Ok, now how about the Pharmacy software our hospital uses to ensure that patients get a correct dose? Oh, and it has to support a bar code scanner... hmm, when we looked into it, the only solutions relied on Windows.
What about our lab software for preparing reports on blood samples? All those solutions were Windows also...
What about our ER reporting software? Windows.
What about the software needed to report claims to Medicare? Windows.
Now, of course, I'm sure I'll get told by all the Linux zealot that with some PHP and MySQL I could have made all these applications from scratch without using any proprietary code whatsoever... but you know what? We're undermanned and underfunded as it is, and we can't go 3 years without a pharmacy software package for someone here to code one from scratch. (Even if the staff would tolerate that delay, we need it for HIPAA compliance.)
Your mistake is that you're seeing only the home market. Go work in a corporation and see how many cross-platform solutions are really out there. (Hint: Not many.)
Hah, no kidding. In MySQL, or some other free database, it might have taken you a week of research and fiddling with things before you came to the conclusion that you were, indeed, fucked. At least Microsoft's site gave you the answer right away.
The Xbox succeeded because it wasn't a console - it's a mini-PC. They got their games because many game developers are familiar with DirectX, which shows as the majority of games are written for Windows.
Talk about missing the forest for the trees...
It doesn't matter *how* they succeeded, the point is that it did. Calling it something other than a gaming console won't suddenly make the Xbox unsuccessful.
Maybe when it has a MSI installer and correctly caches web content in a Active Directory environment (no, you idiot, don't transmit the web cache over the network!), maybe corporations might START looking at using it. Right now, it doesn't work in a corporate environment.
Lotus Notes sucks ass. Keep that abomination far away from your users.
Exchange might suck, but at least the client software (Outlook) doesn't look, and act, like it was written by retarded babboons who have never before seen a computer.
What about how moving a sword, no matter whether it's touching anything, always produces a metal-on-metal sound in fantasy/historical movies? That bugs the shit out of me.
CrazyJim1 invented the MMORPG, you know... God spoke to him in a dream and says, "Ultima Online!" in a spooky voice and then CrazyJim1 went home and talked to his father (who worked at Origin Systems at a gardener, so he just happened to be there) and his father took him inside and showed him a box that says "Ultima Online" on it!
Microsoft has no control over shitty third-party software. Probably 90% of installers that claim they need to reboot actually do not... but the person who created the installer was too stupid or incompetant to realize it.
But your virus scanner requires a reboot after updating? That's a new low... AVG and McAfee certainly don't.
Actually, I think Farenheit 451 is more accurate as far as futuristic dystopias go. In any case, this is definately more Farenheit 451 territory than 1984 territory.
I think it's Just. Who the hell are you, and why should YOU determine what's Just or not in the nation? Especially when we already have a well-established method called "The Law" designed to solve that exact problem?
Adults have it straight. The law is quite clear (in the US at least) about every act of copying and whether it is infringing or not. You might be ignorant of the law, but that doesn't mean the law doesn't apply.
What bothers me most is that most of the people who argue about copyright and say things like, "the RIAA's business model has been destroyed by the internet" etc... most of those people don't give a rat's ass about copyright law, they just want free stuff. That's not activism, that's being a greedy asshole... if you want activism, try *giving something up*, and maybe people will give you a little respect.
"Yes, I'm protesting the lack of SUV pollution controls by stealing, then selling, every Ford Explorer I come across. Sure I've made thousands of dollars for free, but it's a protest!"
Then again, this article also mentions a lengthy Y2K analysis that occured from 1998-2000... it's kind of surprising that the oversight never occured to anybody during that, when they were almost certainly digging through that old code.
Then again, the Y2K expert digging through the code probably didn't know enough about the business to realize that the signed 16-bit value wasn't sufficient, so he probably glossed right over it without making any suggestions at all.
A lot of pop-ups come from spyware, which Firefox can indeed help prevent... the ad would still be misleading, though, because FF doesn't remove spyware.
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How the hell did you get those confused with photos? I mean, did you look at the images before posting?
Did you also have to walk to school in knee-deep snow, uphill both ways?
Holy crap, develop some kind of "geezer filter" to avoid saying stupid things like this, please.
Ok, now how about the Pharmacy software our hospital uses to ensure that patients get a correct dose? Oh, and it has to support a bar code scanner... hmm, when we looked into it, the only solutions relied on Windows.
What about our lab software for preparing reports on blood samples? All those solutions were Windows also...
What about our ER reporting software? Windows.
What about the software needed to report claims to Medicare? Windows.
Now, of course, I'm sure I'll get told by all the Linux zealot that with some PHP and MySQL I could have made all these applications from scratch without using any proprietary code whatsoever... but you know what? We're undermanned and underfunded as it is, and we can't go 3 years without a pharmacy software package for someone here to code one from scratch. (Even if the staff would tolerate that delay, we need it for HIPAA compliance.)
