just as this article was about netbooks, the new buzz word to kill off in the name of Windows is tablet and to some extent smartphone. They'll have a very tough time with the smartphone but the tablet sector is just getting started and Android isn't even out of the gate on that platform yet.
I smell lots of marketing deals forcing exclusivity with Microsoft once again.
that bloatware is where things will get interesting with ChromeOS. All that bloatware brings in a onetime income to the OEM but with the ad income Google can provide with ChromeOS, these OEMs will see continued income from long running products and they won't need to rely so much on pushing new sales upgrades so much. A good example of what ad supported income can do is just to look at The Mozilla Foundation income. Those $50+ million come from Google via that little default search box in the upper right corner.
So, with the one-time income of a PC sold with bloatware and Microsoft marketing kickbacks be enough for them to turn away ChromeOS based products with a steady stream of income from Google based on ad views via search or other simple ad based apps?
People may hate Google and think they are the bad guys but little do they know that without them, Microsoft would continue to crush every new idea out there because they didn't invent it, or it does not run solely on Windows. IMO.
there is _that_ but there is also the problems Dell has been having with Microsoft and how they'd been stating how viruses are made for Windows and so Linux is a more secure option. This is an easier option and probably brought Dell some income for doing so.
we also can't forget that Steve Ballmer himself said they Microsoft is pointing all guns at smartphones and tablets and will not be out done this time around. The way I read that was that they'd be back to paying companies to put Windows 7 and Windows Phony 7 on devices at the exclusion of others. Like Linux, and any Linux based product( Android, ChromeOS, etc ). Look for a new Microsoft sticker on all new Dell computer boxes. It'll probably be worth a few million to Dell. IMO
Windows does _not_ include Flash, OEM vendors have deals with Adobe to load it on Windows preloaded computers. _That_ is why it is a threat, it has almost 100% Windows distribution, it is a development API Microsoft does not control, and Adobe supports it on nearly all platforms. Threat, threat, and threat. dah
on HTML5 and IE9, Microsoft will do what they've always done, tweak their implementation one way or another so it's still somehow tied to Windows or their controlled technology via codecs, or whatever.
If Dell extended that "new to computers" recommendation to phones and any other device they would be saying, 'everyone use Windows because others are', only those who know how bad Windows really is should be using something other than Windows. They should use Ubuntu, the iPhone, Android or anything but Windows.'
Dell had it right when they first said that because Windows is a target for virus's and spyware, Ubuntu was more secure.
"Microsoft = drawing you in to cook you slowly"? Most consumers still have no clue but what they do have a clue about is that Apple made a phone/PDA sexy and you are _in_ if you have one. It helps too that they are easy to use and work well( except if you hold the 4 a certain way ). Android brings the easy to use UI to a plethora of devices which don't have the Apple cool factor but has the easy to use and is useful but it also brings customers to all the other hardware vendors with very little upfront costs for the OS/software.
And those hardware vendors know what it is like in the PC and netbook segment where Microsoft is threatening them and dictating product development and marketing and they do not want any part of that. This is why Windows Phone 7 will fail. No matter how much they offer companies to sell Windows Phone 7, they will not be able to pull exclusionary and exclusive deals like they did with netbooks and PCs and because of that, there is no sexy in Windows. In the end, only Microsoft zealots will purchase Windows Phone 7 phones and a handful of business managers will dictate to staff to use only those phones "because they are a Windows shop".
What's worst, at a time when Microsoft's investors are wondering where the growth has gone, Microsoft will have to pump hundreds of millions quarterly into just marketing this thing and it'll show up on the books. Not to mention the hundreds of millions Microsoft is probably already starting to pump into the tablet segment attempting to not only stem ARM Linux or Android based tablets but also iPad growth. I don't see the 4th quarter looking good at all for Microsoft investors. Desktop Windows, MS Office, and Windows Server will still make them billions, but once again, billions in losses and no indication of success outside of Windows will pull down the stock even further. IMO
while that might be true with RIM, RIM is probably quite happy to be _the_ enterprise messaging phone and the last time I looked, RIM made a good profit. Microsoft on the other hand, loses hundreds of millions annually on Windows CE based products and has since the late '90s. And there is nothing wrong with a company being good at their market and being good enough their products are _picked_ over the competition.
