What if someone whose Samsung phone broke made that video versus a rival company making it. Would it matter? I don't think so.
But I do think so. I wouldn't give money to the company that paid for that ad. If they can't compete with merit, quality, and/or price, but have to stoop down to smear tactics, then that would make it a damn good reason not to.
What are your credentials that you can make this claim? X-Windows is a huge software project and it works reasonably well. There are certain people out there who are making the source code more modularized.
GUIs were mostly an afterthought.
GUIs weren't an afterthought. It's called modularization, meaning that if one piece breaks, the whole system won't come down.
NAIAMSNAIAAE (Neither am I a material scientist, nor am I an aerospace engineer), but why do we need to start at base level? Let's start at the point where we want the elevator to end and work our way down (top-down approach). Maybe we don't need to build the cable all the way to the bottom. Some kind of platform connected to the cable floating at some point in the atmosphere easy to reach by conventional planes (backwards compatibility). Once we have more knowledge of nanomanufacturing, we could extend the cable down to the surface (iterative approach).
And yes, I am a computer scientist. Why do you ask?:-)
last time I checked a free market economy allowed a company to decide with whom they'd like to do business
That's an important point: The right to refuse the exchange of goods is as fundamental as the right to exchange goods freely. If someone can't refuse the exchange, then it's not a free market anymore.
If someone discriminates against your height, your weight, your skin colour, your eyes, your gender, your language, or your opinion, then choose to do business with someone else. "But what if there is no one else?" you may say. Then it's not a free market.
My computer uses about 25 W/h. Two lightbulbs are on in my room: one uses 20 W/h, the other one is 12 W/h. So far 57 W/h. That's less than some idling Intel CPUs. One lightbulb uses almost as much electricity as my computer. And these are halogen lightbulbs.
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GUIs weren't an afterthought. It's called modularization, meaning that if one piece breaks, the whole system won't come down.
These treacherous decepticons!
No, they weren't.
If anyone thought "tty" sounded familiar: yes, that's where unix got their tty device nodes from. Tty as in 'teletypewriters.' :-)
Compare to Slashdotters who are out there making a fort... oh shit.
Old bits don't die, they just keep rotting. :-)
Vim, grep, and sed. I heard they make movies, too! :-)
So let's get government out of this business. Oops... did I say that out aloud? I must be a terrorist.
NAIAMSNAIAAE (Neither am I a material scientist, nor am I an aerospace engineer), but why do we need to start at base level? Let's start at the point where we want the elevator to end and work our way down (top-down approach). Maybe we don't need to build the cable all the way to the bottom. Some kind of platform connected to the cable floating at some point in the atmosphere easy to reach by conventional planes (backwards compatibility). Once we have more knowledge of nanomanufacturing, we could extend the cable down to the surface (iterative approach).
:-)
And yes, I am a computer scientist. Why do you ask?
If someone discriminates against your height, your weight, your skin colour, your eyes, your gender, your language, or your opinion, then choose to do business with someone else. "But what if there is no one else?" you may say. Then it's not a free market.
Sorry, dude. Unique is part of the enumeration. So the question becomes: What makes unique?
:P
And the answer to that is Snowflakes.
This talk by Cory Doctorow is a good start.
Enigma? :>
Not just Microsoft. Every market where the government decides to legislate sooner or later goes down the tubes*.
* pun intended
If you consider the spelling and grammar mistakes in the submission, it probably will be.
b. The government doesn't need to compete.
Heh, thanks! I didn't know that.
That sounds like cut-rate AAA socialist propaganda to me. :)