Sorry, maybe you're being coy - but someone who pretends to hold the moral high ground, calling out someone for their belief, while posting anonymously... probably hasn't actually seen the other side of the coin.
I used a linux desktop for 7 years. I dutifully updated when any improvement was made.
Linux desktops were in my experience never competitive because they require too much technical knowledge. That is an obstacle easily overcome by technical types, but *not* the majority of the user population. It just isn't sustainable to say "Here, tinker, it's cool" to everybody - or more accurately ANYbody outside of technical folks who enjoy the work necessary to update one application or another. It's why many have grown tired of Windows. It's why OSX, with its draw backs, is becoming more popular - the user population at large want an experience that doesn't require at lot of work to keep working. imho.
Not for nuthin, but how is the OP a troll? Admittedly unnecessary to defend Microsoft, but absolutely correct. Where's the meta moderating that's supposed to correct insipid assessments?
I think you've confused your fantasy ideologues with our founders. Jefferson thought that only the elite were smart enough to vote and initially suggested excluding the rif-raf (that and the non-white and non-male folk). If your idea of democracy is "Let's reduce to the least common denominator, and if you don't like that, then let's fail", well then, indeed, the system will kill itself off.
Oh, and on no time-zones: It seems a little self important to suggest that if I want a 3pm meeting then everybody can attend because it's 3pm everywhere. One time-zone means that *some* of us will need to be sleeping at 3pm.
Absolutely. Think mobile and porous. Forget what's where. Things constantly change. The future of IT isn't going to put IT out of business any more than the present put IT out of business, it will just change... And grow.
No No... This makes sense... Stay with me, but the climate is warming, right? Regardless what you think about why. And I've notices that people seems to be getting stupider and stupider...
No. It's not. It's vendor proficiency. Just like it was with Microsoft. You can't fault a company for building something that a lot of poeple want (although you'd think so by reading most of the above).
Where Microsoft went wrong (in the opinion of the Justice Dept,) is the coercion of OEMs to do as it said or pay the penalty of grossly increased prices.
Understanding that, I honestly ask, WTF?
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Yeah! Count me in!
Cool, what is it in furlongs per fortnight?
Sorry, maybe you're being coy - but someone who pretends to hold the moral high ground, calling out someone for their belief, while posting anonymously... probably hasn't actually seen the other side of the coin.
But seriously... Are there no controls onboard a US Navy vessel that would prevent *anything* that's suggested here from being implemented?
I used a linux desktop for 7 years. I dutifully updated when any improvement was made.
Linux desktops were in my experience never competitive because they require too much technical knowledge. That is an obstacle easily overcome by technical types, but *not* the majority of the user population. It just isn't sustainable to say "Here, tinker, it's cool" to everybody - or more accurately ANYbody outside of technical folks who enjoy the work necessary to update one application or another. It's why many have grown tired of Windows. It's why OSX, with its draw backs, is becoming more popular - the user population at large want an experience that doesn't require at lot of work to keep working. imho.
And really, do we need more space cadets?
Without putting words into his mouth, I think he's referring to "before testing was all the rage".
I agree. wtf? Testing wasn't "the rage" if you were a hack. If you were writing software for any use, I'm sorry, testing was *always* "the rage".
Not for nuthin, but how is the OP a troll? Admittedly unnecessary to defend Microsoft, but absolutely correct. Where's the meta moderating that's supposed to correct insipid assessments?
Isn't that the EXACT conditions of placement in the US Gov GSA catalog? Promise us best price or you don't get to play.
Sometimes you get it
Those bastards! They won't be happy until they own every appliance!
More specifically, doesn't every Abode program have a splash screen and don't they take a loooong time to load?
You are grammar seems irrelevant in this case.
Right, because there are no employees/government/hackers in the cloud. Whew!
No it doesn't. You're looking at it from the wrong side.
Simple: Until you can prove it, we deny it.
I think you've confused your fantasy ideologues with our founders. Jefferson thought that only the elite were smart enough to vote and initially suggested excluding the rif-raf (that and the non-white and non-male folk). If your idea of democracy is "Let's reduce to the least common denominator, and if you don't like that, then let's fail", well then, indeed, the system will kill itself off. Oh, and on no time-zones: It seems a little self important to suggest that if I want a 3pm meeting then everybody can attend because it's 3pm everywhere. One time-zone means that *some* of us will need to be sleeping at 3pm.
Absolutely. Think mobile and porous. Forget what's where. Things constantly change. The future of IT isn't going to put IT out of business any more than the present put IT out of business, it will just change... And grow.
No No... This makes sense... Stay with me, but the climate is warming, right? Regardless what you think about why. And I've notices that people seems to be getting stupider and stupider...
From TFA: "We can't wait for Dawn to peel back the layers of time and reveal the early history of our solar system," said Dawn.
No, Spanish patient, Swedish surgeon. Did you even read TFA?
Where's Waldo?
No. It's not. It's vendor proficiency. Just like it was with Microsoft. You can't fault a company for building something that a lot of poeple want (although you'd think so by reading most of the above). Where Microsoft went wrong (in the opinion of the Justice Dept,) is the coercion of OEMs to do as it said or pay the penalty of grossly increased prices. Understanding that, I honestly ask, WTF?
Refresh my memory, is IE engine open source? WebKit
Can you imagine the Beano commercials?