Microsoft does not see things this way. They must own the market and they are willing to spend billions to do that and they have. Profits from Windows desktop based software( WIndows OS, MS Office, and Windows Server ) make up ~90% of Microsoft profits. Microsoft execs live and breath by the now infamous "Does anybody remember Windows?" statement Bill Gates made in the mid '90s when Microsoft product managers and engineers were crafting Microsoft's Java product list. That statement and the following directives from Bill and other executives turned Microsofts Java products into products whos purpose was to tie customers to Windows, not enable Microsoft to compete for customers and profits. They already had the profits from Windows and losing those profits are more important than winning new profits. IMO
And Adobe would be a fool to put any effort, funded or not, into putting Flash on a Microsoft phone product. Microsoft may not have dissed Adobe like Apple did but their Silverlight is directly targeting Flash just as.NET was and is designed to tie vendors to Windows instead of having platform choices which Java provides.
Re:Getting ready for the MS bash
on
Recomputing the Sky
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
Except that Silverlight is probably _why_ they did it in the first place. Flash and standardized HTML5 are threats to Windows and without Windows Microsoft is history so Silverlight is the hammer, the night sky is but one nail. Is there an iPhone or Android app for that? I didn't think so but you can bet that when they ship the next new Microsoft phone software, they'll release one for it.
20 years of watching these people operate points me to these kinds of conclusions.
fewer links are better only if you are 100% sure both you and the search engine know exactly what you are looking for and every web page on the subject matches how you and the search engine see the world.
so most search results are junk, don't go looking at page 40 for things you are searching for.
FYI, the web is a very large place and there's lots of information out there. So, a good search engine will give you lists of possible results to your query and show you them in order of relevance.
Showing only the top 3 or 4 relevant links and claiming all other links are terrible and you'll loose your girl because of it is dumb. But maybe BING is for the dumb and dumber types who see lists as confusing. That sounds about right for Microsoft. IMO.
They don't, but he must have figured out that if he was working for a counter intelligence ring then working at Microsoft where everything runs counter to intelligence is the perfect hiding place.
Remember, the ads for BING are all about there being too many links. You know, links, the things offered to you based on the search criteria you entered. Somehow, fewer links are better. And let's not forget the pretty background which makes you feel happy to see so few responses to your query.
at a party this weekend I was talking with some dev types and Android and iPhone development came up. What surprised me was that two of the guys were complaining how difficult it was just getting the dev platform up for Android and that they've seen people in their offices give up because of it. I tried to explain that with flexibility come the need to know slightly more than clicking an install button and you're at the IDE. They said they believe most developers want that the simple click-install-develop method especially when looking into the platform for the first time. If Google makes the install of this App Inventor as click-and-go as it looks like the development is, they'll have a huge winner here.
on a side note, these developers were all into running Linux for various things. Some for their girlfriends and wifes and others on their netbooks, laptops, and PCs. And these were not my normal geeky crowd but the type which typically do the Windows gigs.
a/c - no clue what's up with "blinding rage towards Apple" comment, probably an Apple fanboi but good point on my mistake regarding who is doing the patenting. IMO it is even worst since I distrust Microsoft far more than Apple.
The BeOS did page animations for page turns and didn't someone put BeOS on a tablet years ago? I would expect that it was part of that.
What gets me here is not that Apple is patenting page flipping animations but that they are trying to patent it on a device that's portable and _that_ is their invention. Using gestures to direct action on computers is also not new so how is this non-obvious? As is typical, the governments only business in this patent stuff is to play clean up later after they've collected money and spent no effort to prevent these patents from harming real business. IMO
the question is, for $600M can they get a lawyer and judge which will stop all current use of the "invention" while the court case drags on for years? As is mostly the case, it is not the winning of the case which is so important, it is what happens to your business while you fight it.
it's worst than that, it's like saying peanut butter sandwiches on land is fine but I invented eating peanut butter sandwiches on airplanes so you have to pay me to eat them there.
Come on, wifi is little more than a wireless ethernet cable so now every software kit which uses a network can now patent using that across a wireless network connection?
yo Francis, when we see that Cisco knew what was going on and continued to let it happen then you can go and blame them for who was running the event registration.
Regarding the BP comment, have you not read anything of how a BP employee was on the DWH and was directing operations to use unsafe measures? The CEO can say all he wants that he's not to blame but his direct employees caused the problems. But of course, it also appears they hired contractors who sidesteps minor things like BOP systems failures and continued drilling. But even here, we don't know if the BP employees told them to continue only 50% system status and questionable test results.
