I don't typically feel assured by an anonymous coward's arguing for authority on the basis of evidence that isn't there and a reputation a company doesn't have.
Yeah, whatever, you know best and anyone who buys something you don't like is wrong. Apple's profitability is due solely to people who would buy Windows Phones and W8 desktops, if only there was some marketing spend behind them.
As a developer, it's my imagination that I can buy a well-supported desktop UNIX that runs on nice hardware, has free quality dev tools ultimately packaged by the vendor, and still lets me run Photoshop. It's my imagination that I can clone a Linux or Mac system so that if a drive fails or I buy a new computer, I can be back up and running within an hour. I simply don't understand the entertainment to be had by sitting through 8 hours of clicking MSI installers and uninstalling Asus/Toshiba/Samsung/Sony/Dell bloatware to get a Windows PC setup, and I'm obviously going down the wrong path by using VMs for that.
Clearly no-one has ever told me about the fantastic quality of Microsoft code, with their competing implementations of fucking up DLL and now.NET versioning. When I have to call Office activation, and read out 54 numbers to be told 54 numbers back, I simply _don't get their vision_.
It's really my fault as a user, that I haven't grokked the elegance of the Windows registry, or the beauty of having your 20 year old GUI code still active, and just masked with a UI DLL plugin. The system / advanced dialog box for editing the Windows environment is another wonderful example which has stood the test of time, because having 30 characters of your path visible is clearly the best way to do it.
Nice, except it doesn't really work that way in practice, and certainly not instantly. Setting up and maintaining the configurations comes with an army of people, who seem to hack it together with a bunch of scripts, a custom repository and each variant of Win has a separate team. In stark contrast our UNIX farms tend to have much more stable configurations, with much simpler convention-based deployment and environment management.
It's a lot less impressive when Jim's machine - after the obligatory 4 minute disk flashing after he logs in - will show an error message from a broken install on one of the third-party tools that are typically used to augment Windows or Exchange security, then will ask him to reboot to complete the software changes. If Jim's unlucky it might zap his roaming profile, and if he's very unlucky it might hose his machine, which means he's going to a lose a day while someone in a blue shirt comes over to cart his PC away. Otherwise he can just live with a few broken shortcuts and registry cruft.
Word does have advanced features, but after a decade, most of their users still don't know of these features, it violates the principle of least-surprise, and is not discoverable. It also doesn't mean that it works _well_ for creating consistent, simple, shareable documents.
In most cases, documents are better restricted to a couple of header styles, a standard paragraph style, the ability to insert bulleted lists and tables, and paste a page-width graphic. The last two are the real reasons that many of my colleagues use Word at all - to apply the corporate template header/footer, and to use the equation editor.
> Did we flush our civil rights down the toilet, set up a bunch of overfunded, unaccountable security theatre agencies and usher in a police state in the name of "security"? Yes.
You argument would speak against any punishment, with the death penalty just being the most final case. After all, if I'm innocent, I'm not exactly going to be happy to have been imprisoned for 20 years.
And by your logic on an execution being as bad as e.g. murder, do you think that people who illegally imprison others shouldn't be subjected to jail terms, or fraudsters should never be fined?
I've had a full PS license for years, currently on CS6. But my need for it is very much less than my preference for maintaining my own software and update schedules, and avoiding recurring costs. It will therefore be the last.
You are assuming that if they are informed about the modern world, and then in the large then chose to integrate into it, it indicates an asymmetry - "aren't giving them a balanced choice".
You already know how your ancestors lived, and choose not to live as they did. Yet you're still happy to make a different choice for other people. Hypocrite.
IANAL, but surely none of their cross-licensing partners would be able to sue over a product Novell distributes under the GPL, since Novell would be implicitly granting a license to anyone who received it directly or indirectly from Novell?
> I have a lower opinion of those who choose not to use > the language in the way that it is supposed to be used. What is "the language"? What is this way in which language is "supposed" to be used? Who are you to dictate that it be used in that way?
> Poor speakers are the source of such lovely phrases as > "Axe me a question" and "Whaddup wid dat?" "Poor speakers" gave rise to "ask" in the first place, since your example of incorrect pronounciation actually predates the one which you believe to be correct. Look up "metathesis".
Perhaps you're in the habit of inserting a CD, copying a malware application from it yourself, and then telling OSX to automatically run the malware whenever a CD/DVD is inserted.
For everybody else, this merely allows you to run something _locally_ on your computer in response to a CD/DVD insertion, for example DVDPlayer, not something on the CD/DVD itself.
> Basically current sRGB devices don't cover the full range > of colors which the human visual system can percieve > (nor does film, but film comes closer than digital)
Since there are tetrachromats, anomalyous dichromats etc., it's hard to see how any RGB device could ever cover the full range of colors which human visual system can perceive.
Any business should pay what it needs to pay for its software, not what you think they can afford.
So, for a fitness center business with an unknown number of members, and an unknown revenue, with unknown specific business requirements, why is the unknown inventory software worth $5,000?
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I don't typically feel assured by an anonymous coward's arguing for authority on the basis of evidence that isn't there and a reputation a company doesn't have.
But that's just me.
Yeah, whatever, you know best and anyone who buys something you don't like is wrong. Apple's profitability is due solely to people who would buy Windows Phones and W8 desktops, if only there was some marketing spend behind them.
