You *have* to break backwards compatibility every couple of years.
Otherwise your software becomes bogged down and very inflexible.
But they can't afford to break backward compatibility in a big way, this would prevent them to force upgrades onto their customers. Imagine auto-update disabling ALL your applications?
Now they can keep their revenue going by forcing their customers on a smooth, not so steep but continuous upgrade cycle.
What are you complaining about? You Canadians have lots of stuff that Australians don't have, like maple syrup and Dave Foley.
Say, while you're here, I've got a proposition. We'll trade you North Dakota and Michigan's Upper Peninsula for British Columbia. What do you say? OK, we'll throw in this set of steak knives, too.
...throw in a chair and a free T-shirt and you got yourself a deal.
Actually, scratch that. Linux kernel devs *do* look like assholes.
As opposed to Vista kernel devs? Or OSX kernel devs? At least the Linux kernel devs are 'visible'. And I appreciate their efforts - at making a wonderful piece of software, not at appearing like assholes.
Actually, it doesn't. 640K begins at 655360, which is greater than 640516. If you meant metric K, then yeah, but that wasn't in use back when that was supposedly said.
So 640K IS enough for him. And me. Bill was a true visionary...
terrorists clearly mark the bombs with flashing lights
With your incredible mental acuity, you have a promising career ahead of you in the Boston Police Department, or perhaps the Department of Homeland Security.
I'm sorry, but this thread is going completely wrong. Everybody knows terrorists put a countdown clock on a bomb. In order to disable it you have to cut any of the colored wires at T minus 1 second.
Now do you still trust him to protect and serve in Boston? Duh!
"Microsoft has a strong relationship with the government in Nigeria and will continue to partner with government and industry to help meet their needs,"
How about "Microsoft has a strong relationship with the government and people in Nigeria and will continue to help meet their needs" ?
I suppose by "their needs" they mean "Microsoft's needs". And the government has money and power, the people don't.
and then you take the 640, divide by 2, get 320, remove the last 0, and get 32, the reverse of 23.
Then you multiply 23 by 30, get 690, take 42, reverse it to 24 and subtruct this from 690. You get 666.
What does that tell you? Ha? Ha?
Well, there you have it. The answer to the universe and everything.
Once that karma hits zero, I'm taking my ball and leaving, and you all will be left with nothing but Monty Python quotes and Soviet Russia and Overlord jokes.
In Soviet Russia you are left whitout the Spanish Inquisition - that I for one would welcome as our... Ok, Ok I see your point now.
Cannon will not support a beta print driver. Make sense now?
No. They could publish the incomplete driver as open source. Or make the specs public. Would not cost them much and gain them some extra business, goodwill...
You could always claim the monkey was shot resisting arrest.
If they're so far antropomorphized that they're making rude gestures, it's probably time to demonstrate the finer points of law to them.
You mean you would shoot a human that makes rude gestures to you? Or send your lawyer to them?
Hm, come to think of it, must be possible to just send them a cease and desist letter invoking some copyright infringement. "Monkey see, monkey do, monkey sue"
Once that was done I promptly installed Kubuntu, but I left the restore partition and can choose it as a boot option from the loader.
I just tar'ed the restore partition to an USB disk and wiped the drive clean with a fresh install, all from the Kubuntu install CD in one glorious session.
All my ex girlfriends told me size DIDN'T matter. Of course, they'd dump me the same day... So this is news because size really does matter now?
I'm in trouble cause i'm not 10cm x 10cm.
Naah, you're not in trouble. Just tell 'em pico-small is *really* hot.
The future of space travel belongs to the private sector.
Sure about that? The two nations that have put people on the moon have done it through government initiative. Most (not all) big corporations have a very limited long term vision, they look to the next quarter and how their stock prices will do.
The last 40 years not much has happened in the private sector. I'm not talking about satelites.
so you can have any OS as long as it's Lunix (or OS X)
Sir, you're full of it.
Lots of OSS works on multiple platforms, including the one of the Marketing Spenders. OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, MySql, PostgreSQL, Apache HTTPD, jBoss,...
Now, would you kindly return to the forest? Or wherever a decent troll's habitat is.
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But they can't afford to break backward compatibility in a big way, this would prevent them to force upgrades onto their customers. Imagine auto-update disabling ALL your applications?
Now they can keep their revenue going by forcing their customers on a smooth, not so steep but continuous upgrade cycle.
No it wouldn't. Just checked. Update manager still points to ubuntu.com
...throw in a chair and a free T-shirt and you got yourself a deal.
Oh, cybershut-up® this is a cyberhorrible® and cyberchildish® form of cybernagging®
As opposed to Vista kernel devs? Or OSX kernel devs? At least the Linux kernel devs are 'visible'. And I appreciate their efforts - at making a wonderful piece of software, not at appearing like assholes.
So 640K IS enough for him. And me. Bill was a true visionary...
You mean the arboreal fibre and ferrous pigment technology with 3D-stack memory? My favorite too.
...and votes? Come to think of it, so did the french...
I spy, with my little eye, lots of things that start with an i
I'm sorry, but this thread is going completely wrong. Everybody knows terrorists put a countdown clock on a bomb. In order to disable it you have to cut any of the colored wires at T minus 1 second.
Now do you still trust him to protect and serve in Boston? Duh!
I suppose by "their needs" they mean "Microsoft's needs". And the government has money and power, the people don't.
Well, there you have it. The answer to the universe and everything.
(dontsayitkeeplipstightmmpf) stop whining
Hm, better ask for euro's right now. 42% extra. Just my 2 cents. Euro cents that is.
No. They could publish the incomplete driver as open source. Or make the specs public. Would not cost them much and gain them some extra business, goodwill...
You mean you would shoot a human that makes rude gestures to you? Or send your lawyer to them?
Hm, come to think of it, must be possible to just send them a cease and desist letter invoking some copyright infringement. "Monkey see, monkey do, monkey sue"
I just tar'ed the restore partition to an USB disk and wiped the drive clean with a fresh install, all from the Kubuntu install CD in one glorious session.
Couldn't agree more.
And by the way that should have been "that windows do pretty well", verbs, hey!
Naah, you're not in trouble. Just tell 'em pico-small is *really* hot.
Oops, sorry. The one that put people on the moon and the two that put flags and other objects on the moon.
Sure about that? The two nations that have put people on the moon have done it through government initiative. Most (not all) big corporations have a very limited long term vision, they look to the next quarter and how their stock prices will do.
The last 40 years not much has happened in the private sector. I'm not talking about satelites.
Sir, you're full of it.
Lots of OSS works on multiple platforms, including the one of the Marketing Spenders. OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, MySql, PostgreSQL, Apache HTTPD, jBoss,...
Now, would you kindly return to the forest? Or wherever a decent troll's habitat is.
'IronKey' sounds a lot like 'irony'
Of course the irony would be that your most valuble data would become inaccesible because you forget your password.
Or law enforcement singles you out because you had this tool, known to be used by pedophiles and the likes...