Microsoft takes backwards compatibility very seriously.
Yes, Microsoft takes backwards compatibility and pushes it to the level of ridiculous idiocy when they patch the OS and keep the old bugs in order to get some ancient application to run on the newest version of Windows. Because you can't really expect your customers to upgrade their apps, or the incompetent third-party programmers to get their act together, right? Don't believe me? Just read The Old New Thing blog by Raymond Chen.
From scratch?! You must be kidding me. How old is Symbian OS (and let's not count the EPOC years)? The first commercial phone, 7650, was released in 2002. All this time their PC Suite used to install software was a royal pain to use (and unspeakably evil to program for). It took Apple and iPhone + iTunes for Nokia to get off their asses and do something vaguely similar. Let's see how long it takes them to make it usable.
Last time I checked, TeX was free and open-source. It is (C) Donald Knuth, which, I guess, is a problem for Microsoft. If so, Word typesetting will suck forever.
Dude, looks like you're not a target audience for Apple. Call Microsoft. I hear they are doing this new ad campaign about how uncool they are. They may have a gig for you.
Ever heard of AppStore? Or how about free upgrade of all existing iPhone models first to v2 and soon to v3 of the OS? Yes, it is an consumer device in the sense it works the way Apple designed it (and does it very well), but to say you don't get new features unless you buy new hardware is a bit misleading.
"As the stunned world slowly recovers from 2.5 hours of complete hibernation, digging through wreckage, restarting life support systems we all came to depend on, re-animating accidentally dead and restoring their brains from backups (provided backups are available and reasonably error-free), Google has apologised for causing 'the disruption' and blamed it on a maintenance goof in the Google Cloud, said GCloud site reliability manager Acacio Cruz IV v10.0.013 in a BrainTwitter post. We can only envy our ancestors who used to just lose access to their electronic mail via primitive personal computers when Google was having a glitch."
Just installed Haiku VMware image on VirtualBox. On my PC it boots in 15-20s. Network works if you select Intel NIC in VirtualBox prefs. The default NIC doesn't work.
It'd be sadly ironic if the skinny vegan co-founder were the first to go, and the other co-founder who is a bit overweight and doesn't get off his Segway even to take a leak, were to assume the reign.
+10 for LaTeX. Documents typeset using LaTeX look so much better than any word-processed ones. And they are plain text, hence easily version-controlled. My wife studies at a university in the UK and this fall had submitted LaTeX-produced PDFs for her term assignments. Her words: "These PDFs are much more pleasant for the eye than those done in Word."
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Microsoft takes backwards compatibility very seriously.
Yes, Microsoft takes backwards compatibility and pushes it to the level of ridiculous idiocy when they patch the OS and keep the old bugs in order to get some ancient application to run on the newest version of Windows. Because you can't really expect your customers to upgrade their apps, or the incompetent third-party programmers to get their act together, right? Don't believe me? Just read The Old New Thing blog by Raymond Chen.
Where's my mod points when I need them!
From scratch?! You must be kidding me. How old is Symbian OS (and let's not count the EPOC years)? The first commercial phone, 7650, was released in 2002. All this time their PC Suite used to install software was a royal pain to use (and unspeakably evil to program for). It took Apple and iPhone + iTunes for Nokia to get off their asses and do something vaguely similar. Let's see how long it takes them to make it usable.
Last time I checked, TeX was free and open-source. It is (C) Donald Knuth, which, I guess, is a problem for Microsoft. If so, Word typesetting will suck forever.
Dude, looks like you're not a target audience for Apple. Call Microsoft. I hear they are doing this new ad campaign about how uncool they are. They may have a gig for you.
No sh!t, Sherlock! Congratulations on discovering the concept of a business!
Ever heard of AppStore? Or how about free upgrade of all existing iPhone models first to v2 and soon to v3 of the OS? Yes, it is an consumer device in the sense it works the way Apple designed it (and does it very well), but to say you don't get new features unless you buy new hardware is a bit misleading.
From my web site footer: "Best viewed with a web browser."
"As the stunned world slowly recovers from 2.5 hours of complete hibernation, digging through wreckage, restarting life support systems we all came to depend on, re-animating accidentally dead and restoring their brains from backups (provided backups are available and reasonably error-free), Google has apologised for causing 'the disruption' and blamed it on a maintenance goof in the Google Cloud, said GCloud site reliability manager Acacio Cruz IV v10.0.013 in a BrainTwitter post. We can only envy our ancestors who used to just lose access to their electronic mail via primitive personal computers when Google was having a glitch."
Just installed Haiku VMware image on VirtualBox. On my PC it boots in 15-20s. Network works if you select Intel NIC in VirtualBox prefs. The default NIC doesn't work.
In addition to being limited to 3 concurrent applications, the Starter Edition also uses only 1/4 of the screen.
That would be the Jolie system.
It'd be sadly ironic if the skinny vegan co-founder were the first to go, and the other co-founder who is a bit overweight and doesn't get off his Segway even to take a leak, were to assume the reign.
Next thing Ballmer will be asking for a bailout.
Well, this means microwaves will have to be banned as well.
Increases, obviously. Can't you just feel the tingle of it when reading Steve's letter?
+10 for LaTeX. Documents typeset using LaTeX look so much better than any word-processed ones. And they are plain text, hence easily version-controlled. My wife studies at a university in the UK and this fall had submitted LaTeX-produced PDFs for her term assignments. Her words: "These PDFs are much more pleasant for the eye than those done in Word."
Someone please mod this +10 Funny.
And to think Psion was synonymous with innovation and clever design once. Shame, really. Symbian and Nokia drove innovation into the ground. Sad.
Au contraire, Microsoft would lose their last bits of inspiration. Copiers, they need something to copy.
Pixar is there for a reason. The next time you see Steve in a broadcast, he may as well be a Mr. Incredible.
I think you've answered your own question.
Unfortunately, Motorola phones seem to suck in quite a platform-independent, or shall we say, portable way.
You know Apple lifted NDA for released software, right?
And sending hard drives and DVDs via snail mail is the new broadband!