Your mistake is that you're seeing only the home market. Go work in a corporation and see how many cross-platform solutions are really out there. (Hint: Not many.)
So he picked a bad example. That doesn't invalidate his point.
Hah, no kidding. In MySQL, or some other free database, it might have taken you a week of research and fiddling with things before you came to the conclusion that you were, indeed, fucked. At least Microsoft's site gave you the answer right away.
The Xbox succeeded because it wasn't a console - it's a mini-PC. They got their games because many game developers are familiar with DirectX, which shows as the majority of games are written for Windows.
Talk about missing the forest for the trees...
It doesn't matter *how* they succeeded, the point is that it did. Calling it something other than a gaming console won't suddenly make the Xbox unsuccessful.
Maybe when it has a MSI installer and correctly caches web content in a Active Directory environment (no, you idiot, don't transmit the web cache over the network!), maybe corporations might START looking at using it. Right now, it doesn't work in a corporate environment.
Lotus Notes sucks ass. Keep that abomination far away from your users.
Exchange might suck, but at least the client software (Outlook) doesn't look, and act, like it was written by retarded babboons who have never before seen a computer.
What about how moving a sword, no matter whether it's touching anything, always produces a metal-on-metal sound in fantasy/historical movies? That bugs the shit out of me.
I think you need to get out more. That post was actually frighteningly stupid.
CrazyJim1 invented the MMORPG, you know... God spoke to him in a dream and says, "Ultima Online!" in a spooky voice and then CrazyJim1 went home and talked to his father (who worked at Origin Systems at a gardener, so he just happened to be there) and his father took him inside and showed him a box that says "Ultima Online" on it!
And 0.9 is "stable?" I thought 1.0 was the stable release...
It's a free society, people can do what they want. I guess you'll just have to cope somehow with all these 'out of hand' video card releases.
Here's a hint: don't buy them.
Microsoft has no control over shitty third-party software. Probably 90% of installers that claim they need to reboot actually do not... but the person who created the installer was too stupid or incompetant to realize it.
But your virus scanner requires a reboot after updating? That's a new low... AVG and McAfee certainly don't.
What is the difference between NTFS and a "full-fledged journaling file system?"
Is Apple's HFS+ "full-fledged?" What does that even mean?
where you're never sure if you just accidentally selected something because your attempt to move the mouse was interpreted as a click, etc
You know you can turn that off in like 5 seconds, right? And never be bothered with that problem ever again in the lifetime of the laptop, right?
Criminy.
Actually, I think Farenheit 451 is more accurate as far as futuristic dystopias go. In any case, this is definately more Farenheit 451 territory than 1984 territory.
I think it's Just. Who the hell are you, and why should YOU determine what's Just or not in the nation? Especially when we already have a well-established method called "The Law" designed to solve that exact problem?
Adults have it straight. The law is quite clear (in the US at least) about every act of copying and whether it is infringing or not. You might be ignorant of the law, but that doesn't mean the law doesn't apply.
What bothers me most is that most of the people who argue about copyright and say things like, "the RIAA's business model has been destroyed by the internet" etc... most of those people don't give a rat's ass about copyright law, they just want free stuff. That's not activism, that's being a greedy asshole... if you want activism, try *giving something up*, and maybe people will give you a little respect.
"Yes, I'm protesting the lack of SUV pollution controls by stealing, then selling, every Ford Explorer I come across. Sure I've made thousands of dollars for free, but it's a protest!"
Then again, this article also mentions a lengthy Y2K analysis that occured from 1998-2000... it's kind of surprising that the oversight never occured to anybody during that, when they were almost certainly digging through that old code.
Then again, the Y2K expert digging through the code probably didn't know enough about the business to realize that the signed 16-bit value wasn't sufficient, so he probably glossed right over it without making any suggestions at all.
Case in point.
(To get the joke, make sure you read CrazyJim1's posting history and shitty Geocities website.)
What about city building games? Or other strategy titles?
I could easily see a Christian-themed SimCity-type game, or Civilization-type game.
Then of course there are abstract games, like Q-Bert or Pac-Man, but I don't see how you'd fit a Christian theme in those.
Wow. I have to say that this is the first time I have ever seen Christianity advised to follow the example of Chex cereal.
Read some of CrazyJim's other replies-- he's definately a nutcase. About the best entertainment here on Slashdot, also.
Even better is CrazyJim2, the troll who follows him around and writes sometimes hilarious posts.
A lot of pop-ups come from spyware, which Firefox can indeed help prevent... the ad would still be misleading, though, because FF doesn't remove spyware.