From what I've seen, Cisco has been very upfront with this and they were the ones who dug into the issue and found access was made. They seem to be doing what an upfront company would do.
a Windows fanfoi no doubt. These people are afraid to learn something new, afraid to understand that it is the educational software on top of the OS which really makes the XO shine. But they all look at the hardware as strange because it is not like the laptop they know even though it does laptop stuff. I've shown the laptop to many friends and explain that it is for children but constantly their review of it ends with something like "but the keyboard is too small to be useful". For some reason, people can not get it through their skulls about the part it is for children, they look at it as if it is for them even when told first and foremost it is for children.
When all the 'put Windows on it' press and blogs were going around, they only ever talked about Windows as if it was an entire educational system. As if looking at and learning the Windows desktop GUI was what learning how to use a computer was all about and that the XO was about learning how to use a computer. They _never_ talked about it in terms of the SUGAR based educational software which is what is loaded on it and front and center.
And don't even get me started on how every Joe with a netbook design has had people saying how it was better then the XO and that there's no need for the XO anymore. They seem to forget about the drop testing ruggedness, the dust protection and water resistance of the XO design. They forget about the mesh networking, the camera/mic and the ease of replacing parts. Nope, it looks like a laptop so it is just some kind of small Windows based laptop or should be. That is the mentality of the people who post stuff like "give them real computers...". IMO
and it is very likely that they were not even the ones whos systems got hacked. From what I saw, it was the company who was running the venue, wingateweb.com( owner of ciscolive2010.com ) and not Cisco. I'll bet many of those posting about how bad Cisco is don't dare look under their beds at night. boo! lol
yo, this is SOP for these conferences and anyone with a clue knows that all the vendors at the show can have access to the attendee list if they pay the $$ for it. They can also rent machines from the conference organizers which lets attendees cards be scanned at the booth and that list is provided to the vendor either on the spot or via a data dump.
I'm afraid of the boogie-man just as much as the next guy but this stuff people are drumming up here is nothing but a witch hunt. There's nothing here so stop trying to scare yourself and others.
these conferences always look like they are run by someone other than the company or companies owning the show. For the Cisco Live 2010 conference, Wingateweb.com ran the registration or it looks like they did because they own the domain( ciscolive2010.com ). When I looked up who owned that domain and then looked at their website( wingateweb.com ) and this is what it says:
Trusted Technology World-class Delivery
Event organizers around the world rely on WingateWeb’s event management software and services to deliver the world’s top conferences, conventions and trade shows. Optimize your strategy, maximize your audience and deliver perfect events every time with WingateWeb.
So before people blame Cisco for someone getting into the database and getting attendee data dumps you might want to ask who really was to blame. And FYI, very often the on site software for registering and checking in is not only run on Windows laptops but they are very poorly done. Way to many times redundant information was requested and don't even try to use tab completion for city, state, etc, tab navigation, or the space bar for button activation. I would not doubt that many many other conference databases have been hacked but this Cisco conference hack was found out because they are very security minded and looked into it.
writing in sand was the easy way too but the writings didn't last long. Someone came up with paint and that was better but when someone did the ard work, not taking the easy route, and came up with a stone chisel, some people gave up the old way and moved forward.
If all everyone wants is the easy way, progress stops. At some point, people need to learn just a little about something new and move forward.
you obviously missed that and is that point which is what I got out of the story where they used FOSS for one day and said it was difficult to use. Sometimes it is difficult to use because of how it was built but most of the time it is because of preconceived expectations, from something being different, 'too hard'.
I get the 'its too hard' complaint all the time from people who I recommend things too even though the little bit they needed to learn would apply to more than the one task they wanted to achieve. They only want to do it with what they are familiar with. One example is doing something in virtual machines to isolate problems and configuration issues which bring about major system problems on Windows. lazy gets you nowhere.
This made me wonder what it would be like now if Paul Revere and or William Dawes had said, after a short ride, 'this is hard and hurts my butt. My throat hurts from yelling so much so thanks but no thanks. I'm done with this freedom stuff.".
Or how about if the citizens decided it would be easier to just stay home instead of risking life and limb, and many giving up their lives, instead of fighting the British army.
Life can be difficult but you almost never get anywhere without change or some effort.
so Issa should be asking this question of the House, Senate, _and_ White House but you notice his is not. He has no interest in this other than being on the Bash the President bandwagon. Where was Issa when his buddy GW and friends were doing this?
STFU Issa until you can start acting like you care.
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft strikes back at Linux netbook push
just as this article was about netbooks, the new buzz word to kill off in the name of Windows is tablet and to some extent smartphone. They'll have a very tough time with the smartphone but the tablet sector is just getting started and Android isn't even out of the gate on that platform yet.
