I have no love for Microsoft, but I'm failing to understand how a company must leave built-in loopholes and deficiencies in its product purely so that its competitors have a fair shot at competing. Pretty sure that whether or not Google Desktop will play nicely with Vista was never something on the design tables in Redmond...seeing as how it would in fact be Google's, not Microsoft's, problem.
I'd love for some of my linux applications to run on my MacBook too, but you don't see me suing Apple because of it.
"2. Guarantees. Accuracy of TurboTax Calculations. Intuit diligently works to ensure the accuracy of the calculations on every form prepared using TurboTax tax preparation software. If you are a registered user that has updated your Software with the most recent update available prior to filing your return and you pay an IRS or state penalty and/or interest solely because of a calculation error on a form prepared using the Software, and not as a result of, among other things, your failure to enter all required information accurately, willful or fraudulent omission or inclusion of information on your tax return, misclassification of information on the tax return, or failure to file an amended return to avoid or reduce an applicable penalty/interest after Intuit announced updates or corrections to the Software in time for you to file an amended return, then Intuit will pay you in the amount of the IRS or state penalty and/or interest paid by you to the IRS or state."
If you want to sell something, you have to assume that no, customers cannot make choices on their own. Choices are dangerous, and lead to the customer possibly choosing someone other than you.
I've not seen a for-profit company yet that's so well-balanced (i.e. funded) that it can say "Here, we made this really neat product, it does A, B and C, but it can't do X, Y, and Z, and is incompatible with this-and-so in this situation." Perhaps yeah, around half of the consumers will decide that the downsides are acceptable and will use it, but most won't. Most will find something else that doesn't admit to having downsides.
Also, not being given a choice gives the consumers plausible deniability if and when they make a mistake in choosing a given product.
I'm a die-hard emacs fan, but you do realize that you can get Vi to do all of that too? Emacs just uses Lisp instead of vi-scripting to do its customization.
Cheers to the good luck with Eclipse...biggest PoS software I've ever seen. There should be a law against writing desktop applications in Java, seriously.
I'm glad to hear that programming is a brain-dead job. That makes my college courses and job that much easier - apparently I can stop working my ass off to write good, efficient programs which people can actually use and start writing useless perl scripts like everyone else, no? Thank you for successfully insulting every decent programmer out there.
Oh, and have you ever really looked at a real algorithm? They are mathematics, pure and simple. Mathematics has everything to do with programming. Case in point: Dijkstra's Algorithm. Not one of the really heavy math ones, granted, but in view of the topic I think it's appropriate.
Frankly, I'm on your side...keeping some of the stuff he used to generate his maps classified would knock some information which is really very handy from the public use - things like the shipping/loading dock information that he mentioned (would a prospective company have to go through clearance procedures to find out whether shipping their goods through a given area is worthwhile??), like ISP bandwidth and routing information, and the depth of cable trenches (would telephone or paving companies also have to be cleared before putting in a new pole or rebuilding a road?)
"It gives us a great thrill," Young said. "If it's banned, it should be published. We like defying authority as a matter of principle."
That, I think, is a little extreme, but there are some things which can't be pulled from the public domain without wreaking havoc on the people dependant on them.
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I have no love for Microsoft, but I'm failing to understand how a company must leave built-in loopholes and deficiencies in its product purely so that its competitors have a fair shot at competing. Pretty sure that whether or not Google Desktop will play nicely with Vista was never something on the design tables in Redmond...seeing as how it would in fact be Google's, not Microsoft's, problem. I'd love for some of my linux applications to run on my MacBook too, but you don't see me suing Apple because of it.
Yes, actually, they do.
"2. Guarantees. Accuracy of TurboTax Calculations. Intuit diligently works to ensure the accuracy of the calculations on every form prepared using TurboTax tax preparation software. If you are a registered user that has updated your Software with the most recent update available prior to filing your return and you pay an IRS or state penalty and/or interest solely because of a calculation error on a form prepared using the Software, and not as a result of, among other things, your failure to enter all required information accurately, willful or fraudulent omission or inclusion of information on your tax return, misclassification of information on the tax return, or failure to file an amended return to avoid or reduce an applicable penalty/interest after Intuit announced updates or corrections to the Software in time for you to file an amended return, then Intuit will pay you in the amount of the IRS or state penalty and/or interest paid by you to the IRS or state."
From http://www.turbotax.com/softwarelicense.html/
If you want to sell something, you have to assume that no, customers cannot make choices on their own. Choices are dangerous, and lead to the customer possibly choosing someone other than you.
I've not seen a for-profit company yet that's so well-balanced (i.e. funded) that it can say "Here, we made this really neat product, it does A, B and C, but it can't do X, Y, and Z, and is incompatible with this-and-so in this situation." Perhaps yeah, around half of the consumers will decide that the downsides are acceptable and will use it, but most won't. Most will find something else that doesn't admit to having downsides.
Also, not being given a choice gives the consumers plausible deniability if and when they make a mistake in choosing a given product.
I'm a die-hard emacs fan, but you do realize that you can get Vi to do all of that too? Emacs just uses Lisp instead of vi-scripting to do its customization.
Cheers to the good luck with Eclipse...biggest PoS software I've ever seen. There should be a law against writing desktop applications in Java, seriously.
C'mon...that's not a hard question to answer :P
"2. Do not eat iPod Shuffle"
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I'm glad to hear that programming is a brain-dead job. That makes my college courses and job that much easier - apparently I can stop working my ass off to write good, efficient programs which people can actually use and start writing useless perl scripts like everyone else, no? Thank you for successfully insulting every decent programmer out there.
Oh, and have you ever really looked at a real algorithm? They are mathematics, pure and simple. Mathematics has everything to do with programming. Case in point: Dijkstra's Algorithm. Not one of the really heavy math ones, granted, but in view of the topic I think it's appropriate.
Frankly, I'm on your side...keeping some of the stuff he used to generate his maps classified would knock some information which is really very handy from the public use - things like the shipping/loading dock information that he mentioned (would a prospective company have to go through clearance procedures to find out whether shipping their goods through a given area is worthwhile??), like ISP bandwidth and routing information, and the depth of cable trenches (would telephone or paving companies also have to be cleared before putting in a new pole or rebuilding a road?) "It gives us a great thrill," Young said. "If it's banned, it should be published. We like defying authority as a matter of principle." That, I think, is a little extreme, but there are some things which can't be pulled from the public domain without wreaking havoc on the people dependant on them.