f I somehow hack a way for an Office 2000 binary to run on Windows 3.1...
But you're not hacking the binary...
You're just altering your own system so that Office can run on it. MS shouldn't be preventing you from updating the binary just because the (external) system is different.
PS : Did you know, that my airbag, CD player, air conditioning, seatbelt, leather upholstery, rear seats and spare tyre all make my car heavier, and this considerably slower and less fuel efficient. And yet, by and large, that's another load of creeping featurism that I don't seem to mind about.
One person's "bloat" is another person's "full featured". To carry your car analogy further, things like spare tires and airbags do not matter to you, because, to you, they are part of what constitutes a "full featured" car. But most racing enthusiasts and performance tuners would consider everything above except for seatbelts "bloat".
meet it en route with a small booster built into a light heat shield plus two sets of 'chutes to strap onto the other end...
Hubble is pretty big. Are you sure we can build a two-part spacecraft that can automatically attach to either side of the Hubble? Even if such a craft did exist, what would latch on to? The handrails used by astronauts look pretty flimsy to me.
have that intercepted by a 'plane with a big bungee and the ability to cope with suddenly adding 12t of deadweight, and you're done.
Do we have a plane that can handle 12 tons of deadweight being essentially dropped onto it in midair? Remember, even if there is a 'chute Hubble will be coming down pretty quick.
Does that mean any closed source code writer can never work again once (s)he's seen some open source code?
No. The open source coder's mind will be infected by Microsoft (a la Snow Crash) and all their code will suck from then on. For an open source coder, this is fate worse than not being able to work.
From the site: The heat shield protects the lander and rover from the intense heat from entry into the Martian atmosphere and aerodynamically acts as the first "brake" for the spacecraft.
Ah, yes, but you forgot to read the second part of my post.
Now, unless we start seeing consoles sprout keyboards and mice, there will be a whole genre of games that will be un-appealing to play, not to mention that a keyboard/mouse is absolutely vital for productivity applications.
When was the last time you typed up a report using 4 buttons and a joystick?
Given Creationism's recent gains, and the growing power of the Religious Right in the administration, one might believe that yes, indeed, Hubble is being brought down to set back science.
Meanwhile, let's soft-land Hubble, have a good close look (as in, with electron microscopes and stuff) at what all that time in space did to the metal, optics and electronics aboard.
Just one problem - no heat shields. By the time Hubble gets to an altitude where you can "catch" it, most of it would have vaporized, and the remnants would be scorched to a crisp...
Tell that to a n00b who's had their computer infected with spyware. How hard would it be for Microsoft to integrate that sort of functionality into IE, so that it would "resist" homepage changes. With the current business-friendly administration the chances of such an action being prosecuted for monopolistic behavior are slim indeed.
Which is why Google has to start pushing Linux and other OSS software like Firefox. As long as Microsoft controls the gates leading to Google, Microsoft can at least threaten Google. But if Google releases its own OS (possibly a modified version of Linux), then it can simultaneously improve its integration onto the desktop and thumb its nose at M$.
Of course, its no small undertaking to create your own distro of Linux...
They have got to push firefox now, they need to find a way to own a spot on everbodies desktop and right now Firefox is the way to do that.
Or they could rebrand a modified version of Firefox as GBrowser and give that away to improve the number of clicks, and their already astronomical name recognition.
Not to mention what the console market is going to do to PC games anyway in the next few years.
This has been said so often that it shouldn't even count as flamebait anymore...
Every time a new console is about to come out, doomsayers predict the end of PC gaming. And yet, the PC gaming not only manages to survive, but, in fact, grows. The fact is that no console has managed to maintain a lead over PCs in terms of hardware, simply due to the fact that PCs have much faster release cycles than consoles. It seems that ATI and nVidia are releasing new chips every 6 months to 1 year, whereas new consoles come out every 4 years. For this reason, after the console's initial lead is overcome, the most graphics intensive games are released on the PC first.
Also, there is an entire category of games (RTS) that simply cannot be played on a gamepad, but needs a keyboard and mouse. I know this from trying to play Starcraft on the N64 vs. trying to play Starcraft on the PC.
I can actually see that making sense for software which doesn't need the actual CD to run. If the bookstore allowed returns on opened software, what's to prevent you from taking the software home, installing it and returning it for a refund, allowing you to essentially get the software for free?
It sucks that the EULA didn't allow you do what you needed to do, but you also have to look at this from the bookstore's perspective as well.
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f I somehow hack a way for an Office 2000 binary to run on Windows 3.1...
But you're not hacking the binary...
You're just altering your own system so that Office can run on it. MS shouldn't be preventing you from updating the binary just because the (external) system is different.
When hasn't Windows "kicked its customers in the goolies"? The only question is why they put up with it for so long...
And the people disbelieved Hari Seldon when he said the Galactic Empire was going to collapse.
When will people learn that its about the trends not the current position.
PS : Did you know, that my airbag, CD player, air conditioning, seatbelt, leather upholstery, rear seats and spare tyre all make my car heavier, and this considerably slower and less fuel efficient. And yet, by and large, that's another load of creeping featurism that I don't seem to mind about.