I smell lots of marketing deals forcing exclusivity with Microsoft once again.
LoB
that bloatware is where things will get interesting with ChromeOS. All that bloatware brings in a onetime income to the OEM but with the ad income Google can provide with ChromeOS, these OEMs will see continued income from long running products and they won't need to rely so much on pushing new sales upgrades so much. A good example of what ad supported income can do is just to look at The Mozilla Foundation income. Those $50+ million come from Google via that little default search box in the upper right corner.
So, with the one-time income of a PC sold with bloatware and Microsoft marketing kickbacks be enough for them to turn away ChromeOS based products with a steady stream of income from Google based on ad views via search or other simple ad based apps?
People may hate Google and think they are the bad guys but little do they know that without them, Microsoft would continue to crush every new idea out there because they didn't invent it, or it does not run solely on Windows. IMO.
LoB
there is _that_ but there is also the problems Dell has been having with Microsoft and how they'd been stating how viruses are made for Windows and so Linux is a more secure option. This is an easier option and probably brought Dell some income for doing so.
we also can't forget that Steve Ballmer himself said they Microsoft is pointing all guns at smartphones and tablets and will not be out done this time around. The way I read that was that they'd be back to paying companies to put Windows 7 and Windows Phony 7 on devices at the exclusion of others. Like Linux, and any Linux based product( Android, ChromeOS, etc ). Look for a new Microsoft sticker on all new Dell computer boxes. It'll probably be worth a few million to Dell. IMO
LoB
Windows does _not_ include Flash, OEM vendors have deals with Adobe to load it on Windows preloaded computers. _That_ is why it is a threat, it has almost 100% Windows distribution, it is a development API Microsoft does not control, and Adobe supports it on nearly all platforms. Threat, threat, and threat. dah
on HTML5 and IE9, Microsoft will do what they've always done, tweak their implementation one way or another so it's still somehow tied to Windows or their controlled technology via codecs, or whatever.
LoB
If Dell extended that "new to computers" recommendation to phones and any other device they would be saying, 'everyone use Windows because others are', only those who know how bad Windows really is should be using something other than Windows. They should use Ubuntu, the iPhone, Android or anything but Windows.'
Dell had it right when they first said that because Windows is a target for virus's and spyware, Ubuntu was more secure.
LoB
"Microsoft = drawing you in to cook you slowly"? Most consumers still have no clue but what they do have a clue about is that Apple made a phone/PDA sexy and you are _in_ if you have one. It helps too that they are easy to use and work well( except if you hold the 4 a certain way ). Android brings the easy to use UI to a plethora of devices which don't have the Apple cool factor but has the easy to use and is useful but it also brings customers to all the other hardware vendors with very little upfront costs for the OS/software.
And those hardware vendors know what it is like in the PC and netbook segment where Microsoft is threatening them and dictating product development and marketing and they do not want any part of that. This is why Windows Phone 7 will fail. No matter how much they offer companies to sell Windows Phone 7, they will not be able to pull exclusionary and exclusive deals like they did with netbooks and PCs and because of that, there is no sexy in Windows. In the end, only Microsoft zealots will purchase Windows Phone 7 phones and a handful of business managers will dictate to staff to use only those phones "because they are a Windows shop".
What's worst, at a time when Microsoft's investors are wondering where the growth has gone, Microsoft will have to pump hundreds of millions quarterly into just marketing this thing and it'll show up on the books. Not to mention the hundreds of millions Microsoft is probably already starting to pump into the tablet segment attempting to not only stem ARM Linux or Android based tablets but also iPad growth. I don't see the 4th quarter looking good at all for Microsoft investors. Desktop Windows, MS Office, and Windows Server will still make them billions, but once again, billions in losses and no indication of success outside of Windows will pull down the stock even further. IMO
LoB
Maybe they should call it the Microsoft Kin. Oh wait a minute...
LoB
while that might be true with RIM, RIM is probably quite happy to be _the_ enterprise messaging phone and the last time I looked, RIM made a good profit. Microsoft on the other hand, loses hundreds of millions annually on Windows CE based products and has since the late '90s. And there is nothing wrong with a company being good at their market and being good enough their products are _picked_ over the competition.
.NET was and is designed to tie vendors to Windows instead of having platform choices which Java provides.
