No, it has nothing to do with professionals being penny pinchers.
That's the nature of running a small business. I can guarantee that you and every other dork who's saying, "Why don't they upgrade every year like I do?" or "Why don't they just write their own Linuxth app"? have never run a business. If you did, you wouldn't be saying such myopic garbage. Computer software in any business that's not software (that's 99.99% of all businesses, mind you) is a tool. It's something that enables the business to perform the money making function. A perfectly functioning tool isn't something that's supposed to be replaced every few years for the fun of it. Your business can't operate without doorknobs, but you don't change those every few years just for fun, do you? Your business can't operate with many countless important tools, and most of those don't have to be swapped out every few years, even though they're still working fine. The state of the software industry is so shitty, that regular people still don't believe that it's as rotten as it really is. And let me assure you, the software industry is shit right now. Everything has to be upgraded constantly. All software is released with bugs galore, and it all costs way too much.
Oh, and compared to smaller vendors, Microsoft really isn't all that bad. Most small and midsize software companies that sell specialty business software are really shitty to work with.
This is coming with somebody who was a developer for a decade, and has been a small business owner for the last decade.
If they can't find it, I'm quite sure some coders would be willing to write some for substantially less than than the $10,000 required for switching to yet another version of Windows that will be out-of-date in a year or two.
Kid, they're not in the business of software development. Trying to reinvent the wheel to save a few bucks is a Business 101 mistake. If you have a business that runs millions of dollars through it every year, that employs people, you don't want to dick around with custom software. That's stupid. It's a waste of time and money, and it's an assload of unnecessary risk.
Windows works in a small business precisely because I don't have to hire an expensive IT guy to setup and maintain all of my machines. The amount I spend of software is a tiny fraction of what it costs to have a professional it company take care of things. Lots of people can do lots of things on Windows easily. It Just Works. Having to call somebody every time we need to add a new computer or new piece of hardware is an absurd waste of money, in my opinion.
but the fact that one group of people cannot arbitrarily decide to revalue the currency
The Winklevoss' own about 1% of all Bitcoins. They certainly could arbitrarily revalue the currency, and obviously, some people have colluded to do exactly that in the past week or so.
he problem with the dollar, as we've seen, is that if ever we get too far in over our heads with irresponsible investment like 'credit default swaps' we can simply "hack" our way out of the free market by injecting a ton of extra cash and propping up institutions with lemon socialism (warren buffets choice of purchase price and terms for an auto maker, or a bank for example.)
Your assumption that a "free market" is all that's needed for a modern society's monetary policy is naive, at best.
Kid, go learn some economics. You don't know what you're talking about.
You know that all you have to do is to click the lower left hand corner of the screen to bring up the desktop, right? It took you 20 minutes to figure that out?
The bottom line is that Microsoft started causing severe economic damage to the PC industry with their attempt to force a UI change on the market.
That's right, Mr. Wizard. The entire PC economy was damaged because you now have to click the lower left hand corner of the screen to pull up the desktop. Right.
We already have laws to cover this or any other kind of annoyance from a neighbor. That's what civil law is in place to deal with. In the US at least, you have a right to "quiet enjoyment" of your real estate. In a situation described in the article, you sue your neighbor. No need for more laws.
Kiddo, the difference is that you can choose not to consume a company's products/services. You can't choose not to be a part of a duly elected government. This article isn't about censorship in any sense of the word.
Well, you really only need 3rd party applications if your phone doesn't do what you need it to do. Windows Phone has more functionality built into it than the other two. I haven't ever run into an application that I needed that was unavailable on Windows Phone 8.
The Windows Phone's interface is much, much better than the other two. It has a lot more stuff integrated into the OS, as opposed to the other two that require tons and tons of discrete "apps" for basic functionality.
The Windows Phone is definitely the best on the market right now. It'll catch up to the other two shortly. I don't know who would want a Facebook phone.
There's simply no way that the wars are going to stop. There's too much money involved. The only practical way, as I see it, to deal with the problem of the massive military industrial complex, is to cut it off at the knees with game changing technology.
Right, so when we've got the government pumping trillions into "war" to extract oil, why shouldn't a tiny fraction of that be spent to try to create new technologies and a new infrastructure?
Oh, puh-lease. Gnashing of teeth over a few hundred million dollars? Really? And our oil-grubbing decade long wars in the Middle East cost how many trillions? *Yawn*
To change the energy infrastructure to something that'll be more sustainable, lots of things need to be done at the same time, and those things need to be done by the government, because it's too big and too important of a job for any one private company to handle.
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No, it has nothing to do with professionals being penny pinchers.
That's the nature of running a small business. I can guarantee that you and every other dork who's saying, "Why don't they upgrade every year like I do?" or "Why don't they just write their own Linuxth app"? have never run a business. If you did, you wouldn't be saying such myopic garbage. Computer software in any business that's not software (that's 99.99% of all businesses, mind you) is a tool. It's something that enables the business to perform the money making function. A perfectly functioning tool isn't something that's supposed to be replaced every few years for the fun of it. Your business can't operate without doorknobs, but you don't change those every few years just for fun, do you? Your business can't operate with many countless important tools, and most of those don't have to be swapped out every few years, even though they're still working fine. The state of the software industry is so shitty, that regular people still don't believe that it's as rotten as it really is. And let me assure you, the software industry is shit right now. Everything has to be upgraded constantly. All software is released with bugs galore, and it all costs way too much.