As a developer, it's my imagination that I can buy a well-supported desktop UNIX that runs on nice hardware, has free quality dev tools ultimately packaged by the vendor, and still lets me run Photoshop. It's my imagination that I can clone a Linux or Mac system so that if a drive fails or I buy a new computer, I can be back up and running within an hour. I simply don't understand the entertainment to be had by sitting through 8 hours of clicking MSI installers and uninstalling Asus/Toshiba/Samsung/Sony/Dell bloatware to get a Windows PC setup, and I'm obviously going down the wrong path by using VMs for that.
Clearly no-one has ever told me about the fantastic quality of Microsoft code, with their competing implementations of fucking up DLL and now .NET versioning. When I have to call Office activation, and read out 54 numbers to be told 54 numbers back, I simply _don't get their vision_.
It's really my fault as a user, that I haven't grokked the elegance of the Windows registry, or the beauty of having your 20 year old GUI code still active, and just masked with a UI DLL plugin. The system / advanced dialog box for editing the Windows environment is another wonderful example which has stood the test of time, because having 30 characters of your path visible is clearly the best way to do it.
Nice, except it doesn't really work that way in practice, and certainly not instantly. Setting up and maintaining the configurations comes with an army of people, who seem to hack it together with a bunch of scripts, a custom repository and each variant of Win has a separate team. In stark contrast our UNIX farms tend to have much more stable configurations, with much simpler convention-based deployment and environment management.
It's a lot less impressive when Jim's machine - after the obligatory 4 minute disk flashing after he logs in - will show an error message from a broken install on one of the third-party tools that are typically used to augment Windows or Exchange security, then will ask him to reboot to complete the software changes. If Jim's unlucky it might zap his roaming profile, and if he's very unlucky it might hose his machine, which means he's going to a lose a day while someone in a blue shirt comes over to cart his PC away. Otherwise he can just live with a few broken shortcuts and registry cruft.
Word does have advanced features, but after a decade, most of their users still don't know of these features, it violates the principle of least-surprise, and is not discoverable. It also doesn't mean that it works _well_ for creating consistent, simple, shareable documents.
In most cases, documents are better restricted to a couple of header styles, a standard paragraph style, the ability to insert bulleted lists and tables, and paste a page-width graphic. The last two are the real reasons that many of my colleagues use Word at all - to apply the corporate template header/footer, and to use the equation editor.
> Did we flush our civil rights down the toilet, set up a bunch of overfunded, unaccountable security theatre agencies and usher in a police state in the name of "security"?
Yes.
You argument would speak against any punishment, with the death penalty just being the most final case. After all, if I'm innocent, I'm not exactly going to be happy to have been imprisoned for 20 years.
And by your logic on an execution being as bad as e.g. murder, do you think that people who illegally imprison others shouldn't be subjected to jail terms, or fraudsters should never be fined?
What world do you live in, where very large corporations have perfect governance?
I've had a full PS license for years, currently on CS6. But my need for it is very much less than my preference for maintaining my own software and update schedules, and avoiding recurring costs. It will therefore be the last.
Bye guys!
You are assuming that if they are informed about the modern world, and then in the large then chose to integrate into it, it indicates an asymmetry - "aren't giving them a balanced choice".
You already know how your ancestors lived, and choose not to live as they did. Yet you're still happy to make a different choice for other people. Hypocrite.
Best. Comment. Ever.
Gee, I don't know, perhaps something like getting eye strain even though a CRT doesn't noticeably flicker?
IANAL, but surely none of their cross-licensing partners would be able to sue over a product Novell distributes under the GPL, since Novell would be implicitly granting a license to anyone who received it directly or indirectly from Novell?
The trademark is irrelevant, since this discussion is about lineage.
This is the second full-frame Canon Digital SLR, but there's also the Contax N Digital.
...for making you sound like someone who can't tell when a grammar checker is giving bad advice?
I refer you to "Inside Windows NT", by Helen Custer, page 2.
"...to design Microsoft's new technology (NT) operating system."
> I have a lower opinion of those who choose not to use
> the language in the way that it is supposed to be used.
What is "the language"? What is this way in which language is "supposed" to be used? Who are you to dictate that it be used in that way?
> Poor speakers are the source of such lovely phrases as
> "Axe me a question" and "Whaddup wid dat?"
"Poor speakers" gave rise to "ask" in the first place, since your example of incorrect pronounciation actually predates the one which you believe to be correct. Look up "metathesis".
> People who want something for nothing are freeloaders,
> no matter how they justify it.
Unless you want to pay for air, you are a freeloader, no matter how you justify it.
Perhaps you're in the habit of inserting a CD, copying a malware application from it yourself, and then telling OSX to automatically run the malware whenever a CD/DVD is inserted.
For everybody else, this merely allows you to run something _locally_ on your computer in response to a CD/DVD insertion, for example DVDPlayer, not something on the CD/DVD itself.
> Basically current sRGB devices don't cover the full range
> of colors which the human visual system can percieve
> (nor does film, but film comes closer than digital)
Since there are tetrachromats, anomalyous dichromats etc., it's hard to see how any RGB device could ever cover the full range of colors which human visual system can perceive.
Yes, for example, magazines & books not covered by copyright or where the copyright holder has specifically allowed this.
Any business should pay what it needs to pay for its software, not what you think they can afford.
So, for a fitness center business with an unknown number of members, and an unknown revenue, with unknown specific business requirements, why is the unknown inventory software worth $5,000?
No, since Dell is a hardware company that happens to bundle its hardware with software that makes their hardware useful.
It was in an RM Nimbus I used to use...