Hey, I'd like to use Evolution on Windows. Oh, I can't? Gee, seems like I'm locked in to the *nix platform...
Please. Your characterisation of 'lock in' is woeful at best. "if you write in.Net, you're only writing for Windows"..or anyone leveraging standardised ECMA directives. Or Mono. Or, shut up.
I think if you looked carefully at the statistics though, this kind of citizen backlash occurs infrequently compared to the times when the common citizen gets screwed over by entities with lots of money & legal representation.
But they get 100 times the media coverage and so, people don't perceive there to be a problem. Which suits these companies just fine.
"Those" kids knew how to act out violently way before the industrial revolution. Antisocial behavior is not new. This is not a problem about video games more than it is about parents who think video games should be raising their children.
I second this -- it's inherent that in society there are individuals who are more violently-orientated. It doesn't matter if they turn to film, music, games, literature or otherwise; these aren't stimuli simply because someone with a propensity to be violent partakes in them. Do you think kids before the time of video games had anything different running through their minds when running around with toy guns? It's escapism, like a Western!
Judging by the content of the article - I mean, who honestly non-technical is going to read beyond the first paragraph in an article about file systems - it's a reasonable assumption. It's not as if Sun made it up...
Gajillion, however...
Xenophobe. Go fuck a doghnut. How the fuck can you disregard "Yes, Muslim domination over their women is terrible" - it's like saying "Yes I'm a hiprocrate because I casually dismiss the taking of basic human rights as you do".
Fuck off.
In the UK we're not as sickly unaware of the rest of the world as you are. People like you are going to die a lonely lonely death. It's only your own insecurity that requires you to continually reaffirm your own 'greatness' to all who will listen.
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"Google is building Chrome OS straight into Windows 8" http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/5/4806562/google-building-chrome-os-into-windows-8#main_comment_form
...Java 1.5 working first.
Hey, I'd like to use Evolution on Windows. Oh, I can't? Gee, seems like I'm locked in to the *nix platform... Please. Your characterisation of 'lock in' is woeful at best. "if you write in .Net, you're only writing for Windows" ..or anyone leveraging standardised ECMA directives. Or Mono. Or, shut up.
White House says Enron 'Did Nothing Wrong' Shock. Please..
But they get 100 times the media coverage and so, people don't perceive there to be a problem. Which suits these companies just fine.
We win their media war for them!
Judging by the content of the article - I mean, who honestly non-technical is going to read beyond the first paragraph in an article about file systems - it's a reasonable assumption. It's not as if Sun made it up... Gajillion, however...
Fuck off.
In the UK we're not as sickly unaware of the rest of the world as you are. People like you are going to die a lonely lonely death. It's only your own insecurity that requires you to continually reaffirm your own 'greatness' to all who will listen.