Oh, and compared to smaller vendors, Microsoft really isn't all that bad. Most small and midsize software companies that sell specialty business software are really shitty to work with.
This is coming with somebody who was a developer for a decade, and has been a small business owner for the last decade.
If they can't find it, I'm quite sure some coders would be willing to write some for substantially less than than the $10,000 required for switching to yet another version of Windows that will be out-of-date in a year or two.
Kid, they're not in the business of software development. Trying to reinvent the wheel to save a few bucks is a Business 101 mistake. If you have a business that runs millions of dollars through it every year, that employs people, you don't want to dick around with custom software. That's stupid. It's a waste of time and money, and it's an assload of unnecessary risk.
Windows works in a small business precisely because I don't have to hire an expensive IT guy to setup and maintain all of my machines. The amount I spend of software is a tiny fraction of what it costs to have a professional it company take care of things. Lots of people can do lots of things on Windows easily. It Just Works. Having to call somebody every time we need to add a new computer or new piece of hardware is an absurd waste of money, in my opinion.
I have one for downloading apps onto my Windows Phone.
but the fact that one group of people cannot arbitrarily decide to revalue the currency
The Winklevoss' own about 1% of all Bitcoins. They certainly could arbitrarily revalue the currency, and obviously, some people have colluded to do exactly that in the past week or so.
he problem with the dollar, as we've seen, is that if ever we get too far in over our heads with irresponsible investment like 'credit default swaps' we can simply "hack" our way out of the free market by injecting a ton of extra cash and propping up institutions with lemon socialism (warren buffets choice of purchase price and terms for an auto maker, or a bank for example.)
Your assumption that a "free market" is all that's needed for a modern society's monetary policy is naive, at best.
Kid, go learn some economics. You don't know what you're talking about.
You know that all you have to do is to click the lower left hand corner of the screen to bring up the desktop, right? It took you 20 minutes to figure that out?
The bottom line is that Microsoft started causing severe economic damage to the PC industry with their attempt to force a UI change on the market.
That's right, Mr. Wizard. The entire PC economy was damaged because you now have to click the lower left hand corner of the screen to pull up the desktop. Right.
We already have laws to cover this or any other kind of annoyance from a neighbor. That's what civil law is in place to deal with. In the US at least, you have a right to "quiet enjoyment" of your real estate. In a situation described in the article, you sue your neighbor. No need for more laws.
Do you need to have an iTunes account to use your iGadgets?
...or, you can just get a Windows Phone. That's what I do, Works great.
Microsoft isn't selling Windows 7 licenses anymore. PC manufacturers can't get new Windows 7 licenses to install on to their new computers.
Not true. My local store still sells them, and doesn't have any plans to end it any time soon.
You're missing the entire used PC market, which is massive. I run my business on $45 thrift store Core Duo's.
Each one has four, but he changes them at least once a day, because everybody knows that tinfoil that's too full of Omega waves is useless.
Any sufficiently large corporation is indistinguishable from a government.
Bullshit.
Kiddo, the difference is that you can choose not to consume a company's products/services. You can't choose not to be a part of a duly elected government. This article isn't about censorship in any sense of the word.
Well, you really only need 3rd party applications if your phone doesn't do what you need it to do. Windows Phone has more functionality built into it than the other two. I haven't ever run into an application that I needed that was unavailable on Windows Phone 8.
The Windows Phone's interface is much, much better than the other two. It has a lot more stuff integrated into the OS, as opposed to the other two that require tons and tons of discrete "apps" for basic functionality.
The Windows Phone is definitely the best on the market right now. It'll catch up to the other two shortly. I don't know who would want a Facebook phone.
Facebook tolerates you. It is thanks to them that you remain relevant.
Riiight... the company that sells the OS used by 95%+ of all computers on the planet needs the latest fad website to stay relevant.... Riiiight...
There's simply no way that the wars are going to stop. There's too much money involved. The only practical way, as I see it, to deal with the problem of the massive military industrial complex, is to cut it off at the knees with game changing technology.
Right, so when we've got the government pumping trillions into "war" to extract oil, why shouldn't a tiny fraction of that be spent to try to create new technologies and a new infrastructure?
Oh, puh-lease. Gnashing of teeth over a few hundred million dollars? Really? And our oil-grubbing decade long wars in the Middle East cost how many trillions? *Yawn*
This is on the front page because Fisker is linked to Democrats
The word "Democrat" appears nowhere in the linked article. Perhaps you're reading something else...?
To change the energy infrastructure to something that'll be more sustainable, lots of things need to be done at the same time, and those things need to be done by the government, because it's too big and too important of a job for any one private company to handle.
You're right. It's better to continue spending trillions to pull oil out of the Middle East. That's much less expensive.