It's simple. MS is providing the service. Just like how you pay the phone company to use the phone, and the 900 number to use their service. Seriously, there are better arguments than "How dare MS try to make money!" Arguments that can be made without bastardizing words like "tax"...
You know, usually I defend MS as just doing business, but I really agree with you this time. After seeing some articles about companies blatantly and intentionally not filling spots with US workers, just so they can hire H-1B visas at a lower salary, I'm really pissed about this.
Seriously, if a company is going to make money in the US, they damn well better spend money in the US. We are not the world's cash cow, that they can keep sending products in and taking money out. This isn't just in the tech world either -- we need to go back to manufacturing more and importing less. Take a look at the auto industry! Same problem!
This is one place where the government needs to step in and say enough is enough. I'm not just referring to MS, I'm referring to all of the companies that continue to offshore skilled jobs yet still bring the products back to the states to sell.
Max OS X and Linux would be fine platforms for gaming if 1) they wrote more games for them and 2) OpenGL were to keep pace with whatever DirectX is supposed to be offering
And if the sky were a mix of red & yellow, it would be orange. The fact is, it's not, and that's what we have to deal with. Of course things would be different if things were different. Who mods this stuff insightful?
Note to the blokes who want to point out that the sky appears orange at sunset or sunrise: Get an effing life, you're completely missing the point.
Seriously, how could God have created the world in seven "days" when day & night didn't even exist until the second "day" then? So who's to say that (his) seven days were not billions of our years?
The problem isn't that people read the bible in a literal sense, but that they read one sentence literally, and the next as symbolic.
You mean by getting it posted on slashdot? If I hadn't seen it here, I wouldn't even know it came out for Windows. Slashdot should start charging for these ads... I mean stories...
Wait a second. The author is trying to buy the protection plan that dell offers which protects the machine against a BRICK SMASHING THE MACHINE and you think they're worried about ESD?
I think the bottom line is that a mistake was made with the order, and the "sorry, we don't offer that support with linux boxes" response was really just an attempt to move past the subject without more problems. It would work with an uneducated customer...
You trust your kids?
So what you're telling me is that you, with far more experience in life, should take your kids experience-free word for it?
Morality must be learned and trust must be gained. You're not born with either.
First of all, the parent is the first rational comment I've seen on this thread.
Now for my reply -- The parent is absolutely right. If you want OSS software (and ways to get ahold of it) to be taken up by the mainstream users, you have to make it braindead simple to use. Notice I didn't say simple to administer, I didn't say secure, I didn't even say stable. OSS folks need to get over the "but our software is better" whining and start marketing like the rest of the capitalistic society. Face it, if you continue this path you will be, or maybe already are, the Beta of the software world, wondering why VHS (Windows, etc) is doing so well.
The Author of the article is trying to bring a new inroute for OSS software to PCs with windows which is intended to be that easy, and the response he's getting from the audience who should be supporting him is a bunch of sarcasm and bad puns.
So, what you're saying is... in 30 years we could very well be fighting against global cooling once again, and you'll be looking back saying how many holes there were in the global warming theories of the 90s and 00s.
Well, honestly they should put a prettier UI on FF for Windows, too. That would get them a lot farther -- if they can do it without slowing its load time down even more.
For that matter, in the Java world -- Netbeans & JFormDesigner are in deep shit, eh?
This suit is retarded, even if this company succeeds in their attempt to stick a thorn in MS's foot, it isn't going to change the world.
In reality, there is no "evolution" in the way that people understand it. There is natural selection, which results in changes that create animals that are more adapted to their environment
That's exactly what evolution is... the sum of all of these changes over time. Evolution does not have a goal, evolution is the result of thousands or millions of years of these small changes.
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It's simple. MS is providing the service. Just like how you pay the phone company to use the phone, and the 900 number to use their service. Seriously, there are better arguments than "How dare MS try to make money!" Arguments that can be made without bastardizing words like "tax"...
You know, usually I defend MS as just doing business, but I really agree with you this time. After seeing some articles about companies blatantly and intentionally not filling spots with US workers, just so they can hire H-1B visas at a lower salary, I'm really pissed about this.
