Through MSDN and its predecessors Microsoft has spent a great deal of time and money to make it easy to develop for their operating systems, providing some open source frameworks is just part of that. By promoting an open process/community dedicated to developing, extending and maintaining those frameworks they can increase the number of Windows specific applications at a minimal cost.
Remember that butt ugly fish with a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth that lives way down deep and has a worm-like appendage that dances tantalizingly just in front of its mouth? That's what I thought of when I read this story.
Dude... that's your mom... and she said I should say hello.
Your daughter can consider her university's Mac/Windows-centric policy as simply part of her preparation for the "real world" in which application developers and IT departments favor Mac/Windows and largely ignore Linux.
There you go dragging reality into the conversation. Won't somebody put our fantasy lives first?
When I show people my web browser (Firefox with AdBlock) and how I don't see particularly onerous ads on web sites because the person who wrote my browser isn't beholden to financial interest or corporate mandates, it has raised a lot of eyebrows.
It's all in how you spin it. If people can be shown why freedom is good and why they should care without you sounding like a raving lunatic then you'll get some traction.
How many people are still upgrading their systems often enough for this to be relevant to them anyways?
I suspect that the only people who will be seriously interested in upgrading to Windows 7 are dissatisfied Vista users. (And people who don't know any better... the ones who tried to upgrade old XP machines to Vista... if only Darwinism worked faster...).
On the upside any machine that runs Vista well will probably do better on Windows 7. I found I got better frame rates for a number of things when I tested the beta.
OK, even the SUMMARY contains a sentence that says the roads wouldn't need plowing in the winter because they heat themselves to automatically melt any snow accumulation.
I strongly suspect the author of that statement have never seen a cold day in Minneapolis or Ottawa... where the temperature dips almost to -30 at night... and you don't see the sun for days.
Mind you, this was in the afternoon. The mornings were spent cutting down redwood trees, tapping rubber trees and mining graphite, copper and zinc so we could fabricate our own pencils for the afternoon's work. The real hotshots didn't make programming mistakes, so they could skip tapping the rubber trees for use in making pencil erasers.
... and if you tell that to kids these days they won't believe you.
Damn... you mean Dan Brown is NOT branching out into comedy? Digital Fortress was one of the funniest books I read that year, and there I was trying to compare it to Douglas Adams.
Neither will most people find the meaning of life down at the local bar. WoW players are doing what everyone else is doing on this ride: trying to fill in the time before they die with something they enjoy doing. Unfortunately for them their choice simply isn't "socially acceptable" and hence they are subjected to ridicule based on how they want to spend their free time.
Yes, people get very attached to their hobbies. I personally find it shocking the number of people who spend half the year watching other people chase a black rubber disk around.
I don't understand the thrill, but that doesn't matter. Similarly it doesn't matter that anyone thinks I wasted my evening yesterday melting people's faces in AV. Nobody really got hurt and I enjoyed it and that's all that matters.
How is the commandline environment of this device?
The only phone I had that I needed a command line for was the same one that required me to SSH into the device to set the volume during a call. For those not following along, THIS IS NOT A GOOD THING.
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Through MSDN and its predecessors Microsoft has spent a great deal of time and money to make it easy to develop for their operating systems, providing some open source frameworks is just part of that. By promoting an open process/community dedicated to developing, extending and maintaining those frameworks they can increase the number of Windows specific applications at a minimal cost.
It's all about the money.
Remember that butt ugly fish with a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth that lives way down deep and has a worm-like appendage that dances tantalizingly just in front of its mouth? That's what I thought of when I read this story.
Dude... that's your mom... and she said I should say hello.
And yes, I am going to hell for this one...
Your daughter can consider her university's Mac/Windows-centric policy as simply part of her preparation for the "real world" in which application developers and IT departments favor Mac/Windows and largely ignore Linux.
There you go dragging reality into the conversation. Won't somebody put our fantasy lives first?
Aren't open source license agreements also enforced by patent law?
Your task today it to look up the words "patent" and "copyright" and when you are done give us 100 words on why that was a stupid comment.
I'm in the "open source world". Should I stop caring about Burger King because I can't run Linux on a Whopper?
