As long as it is inspiration and not copying, I would think it is OK. It takes a special kind of man to admit someone is doing something better than him and that he is trying to be more like him.
Actually I have had problems with Steam. I decided to buy the Orange Box and play Half Life 2, but a few minutes into the game I got a "AI Turned Off" message or something like that. Turns out it was the anti piracy protection.
I wrote about three times to Valve support, they couldn't help me. Eventually I managed to get it working. The solution? Get the pirate version.
You are actually forgetting the possibility of innovation from Microsoft. For example, a new user interface (something Microsoft supposedly invests a lot of money on) is a selling point for any software product, just look at Madden 2004-2008 and the only major change is a user interface rewrite and they still sell millions of copies.
So, if hardware hit a wall and Microsoft stopped doing anything then it would be a matter of time before
We could depend on the great programmer in the sky being to lazy to fix his own bugs, instead relabeling them as "features".
"So you mean the humans found out they are just a VR simulation? Ohh, it's just a feature to make them think they can understand the universe, nothing to fix here."
Just as bad? When was the last time code in your gmail auto-executed and infected your computer? Active content, image backgrounds, JavaScript, etc. are for webpages, not for e-mail.
Firefox doesn't "fail miserably" at the ACID2 test, it just barely fails.
What I really loved of the review was the part where he said that some sites are not displaying correctly on IE7. I imagine the poor web developers who have already used hundreds of hours to make their site look right on IE6 and now have to go at it again!
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By that same logic Walmart is bribing me with its great prices.
Well, just to be fair, you have to avoid cameras, police involvement and other evidence. But don't let me get in your way, go for it!
As long as it is inspiration and not copying, I would think it is OK. It takes a special kind of man to admit someone is doing something better than him and that he is trying to be more like him.
You make it sound like the evilness (read: utter lack of ethics) were a funny meme, not a plain, cold fact.
Because... You know... Microsoft is Evil: Get the facts.
Lets remember laws are made by lawyers, and they have proven fairly clueless. I choose not to believe in the laws of thermodynamics!!
That's how it works, isn't it?
Unfortunately power users are a very small subset of the Windows population.
Actually I have had problems with Steam. I decided to buy the Orange Box and play Half Life 2, but a few minutes into the game I got a "AI Turned Off" message or something like that. Turns out it was the anti piracy protection. I wrote about three times to Valve support, they couldn't help me. Eventually I managed to get it working. The solution? Get the pirate version.
You are actually forgetting the possibility of innovation from Microsoft. For example, a new user interface (something Microsoft supposedly invests a lot of money on) is a selling point for any software product, just look at Madden 2004-2008 and the only major change is a user interface rewrite and they still sell millions of copies.
So, if hardware hit a wall and Microsoft stopped doing anything then it would be a matter of time before
We could depend on the great programmer in the sky being to lazy to fix his own bugs, instead relabeling them as "features".
"So you mean the humans found out they are just a VR simulation? Ohh, it's just a feature to make them think they can understand the universe, nothing to fix here."
"Never before have I seen such an abysmal start to an operating system release."
How many years has Linux been around and how much market share does it have? Should we leave Linux development because it has a small growth rate?
Actually I've used QuickTime in Windows Vista without any problems. Perhaps this is the start of a trend of FUD from Apple.
Just as bad? When was the last time code in your gmail auto-executed and infected your computer? Active content, image backgrounds, JavaScript, etc. are for webpages, not for e-mail.
Firefox doesn't "fail miserably" at the ACID2 test, it just barely fails. What I really loved of the review was the part where he said that some sites are not displaying correctly on IE7. I imagine the poor web developers who have already used hundreds of hours to make their site look right on IE6 and now have to go at it again!
Most of the literature is also translated to most languages. If schools want to teach another language make it something useful: Java