it used closed source software?" Then you can explain it. If they are too thick to understand, then the answer is "That is what Sony is like"
When I was in school, I made a vacuum tube (though of course, I called it a valve), and I did my own glass blowing.
(it didn't work very well). I also made several pneumatic transistors, including one in which gas flow was modulated electrically, and then the gas burned in a Bunsen burner: It may not be energy efficient, but you get wicked bass!
Yes. Probably you are young and foolish, or the code is of no consequence.Those of us old enough to have lawns have discovered that most of the code you have written needs supporting, and if you can write code, you would prefer to do something else than support it. If you have improved someone else's code, you probably dont want to support that either. If you have paid your staff to fix some code, you probably dont want to pay them to support it when they could be writing or fixing something else.
So give your code back, and the world will give youi support for free
Of course, if you have "borrowed" a TCP/IP stack from someone else, and prefer not to give it back, then you wont get free support (for your crappy OS, which you are afraid to expose to the glare of public examination).
Yes, I prefer the stabuility of FreeBSD over Windows for infrastructure. (But as a massochist, I prefer my desktop to BSOD:-)
Even RTFM is better than using the Microsoft diagnostics - after 20 minutes clicking various pointless things "MS Diagnostics has no idea what your problem is - you are totally stuffed!" is not really what you want to hear, even if it is said politely.
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I think its time for Apple (and some others) to try some real innovation "With a red-hot poker up the posterior orifice!"
People still use WIndow?
Marx and followers (not including Spencer) were unable to separate the concepts of ownership and control. Marx was so stupid he thought it impossible to control something you don't own. (eg driver can't steer a stolen car).
I am not saying they don't benefit, EVERYONE is saying they would benefit a whole lot more if the US patent system was even slighly saner. Plus, almost everyone else disallows patents of software and business methods.
He is preparing the ground so that, when charged with gross incompetence, he can plead "guilty but insane".
If you had actually tried to install Windows from a CD, you would be terrified too.
In all probability, you would be a Ubuntu user. Support for hardware on the Windows install disk is so grim, it will probably not be useable. You will need to download more drivers from the internet, but you wont have drivers for your network card! (So install Ubuntu to download the drivers, and then realise you can just chuck the Windows install CD in the bin and be happy!)
You are not married, ar you?
However, some of us write time-critical, embedded c, and its harder to write that with a Wiimote.
I am thinking of crowd-sourcing funding for an app that allows writing management reports with the Wiimote. (With Prince2 support as a bolt-on goodie) Watch this space.
Or you could spend your time wrestling with Alligators - its obviously more fun!
FTFY
Yes, but you know what you want is called device manager, and not "settings", "configuration" or "hardware". Those of us that only use Windows once every couple of months have no way to guess these things. Poking around nested dropdowns works fast and easily. Wading though nested folders works, provided the Icons are actually recognisable (or labelled properly). If you actually want to type console style textual commands, what is wrong with the 1970's Unix command line? (Command completion has been around since the late 1970's)
If it is illegal to answer questions untruthfully, we can expect the jails to be overflowing with politicians in very short shrift!
obviously, I lived in a poorer neighbourhood: we were expected to draw/write our own! (and it were up hill both ways ;-)
not if you are under 13.
Please can we have wysiwyg AND "Reveal Codes" (I am talking to you LibreOffice! )
If you were a teenage girl, that would be easily worth $600 - of someone else's money!
That, and Scientology never supported polygamy
Mod parent up
Expect a joint strike on Samsung in 5, 4, 3, 2, ...
Well, this should certainly help. When someone asks you "Why doesn't my Sony work any more?" The answer is "Cos it used closed source software?" Then you can explain it. If they are too thick to understand, then the answer is "That is what Sony is like"
Yggdrasil. Now give me the money!
IME Lenovo is not Toshiba.
(it didn't work very well). I also made several pneumatic transistors, including one in which gas flow was modulated electrically, and then the gas burned in a Bunsen burner: It may not be energy efficient, but you get wicked bass!
I also got a LOT of detention.
So give your code back, and the world will give youi support for free
Of course, if you have "borrowed" a TCP/IP stack from someone else, and prefer not to give it back, then you wont get free support (for your crappy OS, which you are afraid to expose to the glare of public examination).
Yes, I prefer the stabuility of FreeBSD over Windows for infrastructure. (But as a massochist, I prefer my desktop to BSOD :-)
Even RTFM is better than using the Microsoft diagnostics - after 20 minutes clicking various pointless things "MS Diagnostics has no idea what your problem is - you are totally stuffed!" is not really what you want to hear, even if it is said politely.
If you are Joe Blow and dont know how to search and install with apt-get, then you sure as hell dont want bleeding edge anything.