But I use Camino, Firefox, Safari, and IE on a near equal basis. It's hard to call me a fanboy of any one browser.
Also, what ads? I don't see any on this site.
To the main thrust: I didn't really rebut your point, because you didn't really make one. You just brushed off the OP's statement. I wasn't really contributing to the discussion, as it were, I was just pointing out that your fanboyism was showing.
Isn't life so much simpler when you have a big bad scary demon you can use as the focus of blame for all the ills? It's almost like it makes thinking unneccessary.
Unfortunately, america says BAAAAAAA! and does what they are told by their corperate masters... so this will never happen.
This attitude is fun. It's a good marker of a 14 year old (possibly not physically, but definitely emotionally) and it's an easy way to know who to avoid reading in the future.
Thanks for branding yourself as a jackass and saving me the 10 minutes it would have taken to discern it myself!
Bullshit. The vast majority of consumers will buy what they like. Just because it's not what you like doesn't mean they did it because someone told them to. That sort of statement is beyond arrogant and into ludicrous.
There are still things the programmer has to do to ensure that works, but as long as cross-platform rules are followed and environmental configuration is handled sanely, that's been possible since the beginning. It's not often Java's fault that an application won't work on multiple platforms.
And do I have to use your ethics in order for this to work? Because apparently the 'obvious' answers to a lot of people here are things I completely reject.
It's not the code that eats up the memory, it's the data. There's a sigificant memory overhead to managing the widgets that would be freed if the GUI were never started. I'm kinda guessing here, but that may be what the OP meant.
I'd say you have to take a hard look at your spending if you have trouble saving 500 dollars at 25 per. Call taxes 50% and that's still only saving 40 hours of pay. If you can't pull that off in a reasonable time frame, you're living beyond your means.
That's a fantastic way to pick up the point and run in a direction clearly unrelated to the rest of the discussion. Your technique is masterful. I weep with pride at the beauty of it.
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Sure they matter, just not in the context you mentioned. Since that's not what the article is about, I'd say you took the wrong path.
Or to make it more general, a unrelated virtue does not forgive a sin.
But I use Camino, Firefox, Safari, and IE on a near equal basis. It's hard to call me a fanboy of any one browser.
Also, what ads? I don't see any on this site.
To the main thrust: I didn't really rebut your point, because you didn't really make one. You just brushed off the OP's statement. I wasn't really contributing to the discussion, as it were, I was just pointing out that your fanboyism was showing.
There's only one question I can think of that only has one answer: "Are you alive?"
That would probably depend on the definition of 'alive.'
Clintoniously, it could also depend on the definitions of 'are' and 'you' as well.
I'm pretty sure that sentence stands alone for anyone but an Opera fanboy.
Isn't life so much simpler when you have a big bad scary demon you can use as the focus of blame for all the ills? It's almost like it makes thinking unneccessary.
Unfortunately, america says BAAAAAAA! and does what they are told by their corperate masters... so this will never happen.
This attitude is fun. It's a good marker of a 14 year old (possibly not physically, but definitely emotionally) and it's an easy way to know who to avoid reading in the future.
Thanks for branding yourself as a jackass and saving me the 10 minutes it would have taken to discern it myself!
Bullshit. The vast majority of consumers will buy what they like. Just because it's not what you like doesn't mean they did it because someone told them to. That sort of statement is beyond arrogant and into ludicrous.
And exactly where is this higher pay going to originate, since you keep Walmart (and the low paying jobs they need to survive) going?
Yes, and horses let everyone get around just fine.
Only in technology would it be cool to be a curmudgeon. So tiresome.
Apparently Linux isn't ready for your desktop.
And knives. And hammers. And cars. And bare hands.
There are still things the programmer has to do to ensure that works, but as long as cross-platform rules are followed and environmental configuration is handled sanely, that's been possible since the beginning. It's not often Java's fault that an application won't work on multiple platforms.
shh, we're sleeping in here...
It isn't any funnier the second time.
And do I have to use your ethics in order for this to work? Because apparently the 'obvious' answers to a lot of people here are things I completely reject.
I can tell you've stopped. Your post proves it beautifully.
Maybe it's the unrealism. Of course, Slashdottian zealotry knows no reality, so I'm not surprised this flamewar has begun.
It's not the code that eats up the memory, it's the data. There's a sigificant memory overhead to managing the widgets that would be freed if the GUI were never started. I'm kinda guessing here, but that may be what the OP meant.
Maybe we oughta coddle him, then. He's certain to turn into happy smiley nice leader if we all give he the respect he craves.
I'd say that means your perspective has an easily determined liberal bias. Of course, it's very liberal indeed to believe you are absolutely right.
It's a shame your opinions don't run the world. That way, what you consider normal could be forced down everyone else's throat.
WTF indeed.
What is this 'Europe?'
I'd say you have to take a hard look at your spending if you have trouble saving 500 dollars at 25 per. Call taxes 50% and that's still only saving 40 hours of pay. If you can't pull that off in a reasonable time frame, you're living beyond your means.
The general low quality of that post makes me think evil wins because good has shitty marketing.
That's a fantastic way to pick up the point and run in a direction clearly unrelated to the rest of the discussion. Your technique is masterful. I weep with pride at the beauty of it.