The "Vista is shitty" meme is generally confined to forums such as these. Slashdot does not represent the OS market, but a small subset of it. The sales numbers for Vista were respectable, and after its bumpy start it was a solid product. Your personal opinion might differ.
You are also paying extra for support, as the vast majority of their users will use Windows on that hardware, and you want something else. Mainstream support is always cheaper than anything specialised.
What's "winger" about it is that it's so caught up on one thing you are really annoyed about, that you've completely missed the point, and crudely attempted to fashion a comparison to highlight your annoyance, yet fallen flat on your face as you either don't understand the argument in the first place, or are merely confused by the beliefs and values of others. Eich publicly funded an organisation which sought to deny basic human rights. You can spin that as "having an opinion" if you want, but you are lying to yourself and making your argument look abject nonsense.
You can call it a "non-progressive belief" if you want, but many others still call it "donating money to a group which actively sought to deny basic human rights". If you're fine with that, I think that says more about you than anyone else.
It is possible, once you stop assuming the country is entirely the same from coast to coast, from sea to mountains, from state to state. Yes, India has a lot of catching up to do, but it already has very good schools, and frequently a great cultural pressure for people to study well and get a good job. Many H1B workers come from India because it's the best place to take them from - a poor country with good IT education facilities, which is already geared up (thanks to the massive companies which deal with providing said workers) to be in the position it currently is in.
Or we can ignore that and make an obviously-untrue condemnation of over a billion people just because you can't figure it out, as you did. Yay.
I think he defines a memory leak as where you create and destroy a variable and have more used memory than before. Which is not too bad of a definition, I guess.
Easy on the judgement there yourself! By your logic anyone who would ever need to compress swapped memory is asking too much from their computer, so by injecting that little taunt you've derailed your entire argument, it seems.
The balanced, objective look at climate change exists and has for years. You not finding it or even looking for it (as it's not difficult to find) seems to indicate you're not honestly interested in reading it. Or you are inept at using the internet. You choose.
If you want to check IDs you are preventing those without IDs from participating, which in the case of voting is a bit more fucking important than playing the lottery.
Don't speak for everyone - it's a great sign you haven't really considered your argument. It was a logical extension of the Google accounts people used. It was expected by many, welcomed by many, and used by many. Your experiences do not speak for everyone else's.
"Almost certainly bad" he says, without a shred of evidence... It will not serve you to sum up all the taxi regulations around the world which Uber is falling foul of as being "almost certainly bad for the industry", as that patently isn't true. You are comparing regulations in well-functioning countries with those in fucked-up places, as if they have the same effect in both. You are not doing your argument any favours with that sort of over-simplistic nonsense.
Yes, as eBay was not used for ordering taxis. Having a ratings system which tightly focused on provider/consumer ratings was considerably different for this sector.
And that justified the ruining of peoples' lives who simply had left-leaning sympathies? Being a socialist or even a communist doesn't mean one is automatically an enemy of the state.
We get it - you are scared and lashing out like a petulant child at anyone or anything which threatens to shed just a little more light on your insecurities.
I think you'll find it's predominately poor people who are overrepresented in the crime statistics. Non-white people have generally had a harder time in the US than white people, and that continues to this day, which goes a long way to explaining their overrepresentation. Your misses-the-point-entirely-but-is-too-caught-up-in-petty-racism-to-even-realise post shows just how dangerous opinions like yours spread and persist.
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The "Vista is shitty" meme is generally confined to forums such as these. Slashdot does not represent the OS market, but a small subset of it. The sales numbers for Vista were respectable, and after its bumpy start it was a solid product. Your personal opinion might differ.
You are also paying extra for support, as the vast majority of their users will use Windows on that hardware, and you want something else. Mainstream support is always cheaper than anything specialised.
I know, right! It was so much better when black people had to use their own water fountains. /s
You seem to have been born 100 years too late.
What's "winger" about it is that it's so caught up on one thing you are really annoyed about, that you've completely missed the point, and crudely attempted to fashion a comparison to highlight your annoyance, yet fallen flat on your face as you either don't understand the argument in the first place, or are merely confused by the beliefs and values of others. Eich publicly funded an organisation which sought to deny basic human rights. You can spin that as "having an opinion" if you want, but you are lying to yourself and making your argument look abject nonsense.
You can call it a "non-progressive belief" if you want, but many others still call it "donating money to a group which actively sought to deny basic human rights". If you're fine with that, I think that says more about you than anyone else.
You stated the US has that, but evidence seems to say otherwise. We can wait for you to prove everyone can get an education should they want one...
The fact you used "we" speaks volumes of how you see the world, and it's not pretty. Life is not a team sport.
Just as you apparently do if it can make the US look good...
You realize you just told the world you don't know what "far left" means, right?
It is possible, once you stop assuming the country is entirely the same from coast to coast, from sea to mountains, from state to state. Yes, India has a lot of catching up to do, but it already has very good schools, and frequently a great cultural pressure for people to study well and get a good job. Many H1B workers come from India because it's the best place to take them from - a poor country with good IT education facilities, which is already geared up (thanks to the massive companies which deal with providing said workers) to be in the position it currently is in.
Or we can ignore that and make an obviously-untrue condemnation of over a billion people just because you can't figure it out, as you did. Yay.
I think he defines a memory leak as where you create and destroy a variable and have more used memory than before. Which is not too bad of a definition, I guess.
Easy on the judgement there yourself! By your logic anyone who would ever need to compress swapped memory is asking too much from their computer, so by injecting that little taunt you've derailed your entire argument, it seems.
The balanced, objective look at climate change exists and has for years. You not finding it or even looking for it (as it's not difficult to find) seems to indicate you're not honestly interested in reading it. Or you are inept at using the internet. You choose.
If you want to check IDs you are preventing those without IDs from participating, which in the case of voting is a bit more fucking important than playing the lottery.
Don't speak for everyone - it's a great sign you haven't really considered your argument. It was a logical extension of the Google accounts people used. It was expected by many, welcomed by many, and used by many. Your experiences do not speak for everyone else's.
"Almost certainly bad" he says, without a shred of evidence... It will not serve you to sum up all the taxi regulations around the world which Uber is falling foul of as being "almost certainly bad for the industry", as that patently isn't true. You are comparing regulations in well-functioning countries with those in fucked-up places, as if they have the same effect in both. You are not doing your argument any favours with that sort of over-simplistic nonsense.
Notable to you :) I doubt many people read your first sentence and thought "he's talking about Salt Lake City, surely".
Yes, as eBay was not used for ordering taxis. Having a ratings system which tightly focused on provider/consumer ratings was considerably different for this sector.
And that justified the ruining of peoples' lives who simply had left-leaning sympathies? Being a socialist or even a communist doesn't mean one is automatically an enemy of the state.
Surely It's also a balance of how useful something is when used correctly compared to the damage it can do when misused.
But we're not talking about the world, but on a particular society in a specific location. Get a grip.
We get it - you are scared and lashing out like a petulant child at anyone or anything which threatens to shed just a little more light on your insecurities.
I think you'll find it's predominately poor people who are overrepresented in the crime statistics. Non-white people have generally had a harder time in the US than white people, and that continues to this day, which goes a long way to explaining their overrepresentation. Your misses-the-point-entirely-but-is-too-caught-up-in-petty-racism-to-even-realise post shows just how dangerous opinions like yours spread and persist.
Grown-ups are talking. Be quiet.
So you don't understand both the US's implementation of free speech, or what "hate speech" is.