One person's "bloat" is another person's "full featured". To carry your car analogy further, things like spare tires and airbags do not matter to you, because, to you, they are part of what constitutes a "full featured" car. But most racing enthusiasts and performance tuners would consider everything above except for seatbelts "bloat".
My 20 year old computer couldn't do any of that.
Actually, since computers are logically complete Turing machines, your old computer could complete all of the above tasks, given enough time.
No... ;-)
That's Japan
You may as well ask the same question of Windows 2000...
This pic caused a buffer overflow in my mind...
Being a Linuxhead, whenever I hear shell, I think command-line...
It never occured to me to think of the Windows GUI as a shell.
meet it en route with a small booster built into a light heat shield plus two sets of 'chutes to strap onto the other end...
Hubble is pretty big. Are you sure we can build a two-part spacecraft that can automatically attach to either side of the Hubble? Even if such a craft did exist, what would latch on to? The handrails used by astronauts look pretty flimsy to me.
have that intercepted by a 'plane with a big bungee and the ability to cope with suddenly adding 12t of deadweight, and you're done.
Do we have a plane that can handle 12 tons of deadweight being essentially dropped onto it in midair? Remember, even if there is a 'chute Hubble will be coming down pretty quick.
People program for the Windows shell?
The only shell programs I've used on Windows are Unix commands running under CygWin.
Does that mean any closed source code writer can never work again once (s)he's seen some open source code?
No. The open source coder's mind will be infected by Microsoft (a la Snow Crash) and all their code will suck from then on. For an open source coder, this is fate worse than not being able to work.
Actually they did.
From the site: The heat shield protects the lander and rover from the intense heat from entry into the Martian atmosphere and aerodynamically acts as the first "brake" for the spacecraft.
Hmm ... or some other form of telemetry waypoint. Unfortunately, pretty much half of a cell tower's radius would be in mostly-unoccupied ocean.
Think of the advantages, though. Now you could have obnoxious people talking on cellphones while powering speedboats around at 40 knots!
Ah, yes, but you forgot to read the second part of my post.
Now, unless we start seeing consoles sprout keyboards and mice, there will be a whole genre of games that will be un-appealing to play, not to mention that a keyboard/mouse is absolutely vital for productivity applications.
When was the last time you typed up a report using 4 buttons and a joystick?
How many millions of miles does your car have on its odometer?
Well you never know...
Given Creationism's recent gains, and the growing power of the Religious Right in the administration, one might believe that yes, indeed, Hubble is being brought down to set back science.
Meanwhile, let's soft-land Hubble, have a good close look (as in, with electron microscopes and stuff) at what all that time in space did to the metal, optics and electronics aboard.
Just one problem - no heat shields. By the time Hubble gets to an altitude where you can "catch" it, most of it would have vaporized, and the remnants would be scorched to a crisp...
Yes, that makes sense: create your own operating system for an existing application.
It does actually...
Just ask anyone who makes thin clients...
And lets not forget that the original version of Win98 was essentially a prop to support Internet Explorer...
It's easy to switch your homepage.
Tell that to a n00b who's had their computer infected with spyware. How hard would it be for Microsoft to integrate that sort of functionality into IE, so that it would "resist" homepage changes. With the current business-friendly administration the chances of such an action being prosecuted for monopolistic behavior are slim indeed.
Which is why Google has to start pushing Linux and other OSS software like Firefox. As long as Microsoft controls the gates leading to Google, Microsoft can at least threaten Google. But if Google releases its own OS (possibly a modified version of Linux), then it can simultaneously improve its integration onto the desktop and thumb its nose at M$.
Of course, its no small undertaking to create your own distro of Linux...
They have got to push firefox now, they need to find a way to own a spot on everbodies desktop and right now Firefox is the way to do that.
Or they could rebrand a modified version of Firefox as GBrowser and give that away to improve the number of clicks, and their already astronomical name recognition.
Not to mention what the console market is going to do to PC games anyway in the next few years.
This has been said so often that it shouldn't even count as flamebait anymore...
Every time a new console is about to come out, doomsayers predict the end of PC gaming. And yet, the PC gaming not only manages to survive, but, in fact, grows. The fact is that no console has managed to maintain a lead over PCs in terms of hardware, simply due to the fact that PCs have much faster release cycles than consoles. It seems that ATI and nVidia are releasing new chips every 6 months to 1 year, whereas new consoles come out every 4 years. For this reason, after the console's initial lead is overcome, the most graphics intensive games are released on the PC first.
Also, there is an entire category of games (RTS) that simply cannot be played on a gamepad, but needs a keyboard and mouse. I know this from trying to play Starcraft on the N64 vs. trying to play Starcraft on the PC.
When a tree falls in the woods, and no one hears it, does it make a sound?
I can actually see that making sense for software which doesn't need the actual CD to run. If the bookstore allowed returns on opened software, what's to prevent you from taking the software home, installing it and returning it for a refund, allowing you to essentially get the software for free?
It sucks that the EULA didn't allow you do what you needed to do, but you also have to look at this from the bookstore's perspective as well.