Microsoft does not see things this way. They must own the market and they are willing to spend billions to do that and they have. Profits from Windows desktop based software( WIndows OS, MS Office, and Windows Server ) make up ~90% of Microsoft profits. Microsoft execs live and breath by the now infamous "Does anybody remember Windows?" statement Bill Gates made in the mid '90s when Microsoft product managers and engineers were crafting Microsoft's Java product list. That statement and the following directives from Bill and other executives turned Microsofts Java products into products whos purpose was to tie customers to Windows, not enable Microsoft to compete for customers and profits. They already had the profits from Windows and losing those profits are more important than winning new profits. IMO
And Adobe would be a fool to put any effort, funded or not, into putting Flash on a Microsoft phone product. Microsoft may not have dissed Adobe like Apple did but their Silverlight is directly targeting Flash just as
LoB
watch them try though.
LoB
Except that Silverlight is probably _why_ they did it in the first place. Flash and standardized HTML5 are threats to Windows and without Windows Microsoft is history so Silverlight is the hammer, the night sky is but one nail. Is there an iPhone or Android app for that? I didn't think so but you can bet that when they ship the next new Microsoft phone software, they'll release one for it.
20 years of watching these people operate points me to these kinds of conclusions.
LoB
fewer links are better only if you are 100% sure both you and the search engine know exactly what you are looking for and every web page on the subject matches how you and the search engine see the world.
so most search results are junk, don't go looking at page 40 for things you are searching for.
FYI, the web is a very large place and there's lots of information out there. So, a good search engine will give you lists of possible results to your query and show you them in order of relevance.
Showing only the top 3 or 4 relevant links and claiming all other links are terrible and you'll loose your girl because of it is dumb. But maybe BING is for the dumb and dumber types who see lists as confusing. That sounds about right for Microsoft. IMO.
LoB
They don't, but he must have figured out that if he was working for a counter intelligence ring then working at Microsoft where everything runs counter to intelligence is the perfect hiding place.
Remember, the ads for BING are all about there being too many links. You know, links, the things offered to you based on the search criteria you entered. Somehow, fewer links are better. And let's not forget the pretty background which makes you feel happy to see so few responses to your query.
LoB
at a party this weekend I was talking with some dev types and Android and iPhone development came up. What surprised me was that two of the guys were complaining how difficult it was just getting the dev platform up for Android and that they've seen people in their offices give up because of it. I tried to explain that with flexibility come the need to know slightly more than clicking an install button and you're at the IDE. They said they believe most developers want that the simple click-install-develop method especially when looking into the platform for the first time. If Google makes the install of this App Inventor as click-and-go as it looks like the development is, they'll have a huge winner here.
on a side note, these developers were all into running Linux for various things. Some for their girlfriends and wifes and others on their netbooks, laptops, and PCs. And these were not my normal geeky crowd but the type which typically do the Windows gigs.
LoB
a/c - no clue what's up with "blinding rage towards Apple" comment, probably an Apple fanboi but good point on my mistake regarding who is doing the patenting. IMO it is even worst since I distrust Microsoft far more than Apple.
LoB
The BeOS did page animations for page turns and didn't someone put BeOS on a tablet years ago? I would expect that it was part of that.
What gets me here is not that Apple is patenting page flipping animations but that they are trying to patent it on a device that's portable and _that_ is their invention. Using gestures to direct action on computers is also not new so how is this non-obvious? As is typical, the governments only business in this patent stuff is to play clean up later after they've collected money and spent no effort to prevent these patents from harming real business. IMO
LoB
the question is, for $600M can they get a lawyer and judge which will stop all current use of the "invention" while the court case drags on for years? As is mostly the case, it is not the winning of the case which is so important, it is what happens to your business while you fight it.
LoB
it's worst than that, it's like saying peanut butter sandwiches on land is fine but I invented eating peanut butter sandwiches on airplanes so you have to pay me to eat them there.
Come on, wifi is little more than a wireless ethernet cable so now every software kit which uses a network can now patent using that across a wireless network connection?
LoB
yo Francis, when we see that Cisco knew what was going on and continued to let it happen then you can go and blame them for who was running the event registration.
Regarding the BP comment, have you not read anything of how a BP employee was on the DWH and was directing operations to use unsafe measures? The CEO can say all he wants that he's not to blame but his direct employees caused the problems. But of course, it also appears they hired contractors who sidesteps minor things like BOP systems failures and continued drilling. But even here, we don't know if the BP employees told them to continue only 50% system status and questionable test results.