I tried making my own burgers from scratch and I still can't get the damn kernel to boot.
And stopped people from buying it that weren't going to buy games and accessories with it.
Both of you.
Located within the Australian Antarctic Territory
Note that the USA, Russia, China, and many other countries do not recognize this territory as being in any way Australian.
Despite the fact that the USA, Russia and China are not even in the southern hemisphere!
I guess if spamming fistr pots and goatze links counts as damaging the network.
You make that sound like a bad thing.
When I show people my web browser (Firefox with AdBlock) and how I don't see particularly onerous ads on web sites because the person who wrote my browser isn't beholden to financial interest or corporate mandates, it has raised a lot of eyebrows.
It's all in how you spin it. If people can be shown why freedom is good and why they should care without you sounding like a raving lunatic then you'll get some traction.
How many people are still upgrading their systems often enough for this to be relevant to them anyways?
I suspect that the only people who will be seriously interested in upgrading to Windows 7 are dissatisfied Vista users. (And people who don't know any better... the ones who tried to upgrade old XP machines to Vista... if only Darwinism worked faster...).
On the upside any machine that runs Vista well will probably do better on Windows 7. I found I got better frame rates for a number of things when I tested the beta.
OK, even the SUMMARY contains a sentence that says the roads wouldn't need plowing in the winter because they heat themselves to automatically melt any snow accumulation.
I strongly suspect the author of that statement have never seen a cold day in Minneapolis or Ottawa... where the temperature dips almost to -30 at night... and you don't see the sun for days.
He'll come up with a cool pseudonym.
Probably with As Little Gravitas As Possible.
Nah, it's Eeeevil Laptop Searches. That's it.
Nor could it possibly be the security theater hassle as a whole;
I traveled through Europe right through the Irish troubles and never saw so much BS.
Mind you, this was in the afternoon. The mornings were spent cutting down redwood trees, tapping rubber trees and mining graphite, copper and zinc so we could fabricate our own pencils for the afternoon's work. The real hotshots didn't make programming mistakes, so they could skip tapping the rubber trees for use in making pencil erasers.
... and if you tell that to kids these days they won't believe you.
Yes, it was terrible.
Damn... you mean Dan Brown is NOT branching out into comedy? Digital Fortress was one of the funniest books I read that year, and there I was trying to compare it to Douglas Adams.
The iPhone is a fashion accessory, and fashion accessories do not require removable/swappable anything.
You dispose of, and replace.
And it even takes care of that for you by conveniently exploding when it's done.
Follow on thought.
Sounds like win/win to me.
Do everything in your power to keep your data and theirs separate. In fact I'd even recommend you stop doing their work on your hardware.
If they want to provide you with a company machine then let them.
You won't find the meaning of life at level 80.
Neither will most people find the meaning of life down at the local bar. WoW players are doing what everyone else is doing on this ride: trying to fill in the time before they die with something they enjoy doing. Unfortunately for them their choice simply isn't "socially acceptable" and hence they are subjected to ridicule based on how they want to spend their free time.
Yes, people get very attached to their hobbies. I personally find it shocking the number of people who spend half the year watching other people chase a black rubber disk around.
I don't understand the thrill, but that doesn't matter. Similarly it doesn't matter that anyone thinks I wasted my evening yesterday melting people's faces in AV. Nobody really got hurt and I enjoyed it and that's all that matters.
Let them move to countries that rely more on rote memorization of facts, and little in the way of independent thinking.
Like Texas for example... oh wait...
... here!
Basically your post is a poor attempt to wave you penis around.
Basically your post is a extremely effective attempt at demonstrating that you have absolutely no sense of humor ;)
Perhaps both
How is the commandline environment of this device?
The only phone I had that I needed a command line for was the same one that required me to SSH into the device to set the volume during a call. For those not following along, THIS IS NOT A GOOD THING.
I suspect you're a language snob who dislikes Javascript for no rational reason.
Tried to mod you "-1 - You've got to be kidding" but it doesn't seem to be an option.
Heck, any computer made from 1996 onward probably can.
It will even run on (some) cell phones.
Writing your own OS is always cool... trying to show off something that would have looked feeble a decade earlier is kind of silly.