Seriously, if a company is going to make money in the US, they damn well better spend money in the US. We are not the world's cash cow, that they can keep sending products in and taking money out. This isn't just in the tech world either -- we need to go back to manufacturing more and importing less. Take a look at the auto industry! Same problem!
This is one place where the government needs to step in and say enough is enough. I'm not just referring to MS, I'm referring to all of the companies that continue to offshore skilled jobs yet still bring the products back to the states to sell.
And if the sky were a mix of red & yellow, it would be orange. The fact is, it's not, and that's what we have to deal with. Of course things would be different if things were different. Who mods this stuff insightful?
Note to the blokes who want to point out that the sky appears orange at sunset or sunrise: Get an effing life, you're completely missing the point.
Guess what the top few results are on almost every search you perform...
I can't believe nobody has a problem with a large advertising company indexing every file on their computer. Google desktop search, my ass.
I believe in both...
Seriously, how could God have created the world in seven "days" when day & night didn't even exist until the second "day" then? So who's to say that (his) seven days were not billions of our years?
The problem isn't that people read the bible in a literal sense, but that they read one sentence literally, and the next as symbolic.
That's like stealing a car, then taking it in expecting free repairs when it's recalled...
It's kind of like saying that Death is the cure for Cancer.
Who says that? Really??
You don't get to reply. If you didn't get it right the first time, I don't want to hear it ;-)
You mean by getting it posted on slashdot? If I hadn't seen it here, I wouldn't even know it came out for Windows. Slashdot should start charging for these ads... I mean stories...
Why should we waste our time & money rehabilitating shitbags? Why not spend that time & money helping people who already contribute to society?
Wait a second. The author is trying to buy the protection plan that dell offers which protects the machine against a BRICK SMASHING THE MACHINE and you think they're worried about ESD?
I think the bottom line is that a mistake was made with the order, and the "sorry, we don't offer that support with linux boxes" response was really just an attempt to move past the subject without more problems. It would work with an uneducated customer...
I dunno, are you running Linux kernel v 1.0.0? Why not, didn't they get it right the first time?
Yeah, but you also can't sit there and call the article FUD because noscript makes it moot. You can disable javascript on any browser.
They have to get used to being spied on as kids so that when they grow up and enter the adult world, they don't mind being spied on by the government.
(referring to illegal wire tapping, of course)
You trust your kids? So what you're telling me is that you, with far more experience in life, should take your kids experience-free word for it? Morality must be learned and trust must be gained. You're not born with either.
First of all, the parent is the first rational comment I've seen on this thread.
Now for my reply -- The parent is absolutely right. If you want OSS software (and ways to get ahold of it) to be taken up by the mainstream users, you have to make it braindead simple to use. Notice I didn't say simple to administer, I didn't say secure, I didn't even say stable. OSS folks need to get over the "but our software is better" whining and start marketing like the rest of the capitalistic society. Face it, if you continue this path you will be, or maybe already are, the Beta of the software world, wondering why VHS (Windows, etc) is doing so well.
The Author of the article is trying to bring a new inroute for OSS software to PCs with windows which is intended to be that easy, and the response he's getting from the audience who should be supporting him is a bunch of sarcasm and bad puns.
So, what you're saying is... in 30 years we could very well be fighting against global cooling once again, and you'll be looking back saying how many holes there were in the global warming theories of the 90s and 00s.
yeah but here's an interesting article about the areas to the north & northwest: http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/adventure s/4212314.html
cheater512? Sounds like the kind of person I'd trust...
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Well, honestly they should put a prettier UI on FF for Windows, too. That would get them a lot farther -- if they can do it without slowing its load time down even more.
For that matter, in the Java world -- Netbeans & JFormDesigner are in deep shit, eh? This suit is retarded, even if this company succeeds in their attempt to stick a thorn in MS's foot, it isn't going to change the world.
Yeah, insult people, that's how you're going to get them to switch.
That's exactly what evolution is... the sum of all of these changes over time. Evolution does not have a goal, evolution is the result of thousands or millions of years of these small changes.