From what I've seen, Cisco has been very upfront with this and they were the ones who dug into the issue and found access was made. They seem to be doing what an upfront company would do.
LoB
a Windows fanfoi no doubt. These people are afraid to learn something new, afraid to understand that it is the educational software on top of the OS which really makes the XO shine. But they all look at the hardware as strange because it is not like the laptop they know even though it does laptop stuff. I've shown the laptop to many friends and explain that it is for children but constantly their review of it ends with something like "but the keyboard is too small to be useful". For some reason, people can not get it through their skulls about the part it is for children, they look at it as if it is for them even when told first and foremost it is for children.
When all the 'put Windows on it' press and blogs were going around, they only ever talked about Windows as if it was an entire educational system. As if looking at and learning the Windows desktop GUI was what learning how to use a computer was all about and that the XO was about learning how to use a computer. They _never_ talked about it in terms of the SUGAR based educational software which is what is loaded on it and front and center.
And don't even get me started on how every Joe with a netbook design has had people saying how it was better then the XO and that there's no need for the XO anymore. They seem to forget about the drop testing ruggedness, the dust protection and water resistance of the XO design. They forget about the mesh networking, the camera/mic and the ease of replacing parts. Nope, it looks like a laptop so it is just some kind of small Windows based laptop or should be. That is the mentality of the people who post stuff like "give them real computers...". IMO
LoB
and it is very likely that they were not even the ones whos systems got hacked. From what I saw, it was the company who was running the venue, wingateweb.com( owner of ciscolive2010.com ) and not Cisco. I'll bet many of those posting about how bad Cisco is don't dare look under their beds at night. boo! lol
LoB
yo, this is SOP for these conferences and anyone with a clue knows that all the vendors at the show can have access to the attendee list if they pay the $$ for it. They can also rent machines from the conference organizers which lets attendees cards be scanned at the booth and that list is provided to the vendor either on the spot or via a data dump.
I'm afraid of the boogie-man just as much as the next guy but this stuff people are drumming up here is nothing but a witch hunt. There's nothing here so stop trying to scare yourself and others.
LoB
these conferences always look like they are run by someone other than the company or companies owning the show. For the Cisco Live 2010 conference, Wingateweb.com ran the registration or it looks like they did because they own the domain( ciscolive2010.com ). When I looked up who owned that domain and then looked at their website( wingateweb.com ) and this is what it says:
Trusted Technology
World-class Delivery
Event organizers around the world rely on WingateWeb’s event management software and services to deliver the world’s top conferences, conventions and trade shows. Optimize your strategy, maximize your audience and deliver perfect events every time with WingateWeb.
So before people blame Cisco for someone getting into the database and getting attendee data dumps you might want to ask who really was to blame. And FYI, very often the on site software for registering and checking in is not only run on Windows laptops but they are very poorly done. Way to many times redundant information was requested and don't even try to use tab completion for city, state, etc, tab navigation, or the space bar for button activation. I would not doubt that many many other conference databases have been hacked but this Cisco conference hack was found out because they are very security minded and looked into it.
LoB
writing in sand was the easy way too but the writings didn't last long. Someone came up with paint and that was better but when someone did the ard work, not taking the easy route, and came up with a stone chisel, some people gave up the old way and moved forward.
If all everyone wants is the easy way, progress stops. At some point, people need to learn just a little about something new and move forward.
you obviously missed that and is that point which is what I got out of the story where they used FOSS for one day and said it was difficult to use. Sometimes it is difficult to use because of how it was built but most of the time it is because of preconceived expectations, from something being different, 'too hard'.
I get the 'its too hard' complaint all the time from people who I recommend things too even though the little bit they needed to learn would apply to more than the one task they wanted to achieve. They only want to do it with what they are familiar with. One example is doing something in virtual machines to isolate problems and configuration issues which bring about major system problems on Windows. lazy gets you nowhere.
LoB
This made me wonder what it would be like now if Paul Revere and or William Dawes had said, after a short ride, 'this is hard and hurts my butt. My throat hurts from yelling so much so thanks but no thanks. I'm done with this freedom stuff.".
Or how about if the citizens decided it would be easier to just stay home instead of risking life and limb, and many giving up their lives, instead of fighting the British army.
Life can be difficult but you almost never get anywhere without change or some effort.
LoB
so Issa should be asking this question of the House, Senate, _and_ White House but you notice his is not. He has no interest in this other than being on the Bash the President bandwagon. Where was Issa when his buddy GW and friends were doing this?
STFU Issa until you can start acting like you care.
LoB